ICE murder terrifies country as Trump defends, Natl Guard prepared
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show
-- Caleb Ragland, Chairman of the American Soybean Association, joins us to discuss how Trump's tariffs are reshaping the soybean industry and the economic future of rural America
-- An ICE agent shoots and kills U.S. citizen during a federal immigration operation in Minneapolis as Trump falsely claims self defense and blames the radical left
-- Governor Tim Walz prepares the Minnesota National Guard after uncoordinated ICE raids kill a resident and escalate tensions between state authorities and federal agents
-- A confrontation between Minnesota state power and federal ICE operations raises concerns about institutional breakdown as courts and political norms face direct strain
-- Trump proposes raising the U.S. military budget to 1.5 trillion dollars while falsely claiming tariffs will pay for it and contradicting years of anti Pentagon rhetoric
-- White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt makes incoherent and contradictory claims about U.S. control over Venezuela and openly entertains buying Greenland
-- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Donald Trump has ordered obesity to end as new federal dietary guidelines reshape school meals military food and assistance programs
-- On the Bonus Show: New reporting shows many patients regain weight after stopping GLP-1 drugs, raising questions about whether medical weight loss now requires lifelong treatment. Plus, Donald Trump says the United States could effectively run Venezuela for years, signaling an extraordinary expansion of U.S. control over another country's government and oil industry
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(00:00) Start
(01:41) ICE raid kills U.S. citizen
(11:38) Walz readies guard after deadly raids
(20:18) Minnesota-ICE clash strains institutions
(26:45) Trump floats $1.5T military budget
(34:39) Soybean chair on tariffs' rural toll
(55:24) Leavitt riffs on Venezuela, Greenland
(01:01:44) RFK Jr claims order to end obesity
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We start today with a video out of Minneapolis showing an ice agent shooting a woman through |
| 0:05.6 | her car window during a massive federal immigration raid. |
| 0:10.2 | The woman, a U.S. citizen, was trying to leave after receiving conflicting commands, shot |
| 0:16.1 | and died. |
| 0:17.7 | Some are saying this is murder. |
| 0:19.6 | Others were saying it is self-defense. I am not unsure which of the two |
| 0:24.1 | it was and we will talk about it. Donald Trump blamed the radical left. This genuinely has the |
| 0:29.6 | potential to generate a civil war like environment in the United States. I don't say that lightly |
| 0:36.6 | and we will talk about it. The fallout |
| 0:38.6 | has been enormous. Governor Tim Walls of Minnesota says he is readying the nat, readying the |
| 0:43.1 | National Guard to be up against Trump's ice, which is both incredible and potentially, potentially |
| 0:52.2 | escalatory, but necessary, I believe. |
| 0:56.5 | We will also talk about the sudden proposal from the White House for a 60% increase to the |
| 1:02.2 | military budget. |
| 1:02.9 | I thought Trump wasn't going to be that guy. |
| 1:05.4 | And now his budget proposes increasing the size of the military by 60%. |
| 1:10.3 | And later, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the president has announced there is an order to end |
| 1:15.6 | obesity. |
| 1:16.6 | I mean, listen, ban obesity, ban COVID. |
| 1:20.1 | Why not just ban things, right? |
| 1:22.3 | Except we know that doesn't make any sense. |
| 1:23.8 | All of these stories and more. |
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