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The Philip DeFranco Show

American Authoritarianism Takes Shape In Minnesota & Over 12,000 Feared Dead in Iran Protests

The Philip DeFranco Show

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Trump's FBI is now investigating Renee Good's possible connections to so-called activist groups

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at the same time as Trump's Justice Department is refusing to investigate the Border Patrol agent

1:38.6

who shot and killed her in broad daylight and now several attorneys in the department's civil

1:42.6

rights division, which has already been gutted by the Trump administration, they're resigning in protest. Right, and all of this is the situation in Minneapolis is set to just get even crazier. You've got a thousand CBP agents now in the process of deploying to the city in addition to the roughly 2,000 federal agents that DHS announced would be deployed to the area last week, just a day before goods death. Though, I'll say, notably, there is now a chance that a federal judge could get in the way, and that's because the state of Minnesota, along with the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, they're suing the Trump administration. The named defendants that you're seeing include Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem, acting ICE director Todd Lyons, and CBP Commander Gregory Bovina. This lawsuit, it's asking a federal court to issue a temporary restraining order to halt or at least limit the federal government's operation in the state, arguing that the operation is a federal invasion of the Twin Cities.

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