How America’s Red-Blue Divide Plays Into the ICE Shooting in MN, and Trump’s Global Power Plays Explained
Next Up with Mark Halperin
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Mark Kalpren, editor-in-chief of the live interactive video platform two-way and your host here, |
| 0:09.5 | Guide to Everything Next up. |
| 0:10.8 | Delighted to have you back, all you Nexters who are tuning in for our second episode of the week |
| 0:16.1 | and second of the year, very happy to have you here. |
| 0:18.9 | We've got some great guests and a great conversation in a busy, busy news week already. |
| 0:25.3 | Jeff Rowe will be here. He's a Republican strategist. One of the smartest people in politics I know. And he doesn't do a lot of media. He's a semi-reclusive figure. So Jeff will be here, along with Hyma Moore, a Democratic strategist. We'll |
| 0:38.4 | have a great conversation about everything that's going on in politics. And then after that, |
| 0:43.7 | the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldon, a long-time Republican member |
| 0:48.9 | of the Congress, who was tapped by President Trump, to figure out a new way to balance the economy, how to grow the |
| 0:56.4 | economy with a clean environment. And talk to the administrator about how he's trying to do those |
| 1:01.5 | things, which some see as contradictory, but Lee Zeldon thinks they can do them both. So we'll |
| 1:06.2 | talk about that with those three great guests coming up. But before that, in just a moment, |
| 1:11.7 | my reported monologue on the national crisis in Minnesota in the wake of the shooting by an ICE |
| 1:18.8 | officer. We'll talk about what I've learned about that since it occurred. My reported monologue |
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