On Tuesday’s Inside Politics, CNN attempt to give credence to a story that an unfortunate “disabled” woman was accosted and arrested by ICE for supposedly no reason while trying get to a doctor’s appointment. But a simple search of the woman’s name, Aliya Rahman, turns up a treasure trove proving that she had a long history as a professional liberal activist working with far-left organizations that promote “racial,” “criminal,” and “social justice.” With part of her focus being against law enforcement. “We’re hearing for the first time from Aliya Rahman, the woman ICE officers dragged from her vehicle while she shouted that she was disabled and trying to get to her doctor’s office,” announced host Dana Bash. What followed up was a soundbite of Rahman claiming that even someone without her cognitive processing problems would have an issue understanding the ICE agent’s order to move her car out of their way: I think even someone who doesn’t have the kind of auditory processing challenges I do would not know what to do with the sentence “move, I will break your effing window.” And then back and forth between, “move, get out,” trying to open my door, more threats of breaking a window, which I don’t understand the functional purpose of. And it’s not a warning, its a threat of violence, that really shouldn’t be packaged with an instruction.   CNN highlights a woman who they label as "disabled woman dragged out of her car and arrested by ICE," as if she was an innocent bystander. But the woman is Aliya Rahman, a fellow at a leftist activist group with a long history in progressive "racial and criminal justice… pic.twitter.com/eJdXtLGfgO — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 20, 2026   But they never explained who Rahman was outside the incident in question. A simple Google search for her name turn up her employment page for New America, a left-wing organization, which listed her as their fellow from the Open Technology Institute. New America boasts about her: Her work was informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and criminal justice campaigns, fifteen years of software development for the social justice movement, and a former life as an educator and researcher working in public education and workforce development. Aliya served formerly as Program Director at Code for Progress, where she led the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of community organizers of color into full-time developer positions. She is also is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.     About themselves, New America openly declared they’re all about “equity” (Click “expand”): We are dedicated to realizing the promise of America in an era of rapid technological and social change. At New America, our research and policy recommendations focus on five key thematic areas: education and work; family economic security and wellbeing; global politics for people and planet; political reform and civic engagement; and technology and democracy. In each area of our work, we put equity at the center; elevate stories of people closest to the public problems we seek to solve; invest in the next generation of leaders; and intentionally engage with local perspectives. Taken together, these efforts advance toward our vision of a more equitable America that lives up to its values. Rahman's true identity was discovered back on January 14 by the New York Post, yet six days later, CNN was still trying to pull one over on their viewers. On the flip side of this, Bash gave the ‘conservatives pounce’ treatment to the story of a crazed leftist mob storming a church on Sunday and shouting down their service: [Y]ou're almost surely seeing exclusively on conservative media and in conservative algorithms is something else that happened in Minneapolis yesterday. There was a church service where protesters made a point of going to this church service and using that as a staging area for, you know, making their, um, the fact that they're not happy with ICE, known. And this is one of the things so far, maybe, maybe the thing that the Trump Justice Department is looking into whether federal laws were broken there.   CNN follows up by giving the 'conservatives pounce' treatment to the story of the leftist mob invading a church to assail parishioners on Sunday: "[Y]ou're almost surely seeing exclusively on conservative media and in conservative algorithms is something else that happened in… pic.twitter.com/9ywtfEnwLc — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 20, 2026   “So, it's a battle of narratives, for sure,” griped Leigh Ann Caldwell, chief Washington correspondent for Puck News. “Republicans are going to focus on that, that you know, protesters, liberals are - don't respect ICE officers, Federal Law Enforcement, they don't even respect your Sunday church service where you're at.” Further in the conversation, CNN senior political analyst Nia-Malika Henderson made the comment that, “Barack Obama, he deported like 3 million people and no one got shot in the face, and you didn't, you know, see people getting ripped out of cars, and so that is the problem.” What Henderson’s snarky comment brushed over was the fact that the media back then were Obama’s lapdogs who refused to speak negatively about him; unlike with Trump, for whom they stoke and ferment hate and hysteria to the point where people try to obstruct ICE and try to kill them. NewsBusters Intern Nicholas Spinnato contributed to this blog. