It Could Happen Here - Executive Disorder: ICE Body Cams, Fulton Election Raid, Portland Protest

Episode Date: February 6, 2026

The gang discuss the FBI raid of the Fulton County Election office, ICE protests in Portland, DHS bodycams, and an unsealed memo on the arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk. Plus, updates on Minneapolis and Syria. Sources: https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-announces-the-clintons-caved-will-appear-for-depositions/ https://sortor.us/release/lemon.pdf https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_DDIQ8jz.pdf https://www.wtnh.com/news/politics/ap-judge-rules-us-justice-department-filed-a-lawsuit-over-georgia-voter-data-in-the-wrong-city/#:~:text=Judge%20rules%20US%20Justice%20Department%20filed%20a,government%20had%20sued%20in%20the%20wrong%20city. https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e815ed47-fce4-4797-8dc7-bcbc9efa968d.pdf https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/2018504435769520156?s=20 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/georgia-fulton-county-fbi-election-raid https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.315.0_1.pdf  https://www.state.gov/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-and-guyanese-president-irfaan-ali-at-a-joint-press-availability  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-resume-teaching-visa  https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/politics/court-documents-student-israel-op-ed https://www.patreon.com/posts/whats-next-for-146454395?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283200/gov.uscourts.dcd.283200.52.0.pdf  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2z7eb5efGlHrb2AYBtfqMVDJSUfIu/view  https://www.startribune.com/another-wave-of-departures-in-minnesotas-us-attorneys-office/601575569  https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/24_0307_priv_pia-ice-066a-pia-update.pdf  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/bovino-frustrated-directive-conduct-targeted-operations-chicago-rcna257069  https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/05/31/2022-11810/advancing-effective-accountable-policing-and-criminal-justice-practices-to-enhance-public-trust-and  https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/25/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-historic-executive-order-to-advance-effective-accountable-policing-and-strengthen-public-safety/  https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/05/31/2022-11810/advancing-effective-accountable-policing-and-criminal-justice-practices-to-enhance-public-trust-and https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez  https://sdf-press.com/archives/47816  https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg/status/2017320999629254878?s=20  https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg/status/2019098549640917124?s=20  https://t.co/aMIp9uMx04  https://wladimirvanwilgenburg.substack.com/p/kurdish-regions-will-be-organized See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. America is in crisis. At a Morehouse college, the students make their move. These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, locked up the members of the Board of Trustees, including Martin Luther King's Senior.

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On a recent episode, I sat down with Nick Jonas, singer, songwriter, actor, and global superstar. I went blank. I hit a bad note, and then I couldn't kind of recover. And I built up this idea that music and being musician was my whole identity. I had to sort of relearn who I was if you took this thing away. Who am I? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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On the I-Hart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All Zone Media. This is It Could Happen here at Executive Disorder, our weekly newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling world, and what it means for you. I'm Garrison Davis, I'm joined by James Stout, Robert Evans, and maybe Sophie. Lichtenen. Yeah. This episode, we are covering the week of January 28th to February 4th. Very exciting events happening this weekend.

As we know, the Super Bowl and even more importantly, the Turning Point USA halftime show, streaming on Daily Wire Plus, America's Real Voice, National News Desk, and TBN. I don't know what that is. Wait, pause. Pause. It's behind a payroll? Uh, you know, unclear. Uh, well, probably not, because it's going to be a good.

be also, it's also going to be on YouTube, X, everything, app, and Rumble. But I was going to ask it, it was on Rumble. It is going to be, oh, don't worry, James. They're one step ahead of you. And we can, we can see all of our favorite acts. We have Kid Rock, Bradley Gilbert, Lee Bryce and Gabby Barrett, all of my favorite performers. Gare, I haven't seen Kid Rock since you and I watched Kid Rock together at the R&C. It's been too long.

It's been too long. It's been way too long. It's been too long. I'm excited for Lee Bryce, obviously. as the biggest Bryce head on the pod. Bryce is going to be huge. Gabby Barrett will be a nice, you know, a nice little spice on top.

Yeah, yeah. And this guy's name is, it's not Bradley. It's fucking, it's Brantley. Brantley, sorry, Brantley, Gilbert. My apologies, my apologies to all the big Brantley fans out there, my bad. Hell of a name. Obviously, the most, the most famous. I literally know a Brantley.

That's not a real name. That's just not a real name. Yeah, it isn't spelt with the L-E-I-G-H, so we do have to give him that. If it was Brant Leigh, I would be doing some terrorism right now, James. I'd be right, gun in my hand. Yeah, I would be unable to stop myself. You guys, I just Googled Lee Bryce, and the first picture that pops up is incredible, and I'm going to put it in the chat.

Please do. Is it in the work chat or the Zoom chat? That's the first picture that pops up. It's incredible. Oh, he looks tough. Wow, is he in Band of Brothers? His jaw is fantastic. Oh my God.

It's an incredible first photo. Yeah, his expression, isn't though? He's really letting himself down with the face. Yeah, his face says, I really am racist. It's like, this doesn't look happy to be there. So obviously, after about six months of planning, Turning Point was able to put together just the finest, the finest acts in all-of-show business for their all-American half-time show.

All the big names. Really, what everyone's itching. It shouldn't listen. They could not even get Nikki Minaj, which is like so, humiliating. Like, come on, guys. Yeah. Didn't she do a dance with the Treasury Secretary yesterday or something? Yes. Who was that guy or those two people that were at the R&C that they kept showing doing that rap video? I like kind of blocked it out. Oh, yeah. Those conservative rap guys. Yeah. Forgatio Blow, is it? Forgotio Blow is one of the conservative rap guys.

