Does Alex Pretti’s death mark a turning point for Trump?
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, Minnesota Public Radio host Clay Masters, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | This is our glass. |
| 0:01.8 | On This American Life, one that we like is a good mystery. |
| 0:05.4 | Sometimes about really big things, but most times, the little mysteries are the best. |
| 0:10.5 | Our lost and found is currently filled with pants. |
| 0:13.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:13.8 | I've never seen this happen. |
| 0:15.6 | This is true. |
| 0:16.7 | This is true. |
| 0:17.9 | Mysteries of every size. |
| 0:19.9 | Each week, This American Life, wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:27.8 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast for Monday, January 26th. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Tamara Keith. |
| 0:33.3 | I cover the White House. |
| 0:34.5 | And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 0:37.8 | And we also have with us Minnesota Public Radio's Clay Masters. |
| 0:41.6 | Hi, Clay. |
| 0:42.5 | Hello there. |
| 0:43.5 | And today on the show, federal agents shot and killed another American in Minneapolis over the weekend. |
| 0:49.7 | 37-year-old Alex Preddy was an intensive care unit nurse at a VA hospital. |
| 0:55.5 | He was using his phone to film ICE agents. When the situation rapidly escalated within seconds, half a dozen masked |
| 1:01.5 | agents were pinning him to the ground face down and then he was shot in the back multiple times. |
| 1:07.8 | Clay, we know this because there was video, a lot of it. What more can you tell us about what |
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