On today's show: FBI Director Akash Patel says he won't partner with a political front masquerading as watchdogs, the government shuts down, the White House says President Trump has a red line for deciding Hamas isn't serious about his latest peace plan, Venezuela claims that 5 American warplanes were detected off the Venezuelan coast, and more.
00:00:51.000FBI Director Akash Patel says that he cut the agency's eyes with the anti-defamation beat.
00:00:57.280The move comes after conservatives criticized the group for including slain activist Charlie Kirk's organization in a glossary of extremism.
00:01:06.920In a social media post, FBI Director Akash Patel said, quote, the Bureau won't partner with political front masquerading as watchdogs.
00:01:15.060The government shut down now on its third day.
00:01:17.460Lawmakers still at a standstill, as the Senate's expected to reconvene this afternoon, trying to find a solution.
00:01:23.860The White House says President Trump has a red line for deciding Hamas isn't serious about his latest peace plan, but he won't say what it is.
00:01:32.840Venezuela claims that five American warplanes were detected off the Venezuelan coast.
00:01:39.300This as the U.S. deploys a fleet of warships throughout the Caribbean in an effort the administration says to combat drug trafficking.
00:01:48.220At least three people arrested overnight during a chaotic protest outside the Portland ICE facility.
00:01:54.400We witnessed a violent fistfight that left a man knocked out.
00:01:58.280We saw the burning of American flag, the macing of protesters, and multiple clashes with federal agents.
00:02:03.900One of those clashes, federal agents bullrushing and arresting a protester who had stepped on a federal property despite repeated warnings.
00:02:11.320There was another protester taunting the agents on a megaphone, asking them what the feds were going to do about it.
00:02:16.300Guys, there was no Portland police around to intervene during any of this.
00:02:21.880It's an issue the Portland ICE director told me has been an ongoing problem due to local politics.
00:02:27.160We got a Trump supporter. We got a Trump supporter.
00:02:29.920Oh, he's putting it on the ground and he's making it worse.
00:05:54.140The popular vote, need I remind you, in 2024 to restore law and order.
00:06:01.040And not just for Nick, but for all the residents, the people who live in Portland, the business owners, the children who live there, the churches that are out there, the good, hardworking, working class of Portland.
00:06:14.600Doesn't matter what their background is.
00:06:16.600What matters is there are criminals that have been given over the rights to the streets the same way they did in Chaz in Seattle five years ago.
00:06:23.640When people couldn't go to work and they're dodging armed militants, checkpoints with militia, and the police are told to stand down.
00:06:35.040And what's worse, now in Portland, the police are told to arrest anyone who defends themselves or arrest anyone who's filming it.
00:31:57.100And I stand next to this group of Portland police for, like, seven or eight minutes.
00:32:01.120You know, because it felt like a pretty safe place to be at the time, right?
00:32:05.340Little did I know I was going to end up being the one arrested rather than the people that just, you know, broke my camera, shoved me into a hole, and punched me.
00:32:45.740And they didn't know what they were arresting me for either because it took over an hour for them to figure out what the charge was.
00:32:53.300So what exactly have you been charged with?
00:32:56.500I mean, we can see in this video that you're clearly defending yourself, just like Kyle Rittenhouse, but here we go again.
00:33:01.940Yeah, so they decided that they could charge me with disorderly conduct in the second degree.
00:33:10.900And, you know, funny enough, we were pulled over on the side of the road in the cop car for an hour while they were trying to figure out what charge it would be.
00:33:18.920They were taking phone calls from superiors and stepping out of the vehicle to do so, so that I couldn't hear what they were talking about.
00:34:24.880I know that wasn't easy, but you showed that discipline like someone who's been in the field as many times as you because you know, right, don't fight there.
00:34:34.700What was the rest of your night like as they put you in the back of the car and brought you to the prison cell?
00:34:38.400You know, I, even once I got to the jail, I was still thinking, okay, well, maybe they're going to be making a bunch of arrests, you know, because people are, there are videos that are circulating from yesterday of people literally beating each other to a pulp in the middle of the road out there.
00:34:57.820So I was like, okay, well, you know, maybe, maybe, maybe this place is going to fill up because it was mostly empty, of course, because they don't typically arrest people in Portland.
00:35:04.580So I was like one of very few people that were even in the jail.
00:35:22.600I didn't know because they were two women.
00:35:24.360So they were put in a different section than I was, but so the two guys that were bloodying each other up in the middle of the street, you know, trying to fight each other, fighting other people, uh, all the, the Antifa members that were stabbing people with umbrellas because they have those pointy ends on them.
00:35:43.360So it's like, and then if you read back on the Portland police department's, uh, Twitter or X, they actually say that after the targeted arrest of me, they cleared the scene and left.
00:35:56.500So it's like, was the entire thing, was the entire point of them going to arrest me?
00:36:02.580Well, why did they just leave after that?
00:36:04.360It's not like the situation calmed down after I was gone.
00:36:12.040You're saying that it wasn't even necessarily your behavior and this, this scuffle with the flower bed and them pushing you down as you were leaving the situation.
00:36:21.980You're saying that you're, you heard that it was a targeted arrest, meaning they may have been sent out to target you because of who you are and what you were doing.
00:36:32.300They actually said they, that's their term.
00:36:52.100By the way, and I've seen you in a million videos and covering a million different events.
00:36:57.240I've never once seen you use violence or provoke people or any of this litany of things that people are blocking roads or anything like that.
00:37:05.580I mean, like that's, that's, that's just not what Nick's order does.