Yes. Yeah. I will admit, I don't have a deep knowledge in this area. I saw him. the RNC. I was walking behind him on my way to the beer store. He looks incredible. He's an amazing looking man. Yeah, that's a unique dude. That's a, that's your risky Google of the day. God really broke the mold with him. So we will, we will report on how the turning point halftime show went next week for the next because you know that I'm going to be turned into Rumble to watch this. Yeah, it's going to be, we're going to need a

minute-by-minute breakdown of this bad boy. I'll be taking extensive notes. I hope they'll be able to record it and watch it again later for posterity. I feel like this is going to go down like live aid, you know, is the greatest moment in live music. It is interesting

that they are showing it on national news desk. Fox News did not, do not decide to air the All-American at halftime show. So instead you have to tune into TBN, whatever that is, and a national news desk. So let's get to some actual news, though.

Sure. Real news. Okay. So Portland, Oregon has been the site of some recent noteworthy ice protests on Saturday, the 31st of January. There was a large union march on the ice building on McAdam Street in Portland, Oregon. This was like basically every union in Portland. It was the largest union march that we've had here in like 20 years, somewhere along those lines.

About 5 to 10,000 people showed up. Oh, wow. When I heard it was 10K, because I wound up there. I didn't even planning to go, but I showed up with a friend. And as we were kind of watching the crowd pass, a buddy of ours came up who knows one of the people who organized the march and was like, yeah, they're expecting like 10,000 people. And I was like, there's no way they're going to get 10,000 fucking people out here. And then as the crowd went past me for like 20 straight minutes, and I was like, yeah, that might be. be 10,000 people. That really is quite a lot of motherfucking people. It was an extremely diverse

crowd, which I mean in the age sense primarily. It's Portland, so not in the, in any other sense of the word. Yeah, those protests tend to have, you know, older folks, teenagers, families, teachers. A lot of older folks, a lot of little kids, kids who were like eight to 12 years old because it was just supposed people were like the basic route of march was doing a circle around the ice facility and then there was like sound equipment and music set up on a nearby park so i think i don't believe the plan was an extended confrontation with ice which is what made what came next so surprising which is that we start walking towards where the route of march is heading we're kind of in like the middle of the crowd probably and we see a cloud and we see a cloud and

And it's like 3.30 in the afternoon. So the people I'm with who have all been through their share of Portland protests are like, that can't be tear gas. It's not even 4 p.m. And this is the liberal march. There's no way they've gassed it already. Like, I saw the front of the march. It was a bunch of people in their 50s.

Like, they're not forcing the issue with ice, I don't think. But apparently, per the claims made by ice, when the crowd reached the ice building, people began throwing water bottles. So obviously that's a situation that can't be allowed to continue. So they gassed the absolute fuck out of the march. And they gassed it so much that the cloud of gas spread to cover pretty much the entire march, including the people who were nowhere near the front of the barge yet. So as we're walking towards it, we become aware about halfway towards getting to it,

that like, okay, that's not smoke. That is, in fact, gas. Some of us had masks. I did not. So I'm like, well, I'm going to have a bad time. This is straight up not going to be fun. And the problem with it was because of where they gassed us, there were kind of two streets of buildings on either side.

So you basically got, you're in like a valley almost. You've got steep canyon walls kind of on either side of you. And there was no wind that day. So you've just got this thick cloud of gas smoke and 10,000 people crammed in between two pillars of buildings. So it was a very bad time. A lot of kids got gassed. I saw a number of children in significant distress.

Like little kids, a lot of old people wound up in significant distress. It was straight up a bad time. And it continued for the next day. There was another March the next day that started at City Hall. This kind of galvanized people in Portland to specifically take up the charge of protesting for the city to basically not renew or cancel ICE's contract to use the building that they're based out of. So there was a large march on Sunday. I showed up as the march reached the ice area because I didn't want to walk across town. And sure enough, we get there in maybe an hour or so

after the crowd arrives. There's like a thousand or so people. And it's still a very young crowd. This is not mostly people who have been doing the protest thing in Portland for a long time. Like I saw a lot of girls who couldn't have been older than 16 or 17 out on Sunday. And they gassed again. And I couldn't tell you, they were letting people like right up to the front of the ice building, which they had gassed folks for throwing water bottles kind of near the day before. So there's never any consistency with these sort of things. And eventually they just decided to gas the shit out of everybody again to come and snatch people. And that's kind of the story. Is people in Portland are really pissed again because they gas the big Lib March. All of the unions are

really angry. All of the nurses are really angry. The city government's angry. The mayor of Portland, Keith Wilson made a statement that all of the ICE agents should quit their jobs, should resign. I don't know that I think that they're actually going to kick ICE out of its building. Now, to be fair, I don't think that ICE is really getting much done in that building because it's locked down completely. They are using facilities up in Washington for the actual immigration stuff for the most part. So it's become, I think it's largely a symbol. Yeah, a symbolic kind of dill. So we'll see. I don't know what's going to happen next, but yeah, that's the update from here. The tear gas air is spicy and bad for our health. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it always bums me out to see

