Verdict with Ted Cruz - January 08, 2026


BONUS POD: Woman Killed After Attempting to Ram ICE Officer


Episode Stats

Length

20 minutes

Words per Minute

156.59581

Word Count

3,217

Sentence Count

209

Misogynist Sentences

15

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

The death of a woman who tried to run over an ICE agent in Minneapolis was preventable. Why is the left weaponizing this and calling for more individuals to put their lives at risk as a result? We ll break it all down for you plus the facts of what happened.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:04.840 ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car
00:00:08.380 and to stop obstructing law enforcement,
00:00:11.520 but she refused to obey their commands.
00:00:13.720 She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle,
00:00:16.060 and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over.
00:00:19.820 This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents,
00:00:25.040 an act of domestic terrorism.
00:00:27.400 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:31.440 Good Thursday morning.
00:00:32.400 Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update,
00:00:34.700 and we've got one major story for you.
00:00:37.060 It deals with the events in Minnesota.
00:00:39.540 A woman who decided to use her car as a weapon to run over ICE agents.
00:00:44.640 The ICE agent's shooting back, and unfortunately, she lost her life.
00:00:48.880 So why is the left weaponizing this and calling for more individuals
00:00:53.000 to put their lives at risk as well?
00:00:55.100 We'll break it all down for you, plus the facts of actually what happened.
00:01:00.280 It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
00:01:03.680 Story number one.
00:01:04.820 There is one major story that we are going to deal with extensively.
00:01:08.860 It deals with a woman who was fatally shot in Minneapolis by ICE,
00:01:13.320 and she was shot through the front of her windshield
00:01:16.720 as she tried to drive over an ICE agent.
00:01:20.220 There are a lot of lies online claiming that the ICE agent shot her
00:01:26.580 through the passenger window.
00:01:28.420 That did not happen.
00:01:30.220 As the car wrecked, you can clearly see a bullet through the front window.
00:01:35.860 That bullet hole is extremely important when it comes to evidence
00:01:40.660 because it shows that that car was driving directly towards the ICE agent
00:01:45.320 when he had no other choice but to shoot to protect and save his own life
00:01:50.720 and others around him.
00:01:53.140 This was preventable.
00:01:54.840 It is also tragic when someone loses their life.
00:01:58.260 But what also is preventable is the anarchy that is being advocated
00:02:03.780 and taught by the left.
00:02:05.680 To be clear, this woman and others had, in essence, joined together
00:02:10.440 to follow, to stalk, and to stop ICE agents from doing their job.
00:02:16.560 If I don't want to pay my taxes, it doesn't mean that I can drive my car
00:02:22.280 into, well, the IRS building.
00:02:26.600 If I think my tax rate is too high, it doesn't mean that I can just go after
00:02:31.520 IRS agents.
00:02:33.180 You go to your members of Congress.
00:02:35.540 You plead your case.
00:02:37.460 You vote on election day.
00:02:39.740 You get involved and pick people that you believe are going to side with you.
00:02:43.980 But what the left has done is they have told their followers that they can go out
00:02:49.060 and just do whatever they want to do without any accountability.
00:02:53.440 Which brings me back to what I said.
00:02:55.740 This was a preventable death.
00:02:58.360 A death that was inspired by the anarchists on the left who are advocating for people
00:03:04.460 to literally be vigilantes.
00:03:06.460 And when you do this, it can cost people their lives.
00:03:10.240 What's also really sick about this woman losing her life is the fact that the left is actually
00:03:17.020 excited over it.
00:03:19.120 They wanted something like this to happen so that they could then use it to attack Donald
00:03:24.800 Trump and ICE agents.
00:03:26.660 They were looking for a flashpoint or as Democrats have said, you never let a crisis go to waste.
00:03:33.880 Which brings me to Kristi Noem.
00:03:36.480 Kristi Noem, the woman in charge of the Department of Homeland Security, was in Minneapolis and
00:03:43.560 she had very clear message for the men and women in uniform and actually the facts around
00:03:49.540 this case.
