The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Trump REVEALS Call With Tim Walz, The Rittenhouse Comparison & Border Patrol Commander Removed

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

President Trump reveals the details of his call with Tim Walz and Jacob Frey. Greg Bovino was removed from his role as Border Patrol “Commander at Large” as state police are arresting violent protesters. The cross-dressing Antifa general of Minneapolis, Kyle Wagner, who called for guns to be used against ICE, is now on the run from law enforcement and is begging for donations. VCU Nurse Malinda Cook posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylcholine, a temporary paralysis drug and spray poison on them. The left continues to use the Kyle Rittenhouse commentary comparison to go after the guns. CNN suggests Alex Pretti has a history of impeding law enforcement operations. Dana breaks down Minnesota’s political history of ignoring removal orders for illegal immigrants. Minnesota has experienced a STAGGERING increase in the amount of Medicaid without Social Security Numbers. 2 Million Gazans will request asylum in Spain. New polls show the majority of Americans are in support of ICE’s mission.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Bank on Yourselfhttps://BankOnYourself.com/Dana Bank on Yourself offers tax-free retirement income, guaranteed growth, and full control of your money. Receive your free report.Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTry Relief Factor's 3-week Quickstart for just $19.95—tell them Dana sent you and see if you can be next to control your pain!Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DANA or call 972-PATRIOTSwitch to Patriot Mobile in minutes—keep your number and phone or upgrade, then take a stand today with promo code DANA for a free month of service!Humannhttps://HumanN.comKick off the New Year with simple, delicious wellness support—pick up Humann’s Turmeric Chews at Sam’s Club next time you’re there and see why they’re such a fan favorite!Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaMake 2026 the year you protect your family with solid options—Get the Byrna today.WebRootTake your cybersecurity seriously! Get 60% off Webroot Total Protection at https://Webroot.com/Dana  Noble Goldhttps://NobleGoldInvestments.com/DanaThis is the year to create a more stable financial future.  Open a qualified account with Noble Gold and receive a 3 oz Silver Virtue coin free. Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite

But I had two very good talks. I had Jacob Fry and I had Governor Walsh. And I mean, they were, they were great calls. So let's see how they reported. But they were very nice calls, very respectful. What we need is they're criminals. You know, they have criminals. And all I said, just give us your criminals.

And if you give us the criminals, it all goes away. They're there to pick up murders. I don't know if you saw it, but it was a couple of days. Well, I mean, it's pretty wild to see the difference. in today versus yesterday versus, I don't know, maybe Sunday, Saturday when all hell was breaking loose there in Minnesota, because you had police, state police that were called in yesterday after this call. There's a lot of video showcasing the response of the state police with these protesters, specifically, or rioters, I should say,

not protesters. Specifically, as one spot outside, I think it's one of the, I'm looking at the hotel, it's one of the hotels where they weren't even confirmed staying there. It was just a rumor, but ICE was rumored to have been staying there and they decided to attack basically another hotel. Remember, what was it? Like, it was like a Hilton property, I think, that they had attacked previously and they were breaking the windows and all that other stuff. So, uh, the, it's a pretty big difference pretty big difference welcome to the program

Dana Lash with you we are on day the hell day is this day two of Ice Mageddon here the staff is completely frozen out and Kane did an exploratory drive this morning and he slid right through a stop sign and onto a curb so yeah he didn't come in no one's coming in today it's just us we're in this our little dark Heidi hole and that's the way it is

and we're staying safe and we hope you're staying safe as well but we're We have a lot to go through, though. And the big thing is this, I mean, dang, the response from state police, like I said. So you have this call between POTUS and Tim Walz and Potus also spoke. It was reported he spoke separately to with Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis. And it is night and day. So they sent out the state police.

State police went in and just busted these writers, went in and just busted them. Now, remember, this didn't happen until, oh, I don't know, after the story came out about the well-organized, well-funded, resistant left, after that came out, it didn't come. Remember the signal groups? all of that came out all of the organization the well not texts but technically the discussion from Signal and it showed the extent

to which this was organized and really well funded incredibly well funded and that's been the whole goal is to disrupt and it also showcased how

you had this Alex Pretty individual who was apparently part of these signal discussions and they were all very much

organized to disrupt organized to impede organized to commit felonies and all of this is coming out when that did I think that that further incentivized for the lack of a

way to put it, Democrats to, you know, maybe come to the table here. You need to talk to POTUS. And you need to go in and do something about these rioters because remember, the police were told to stand down. They weren't able to do anything. They were told to stand down. So you left it really with ICE agents who were dispatched there to deal with the detainer requests. All very interesting. All very interesting. And of course, man, we're going to keep seeing more of this. And the reaction further to the Alex Preti shooting has continued. And I really, Democrats, look, I'm going to tell you something.

As I said this yesterday, I am not going to take any lectures from people who before this weekend would have made Alex Prattie a felon for the piece that he was carrying. I am not going to take a single damn syllable for any one of these rat bastards who are out there who would have made him a felon for the piece that he was carrying. not going to do it and i'm not going to allow the left to use the second amendment as a cudgel to attack ice do not get baited into this because that's what they're trying to do they're trying to do all of this now while this has been going on you have potis trying to get something done about it they sent out i had this uh this was in part of your rundown if you get the newsletter over at substack I thought this was interesting because Nome was sidelined. I don't think that there's any other way to put it other than that she was sideline,

and I think that's pretty accurate. The reports were that POTUS was none too happy with some stuff, and so he sent Tom Holman out there instead of Nome. Now, the other interesting thing is that Greg Bovino apparently was kind of demoted a bit, and Tom Holman, I mean, he goes out there and then all, and Trump talks with Wollinger, and fry and then boom now we're seeing enforcement they should have done the enforcement by the way from the beginning if they would have done this from the beginning this would not have been the issue that it is and i think gregg bovino um a lot of people want him reinstated there's a lot of

discussion that apparently bovino was going to kind of be jettisoned potis intervened um i don't know I think there's a lot of palace intrigue in that. The White House says that he had not been relieved of his duties. So he's still in Minnesota. So I don't know quite what the back and forth of that is. And I think it's all a distraction and irrelevant. The big point is that they finally activated state police. And that apparently they're going to start cracking down on these rioters.

Because they're up there doing the job that Tim Walsh should have been doing from the get-go. They're up there doing the job that Jacob Frye should have been doing from the get-go. instead of telling police to stand down, they should have been detaining these rioters that are committing felonies by obstructing. And that's the thing here too. And we're going to get into some of these comparisons that the left keeps making. Again, all of these anti-gun people. And also, people keep going on about the SIGP3, the pistol that Jacob Frye, or not Jacob Frye, the pistol that Alex Prattie had, they keep going after SIG for this. There is no conclusive evidence to show that there was an accidental discharge at all whatsoever. And the people who are telling you,

you this need to shut the hell up because they're there are propagandists there's literally no video evidence to support that that thing discharged by itself it's all conjecture and i have these c s i morons out there going oh well you know look you here you can't tell it's a literally a blur they can't tell anything it's all conjecture that's all it is and i think again it's another distraction and it's something that's really being promoted by the anti-gun people so you need to be very careful and how you're getting baited here. Because that's absolutely what they're doing. They're trying to bait people and they're trying to use the Second Amendment as a cudgel

against ice so that they can take two birds, one stone. So that is the whole thing. Now we're going to get into some of the reaction that we've seen from this as well. And this is, it's been all very, it's just all fascinating to me how all of a sudden, And then they keep making like comparisons to Kyle Rittenhouse and all this other stuff, which we're going to get into. But just crazy. No one's saying anything about the left, though. Cut 29.

This is wild. So this is the cross-dressing Antifa General of Minneapolis. Listen to the rhetoric. I mean, he sounds basically like a Democrat. Listen to this. The video I posted from the Alex Pretti murder calling for direct action, calling for boots on. the ground calling for someone to stand against these murderers was deemed inciting violence and, you know, they're being bullied by the administration.

