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The Fight for America

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

News, Ms Now, News Commentary, Ali Velshi, Versant, Politics, Versant Media, Government, Weekend News

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Univ. of Toronto professor Jason Stanley; Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN); Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA); Fulton County, GA Commissioner Mo Ivory; FairVote’s David Daley

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0:00.0

It is Saturday, January 31st, and we're watching the streets of Minneapolis this morning,

0:12.5

where protests have continued.

0:14.7

They're braving the frigid temperatures to resist Donald Trump's brutal ice crackdown.

0:19.2

This says the administration claims broad new powers

0:22.1

for ICE to conduct arrests without warrants. Plus, we're combing through millions of pages of newly

0:27.3

released documents from the Epstein files, but both Democrats and Republicans have already taken

0:32.0

note of what's missing in the DOJ's latest release. And we're not just talking this morning

0:36.7

about why people protest,

0:38.5

but how to do it. I'll be joined by the organizing director of the nonprofit immigrant defense

0:42.9

network for a step-by-step guide to safely protesting and knowing your rights. And I'll talk to

0:48.8

Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's about every American consumer's economic power and how best to bring it to bear against

0:55.8

corporations that enable injustice. But we begin this morning with an assault on one of the

1:01.0

fundamental freedoms that's been established by the First Amendment of the Constitution,

1:05.3

the freedom of the press. Two independent journalists, Don Lemon and Georgia Fort,

1:10.0

were arrested by federal authorities yesterday

1:12.4

in connection with their work covering a protest that disrupted a church service in Minnesota

1:17.1

earlier this month. Both were charged with two counts of criminal conspiracy related to interfering

1:22.9

with the right to exercise religious freedom. Don Lemon is a longtime journalist whom Trump has publicly

1:28.3

ridiculed for years. Georgia Fort, who was working as Lemon's producer on the day of the

1:33.4

protest, serves as the vice president of the Minnesota chapter of the National Association of Black

1:39.1

Journalists. Both were released from custody yesterday. Here's a defiant Don Lemon outside the courthouse.

1:45.0

I've spent my entire career covering the news.

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