Good morning. It is Saturday, January the 17th, and we begin this morning again in Minnesota,

where Donald Trump's Justice Department has opened an investigation, not into the ice officer

who shot and killed Renee Good at close range 10 days ago,

but rather against the Minnesota governor Tim Walls and the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Fry.

Both are Democrats who criticized the president's mass deployment of ice officers to Minneapolis

and the brutal crackdown in which they have engaged while there.

We found out last night that both men are now under

criminal investigation, criminal investigation for allegedly impeding federal law enforcement.

This comes just days after the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Todd Blanche

posted a message on social media addressed to them. Walls and Fry, I'm focused on stopping you from your

terrorism by whatever means necessary. This is not a threat. It's a promise. Shortly after that news

broke last night, the Attorney General Pam Bondi chimed in, too, quote, a reminder to all those in

Minnesota. No one is above the law. Despite the

threats of prosecution and other intimidation tactics from federal authorities, Minnesotans remain

resolute. Temperatures in the region have been well below freezing, but people have continued to turn out

to protest ICE's overreach, and last night, those protesters were handed a victory. A district judge in

Minnesota just issued a preliminary injunction that orders federal agents to, quote, not to, quote,

retaliate against persons who are engaged in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, end quote.

This sets limits on federal agents' actions toward

protesters, including limits on the use of pepper spray and other crowd dispersal tools. It also

restricts them from stopping and detaining people in vehicles that are not forcibly interfering

with them. America has gone through many periods of unrest. There was the civil rights movement in

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