really young people. Like, the kids get tear gassed, especially like teenage girls, because yeah, there's data in it, not nearly as much as there should be, because the government really doesn't like studying this on how tear gas affects particularly like reproductive health. And it's bad. There's evidence from places like Gaza that it can cause miscarriages. There's documentation of miscarriages in at least three different countries as a result of tear gas use. Although, again, it's not the kind of documentation you'd want for a medical thing because you can't really isolate out other factors that may have been happening at the same time because

you're trying to figure out what this and other things are doing to people's bodies in a place like Gaza where you have no kind of like clinical control. But outside of that, there's evidence of missed periods that it can like delay or cause unusually painful periods. Send people into early menopause. Jeez. Yeah, there's some evidence for that. It's a kind of a, when I brought this up online, someone got very angry at me because they're like, well, it's not proven. I think there's enough data to tell people, especially if you've got a uterus, wear a mask when you go protest. Yeah, I think also like how are we going to obtain proof in this scenario? Right. What are they going to do?

Yeah, it's not very easy for us to do. We can't really do it. We can't really do it. A sort of double-blind trial, right? Somebody brought up, like, if it was bad for reproductive health, then all of the women in the military, because you get tear gassed as part of military training, then that would have shown up before. And it hasn't.

And I immediately found in about three seconds, the largest, like, study done so far on the effect of tear gas that specifically noted, yeah, they did some studies on hair. Tier gas affects people in the 60s. They didn't look at women. Weren't interested. Didn't care. Not at all a priority. Completely ignored it.

Shocked. Shocked to hear this. So anyway. Jesus. Just like wear a respirator. A half-face respirator is cheaper. I would recommend a full face because tear gas sucks on your eyes. They're not crazy expensive.

You don't have to get a nice gas mask. Just get a respirator. It's better than nothing. Yeah. I like my respirator. Yep. So, firstly, just a couple of small things that we wanted to know. note that we might come back to covering later. First, the US has now admitted that it has a small

contingent of troops on the ground in Nigeria. I wrote on my newsletter about US drone strikes in Nigeria, what they're doing there, and who they're targeting with those drone strikes alongside the long-running issues with civilian casualties with airborne raids in Nigeria on my newsletter so people want to read that they can. Secondly, I wanted to mention that Judge Anna Reyes has stayed Secretary Nome's decision that would have rendered 350,000 Haitians without legal status when she was going to let the temporary protected status expire. I have explained TPS several times on E.D. And in my first Darien series, so I'm not going to go into detail about it here.

But if you'd like to listen to those, you can find out more about it. Last thing before our first ad break, Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify before Congress as a part of the Epstein investigation. A vote to hold the Clintons in criminal contempt of Congress was scheduled for this week before they finally agreed to be deposed at two hearings in late February. And the Clintons have now called for these hearings to be public. This follows a slew of new Epstein documents that were released by the DOJ last week, which Robert, you'll be covering on behind the bastards soon. Yes, yes. We will be talking about the things revealed in the new Epstein file releases, the three million or so documents. that just came out.

Yes, we'll be talking about that on Behind the Bastards. Not next week, but the week after. Yeah, probably like the week after, something like that. There's a lot of good stuff in there, a lot of Brock Pierce in this set of releases. If you've been curious as to what the guy who invented Tether, the cryptocurrency Tether, was up to with Jeffrey Epstein. As a spoiler, it was molesting people. Jesus Christ.

Oh, yeah. Well, allegedly, we don't know that it was molesting. They were described as girls, repeatedly described as girls in the emails between Brock Pierce, the Mighty Ducks guy and Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah. But that could mean anything, you know? That could mean anything. You'd be talking about the Elon mosque emails in there?

There's some Elon stuff in there. It's nothing definitive. The downside of it is Elon has a leg to stand on when he's like, I never went to the island. That said, you can interpret the emails one of the, of two ways because I saw an Elon Musk fan side be like, see? He was clearly just trying to blow him off. That's not how I interpret Elon's emails to Epstein. I think he really wanted to go to that fuck island.

What night will the wildest party be or something? Yeah, he was like, I want to know where the, but he was also talking about like the whole island area, right? Like where the wildest parties are that he wanted. Okay. So he does have some plausible deniability, but he was lying about not being in touch with Epstein. and also J.K. Rowling, in touch with Epstein.

Oh, shit! I didn't know that. Yes, saved him seats for the opening of her play. Oh, I'm the Harry Potter play on Broadway. Got Jeffrey Epstein a seat. God, just when you thought she could have been a worse fucking person. Incredible. Yeah. What a turd.

What a disgrace to our national... I mean, we have lots of those, I guess, but, yeah. I can't believe this one person has ruined the reputation of Britain. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, previously unblemished in centuries of history. Jesus Christ. Until the Turf Wizard Lady came along. Yeah, the first bad English person.

Anyway, so yeah, on February 26th, Hillary will be testifying, and on the 27th Bill will be testifying in hearings that should be televised live to the public. Interesting. Okay. Let's go on break. Canadian women are looking for more. More out of themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world are out of them.

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I'm Hans Charles. I'm Inalick Lamouba. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had both been assassinated. And Black America was out of breaking point. Writing and protests broke out on an unprecedented scale. In Atlanta, Georgia at Martin's Almermata, Moore House College,

the students had their own protest. It featured two prominent figures in black history, Martin Luther King Sr., and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson. To be in what we really thought was a revolution. I mean, people would die. 1968, the murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago. This story is about protest. It echoes in today's world far more than it should, and it will blow your mind. Listen to the A-building on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or whatever. you get your podcast.