He's begging for donations. He made a video, Kyle Wagner, where he called for guns to be used against ICE. And I was like, oh, I guess, yeah, people took it seriously. Of course, that's not any different than what the Attorney General of Arizona did. the Attorney General of Arizona called for the same thing. The Attorney General said that protesters could shoot ICE agents and it'd be part of Stand Your Ground. Chris Mays, who's an absolute, I mean, I don't even know how Chris Mays is Attorney General

of Arizona. I've never seen anyone not understand what Stand Your Ground Law is, more so than this woman. What an embarrassment, Chris Mays is. How embarrassing for the people who supported her campaign. Geez. I wonder if they feel, I mean, good, heaven. I think Candice Owens might be smarter than this woman, and that's not saying a lot.

She actually had said that people could use lethal force if they thought their life was in danger. And she was talking about it with ICE. She said ICE's behavior was destroying it, et cetera, blah, blah, blah. She's doubled down and defended her remarks. I mean, that's what she had said. And then she accused everybody else of mischaracterizing her remarks. No one mischaracterized Chris May's remarks. They quoted her accurately.

She had said she was in a conversation with a news station. And one of the hosts said, so someone runs up to your car talking about ice. They were literally having a conversation about what to do if you run a foul of ice agents and, you know, in that context. And she was talking about using lethal force. And the host goes, so, you know, somebody tries running up to your car and opening your door. and they're talking about using lethal force and she goes, right, you can. And he goes with a mask on.

She goes, well, you're literally describing you know, and she was talking about stained your ground. She went in and set and invoked stanger ground. That's insane to me. I mean, I was reading the transcript of it. I'm not quite sure why she thinks

that that's applicable in a situation involving a federal law enforcement operation. I mean, that would only make sense if it wasn't a federal law enforcement operation. And then she was trying to describe to the host what changed your ground was. I mean, that's crazy. What she was talking about was insane. She said, yes, you can use lethal force. She said, you know, it's

stained your ground. No, not in a federal operation. See, these lawmakers, they're agitating these people to go out and do this stuff and get people killed. For what? To protect a bunch of rapist and murderers? Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that's out there. I've used them for over 10 years and they actively support the causes that defend faith, family, and freedom while also providing premium prioritized service on all three major U.S. networks. You're getting reliable coverage everywhere and it's backed by 100% U.S.-based customer support team. You get unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots, you get plans

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And what happened? What if we all just stopped paying for health insurance? Will that force doctors to lower costs? Check out the watchdog on Wall Street podcast on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. And now. the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. I don't understand. Apparently there was a sports radio personality who had to apologize because he called into question the intentions of ICE protesters in

Minneapolis. Paul Allen, who's known as the voice of the Minnesota Vikings, issued a statement on Monday. He made comments Friday when he was talking about the inclement weather. And he said, you know, protesters' weather was, you know, basically talking about them freezing outside. Why would he have to apologize for anything that he's said. Because he goes, he had said in conditions like this, do they get hazard pay, etc. And he got in trouble for that. Now I'm going to ask, do they get, I'm sure they do get hazard paid. They're all a bunch of paid commie stooges. That's exactly correct. I can't believe that they would make this guy apologize for that. Most people compound sand and go do something

on flattering to themselves. Let's see. Also, this, uh, so Tim Wals, he got, he got scolded by the Holocaust Museum because he was trying to say that the criminals that they were deporting were like Anne Frank. He literally compared murderers, rapists, and child pedophiles, like pedophiles, like actual convicted child rapist to Anne Frank. And the Holocaust Museum was shocked. They scolded him. They said, basically, we can't believe that you would say something like this. They said making false equivalencies for political purposes like this is, and it's no. It's not acceptable. And they're correct. That was really pathetic. We played those comments yesterday that he made. Gold has surged past 5,100 as investors seek shelter.

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So that's always valuable. It's always valuable. It's always a good hedge of protection. And a chart showing to you, US dollar crashing takes off online, but it makes sense that gold and silver are doing so well in context with that. This is something they were saying that the measure of this, the crashing value, some people were reflecting their concerns online, but I mean, really though? I mean, it's also about them trying to hurt the petro dollar. There's a lot of stuff in play here. It's

about people trying to hurt America's dominance with currency. The petro dollar, a lot of things are playing into this. It's not just one thing or another. Three Las Vegas hotels are now accepting the Canadian dollar at par. It's really weird. There are three of them now. Let's see. They are the Circa Resort, the D, Las Vegas, and Golden Gate Hotel. They're participating in this at par program until August, and they're trying to remove financial barriers for Canadians who want to travel to Vegas. And they said that they're going to allow Canadians to be able to gamble at par by redeeming up to $500 in slot play, et cetera, per the hotels. Is that really going to be enough to attract Canadians to go down and really?

I don't know about that. That just seems kind of hokey to me, to be completely honest about it. Also, this is interesting. So ice agents are set to have a security role during the Winter Olympics in Italy, and there's some people who have an uproar about it. Ice agents, apparently, they're going to be at the Milan Cortina Winter Games in Italy, and the U.S. Embassy in Rome and ICE have confirmed. to the AP and Francis Agenus France press that agents will be traveling there, but only in the capacity

of supporting diplomatic security details. So all these people that are freaking out over it, they have no idea what they're talking about. They said that there are security operations are going to remain under Italian authority. They're not conducting immigration enforcement. They're part of details going over there for diplomats. So that's per variety. We've got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. Are you being lied to about your retirement? I mean, the advice sounds familiar. Max out your 401k and your IRA and hand your life savings to Wall Street and just hope that the market cooperates. If that were the only way, why do so many people then risk outliving their savings? Why does the inventor of the 401k call it a monster that should be destroyed? The time has

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The Dana Show podcast, your fast, funny, and informative news companion for those always on the move. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. I can't believe these people that make these videos of themselves saying crazy stuff. And then they posted online and, oh my gosh, like that one Lexi lady, she ended up getting fired because she was talking about. how Caroline Levitt should be disfigured during birth as punishment for being a Republican. Well, now we got a woman named Melinda at VCU Health.

She posted a bunch of videos telling people to inject ICE agents with a paralysis drug and kill them. Listen to this. This is insanity. I thought of something good. I think it's something weird. Sabotage tactic or at least scare tactic. All the medical providers grab some syringes with needles on. the end have them full of saline or succulent ol'coaline you know whatever whatever that will probably be a deterrent be safe okay for today's resistance tip i vote um anybody got me uh poison ivy poison oak in their yard get some of that up with gloves obviously get it in some

water like a gallon of water get some get the poison iv oak water And I'm going to put it into a water gun. Aim for faces. Hands. Are the single ladies where these ice guys are going have a chance to do something, you know, not without risk, but could help the cause for sure. Get on Tinder, get on Hinge, find these guys. They're around.

They're an ice agent. Bring some X-lax and put it in their drinks. Wow. Wow. She's talking about, it's called succinalcholine. Suxanolcoline is the drug's name. And she's talking about using this and spraying poison on people. Now, the succulent coline is a paralactic that they use only in emergency settings because after immediately injecting it, patients are paralyzed and they have to be intubated. And if they're not intubated, they die. That's what that does. This is someone who is in a hospital setting that is talking about murdering people because of their politics. This is how bad it has gotten in this country. This is how insane the left has gotten. Like I'm telling you, y'all, this has only been going one way this entire time, only one way.

So, I mean, man alive. I don't know. It makes you like afraid to go to go anywhere and get any kind of health care. If you got to worry about these people who are fantasizing about this stuff because of immigration and custom enforcement, her name's Melinda Rose Cook. She's a CRNA And out of Richmond, Virginia. She also has Duke Health listed.

She apparently does VCU Health and Duke and also Duke Health as well. I mean, according to, she's been trying to scrub her TikTok account. Now, VCU confirmed that she was placed on administrative leave. I don't think she needs to be on administrative leave. I think she needs to be fired and lose any ability to ever practice medicine again. I don't think that she should ever be allowed in a hospital again.