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash January 20, 2026 12:36:39 p.m. Eastern DANA BASH: We’re hearing for the first time from Aliya Rahman, the woman ICE officers dragged from her vehicle while she shouted that she was disabled and trying to get to her doctor’s office. Here she is with our colleague Laura Coates [Cuts to video] ALIYA RAHMAN: I think even someone who doesn’t have the kind of auditory processing challenges I do would not know what to do with the sentence “move, I will break your effing window.” And then back and forth between, “move, get out,” trying to open my door, more threats of breaking a window, which I don’t understand the functional purpose of. And it’s not a warning, its a threat of violence, that really shouldn’t be packaged with an instruction.” [Cuts back to live] BASH: And our panel is back here. John, you’ve been out a lot, around the country. I just wonder if what you’re hearing, even from Trump Supporters, matches what we’re seeing in our polling, which is not a lot of support. JOHN KING: Too far, too far. Donald Trump had a mandate when he won the election to have pretty aggressive immigration actions, including aggressive deportations, the American people were fed up. But, and it’s very important but, I would capitalize it in bold face this but, even Trump supporters when they watch this stuff say it is too much. And so, I do think the language – as you just heard the woman there yanked from the car, you’re going to see in Democratic ads this fall, I’m not going to repeat it here, the language used by the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Good. And then there was another one captured the next day; ‘Don't you don't want to end up like that bleep, bleep, bleep.’ Suburban women decided the 2018 election because they thought about the 5 A.M. tweets and all the chaos of the first Trump term, and they said we have to have to run our families lives, and this is just over the line, it's too much, it's too much. I think that is, that's a common theme in our poll, that even people who support the president here support the president there think, whoa, you're over the top here. I do think there are, you know, again, the president had a mandate to fix the immigration system, the American people would support orderly deportations of people who are here illegally. There would be a debate about, do you have to commit a crime? You know, where's the line? I think would be a fair debate in our public. But the tone and the tenor, the repetitive nature of this, they're not one offs anymore, you know,  it's not, it's not a one situation, you know, and a lot of people have empathy for people in law enforcement. They have very stressful jobs. And so you can't – there but for the grace of God. Right? But when you see it again and again and again, I think the tone of this, given where key elections are decided, and given there are a lot of reluctant Trump voters who said, I want the border closed and I want a better economy, but I don't want that stuff again, that this is too far. BASH: And what you are going to see here, because we're going to show you everything, but you're almost surely seeing exclusively on conservative media and in conservative algorithms is something else that happened in Minneapolis yesterday. There was a church service where protesters made a point of going to this church service and using that as a staging area for, you know, making their, um, the fact that they're not happy with ICE, known. And this is one of the things so far, maybe, maybe the thing that the Trump Justice Department is looking into whether federal laws were broken there. Let's listen. [Cuts to video] HARMEET DHILLON (DOJ, assistant attorney general for human rights): The attorney general reached out to me about this yesterday when I was on an airplane, and before I landed, we'd already scrambled the jets and gotten prosecutors assigned to this, as well as reached out to the FBI and had agents assigned and the U.S. Attorney's office in Minneapolis assigned to this. So, here are already several law enforcement officials working on this as of yesterday evening. LEIGH ANN CALDWELL: So, it's a battle of narratives, for sure. Republicans are going to focus on that, that you know, protesters, liberals are - don't respect ICE officers, Federal Law Enforcement, they don't even respect your Sunday church service where you're at. But, I will say that the images that ICE has been very aggressive in promoting, themselves, as John said, looks like it could start to backfire. On Capitol Hill. You know, I reported over the weekend that that Democratic leadership are, are, are thinking about a probe - a quiet - they're quietly thinking right now about a probe into DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, starting their own investigation, regardless of what Republicans want to do, because they think that the politics are much better for them on immigration. The border is closed, Trump took that issue away. And if they win back the majority, they want to be ready, really on day one, to have some sort of accountability and oversight of this DHS. BASH: Yeah, and now they're also blaming and going after, and since the end of last week, threatening to or pursuing prosecution of the Democratic Governor of Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis, ICE, the social media post that they put up on Sunday, “Tim Walz and Jacob Frey are responsible for whipping these mobs into a frenzy and allowing them to run rampant. We won't be deterred.” This is specifically about the church protests, and I should say that Walz has said that he does not support protesters interrupting houses of worship. NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON: And possibly our former colleague Don Lemon, too, who was there as a journalist filming what was happening there. The complaints that the protesters have is that they say that a pastor at that church is cooperating with the ICE agents who were there. I think average Americans simply don't understand why they're there and