00:03:50.780 I want to play that for you in a moment.
00:03:52.720 But before I even do that, I want you to also hear what J.D. Vance said.
00:03:56.180 He put out a tweet a couple hours ago saying, quote,
00:03:59.060 I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, and the entire administration
00:04:06.460 stands behind them.
00:04:08.400 To the radicals assaulting them, doxing them, and threatening them,
00:04:13.780 But congratulations, we're going to work even harder to enforce the law.
00:04:19.540 Secretary Noem detailing the self-defense shooting in Minneapolis.
00:04:23.380 And here is what she had to say.
00:04:25.880 Any loss of life is a tragedy.
00:04:28.560 And I think all of us can agree that in this situation, it was preventable.
00:04:32.420 I've spoken to the president today on the situation here on the ground.
00:04:36.020 I also just got off the phone a little while ago with Governor Walz and spoke to him as well.
00:04:40.240 I want to reiterate first with all of you the facts of what happened today.
00:04:45.220 At 10.25 a.m. Central Time, Immigration and Customs Enforcement were carrying out lawful
00:04:50.400 operations here in Minneapolis.
00:04:52.420 Because of the adverse weather that Minneapolis has seen in recent snow, one of the vehicles
00:04:56.700 became stuck and ensnared in the snow.
00:04:59.400 Law enforcement were attempting to push out this vehicle.
00:05:02.540 And when a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day began blocking them in, shouting
00:05:08.340 at them, and impeding law enforcement operations.
00:05:11.740 ICE officers and agents approached the vehicle of the individual in question, who was blocking
00:05:16.820 the officers in with her vehicle.
00:05:18.880 And she had been stalking and impeding their work all throughout the day.
00:05:23.040 ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car and to stop obstructing law enforcement,
00:05:29.620 but she refused to obey their commands.
00:05:31.380 She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle, and she attempted to run a law enforcement
00:05:36.780 officer over.
00:05:38.780 This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism.
00:05:46.940 The ICE officer, fearing for his life and the other officers around him, and the safety
00:05:51.800 of the public, fired defensive shots.
00:05:54.260 He used his training to save his own life and that of his colleagues.
00:05:57.240 He was treated at a local hospital, has been released, and is now with family.
00:06:02.060 I encourage the American people at this point in time to pray for him, but also to pray
00:06:06.400 for the deceased's family and her loved ones.
00:06:09.780 Today alone in this country, there have been four different domestic terrorist attacks on
00:06:15.320 federal officers by the ramming of vehicles.
00:06:18.220 Three of them happened here in Minneapolis.
00:06:20.900 We've seen over 100 of these vehicle ramming happen in just recent weeks, and this must stop.
00:06:27.860 Ice alone is facing a 1,300 percent increase in assaults against them, and an 8,000 percent
00:06:34.140 increase in death threats against all of them.
00:06:37.120 In fact, the very same officer who was attacked today had previously been dragged by an anti-ICE
00:06:42.700 rioter who had rammed him with a car and drug him back in June.
00:06:47.420 He sustained injuries at that time as well.
00:06:49.440 And let me remind you why we're all here in this city today and why we've been here.
00:06:55.360 In communities across this country and here in Minneapolis, we're just enforcing the laws
00:07:00.180 that we have in this country.
00:07:01.780 For years, under President Biden, tens of millions of dangerous criminal illegal aliens, terrorists,
00:07:07.960 and suspected terrorists were allowed to invade our country over our southern border.
00:07:12.400 They were allowed to steal, to defraud, and to perpetuate violence against American citizens.
00:07:17.180 Regardless of who your mayor or who your governor is, President Trump promised every single
00:07:23.640 American that he would make America safe again.
00:07:26.180 He promised every single American that he would work to protect them from dangerous criminals.
00:07:31.740 Since Governor Walz has been in charge of Minnesota, we have seen homicides go up by over 50 percent.
00:07:39.040 That's also during Mayor Fry's tenure as well.
00:07:42.340 Since President Trump took office, Governor Walz has released over 470 violent criminals
00:07:48.180 back onto the streets here in Minneapolis.
