What Minneapolis Cops Are Saying That News Ignores | Michele Tafoya
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Michele Tafoya about her decision to pause her podcast and run for U.S. Senate in Minnesota; what Bad Bunny's controversial Super Bowl halftime show and the competing Turning Point USA halftime show really say about how divided we are; how politics and culture wars have changed sports, the NFL, the Super Bowl, and international expansion; what Minneapolis Police are really saying about the the protests against ICE and who is really responsible for the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti; the growing frustrations with Tim Walz and Jacob Frey after ICE protests, rising crime, immigration, and fraud concerns; and why she's running as a common-sense conservative focused on results, accountability, and representing overlooked voters, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's interesting. I've been out and about talking to hundreds of people and everyone is frustrated. |
| 0:07.8 | Now, I'll grant you, I have not spoken to the people who are, I will say that, you know, there are some people who are angry at both ICE and at the illegal immigrants who are committing crimes here. |
| 0:21.8 | They've, you know, and you're having, they're, they're threading that needle of how do I express this? |
| 0:26.8 | My expression of it is this. |
| 0:29.5 | Governor Wals, you could have assisted. |
| 0:32.8 | You could have helped. |
| 0:34.7 | Mayor Fry, you could have assisted. |
| 0:40.5 | You could have helped. But just like during the George Floyd riots, when both of those guys were MIA, they were not around to do anything. I've |
| 0:46.7 | spoken with leadership in the St. Paul Police Department and Minnesota police officers |
| 0:52.7 | who have said, this stuff could have been avoided. |
| 0:56.3 | The tragedies, which were tragedies, could have been avoided. |
| 1:00.4 | Had we been allowed to help? |
| 1:02.4 | Had we been allowed to open our prisons and our jails and let these federal law enforcement agents come take these criminals directly away? |
| 1:17.8 | No. Federal law enforcement agents come take these criminals directly away. All right, I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is a four-time Emmy Award-winning sports journalist, now host of the Michelle Tofoya podcast and candidate for Senate in Minnesota, as if we don't talk about |
| 1:29.6 | Minnesota and Minneapolis and that whole thing enough. Michelle Tafoya, how are you? |
| 1:34.0 | I am good. Yes, we've suspended the podcast because running for United States Senate takes |
| 1:39.1 | about every minute of every day and then some. All right. Podcast on hold. |
| 1:44.9 | On hiatus. |
| 1:46.1 | On hiatus. |
| 1:47.6 | You're getting primetime 11 a.m. |
| 1:50.0 | Ruben Report placement right now because for many reasons, I'm really thrilled to have you on it. |
| 1:55.7 | And, you know, I know you originally from the sports world, which I do want to talk a bit about some about the Super Bowl |
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