“Unthinkable”
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, everyone. Happy Monday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. We begin today with images and events that were frankly unthinkable 10 months ago. |
| 0:18.0 | Certainly in every previous presidential administration, images that reveal to all of us |
| 0:23.5 | just how far down we all live now in Donald Trump's authoritarian rabbit hole. This is downtown |
| 0:30.4 | Chicago yesterday. You can see heavily armed federal agents in camouflage and carrying tactical gear |
| 0:36.4 | patrolling the streets of Chicago, arresting |
| 0:39.6 | people. These photos from the Chicago Sun-Time show troops marching past some of Chicago's |
| 0:45.8 | most famous landmarks on a bright, clear, beautiful Sunday afternoon. And this video, also from the |
| 0:52.2 | Chicago Sun-Time, shows that some agents were met with chance of ICE go home, |
| 0:57.4 | a top Trump official saying that the arrests they're making are based in part on how the potential detainees look from reporting in the Chicago Sun-Times. |
| 1:07.3 | Quote, Gregory Bovino, commander at large of the border force, contrasted the people |
| 1:12.7 | being arrested with a white WBEZ reporter, saying agents consider a person's appearance before |
| 1:19.8 | taking them into custody. |
| 1:21.2 | Quote, you know, there's many different factors that go into something like that. |
| 1:25.9 | It would be agent experience, intelligence |
| 1:28.8 | that indicates there's illegal aliens in a particular place or location. Then, obviously, |
| 1:36.1 | the particular characteristics of an individual. How they look? How do they look compared to, say, |
| 1:43.8 | you, he said, to the reporter, a tall middle-aged man |
| 1:47.2 | of Anglo descent. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker reacted in a post on Sunday afternoon by saying, |
| 1:54.3 | quote, the Trump administration's DHS officers appear to be carrying large weapons around downtown |
| 2:00.0 | Chicago and camouflage and masks. |
| 2:02.3 | This is not making anybody safer. It is a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our |
| 2:07.5 | communities and hurting our businesses. Earlier that morning, a reporter with CBS in Chicago |
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