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Amy & T.J.

NEW: Trump Threatens To Invoke the Insurrection Act

Amy & T.J.

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3.33K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The streets of Minneapolis are filled with heated protests following the second ICE shooting in just one week.  President Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to the unrest has  done little to calm the tensions.  Amy and T.J. go over the growing reaction to Trump’s threat and what recent polling suggests Americans feel about ICE agents in Minneapolis. ”

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:15.2

Hey there, folks.

0:16.1

It is Thursday, January 15th.

0:18.6

We are getting close to the evening hours, sundown in most places

0:23.4

across the country as we record this. Enrobed, a lot of eyes going to be on Minneapolis because

0:28.4

called it. President Trump is threatening to use the Insurrection Act. And with that, welcome to this

0:35.8

episode of Amy and T.J. And I can't take credit

0:38.8

for this. We should have seen this coming from a mile all the way. Well, I was actually going to

0:41.6

give credit where credit was due because you really did call this this morning, just based on the

0:46.0

language we were already seeing. And the words they were using were by design and certainly

0:51.9

leading up to now this announcement we got from the president

0:56.3

on truth social. He is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. We can read his truth

1:02.1

social post for you just to make it very clear what the president is saying. A reminder of what

1:07.5

we're talking about here and where we are. There is something. There is an act, an insurrection act, a law.

1:12.4

What year was it? Is it 18 or 190 something? The insurrection act

1:16.4

that essentially allows the President of the United States to send in troops to essentially tamp down or beat back an insurrection.

1:27.4

But an insurrection has to be defined as a particular thing.

1:29.8

There are very specific guidelines legally about what constitutes an insurrection.

1:35.9

Yes, presidents have used the Insurrection Act in the past.

1:41.0

For some pretty extreme cases, though, Robs, not necessarily because there are some possible

1:47.9

undocumented immigrants in a town. Yes. No, this is to quell, as you point, an insurrection,

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