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Listen now. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the on-purpose podcast. On a recent episode, I sat down with Nick Jonas, singer, songwriter, actor, and global superstar. The thing I would say to my younger self is congratulations. You get to marry Priyanka Chopra Jonas. And also, you know, your daughter is incredible. That's beautiful, man. Yeah.

Thank you. That's so beautiful. I can see that got you a little. Yeah, for sure. Our daughter, she came to the world under sort of very intense circumstances, which I'd not really talked about ever. Growing up on Disney in front of a million, how did that shape your sense of self? I went blank, I hit a bad note, and then I couldn't kind of recover.

And I had built up this idea that music and being musician was my whole identity. I had to sort of relearn who I was if you took this thing away. Who am I? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chatee. on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, we're back and I have fantastic news. Look what I found. Look what I found, you guys, deep in my archives of misery.

Luckily, podcasting is a visual medium. Oh, no. It's audio. Okay, what are we about doing? Oh, God. All right, I think we got, yeah. I think that's enough for gotcha. Yeah, that's good.

Wow. Do we need any more? No. I know. Whatever. No, we don't. Okay. All right.

Sorry. Oh, God. The fact that video is playing on the background of a large police badge. Really? We're voting Donald Trump, baby. So bad. So bad. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am that I will not be hearing them perform on Super Bowl Sunday.

You can see just the disappointment in my face right now. This Wednesday morning, February 4th. Tom Homan announced that they're pulling 700 federal agents out of Minneapolis, though 2000 will remain in the city. That's so many agents. Yeah. That's so, that even 700 sounded like. There's still a lot of ICE and Border Patrol on the ground.

Wow. 2000 was a surge that they did earlier this year. That was when they really kind of flooded it with ICE agents. So in 2000 is still a massive amount of ICE's overall capacity. These aren't all ICE agents, right? Like they deputize ATF and marshals and other things. A lot of Border Patrol guys here. Yeah.

I don't know if that's who the 700, who their withdrawing are. It's a mix. It's not, I don't think they're from just one agency. Okay. Yeah, there are a lot of Border Patrol. You see that a lot, right? Like, the Border Patrol agents clearly love this, right? They're getting per DM, they're getting travel pay.

They make more money than they do on the border and they don't have to drive around in the middle of nowhere. They call it going on safari. Holman has cited an increase in cooperation by Minnesota authorities. He was talking about handing over detained people who would be deportable, I think. But I have not seen a similar statement from state authorities in Minnesota, at least at a time. So take that with a pinch of salt, right? a lot of what we see coming out of the term DHS just straight up isn't true. They have been talking about trying to like increase the cooperation with ICE detainers

in the local like prisons and jails. Yeah. And I think that would be what this cooperation would be. It would be like either cooperating with ICE detainers or even alerting ICE if they thought someone was deportable. An interesting thing of note as well is earlier this week, the military troops that were placed on like standby have been. unplaced on standby.

So not looking like those guys in Alaska or North Carolina will be deploying to Minneapolis. In some other Minneapolis-related news, Don Lemon, friend of the pod, was arrested Thursday, January 29. And now faces civil rights charges for allegedly violating the Face Act, which prohibits interfering with reproductive health services or people exercising religious freedom at a place of worship. On January 18th, Lemon reported on a protest at City's Church in St. Paul, where one of the pastors is also the head of the local ICE field office. The magistrate judge and an appeals court previously

dismissed the charges against Lemon before the case was brought before a grand jury in Minnesota. Six activists and one other journalists are also facing charges. We reported on this protest after it happened, and yeah, the DOJ has been trying to pin, pin Lemon on this for the past few weeks. Yeah. Probably not a great sign just for, you know, general, general First Amendment activity. No, no. That's a pretty, pretty bleak sign, actually. As frustrating as it is to start waving the Jimmy Kimmel, Don Lemon flag. You know, that's, that is the situation we're in. Yeah, it's not good. The journalists there rested was

head of their National Association of Black Journalists, wasn't she? Georgia Fort is her name. Yes. Yes. I do want to say, actually, that like, when we talk about protection, for journalists. Like journalists, yes, can often be the people who are first targeted for like things that violate freedom of speech, right? Like when governments are going to violate freedom of speech, they can go off to a journalist first. But like, when someone is recording ICE operations, they are doing citizen journalism.

They are protected by exactly the same rights that we have as journalists who are doing this as our full-time job. There isn't a special First Amendment for us. And so when the Border Patrol agents killed Alex Preti, they killed someone who is at that time engaged in journalism too. And I'm happy to see journalistic bodies standing up, not just for people who are employed as full-time journalists have put all of our rights to document and record. Yeah, all of the legal observers who are filming ICE as well that are being targeted with intimidation, being pulled over. Yeah, having guns pointed out of them, etc. Yeah. Do you want to talk

about the Senate funding for ICE? Oh, do I? So the partial government shut down, which did start last week was ended on Tuesday after the DHS bill was stripped out of the now $1.2 trillion annual funding package. DHS's funding will lapse on Friday the 13th in negotiation. Why not? While negotiations continue on a DHS funding bill, Congressional Democrats are pushing for agency reforms like judicial warrants and no masked agents, while Republicans are signaling minor concessions like having Border Patrol and ice wear body cameras. Yeah, should we talk a little bit more about body cameras? You know what? My favorite topic. Let's talk about body cameras again. I love to talk about a body worn camera.

