DOJ official makes BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS about Minnesota church protesters and Don Lemon

What this episode is about

The main topic revolves around a DOJ official's investigation into a protest involving a Minnesota church pastor, who is allegedly linked to ICE, and the application of the FACE Act in response to potential federal crimes observed during the incident. The official details the involvement of local authorities and the anticipated judicial process for potential charges, while expressing frustration over the current pace of legal action in Minnesota.

Key takeaways

• When state law enforcement falters, federal intervention becomes a patchwork, straining legal resources and priorities.
• Minnesota's broken law enforcement system may soon draw federal probes; it’s like calling for a plumber to fix a dam.
• Pastors and journalists in volatile situations: Are they witnesses or accomplices? The line blurs in the chaos.
• If the ‘last refuge’ of a church is invaded, is it chaos or just another Tuesday in America’s culture war?
• Don Lemon: more of a distraction than an anchor, his relevance is as fleeting as a social media trend.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Glenn Beck (Guest) · 4 min speaking
• Harit Dylan (Guest) · 10 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Aaron Glenn, Don Lemon, ICE, Mandy & Ralph Ellison
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Don Lemon, Mary Morardi
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Aaron Glenn, Department of Justice, Don Lemon, Black Lives Matter
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Department of Justice
5. 12:00 – 14:01: Harit Dylan, Mandy & Ralph Ellison

Notable quotes from "DOJ official makes BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS about Minnesota church protesters and Don Lemon"

• Investigating all of that, but let me say I was actually, it's a kind of a holiday weekend. I was on a plane back from giving a speech in Florida when the attorney general…

  about Aaron Glenn · at 0:36

• To understand that there could have been arrests yesterday if Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, enforced his own laws and Mary Morardi, the district attorney of Henipin County, enforced her own laws.

  about Mandy & Ralph Ellison · at 1:44

• That. I do think that you are seeing multiple incidents of violence and I do think that the attack on the church yesterday. Thank God for the pastor who was so calm and the…

  about ICE · at 3:46

• The years, including pro-life journalists. I will say, as an aside, Kla Harris had no problem prosecuting a pro-life journalist, David Deiden, for exposing Planned Parenthood's fetal part trafficking. The United States Department of Justice.

  about Planned Parenthood · at 6:54

• This event who he was outside kissing and bringing coffee to is a lawyer a NAACP lawyer, a Black Lives Matters nonprofit lawyer. so, the lawyer should have known better. This is you just cannot. A privatelyowned.

  about Black Lives Matter · at 7:56

• No, I agree. But listen, let's talk about the timeline here. This DOJ has continued a number of investigations and secured 62 prosecutions so far, convictions, I should say. There are other ongoing prosecutions going up. And.

  about Department of Justice · at 11:18

• Harit Dylan, she is the DOJ's assistant attorney general for civil rights. Her division is kicking ass and taking names. Har Dylan, Don, you should probably learn who.

  about Harit Dylan · at 13:34

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Harit Dylan — Person · Main guest · 1 mention · first at 13:34
  Interview subject describing a federal investigation into an alleged church incident and criticizing Minnesota officials for not enforcing state laws; presented as a DOJ Civil Rights leader.
• Aaron Glenn — Person · Host / interviewer · 3 mentions · first at 0:02
  Leads the interview, asks about the FACE Act incident, potential prosecutions, and Minnesota officials; frames the discussion and prompts the guest’s claims.
• Don Lemon — Person · Referenced media figure / alleged participant-observer · 4 mentions · first at 0:25
  Central reference point for the incident: described as being present at/covering the church confrontation; discussed as potentially crossing from journalism into aiding/abetting or conspiracy.
  I don't know if that's true or not, but the pastor you saw on television calmly dealing with Don Lemon in his face is not. he's the lead pastor and allegedly there's another pastor there who wasn't there on the scene yesterday.
• Mandy & Ralph Ellison — Person · Referenced public official (Minnesota Attorney General) · 2 mentions · first at 1:49
  Cited as an example of state-level non-enforcement; guest claims Ellison could have enforced Minnesota laws and criticizes him for expressing support for “victims of ICE.”
• Mary Morardi — Person · Referenced local prosecutor (Hennepin County DA, as stated) · 2 mentions · first at 1:54
  Presented as another key local official allegedly failing to enforce laws; guest also claims to be investigating her for discriminatory plea agreements.
  I'm personally suing the state over their breakdown of their voting rights laws. I'm also investigating Mary Morardi for systematic violations of racial discrimination and her…
• Tim Wall — Person · Referenced official under discussion/investigation · 1 mention · first at 8:36
  Mentioned in connection with an email to Minneapolis employees implying coordination with protesters to track ICE operations; discussed as potential conspiracy/obstruction context.
  Tell me about the investigation into Tim Wall, Jacob Fry. email sent out on Friday to all Minneapolis employees implying that they are working with protesters within the city to help them track ICE operations. Tell me about this.

