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Furious Vet CONFRONTS TRUMP over ICE Murder

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Furious Vet CONFRONTS TRUMP over ICE Murder", an episode of MeidasTouch published January 28, 2026 (17 min, about 2,857 words). It mentions 10 people, works and ideas, including Seth Molton, Donald Trump, Jim Harbaugh, Greenland, Alex Jeffrey Prey.

What this episode is about

The content addresses a confrontation by Marine veteran Seth Molton, who criticizes federal ICE officers for their role in a recent killing, labeling them as unprofessional and cowardly. He asserts that such actions warrant prosecution and highlights the need for accountability within ICE, emphasizing the importance of strong, conviction-driven leadership in politics.

Key takeaways

  • When federal agents fear hand-to-hand combat, we question their effectiveness—a Marine would never have that luxury.
  • Seth Molton serves up unfiltered courage—how refreshing it is when politicians actually stand for something.
  • Claims of 'state-sponsored terror' in America evoke chilling parallels; today's cold truths echo past nightmares.
  • Hypocrisy in politics is thick; champions of Second Amendment rights suddenly mute when the narrative flips.
  • The fear of backlash silences truth among lawmakers; does loyalty to party outrank allegiance to justice?

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Seth Molton, Donald Trump, Jim Harbaugh, Greenland
  2. – 6:00: Donald Trump, Renee Mlin Good
  3. – 9:00: Donald Trump, Battle Buddies, Jim Harbaugh, Tom Emmer
  4. – 12:00: Chuck Schumer
  5. – 15:00: Greenland, Donald Trump, Jim Harbaugh, Chuck Schumer
  6. – 16:55: Jim Harbaugh

Notable quotes from "Furious Vet CONFRONTS TRUMP over ICE Murder"

  • Ground so you needed to shoot him. This is why ICE needs to be prosecuted. Yeah, I voted to defund it, but ICE, you need to be prosecuted. And Director Lions, who's…
    about Seth Molton · at
  • Prey by a CBP agent in Minneapolis. Seth and I were supposed to talk about Greenland and Donald Trump's unhinged threats towards the people who live here.…
    about Greenland · at
  • Speak the truth. It's Ken Harbaugh with a quick break to tell you about something new. Battle Buddies is my latest weekly show where I try to find common ground with a…
    about Battle Buddies · at
  • Is. And we also have to start calling out the Republicans. I been using Tom Emmer's name. Tom Emmer, classmate of mine, coming into Congress, came in as a very…
    about Tom Emmer · at
  • No mistake about the fact that I'm going to go to Washington if I am elected and not vote for Chuck Schumer. And it's not because Chuck Schumer is a bad guy.
    about Chuck Schumer · at
  • Then I say, "How many of you can tell me what Democrats immigration policy is?" No one raises their hand. Ken, this was the single biggest issue in the last election that we lost.
    about Jim Harbaugh · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Seth Molton — Person · Main guest / main speaker (interview subject) · 2 mentions · first at
    Central interviewee reacting to alleged federal killings in Minneapolis, criticizing ICE/DHS and Republicans, and discussing Democratic leadership and his Senate run.
  • Donald Trump — Person · Primary referenced political figure (subject of criticism) · 6 mentions · first at
    Discussed as driving authoritarian policies and federal actions; criticized for threats toward Greenland/Denmark and for undermining democracy.
    A long time. Seth was one of the first people years ago as a candidate to warn us about Donald Trump's Hitilarian ambitions. Seth has a reputation for saying things that are not polltested.
  • Jim Harbaugh — Person · Host / interviewer · 5 mentions · first at
    Introduces the clip and conducts the interview, framing the discussion around Minneapolis, ICE/DHS, and later Greenland/Denmark and Trump.
  • Alex Jeffrey Prey — Person · Referenced victim (incident catalyst) · 1 mention · first at
    Named as the person allegedly killed by a CBP agent in Minneapolis; the event is the reason the interview topic shifted to Minneapolis/ICE/CBP.
    Help him out, the links below. A quick editorial note. We scheduled this interview before the killing of Alex Prey by a CBP agent in Minneapolis. Seth and I were supposed to…
  • Chuck Schumer — Person · Referenced political leader (intra-party target of critique) · 2 mentions · first at
    Raised as an example of Democratic 'old leadership' that the guest says he will not support if elected to the Senate.
  • Tom Emmer — Person · Referenced political figure (target of criticism) · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as a Minnesota Republican who, per the guest, has become subservient to Trump and won’t speak up for constituents amid Minneapolis events.
  • Renee Mlin Good — Person · Referenced victim (example in argument) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a person a Republican colleague privately said 'should not have been killed,' used to illustrate fear and silence among Republicans.
    "I've been in law enforcement for decades and that woman should not have been killed." Talking about Renee Good.