Time is a flat circle. Yeah. Okay. So, Christine Nome this week announced that ice agents in Minnesota were going to wear body worn cameras going forward. And I've been kind of disappointed and a lot of their reporting on this. What is, I think, missing is that there was a 2022 executive order, right, signed by Biden that ordered federal law enforcement to use body-worn cameras. Funding for them was included in the 2021 fiscal year appropriations bill. Noam has said they will grow the program as funds become available, but those funds have been available for some time, right?

In a 2024 document, ICE document that talked about their pilot program study, they said, quote, full implementation is expected by September 30th, 2025. Eagle-eared lists will notice that it's in the past. However, in 2025, ICE began rolling this back. They issued a directive which continued only implementing the body-worn camera program in the certain pilot program cities. The Trump administration in its second term has called Congress to cut funding for body-worn cameras by 75% and reduce the staffing of the body-worn camera program from 22 people to just three.

They have also cut oversight offices within DHS, like OIDO. OIDO is like the nichest level of DHS, understand that when you know of OIDO. I think Biden created it. I've actually, I've seen them once. It's the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman. They came to the outdoor detention sites in Hacumba, which seems to be something of a concession that the Biden administration at a time denied people were detained in those sites. It had 100 plus employees at start of the Trump administration.

It also has three now, according to Reuters. This most recent bill, as Garrison said, does include funding and a mandate for their use. A federal judge in Chicago had already ordered agents there to wear cameras in November of last year. I should note that I also looked up the ICE body-worn camera policy, and it theoretically, now, insofar if any of these policies are being followed, right? prohibits them for using body-worn cameras for the, quote, sole purpose of recording people engaged in First Amendment protected activities. So they can just use their phones for that, I guess.

That's what they've been doing. I mean, yeah, this is like part of the frustration around this bill is you do have Schumer pushing for certain things like not wearing masks and not doing the roving raids. We'll also emphasize, you know, they want the masks off and the cameras on, as if that's going to affect the behavior of agents on the ground. Meanwhile, during the killing of Renee Good, the officer that shot and killed her was filming the whole thing on his phone. He was filming her on his own cell phone. So obviously having a camera on the agent is not going to prevent them from killing someone.

Because they think it's good what they're doing. They don't think it's bad. You have to understand that. Both the agents who shot Alex Prettie actually had body-worn cameras. they're actually CBP agents. So a CBP or BP, I should say, right? Customs and Border Protection. One of them is CPB, one of them is BP.

That's correct, yeah. They're both CBP agents, but within CBP, you have BP and OFO. Okay. They get really mad if you get this wrong. They would send an email. Okay. Literally, I got an email once for the subject line. Come on, man.

So they were both customs and border protection agents. generally border patrol. Border Patrol is part of customs of border protection, right, the other part of the Office of Field Operations. Border Patrol ceased using their cameras early in the Trump administration, citing an issue with the Bluetooth used by the cameras that could make them detectable. This is the thing that can happen. It is possible there's a GitHub script for this. Whether that justifies stopping using them is an entirely different question. Both the agents in the pretee shooting were wearing body cam, but we have not seen out footage. The two agents have been identified by ProPublica as Border Patrol agent

Jesus Jesse Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations Officer Remundo Gutierrez. Ochoa joined in 2018, Gutierrez joined in 2014. Gutierrez is part of the Office of Field Operation Special Response Team. That is generally a team with training and weapons and tactics who would serve high risk warrants, do raids. Like a SWAT style. Yeah, it's another word for SWAT, I think, because SWAT became somewhat, you know, they decided they wanted a different word for it. Sure. ProPublica got an interview with the show as ex-wife, who said, quote, by the time

a couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols, and shotguns. And so much as that matters, I guess, that was the only interview they could get about them. Both of the men are from South Texas. To circle back to the funding bill for DHS and these potential reforms being pushed for at, you know, multiple levels of the Democratic establishment, you know, Schumer being a little bit lighter. And obviously people like AOC and Talibh, pushing for more extreme measures like abolishing the agency of ICE, which is unlikely to happen in this funding bill as the Republicans control Congress. But still, there is a spectrum of beliefs among the party at the moment. get a look at what average regular registered Democrats believe. There's a new poll from UGov that came out this week based on data from late January, early February, that have 79% of Democrats saying they support abolishing ICE. Abolishing ICE is also up eight points with independence, and more people overall support abolishing ICE at 46% to 44% opposing.

So just to finish up on our immigration cover each of the week, we also saw Judge Cobb in the D.C. District Court grant a tentative restraining order that prevents DHS from denying Congress people the right for inspect immigration detention facilities without notice. Previously, DHS had been asserting that they had a seven-day period of notice that they had to give before they could inspect detention facilities. The judge has found that that's not justified. another eight attorneys have left or announced intentions to leave the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota. They are now operating at less than half the capacity of assistant USA attorneys that they had in the early Biden administration. They've also lost several non-attorney staff, and the Star Tribune reports that this is due to concerns about selective prosecution and the exclusion and the exclusion of state and local investigators from the good and pretty cases. In court yesterday, one federal prosecutor said, and I'm quoting for the transcript here, this system sucks, this job sucks. Another quotation,

I'm here just trying to make sure that the agency understand how important it is to comply with all the court orders, which they have not done in the past or currently. I am here as a bridge and a liaison between the one that in jail, because if I walk out, sometimes I wish you would just hold me in contempt, Your Honor, so that I have a full 24 hours of sleep. Yikes. This is a person on the ragged edge. Yeah, that is someone who is breaking as a human being.

