Introducing ‘Question Everything’: Why did ICE Lock Up this Pro-Trump Reporter? (Part One)
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
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🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The story of an idiosyncratic reporter trying to free himself from U.S. government detention from KCRW’s “Question Everything.” This is the first in a special two-part series about Mario Guevara. The second part is also out now.
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| 0:41.7 | Hi there. I'm On Point Senior Editor Dori Shimer with an extra week and drop for you of a podcast that got our attention at On Point recently. |
| 0:49.7 | It's an episode of Question Everything from KCRW and placementacement Theory, a podcast that dwells in the |
| 0:56.1 | messy, sometimes high stakes world where journalism and power collide. And this is part one |
| 1:02.4 | of a two-parter about journalist Mario Guevara. He was arrested in June while covering an anti-ice |
| 1:08.1 | protest in Georgia. He ended up spending more than 100 days in federal detention. |
| 1:13.4 | But Guevara is not the kind of ICE criticizing reporter you might be imagining. |
| 1:17.8 | He's a Trump-supporting immigration hawk who had covered ICE favorably for years. |
| 1:23.2 | So why did the Trump administration still go after him? |
| 1:26.9 | From Question Everything, here's part one of why did ICE lock up this pro-Trump reporter. |
| 1:37.2 | I want to play you something the president said the other week because you might have missed it. |
| 1:46.9 | This was shortly after an ICE agent had fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good at point-blank range in her car in Minneapolis. |
| 1:55.8 | At first, the Trump administration had said Good was a domestic terrorist who was trying to run over the agent and kill him. |
| 2:03.1 | But now, at this press conference, the president had a different tune because he'd learned something about Renee Good's family. |
| 2:10.3 | I'm not going to edit this clip for clarity, by the way, so just bear with it. |
| 2:14.1 | I felt horribly when I was told that the young woman who was, had the tragedy, it's a tragedy, |
| 2:22.3 | it's a horrible thing. Everybody would say, ICE would say the same thing. But when I learned |
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