Wednesday marked another day of tiresome narratives across the broadcast networks and their flagship morning newscasts that smeared Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents, fixating on the “clashes intensifying” and “escalating” without explaining why federal law enforcement had deployed tear gas and other deterrents. Fireworks? Nevermind! Hitting vehicles? Not a concern!
Starting with CBS Mornings, editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and her team haven’t appeared to be moved in for wholesale changes given segments like this:
Wednesday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ again took anti-ICE white liberal women at their word.
Zero pushback as correspondent Lana Zak touted “demonstrators fill[ing] the streets of Minneapolis” to watch “as a group of federal law enforcement detained” a man and a woman’s unverified claims… pic.twitter.com/Fi5MmxhpDY
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 14, 2026
Much of the story above sought to humanize the anti-ICE loons and, as we’d see with the others, took the protesters completely at their word (click “expand”):
ZAK: Such incidents occur most every day here, affecting both immigration enforcement targets and protesters.
PATTY O’KEEFE: From my cell, I could hear, like, wailing and desperate crying of people in the facility.
ZAK: Patty O’Keefe says she and a friend were following ICE agents on Sunday when they were stopped, their car pepper sprayed and their windows smashed —
AGENT: You are under arrest for impeding operations.
ZAK: — before being taken to a federal detention center.
O’KEEFE: Three ICE agents that were in the car with me immediately started taunting me. The driver of the car said, “You guys have got to stop obstructing us. That’s why that lesbian is [EXPLETIVE] dead.”
LANA ZAK: O’Keefe says she was held for eight hours before being released without charges. [TO O’KEEFE] What do you say to people who feel like these agents are doing what they need to do, they’re following the law, and you and other protesters are on the wrong side of history?
O’KEEFE: The law is not always the best barometer of what is moral and just.
ZAK: We asked DHS for comment on O’Keefe’s detention and accusations, but have not heard back. Today marks one week since Renee Good was killed here. When we asked O’Keefe if she’d continue protesting, she said that she knows that there’s risks, but that it is “worth it”[.]
Because it’s ABC, Good Morning America didn’t take a day off from the anti-Trump and anti-ICE hate. Co-host Robin Roberts teased coverage on the “anger in Minneapolis” with “[c]lashes intensifying in Minneapolis between federal agents and residents as the fallout grows over the deadly shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent[.]”
Co-host Michael Strahan also continued the liberal media’s pattern of refusing to delineate between observing versus obstructing law enforcement:
But we’re gonna begin a busy news morning with the latest in Minnesota, where clashes between federal agents and residents have been intensifying amid the Trump’s administration immigration crackdown. President Trump telling Minnesota “the day of reckoning and retribution is coming.”
ABC called on correspondent Faith Abubey to forward the daily, dubious slop painting ICE as suddenly attacking people without warning:
This is how the elite, liberal media are framing the scene in Minneapolis — ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ claiming ICE is on the prowl for anyone and everyone, firing flash bangs and tear gas at will for no reason.
Aside from a brief nod to snow balls, not mentioned are the… pic.twitter.com/Kvg2sNsYda
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 14, 2026
“Overnight, flash bangs lighting up the Minneapolis skies as the fight to push ICE out of Minnesota intensifies. Agents seen descending on protesters forcing them back. [SCREAMING] Earlier Tuesday, federal agents seen dragging people out of their cars, and spraying others directly in the face with chemicals. Protesters throwing snow balls and slamming into an ICE vehicle,” she declared.
Over on NBC’s Today, co-host Craig Melvin touted the “escalating protests in Minnesota overnight” with “confrontations between residents, demonstrators and federal immigration officers…only growing.”
Saturday co-host Laura Jarrett acknowledged ICE’s notation they’ve arrested “around 2,400” since first going into the metro area in November, but refused to go any further in detailing the kinds of people ICE took off the streets.
Correspondent Shaq Brewster was on scene and, while they were the only network to note the far-left crowd has taken to hunting for ICE agents at hotels, they threw in with the incendiary rhetoric toward law enforcement:
NBC’s ‘Today’ touts Joe Rogan referring to ICE as the “gestapo” and, while they were the only network morning show Wednesday to point out “a crowd gather[ed] outside a motel where protesters thought ICE agents were sleeping,” it too took the anti-ICE white women at their word… pic.twitter.com/Tkr44FjEFE
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 14, 2026
To see the relevant transcripts from January 14, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).
