Is Trump Softening on ICE? DHS Death Cards. w/Chuck Todd.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

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Politics, News, National Security, News Commentary, Daily News, Veteran

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The news is flying. And we’re keeping you ahead of it. And focused on what matters most. Paul is joined by the venerable Chuck Todd—host of the Chuck Toddcast and former moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press and more— for a raw, candid, often funny kitchen-table conversation America needs right now that takes you behind the curtain on media, news and politics. They break down ICE agents leaving “death cards” with white supremacist history, detaining citizens, and now, local cops; Jeff Bezos’s gutting of the Washington Post and layoffs hitting reporters in war zones; and how billionaire power—from Bezos and Musk to Trump—is hollowing out the Fourth Estate and putting our democracy, national security, and truth itself up for sale. They also unpack the TV show Fallout’s dystopian world of bunkered elites and abandoned wastelands, and what it reveals about America’s rapidly-growing anti-corporate mood cutting across all political lines.

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0:00.0	The anti-corporate vibe is really starting to amp up.
0:03.2	And I think the pitchforks are being sharpened, left and right.
0:06.2	This is something left and right agree upon, which is, I also think it's why there's
0:10.5	extra interest in the Epstein files, which is, man, are the rules different for rich people?
0:15.1	Are the rules different?
0:16.0	If you have enough money, you can buy your foreign policy, UAE.
0:19.8	If you have enough money, you can buy your foreign policy, UAE. If you have enough money, you can buy government
0:23.6	regulation, Navidia and Palantir. And, you know, what's, you know, what happens if that
0:32.4	just never stops, if that accelerates.
0:52.2	Welcome to Independent Americans. Welcome to episode 434.
0:55.3	I am your host, Paul Reikov, coming to you from New York City, USA.
0:59.2	It is Thursday, February 5th, the day after our Jesse Ventura interview.
1:05.2	You didn't check that out, YouTube, audio, whatever.
1:08.4	Go back and check it out.
1:09.7	I still feel like I got a little bit of a buzz
1:11.4	from hanging out with Jesse Ventura, but we need that kind of energy. We need that kind of inspiration. It is still Super Bowl week, and that can give us a little bit of energy as well, even if the weather is cold where you are. Here, it is sunny and back to being cold, which is kind of like America right now, up and down and give and take. And as I told you yesterday,
1:30.8	I'm going to pick a different. It is sunny and back to being cold, which is kind of like America right now, up and down and give and take.
1:29.8	And as I told you yesterday, I'm going to pick a different musical artist that I introduce my boys to every day.
1:34.8	Today's artist is Olivia Dean.
1:36.7	We were kind of sleeping on Olivia Dean in this house, but she got Best New Artist at the Grammys.
1:41.8	She's absolutely fantastic.
1:43.3	And she has a really good song called Nice to Each Other, which I think is a good song for us to try to spread, especially in times like these when folks tend to be divided a little bit and a bit concerned, but be nice to each other. And I'm going to bring you the Five Eyes. I bring you in every show, Independence, Integrity, information, inspiration, and impact. And our guest coming up is going to bring that.
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