Minnesota Is the Warning Sign for What Comes Next

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.5 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Chris Cuomo responds to the killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and intensive care nurse with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs who was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis during protests over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Cuomo walks through what we actually know, why local leaders are pushing back hard against federal enforcement tactics, and how this moment fits into a familiar pattern of escalation — one where the outcome wasn’t unpredictable.Cuomo makes a clear distinction between supporting law enforcement and accepting strategies that make violence more likely. He explains why flooding heavily armed federal agents into already tense protest zones doesn’t calm situations down, and why pretending these outcomes are “shocking” after the fact avoids the harder question: what kind of country are we becoming if this keeps happening? Join The Chris Cuomo Project on YouTube for ad-free episodes, early releases, exclusive access to Chris, and more: https://www.youtube.com/@chriscuomo/join Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Support our sponsors: Get 20% off your first order of Lucy nicotine pouches at lucy.co with code CUOMO, or find a store near you at https://lucy.co/stores Grab 30% OFF the Maximum Male System by Juvenon here: https://bloodflow7.com/CUOMO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. As Minnesota goes, so goes America. So what are you going to do about it? Because we
0:36.3	have reached an inflection point. We know it can't be
0:39.8	right left anymore. We know that that got us here. It's got to be about right and wrong. And what we saw
0:45.5	there, not what you heard, not what you think, not what you feel, what you saw was wrong. And you
0:53.2	know it was wrong. And it has to start there because we have to get back
0:59.4	to right and wrong and away from right and left. This is unsustainable. This only gets worse.
1:07.0	There will be more of this. This is a metaphor.
1:16.2	And if you jump to, yeah, but them and them and they should have, and that's not where you start.
1:16.6	You start with, well, this was wrong.
1:19.4	And don't pretend it wasn't, and don't say domestic terrorism, and don't say he shouldn't
1:23.2	have a gun, don't say any of these absurd, hypocritical, ridiculous things just to defend a side.
1:30.1	When the only side that matters is right and wrong, and we all know what it is.
1:40.8	I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. That's where we are. And I don't want this to be dire, but I am doing a special edition of the podcast because I want to be on record. This is the time that everybody needs to pause and stand and state who they are and what they're about.
2:05.7	This is a big moment we are living. Why?
2:10.8	Alex Prettie should not have been killed by federal agents.
2:18.5	Alex Prettie was an unjustified killing.
2:25.1	Okay?
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