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Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

BONUS: Trump Insurrection Act Threat, Machado Gives Trump Her Nobel Prize, ICE in Minneapolis and Katy Tur Reports on MSNow.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

Righteous Media | Bleav

Daily News, Veteran, News, Politics, News Commentary, National Security

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Independent Americans host, Army veteran and 9/11 first responder Paul Rieckhoff joins Katy Tur Reports to dig into the human and political fallout of America’s broken immigration and border system. From front-line agents to families and communities, he explains how putting ICE in an impossible position is “harming our national security” and eroding trust at home and abroad.​

Transcript

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0:00.0

The American public does not like ice.

0:02.9

Are you by putting ice in this position harming national security because they can't effectively

0:09.7

do the jobs that they were initially intended to do?

0:13.1

Yes, it's all harming our national security.

0:15.7

I don't know if we've ever been less safe, less stable, less trusted.

0:19.7

This is a circuit breaker moment for America.

0:42.9

Good morning, Independent Americans from freezing cold, New York City, USA.

0:46.1

World Trade Center behind me, Statue of Liberty ahead of me.

0:51.5

And I got a quick morning, quick reaction podcast for you to react to the latest news and catch you up on what's coming up next.

0:53.5

I am walking toward the sun, which I highly recommend you do.

0:57.3

It feels like 15 degrees here in New York City.

1:00.0

And especially when it's cold, the winter.

1:01.8

Try to get some sunlight in the morning, set your circadian rhythms,

1:05.9

keep you some vitamin D, and start your day off right,

1:08.6

because we need that light to contrast all the cold and the

1:12.7

gerocious heat.

1:14.4

And as cold as it is here, and it's fucking cold.

1:16.9

15 degrees in windy, it is colder inside Ukraine, where I send love and support to all

1:23.2

our friends who are fighting for freedom, and also to all the brave freedom fighters in Iran and across

1:29.5

America, where the news continues. And I want to focus on Minneapolis again and remind you that

1:35.5

yesterday, the president, again, threatened the insurrection act. To use the insurrection

1:40.3

act, to call in federal troops on American citizens. The insurrection act is only supposed to be used to quell uprisings and rebellions. The last time it was used was by George Bush 1992 in response to the L.A. riots after Rodney King. Here's the big difference. The governor asked him for the help. Governor Tim Walts in Minnesota is not asking for the help. He's telling him the opposite. Don't send in those troops.

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