why it's getting so out of control. If you think about Barack Obama, he deported like 3 million people and no one got shot in the face, and you didn't, you know, see people getting ripped out of cars, and so that is the problem. This is an administration that likes to govern through image, through image of strength. Right? And we've seen that particularly with with, with DHS and some of these apprehensions. But as you know, John has said, Americans believe they've gone too far. And Democrats don't even really need to message very much on it because they can just see it on their television. DAVID CHALIAN: Although, as you see, Democrats could also, even though that may be wise advice, they also can easily form a circular firing squad amongst themselves, sort of debating the future of ICE - HENDERSON: Abolishing ICE, yeah. CHALIAN: And how that created political problems for them a few years ago. BASH: Alright, we’re going to have to take a quick break. Thank you all, appreciate it.

Having already rejected traditional mediums for news and information, Americans may be falling into Big Tech’s carefully-laid media trap.  As NewsBusters reported in October of last year, 7 in 10 adults have either “not very much” confidence (36%) or “none at all” (34%) in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. But where are Americans getting their news now?  Odds are good that one source for news consumption — whether actively sought out or passively ingested — is at least one of the Big Four News Apps: (1) Apple News, (2) Google News, (3) MSN or (4) Yahoo News. Google News, MSN and Yahoo News, are all ranked inside the top 15 news websites in the United States as of December 2025, according to Press Gazette. But don’t feel bad for Apple News.  Two of the four aforementioned leftist news sources come preloaded on nearly every Americans’ smartphone, before users even have the opportunity to select their preferred apps. And according to Exploding Topics, Apple phones have the lead. As of April 2025,  iPhone (57.68%) and Android (42.06%) hold an apparent duopoly, with approximately 99.74% of the U.S. market share split between them. If the phone is an Android, then Google News was preloaded on the device. If it’s an iPhone, then the cellphone has Apple News.  And that’s just the start. Even if an American finds themselves in that tiny sliver of the population (less than 1%) that doesn’t have either a Google or Apple cellular device, that minority may still be using an email account associated with one of the Big Four News Apps.  Have a Microsoft (MSN) account or Microsoft Outlook email address? How about a Yahoo account or email address? If the answer is, “Yes,” to either, then, guess what: the Big Four News Apps are pushing elitist media propaganda to you too. Microsoft account and Outlook email address users are being fed a steady stream of MSN’s elitist media offerings, while Yahoo account and email address users are heaped on with elitist media from Yahoo news, Yahoo Finance and all of its offerings. Perhaps unlike the elitist media purveyors of old, the leftist drivel that the Big Four News Apps are pushing is hiding in plain sight. Focusing on Apple News over the month of December 2025, MRC researchers found that Apple News suppressed right-leaning media outlets throughout the entire month. From the report:  “Apple News failed to link to a single right-leaning media outlet among its top 20 daily articles during the month of December. Out of the 620 opportunities analyzed at approximately 10:00 a.m. each day by the Media Research Center, Apple News whiffed every single time.  “Instead, dozens of times Apple News published articles from leftist outlets like The Washington Post, NBC News and NPR and center outlets like Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and the BBC. “You have to go all the way back to Nov. 5 of last year to find the last time Apple News deigned to link to a single right-leaning site. That story was from British outlet The Telegraph covering the atrocities taking place in Sudan: ‘In Sudan's genocide, Only Those Who Pay Survive.’ Ironically,  Apple hid the article behind the Apple News+ paywall and only paid subscribers could read the full article.”  Google News was up to its own shenanigans in recent months.  For six straight weeks, Google News suppressed coverage of the widespread fraud allegations in the state of Minnesota. The online digital gatekeeper largely kept its viewers from seeing any new revelations on the Minnesota fraud scandal, only publishing four out of 840 stories in its top 20 morning editions on the matter between Nov. 28, 2025 and Jan. 9, 2026. Not one of the stories it published on the Minnesota fraud allegations came from a right-leaning outlet, and three of the stories actively sought to vilify Trump administration enforcement actions, underscoring just how devious Google News’s apparent censorship was during the analyzed period. This blatant suppression of critical stories and conservative viewpoints by the Big Four News Apps demands accountability.  With Americans increasingly relying on the Big Four News Apps for news and information, MRC will continue to shine a light on their suppression of right-leaning media perspectives, as seen in Apple News’s complete exclusion of right-leaning outlets in December 2025 and Google News’s near-total blackout of reporting on the fraud allegations in Minnesota. MRC remains steadfast in its mission to expose these digital gatekeepers for suppressing free speech and information while pushing the leftist narratives of the elitist media, and MRC will work tirelessly to protect free speech both at home and abroad, ensuring that Big Tech cannot silence dissenting voices or control the flow of information unchallenged.