00:07:51.040 He has another 680 of them still within his jurisdiction that he could give to us today
00:07:56.520 to face the consequences for their crimes.
00:07:59.720 Because Governor Walz and Mayor Fry refused to protect Minnesotans, and instead, they protect
00:08:05.340 these criminals, that's why we are here.
00:08:07.860 And we didn't just show up yesterday, we've always been here.
00:08:11.160 But we're surging operations because of the dangerous situation we see in this country,
00:08:15.360 and because we're no longer going to allow illegal criminals to damage and harm, to kill,
00:08:21.160 to sexually abuse, to proliferate drugs, and to steal American taxpayers' dollars.
00:08:26.740 Let me just stop there for a moment.
00:08:29.620 You listen to what happened in this situation.
00:08:34.120 The woman is ordered out of her car.
00:08:37.480 She refuses.
00:08:39.180 She then uses that car and backs it up.
00:08:42.940 She then drives forward, literally into an ICE agent.
00:08:47.020 The ICE agent pulls out his gun only when she starts moving towards his body, into his body.
00:08:57.680 This is self-defense.
00:09:01.160 That should be a simple case close.
00:09:04.480 But you have these radicals on the left who are sitting there,
00:09:09.400 and they are saying that somehow this was not a justifiable shooting.
00:09:14.340 She proceeded to weaponize her car.
00:09:18.580 I want to go back to that with Kristi Noem.
00:09:20.620 Listen again carefully.
00:09:23.080 At 10.25 a.m. Central Time,
00:09:25.840 Immigration and Customs Enforcement were carrying out lawful operations here in Minneapolis.
00:09:30.920 Because of the adverse weather that Minneapolis has seen in recent snow,
00:09:34.300 one of the vehicles became stuck and ensnared in the snow.
00:09:37.780 Law enforcement were attempting to push out this vehicle,
00:09:40.120 and when a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day began blocking them in,
00:09:46.400 shouting at them, and impeding law enforcement operations.
00:09:50.120 ICE officers and agents approached the vehicle of the individual in question
00:09:54.120 who was blocking the officers in with her vehicle,
00:09:57.060 and she had been stalking and impeding their work all throughout the day.
00:10:01.080 ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car
00:10:04.580 and to stop obstructing law enforcement, but she refused to obey their commands.
00:10:10.400 She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle,
00:10:12.940 and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over.
00:10:17.160 This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents,
00:10:22.500 an act of domestic terrorism.
00:10:25.040 The ICE officer, fearing for his life and the other officers around him,
00:10:29.620 and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.
00:10:32.160 He used his training to save his own life and that of his colleagues.
00:10:35.820 He was treated at a local hospital, has been released, and is now with family.
00:10:40.220 I encourage the American people at this point in time to pray for him,
00:10:44.040 but also to pray for the deceased's family and her loved ones.
00:10:47.920 That is compassion.
00:10:50.920 By the Department of Homeland Security telling compassionately,
00:10:56.460 pray for this woman.
00:10:58.080 Apparently, the wife of this woman was outside the car
00:11:02.580 and filming her while she was actively blocking ICE vehicles.
00:11:07.860 Apparently, after the shooting, it's being reported she ran back to check on Renee.
00:11:12.700 She tells a nearby man,
00:11:14.180 that's my wife, when asked if she can call family,
00:11:16.660 she says, we're new here.
00:11:17.800 I don't have people.
00:11:18.780 I can't even breathe right now.
00:11:20.120 It is incredibly sad to see that the left has decided to weaponize
00:11:27.180 their own followers and put them in harm's way.
00:11:33.120 But this was a domestic terror attack in Minneapolis against ICE agents.
00:11:38.620 Hundreds of ICE agents have been rammed by cars, which are deadly weapons.
00:11:43.880 Where do you think they learned to do this to impede, to stop law enforcement,
00:11:50.500 who, by the way, are just doing their jobs?
00:11:55.980 Senator Mullen put it this way, saying, quote,
00:11:58.300 ICE agents aren't Disney villains.
00:12:00.780 There are neighbors, friends and loved ones.
00:12:02.620 These immigration and customs enforcement officers
00:12:05.040 are red blood American patriots doing a tough job to keep our nation safe.
