Day: January 29, 2026

We begin with the Trump/Miller administration’s violations of the First, Second, Fourth and 10th Amendments of the Constitution in Minnesota and speak with Bruce Fein, a constitutional lawyer who formerly served as associate deputy attorney general under the Reagan administration, general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, research director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran, and member of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Presidential signing statements. He has authored several volumes on the United States Supreme Court, the United States Constitution, and international law, and helped write the articles of impeachment for President Nixon and President Clinton. He is the Vice Chairman of the Committee for the Republic and his books include Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, American Empire: Before The Fall and, most recently, Congressional Surrender and Presidential Overreach.

Bezos’s $75 Million Bribe That Avoids Melania’s Early Career and Friendship with Epstein 

Then with Amazon’s Bezos’s $75 million gift or bribe to Trump to burnish the image of his wife via a documentary feature to be released this weekend in 2,000 theaters, we assess what kind of interest there will be in a movie that avoids any mention of Melania’s early career posing naked as a model and her friendship with Epstein which journalists have been wary of investigating due to threats of lawsuits from the country’s so-called first lady. Joining us is Nina Burleigh, a senior editor at The New Republic, best-selling author, documentary producer, and publisher of the Substack American Freakshow. A professor at New York University’s Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute, she’s written seven books, the latest of which include Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump’s Women now out in a new edition The Trump Women: Part of the Deal, and she has a new novel, Zero Visibility Possible. Nina is the Producer of a recent documentary series on Apple TV, “Epstein’s Shadow” and she has an article at American Freakshow we discuss, “Melania the Movie.”

Armed and Untouchable: The Deadly History of ICE

Then finally Sasha Linden Cohen takes a closer look at ICE’s history of deadly force following the recent shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good which have reignited questions about impunity and accountability within the agency. She speaks with Lila Hassan, an award-winning independent journalist who focuses on extremism, human rights, and immigration. She spent four years investigating ICE’s history of deadly force, suing the government to obtain never-before-seen records and creating the first and only analysis of ICE shootings between 2016 and 2021. Sasha discusses Lila’s 2024 story in Business Insider and Type Investigations, “Armed and Untouchable: ICE’s History of Deadly Force.”