Episode #428: Walz Came Tumbling Down
Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Ken Rudin
4.7 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Kathryn Pearson of the University of Minnesota explains the scandal that may have ended Gov. Tim Walz’s political career, and the expected decision by Sen. Amy Klobuchar that she would seek to succeed him this year.
And Lou Cannon, the chief White House correspondent during the Ronald Reagan presidency and a superb Reagan biographer, died last month at the age of 92. He was last on the Political Junkie back in 2015, talking about the 1980 Republican convention and how Reagan helped his cause by picking George Bush as his running mate — and not former President Gerald Ford, who was rumored to be angling for a spot on the GOP ticket.
PLUS: The Trump administration defends the murder of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent. And Greenland? Seriously?
Music in this Episode:
When the Music’s Over by the Doors
Like to Get to Know You by Spanky & Our Gang
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| 0:00.0 | An autocrat arrests a fellow autocrat, a Minnesota Democrat hopes to rescue a fellow Democrat, |
| 0:07.3 | and get ready to welcome Greenland as the 51st state on the political junkie. |
| 0:13.5 | You like Ike, I like like, everybody likes I for president. |
| 0:17.7 | Add light to you, and think to me. I don't care how you quoted. |
| 0:21.7 | Come on and vote for Kennedy. |
| 0:24.7 | Vote for Kennedy. |
| 0:26.4 | And we'll come on top. |
| 0:28.8 | Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge |
| 0:32.4 | because they're the ones to lead the USA. |
| 0:39.3 | Thanks for joining us and welcome to episode 428 of the political junkie. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm Ken Rudin. |
| 0:46.3 | The opening conversation this week was going to be Venezuela |
| 0:50.3 | and how President Trump bypassed Congress and what may have been an unconstitutional and a legal action |
| 0:56.1 | to invade a foreign country, apprehend its president, and bring him to New York to stand trial. |
| 1:02.7 | But then came Wednesday's horrific killing in Minneapolis by an ICE agent of a woman, |
| 1:08.0 | René Nicole Good, who the government says was trying to run over the officer with her car |
| 1:13.5 | and who Trump called a, quote, professional agitator. You've seen the video. It is horrific. It is frightening. |
| 1:22.8 | And it contradicts everything the government said about what happened at the scene. |
| 1:27.5 | Renee Good was not trying to run over an ice agent. |
| 1:30.8 | When one of the agents tried forcing open her car door, she attempted to drive away. |
| 1:36.4 | The agent got out of the way, and, as she was leaving, fired several shots into the windshield, killing her. |
| 1:43.2 | That's what happened. I don't know how many times |
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