00:12:09.820 Assaults against ICE agents because of the Democratic Party,
00:12:13.700 because of the left, are up 1,300%.
00:12:16.900 He then said, I stand with DHS.
00:12:19.800 Congressman Andy Barr, ICE agents are enforcing America's laws
00:12:23.240 and delivering exactly what the people voted for.
00:12:28.780 Secure border and the deportations of dangerous illegal criminals.
00:12:33.100 Targeting ICE agents will never end well for anyone who tries.
00:12:36.740 Homeland Security putting it out this way, saying this,
00:12:40.880 Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations
00:12:45.460 when rioters began blocking ICE officers
00:12:48.400 and one of these violent rioters weaponized their vehicle,
00:12:51.980 attempting to run over law enforcement officers
00:12:54.140 in an attempt to kill them, an act of domestic terrorism.
00:12:58.120 An ICE officer fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement
00:13:01.540 and safety of the public fired defensive shots.
00:13:04.520 He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.
00:13:09.700 The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased.
00:13:12.400 The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.
00:13:16.820 This is the direct consequence of constant attacks
00:13:20.140 and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians
00:13:26.080 who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement
00:13:30.600 who are facing this 1,300% increase in assaults against them
00:13:35.360 and an 8,000% increase in death threats.
00:13:40.980 I couldn't agree more.
00:13:43.060 I could not agree more.
00:13:45.580 With the law enforcement and Department of Homeland Security saying,
00:13:49.720 We are just enforcing the law.
00:13:52.160 We're doing our job.
00:13:53.600 Why was this woman in a situation where she thought she could do this?
00:13:59.360 It's very simple.
00:14:01.200 She didn't want to be held accountable
00:14:02.980 for blocking the Department of Homeland Security and ICE agents.
00:14:07.860 And she decided,
00:14:09.360 she decided to go after and use her car as a deadly weapon.
00:14:15.700 The driver refused to get out,
00:14:18.540 accelerated towards the agent directly in front of the car.
00:14:21.340 He fired rounds, killing her.
00:14:22.920 And the leftists are then promising violent retribution towards ICE agents,
00:14:27.980 wanting to kill more ICE agents.
00:14:30.500 By the way, they've already shot ICE agents.
00:14:34.080 I'll give you an example of what the left's putting online.
00:14:36.880 One person on X wrote,
00:14:38.400 All ICE agents must be put down like the dogs they are.
00:14:42.200 This is the Democratic Party.
00:14:44.120 This is the party of violence.
00:14:47.240 Look no further than how they reply online to this.
00:14:52.920 Let me say one final thing.
00:14:55.880 God bless our men and women who are willing to go do these jobs.
00:15:00.480 They are getting more and more dangerous.
00:15:03.720 Tim Waltz, the governor of that state,
00:15:05.720 he called the ICE agents months ago the Gestapo.
00:15:10.440 This is exactly why stuff happens like this.
00:15:13.480 This woman and around the country,
00:15:16.700 we've seen hundreds of ramming of ICE agents this year.
00:15:21.800 In the last month,
00:15:23.080 we've seen more than 100 ramming with cars of ICE agents.
00:15:27.160 It resulted in her life being lost
00:15:29.820 because of the left who is inspiring her to go do this
00:15:34.180 and trying to make her believe that somehow this is acceptable.
00:15:38.340 What's also shocking is the mayor there.
00:15:43.000 The mayor saying disgusting things about our men and women in uniform after this happened.
00:15:49.400 The mayor saying this,
00:15:52.360 and I want you to listen carefully to the words that he decided to use.
00:15:56.420 There's little I can say, again, that'll make this situation better,
00:16:00.460 but I do have a message for our community,
00:16:03.540 for our city,
00:16:05.040 and I have a message for ICE.
00:16:09.200 To ICE,
00:16:11.060 get the f*** out of Minneapolis.
00:16:12.340 That is the Democratic mayor,
00:16:15.760 Jacob Fry's message to our brave ICE agents in Minneapolis
00:16:19.000 who are getting the worst criminals off of his streets.
00:16:22.640 And this deranged lunatic of a mayor
00:16:25.820 who is inspiring other lunatics to try to murder those ICE agents,
00:16:30.340 he says,
00:16:31.340 get the f*** out of Minneapolis.
00:16:34.540 The Democratic Party's violent rhetoric