You could look up her caseload and it is legitimately insane. Yeah. And it has only got bigger since the start of the year. You can see why people are quitting this job even if they don't have a moral issue with it because it's an inhumane amount of work. Yeah, and again, like I'm not coming at this from a point of a lot of sympathy, but it's funny. Yeah, yeah, it's funny. It's just funny.

It's funny to see them so obviously frustrated. that their agencies are just not complying with what they ask them to. Actually, I was reading the transcript today. The judge in the case was like, look, you can tell me the agencies are not complying. But like, if I have a problem in the restaurant, I don't walk in there and try and find the exact person who's baking the bread. I talk to the restaurant, and the restaurant sorts it out. You are part of the executive branch. Yeah.

This is on you. Like, it was a good little court exchange. And then finally, NBC has obtained a leaked email from Greg Bevino showing tensions between himself and Todd Lyons. Lyons is the acting director of immigration and custody enforcement. Lyons attempted to prevent Bovino from engaging in widespread sweeps in which agents kind of roam around, check papers in anyone they think might not be a citizen, and encouraged him to do targeted operations instead. And then Mr. Bovino said in the email, quote,

Mr. Lyons said he was in charge, and I corrected him saying I report to Corey Lewandowski. Garrison's just made a face for those. Yeah, and if you want to hear more about, Our dear buddy Greg, Robert and I recorded an episode with Jack O'Brien for Behind the Bastards that's dropping next Thursday. Oh, sick. All about Greg Bavino. Yeah. Greg's been on a bit of a tour on his way back to California.

Yeah, he's a road trip on it. He went to Mount Rushmore to record like a Moto video. And then he was spotted drinking a glass of red wine in Las Vegas. Yeah. It seems like they made him road trip. Like a weirdo. Who's drinking? You're drinking the house wine at a casino.

in Vegas. Come the fuck on, Greg. Grow up, Greg. Yeah. Have a fucking cocktail. Jesus Christ. I think he's back in Imperial now, but it was, it seems that they made him take a road trip home. He didn't fly him back. Wouldn't spring for the plane trip.

Yeah. He's quite remarkable. Incredible. Gestapo. Unbelievable. Canadian women are looking for more. More to themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world. around them. And that's why we're thrilled to introduce the Honest Talk podcast. I'm Jennifer Stewart.

And I'm Catherine Clark. And in this podcast, we interview Canada's most inspiring women. Entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, politicians, and newsmakers, all at different stages of their journey. So if you're looking to connect, then we hope you'll join us. Listen to the Honest Talk podcast and IHeart Radio or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Welcome to the A building. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Mennelich Lamouber. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., had both been assassinated, and Black America was out of breaking point. Writing and protests broke out on an unprecedented scale.

In Atlanta, Georgia at Martin's Almemata, Moore House College, the students had their own protest. It featured two prominent figures in black history, Martin Luther King, Sr., and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson. To be in what we really thought was a revolution, I mean, people would die. The murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago.

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Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the on-purpose podcast. On a recent episode, I sat down with Nick Jonas, singer, songwriter, actor, and global superstar. The thing I would say to my younger self is congratulations. You get to marry Priyanka Chopra Jonas. And also, you know, your daughter is incredible. That's beautiful, man. Yeah. Thank you.

That's so beautiful. I can see that got you a little. Yeah, for sure. Our daughter, she came to the world under sort of very intense circumstances, which I'd not really talked about ever. Growing up on Disney in front of a million, how did that shape your sense of self? I went blank.

I hit a bad note, then I couldn't kind of recover. And I built up this idea that music and being musician was my whole identity. I had to sort of relearn who I was if you took this thing away. Who am I?

Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, we are back. Last Wednesday, January 28th. the FBI executed a raid on the Fulton County Election Office outside of Atlanta, Georgia, as a part of an investigation into Trump's claim that the 2020 election was rigged against him. The special agent in charge of the FBI Atlanta Field Office resigned a week before the warrant was served.

This search warrant was signed by a United States magistrate judge and it instructed investigators to seize, quote, all records relating to violations of Title 52, U.S. Code 20701, and 20511. With these violations occurring, quote, after October 12, 2020, unquote. The former statute here, 20701, relates to retaining and preserving election records for 22 months after an election, and the latter, 20511, relates to voter fraud or threats, intimidation, and coercion against voters. The records that were to be seized are listed on the warrant as, quote, all physical ballots from the 2020 general election in Fulton County, all tabulator tapes for every voting machine, all ballot images produced during the original ballot count,

all voter rolls from the 2020 general election in Fulton County, from absentee early and in-person voting, and any electronically stored information relevant to those items above. The Fulton County Commissioner Moe Ivory said that federal officials took 700 boxes of ballots. And curiously, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, appeared at the site of the search and had a phone call with Trump after the raid concluded. Gabbard sent a letter to Congress on Monday, claiming, quote, My presence was requested by the president and executed under my broad statutory authority

to coordinate, integrate, and analyze intelligence relating to election security, including counterintelligence, foreign, and other malign influences, and cybersecurity, unquote. She also wrote on X the Everything app, quote, The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has and will continue to take action under my statutory authorities to secure our nation and ensure the integrity of our elections. I will include here that four days before January 6th, 2021, Trump told Georgia's top election official to quote-unquote find enough votes to overturn the election. Here's a recording of that phone call.

