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The Editors

Episode 846: Bezos Makes Some Cuts

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Conservatism, Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Noah Rothman, Policy, Rich Lowry, Current Events, Jim Geraghty, Government, Public Policy, Madeleine Kearns, News, Conservative, National Review, Society & Culture

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Jeff Bezos destroys the Washington Post, or does he, and major medical groups back off on trans. We'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors. I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined, as always by the right, honorable, Charles C.W. Cook, the reporter, Audrey Falberg, and the notorious M.B.D. Michael Brendan Doherty, you are, of course, listening to a national geo podcast or sponsors. This episode are Vere and Strawberry. More about both of them in due course. For some reason, you're not already following us on a streaming service, by the way, you can find us everywhere from Spotify to Apple Podcasts. If you like what you hear here, please consider giving us a glowing five-star review wherever you listen to your podcast. If you don't like what you hear, please forget. I said anything. So,

0:55.5

Audrey, we had a press conference from Tom Homan, Donald Trump's man on the ground now in

1:01.0

Minneapolis saying things are going great. They're getting unprecedented cooperation by

1:06.6

his account from city and county officials, scooping up illegal immigrants who have committed

1:11.7

crimes from city and county jails, and things are going so well, including they've ticked

1:18.3

a lot of people off their target list. They've already gone and gotten them that they're

1:22.7

drawing down 700 DHS agents. Two ways of looking at this on the right.

1:29.7

One is this is a surrender, just declaring victory and going home or easing up.

1:35.6

Another is this is Schrooter.

1:38.0

Homan is going to make more progress than the more bumpious approach was.

1:44.4

Yeah, I think one of the reasons, first of all, that we're seeing this drawdown of 700 agents with, I think,

1:50.4

2,000 still on the ground of Minneapolis is that Trump is very sensitive to optics.

1:55.8

Like with the economy, he always says, you know, I'd give myself an A plus plus, plus, and I'm

2:00.2

confused why voters

2:01.1

aren't seeing all the good that we're doing. He kind of has the same reaction to, you know,

2:05.7

immigration enforcement. And I think a revelatory moment was when he did that sit-down interview

2:11.6

with The New York Times. And they showed him a video of, it was either the Renee Good shooting or

2:17.2

the Pretty shooting,

2:18.1

I'm blanking on which. And he kind of reeled back and was like, ah, you know, that doesn't look good.

2:24.5

So, you know, clearly he's very sensitive to how different parts of his agenda are being portrayed in the media.

2:32.7

But I do think that this drawdown was significant for a number of

2:36.6

reasons. As the White House tells it, the drawdown is, you know, a reminder to Democratic

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