Companies & orgs

  • Minus Touch Network — Company · Host affiliation · 1 mention · first at
    The network associated with the host, Ken Harbaugh, mentioned in the context of the podcast's production.
    >> It's Ken Harbaugh with the Minus Touch Network. We need more of this kind of fire from our elected representatives.

Places & events

  • Greenland — Place · Setting · 4 mentions · first at
    Discussed in the context of Donald Trump's threats towards its people and the geopolitical implications.

Sponsors

  • Battle Buddies — Product · Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at
    A weekly show mentioned as a new product by the host, aiming to foster civil conversations between people with differing political views.

Full transcript with timestamps

What we just saw this morning on the streets of Minneapolis is another outright murder by federal officials. And let me just be clear, those federal ICE officers are absolute cowards. I am a Marine veteran standing here telling you to your face, they are unprofessional, pathetic cowards. Because if a Marine, an 18-year-old Marine did that in Iraq in the middle of a war zone, he would be court marshaled. because it is murder and you pathetic little cowards who have to wear face masks cuz you're so damn scared couldn't even effectively wrestle a guy to the ground so you needed to shoot him. This is why ICE needs to be prosecuted. Yeah, I voted to defund it, but ICE, you need to be prosecuted. And Director Lions, who's running ICE right now, I hope you're hearing this from this marine to you. You guys are criminal thugs.

You need to be held accountable to the law if you think you can enforce it and you need to be prosecuted right now. >> It's Ken Harbaugh with the Minus Touch Network. We need more of this kind of fire from our elected representatives. That was Seth Molton, a congressman from Massachusetts and someone I've known for a long time. Seth was one of the first people years ago as a candidate to warn us about Donald Trump's Hitilarian ambitions. Seth has a reputation for saying things that are not polltested.

And even though we don't always agree with Seth Molton, you always know where he stands. He doesn't wait to see where the political winds are blowing. We need more of that kind of conviction in the House today or the Senate. Seth recently announced he's running. If you want to help him out, the links below. A quick editorial note. We scheduled this interview before the killing of Alex Prey by a CBP agent in Minneapolis. Seth and I were supposed to talk about Greenland and Donald Trump's unhinged threats towards the people who live here. That's where I am now. It's been an extraordinary trip and I will share more about it soon. But given what is happening on the streets of Minneapolis right now, I had to get Seth's take.

Here it is. Seth, thanks so much for joining us. I know I promised you we'd talk about Greenland and I do want your take on that, but given everything that is happening in the states right now, in Minneapolis in particular, and your perspective on it, you've been so vocal in leading the response. I just want to get from you a sense of the mood in Congress right now. Please tell me it is shifting. Please help us understand the politics behind any Democrat voting to continue supporting DHS and ICE. Help us make sense of it.

>> I mean, this is state sponsored terror. This is state sponsored terror that we're watching unfold on live TV. And I never thought in America that I would see this. I mean, this is what you see in Iran, people being executed in the streets. This is what you hear about from North Korea. And this is what we read in textbooks about from Nazi Germany happening in Minneapolis. So there is of course outrage in Congress. The problem is that the outrage is really just on one side of the aisle. So many Republicans are cowed into fear. They're such cowards they cannot speak out and simply speak truth to power. in this case to their own administration that they are blindly subservient to all day long no matter how heinous it is.

>> You just made the reference to Nazi Germany and it's not the first time. You were the first in my memory years ago to issue this warning about Donald Trump's Hitlerian tendencies and now we are seeing it play out. What do you make of the argument that by calling ICE America's Gestapo, which I've done as well, we are provoking the kinds of incidents that we're now seeing on America's streets. >> I mean, laughably absurd. Are you kidding me? We cannot speak the truth.

It's only by speaking the truth that we can prevent this from happening even further. what's going on on the right and it's among Republicans in Congress. It's among administration officials and it's among news hosts on Fox News who aren't really news hosts, let's be honest. They're just opinion people. They are trying to normalize all of this. Normalize it so that it goes away. So that we just don't recognize how our democracy is slipping away from us beneath our feet. Do you see fissurers on the right at least around uh the centrality of guns in the most recent murder? The ide some sometimes people have asked me, you know, if you could do if you could change one thing about Washington, what would it be? And I've often answered just make hypocrisy matter again because so much of this stuff would stop if hypocrisy just mattered, especially on

the other side of the aisle. And it just doesn't seem to matter. It doesn't matter to h Fox News. It doesn't matter to these Republicans. It doesn't matter that they're champions of the Second Amendment except when someone on the other side exercising his second amendment rights gets shot and killed after being disarmed. So, I don't think hypocrisy is going to change things. But, I'll tell you a quick story. I was on the Will Kaine show on Fox a couple weeks ago. Uh, did all right for myself.

