Lemon LIVE at 5 | Who Are The Real Enemies From Within?!

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries asserts that the Trump administration is 'completely and totally out of control,' engaging in an 'all-out assault' on various sectors including the economy, healthcare, immigrant families, due process, and journalists. He specifically accuses the Department of Justice of running the 'largest pay-to-play scheme in the history of the country' and targeting perceived adversaries while coddling supporters. This includes 'judge shopping' to find sympathetic judges for politically motivated actions.

Jeffries states, 'The administration is completely and totally out of control... We've seen an all-out assault by the Trump administration on the economy, on health care, on law-abiding immigrant families, on due process, on the rule of law, and on journalists.' (01:39) He also mentions, 'They're running the largest pay-to-play scheme in the history of the country.' (02:12) and 'They are definitively judge shopping and trying to find people who share their white right right wing agenda.' (09:57)

House Democrats, led by Hakeem Jeffries, are demanding significant policy changes within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE. These demands include prohibiting aggressive actions like storming homes or ripping people from cars without judicial warrants, explicitly banning the arrest or deportation of American citizens by DHS, requiring agents to operate without masks, and establishing clear excessive use of force policies. They also seek to ensure state and local authorities have jurisdiction to prosecute agents who violate laws.

Jeffries outlines, 'There should be no aggressive behavior like storming homes or breaking windows, ripping people out of their cars in the absence of a judicial warrant. There should be an explicit prohibition on the arrest, on the detention, and on the deportation by DHS of American citizens. No masks should be worn.' (03:17) He adds, 'state and local prosecutors, investigators and state attorney generals should have explicit jurisdiction to enforce violations of state and local law.' (06:15)

Both Don Lemon and Michael Fenone identify Stephen Miller as the primary orchestrator of the Trump administration's aggressive and 'lawless' immigration enforcement tactics. Fenone dismisses personnel changes like Tom Holman's appointment as an 'optical illusion,' arguing that Miller's '3,000 a day arrest quota' is the real driver of the brutality seen on American streets. He advocates for Miller's removal and prosecution due to his culpability.

Fenone states, 'Steven Miller is the orchestrator of uh all of this. Um it is his 3,000 uh immigrant a day arrest quota that is responsible for the brutality that you're seeing play out in American streets across the country.' (53:44) He also notes, 'It was Steven Miller that went into Metropolitan Police Department roll calls and told them the gloves were off.' (54:28)

Analysis by Sarah Longwell and observations by the hosts indicate a significant shift in public opinion, even among some Trump voters, regarding the aggressive tactics of ICE agents. The shooting of Alex Prey, described as 'much more clear-cut' than the Renee Good incident, is cited as a 'tipping point.' Voters, who initially hired Trump to secure borders and deport dangerous criminals, are now reportedly 'fed up' with agents 'parrolling the streets in masks' and shooting Americans, especially when economic concerns are not being addressed.

Sarah Longwell states, 'I cannot overstate how big of a shift there has been uh on just Minneapolis... everybody's seen the videos... the Prey shooting is just much more clear-cut.' (44:42) She adds, 'the vast majority of the country is just reaching kind of a tipping point on uh not only do they think this is wrong... they did not want this people in our streets.' (46:06)