00:37:08.480I mean, you provide star links to people who have blocked roads, by the way, and you go out and help people as much as possible.
00:37:15.440And you've done the yeoman's work in time after time in so many of these disaster areas.
00:37:21.240And by the way, I'm sure that if there are a way that, that you had to help the people that are living and working in these conditions, that you would have done that as well.
00:40:24.260I spoke personally with Attorney General Pam Bondi this morning, as well as Harmeet Dillon,
00:40:29.220who's already hit the ground running on this DOJ investigation into Portland.
00:40:34.560This is going to be, this could potentially be a turning point in this city.
00:40:40.920One that has been ravaged with violence and lawlessness and, you know, Antifa terrorism for years now.
00:40:50.880And, you know, we also saw, I believe, I think Benny broke the story at the time where Christy Noem was sending DHS agents to the jail to try to get me out.
00:41:07.820I had been released at like right around the same time.
00:41:10.220But, I mean, they were pulling all the levers they possibly could to resolve this situation.
00:41:16.960And they, this was like the final straw, it seems.
00:41:19.700Like all these agencies coming together, it just, it enraged so many people that, you know, I want to keep this.
00:41:25.880I don't necessarily need the story to be about me.
00:41:28.840I want the story to continue, though, in the way that, you know, we keep up this momentum to take back these blue cities.
00:41:35.720Because, you know, I think about the victims of the police department and the lack of justice that regular folks out here, you know, people that live in Portland.
00:41:48.680There is a, an apartment complex that is directly next door to this ICE facility.
00:41:56.360And many of the people live there, I've been told, even by the rioters, that there are veterans that live there.
00:42:03.840A bunch of veterans that live in this place.
00:42:05.400And they're sitting there screaming at 3 o'clock in the morning with megaphones, you know, incoherent garbage at ICE agents every single night.
00:42:14.420They don't, there are no nights taken off from rioting outside of the ICE facility here in Portland.
00:42:19.980So, why don't those people ever get justice?
00:42:22.500Why are, you know, in my opinion, Jack, correct me if I'm wrong here, but disorderly conduct is actually people that are screaming with megaphones out on the street at 3 o'clock in the morning, setting fires, and, you know, just causing general mayhem in the streets.
00:42:38.820It's not me for putting a camera in people's face that, you know, don't want to be filmed in public.
00:42:46.200You know, if that's the takeaway, if that's one thing that people take away, it's that.
00:42:52.520It's like the double standard here is massively clear.
00:42:55.640No, it's the double standard, but also, Nick, it's so, I would say, it highlights, it highlights what President Trump is talking about, what the entire administration is talking about, is that this is the triple standard of justice, the three-tiered system of justice that we've seen.
00:43:16.880One standard for a conservative, one standard for the average person, and one standard for the left and their little shock troops and cretins out on the street.
00:43:28.480And that's what the federal deployment to Portland is all about.
00:43:32.900Because when you have the mayor up there and the governor and they walk around and say, oh, it's perfectly safe, that's because they're on the same side as Antifa.
00:43:40.080And as it turns out, it looks like they've given orders to the police department that Antifa are allowed to be able to commit these crimes.
00:43:48.440But if anyone is in the way of Antifa, then they will be the criminals.
00:43:53.760This is a historic textbook move of communists.
00:43:57.600It's called anarcho-tyranny, whereby in the shock troops are allowed complete impunity to maim, assault, attack, block roads, block residents.
00:44:08.440The people who work there, by the way, just trying to get to work or have a night of sleep before they have to work a shift in the morning or, God forbid, they're working at night and just trying to get out.
00:44:17.960Antifa can do whatever they want to them.
00:44:19.660But if you try to defend yourself, which is what you did, we can see the video, the whole world can see it, you're a criminal, you are treated like a domestic terrorist.
00:44:28.280It is complete inversion of our legal order and our moral order, and it's done purposefully to keep everyone out of those in power.
00:44:42.260And the people here, they're afraid to speak out about this.
00:44:47.440They're afraid of the consequences, because if they go out from their apartment building, the one that I was just referring to,
00:44:53.100and they try to speak out against the screaming in the streets and the general anarchy that's happening, they're going to end up being beat to a pulp.
00:45:03.880And they don't have a large voice or platform to use to get that message out.
00:45:09.140The legacy media here sure as hell isn't going to help with it.
00:45:12.460They don't care because they're scared, too.
00:45:14.540All these people are afraid of these violent leftists at this point because they know that the police department isn't going to do anything about it.
00:45:20.460And I actually spoke with these officers that they call liaison officers from the Portland Police Department down there.
00:45:28.480They stationed two of them, just two, every night, just on the corner.
00:45:35.120They've never arrested a single person down there.
00:45:37.600And if you watch Katie Davis Court's video, you'll see that liaison officer, which is a sworn officer, they have just as many policing powers as any other cop, following the assailant and then just, you know, letting her go.
00:45:53.560I asked them on, you know, covert camera what they like, why they don't enforce laws when they watch crimes happen.
00:46:52.540So the fact that there were Portland cops there yesterday, actual, like, regular street cops, it's, there was some reason, there was some order they were given to go into the area yesterday.
00:47:04.740Was that order related to me or other conservative journalists that were covering the story?
00:47:09.940That's what we're going to try to find out here.
00:47:11.940Because it was very weird to all of us on the ground to see them there just lurking and not doing anything about the fires that were being set and the vandalism that was actively happening in front of them.
00:47:24.780The only time they responded is when they wanted to arrest me.