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Trump's Insurrection Act Threat in Minnesota

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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President Trump threatens to send in federal troops through the Insurrection Act amid heated clashes between protesters and ICE. Venezuela’s opposition leader offers up her Nobel Peace Prize in an Oval Office meeting. And more than a dozen college basketball players are charged in an alleged point-shaving scheme to fix games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Friday, January 16th. Is it insurrection? We start here.

0:05.0

Amid ongoing clashes between ICE and protesters, President Trump threatens to send the military into Minneapolis.

0:14.0

I think the efforts to try and escalate us are likely intentional.

0:18.0

Officials in the Twin Cities aren't on board. So what's next for the protests?

0:21.6

What do you get for the man who has everything?

0:23.6

I presented the President of the United States, the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize.

0:32.6

Venezuela's opposition leader makes her case for her country's future. And several college hoops players

0:38.3

stand accused of throwing games. It had an international reach and it was lucrative. We'll break

0:44.7

down the betting scandal that's rocking college basketball. From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm

0:52.7

Stephen Portnoy. Hey, Brad's out for a long weekend, but I've got you covered from DC.

1:01.0

We're going to start this Friday with a look at what's been going on in Minneapolis,

1:07.0

where clashes have continued between federal agents and anti-ice protesters following not one,

1:12.6

but two shooting incidents this month. There was the case of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and

1:17.6

killed a week ago Wednesday, and then this past Wednesday night a federal agent shot another person in the leg.

1:23.6

Homeland Security says the undocumented suspect fled a traffic stop, resisted arrest, and attacked the officer with a snow shovel and a broom handle, along with two other people who came out from a nearby apartment building.

1:37.9

Yesterday morning, as the nation woke up to video of the scuffles with protesters, the president threatened to take a dramatic step.

1:45.8

It was something he mentioned as a possibility on Air Force One earlier this month.

1:49.5

The most powerful thing we have, we haven't used, the Insurrection Act.

1:53.4

ABC's Faitha Buba is in Minneapolis and she joins us now.

1:56.3

Faith, an invocation of the Insurrection Act would definitely raise the stakes for everybody

2:00.6

because it would allow the president to send in the military, maybe even active duty troops.

2:05.5

What's been the reaction you've heard on the ground in Minneapolis over these threats?

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