Other countries should emulate the “America First” model, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told globalist leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday. “We are here to make a very clear point: globalization has failed the West and the United States of America,” Sec. Lutnick explained, addressing politicians, businessmen and societal leaders from around the world: “It’s a failed policy. It is what the left has stood for – which is export, offshore, far-shore, find the cheapest labor in the world and the world is a better place for it. “The fact is it has left America behind. It has left the American workers behind.” Instead, other nations should adopt their own version of the Trump Administration’s “America First” policy by prioritizing their countries, Lutnick said: “We are here to say is that ‘America First’ is a different model – one that we encourage other countries to consider, which is that our workers come first [and] we can have policies that impact our workers.” “Sovereignty is your borders. You’re entitled to have borders,” Lutnick said, warning of the harm caused by embracing globalist ideology: “You shouldn’t offshore your medicine. “You shouldn’t offshore your semiconductors. “You shouldn’t offshore your entire industrial base and have it be hollowed out beneath you. “You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation – and if you’re going to be dependent on someone, it darn well better be your best ally. Okay?” Instead, European countries are making themselves dependent on foreign regimes that are hostile to them, Sec. Lutnick said, using self-destructive environmental ideology as an example: “Why would Europe agree to be Net Zero (emissions) in 2030 when they don’t make a battery? They don’t make a battery. “So, if they go 2030, they are deciding to be subservient to China, who makes the batteries.”   Globalization has FAILED. Secretary Lutnick at the World Economic Forum: “The Trump Administration and I are here to make a very clear point—globalization has failed the West and the United States of America. It’s a failed policy… and it has left America behind.” America is… pic.twitter.com/Urxl7pZwSe — U.S. Commerce Dept. (@CommerceGov) January 20, 2026  

Since the January 7 fatal shooting of left-wing agitator Renee Good by an ICE officer, Minneapolis has been gripped by riots, lawlessness, and escalating tensions between activists and federal law enforcement. Meanwhile, left-wing broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have spent more than two hours of airtime blaming the chaos on immigration officials.  MRC analysts pored through every report about the situation in Minneapolis which aired on ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News, from January 7 through January 17, 2026. We found a total of 121 minutes and 26 seconds of coverage devoted to the topic, of which a whopping 93 percent was negative toward federal immigration officials.   SUMMARY OF FINDINGS ABC, CBS, and NBC’s flagship evening newscasts all hammered ICE with more than 90% negative coverage (91% negative on ABC and NBC, 96% negative on CBS). Just 1.6% of of the Minneapolis-related coverage included any mention of the crimes committed by the illegal aliens whom ICE agents were there to apprehend to begin with. CBS never explicitly admitted that Nicole Good hit agent Jonathan Ross with her car moments before he fired at her. ABC and NBC did so only once each.    NETWORKS FOUND ICE AGENT ROSS GUILTY OF 'MURDER' To determine the skew of the coverage, analysts examined the selection of sound bites about the situation in Minneapolis that each network chose to air. On CBS, 26 of the 27 sound bites were critical of (or, more often, outright hostile toward) ICE. Both ABC and NBC aired 21 such sound bites, versus only two that were positive.  