The stuff that she's talking about is serious. You're discussing also losing complete faith in our medical facilities because of these people. She's telling people to murder, telling them how to murder federal agents. This is deranged. And it's even, you know, the crazy thing is it's even more serious when you consider it because, I mean, anything else, this would, I mean, she would be, have her license suspended. She would undergo drug testing and a psychiatric evaluation, which I think she needs to undergo anyway. There is, I mean, good heavens. This makes me, like, it does make me, it doesn't, it makes people nervous about going and seeing any kind of, you know, medical professional because you have to sit here and now worry about whether or not they're going

to kill you because they don't like what you think. Think about all the stuff that the left has been doing in the past several years. Keying Tesla's, they get mad and they damage property because they think that because you drive a Tesla, somehow they've got you all figured out. They're going to judge you and be jury and executioner based on the kind of car you drive. This is like the same kind of COVID mentality. People who were flipping out and losing. it if you didn't wear a face mask outside an 80 degrees sunshine. This is a, I mean, it is a serious

disconnect. I don't think that they're crazy. I think that they're just evil. You have to remember, too. Extreme evil. People can be very, very evil and not be crazy. I don't think that she's crazy. I think she's incredibly evil.

And that's why I think she deserves to have the consequence of being economically wrecked. So I hope she loses her license. I hope she can never get another job in medicine anywhere else. She's only fit to, she's, I don't even know what she would be even fit for. This is crazy. You got to worry about this.

Now having babies. You got to worry about this going on or not. I mean, good grief. It is, we have lost our spiritual moorings in this country, clearly, when people are driven to do stuff like this out of rage because they cannot get you to comport with their views. It is something else, something else. And this is just like one of, so, I mean, there's, you know, there's a lot more examples of this than what, you know, just what, there's tons of the stuff that's on social media. And they put it all on TikTok, which is crazy.

I mean, there is, it's, it's a, it's a problem. Now, it doesn't help when you have elected officials say the stuff that they're saying. when you have people like you know Keith Ellison when you got people like Jacob Frey or Jacob Fry

all of these people saying the stuff that they're saying I saw this earlier today 28 this is Jessica Tarlov who I don't really have a problem with personally I mean I think she's wrong

on some things but that's about it can we stop this comparison I'm going to explain how this is wrong listen to what she says here you know and the president have you seen the body cam video

I was unaware you had you know what it's going to exonerate all the agents you're completely right Stephen Miller saying an assassin tried to murder federal agents, and this is your response, and J.D. Vance retweeting it, says something about where this administration is and how they're considering it before and after the murder of Alex Prattie. And this will go down in history as a turning point for this. Greg Vivino wouldn't be leaving tomorrow if an innocent person wasn't killed. And the double standards that

are being employed for how you have to behave versus how these agents have to behave is mind-boggling to me. Kyle Rittenhouse was a conservative hero, right, for walking into a protest, actually brandishing a weapon. But this guy who had a legal permit to carry and already had his gun removed to some people, I guess, is some sort of instigator when he was actually going to help a woman who had been pushed down and tear gassed by ICE. We have the right to protest. Okay, so she was also obstructing a federal operation. Here's the thing, Kyle Rittenhouse didn't, quote, walk into a protest. First off, you know, I said my only issue with the Rittenhouse thing was that he was a minor who was doing. this stuff and I just don't think minors were able to accept the legal consequence of stuff like that.

But he didn't walk into a protest. He was on someone, he was on a friend's private property protecting their business. And he was targeted by literal convicted pedophiles. You know the guy who attacked him had apparently raped a kid? Well, like literally was out, had been just freed from jail after that, after serving a sentence for that. They were literal, we're not joking when we say pedophiles. Like this actually, in this case, they were literal actual pedophiles. And so first off, he didn't walk into a protest with a firearm. His firearm was also legally carried. Rittenhouse's firearm was also legal. He didn't walk into a federal operation and impede it. He was on a friend's private property protecting their business and he was attacked and defended

himself. And here's the other big difference. When law enforcement, when law enforcement made contact with him, he immediately put his rifle down hands in the air and he complied with all commands. That is the complete opposite of what Alex Pretti did. Alex Pretti did. Alex Preddy involved himself in a federal operation, which is a felony. 18 U.S.C. 111. It is a felony to impede a federal law enforcement operation. You can dislike it, but that's the law that's on the books. Rittenhouse didn't do that. Prettie sought out confrontation.

He's in signal chats discussing how he sought out confrontation. He was in the middle of the road blocking traffic while armed. Now, if you want to have a discussion as to whether or not that was intimidating, I would say it would be. If I'm a regular average person and I'm trying to drive down the street and an armed man who's a deranged leftist is in the street blocking me from proceeding, I'm going to have a very big issue with that. So, no, they're not even remotely the same. They're not at all the same. Stop making these stupid comparisons. And Rittenhouse, by the way,

written house, like I said, his firearm was also legal, but he complied. He didn't insert himself into a federal operation, and he complied. Alex Pready did not. And the woman that he was helping is also someone who was impeding a federal operation. That was also a felony. Now, you can talk about the use of lethal force, et cetera, as a separate issue, but they're not the same. Neither of these issues are the same. And it really bothers me that people keep excusing this.

The left wants to make this about the Second Amendment to acquit themselves of responsibility with all of this violence, the deluge of criminal illegal aliens, and also the Somali diaspora fraud. They need this to be about the Second Amendment to acquit themselves of accountability. That's the real truth of it. and I think that people on the right need to stop aiding and abetting this. You know, it's unfortunate that Prattie made the decision that he did, but that's the decision that he made. And it's unfortunate also that we have in this country people who willfully refuse to accept the nuance of all of this discussion because they want to dumb everything down and make everything

stupid. You're not forfeiting your Second Amendment rights to question the lethal use of force and what triggered it any more than you are attacking ICE for asking any of these questions or for saying that the individual was fine until he impeded the op. The moment that Preddy decided to impede the federal operation, that's the moment he stopped being lawful. So stop saying the phrase lawful. He was no longer lawful once he did that. If you're blocking a federal operation, Are you being lawful? Hell no.

And it doesn't matter whether you're armed or not. You're not being lawful. End of story. You're committing a felony. You throw a firearm in that mix. That's an enhanced charge. You're committing a felony while armed. So that's an additional felony charge on top of that because you're armed in commission of felonious activity.

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to load down on the latest news with a side of laughs whenever you want subscribe to the dana show podcast on youtube apple or wherever you get your podcast like sands through the hourglass so are the days of the united states when a day uh you all see what them people invaded that church the other day now i just want to say to protesters and all of them don't don't do that here Amen. Don Lemon, don't come here. You roll up in this church doing stuff like that, and it's going to be the royal room. That pastor, Patrick Wooden, he's a pastor who's a pastor who's warning Don Lemon. Don't be trying that stuff right here. Don't be doing that. Don't be rolling up in our church and starting problems.

We ain't going to tolerate that. I doubt they will. Good. It's nice to hear. Nice to hear a shepherd call it out. He's like, yeah, don't even, don't try that here. Don't even try that here. Good for him. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. Good for him. Good for Reverend Wooden. Holding the line on that. God love him. It needed to happen. Do you guys hear this story? Did you know that Alex Preti broke a rib in a confrontation with federal agents a week before? he was killed. I think this adds a little bit of perspective to things. They said that about a week ago, he got a broken rib because he was once again impeding a federal law enforcement operation and federal officers tackled him while he was doing so. His encounter suggests a pattern of aggressive approach. That's very interesting. All of this is now coming out.

as the investigation is ongoing. Apparently, they tackled him and he got a broken rib. He had been protesting and trying to stop them from detaining other individuals. And apparently what happened is that he stopped his car. This is from not his perspective. He apparently stopped his car because he saw ICE agents chasing a family, I'm sure. So he began shouting and then blowing his whistle. the way, you know why they blow the whistles for, right? They blow the whistle to agitate, to increase tensions, to just create chaos. And apparently agents grabbed him. And it's an encounter that left him with a broken rib, apparently. And they released him at the scene. And he apparently was on pain medication for it. But he had gotten involved. He apparently was

known to federal agents because he had so often done this. So this is a pattern. So the idea that this was like some kind of one-off thing, and we all know that he was part of the organized or the organized signal group. We know that he was. He was a part of this organized signal group. And it's just very interesting. It's a pattern of confrontation with him.

It is a pattern of obstruction with him. And I think it was stupid that he decided to bring his gun, knowing that he wasn't just carrying and accidentally wound up in the investigation. What this shows is that he brought a gun knowing that he was going to be actively involved in obstructing a federal investigation. That's what that really suggests. That's not being a legal observer. That is being an illegal obstructor. That's exactly what it is. So we're going to talk more about this here coming up. Second hour on the way. Stick with us. January is when a lot of people finally stop and look at their money. And instead of chasing big predictions or the next hot thing, they just want something solid.

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But I think it's very, it was very enlightening to see that apparently this individual, this Alex Preti, he, I mean, it kind of sounds like he has a history of this confrontation. There was a, it's a CNN piece, believe it or not. and the CNN piece suggests that he has a pattern of impeding federal law enforcement operations. He, a week ago,

CNN reports that he broke a rib in a confrontation with federal agents. So, I mean, he was apparently on medication for it. That's all that was said. That's all that CNN reported. But

hmm very interesting so I'm just curious you know you know as I put in here as I had said something about this on X too you know he had a pattern of impeding federal law enforcement operations he didn't just accidentally get involved on Saturday he had a history of confrontation of inserting himself into these situations which makes it even dumber that he chose to up the ante while carrying while he was doing it. That's, I mean, just crazy. So there was a history of confrontation. Why would you knowing that you're going to insert yourself in this? Why in the hell would you make it more dangerous by carrying into it? That's the problem. Now, of course, you have these people who are like, well, does that mean he deserve to get shot? Honestly, those people are walking mental abortions.

I wish I could take their voices away forever. I'm so tired of it. What does it mean? This is this? I don't Does that mean you're a pedophile? Like, I'm going to say something stupid in response. Just shut up. I'm so tired of this nonsense. These people who are literally just arrested intellectuals, they can't engage in nuance. They can't think, period. It's enraging.

Because it adds noise and clutter to the discussion, clutter that we don't need. It shows a history. It shows an absolute history. This is the things that I think it's kind of important to. to factor into the process here. And the left wants to make it about the Second Amendment. This is CNN also. What's their name? Casey, Cassie Hunt, whatever her name is.

Listen to this. This is cut 10. I want to bring back a tweet from Charlie Kirk in 2018. He says this. The Second Amendment's not for hunting. It's not for self-protection. It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if, God forbid, government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens. And I think a lot of people are pointing to this because, I mean, what we saw on the streets. Well, no, it's not.

If you're going out looking for problems, you become the antagonist. You're not the defendant anymore. I mean, that's how law works. But this wasn't about for self-protection. This guy wasn't self-protecting. He was seeking out a confrontation. That's the problem. If he was just a peaceful observer protesting, he would not.

have been involved in blocking traffic in the road. That's what he was doing right before border ice agents engaged with him. He was, the video shows he was literally in the street blocking people from driving through. So imagine, you know, this guy's in the street blocking people driving while armed. Is that, would you find that intimidating? I think there's another way to look at it. Would you find it intimidating? I got to tell you, there's a lot of pressure from everybody around to try to mush this into some sort of advantageous narrative tool.

And it's really frustrating. There's, you know, there are a lot of people that are, you know, I got a couple editorials that I'm working with. And I had one editor who was like, well, you know, I'd really want to make this about. And I just pulled the piece. I'm like, I'm not going to publish with you because you're trying to, you're trying to mush my words up into something that they're not. and I don't really need your attention. I can get enough traction on my own substack. I don't need to sit here and play ass kiss with you.

There's a, there's, the people are trying to desperately turn this into a cudgel where they want to go after, they want to go after just the legitimacy of, of all of ice. While also simultaneously, they're setting up a way to go after Second Amendment rights too.

They don't care about Alex Pretti's Second Amendment rights. These people don't care about any of that. If they did, they wouldn't have wanted to make made him a felon. They wouldn't have wanted to have made him a felon before last weekend. That's the other thing you've got to remember. All of these people, the Cassie Hunts, the Tim Walces,

they all wanted to make Alex Prettie a felon for the very gun that he was carrying before this weekend. They wanted to go after detachable magazines, high-capacity detachable shooty things. They wanted to go after threaded barrels. All this stuff. This is the stuff they wanted to target. And they wanted to say you're a felon for carrying

all of this. This is insane. So I'm not taking any of these people seriously at all whatsoever. None at all. The whole thing is just, it's, it's, it's in fear. And don't get baited into this. Do not get baited into it. That's the, that's, I think, the big key. Do not get baited into thinking that, to have this used against yourself. You know, I made, I, I made, I, I, I, I made, I, I, made a mention of this yesterday too because I saw you know a lot of you know a lot of people talking about this why are ice in Minnesota like this just to revisit real quick why are ice in Minnesota you guys remember ice are in Minnesota because since 2021 the state has ignored detainer request within city and county jails now you had Tim Walts try to slyly say oh no no our state

jails honor it and that's not worth the problem It's the city and county jails that don't. They've been releasing violent illegal aliens back into the streets, and I mean violent. Do you know that California complies with more detainer requests than Minnesota does? That's a fact. That's why you don't see the same level of enforcement in California as you do in Minnesota. And California, that's the blue bastion. And they actually comply with more than Minnesota.

Just wild. It's true. I mean, they've, they've, have really, and I think there's been a couple of stories about this. I think Washington Examiner actually had a story about this where they got into the difference with the compliance. And in fact, California has a much higher volume of arrests and detentions compared to Minnesota. and even though California had more detainer requests than Minnesota, Minnesota ignored more detainer requests than California. Is that not something?

So these are all facts. And like I said, you know, I, that's why you have that level of enforcement in Minnesota that you don't see in some of these other states. There are some blue state mayors and governors that have been just fine and complying with this stuff. And I told you how we were burning the midnight oil last week. We were looking through the records of all these recently detained criminals and their prior convictions. I'm not exaggerating you guys.

I mean, we could sit here all damn day if you want. We can finish the rest of the show by going through it. I only went through a handful of them. Not a single one. I'm not exaggerating when I state that not a single one, not one, had anything less than a felony assault conviction. And that was just two people. There were only two people that had felony assault convictions, but they all had other convictions with them. They were both coupled with multiple DUIs, drug distribution convictions, like they were selling drugs, like fentanyl, things like that.

Easily, 99% had multiple convictions. Most were for murder, rape, and child predation. I got to tell you, when I was looking at these mug shots and these arrest records and convictions of these people, I don't think I'm naive, but I got to tell you how shocked I was at the number of charges relating to child predation. I was really shocked. I'm not talking about easy to discuss stuff either. I'm talking about some of the worst crimes you can probably somebody could carry out on a kid. And there were a lot of them.

There were, one guy had three rape convictions for multiple children under the age of 13. Two of the convictions were from El Salvador. One of them was here in the United States. He had been under a removal order in 2016. Do you know that his other child rape conviction, the charge they could never get, they could haven't been able to detain him was 2018. That's how long he's been here running around, being able to evade justice. There was another that had murder, a murder conviction and a strong arm rape. He had a 2012 removal order and that the rape charge originated from here. And these are just, you know, I looked at literal hundreds personally with my own actual physical eyeballs. That's who we're talking about. These people forfeited the right of polite

request. First off, when they came here illegally. Secondly, when they continued committing these kinds of ghastly crimes. And third, when they ignored the original removal order date, and then continued committing these violent offenses. So is what I'm saying. They're not going after fruit pickers and bus boys, people. If you believe that, you've been sold a line of BS and you need to very seriously question the motivation of the people who sold that story to you.

It is absolutely shameful. This is what we're talking about. These are the people, they're all men. There's only like, well, only one of them was like a woman and that was multiple drug charges. it was serious stuff too like fentanyl like tons of fentanyl all this stuff uh armed robbery was uh the female had armed armed robbery and uh i can't remember the amount but fentanyl for distribution so and her removal order was 20 20 they're all men horrible crimes that's who's being detained

like i said they're not going after fruit pickers and bus boys they're not going after those people they're going after the people who are the really dangerous people in the community to ask yourself, why is it that Minnesota is complying with these, or not complying with these ICE requests? And yet California does more to do that. I almost hate saying that because it almost makes Gavin Newsom look good. And I don't want to do that. But California complies better than Minnesota. That's a huge issue. That's why they're all in Minnesota. It's not because they're trying to go out waltz or anything else. It's just they happen to be the most derelict in duty. And like I said, when I was looking at the convictions of these people, I mean, I knew it was going to be bad.

But some of it's really shocking. And you have to ask yourself, how is someone this dangerous that had like a 2016 removal order? Guys, it's 10 years running around the United States, still committing crimes. And one of the reasons that they're able to nab them in Minnesota is because they kept committing a crime and somebody read it on and they got caught. The folks help bring you the program. It's the Super Beach. You guys know the company human behind the Super Beats Hart Shoes. They have new packaging coming out.

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I agree with the premise that quality control has really been on a downslide since then. But brick and mortar is making a comeback, though. I keep hearing this, but I don't know how much of that is true. They said that you've had bankruptcies like sacks and all this other stuff. By the way, sacks off fifth are garbage. They're garbage retailers. Overall, they said that their sales were at 4.2% that exceeds inflation because Gen Z are going back to physical stores. And I'm wondering that is kind of interesting.

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I was telling you. This is one of the reasons why you see the response there that you don't see elsewhere because they were the worst. They were the worst offenders. I mean, they had goodness. This is, this is rough looking at these. I mean, California there for a while was leading the release of most of the criminals. And as of late, they've been complying a little bit more than Minnesota, which is crazy because they're so different in terms of, you know, population. But it's, it is something. this idea that I mean good I'm looking at just all the raw data here that's pretty wild I mean Walsh was trying to skirt it and say oh no we honor ICE detainers we yeah we can we transfer

convicted criminals after their sentences but that's his sitting in county jails refused they absolutely do not ice wants criminal aliens arrested that have been arrested for these crimes to be given to them, but Minnesota, city and county jails have been just releasing them out into the streets. That's a fact. Minnesota, they're sitting in county jails. It's like a thousand of these detainers that they have, they're number seven in the entire nation, by the way, in terms of refusing to honor the ICE detainers. Ice detainers are the request on a convicted criminal to return them to their custody so they can deport them. That's what that means. I mean, that's, And when you consider these, the crimes that are in question, I don't know why this is a hard thing for them to comply with.

I mean, Alex Pretti essentially lost his life because of this. Which, by the way, there was a great point that somebody had made because this is what the left is trying to do. So there's a listener who said, I'm wondering if I'm carrying my firearm legally and rob a bank without taking my firearm out of the holster, is that okay? I just wanted to ask. And see, that's a great point that they, you know, intentionally, they're trying to facetiously make it. They, the same people who wanted to make pretty a felon for his pistol before Saturday, they don't understand that possession of a firearm, while in commission of a felony, is also a separate felony charge. Now, why do we say this? Because it wasn't lawful.

Quit calling him a lawful. he was that's not literally by the definition is not lawful and because he had had violent confrontations with ICE agents previously and has been has a pattern of obstructing and impeding law enforcement operations the fact that he has a history of this and then chose to carry while going to yet another one. I mean, I got questions about the guy's reasoning here. Why would you do something so reckless? This would be a completely different discussion. Because see, when you, the presence of a firearm, while you are literally committing a felony is an additional felony. And considering that he was known now, now we know that he was known to these agents, that he had tussled with them before,

that he had inserted himself and tried to obstruct before. That's a big thing. And think about it too. You got a guy who was on video. He was on video blocking traffic and telling people where to drive. I got a lot of questions about that. A lot of questions about this. All this stuff deserves answers.

It doesn't deserve idiocy. I mean, that's the problem. It doesn't deserve idiocy. There are a couple of these sound bites that are like this, too. There's a couple that I was looking at. There's, um, we've, let me look at some of this. Because they're really pushing this for a reason. They want to use it as a cudgel. They absolutely do. This is a cut. Let's just cut for. This is John Stewart with the Daily Show, who once again gets it wrong. Listen. Are you saying that the problem was the guy had a gun? Are you saying that the guns are the problem?

Is that, are you saying, if I may? No, his obstruction of a federal law enforcement operation was the problem. They can't admit that, though. They keep glossing over that. They can't admit it. It was him impeding a federal law enforcement operation that was the problem. That's what's getting him in trouble. trouble. They want to make this about the Second Amendment, and it's not about the Second Amendment.

But they're trying to bait you into doing that for them. All of this would have been over if you had just had Tim Walts who complied and didn't try to antagonize and incite. I mean, you had two women, two separate women. Did you hear the story of, uh, the The, I'm sure, let me see this. I'm sure you saw the story of the woman who bit off an ice agent's finger. Do you know that there were two women accused of biting the fingers of two separate agents? It was reported as just one, but there are two of them. I always, I thought it was just one.

There were two. Claire Fang of St. Paul and Emily Belier of Minneapolis. They were both charged with assault. They both bit two separate Border Patrol agents. One of them bit his fingers clear off. He's actually going to lose a finger. And that was there, so there were two. One of them apparently didn't cause one to lose a finger.

The other one's going to lose his finger. And they just severed it. That's insane. So there were two, two separate instances where they, she was, they were biting off the fingers of border patrol agents. And how did they come in contact border patrol? They were, they decided to get involved in the investigation and try to cause problems.

Well, now one of them is going to go to jail. You know that both of them will, but you know the woman who bit the guy's finger off. Good heavens. We wouldn't even be having this if they would just enforce the laws that they have. Wouldn't even be an issue if they were just enforcing the laws that they have. Now, I think also one of the reasons why you saw Tim Walz and Jacob Fry finally complying after they talked to Trump is because an appeals court ruled in favor of the administration allowing ICE to arrest, detain and pepper spray violent protesters without probable cause. Yeah, that happened. So, yeah, this is going to be a big, they got to comply now.

They have to comply now. There's no way around it. Now here's something else I wanted to jump into as well. Kind of switching gears here. There are newly released records. Now you saw the stuff that happened in Minnesota, right? With the Somali diaspora fraud, all of that. Newly released records have revealed a 725% increase in Medicaid for Illinois children without social security numbers.

That's a big. big percentage. This story, this is wild, that this is even like this, 725% increase, and this is just in Medicaid, without Social Security numbers. Public Records Collection shows 1,885 Illinois children under the age 18 that do not have Social Security numbers. They had Medicaid bills of 66,000.

million dollars. That is up 725% from 8 million for 450 kids in 2021. It was a candidate, Bailey Templeton, state house candidate who looked at some of these public records and discovered the major increase. So that's like $40 million spent on inpatient treatment. So is this medical trafficking? Apparently there's FOIA where pending on this. Illinois Department of Health and Family Services hasn't yet responded as to why they had an over 700% increase in payments. This is insane. Inpatient hospital costs for children without Social Security numbers in 21 were 1.9 million. That's 2021. In 2025, it's jumped to $39.3 million. $1. Outpatient hospital costs went from 3.4 in 21 to $10.6 million in 2025.

And the other categories that also increased in costs were pharmacy, physician, clinic, APN, social worker, psychologist, LCPC. What in the world? There are 20,000 kids that are in Illinois that are receiving Medicaid. and they do not have social security numbers. How, there's clearly there's some fraudulent activity happening. That's, that's, you know, this is going to be, it's probably so pervasive. I would say with Medicaid, with all of it, there's so much fraud. And why is anyone that does not, I mean, that's indicative of not being here legally.

Why are we spending billions of dollars of taxpayer money on this? It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. All right. So first up, and pull this up here. The, uh, we got some new video coming in from POTUS too that we're going to have to address.

A Florida man makes up swinging after being woken up from his nap in the middle of the road. Wait, what? I got some, I got some questions. This is Florida Keys. It was a marathon man. Florida man. He was found passed out near a bar. And apparently he,

I guess he forgot how he got in that position. He woke up fighting. So it began, somebody called for a welfare check on the dude, and it blew up into like a fist fight. This, okay, it was near the brass monk. Here, let's play madlibs with this story, but it's all true. The bar was called Brass Monkey, and it was on Sombrero Beach Road. Steve, this is already like a madlib stew happening.

They found Donald Parkinson. He was literally lying in the middle of the road unconscious. He was breathing, but he was not responsive. Brass Monkey's manager called police. They said they wanted him formally trespass from the business. So he came to, and he was so drunk, he could not even get up without the deputies helping him up. And then he didn't accept the help. He began throwing punches, cursing, threatening to fight everybody.

He refused to get in the patrol vehicle. They had to take him to the hospital for medical clearance, but he kept scumptuble. Freeman. He tried a headbutted deputy. He was trying to punch at the officers. He was trying to fight people at the hospital. So now he's facing multiple charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication, all kind of stuff. They were trying to help you, dude. They were trying to figure out what was happening. Why would you do this? So this, this guy got sentenced to four years in prison because he tried to rob Taco Bell with a rock. Oh my gosh.

Cowan Anderson, he's 40 years old. He stormed a Taco Bell armed with a rock, chase workers through the parking lot demanding money, and has been sentenced to four years in state prison. So this happened last year. He just got sentenced, though, this week. It was a July 8th when it happened. He went into a Taco Bell.

He entered through the drive-through window. So he didn't go through the door. he climbed through the drive-through window. I don't know how that happens. He had a t-shirt wrapped around his head and held a large rock as a weapon. He then chased employees out of the building and around the parking lot, threatening to beat them with the rock while demanding cash. So the employees managed to escape. He was, he fled the scene on foot without getting any money. So they had to get a canine. They tracked him to a dumpster and they found him. By the way, He's also known by his nickname Tony the Tiger. Of course he is. So he admitted that he was present at the Taco Bell with the Rock. And he said he was homeless and needed money. So he was arrested on armed robbery. He remained in custody, pled no contest. He was adjudicated guilty. He got credit for nearly 200 days already served in jail. And then while he was incarcerated, he got involved in another incident in which he slapped a corrections officer during a fight with another inmate. Kick Dan slapped a

corrections officer. So now he's got another sentence that's going to run concurrently with this four-year prison term for robbery. This guy's a mess. I'm pretty sure that he's not going to be reformed when he's released. Pretty sure that he's not going to be reformed at all. Good heavens. This, see here, we got a couple. We got a super speeder law. Yeah, that's not one. We also got a guy who stole a gun and he was identified because he wore a shirt with his own name on it because he's a moron. Oh my gosh. This is Boca Raton. This guy, okay, let me just read you the first sentence of this story, because this is insane. Okay, so the guy is a Florida man who stole a gun, right? And he was wearing a t-shirt that had his name on it. This is how the story starts. A Boca Raton man who

had his thumb bitten off by a tiger a decade ago was just fingered by a gun show vendor who accused him of stealing an AK-47. What in the hell is up with the Florida man stories? today. Oh my gosh. So this is hysterical. So this guy, the, it was all caught on camera. He had a shirt with his name on it in giant lettering. Why are you going into, he broke into a gun store to that's some balls to steal a firearm while wearing a shirt that had his name on it, giant letters. He took a $750 AK-47 that was on a display rack. And, of course, it didn't have the firing pin in it because it's on a display rack. He was, yeah, he literally had Jim Pruden embroidered on the back.

And he was also missing his right thumb. Because, you know, remember, it got bitten off by a tiger a decade ago. So there's a tiger that's the commonality in the last two stories that we have, Steve. Good night. All right, we got third hour on the way. Don't go anywhere more in store. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you. We're at the top of this third hour and going through everything.

We found, so there's like video now of trumpet circulating and he's, I guess what is he, he's at the White House and he's out there. It's freezing. The wind's blowing. He's out there by the, the Marine One. And I don't know what he's asked. And I'm not going to play it because you can't hear it. I mean, Steve has even tried to run it through AI to try to figure out what the question was before he answered, because you can barely hear his answer.

It's just if you're listening torestrily, actually, if you're whatever, you're not going to be able to hear it. We struggle hearing it even with enhancing it. But the quote was they're attributing to him. He's saying, quote, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. It's a very unfortunate thing. Now, I want to know what was the question? What was the question that was asked for him to say that?

Was this, is this about going to obstruct ice operations? Like, what is it? Before we all start, this is what really ticks me off about the internet. Because this audio will be out there and everyone's like, what do you say about that? Dana, what do you say about that? And they want you to freak out over it. I'm like, can I have some context? What the hell was he asked?

How are you sitting here going off when you don't even. know what the man was asked. What's he talking about? It's kind of important. Don't you think? I want to know what he was asked. So I'm not going to sit here and get like a turn into an emotional biotch over it when I don't know what was asked. So I don't know. I, um, it just is a lot of questions. One other quick thing. I want to get to some other stuff that I wanted to make, the point that I wanted to make. The, the, because we talked last hour about CNN reported that Alex Pready had broken a rib. He got into a confrontation with

federal agents a week before he was shot. So a week ago he was like before Saturday, a week before that he was already in a confrontation with agents. He was known to ICE agents. He has a history of obstructing, impeding investigation. I don't know why he wasn't arrested for that. He'd be alive if he was, if he had been arrested because it's a felony. You don't have to I don't give a rat's ass if you like the law. That's what the law is. If you want to change the law, change the law, but don't try to fight cops in the streets and think that's the way to take up, you know, legislative action, especially if

the context is, if the point is saving lives and de-escalating. So he sought out repeatedly the, to, to, uh, confront and obstruct. So why in the hell would you bring, why would you carry knowing that you're going to do it again? Because that's a felony. If you're in possession of a firearm while in commission of a felony. That is a separate felony charge. But the thing that I was thinking about is he was on video before he was engaged by ICE agents and shot. He was on video in the road. He was standing in the middle of the road blocking people from driving down the road. and he was disrupting traffic. So he was stopping people from driving their cars down the road and telling them to turn around and stopping traffic.

Here's my question. First off, that's not smart. But secondly, it's not smart to seek out armed confrontation. What if somebody similarly armed felt threatened by his unlawful restraint of their movement? because think about it. If I'm armed, which I am usually, well, I am all the time, if I'm armed and I'm driving down the road, and I see a guy who is armed and he had his hands up and some people were saying, like, because he was holding his phone, he was holding his phone and recording everything as he was doing it.

and looking at it, it's kind of hard to see from the angle of the video, but I'm wondering if people could see his holster, because he had his holster in his pants, and I mean, it's not difficult to see if your jacket comes up. You know, I mean, you're not brandishing, but people can see that you're armed. If I had somebody block my car, me from driving in the middle of the road, and I saw that they were telling me that I couldn't drive and they were armed,

I'm going to take that as a threat. and I will act accordingly. Can you imagine how this could have gone? Holy cow, that has not been explored yet. Because he wasn't just blocking ice from driving. He was blocking other people in the road. You can see it because there are people trying to drive down the road in some of these other videos.

There's videos that are showing, they're taking footage, the recording footage of like all, of these writers that are in the street. And he's in there. He's one of the people that you can see in some of these other videos that are a little bit before that initial engagement with ICE. If you're in the car and you're driving and a guy that looks armed is out in the middle of the street, you can tell he's not law enforcement and he's telling you, you can't go. That's, your freedom of movement is being restrained. So that's unlawful restraint.

in my opinion, I'm going to immediately perceive that man as a threat and I'm going to react accordingly. That's what happens when you seek out armed confrontation. And when you look at his history of doing this repeatedly every week and he apparently was, had engaged ICE officers so much and impeded so much that they knew him, man, it just makes his reasoning look dumber. Like, why would you do that? Now, I think it's separate from questions that I have about the moment that he was engaged by ICE agents and what happened to trigger use of lethal force. But at the same time, you know, something can be awful and lawful.

At the same time, introducing a firearm into the mix is a dangerous thing. of all the classes that I've had and not, you know, whether it's defensive training or even legal classes on firearms and defensive usage, I mean, everything that he did, they tell you not to do. Everything this dude did, they tell you to not do explicitly. So that's a problem. So I think people need to be honest about this. I would like to know the question that POTUS was asked where he said what he said. And I'm going to keep my eyes open for that because the problem that has been created is, I mean, you've had members of the administration run out there and say things that they did not need to be saying. Bessent, Noam, Cash Patel. I think that they've stopped doing that

because Caroline Levitt, she had, I think her response yesterday and her press avail was the blueprint that they need to have. So I don't know what this is with POTUS, so we'll see. But man alive. They need to not, they just need to not. They need to just not talk about the firearms aspect at all with us because they're not doing themselves any favors.

They're not doing themselves any favors. And it's just, it's, it's, it's, it needs to stop. Now, a few other things to hit two. We're still going to have a shutdown. I'm not even going to get into that yet. Because it just, it's not, it's not, none of this is going to, none of this is going to go over well. I was looking at this story too. Let me pull this up.

This has to do with Spain. Spain's government is approving a decree today to legalize 500,000 illegal aliens. That's according to their migration minister. 500,000 people who entered their country illegally. Spain has a labor shortage. They've got, they're doing this because they're looking at tax revenue. I mean, this isn't. This is kind of like what happened under Reagan, really. It's not, nothing good comes from this. They're looking at the tax revenue. They're looking at filling workforce gaps because their population's aging.

They have labor shortages. But at the same time, you know, a friend of mine said, it's not like Spain has a history of Islamic takeovers with devastating results or anything, you know. It's true. They're going to have two million Gazans that are going to be able to request asylum in Spain. Holy cow. this is going to be wild Spain's done put a fork

in it it's done it's that's man they've allowed a lot of illegal immigration in Spain a lot in fact they were saying that I think I'm trying to figure

I'm looking at the percentage as to where they come from or like back and forth they said some of them are from Latin America but a lot are coming in excuse me, from North Africa as well. I just, it never, it never works out the way they think it's going to work out whenever you provide amnesty. Amnesty never works out the way you think it works out.

I mean, it didn't in the United States. Not at all. In fact, it made it even more problematic. But Europe, they're just not, they're not able at all whatsoever to just even, they, they, They can't handle the EU. They can't handle their own sovereignty. None of it. And of course, I don't know.

This, this, we'll see what happens with Minnesota. We'll see what happens with some of the stuff. I hope that people are looking into the well-organized effort on the left that goes beyond Minnesota, you know. Over at Red State, they did a deep dive into the signal chats and just how sophisticated, they are. They're set up geographically. So, like for instance, within the city of Minneapolis, they are divided even by city council district. So they have a different signal chat for like a different council district within the city. That's how precise it gets. And it covers some of these other suburbs. There's a new chat that they start every day and the prior day's

chat is deleted. And signals encrypted. That's why they're on it because it's difficult to recover those messages once they've been deleted. And they don't have a screenshots function. They doesn't have any of that. So, I mean, when Cam Higby was recording it, he had to literally use a separate phone to record the signal chats, to record that information. He had to use an entirely separate phone to do it.

Data Republican had a spreadsheet of over 4,000 donors that have been contributing a lot of money. to these efforts. So a lot of it's like if those who are arrested, it's bail funds, it's all of that stuff. And they have a crowdfunding site that hosts it. And there's a lot of big name people involved in this. It is definitely an asymmetrical warfare.

It's pretty, this is like the same thing that they've done in the 60s, it's been modernized to include digital elements and to be able to use digital, social media, etc. To amplify and maximize. I mean, they even have

excuse me, they even have like their their resourcing lists. They've got a number of media people involved. Prety was the member of one of these groups. And Renee Good was the member of one of of these signal groups. So they both were a part of this

organ, this same organized effort. And they were both on signal. They were both involved in all of this. And there, I mean, you even have a state rep. State Representative Brad Tabkey is apparently the one who runs, organizes, coordinates the Scott County Ice Watch program. And so they recruit, this is how they describe it. They recruit people for patrol, dispatch, training, all of this stuff. They're not legal observers when they're actively impeding, though. That's the thing that I have an issue with. I don't care if people are observing. I care about the obstruction. We got more on this because there's a lot more. There's some lawmakers are involved in this. And now, all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Google agrees to pay $68 million to settle a spying law, after they were accused of eavesdropping on users and selling their info. This is why I don't like any of those services that, like, listen to you. I don't like the Alexa's. I don't like any of that stuff. But they said their virtual assistant, the Google Assistant, was listening to people and trying to send targeted advertising to them. And it was basically like collecting everything that it was listening to.

That's not freaky at all, right? Google Assistant is on Android's like Apple has Siri, which I don't even have enabled online. The virtual assistant is supposed to respond when you use words like, hey, Google or okay Google or something like that. But the users were alleging in this class action suit that they filed Friday that it was illegally recording them and then sending their conversations in order to get them targeted ads, according to Reuters. So, yeah, that is a major problem with that stuff. Apparently, Washington Post staffers are fearing major cuts. Yeah, well, that happens. And we got a lot more on the way.

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said, we truly, fully support the Second Amendment people's right to bear arms. But when you enter into a situation, a volatile situation like Minnesota, where there were riots on the streets and people attacking federal law enforcement officers and ramming them with vehicles and continued criminality and

burning down and literally destroying federal vehicles and stealing information, we have to, we have to ask people, what's prudential, what's smart? And it's not smart to go out there with a fully loaded weapon. Okay, first off, I need cash Patel to shut the hell up. I need him to shut his mouth. I'm getting so tired of this. I'm getting so tired of it. That is not the language you use. None of these people need to be talking about this. Be specific with your language. It's not about just going out there. It is about impeding a damn federal law enforcement operation. Why is that so hard for some of these people to say?

I don't give a rat's ass if you think it's prudential to go out with a loaded firearm, what the whole type of language is that? I don't care. The issue is about impeding a federal law enforcement investigation. that 18 U.S.C. 111 is a felony. Now, when you are in possession of a firearm while in the commission of felonious activity, meaning while you are carrying a gun, while you're committing a felony, that creates a separate felony charge. Language is important. I need Cash Patel to shut up forever about this topic. I don't want to

hear another damn thing about guns from Cash Patel. Because he is creating a problem for the administration by running his mouth like this. It creates an issue because instead of saying, hey, maybe we shouldn't impede federal law enforcement investigations. That's a felony. Now we have to go and correct the people that we were trying to defend because they say stupid stuff that's vague and unclear. And it makes it to where we have to be on the defense now about Second Amendment. Stop making it about that. The hell is the matter with you. I'm so tired of this stuff.

Welcome back to the program. You know why it ticks me off? Because it puts us off of the proper footing on this. You know, I just saw a survey. I actually just retweeted it. I just saw a survey where the majority of, of people believe and agree with what ICE is doing. They believe, they, they, they've waited on it. When you look at the numbers, and this, by the way, is from CNN of all things. Fifty-five to

64 percent want all illegal aliens deported. It's a CNN survey. I'm actually pulling up the cross tabs on this right now. Fifty-five percent also wants less, they want a reduction in legal immigration. That's pretty wild. They're on the side of the board, they're on the side of ice. Going out and saying the stuff that Cash Patel did threatens that. Because then you set up this false equivalence, you set up a false choice. Well, wait, I can't be supportive of ICE and support the Second Amendment. That's what they're doing. And people like Cash Patel are walking right into it. walking right into it. So I need them to stop.

