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January 25, 2026 / 27:39

This episode covers the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Prey by federal agents in Minneapolis, the political fallout, and responses from various figures. Guests include Cara Swisher and Scott Galloway.

Scott Galloway and Cara Swisher discuss the incident involving Alex Prey, emphasizing the implications of federal actions and the response from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. They highlight the growing tensions surrounding federal law enforcement operations in the state.

The conversation touches on the reactions from political figures, including AOC and Representative Robin Kelly, who are calling for significant changes to ICE operations. They also discuss the broader implications for civil rights and public trust in law enforcement.

Swisher and Galloway critique the Trump administration's handling of the situation, including comments made by Border Patrol Command Gregory Bavino on CNN. They express concern over the narrative being pushed by federal officials.

Finally, the episode reflects on the role of citizens and the media in holding power accountable, with a focus on the importance of public protests and economic resistance as forms of activism.

TLDR

The episode discusses the shooting of Alex Prey by federal agents and the political fallout in Minnesota.

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Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Cara Swisser
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>> and I'm Scott Galloway. >> Uh this is an emergency pod. We do these
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from time to time with news, especially if it's breaking and obviously what's
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happened over the weekend in Minnesota has been heinous in many ways, in all ways actually. Um so we had to jump on
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here to talk about the situation. Tensions are exploding in reaction to federal agents shooting and killing
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37year-old ICU nurse Alex uh Prey in Minneapolis on Saturday. This is the second fatal shooting by federal agents
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this month with Governor Tim Walls calling for Trump to halt ICE operations in the state. Meanwhile, Trump
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administration uh the Trump administration is trying to cast blame on the victim and local Democratic
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lawmakers. Border Patrol Command Gregory Bavino appeared on CNN's State of the
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Union with Dana Bash earlier. And here's what that tiny horrible man had to say.
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>> All of the video that we have seen shows him documenting it with his cell phone,
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which is a lawful thing to do. And the only time he seemed to interact with law enforcement is when they went after him
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when he was trying to help an individual who law enforcement pushed down. So where do you have the evidence to show
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that he was trying to impede that uh that law enforcement operation? >> Sure, Dana. First, he was there in the
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scene. He was in the scene actively impeding and assaulting law enforcement to the point.
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>> But that's not illegal. He wasn't he wasn't impeding it. He was filming it,
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which is a legal thing to do in the United States of America. >> Dan, let's let's don't freeze frame
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adjudicate this now. >> Let's freeze frame adjudicated. Everyone saw it from a hundred different angles.
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There was video everywhere. And uh this small little Himmler wannabe doesn't
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seem to understand that. Attorney General Pam Bonnie gave Tim Walls three conditions to quote restore the rule of
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law. She wants them to hand over the info about the state's welfare programs,
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grant access to state voter roles, and repeal sanctuary policies. Let's focus
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on the middle one, which we will. They want these voter roles uh because of the midterm elections. Let's talk about the
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Democratic response. Democrats are obviously in an uproar and AOC and others calling for Senate Democrats to
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block ICE spending this week. Democrats would have to shut down a large portion of the government in order to do that.
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They seem willing to do so. Representative Robin Kelly of Illinois is asking colleagues to sign uh onto her
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articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Christy Nome. Meanwhile, Megan Kelly appeared to agree that ICE should
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get out of Minnesota, but she was just being awful. She tweeted at real Donald Trump should pull ICE out of Minnesota
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today and announced there'll be no more immigration enforcement in Minnesota at
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all. All illegals in the US are encouraged to move there. If any illegal is found outside of Minnesota and gets
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deported, they will never reply for re-entry. She is a cruel and tireless turmagant. Hours after this young man
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was killed, uh, Trump and Melania went ahead with a previously scheduled screening of her new documentary Melania
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at the White House. Guests included Tim Cook along with AMD CEO Lisa Sue, the CEO of Zoom, uh, and Mike Tyson and Tony
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Robbins. Strange group of people, but a lot of tech CEOs. Also Andy Jasse, the CEO of Amazon. In any case, a a really
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terrible uh day for the United States of America. Scott, your thoughts? >> Well, typically you'd have some you'd
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want to deescalate and say, "Let's wait till there's a full investigation, but
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unfortunately the institutions conducting these investigations now are no longer trusted."
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And with good reason, the American public doesn't believe that these investigations will be be fair
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investigations. So you have to turn to the, you know, kind of the frame adjudication.
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And what the frame shows is that one, this individual was clearly exercising just free speech. All free speech is not
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exempt. You know, if you incite violence, that's not free speech. But it's
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difficult to see how in any way this individual was inciting violence. He was just filming what was happening. He
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moved to help protect somebody or comfort them after they had been knocked down.
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Uh so his first amendment rights were clearly violated. Two, the second amendment is the right to bear arms. He
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was carrying a weapon which he had a legal license um for carry for. Uh the gun was removed from him. He did not
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take out the dum. He did not wave it at anybody. It was in his waistband. It was
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taken out. And then uh so his first and second amendment rights were violated in
