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Mike Fanone: "Donald Trump will do whatever Donald Trump needs to do to stay out of prison and continue to enrich himself, and if that means that he has to bypass the legal standards of our elections, I believe he would most certainly do that."

Mike Fanone: "All of these conspiratorial rabbit holes spawned from the Epstein files and this idea that there's this child predator ring within the U.S.…And now you're seeing that it's very likely that, at best, Donald Trump is covering up for this behavior and these actions."

George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran detained for three days by ICE:

"It's important that no one has to go through this…I'm not scared of the government or what they say about me…They are refusing to take accountability, but I'm not scared."

Q: "When you were in [ICE] detention for 3 days, what were they telling you?"

U.S. citizen George Retes: "They literally just locked me up and they never said anything else…They gave me no explanation. That's why I gotta do all this work to hopefully get justice and the truth."

George Retes: "I let [ICE] know I was a U.S. citizen, that I was just trying to get to work. To them, it didn't matter…They pepper sprayed me…They took me to jail and I was on suicide watch for three days…It was honestly the worst experience ever."

Q: "Right now people are buying their holiday presents and planning their budgets for next year…"

Trump: "Look, don't be dramatic. No, no, don't be dramatic."

Q: "What grade would you give the economy?"

Trump: "A + + + +"

Q: "Are you still worried about the economy?"

Trump: "Prices are coming down substantially…Prices are all coming down. It's been 10 months, it's amazing what we've done."

Trump: "I've watched stupid people like Marjorie Traitor Greene, or some people call her 'Taylor Greene.' Some people call her 'Taylor Brown' cause green sometimes turns to brown, which isn't nice…People with low IQs like Marjorie Taylor Greene, she's a low IQ person."

Q: "You pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández…he was convicted in of drug trafficking. How is that zero tolerance on drug trafficking?"

Trump: "I don't know him and I know very little about him."

Q: " Do you think it could send the wrong message to drug dealers?"

Trump: "No."

Q: "Almost all illicit fentanyl in the U.S. is actually produced in Mexico using chemicals from China…Venezuela isn't a significant source or transit country for fentanyl."

Trump: "Well, they do send lots of drugs…They send really, really bad people into our country."

Q: "Have you watched the video?"

Trump: "I watch everything."

Q: "Do you believe the second strike was necessary?"

Trump: "Well, it looked like they were trying to turn back over the boat, but I don't get involved. That's up to them…We're gonna him them on land very soon."

Q: "Are Venezuelans the type of people you want to see in America?"

Trump: "I wanna see people that contribute. I don't wanna see Somalia. I don't wanna see a woman that marries her brother to get in and then becomes a Congressman and does nothing but complain…Let her go back, fix her own country."

Q: "Could we see American troops on the ground in Venezuela?"

Trump: "I don't want to comment on that."

Q: "Can you rule out a ground invasion?"

Trump: "I don't wanna rule in or out. I don't talk about that."

The Reality of Lawful and Unlawful Military Orders How to know when to obey, and when to stand your ground.

"It is not the fault of our men and women in uniform that we occupy a unique historical moment, one in which they face a greater likelihood of being issued an unlawful order than most of them had ever imagined."

Sarah Matthews: "Republican women are getting ahead of their male counterparts because they see the writing on the wall. They see that Speaker Johnson is going to lose his gavel in 2026, and he'll likely be ousted from leadership."

Sarah Matthews: "Mike Johnson is going to go down as the least effective and least productive speaker in U.S. history…Speaker Johnson has made Congress completely obsolete. He is just functioning basically as Trump's puppet."

The Reality of Lawful and Unlawful Military Orders How to know when to obey, and when to stand your ground.

NEW: "Much of the recent discussion about military orders has been simplistic: Is a given order lawful or unlawful? The reality is that military members more regularly face dilemmas about questionable orders."

Republican Brian Fitzpatrick: "Affordability is such a crisis in this country right now, for everything — from childcare, to transportation, to housing, to food, to fuel, people are squeeze right now."

FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."

Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...

Tim Dillon: "Yes, it's a war crime…The Epstein stuff's going down and…[the White House] goes, 'We need to start bombing someone, like now. We need to pivot people's attention from the economy and the pedophile ring we're covering up to Venezuela. Let's start blowing up boats.'"

Tim Dillon: " These ICE raids are so barbaric and they're so crazy. Like, 19-year-old college students are being deported to Honduras and they've lived here their whole life. It's wrong on its face. It shouldn't be happening."

Tim Dillon: " Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of War, is denying that he committed a war crime because people are now saying that — top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers."

Tim Dillon:  "What is Pete Hegseth doing? He's killing fishermen in Venezuela…He just wants to kill people."

Tim Dillon: " They're not talking about Epstein and they're not talking about whatever the hell else is in these documents…They're not talking as much about the economy and they're not asking to have healthcare.…They're just watching a boat blow up in the middle of the ocean."

Tim Dillon: "These clumsy, somewhat insane, over the top deportations…it's childish. It's cruel. One of the problems with whatever the MAGA movement has involved into is it's duped it's hardcore followers so much that the only thing left is performative cruelty."

"There does seem to be very much a parallel between a hurricane coming to town and CBP agents coming to town."

Trump's occupation of New Orleans is destroying the city, with immigration agents harassing locals, intimidating tourists, and shuttering small businesses.

Pete Hegseth: "Should we follow the Geneva Conventions? What if we treated the enemy the way they treated us?…If you surrender, we might spare your life. If you do not, we will rip your arms off and feed them to hogs… We are just fighting with one hand behind our back."

Sarah Matthews: "Trump is trying to gaslight the American people by saying the economy is great, he's lowered inflation, and that affordability is a 'Democrat hoax.'…Yet all of his policies are benefiting him and his billionaire friends while hurting everyday Americans."

Sarah Matthews: "Americans are concerned about the rising costs of everything…Trump can't wrap his head around that because this is a man who is a billionaire. He's never had to imagine a world in which he can't afford something."

WATCH: The Veteran Who ICE Abducted — and Is Fighting Back Here’s how we’re counter-programming DHS’s propaganda ads.

“If they can do this to George, they can do this to anyone.”

ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.

Learn more about how we are elevating his story here: