But we begin with a jarring split screen, one that many activis hoped they would never see in the United States of America. On one side, you have protesters filling the streets across the country, responding to the killing of two Minneapolis residents, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Preddy by federal immigration officers. On the other, a journalist who was arrested in charge after covering that very same cause.Yesterday, rather than attempt to defuse public outrage surrounding the shootings, President Trump ins ...

But we begin this hour with the stated missi of the Department of Justice. Post is on its website, on its website. That mission is listed to as to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe and to protect civil rights, simple but complex mission.And yet under this administration, we've seen that mission change, at least among the DOJ's leadership, to focus on upholding the whims and vendettas of the man who falsely claims to be the country's chief law enforcement officer. Before the rank and file at t ...

The political landscape is looking very different this mororning. On Saturday, a major Democratic upset took place in a Texas a state senate election runoff. Democrat Taylor Remmitt was declared the winner over Republican Lee Wamsgams by double digits in the state's deep red ninth district that President Trump previously won by 17 points in 2024.Remit is a 33-year-old local union leader and first-time candidate whose race caught outsized attention after he overperformed in November's election, triggering a ...

to the growing opposition to President Trump's push toward autocracy. Huge crowds took to the streets yesterday to protest ICE operations in Minnesota. In South Portland, Oregon, thousands of protesters marched, covering the blocks around an ice building situation that escalated quickly after federal agents deployed tear gas, pepper balls, rubber bullets and flashbang grenades into the crowds.And back in Texas, a federal judge has ordered the release of five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father from a detenti ...

Today, could it be a preview of the midterms. A major upset in Texas as a Democrat wins a special state Senate election by double digits in a district Trump won by a landslide. Then two major court decisions in the Minnesota ice cracked out, including a scathing ruling ordering five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father to be freed from ice detention.Minnesota Attorney General Keith ellison will join us and it was the week america moved closer to autocracy with journalists arrested a lost election relitigated ...

[MUSIC PLAYING] With breaking news for you, former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested late last night on federal charges tied to a protest earlier this month at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lemon says he was reporting as a journalist when demonstrators interrupted a service to protest immigration enforcement.A magistrate judge previously rejected the case against him, but prosecutors later sought and obtained his arrest. Lemon was taken into custody in Los Angeles and is scheduled to appear in federal co ...

A NEW WARNING ON President Trump's pivot in Minneapolis. It comes after he changed course, replacing Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino with Border Czar Tom Homan and appears to have at least temporarily sidelined Kristi Noem. Here's former Trump White House counsel Ty Cobb.The strategy from the get-go has been to, you know, have a very disruptive, very violent sort of terroristic campaign to unsettle Americans and then make what seem like changes, going from Bovino to Homan, like a modulation. But it's ...

Most of the federal government is now in a partial shutdown, after lawmakers were unable to pass a spending package in time. The Senate passed a spending measure on Friday that included five of the remaining six appropriations bills, and a two-week continuing resolution for DHS. This agreement still needs to be passed by the House, which is not slated to return to Washington for a vote until Monday. That means there will at least be a lapse in appropriations for six federal agencies over the weekend. MS NOW ...

TOP DEMOCRATS ARE ASKING TULSI GABBARD TO EXPLAIN WHY SHE ATTENDED AN FBI RAID FULTON COUNTY WHEN AGENTS SEIZED BALLOTS RELATED to President Trump's 2020 election defeat. Here's what the president said when asked to explain. Mr.. President, what was Tulsi Gabbard doing at an election center in Georgia today. She's working very hard on trying to keep the election safe, and she's done a very good job. And they, as you know, they got into the votes.You've got to sign judge's order in Georgia, and you're going ...

After hosting well over 100 meetings of the Velshi Ban Book Club, I know something to be true. It is that book banning, censorship in general is a canary in the coal mine. It's a warning because if the government, any government at any level succeeds in restricting access to literature and to art, then the government will surely succeed in restricting your freedom in other ways.We've been talking about book banning for years. It's happening right here, right now in America in 2026. We're also now seeing the ...