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about 15 seconds. And then a couple of things that I noticed that were even more disturbing
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were one, when a gunshot goes off, these quote unquote trained federal agents scattered.
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You when your gun goes off, you're supposed to make sure the person you think is firing the gun, you look for
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their hands, you look for the gun. They did none of that. They scattered. and Representative Seth Molton, who's a
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veteran and I believe a Marine who served in I believe it was Iraq, said that if this had happened in the middle
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of a combat zone and a a combatant, enemy combatant who had been disarmed was treated this way, the officers and
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the enlisted men involved in that murder would be court marshaled. So the rules of engagement are now more reckless and
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more violent in the suburbs of Minneapolis than they are in Mogadishu during a war. So this has gone
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um so far and this notion that this has anything to do with the constitution. Everyone is
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now ignoring the constitution. The other word that comes to my mind is cowardice
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and that is Trump and Secretary Gnome are perpetrating violence under the oposis that it has something to do with
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immigration. They want a third party that will take the blame or the be the shock absorber for this depravity and
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that is an agency full of masked secret police. I mean they're not even taking
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responsibility for this violence. They're trying to keep it in arms. >> No, they said the victims were the ICE
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officers. That's what Gregory Abino said to Dana Bash who did a terrific job
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trying to take explain to him why he was lying essentially. But go ahead. >> What are your what are your thoughts on
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this character? >> Uh I just Scott it's uh this is repulsive and in every way on on every
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aspect of it the what what had happened there. I mean one one point I called these people incompetent. Everyone's
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like no they're evil in evil is incompetent. They're both evil and incompetent. Um and I don't throw around
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those things. I don't throw around Nazi tournaments very easily. But this is
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that's what it looks that's what it is. And especially even the outfit as Greg
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as Governor Nome pointed out with Greg Babino who is completely incompetent and also evil. And I don't use those terms
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lightly. I really don't. And I find when you when you throw them about. But this
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man was using a phone a phone to take to take pictures. And that's what he's
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allowed to do. He was peaceful. He was leaning down to help a woman who was shoved down by police who was doing
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nothing but exercising her right. They kept calling it a Today Todd Blanch, another terrible person in the
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administration and a pedophile protector. Let's just note that. Um was saying that that he was it was a riot.
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It wasn't by any means a riot. They were blaming the police of Minnesota. And I
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just interviewed the mayor of of of Minneapolis. They have 600 officers. There's 3,000 ICE uh there's 3,000 ICE
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uh members. They can't protect them, especially when they're behaving like
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thugs and attacking the citizens. They're there to protect the citizens, not the ICE, not the ICE force, which is
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enormous, and you can't do that. And they are trying to create violence. It's
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very obvious what they're trying to do. And then laying the blame on they there's literally there there's nothing
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I don't believe we're even arguing that this guy did anything. He didn't. and to
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and everyone can see it. And what was really astonishing to me was all the angles and the people and the citizens
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there putting themselves in harm's way to take these pictures, right? This woman in the pink jacket, there's a
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woman in a car. There's there's every angle of this thing. There's a woman in
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a car straight on. There's one across the street, there's one in front of him,
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there's one on the other side. These people don't understand. We see you. We
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see what you're doing. It is not. and to try to look at it any other way and
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especially because he was on the ground, you can absolutely see what happened and
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then the guy pulls out the gun and shoots him for no reason. There's and one of the things which was astonishing,
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one of the people taking the pictures said, "What did you just do? What did
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you just do?" And that is the qu what in the why in the world would you do that?
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There were six, seven people on this guy and it's I have to tell you one thing,
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the power of digital is really strong. You see, people see it like I I don't
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understand why these people don't think cell phones exist in this world. The
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second part is the silence from our business community, the silence from these people. They went to the White
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House last night. Could they just beg off like to go to the Melania screening which nobody wants to see? Could they
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say something publicly? Like I I just the the silence of our business people especially the tech people and then many
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and many people like Bill Aman as usual because you can't shut his diarrhea mouth could not help but blame everybody
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but who shot this man which were these officers. Um obviously Minnesota has moved this time because they learned
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from the first and I this is a murder is what this is. They learned from the first one that they tried to take
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evidence they scattered. as you said, you can't leave the scene of of an that
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some a shooting like that, a fatal shooting. And then the last thing I would say is the citizens of Minnesota,
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I'm wearing a a Minnesota Star Tribune. I have to say the press is doing a great