That's, that is, it's, it's frustrating because you got to, then you have to deal with, you have to deal with this now. Caroline Levitt had the best response yesterday. We played it on air. That's the only response that's needed. They don't need any of this other stuff.

They don't need any of this other stuff. They don't need to sit here and, well, you know, you know, you can't, I just need them to say, you know what? Don't impede federal law enforcement operation and you don't have a problem. That's all I got to do. Don't impede it and you don't have a problem. Super simple.

So this stuff is, this got to stop. We can't, we can't have people keep saying this stuff. It's got to quit. That's not, that's not the problem. That's not the problem. You also have, doesn't help when you have, this is a, the way that they are, excuse me, the way that they are speaking about this, cut 14, Eric Swalwell is not helping at all with this language. Listen.

This ice should be crushed and then come to the table with us and put together something that keeps the most violent out of our communities, has security at the borders. Crushed. They need to be crushed. Can we stop with this rhetoric? Can we stop? Can we stop? with it. Stop with the rhetoric. They're going to double and triple down on this. We cannot give into that because remember so much of this is about acquitting themselves of responsibility as it pertains to the fraud that was happening over there. The amount of fraud. There was a piece that was over at Washington Examiner that gets into, which I thought that was pretty enlightening. it gets into how ICE determines who they're going to detain and who not to detain.

Because you keep hearing from, you know, everybody, whether it's, you know, people like Swalwell, whether it's, you know, people like Tim Walls, all these other. Like they're going, because they're not going for the bus boys. You heard me say that before. The people that they're actually going for, these are the individuals that, are getting the, they're getting the DUIs. They're getting the, they have other violent crimes that they're being charged with. That's immediately pinging ice, making it to where they see these guys now. They had one guy who's a 42-year-old who has, for 17 years, lived illegally in the United States. And when he got his second DUI, that's when ICE visited him.

After he had his second DUI. That's, these are the types of people that they're going, they're making clear determinations as to whom they're, they're detaining and who they're not detaining. They're very, it's very purposeful. The way that Democrats are trying to position it is that they are just indiscriminately, randomly going at everybody and that's, there's no, there's no, rhyme or reason. They're just going after every random person that they possibly could get. And that's

just not true. But I need people in the administration to not make this more difficult. This is interesting. This was Melania Trump. You don't really hear from the first lady that often. She called for unity in this soundbite. This is cut 22. Listen. We need to unify. I'm calling for unity. I know my husband, the president, had a great call. with the governor and the mayor, and they're working together to make it peaceful and without riots. I'm against the violence, so please, if you protest, protest in peace. A little unity call. That's a nice unity call. And really, we should be hearing that from walls. We should be hearing that from some of these other folks, but we're not, sadly.

We're not hearing that from any of them. And it's just, it's just worse. and worse. This is what you hear from the left. This is cut eight. Although Stephen Colbert is not what I would consider a measure of pop culture influence. Listen. I think we can all agree. Yeah. That's not helpful. Not at all helpful. Not at all helpful. I got some more. This is, uh, let's see. This is cut 13 Swalwell on ice talking about masks. Listen. But I also call on governors Kate. Governors have immense powers. And I have said that when I'm Governor of California, if you wear a mask in California, you're losing your driver's license.

Remember when they wanted everybody to wear masks? Now they don't. Now it's, now it's not anymore. No, it's okay. This is 17. This is Minneapolis Councilwoman Robin Wansley, who, even after Tim Walls got in trouble for this Holocaust comparison, decides to do it again. Listen to this. Highlighted in the earlier clip, you know,

just yesterday, Governor Walts likened the realities of people having to hide in their homes right now to the experience of Anne Frank. And one thing that he could do to actually codify some protections around people being able to shelter in place to minimize contact with these violent and racist domestic terrorists that are ICE agents is to allow them to shelter in place under eviction moratorium and declare a state of emergency. I'm done with these people. It's, the tribalism is insane. Not able to catch all three hours of

The Dana Show, subscribe to the full podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short, easy to digest episodes. Ideal for your busy lifestyle on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the program. I saw this one little bit. So at CBS, they had a employee town hall at CBS. and apparently some of the, who is it, Gail King, gave a passionate speech

according to one of the New York Times reporters who was familiar with it, gave it a passionate speech and was criticizing leakers and rallying the troops and said, quote,

I'll be curious to see how long it takes for this to get out because it'll be somebody in this room. Well, clearly it was. Clearly it was. I think one of the reasons that she came out,

there was a lot of discussion about her, maybe having her pay halved, which, I don't know if that's, she makes a lot of money, but do the ratings, do the ratings substantiate the millions of dollars that these people are getting paid? That's the big question. Do they, do they do they do they do they do they do they do they do they do want to keep making these big checks. They want these big paychecks, but they don't realize that the

atmosphere doesn't support that anymore. The market doesn't support that anymore. Everything's changed so much. It's changed so much. So now there's, let me see, this is in Arizona. Some of there was a Border Patrol incident in Arizona. Pima County Sheriff's NBC News says the individual was shot in Pima County. There's not a lot of immediate information, so we don't even know really who's, but I'm sure that the left is going to seize upon this. They don't really have the kind of ICE enforcement there that they do elsewhere, because in Arizona they've been, again, acknowledging detainer requests and working with ICE, so it's not the same. It makes me wonder if it was like an apprehension or something of that nature, because they don't really

have the same, they don't have the same issues. Not really. This, Bill Malugin had reported that the Minnesota federal judge, who is threatening to hold ICE director Todd lines in contempt of court and demanding that he appear in court on Friday is listed in this 2019 list of donors and volunteers for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an organization that provides free legal advice and representation for illegal immigrants. The guy was appointed by Bush back in 2006. Feels like that's probably a bit of a compromise there. He also declined probable cause. this is apparently the same judge that declined the probable cause on arrest warrants for Don Lemon and the others that stormed the church in Minnesota. He declined after the federal magistrate

Douglas Miko declined as well. So how are you raising money for illegal immigration and not recusing yourself from cases that have to do with illegal immigration? That's a big question. So that seems as though we now have a conflict of interest. I mean, you can't, he should have recused himself. And he didn't. So I hope they repeal this because this is, I mean, this is an absolute conflict of interest, a pretty sizable conflict of interest. You're essentially aiding and abetting illegal immigration, raising funds for the, those who immigrated illegally and you're now going to adjudicate cases that involve the same

issue that you've already demonstrated you're partial to? There's no impartiality with this judge. That's a problem with the political siloism and tribalism, especially when you work in law, especially if you're in the judiciary. You cannot have a conflict of interest. You cannot be seen as being compromised or having already demonstrated bias. That's not something that you can do. I mean, these people are really, really stretching the limits of their authority here. This is going to be, I mean, that's why there weren't more arrests with the church. I mean, it was an absolute violation of the FACE Act, but there weren't more arrests because none of these progressive judges wanted to do it.

Just insane. Absolutely insane. So, yeah, this is craziness. All right, what do we have? Today in stupidity. What do we got? We do it today. stupidity. I don't know who books for CNN, but they decided to have on a bookstore owner from

Minneapolis, and they just let him say whatever you wanted. So here we go with Jake Tam. I understand that, but they take people to Fort Snelling here, which literally was built as a concentration camp and alligator alcatraz, which I think we can all agree is a concentration camp. Not saying they're Dachau. I'm not saying they're putting people in ovens yet, but these are concentration camps. Okay. I don't need to argue with you, but yeah. Ovens yet. Mm-hmm. Geez. These people, honestly. It's asinine. Make sure you find us over at Substack, chapter and verse. And, of course, Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe. We may have the simulcast back tomorrow. We're going to wait and see if the ice melts enough for anyone to get

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