Trauma and Terror in Minnesota

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In our latest Contrarian episode, Norm Eisen, Katie Phang, and Jen Rubin join Harry for a deep dive on ICE's rampage through Minnesota. The panel reviews the legal and political prospects for stopping what local leaders call a "federal invasion." Can congressional Democrats restrain ICE? What about the broad-gauge lawsuit brought by Minnesota? Then the panel turns to whether the Administration has stepped on the third rail with its investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, which Powell denounced as an obvious pretext for Trump's crusade to control interest rates. Mentioned in this episode: The Contrarian: https://contrarian.substack.com/ Katie's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@katiephangnews Jen's piece about Democrats and ICE: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/democrats-must-seize-the-opportunity David Frum's piece about J.D. Vance: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/vance-defends-minneapolis-shooter-ice-maga-symbol/685584/ Katzenbach memo: https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/477221/dl?inline#page=509 Minnesota's 10th Amendment lawsuit: https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/docs/00190_DHS_Complaint.pdf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.7	Welcome to Talking Feds, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day.
1:19.3	I'm Harry Lintman. It's our periodic episode with colleagues drawn from the deep bench of the thriving pro-democracy outlet, the contrarian.
1:29.9	The Trump administration's response to the fatal shooting of Renee Good is provoking outrage
1:36.0	and ever wider protest in Minnesota.
1:39.8	For his part, Trump has threatened to use the Insurrection Act, and more federal officials are
1:46.0	surging into the state.
1:48.4	On the legal fronts, the feds moves to block any meaningful investigation of the shooting,
1:54.2	triggered widespread resignations at both Maine Justice and in the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's
2:00.4	Office.
2:00.8	The Department of Justice has, however, decided to open a criminal investigation into Minnesota,
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