“The power of grassroots pushback”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

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

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace covers the power of the people in Minneapolis who are hitting the streets every day in frigid weather to fight for the rights of their neighbors who are being targeted by ICE.

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0:00.0	Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. The single biggest roadblock to the authoritarian
0:11.6	ambitions of Donald Trump and his aides and allies is right now, as we come on the air,
0:16.8	without a doubt, the people of Minneapolis and the choices they make every hour of every day.
0:22.8	Every step Donald Trump takes is being met with their grassroots pushback.
0:27.3	And that is all happening as Trump is finding new ways to push the autocratic envelope.
0:33.0	An internal memo obtained by our colleague, White House correspondent Laura Barron Lopez,
0:38.4	significantly expands the power that federal agents have to make an arrest without a warrant.
0:43.7	Two former ICE officials telling us that the memo means
0:46.9	agents need to determine the status of everyone they encounter and they make arrests that they're undocumented.
0:53.6	It was signed on January 28th. It happens
0:56.4	to be one day after Donald Trump said his administration would, quote, de-escalate the crisis in
1:02.8	Minneapolis. But as we have reported here, there's very little evidence that those words were backed
1:07.9	by any action, very little evidence that that is happening.
1:15.1	Heroing video obtained by Minnesota Public Radio, NPR,
1:20.5	shows federal agents drawing their guns on an observer in the town of St. Peter.
1:21.2	Watch.
1:23.1	Call 911.
1:25.1	I'm right at the corner of Jefferson. Get out of the car.
1:28.3	Get out of the car right now.
1:31.3	No.
1:32.3	No, I will not.
1:33.3	Get out of the car.
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