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job there. The Minnesota Star Tribune and others, these are citizens that are not going to take this [ __ ] And I I
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know you call for leaders, but we are the leaders, right? Citizens are the leaders, not our politicians. I will say
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the Democrats had, especially AOC, especially, you know, all of them were very strong about what was going on. The
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Minnesota >> people were actually quite under control over what's happening. Governor Walls, I
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thought, conducted himself really well. Uh the police officers uh of the state of in Minnesota are horrified. You can
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see that and they conducted themselves really well. The only people conducting themselves like the thugs and fascists
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they are are the Trump administration and they will not outlive they the shame will outlive them of what they've done
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and they don't care. So that's the only problem here. >> Yeah. In Switzerland last week there was
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a lot of talk about I thought how how can I take my time here and make it effective. So, I spent a lot of time
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when I was on these panels talking about how the Islamic Republic is executing people on the street. And my colleague
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Katherine Dylan reminded me, she said, "Scott, you realize that our government
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is executing people on the streets of Minneapolis right now." >> Which was a very puncturing point.
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>> Yeah. >> And just to, if it's okay with you, move to potential ideas around how to
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>> counter ICE. Um, Timothy Snyder, I was I always go to his feed and to Heather Cox
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Richardson to try and find some >> amazing from them. Yeah, go ahead. >> Around this. And Timothy said something
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really powerful. He said, "If you're waiting," and this is my thought. I'm
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always kind of waiting for a democratic Jesus to pop up and lead us like a Mandela to the promised land. And
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typically real movement doesn't happen from political parties. It happens from
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people >> absolutely >> or citizens. And protest is really powerful. It's very symbolic. But in
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this instance, I think it's actually quite I don't want to say it's not
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effective, but I don't think the administration cares. I don't think that's going to move the needle in the
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short run. A man the medium in the long run. I think what Governor Walls and some some politicians have said is more
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powerful and that is start making a list quite frankly and very publicly saying that the statute of limitations on
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murder is never and in exactly 2 years and 11 months we're coming for you. I
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think we have to create new incentives here. And then something I'm spending a
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lot of time thinking about and trying to get some politicians on board with and some public figures is the following.
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If you if you want to look at the fastest political movement in history, it was actually about exactly six years
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ago and that was 2020 when the GDP went down 31% because of COVID. We had the greatest political
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movement in history in terms of actual move to action. And my fear is that every few years we protest, we make
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signs, we chant, we gather, it feels good, it looks great on CNN, and then nothing happens. If you want to
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understand real power and the difference between being right and being effective,
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stop watching protests and start watching uh gross domeic products, specifically GDP. Uh Trump does not
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respond to outrage. He responds to markets. And that's not cynicism. It's
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mechanics. I'm not talking about a labor strike. This isn't unions, picket lines,
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or collective bargaining. I'm talking about something quieter, far more unsettling to the system, and that is an
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economic strike. A short-term coordinated withdrawal from spending, and maybe work, no marching, no slogans,
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um just less. And >> well, we forget they did that in Minnesota. They had a day. The business
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is closing. >> It can't be a day. A day is annoyance. It needs to be a week or a month. And it
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needs to be national. The US economy is 27 trillion. That's 74 billion a day.
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And here's our power, Cara. Our economy is 70% consumer-driven. Consumers actually have more power, not
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in signs or in guns or even in their vote right now. They have it in the power of the purse. in that a very small
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change in behavior could have an enormous effect and that is uh nothing in modern his American
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history moves policy faster. Now marches not speech is just math and then if you
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think about what you could do here if wealthy households took their spending down 10% and middle class and lower
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income households which have a difficult time reducing their spend took it down 5%. you would take GDP negative almost
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overnight and then it's hard because it requires coordination. It's risky especially for
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people living paycheck to paycheck. But that's exactly why it works and that is
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power fears withdrawal more than resistance because resistance is noisy but withdrawal is expensive and it's
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it's a question around what actually works and the history and the data I believe are not ambiguous. when nothing
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moves, uh, everyone listens. And that's not ideology, it's economics. And that
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you don't need permission to opt out. And in a symptom, and in a system, capitalism built entirely on
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participation, the most radical act in capitalism isn't protest, it's nonparticipation.
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If you wanted the fastest blue line path, and there might even be a simpler way, I believe if you could convince
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America, the entire economy now is built on AI. If you could convince a bunch of Americans to cancel their
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chat GPT or OpenAI accounts and all of a sudden OpenAI had to announce that their
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subscriptions had fallen off a cliff, that would ripple into Nvidia. That would ripple into Microsoft.
