Political Violence Escalates Amid Trump's Crackdown
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you very much. Welcome to the program. We begin with the escalating threats, the violence |
| 0:04.5 | we're seeing in America, some of it coming from Donald Trump's federal government, some of it |
| 0:09.1 | coming from elsewhere. The big news today is something that no one wants to see in the powder |
| 0:14.4 | keg of Minnesota, but a brand new attack on a lawmaker. Now, that's bad no matter what. If that's all you heard, that should be |
| 0:22.6 | enough to know that's a bad thing. And there have been times in the past few decades where people |
| 0:27.4 | would all acknowledge in leadership that that was bad. But because this is a democratic |
| 0:30.7 | lawmaker, this government has had a different type of response. The president, who has talked |
| 0:36.4 | about, quote, a slight de-escalation or changing his tone, |
| 0:40.0 | isn't doing that. And we measure these things over time. You don't get to dial up the pressure, |
| 0:47.9 | the rhetoric, the violence, unleash actual violence against American citizens to now slain, |
| 0:53.4 | then take a break for a day or two, |
| 0:55.4 | claim that's de-escalation, and then go back to attacking people in ways that are misleading |
| 1:00.5 | and incendiary when we have these open probes. There is also no indication that these federal |
| 1:06.1 | agents operating under Trump's orders, ICE, DHS, and the rest are scaling back. |
| 1:12.0 | There's heat in Minnesota. |
| 1:17.5 | Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar attacked last night at a town hall, as you see here. |
| 1:19.4 | This man sprayed her with an unknown substance. |
| 1:25.7 | If you are on the receiving end of something like that, it is at a minimum extremely scary because you actually don't know what you're being hit with. |
| 1:27.7 | You can see how it unfolded. |
| 1:29.7 | This was moments after she was calling for Christyneome's resignation. |
| 1:33.7 | Here's the moment. |
| 1:36.3 | And DHS Secretary Christine Nome must resign or face itching? |
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