Companies & orgs

• ICE — Company · Business focus · 1 mention · first at 0:13
  Central to the discussion about law enforcement and protests in Minnesota
• Department of Justice — Company · Business focus · 2 mentions · first at 7:09
  Key entity in the discussion about legal actions and investigations
• Black Lives Matter — Company · Referenced organization · 1 mention · first at 8:01
  Mentioned in the context of protests and legal representation
• NAACP — Company · Referenced organization · 1 mention · first at 8:01
  Mentioned in the context of legal representation and protests
  This event who he was outside kissing and bringing coffee to is a lawyer a NAACP lawyer, a Black Lives Matters nonprofit lawyer. so, the lawyer should have known better. This is you just cannot. A privatelyowned.
• Planned Parenthood — Company · Referenced organization · 1 mention · first at 7:04
  Mentioned in the context of legal cases and journalism

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Army, welcome to the program. How are you? I'm great. Thanks for having me, Glenn.

0:05 You bet. Um, listen, um, le let's start with the face act. What happened yesterday? They say this is because I guess the pastor is also somebody that works with ICE or something. Is that true?

0:20 I don't know if that's true or not, but the pastor you saw on television calmly uh dealing with Don Lemon in his face is not. I mean, he's the lead pastor and allegedly there's another pastor there who wasn't there on the scene yesterday. I don't know anything about that. We're investigating all of that, but but let me say I was actually, you know, it's a kind of a holiday weekend. I was on a plane back from giving a speech in Florida when the attorney general reached out to me and alerted me to this situation. So, she's actually been engaged with this from the beginning.

0:50 And I immediately activated prosecutors and FBI agents to go to the scene and start investigating both the face act as well as related criminal offenses that could include conspiracy charges, material support, and many others. So, we don't prejudge, but I think it is fair to say that there I saw multiple federal uh you know, criminal incidents yesterday, and there will be charges. It's only a question of when can we get a judge to sign off on arrest warrants and exactly what the charges will be.

1:20 And do those judges have to be in Minnesota, don't they? They have to be federal judges in Minnesota. And I I have to go in front of them. So, I'm not going to, you know, say what I, you know, what is on my mind sometimes. But, but let's just say that the that is this isn't the this isn't Texas and we aren't getting exactly rapid fire support for charges there on the pace. We would love and people need to understand that that there could have been arrests yesterday if Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, enforced his own laws and Mary Morardi, the district attorney of Henipin County, enforced her own laws.

2:00 Instead, we see Keith Ellison being interviewed by Don Lemon yesterday expressing his support for the victims of ICE. So, we know exactly nothing is going to happen over there. You have to understand the federal government has to jump through some additional hurdles. It isn't our job to enforce state law and we're stepping in to do this here when the state refuses to enforce its own laws.

2:22 So, I don't know if you have an opinion on this, but um you know, looking back at Sha's rebellion, you know, at the beginning of our country, um the laws in where was it? New Hampshire. I can't remember where it was. Um but, uh the the the courts were not working. um they and they were being obstructed by people on the streets, but you couldn't get anything through the courts and this the system just broke down.

2:46 And while it's not just the people on the streets, the court has been hijacked. They are not following through on the law. Um the same with the, you know, the district attorney, the attorney general, the governor. So is this a case for the insurrection act? Um, well, I think I think I I agree with the premise that law enforcement and law and order have broken down in Minnesota. I mean, I'm personally suing the state over their breakdown of their voting rights laws. I'm also investigating Mary Morardi for systematic violations of racial discrimination and her plea agreements. I I'm probably now given the inaction by local law enforcement on some other fronts going to open up another investigation into the failures of the local police there to do their job or do it only selectively on the basis of race or politics. And so it is a breakdown but I mean in terms of the insurrection act I'm not an expert on

3:46 that. Um, I do think that you are seeing multiple incidents of violence and I do think that the attack on the church yesterday. Thank God for the pastor who was so calm and the godly people inside that building, it could very well have tipped into violence uh very quickly and that would have been regrettable. But what are people supposed to do when you the last place you should the place of sanctuary, the house of God was invaded by these thugs? And so I think that certainly some more law enforcement, whoever's doing it, would be most welcome in Minnesota.