Came out of the interview and and the first person I saw was a Republican colleague who came up to me and said, "Wow, you rarely hand it to him." And by the way, that was a bad shot. He said, "I've been in law enforcement for decades and that woman should not have been killed." Talking about Renee Good. And then listen to what he said next. But of course, I can't say that. Wait, excuse me. Why can't you say that? Oh, well, I'll just get pummeled, you know, by my own people. So now in a democracy, one side thinks that just telling the truth, which he admitted to me in person, in private, is a political non-starter for him. And and that's really screwed up. I mean, and that's when you're losing your democracy when your own representatives can't speak the truth. It's Ken Harbaugh with

a quick break to tell you about something new. Battle Buddies is my latest weekly show where I try to find common ground with a conservative who I consider a true friend. David Bellavia, the only surviving Medal of Honor recipient from the war in Iraq. A Navy vet, an Army vet from opposite ends of the political spectrum, engaging in a civil conversation like we used to have. From the ICE immigration crackdowns to Trump's takeover of Venezuela, David and I take on the toughest issues of the day with genuine respect for each other in spite of our very different perspectives. They're not always easy conversations, but they're always important. And that's something we need more of. Respectful dialogue between people who disagree, but who have figured out how to stay friends. Check out Battle Buddies today. Two vets, two views, One Nation. Find us on the Dollar

Media Network. links below. Thanks. But the tide does seem to be turning and provided we're still living in a democracy in November of 2026 and in 2028, public opinion seems to be dramatically shifting because our eyes don't lie, right? We're we're all seeing the same videos on on a loop again and again and there is no justification for it. I'm tempted to ask your reaction to their justification which is that you know walls provoked it by not giving ICE agents access. I don't know if I even want to dignify it with the question, but it does seem >> I don't even that. It's so absurd. It's so absurd. And yet none of none of Donald Trump's actions like sending a federal force to terrorize a city that hardly has any immigrants to begin with.

That didn't provoke it. I mean, it's just patently absurd what they're saying. So, we've got to stop dignifying it. We got to start calling it what it is. And we also have to start calling out the Republicans. Like, I been using Tom Emmer's name. Tom Emmer, classmate of mine, uh, coming into Congress, came in as a very reasonable guy. In fact, I happen to know some of his family members uh through a connection in Massachusetts who have basically all disowned him because he's become a different person as he's become subservient to Donald Trump. And he can't even speak up for these fellow motans.

>> Yeah. >> The citizens that he is supposed to care about as a representative of Minnesota. He can't even speak up because he's so scared and he's just such a freaking coward. Well, that obeisance they offer to MAGA and Trump, it's got to be costing them electorally because you are seeing finally this awakening amongst the American people. If the polls are be to be believed and I do because it's not just one, it's not just two. They are all showing Trump's policies, not just underwater, but like drowning when it comes to the the public's opinion about ICE and DHS and now even Border Patrol. Do you think that is going to help us course correct in in November? Do we have enough time for that? Do you know what I mean? Like is democracy going to work here?

>> Look, it it will help, but it matters how much that correction is, >> right? I mean, it's shocking to me that 30 or 40% of Americans actually support what Trump is doing. I'd be shocked if 5% supported it, given what you can see with your own eyes in execution on our streets by officers of the state. But we're not going to change everybody's minds. And what really matters with these midterms is do we win by a little or do we win by a lot? It matters for two reasons. One, we we really need a mandate. I mean, if we can't beat them now, what does it say about our own party? And I've been one for months now who's been saying that Democrats need to do a better job of looking ourselves in the mirror and recognize that we should never have lost the 24 election to a convicted felon. We should never be in this position where

it's even a question with what Trump is doing that Democrats should win. And yet, there are a lot of races that are still close. So it matters that that we take this opportunity to win big and get a big mandate to change this in Congress. But the other thing the other reason why this matters is because if the elections are close, it gives Trump the opportunity to manipulate them. It's just much harder to manipulate an election if the Democrats win by 20 points. But if they're ahead by a half a point going into the election or coming out the next day, that's when Trump tries to get involved. Right? It's one thing to call the Georgia Secretary of State and say, "Find me 20,000 votes." It's another to say, "Find me a million votes." And so, it matters that we win by a lot. And that's why when there's

anything we can be doing differently on our side of the aisle to make sure that we are a solid alternative for these independents who may have voted for Trump in the last election. We need them to vote for Democrats now. We got to make those changes in our own party. >> What's your top piece of advice when it comes to those changes that Democrats need to make? >> Well, look, we we we've got to get rid of the the old leadership. I I mean, I'm running for Senate and and and have made no mistake about the fact that I'm going to go go to Washington if I am elected and not vote for Chuck Schumer. And it's not because Chuck Schumer is a bad guy.

