Is Chicago Police Giving ICE the Cold Shoulder?

3 Martini Lunch

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Hillsdale College Radio General Manager and Radio Free Hillsdale Hour host Scot Bertram fills in for Jim on Tuesday's 3 Martini Lunch. Join Scot and Greg as they expose the escalating hostility of Illinois Democrats toward ICE, new revelations that the Biden FBI secretly tracked the phone records of Republican U.S. senators, and new disturbing allegations against the Democrats' nominee for Virginia attorney general.

First, they react to multiple shocking incidents in the Chicago area where radical protesters boxed in ICE officers with cars and carried out hit-and-run tactics to disrupt operations. Despite the danger, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson continue to vilify ICE. And while the superintendent of Chicago police implores demonstrators not to confront ICE personnel, there are also multiple instances of Chicago police officers being ordered not to aid ICE officers in distress.

Next, they examine revelations that former Special Counsel Jack Smith used the FBI to monitor the cell phone communications of eight U.S. senators and one House member during the January 6th investigation. Scot argues this fits a long pattern of surveillance abuse under the Obama and Biden administrations. Will the GOP Congress be able to get to the bottom of this?

Finally, the controversy deepens in Virginia as Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones faces new allegations that he once suggested a few dead police officers might be needed to stop police shootings. The accusation comes just days after his admission to sending texts wishing death on a Republican lawmaker and his family. Jones adamantly denies the allegation but Scot explains why his denials fall flat considering what we already know.

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0:00.0	Liberty Nation with Mark Angelides.
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0:08.0	Can Chuck Schumer hold on?
0:09.0	All this and a great deal more analysis on Liberty Nation radio this week.
0:13.0	Author, columnist, managing editor of Liberty Nation.com.
0:20.0	Podcast host a conservative policy advocate
0:23.0	we dismiss history at our peril liberty nation with mark angelides welcome to the three
0:34.5	martini lunch grab a stool next to great corumbbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:41.4	Three Martini's coming up.
0:43.7	So glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.
0:47.5	As you know, Jim Garrity is away.
0:49.3	And here in his place once again, we're thrilled to have Scott Bertram.
0:52.1	He is the general manager of WRFH, Radio Free Hillsdale
0:55.6	on the campus of Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he's also a lecturer in journalism.
1:01.1	He is also the director of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. He hosts the Radio Free
1:06.0	Hillsdale Hour, and he's the co-host of Wasn't That Special, 50 years of Saturday Night Live. And as I like to
1:12.2	mention and slightly embarrass him, but it's true, he has one of the largest trophy cases
1:17.7	anywhere in colleges because he just keeps collecting the hardware because his students do
1:23.9	excellent work. And I'm sure he has quite a bit to do with that. So, Scott, I'm sure your new school year's off to an excellent start.
1:30.7	It is, in fact.
1:31.4	It's halfway through.
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