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And these are the people that Trump cares about. And this is what the S&P This is what the economy cares about.
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>> I I say this point. I don't I don't agree with you about protests. I think
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they do. They It's all part of the same package. It's an aggressive media who
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follows this and reports on things. It is these protests because I do think people putting their their lives on the
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line in the street matters. I think it does. It has >> I don't mean to diminish it. I worry
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it's more cinematic than effective because I don't think the Trump administration cares.
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>> Different in this new environment of video everywhere. I do think it is
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effective and I do think it >> definitely from a policing and an accountability.
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>> Correct. And it changes people's minds because people are I mean people are are it's horrifying and
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everyone we can see you. We see you is a really powerful thing. I think the media
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has to step up and there everyone folks there's a reason these billionaires uh
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right-wingers need to own this stuff because they're trying to control the message. Absolutely. No question.
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They're trying to even hand it. Um, I was told by someone uh uh at CBS, they're like, "You could watch this and
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if you were pro MAGA, you'd like it, and if you were anti-MAGA, you'd like it."
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And that's how we want it to be. That's a terrible thing to to try to do. There
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is truthful, not neutral is the way um the press should be acting right now. Uh I thought I think I think a lot of them
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have been woken up into this in a much more instead of a well, what is your thoughts here, Scott [ __ ] Jennings?
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>> Like that's enough. That's enough of that. Seriously. Um, there's no thoughts
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here about shooting someone and there's no I was listening I often listen to
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comics during times like this because I think they have the they have they get to the heart of it in a really effective
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way and Joshu Johnson who I've interviewed is an amazing young comic. And he said I I sent this to you. It was
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this is an argument about legality versus morality. >> Um, and if you the idea that Todd Blanch
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was sitting there saying well it was a riot. Well, he, you know, he was resisting. If we get into arguments with
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these people about what we can see with our eyes, it is we lose, right? Because they're going to find some reason that
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this young man deserved to get shot or the or Renee Good deserved it cuz she was mouthy, like cuz she wouldn't move
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her car. Um, they try to twist everything. And so, you're not going to win in a in a face-to-face argument with
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these people. You're going to win by marching. I agree. And economic resistance is critical here. Um, the
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problem was with a lot of people with Tim Cook being at the White House. And by the way, Tim, I like you very much,
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but Steve Jobs would be ashamed of you. I know he would be ashamed of you. It's
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it's a grotesque way to end what has been a very successful uh career as a CEO. You could have walked away. You
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could have walked away. Shareholders are not everything. The Apple brand stands for more. So, a lot of people wanted to
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give up their iPhones. Like, I'm going to give up. Let me just tell you the founder of Google is dating a mega
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influencer and is quite right-wing now. So there's nowhere to go unfortunately.
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And that's the problem is we have been held captive by these men boys who are
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now deciding they want to dabble in fascism or at least turn a blind eye to it. And so I I part of me is like what
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do you do here? Right? What do you what >> what I'm suggesting is and again I've
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struggled with this my whole life. the difference between being right and being effective and we're angry. And I get it.
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Protesting is powerful. Uh promising them that there will be an accountability. And I've said this, I
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think there should be something equivalent to the Nermberg trials after this is all over.
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>> I agree. >> And to make it clear that once we're back in power, which we will be, this is
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going to happen. And the statute of limitations on murder is >> zero. >> Never.
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>> Yeah. >> However, it's the boring [ __ ] that moves the needle. And here's something really
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boring that would stop this. If we could convince half of Americans who are planning to buy an iPhone in the next 60
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days to not buy it, just put it off and we could get 10% of existing Chat GPT subscribers to cancel their
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subscription, this ends. >> Mhm. >> These are the people that he cares
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about, and this is about the market. Look at the only time he's blinked when
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the Japanese bond market started taking our 10-year yields up and when tariffs took the markets down. This is how he
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responds. It's not cinematic. It's not romantic. It's not going to be written
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up in great history novels, but if you could figure out a way to basically kick a small number of companies related to
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the tech economy that are account for 40% of the S&P right now and who are the
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people he cares about, if if all of a sudden if you took all of your money out of any JP Morgan affiliated bank and
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transferred it to a local regional bank, if you cancelled all of your streaming media platforms, if you cancelled OpenAI
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and Anthropic and you said I am not upgrading my Apple phone and there was a real movement that registered and they
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had to disclose it >> in their earnings calls. This [ __ ] would come to an end pronto.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. It's an interesting I they have played along with this Trump stuff
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for a very long time much farther than >> because you're right they're all about
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sharehold they we can't shame them. You cannot shame them. Yeah. >> The ghost of Steve Jobs is not going to
