Minneapolis mayor calls for 'peace and order,' and ICE out of city
Here & Now Anytime
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
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Then, removing MLK Day as a national holiday altogether would require an act of Congress, but some conservatives are calling for that. Journalist Andrew Lawrence joins us to discuss how Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is being degraded and what that means for how we understand the history of race and racism in the U.S.
And, President Trump is inviting world leaders to join his 'Board of Peace' to rehabilitate Gaza. The Guardian's Julian Borger explains how this entity might work.
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| 0:25.1 | I dropped an F bomb, and we had ICE to kill somebody in our city. |
| 0:31.9 | And as far as which is more inflammatory, I'd say to kill in somebody. |
| 0:35.6 | More federal troops may be bound for Minneapolis |
| 0:38.5 | to suppress protests against ICE. It's Monday, January 19th, and this is here and now anytime |
| 0:45.9 | from NPR and WBOR. I'm Chris Bentley. |
| 1:05.5 | Today. Today on the show, who is on the board of peace that President Trump is assembling to oversee Gaza? |
| 1:13.1 | Also, it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a chance to reflect on the legacy of a civil rights icon cut down in his prime. But in the decades since his death, MLK's words have been appropriated |
| 1:20.5 | by all sorts of people to support their own views. Martin Luther King, who means something |
| 1:27.0 | very specifically to people and who was very |
| 1:29.1 | intentional about the things that they wrote and the volumes that he wrote can be cherry-picked |
| 1:35.3 | and served whatever purpose is needed at the moment. |
| 1:39.8 | That conversation coming up in about 10 minutes. But first, there are echoes of the civil |
| 1:45.6 | rights demonstrations of MLK's day in Minnesota, where some 1,500 active duty soldiers from Alaska |
| 1:53.2 | could be deployed against protesters who've been out in the streets since at least January 7th |
| 1:59.0 | when an immigration agent shot and killed Renee |
| 2:02.3 | Macklin Good. There are already thousands of federal agents in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and |
| 2:08.1 | St. Paul, outnumbering local police several times over. A federal judge on Friday ordered ICE |
| 2:14.7 | to rein in its use of force against protesters, citing a pattern of |
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