00:16:37.280 is what is fueling these attacks on ICE agents.
00:16:40.700 And they do not care about this woman
00:16:43.340 because if they did care about this woman,
00:16:47.240 they wouldn't be telling her to go out and to do this.
00:16:51.620 Period.
00:16:52.820 And by the way,
00:16:53.580 if you think that the mayor of Minneapolis
00:16:56.600 is going to come to his senses
00:16:58.820 and ratchet this down,
00:17:01.540 this rhetoric,
00:17:02.460 which is calling for the attacks on ICE agents,
00:17:05.320 I want you to listen to the second part of what he had to say carefully.
00:17:09.100 People are being hurt.
00:17:10.700 Families are being ripped apart.
00:17:13.500 Long-term Minneapolis residents
00:17:15.500 that have contributed so greatly to our city,
00:17:18.460 to our culture,
00:17:19.660 to our economy,
00:17:20.780 are being terrorized.
00:17:21.940 And now somebody is dead.
00:17:25.280 That's on you.
00:17:27.400 And it's also on you to leave.
00:17:29.320 It's on you and it's on you to leave.
00:17:32.780 It's amazing how they care so much about the life of this woman
00:17:36.660 who tried to run over an ICE agent,
00:17:39.920 but they don't care about the lives of those in Minneapolis
00:17:43.600 who have been murdered by the same exact criminals
00:17:47.600 or raped or beaten or stolen from.
00:17:51.580 They do not care about those people's lives.
00:17:59.020 They don't care about the countless people in Minneapolis
00:18:01.960 that have been murdered by illegal immigrants.
00:18:05.440 And there have been countless.
00:18:07.680 There have been people that have been killed by illegal immigrants
00:18:10.680 who were driving drunk or under the influence of drugs
00:18:14.520 or people that have died at the hands of illegal immigrants
00:18:17.340 because they sold them fake pills laced with fentanyl.
00:18:21.280 This is the reality of the situation.
00:18:24.520 Scott Jennings,
00:18:25.280 good friend of mine over at CNN,
00:18:27.220 he went on there and he said it this way
00:18:29.580 and I couldn't agree with him more.
00:18:30.940 What strikes me is,
00:18:33.080 first of all,
00:18:33.740 it's extremely sad and unfortunate that someone died.
00:18:36.220 I mean,
00:18:36.720 the political fighting and disagreements aside,
00:18:39.640 it's terrible.
00:18:40.680 You don't want people to die in law enforcement situations or otherwise.
00:18:44.380 But it strikes me that we are undergoing an epidemic
00:18:47.700 of political vigilantism right now.
00:18:51.660 Why are people showing up in vehicles,
00:18:54.160 in convoys,
00:18:55.380 not just in Minneapolis,
00:18:56.840 but all over the country
00:18:58.080 in an effort to obstruct lawful federal law enforcement activities?
00:19:03.660 This is not an isolated incident.
00:19:05.320 We have had hundreds of car rammings against ICE agents
00:19:07.860 all over the country.
00:19:09.740 According to DHS,
00:19:11.180 this lady in this car today,
00:19:12.760 along with other vehicles,
00:19:13.960 have been tracking ICE agents around.
00:19:16.740 Why are people believing
00:19:18.120 that they can drive their car
00:19:20.380 into a federal law enforcement situation
00:19:22.320 and that is an appropriate thing to do?
00:19:24.460 I understand they don't like the fact
00:19:26.400 that these agents are enforcing existing immigration law.
00:19:29.840 But that's not how we change laws in this country.
00:19:32.160 If you don't like a law,
00:19:33.420 you talk to the politicians.
00:19:34.760 You don't drive your car
00:19:35.940 into the middle of a building
00:19:37.740 or a law enforcement situation
00:19:39.280 that's being occupied by the people
00:19:41.220 who are simply there to enforce the law.
00:19:43.520 If I don't like how much the IRS is charging me in taxes,
00:19:46.280 I don't drive my car into the Treasury Department
00:19:48.600 and try to run somebody over.
00:19:49.860 I call my congressman.
00:19:51.480 Political vigilantism
00:19:52.400 vigilantism is being encouraged
00:19:54.180 by Democratic officials
00:19:55.760 like the lieutenant governor of Minnesota,
00:19:58.040 Peggy Flanagan,
00:19:58.760 who earlier this year
00:19:59.580 told people to, quote,
00:20:00.620 put your bodies on the line
00:20:03.180 and Tim Walz calling these guys
00:20:04.940 Gestapo all year.
00:20:06.600 What do you think happens
00:20:07.520 when you radicalize
00:20:08.640 a base of people about this?
00:20:10.180 It does strike me.
00:20:10.460 I couldn't agree with him more.
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