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As thousands of ICE agents continue their rampage in Minneapolis, the people are preparing

for an even larger fightback that could reshape politics inside the United States.

Elon Musk, meanwhile, endorses a call for martial law inside the United States, and President

Trump threatens the Insurrection Act to deploy the U.S.

military against the people. I'm Leanne Seema Fullahan here with Brian Becker, and this is

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And this week, Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iran once again.

He did it in June.

He dropped 21,000 pound bunker buster bombs on Iran's nuclear energy facilities back in June.

And the reason he said he was going to bomb Iran was that Iran was suppressing protesters

who were in the streets demanding some sort of economic remedy for the fact that Iran's economy

has essentially collapsed in the face of so many U.S. sanctions and international sanctions.

And at the same time as he threatened Iran, because it was, quote, suppressing protests,

ICE agents were in Minneapolis, thousands of them, suppressing people everywhere, terrorizing

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