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Deadline: White House

“The American people are energized”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Politics, News, Ms Now, Government, Nicolle Wallace, Daily News, Msnbc, Versant, The White House, Washington Dc

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace covers the breaking news out of Minnesota, where Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison have announced that they will be suing DHS and ICE for their violent conduct in Minnesota.

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0:00.0

We have been watching a press conference. That is Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. We also heard from the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The big headline here, the announcement of a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, that reads at least in part, the defendants claim the unprecedented surge of ICE agents is necessary

0:22.1

to fight fraud. In reality, the massive deployment of armed agents to Minnesota bears no

0:27.7

connection to the stated objective and instead reflects an alarming escalation of the Trump

0:33.3

administration's retaliatory actions toward the state. I want to bring in my colleagues,

0:39.0

MS Now reporter Alex Tabit and senior contributing editor, Michelle Norris, who are on the ground

0:43.7

for us, both in Minneapolis. Alex, your thoughts? Well, Nicole, we just heard Mayor Frye talk

0:52.0

about repeated instances of racial profiling here in the state of Minneapolis.

0:56.9

Well, we're actually on the block where we may have seen one of those incidents play out in real time.

1:03.7

So we are actually just two blocks away from where Renee Good was shot and killed.

1:09.2

That's Portland Street, two blocks down there.

1:11.7

Just a few hours ago, here, an American citizen named Christian Molina was driving down the road

1:17.7

when ICE knocked on his door and asked for him to show him his identification, according to

1:24.1

Molina.

1:24.6

We were not at the scene at that moment.

1:26.3

We should clarify.

1:27.5

Molina refused. He says he refused to open his window. He refused to give them his identification.

1:34.3

And Molina says that when he refused to do those things, the ice agent rammed his car.

1:41.0

What we saw in the moments after that is a tense standoff. I want you to hear from

1:47.9

Molina's wife who was on the scene about how she was feeling in that moment, Nicole.

1:55.0

They ask him to get out of the car, ask him for his ID. He refuses because they have no reason for him to pull

2:04.0

pull him over at this point he didn't do anything wrong he was just driving to

2:12.3

the mechanic because we were going to meet there it escalated so quickly the

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