For example on January 14, ABC eagerly highlighted prolific podcaster Joe Rogan’s criticism of the federal government: “Are we really gonna be the Gestapo? ‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?” One of the few quotes that favored ICE actually came from the father of Renee Good’s ex-husband on January 13’s NBC Nightly News, when he said of her fatal encounter with officer Ross: “The car did hit him.” But not even the 93-percent hostility toward federal immigration officials tells the full story of just how stilted the coverage was on the evening newscasts. On January 12, for example, CBS correspondent Nicole Sganga accused ICE agent Jonathan Ross of murdering Nicole Good: DHS this weekend released a video showing the minutes leading up to the murder of Renee Good. She and others are heard honking car horns. Trump administration officials claim she intended to ram ICE agents before she was shot. CBS’s framing of Renee Good’s death was particularly mendacious. While the network repeatedly played the footage from officer Ross’s phone which indisputably showed Good hitting him with her car, not one journalist ever stated as fact that Good’s vehicle had indeed struck Ross. Even anchor Tony Dokoupil only ever framed it as something the Trump administration was claiming. All three networks did mention that Ross reportedly had been sent to the hospital for internal bleeding after the incident. However, each did so only once.   ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIME WAS VIRTUALLY ABSENT FROM COVERAGE Despite the melee in Minneapolis having resulted from a dispute over immigration enforcement, the crimes committed by the detained illegal aliens barely ever came up in the broadcast coverage.  ABC spent a mere 12 seconds on the illegal aliens’ malfeasance, which amounted to just half a percent of their 2290 seconds of coverage.  The situation was virtually identical on CBS: just 16 seconds, or 0.6 percent of their 2633 seconds spent covering Minneapolis. NBC paid the topic the most attention by far: 89 seconds (4% of their 2363-second total), spread across seven different mentions. NBC was also the only network to actually run a graphic detailing some of the alleged crimes perpetrated by the illegal aliens ICE agents had apprehended. On January 12, correspondent Maggie Vespa reported: “DHS touting the work of federal officers in Minneapolis the last few days, saying they’ve arrested criminal suspects in the U.S. illegally, including with convictions for sexual assault of a child, rape of a child, homicide, and manslaughter.” Vespa’s report that evening also included a sound bite of White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt further detailing the rap sheets of several detainees.

Minnesota citizens and local officials outside Minneapolis say they don’t want the crime and chaos taking place in Minneapolis and that they do support the law enforcement work of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. “We don’t want to be like Minneapolis,” St. Cloud City Council Member Scott Brodeen declared last week in comments supporting ICE, The Minnesota Star-Tribune reported Sunday: “I don’t want bad stuff to happen here in St. Cloud that could be avoided.” …. “Just let [ICE] do their jobs and we’ll remain safe as a community.” “Leaders and residents from southwest Minnesota up to the Iron Range have shared similar thoughts about letting ICE complete its job,” The Star-Tribune reports, noting that the opinions expressed by Minnesotans “in small-town bars, cafes and other gathering spots across the state” reject those voiced by anti-ICE residents in metropolitan areas of the state. Indeed, the mayor of Cold Spring, Dave Heinen, says he’d welcome ICE raids of a local poultry processing plant, if they targeting violent criminals, because he wants his friends and relatives who work there to be safe. Likewise, St. Louis County Commissioner Keith Nelson says it’s important to enforce the law and maintain the nation’s borders. What’s more, he says, the people in his community “trust the system” and – unlike Minnesotans in anti-ICE areas of the state – comply with law enforcement officers. “I get the sense that, in other communities, that’s not how it’s working right now and that’s disturbing,” the commissioner observed. “When an officer of any kind, or an ICE agent, walks up to you and tells you to do something, you’re supposed to listen,” a business owner in Sturgeon Lake agreed in comments to the Star-Tribune, characterizing Minnesota’s anti-ICE protesters as “agitators” who are interfering with legitimate law enforcement efforts.