BREAKING: Church Protest Ignites DOJ Investigation
Sekulow
Jay Sekulow
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Trump DOJ is launching an investigation into the anti-ICE protest that threatened the safety of Christians at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Sekulow team discusses Attorney General Pam Bondi's statement, former CNN pundit Don Lemon's role in the protest, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's press conference, the ACLJ's legal work – and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | We got breaking news. |
| 0:01.7 | We're covering the Minnesota church protests, which sparked a DOJ investigation. |
| 0:06.7 | Keeping you informed and engaged. |
| 0:09.2 | Now more than ever. |
| 0:10.9 | This is Sekulo. |
| 0:13.7 | We want to hear from you. |
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| 0:17.3 | Recall, 1-800-684-3-110. And now your host, Logan Secular. Welcome to Seculo. Thanks for |
| 0:27.8 | tuning this Monday. We are live as Martin Luther King Day. And we have really, you know, |
| 0:32.5 | another tragic weekend to cover the news from last night. Obviously, we had those protests that |
| 0:37.3 | entered a church in |
| 0:38.5 | Minnesota. As Tim Walls called for a temperature to come down, if President Trump to come down on |
| 0:45.6 | the temperature here, I do think we have to start looking at what this looks like because the safety |
| 0:50.5 | and the issues are getting out of control. And this happened during a church service. |
| 0:56.5 | Now, we do know that they were targeting this church specifically. And this was a lot of people |
| 1:00.3 | that stormed this church. It's the Black Lives Manor chapter in Minneapolis, which again, |
| 1:06.2 | you go back to George Floyd. Remember the city that we're talking about here that's been in the |
| 1:10.8 | news these last 10 days. This is a city that we're talking about here that's been in the news |
| 1:11.0 | these the last, you know, 10 days. This is a city that can go, that can, that can burn. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, it really should be concerning. And even when it's 18 below. And you had, you had Don |
| 1:22.4 | lemon there awkwardly, kind of bum rushing the pastor who was speaking who they will play some of those |
| 1:29.4 | clips a little bit later because it is this very. |
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