145. The Minnesota ICE Shooting, Trump’s Greenland Gambit, and Rubio vs Miller

The Rest Is Politics: US

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What happened after an ICE officer killed a woman in Minneapolis? Is Trump’s use of force a manifestation of fascist behaviour? Can Marco Rubio and JD Vance survive their association with this administration? Join Katty Kay and Anthony Scaramucci as they answer all these questions and more. Become a Founding Member: Go deeper into US politics every week with ad-free listening, members-only miniseries, early access to live show tickets and a bonus members-only Q&A podcast every week. Sign up at ⁠therestispoliticsus.com⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠@RestPoliticsUS⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠@RestPoliticsUS⁠⁠ Email: ⁠⁠therestispoliticsus@goalhanger.com⁠⁠ Producer: Fiona Douglas, India Dunkley Video Editor: Kieron Leslie Social Producer: Charlie Johnson Senior Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Tom Whiter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.9	Hello and welcome to the rest is politics, US, in another crazy busy week in American politics.
0:44.1	I'm Cathy Kay.
0:45.5	And I am Anthony Scaramucci.
0:47.6	How are you, Katty?
0:48.8	Well, I don't know.
0:50.2	We're recording this on Thursday, 8th of January.
0:52.6	I don't know about you, Anthony, but I'm kind of
0:54.4	exhausted by this year already. It feels like we have had a lifetime of news just in the past week.
1:00.0	We've had all of the expansion of America's worldview, Stephen Miller's view of the
1:05.4	world clearly put on display against perhaps Marco Rubio's. Is America really going to go for Greenland? We'll get a
1:13.0	little bit more into that. We're going to talk about Venezuela and Greenland and the foreign policy
1:16.6	expansion in the second half, but we're actually going to start the program by turning to
1:22.2	Minnesota, where there has been this ice shooting in Minneapolis and the kind of outrage and protests that are spreading around the country
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