One-on-One: Governor JB Pritzker On The National Guard And ICE

The Bret Baier Podcast

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🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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President Trump has found himself at odds with numerous Democrat governors for his deployment of the national guard, among other things, but some have made their discontent more public than others. Among the loudest voices now opposing the president is JB Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, who joined Bret on Special Report Thursday evening. Governor Pritzker discusses his tumultuous relationship with President Trump, explaining his opposition on the President’s use of the National Guard and ICE, as well as defending his claim that President Trump attempted to ‘Steal the Election.’ Governor Pritzker also addresses the scandal involving Virginia Attorney General Candidate Jay Jones’ leaked text messages, whose campaign Pritzker had contributed to prior to the scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Fox News Podcasts Presents the Brett Bear Podcasts with Fox News Chief Political Anchor, Brett Bear.
0:15.5	Across the board, President Trump and the federal government have dodged accountability and dismantled the
0:22.2	institutions responsible for checking that corruption and overreach that they're committing.
0:28.4	I have this guy, Pritzker, is a very weak governor.
0:32.6	Let me be nice.
0:33.6	I'm going to be very nice.
0:34.6	He's extremely weak.
0:35.6	He's pathetic.
0:36.6	I have Pritzky get up and say how great
0:39.0	they're doing in Chicago. They're doing it very poorly. All right. Let's talk about crime, immigration,
0:45.8	politics with Democratic Illinois governor, J.B. Pritzker. Governor, thanks for being here.
0:50.6	Great to be here. Any reaction to President Trump there? That was just an hour ago.
0:54.3	It seems like I live, you know, rent-free in his head.
0:56.9	He talks about me all the time just on, you know, spontaneously.
1:00.6	And all I can say is that we're having to deal with the invasion of his ICE agents, his CBP agents,
1:10.4	and potentially of a federalized National Guard who don't know anything
1:15.1	about law enforcement. You know, we could use help. By the way, we'd love to get help with law
1:19.6	enforcement. FBI, ATF, DEA, we want to get gangs and guns and drugs off the streets.
1:25.8	And we've asked for that kind of help, but instead he's talking about sending troops.
1:29.2	Why? Why?
1:30.7	Well, you have this effort to track ICE, the Illinois Accountability Commission, announced today,
1:37.4	to create this public record of federal law enforcement agents,
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