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Join Washington Examiner Senior Writer David Harsanyi and Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway as they share their thoughts on the latest winter storm, analyze another ICE shooting in Minneapolis, and examine President Donald Trump's talks with the government officials overseeing insurgency and fraud in Minnesota. Mollie and David also dive into the ongoing foreign policy problems facing the Trump administration and discuss their culture picks for the week. 

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Today we talk the killing of Alex Pretti, the depravity of the administration’s response, and Tyler’s recent article about the second amendment and how it should be for everyone, not just the right. How does a society organize against tyranny and the sight of masked agents shooting someone dead in the street? Can such a vision not include an armed populace? All this and more in today’s episode.

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The intense fallout from Alex Pretti’s death has forced President Trump to publicly change course in Minneapolis.The White House reporters Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Tyler Pager discuss the changes, and whether they are real or merely symbolic.

Guest:

• Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, covering President Trump and his administration.
• Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, covering President Trump and his administration.

Background reading:

• Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol official leading an aggressive immigration crackdown, was pulled from Minneapolis as the White House tries to distance the president from the uproar over Mr. Pretti’s killing.
• Here’s how the Trump administration rushed to judgment in the shooting of Mr. Pretti.
• Republicans in Congress are shifting their tone after the killings in Minneapolis, criticizing Mr. Trump’s immigration push.

Photo: David Guttenfelder/The New York Times.

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In this episode of Getting Hammered, hosts Mary Katharine Ham and Vic Matus discuss the recent winter weather affecting much of the country, snow days and the challenges of parenting during storms. They share travel experiences, with a special confrontation for MK on the West Coast. In the news, the Minnesota fallout surrounding immigration enforcement , the dynamics of the Trump administration, and the implications of Gavin Newsom's policies, which some are now admitting are bad. They also get into gym accolades and the current crisis in the spirits industry, which they mean to solve.

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Thomas Goetz joins the show to discuss his new podcast Drug Story, starting with the chain from FDR's death to cholesterol science, statins, and the cold math behind drug effectiveness. The conversation moves through Lipitor and EpiPens to show how evolving medical knowledge, good intentions, and pharmaceutical incentives can quietly reshape public health at massive scale. Plus, Trump is perhaps rethinking his Minnesota deployments, as the fire trucks exit. In the spiel a look at why the word "pretext" keeps surfacing in descriptions of Trump administration ICE actions, especially in Minnesota. What the term actually means, why it is often misapplied, and what its ubiquity reveals about how this administration justifies force before retreating.

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