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MEDIA BUZZmeter

Even Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem Distancing Themselves from ICE Tragedy in Minneapolis as Internal Probe Finds Alex Pretti Never Brandished a Gun

MEDIA BUZZmeter

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News, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.1582 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Howie Kurtz on the continuing fallout from fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis, the developing shooting incident involving the border patrol on the Arizona-Mexico border, and the controversy around Kanye West's recent apology regarding antisemitic comments and behavior. Follow Howie on Twitter:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@HowardKurtz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

0:07.5

Now, this is really something.

0:10.6

By the way, I'm reporting from Washington where the main roads have been cleared, but many curbs,

0:15.6

driveways, and cars coated with a thick sheet of nearly unbreakable ice after the storm that left all of five inches

0:25.1

here in the nation's capital.

0:27.5

But ice is a real problem.

0:30.1

And then, you know, the cold temperatures are predicted for the next week.

0:34.8

I'm sure many cities have it worse.

0:39.5

But we are in the ice age and we are in the next week. I'm sure many cities have it worse, but we are in the ice age,

0:48.7

and we are in the ice age in terms of the overwhelming story of the day. And that's why I say this is really rich. I'm throwing out the buzzers today because I've got to get to a taping for the video podcast that we now do

0:57.9

once a week. So this is sort of the on the run edition. Everybody now running from the political

1:05.7

and human disaster that keeps taking place in Minneapolis. And when I say everybody,

1:14.5

White House Step Beach, Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, the hardest of the hardliners when

1:21.0

it comes to deportation, the driving force behind harsh policies to round up and gather as many, quote, illegal immigrants

1:33.1

as possible.

1:34.6

I say, quote, because some of them entered the country illegally, but have been here for,

1:40.2

you know, 20, 25 years and don't have a criminal record.

1:43.5

Others do. And then, of course,

1:45.6

there are the twin tragedies of the two Americans that have been shot, increasingly obvious that

1:53.1

that was in both cases, but particularly in the case of Alex Prattie and earlier Renee Good,

1:59.3

that those deaths were unnecessary. So Stephen Miller,

2:02.7

distinct himself, Stephen Miller from Department of Homeland Security amid widespread outrage

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