4:28 It is um uh it was disturbing to see them come into the church and and very frightening quite honestly. Um and I just think Don Lemon is just one of the most irrelevant human beings on the planet. Um, and uh, you know, I would like to say, you know, I think of him as an irrelevant guy, but I actually don't ever think of him, so it's even more irrelevant than that. But I'm not sure if he was in violation unless he was part of it. Is it I mean, you wouldn't do you go after the journalist that's reporting it or do you view him as something that was not just reporting it?

5:05 Okay. Well, I I I'm going to reserve comment on that specific fact pattern, but let's just take a hypothetical, okay? Uh a hypothetical where a podcaster wants a news anchor is deciding that um he he's he's learning of a crime in progress. It's it's a it's a bank robbery, okay? And he's friends with the bank robbers and he sympathizes with them because he agrees with what they're going to spend the money on. So he he the bank robbers call him because they'd like some PR because they think what they're doing is great, whatever.

5:40 And you you decide to go along and you know that the group of people you're with are breaking into a building and they're going to commit a crime inside and then you're going to stream it inside. Uh that fact pattern is much more dubious than than how you put it. And so I think I think you know we're we're investigating our facts.

5:58 Um Mr. Lemon has put several hours of video on the internet yesterday saying a ver a v variety of things. Um, and I would, you know, if I if I were his lawyer, I would probably say, you know, that, you know, maybe you should lawyer up before you do things like this. Um, but yeah, I think

6:19 I have to tell you, I just I just have to I just have to make an aside here. For anybody who doesn't know who Har Dylan really is, that would have put the fear of God in me. If I were Don Lemon and I heard Har Dylan say that, I'd be like, "Holy cow, I'm going to prison cuz she does not mess around." But it's good.

6:38 You know, he did see some of my tweets and he responded to them yesterday in a video mispronouncing my name and laughing and saying this is the first amendment people. Um, look, the face I have actually litigated this. I've represented, as you know, Glenn, a number of conservative journalists over the years, including pro including pro-life journalists. Uh, I will say, as an aside, Kla Harris had no problem prosecuting a pro-life journalist, David Deiden, for exposing Planned Parenthood's fetal part trafficking. The United States Department of Justice under Merrick Garland had no problem prosecuting multiple January 6th protesters who had their cameras out and were filming and claim journalistic privileges.

7:22 Exactly. So, I don't want to become I don't want to become them, but I do I do think he doesn't understand the First Amendment. Yeah, you know, he doesn't understand the first, but he has he he has videos out there literally saying uh, you know, f ICE and and f all the way off, you know, so there is no pretense of objectivity or what have you, but look, facts matter and we're going to take a look at the exact facts there. But gosh, she keeps talking and and and adding to the record and and and the one of the organizers of this event who he was outside kissing and bringing coffee to is a lawyer uh a NAACP lawyer, a Black Lives Matters nonprofit lawyer. Um so, you know, the lawyer should have known better. This is you you just cannot. A a privatelyowned house of worship, house of God, is not a public forum for protest in the United States. It just isn't. It's actually a violation of Minnesota law to do exactly

8:26 what these thugs did. And so, you know, we are just all over it. There may be charges coming in in different stages, but charges are coming.

8:36 Tell me tell me about the investigation into Tim Wall, Jacob Fry. email sent out on Friday to all Minneapolis employees implying that they are working with protesters within the city to help them track ICE operations. Tell me about this investigation.

8:51 I only know it secondhand because my office is not the folks uh in charge of that. That's the criminal uh division. I believe Todd uh Blanch has commented about that publicly. But it is it is not legal to conspire to uh evade federal law. federal law enforcement or obstruct it. That I will just leave it at that.

