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Hey, everybody. Welcome to the weekly show with John Stewart.

My name is John Stewart. It is Tuesday, January 27th.

And the polar vortex continues to lock in the shitty feeling that everybody has in America

in this present moment where, although actually the way that the people have stood up,

the resilience that everybody has shown in Minneapolis, the resilience that those who have said,

this is not an acceptable manner by which the government can do anything to the people and the pushback against the

idea that those that are protesting against it are somehow against getting murderers off

the street.

Like all the lies and misrepresentations that the government is trying to force down people's throats have been exploded in the very

specific disproving of their narrative by video and that video is video that's taken by

courageous people that have decided to protect their fellow citizens.

And you can't be more proud of something than that.

But how do we get an understanding of what are the mechanisms of how this is all occurring?

That's the thing that I think we're going to talk about on the show today.

It's sort of this

nexus between state power and now kind of these overarching technological advances that are being

weaponized and fed into state power and how that's being used to hypercharge this entire deportation pursuit. I think we have got two

people that are going to discuss some of the real specifics of this through the companies

that are being granted these hundreds of millions of dollar contracts by the government and the

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