It's not because he hasn't been a good public servant for decades. Is that people look at the Democratic party right now and they see us stuck in the past. I mean I mean it's it's crazy that Joe Biden was even running for a second term and he's just in a line of Dian Feinstein, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I mean no one looks at the Democratic party right now except for this these next generation leaders and says they're going to figure this out. And if you look at the big wins we have had since the last election, namely Abigail Spanberger, Mikey Cheryl, and Zora Mandami in the last election, they're all next generation leaders, and they're all leaders who are willing to run against the Democratic establishment. So the Democratic establishment that just buried the autopsy report, not even willing to make admit mistakes so that we can all make changes, the Democratic

establishment that continues to empower people like Chuck Schumer, the Democratic establishment um that allowed three members of the House of Representatives, colleagues of mine die in the last year. I mean, one of my colleagues, you know, may God rest his soul, we would have defeated the one big beautiful bill on the first vote if he had just died a day later. So, we've got to make some changes in our party to show the American people, we hear you. We're didn't do the right thing in the last election and we want to do better. And I'll give you another more specific example, and I'm sorry if I sound like I'm ranting here, but let me give you another specific example. I go into rooms of Democrats all the time and I say, "How many of you are opposed to Trump's immigration policies?" And of course, every hand goes up, right? And

then I say, "How many of you can tell me what Democrats immigration policy is?" No one raises their hand. Ken, this was the single biggest issue in the last election that we lost. So you tell me if we've learned a lesson when we had a losing position on the single biggest issue and now we can't even define what that position is other than opposing Trump. >> Yeah. >> So we got a lot of work to do. >> Last question and it's because I I promised you we would talk a little bit about Greenland. One of the probably the most enduring impression I'm going to leave with from uh from this place is just how wounded and betrayed uh Greenlanders and and Danes and in many cases they're one and the same here feel about America's posture towards Greenland and Denmark which is the the protectorate of

Greenland. And the thing that hits hardest was when Donald Trump said, "The Danes and our NATO allies haven't done enough. They they've never been there for the US. Argo, for some reason, we have a claim on on Greenland." But I'm talking to Danish vets here. I'm talking to Greenlanders who are looking at those old photos of coffins coming off of C130s draped with a Danish flag. And as a combat vet yourself, how does it land when you hear our commander-in-chief disparage nations that literally sent sons and daughters to bleed and die alongside Americans in in our wars?

>> It's disgusting and it's not surprising from the draft dodger and chief. Listen, there are a lot of Danish families who made tremendous sacrifices, many the ultimate sacrifice, not just for Denmark, but even more for the United States of America, because they came to our aid after 9/11, because they were faithful allies as we have failed to be to them. There are a lot of Danish families who made sacrifices for America. You know, a family that has not made sacrifices for America, that never made any sacrifices during the 20-year war on terror, the Trump family. Where were his sons?

Where were they when you and I were serving overseas? Where were they standing up and fighting for America when we were attacked? Where were they serving alongside troops like the Danes and so many others from Europe who were shoulder-to-shoulder to with us in the fight when it mattered. >> Well said, Seth. Thanks so much for joining us. Keep up the fight there in DC. Um, we'll talk again soon. >> I will love this video. Support independent media and unlock exclusive content, add free videos, and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Furious Vet CONFRONTS TRUMP over ICE Murder"?

Ken Harbaugh (Host), Seth Molton (Guest).

What is "Furious Vet CONFRONTS TRUMP over ICE Murder" about?

The content addresses a confrontation by Marine veteran Seth Molton, who criticizes federal ICE officers for their role in a recent killing, labeling them as unprofessional and cowardly. He asserts that such actions warrant prosecution and highlights the need for accountability within ICE, emphasizing the importance of strong, conviction-driven leadership in politics.

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

10 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Seth Molton, Donald Trump, Jim Harbaugh, Greenland, Alex Jeffrey Prey, Chuck Schumer. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Furious Vet CONFRONTS TRUMP over ICE Murder"?

The episode runs 17 min; the transcript is about 2,857 words in 22 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated January 28, 2026.