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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Sarah Longwell sits down with Andrew Weissmann to break down a fatal ICE shooting in Minnesota, shocking detention conditions exposed by a federal judge, and a growing pattern of the government misleading courts and defying judicial orders.
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| 0:00.0 | You let them lie to you once. They will just do it all the time. Yeah, I mean, this is like, you know, I'm not a parent, but like, well, I am and this is how I know. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to the illegal news, formerly known as the George Gowndway explains at all, podcast, but as we've seen George is running for Congress |
| 0:22.3 | in the great bulwark podcasting to politician pipeline. And so we now have the illegal news, |
| 0:31.5 | and I am so glad to be joined by the great Andrew Weissman. I'm obviously Sarah Longwell, |
| 0:37.1 | publisher of the bulwark. |
| 0:39.3 | Andrew, I was so jealous that Sam got to talk to you last week, and so I'm very glad it |
| 0:44.1 | is me this week. |
| 0:46.0 | We'd originally planned today to talk about the court decision concerning ICE detention |
| 0:51.3 | centers that was issued last month. |
| 0:53.2 | But before we get to that, |
| 0:54.6 | I think we have to address what happened with ICE in Minnesota earlier this week. A masked |
| 0:59.8 | ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, an unarmed 37-year-old woman and U.S. citizen. |
| 1:06.4 | Immediately after the shooting, the president defended the ICE agent saying that the action, |
| 1:11.8 | saying the agent acted in self-defense, though videos pretty clearly showed the agent wasn't in harm's way. That is my view of it. |
| 1:21.7 | I'll be, you tell me yours, because the victim was attempting to drive away as the ICE agent shot at her multiple times. |
| 1:28.2 | So I guess to start, just like what's your take on what happened? |
| 1:32.4 | And do you think the ICE agent or anyone will be held accountable for goods death? |
| 1:37.9 | You know, it's so interesting, Sarah, because the more I do this and the more I talk to people like you and I'm on air with people |
| 1:44.5 | who are sort of not lawyers and trained in criminal law, the more I find myself first reacting |
| 1:50.5 | as a human than as a lawyer. Because just leaving a side, we're going to talk about the |
| 1:57.8 | legality and I'll sort of walk through that. But I think that |
| 2:02.6 | big picture to me is even if, and there's a huge even if, like I mean that because |
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