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shame them. The only thing these people care about >> the only thing these people care about
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is whether or not their stock goes down. That's it. And if their stock goes down,
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they're going to stop. They're not only going to stop showing up to Melania
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documentaries and giving him inscribed hard disk drives. They're going to finally find their testicles and come
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out and speak out against this guy and call him and say, "You need to you need
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to call this [ __ ] off." And the SNP is going to go down and then everyone's
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going to have their hair on fire. >> Well, one of the things I've noticed is
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really interesting. I I this is the last time I'm talking about the the polling
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is disastrous on this for Trump. His polling is disastrous. Why haven't Republicans found their like s like from
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a numbers point of view, right? Like away from all of it, if you want to argue, whatever you want to do and to
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shame yourself and your children, by the way. Um, by the way, there were several
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children of some of these people that are like, "Call me. I know all about my
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[ __ ] [ __ ] dad and I will talk to the press, by the way." Which I think is
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delicious. Um, but what what the polling is so obvious here. What? Why? It's so
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like in the direction that is not the way these Republicans want to go. >> But there's I mean, if you really want
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to distill it down and you bring the cowardice here, there are 47 Democratic senators. If 20 individuals, 20
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uh 20 Republican senators marched up to his office and said, "You either stop
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this [ __ ] now or we vote yes on the impeachment that they will propose." They could do it behind the scenes. It
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takes 20 of them, 20 of the 53. and they've decided that those 20 of 355 million Americans, the vast majority who
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are really rattled by this, can't find the backbone to get together and march
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up to the White House behind the scenes and say, "Stop this now. Stop it now."
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And one of the most disappointing things about all of this is that clearly these
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senators, quite frankly, feel they have public support for not doing anything. Mhm. Or they feel they don't. But
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>> all you would need all you would need is 20 of them to go to the White House and
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said if this isn't handled in 72 hours or there's not real movement or real um
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withdrawal here and the Democrats bring up impeachment hearings, we're going to
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be a yes. >> Yeah. No. >> And that we need 20 we need 20 people here. 20 to represent the 345 million
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Americans and they're nowhere to be found. And the disappointing thing is they have done the calculus and have
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decided they have enough support in their districts, the silent majority, that they don't feel they need to do it.
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>> Yeah. I think one of the things the last thing I would say is we're playing on
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their field. They want this to be about chaos, not about affordability, about um
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the worst life, about their incredible um uh corruption and money grab, including the tech CEOs. They want it to
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be about a poor man getting shot on the streets. Um and I would last like to call out Steven Miller, who is in the
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center of this. We always focus on Trump as we often focus on the top people, but
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Steven Miller uh like a man named Benettson, he was the one who created the internment camps Japanese Hinrich
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Himmler in the in the in the Nazi regime. This is what he is. And he he of course Trump gets the most of the blame
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being the top at the top. But people like Steven Miller uh will go down in history as evil um has blood on his
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hands um and should be jailed at the very end of this. And you're absolutely
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right. I do want to make one more point and I think Saturday Night Live did this
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really well. Um, these are white people getting killed and this is something the
00:24:55
uh African-American peace talked about the the brutality they get in the things and I thought if you want to look at
00:25:00
anything there was a terrific um skit on it about that uh which I thought was quite effective. Let's not forget to
00:25:08
note that. Um in any case before we go Alex Py's parents um said in a statement
00:25:14
it was the most dignified thing I've ever I wouldn't know what to do if this
00:25:17
had happened to my any of my children. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. And with that in
00:25:22
mind, I want to play a a clip of uh Alex in his role as an ICU nurse. He was uh serving veterans, honoring a deceased
00:25:30
veteran. Let's watch. >> Today, we remember that freedom is not free. We have to work at it, nurture it,
00:25:36
protect it, and even sacrifice for it. May we never forget and always remember our brothers and sisters who have served
00:25:44
so that we may enjoy the gift of freedom. So in this moment we remember and give thanks for their dedication and
00:25:50
selfless service to our nation in the cause of our freedom. In this solemn hour we render our honor and our
00:25:56
gratitude. Yeah, I think that just about says it. Freedom is not free. Yeah, I hope I you're right. This like
00:26:19
this is just so rattling on so so many levels, but um Heather Cox Richardson has also said
00:26:25
we face darker times and I'd be shocked if at some point there isn't a future
00:26:29
president that gives um Alex the same type of dignified sendoff that he gave that veteran. I do think this is a
00:26:36
turning point. >> Um incredibly upsetting. And this isn't about I can already see what's going to
00:26:42
happen. and they're going to come out and acknowledge a tiny bit. They'll say,
00:26:46
"Yes, we've had to scale up ICE because of because of the massive wave invasion
00:26:52
and they do need more training." And that's like saying that the guards at
00:26:56
DACA needed more training. >> Yeah. >> This is a a systemic structural
00:27:00
depravity from from straight from the president and his sick of fans who are unqualified and also seem to wade in
00:27:07
this type of cruel and strange behavior. And to the citizens of Minnesota, we thank you. Um, you have done, keep doing
00:27:15
it and we thank you. Um, you are fighting the fight that's critical, including uh the sacrifices you make.
00:27:22
Okay, that's the show. Thanks for listening to Pivot. Be sure to like and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Uh,
00:27:27
we'll be back with a full show on Tuesday. And Scott, thank you very much. >> Thank you, Cara.