9:14 The the governor saying he's going to put National Guard into yellow vests. Does does that not indicate that you know violence is coming to ICE and you want to make sure that people know that these guys are on your side so don't hit the guys in yellow.

9:33 I mean violence is there. Violence is in the city. I mean, ICE is being obstructed in the state from from arresting sex offenders, child sex offenders. These people are absolutely wink wink nudge nudge signaling to the resistance in Minnesota that uh there's an us versus them mentality and it is okay to be against the police and against law enforcement, federal law enforcement, and get in their way and get up in their face. And frankly, I think it is it is blood on their hands that people have already been injured and killed in Minnesota in this so-called struggle. Uh because people think this is a video game or something. You know, it isn't a video game. This is real. And when you threaten a law enforcement official, the the the test is an objective one. Did the law enforcement official reasonably fear for their lives given all the circumstances? And all the circumstances right now are that state officials in

10:36 Minnesota are effectively putting a target on the backs of federal law enforcement with their rhetoric, with their actions, and uh people are getting hurt.

10:47 Harmy, the I did a monologue I think last week and just went over the just over the positions of power that had to have known or turned a blind eye to all of the corruption. And it is extensive. This is not about putting Somali in jail. This I mean it is an extensive list to make that happen. Um are are you familiar with anything how that investigation is going? Are we going to see anybody held responsible for that? Because there's a lot that need to be held responsible.

11:18 No, I agree. But listen, let's talk about the timeline here. This this DOJ has continued a number of investigations and secured 62 prosecutions so far, convictions, I should say. There are other ongoing prosecutions going up. And what you do typically in federal law enforcement, even state law enforcement, is you get the lower level criminals and then you go up the food chain. So when there's plea agreements with these people, they have a requirement typically to cooperate with federal law enforcement. And I can assure you that you're just seeing the tip of the iceberg. Uh so the the the the rhetoric out there from you know my allies who are like oh nothing is happening there'll be no arrests lol that's not true or fair. Uh this DOJ has actually first of all sticking to the attacks on houses of worship. We in the civil rights division under Pam Bondi's leadership have convicted numerous

12:08 people for attacks on Christian houses of worship on beheading a statue of Mary and and and um baby Jesus and uh thwarted several attacks and on the Minnesota fraud front, numerous convictions, numerous investigations. Now, we're dealing with this um and it's it's a target-rich environment, and we're dealing with, frankly, some judges on the bench who slow who slow roll signing arrest warrants, who don't agree with the politics and who don't, frankly, agree with federal law. And so, we have to then get wrong rulings and then go to the court of appeals and get those corrected. It's just a process.

12:50 And I know people are impatient and they think, you know, they want to see arrests every day. Keith Ellison and his team could have arrested people yesterday and they didn't and we all know they won't. So, we're stepping in to do it. I literally flew two prosecutors from my office after talking with the attorney general yesterday. She's 100% behind this. We spoke to the pastor yesterday. We praised him for his calm. We gave him some reassurances and his his congregation, asked them if they needed any support. They're victims of a crime.

13:18 They're victims of several crimes. and and we will not let this happen to another church in the United States. It is it is it is it is unamerican, unacceptable, and there is a zero tolerance policy for it at this DOJ.

13:32 Harit, as always, thank you very much. Harit Dylan, she is the DOJ's assistant attorney general for civil rights. Her division is kicking ass and taking names. Uh Har Dylan, I mean, uh Don, you should probably learn who she is before you make fun of her. Uh cuz uh it could go dicey. Sounds like it could get dicey for you.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "DOJ official makes BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS about Minnesota church protesters and Don Lemon"?

Glenn Beck (Guest), Harit Dylan (Guest).

What is "DOJ official makes BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS about Minnesota church protesters and Don Lemon" about?

The main topic revolves around a DOJ official's investigation into a protest involving a Minnesota church pastor, who is allegedly linked to ICE, and the application of the FACE Act in response to potential federal crimes observed during the incident. The official details the involvement of local authorities and the anticipated judicial process for potential charges, while expressing frustration…

What is mentioned in this Glenn Beck episode?

11 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Harit Dylan, ICE, Aaron Glenn, Department of Justice, Don Lemon, Mandy & Ralph Ellison. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "DOJ official makes BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS about Minnesota church protesters and Don Lemon"?

The episode runs 14 min; the transcript is about 2,427 words in 28 timestamped sections.

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