All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780, votes. The Trump administration has made multiple unsuccessful attempts to gain access to the 2020 Georgia ballots through civil suits. Now they have just turned to executing a search warrant through the FBI. On February 1st, Mike Johnson was asked about potential election meddling in Georgia. Here is this exchange from NBC News. What do you say to that allegation that President Trump is going to meddle in the 2026 midterm elections, that that's what he's doing in Georgia. I find it comical that one of the senators from Georgia is talking about schemes in elections. Remember, Georgia was example A of that in the

2020 election. There were two statewide recounts in Georgia, Mr. Speaker. They sent mail-out ballots to everyone. Everyone knows all of the problems that occurred in Georgia. It was very controversial and remains so to this day because of all the things that happened there. Again, we're not going to relitigate that, but what we have to focus on is going forward to ensure that there are not questions about the elections. And that's why Republicans are working at the federal and the state levels to clean those things up, to clean up voter rolls, to make sure illegals are not voting, for example. That's what the Save Act is about. And we have to continue that. And the president is keeping a proper focus on it. This investigation is to ensure that all the questions

about the elections in Fulton County are investigated properly so that people have confidence in the system again. That's very important. But there are really no questions about election integrity from 2020 that have not been asked and answered. Even the Republican-led governor has pointed out, it's been years and no one has ever come forward under oath with evidence of fraud in Georgia. But let me ask you. Pretty absurd stuff. Yeah.

Yeah, we're not going to relitigate it as we relitigate it. Yeah. Yeah. And just giving no evidence, just being like, oh, it's very controversial. Everyone knows. Such a weasily answer. Yeah. Republican Governor Brian Kemp has been very clear that there was absolutely no fraud happening in Georgia during 2020.

And if there was any attempt to meddle with the election, it is this phone call that Trump made to the Georgia Secretary of State asking to find a certain number of votes. That itself should have resulted in Trump going to prison. Like South Korea style, like you're done. You're finished. You can't do that. Yeah, that is like the most transparent election interference. The way that Trump's court case in Fulton County related to his attempts to meddle in the 2020 election is just a complete disaster due to corruption within the Fulton County court system itself. One of the worst things to happen during this like Biden era is the mishandling of the court cases around Trump's attempts to overturn the election.

And especially like looking at what South Korea did after their president tried to take over the country a year or two ago is like, oh yeah, that's very clearly what we should have done with this guy. Yeah, people, people could have done better. And Mike Johnson just keeps making really concerning statements on the news about, about quote unquote, nationalizing elections. My follow up on elections, the president says that he wants Republicans to nationalize elections. Do you agree with him? And do you have confidence in how elections are conducted right now heading into the midterm? We have thoughtful debate about our election system, every election cycle, and sometimes in between. We know it's in our system. The states have been in charge of administering

their elections. You're hearing from the president is his frustration about the lack of some of the blue states, frankly, of enforcing these things. Mike Johnson goes on to discuss possible fraud in California specifically, though admits that he has no evidence of said fraud. One more clip. In some of the states, like in California, for example, I mean, they hold the elections open for weeks after election day.

That's just one thing that bothers so many people. We had three House Republican candidates who were ahead on election day in the last election cycle. And every time a new tranche of ballots came in, they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. And no series of ballots that were counted after Election Day were our candidates ahead on any of those counts. It just looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove that? No, because it happened so far upstream.

But we need more confidence in the American people in the election system. Absurd. Yeah, completely bonk case. Sir, I fear that more ballots have. been counted and results have changed. Yeah, that's what elections are. You cannot place a vote in California after election day, but they do count mail-in ballots that have been postmarked on or before election day, which is what he's referencing, but he's purposely misconstruiting it to make it sound way more, way more nefarious than what it actually is. If you've placed a mail-in vote on or before

election day in California, that vote will be counted. That is how the elections in California work, not this magically keeping the election open for weeks afterwards people can continue to vote that's not that's not true it's giving like a very specific sports reference

where the announcer's like and the team with the most points won the game that's literally what he's doing he's like as as the votes were counted the results changed they changed and someone won

who is not what I wanted to happen uh yeah Shock horror. Can I prove there's fraud? No, but will I continue to say those fraud? Yes. Mike Johnson. It had been reported that they were trying to leverage the ice raids in Minnesota

against getting electoral information from Minnesota as well. Yes. So, like, this is not just his fascination with Georgia. Like, this is all deeply concerning as we go into, like, midterm year. But we will find out soon. Oh, yeah, especially as Congress is the entity that is. is supposed to be there to help to ensure that states run the elections fairly

and that we do not have a nationalized voting system. And the fact that the Speaker of the House seems to be unawares. Citing with the executive branch with this idea of it of nationalizing elections or at least trying to like manufacture consent

for Trump's claim there. Very, very worrying. I now want to update a story we talked about almost a year ago based on some new information that has come out in January. A judge has unsealed a State Department memo from March 2025 that confirms that Ramesa OzTurk's visa was revoked and the government sought to deport her on the basis of OzTurk co-authoring an op-ed in the student newspaper at Tufts University.