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This episode stands out for the following:

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  • 85
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  • 85
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Episode Highlights

  • Emergency Podcast on Minnesota Shooting
    Cara Swisser and Scott Galloway discuss the recent fatal shooting of an ICU nurse by federal agents in Minnesota, highlighting the tensions and political responses.
    “This is an emergency pod.”
    @ 00m 13s
    January 25, 2026
  • Call for Accountability
    The hosts emphasize the need for accountability in law enforcement following the shooting incident, with references to constitutional rights.
    “This is a murder, is what this is.”
    @ 09m 48s
    January 25, 2026
  • The Weight of Accountability
    Discussing the need for accountability and consequences for powerful figures.
    “I think there should be something equivalent to the Nuremberg trials after this is all over.”
    @ 19m 28s
    January 25, 2026
  • Consumer Power
    A call to action for consumers to impact the tech economy.
    “If we could convince half of Americans... to not buy it, just put it off... this ends.”
    @ 19m 46s
    January 25, 2026
  • Dignity in Service
    A tribute to a fallen veteran and the importance of honoring service.
    “Today, we remember that freedom is not free.”
    @ 25m 34s
    January 25, 2026

Episode Quotes

  • This is an emergency pod.
    Alex Pretti Shooting: "This is a Turning Point" | Pivot
  • This is a murder, is what this is.
    Alex Pretti Shooting: "This is a Turning Point" | Pivot
  • We see you. We see you is a really powerful thing.
    Alex Pretti Shooting: "This is a Turning Point" | Pivot
  • But Steve Jobs would be ashamed of you.
    Alex Pretti Shooting: "This is a Turning Point" | Pivot
  • The ghost of Steve Jobs is not going to shame them.
    Alex Pretti Shooting: "This is a Turning Point" | Pivot
  • Freedom is not free.
    Alex Pretti Shooting: "This is a Turning Point" | Pivot

Key Moments

  • Emergency Pod00:13
  • Minnesota Shooting00:18
  • Political Response02:10
  • Call for Accountability09:48
  • Economic Resistance18:22
  • Shame of Jobs18:30
  • Consumer Action19:46
  • Veteran Tribute25:34

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