Americans grow more outraged as Trump's ICE grows more outrageous

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

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4.4 • 974 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

While the Trump administration releases a steady stream of gaslighting statements about ICE arresting "the worst of the worst," Americans are seeing with their own eyes the abuse and cruelty of Trump's anti-immigrant agenda directed at innocent members of close, caring communities. An elderly man, barely clothed, dragged from his house, small children being detained from their parents and used as bait to trap family members. Americans are so thoroughly disgusted and outraged at what Trump and his lackeys are doing that they are braving inhuman cold by the tens of thousands to make their displeasure seen and heard.

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0:00.0	There was big breaking news. There is big breaking news tonight, which is that the Trump Justice
0:04.9	Department wanted to investigate the victim. This is what I was talking about when I said,
0:09.9	just it's not shocking. It just remains disgusting. They wanted to investigate Renee Good.
0:17.0	And we knew they had no interest in investigating the ICE agent who shot and killed her.
0:22.0	We knew that.
0:22.6	We learned that shortly after she was shot.
0:24.6	We knew they wanted to investigate her widow.
0:26.7	We also learned that.
0:28.4	But thanks to incredible new reporting from my colleagues Ken Delaney and Carol Lennox,
0:32.9	we now know they wanted to investigate Renee Good herself after she was shot three times and killed by an ICE agent.
0:43.5	Now, the Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, I just mentioned this to Chris, who was shut out of this investigation by the Trump Justice Department, is standing by with her reaction to that breaking news.
0:53.1	The great and one and only Andrew Weissman is going to join me as well.
0:57.2	That news is, I keep saying this, but it's worth repeating.
1:00.3	It is so shocking and it is disgusting.
1:03.3	That news makes me want to say lots of words I cannot say on TV, even on a Friday.
1:08.8	But what has been clear from the moment Renee Good was killed is that the
1:12.7	Trump administration was going to do anything they could to lie and gaslight their way through
1:18.7	this. What has also been clear is that the American people know what they saw when the ICE officer
1:23.8	killed Renee Good and they know what they have seen as ISIS continued to terrorize
1:29.7	their communities ever since. Want to know how I know? Well, this was the scene on the streets
1:34.9	of Minneapolis today. You can see it, and there's so many like this. Thousands upon thousands of
1:40.8	people taking to the streets as part of an ice-out protest, demanding federal
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