This memo admits that DHS could not provide any evidence that OzTurk ever in. engaged in any anti-Semitic activity, was involved in students for justice in Palestine, or has ever expressed support for terrorism, as claimed by government officials last year. Tricia McLaughlin told CNN at the time of Ozturk's arrest that DHS and ICE investigations had found that Ozturk had, quote, engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans, unquote. On the contrary, this newly unsealed memo from the State Department reads, while Ozturk has been involved with actions protesting Tufts relationship with Israel,

DHS, ICE, or Homeland Security Investigations has not, however, provided any evidence showing that Ozturk has engaged in any anti-Semitic activity or made any public statements indicating support for a terrorist organization or anti-Semitism generally, unquote. The memo goes on to state that, though a previous DHS report, quote, implies a connection between OzTurk and the now banned Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine. The report presents no evidence other than Os Turk's membership in graduate students for Palestine, which supported proposals to Tufts, which were also supported by Tufts students for justice in Palestine. Nor has DHS-I or HSI shown any evidence that OzTurk was involved in any of the activities

which resulted in students for justice in Palestine being suspended from Tufts, unquote. The Bureau of Consular Affairs Visa Office identified no reporting specific to Ozturk on U.S. government interagency databases according to this memo. And interagency vetting partners did not provide any response to Ozturk's

2024 visa application indicating the existence of derogatory terrorism-related information. I'll read the final quote here from this memo. Quote, DHS did not identify

any alternative grounds for removability that would be applicable to Oz Turk, including the ground for removability for aliens who have provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization or terrorist activity and has not indicated whether it plans to consider termination of OzTurk's

CVS-Regist registration. Although information provided by DHS Homeland Security Investigations and ICE does not establish any potential ineligibility for Oz Turk, you may in your discretion and in accordance with department policy in 9FAM 403

1.11-5B, approve revocation of her F1 visa effect immediately, based on the totality of the circumstances, presented, indicating that revocation may be warranted, unquote. The only evidence held against her in the memo is that she wrote an op-ed. You still can revoke her visa if you want to. Yeah, yeah, and that is pretty much the way of student visas especially work, right? like you just hear at the pleasure of U.S. politics, essentially. The fact that this memo openly says they do not have evidence to support the claims

that she's involved in anti-Semitic activity on campus, supports Hamas in any way. The fact that you have the government saying that in these internal documents, while externally people like Tricia McLaughlin and Rubio say otherwise. It's such a naked display of the sort of rhetoric that these people are using. Secretary Rubio claimed at a press conference on March 27th, 2025, quote, We revoked her visa. It's an F1 visa, I believe. We revoked it, and here's why. If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you're coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want

to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus. We're not going to give you a visa. If you lie to us and get a visa and then enter the United States and with that visa participate in that sort of activity, we're going to take away your visa, unquote. I mean, she didn't tell them that she was engaged in that kind of activity. She wasn't. That's just not what happened.

Yeah. And DHS admits itself that she was not involved in the protest activity that resulted in students for justice in Palestine being banned from campus, which included vandalism. But DHS says that they do not have evidence that she was involved in that in any way. nor had any direct association with that group. In December, a federal judge allowed Ozturk to continue her research and teaching at Tufts University on the basis that she's likely to succeed on the claim that her visa termination was, quote,

arbitrary and capricious, contrary to law, and in violation of the First Amendment. The court case related to her removal proceedings will still continue. Yeah, pretty bleak. That was, yeah. Wow. I guess talking of Bleak, should I finish up with a summary of the situation in Syria? Yeah, give us a Syria update. Yeah, okay, so the AANES has reached a settlement with the STG, the AANES, the autonomous administration of north and east Syria,

aka Rojava, and the STG being the Syrian transitional government that will result in the withdrawal of troops from the points of contact as well as the withdrawal of SDF troops from Komishlo and Hezekaqa, and the entry of the Syrian Ministry of the Interior. There are about 90 Ministry of Interior people going into Camichlo and 100 in Hesigas. These are essentially like Syrian feds, I guess, right? Integration of the SDF will occur as brigades of the Syrian army deployed in Derik. If you're looking at a map, it's probably going to say Al-Malekiah,

Delhi being the Kurdish name. Kamishlo, Hesika, and Kobani. These forces will be largely Kurdish, but they will also include a Syrian and Arab elements, as the SDF always has. I imagine there will probably be Armenian as well. They're nearly always are, certainly in the SDF since the beginning there have been. The agreement also included the integration of the ASEA-E into the Syrian Ministry of the Interior, the government takeover of oil fields and borders, and a recognition of Kurdish education credentials across the country. The AANES will appoint a governor in Hesica and the security chief

will be appointed by Damascus. The SDF will also appoint a deputy defense minister in Damascus. The SCG appointed Marwan al-Aali to overseas security. He previously did this for HTS in Idlib, Hayakhtaria al-Sham, right? That's the group that was formally listed as a foreign terrorist organization in the US has gone on to take over Syria and become the government in Damascus. And he sort of oversaw their purge of Huras al-Din, which is like an al-Qaeda associated group in Idlib. Shortly after the deal was signed to Syrian traditional government, began accusing journalists who entered via Somalca, as I have done and robber has done, of having entered Syria illegally, which great, I guess.

Turkey has continued to prevent aid coming to Kobani, where water and power remain cut off. Pretty bleak situation in Rojava. I'm glad that there is not more killing and not more dying, but also sad to see some of the things that so many people fought and died for being lost, especially this idea of Brotherhood of peoples, which I think was integral to the Rojava revolution and the women's revolution, which, like, it will be very hard to sustain in the context of a state led by HTS. Pretty upsetting stuff. I know that they can still use your support.

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