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UNBIASED Politics

January 29, 2026: New Alex Pretti Video Footage, a Potential Government Shutdown, Updates in Minneapolis, an FBI Investigation Into Signal Chats, and More.

UNBIASED Politics

Jordan Berman

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4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

SUBSCRIBE TO JORDAN'S ⁠SUBSTACK⁠. Get the facts, without the spin. UNBIASED offers a clear, impartial recap of US news, including politics, elections, legal news, and more. Hosted by lawyer Jordan Berman, each episode provides a recap of current political events plus breakdowns of complex concepts—like constitutional rights, recent Supreme Court rulings, and new legislation—in an easy-to-understand way. No personal opinions, just the facts you need to stay informed on the daily news that matters. If you miss how journalism used to be, you're in the right place. In today's episode: Updates Since the Alex Pretti Shooting: DHS Gives Congress Initial Shooting Report; Agents Who Fired Weapons Placed on Leave; Lawmakers Threatening to Impeach Noem; Bovino Out in Minneapolis, Homan In; New Video Footage of Pretti from Two Weeks Before Shooting (~0:15) FBI Investigating Signal Group Chats in Minneapolis (~19:13) Potential Government Shutdown; Why Democratic Lawmakers Are Blocking DHS Funding (~25:39) Man Arrested After Spraying Rep. Ilhan Omar with Substance at Town Hall Event (~31:34) Judge Prohibits Administration from Deporting Liam Ramos and Father (~40:53) Quick Hitters: Search Warrant Executed at Fulton County Elections Office, Rubio Testifies Before Senate About Venezuela, Trump Launches 'Trump Accounts' for Kids (~48:08) Rumor Has It: Is ICE Going to the Olympics? Did Border Czar Tom Homan Receive an Award From Obama for His Deportation Efforts? (~50:26) Critical Thinking Segment (~53:30) SUBSCRIBE TO JORDAN'S ⁠FREE NEWSLETTER⁠. ⁠Watch⁠ this episode on YouTube. Follow Jordan on ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠TikTok⁠. All sources for this episode can be found ⁠here.⁠  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Unbiased, your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis.

0:06.9

Welcome back to Unbiased Politics. Today is Thursday, January 29th. Let's talk about some news.

0:12.5

We've got a lot to cover today, so let's just get right into it. We will start the episode with

0:18.1

some developments related to the Alex Pretty shooting. And there are quite a few,

0:23.5

so we'll kind of just bounce from one to the next. And I'll just kind of, I'll attempt to explain

0:27.9

these in chronological order, but there's just been so much happening since Monday's episode that

0:32.8

everything kind of gets meshed together. So first, let's talk about the DHS preliminary report.

0:38.8

On Tuesday, the DHS shared this preliminary report on the Alex Pretty shooting with Congress

0:45.3

based on an initial investigation that was done by the CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility.

0:52.3

And in completing that investigation, the Office of Professional Responsibility. And in completing that investigation, the Office of Professional

0:55.1

Responsibility basically relied on body cam footage as well as available documentation. Now, remember,

1:02.6

the CBP is an agency within the DHS, right? So the DHS oversees the CBP and any internal offices

1:10.2

within the CBP, including the Office of Professional

1:14.6

Responsibility. So that's why it was the DHS that shared this report with Congress. Now, the report

1:20.9

has not been released to the public, but it has been seen by various news outlets, and these various

1:26.4

news outlets have reported on its contents.

1:30.1

So per those reports, the initial investigation found that CBP agents were conducting a targeted

1:36.8

operation when they encountered Preti, an officer asked Preddy and another woman in the road

1:42.3

to, quote, move out of the roadway. When they both

1:45.7

didn't move, the officer deployed his pepper spray towards both individuals. Officers then attempted

1:52.7

to take Prattie into custody. Predtty resisted their efforts, which then resulted in a

1:58.0

subsequent struggle on the ground. The report states that while Preddy was on the ground,

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