1/9/26: NEW ICE Shooting Video, 2 More SHOT in Portland, Trump TAKES L ON Venezuela Vote
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
The BP team takes a look at newly released video of a separate angle on the shooting of Renee Good and two more people shot in Portland, 5 Republicans defect and vote yes on a War Powers resolution for Venezuela, then we speak to New York Assemblywoman Claire Valdez who announced a run for Congress with the endorsement of Zohran Mamdani and UAW's Shawn Fain. After we look at the rocky start of CBS's new evening news anchor Tony Dokoupil and finally we speak to another congressional candidate Melat Kiros who is running in Colorado after being fired from her job for speaking out about Palestine.
Claire Valdez: https://clairevaldezforcongress.com/https://www.instagram.com/claireforny/
Melat Kiros: https://www.kirosforco.com/https://www.instagram.com/melatkirosco/?hl=en
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:04.1 | Hey guys, Saga and Crystal here. |
| 0:06.1 | Independent media just played a truly massive role in this election, and we are so excited |
| 0:11.1 | about what that means for the future of this show. |
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| 0:38.6 | Very good. How are you? |
| 0:40.3 | Pretty good. We got a whole lot of stuff we want to get into this morning. We've got new |
| 0:44.4 | info about the killing of that of Renee Good in Minneapolis. We have new ice shootings in Portland. |
| 0:51.3 | We don't have a lot of details, but already some of the government's narrative is kind of falling apart. So take a look at that one. J.D. Mance made new, in my opinion, |
| 0:59.0 | vile comments. So lots to dig into there, but there's other important stories, too. We just got |
| 1:03.4 | jobs numbers out. We had a war powers resolution pass. We have a health care discharge petition |
| 1:08.4 | that went through in the house. We've got protests in Iran. |
| 1:13.4 | We've got Tony DeCopal just continuing to be the absolute worst over at CBS. |
| 1:17.9 | And we have two candidates in the show. |
| 1:19.9 | So I recorded earlier this week a great interview with Milot Kiros, who's running against an incumbent in Denver. |
| 1:25.5 | It's one of the youngest and one of the most progressive districts in the country. |
| 1:28.5 | And she actually has a very interesting backstory. |
| 1:31.2 | She's a lawyer who was fired for her pro-Palestine stance. |
| 1:34.9 | So phenomenal candidate, looking forward to sharing that interview with you. |
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