CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, both reacted to Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino denouncing those who have compared ICE and Border Patrol to the Gestapo by trying to argue the comparisons are legitimate. The background for all the anti-ICE rhetoric was the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti, but instead of waiting for an investigation to take its course or commenting on the specifics of this case, they tried to put it into a wider pattern. Stewart began by playing a clip from a recent Bovino press conference where he said, “Politicians, community leaders, and some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric…Calling law enforcement names like Gestapo.”   Jon Stewart mocks Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino for denouncing politicians that have compared ICE to the Gestapo, "You know, first of all, it is slightly terrifying that you might be dressing for the job you want." (1/3) pic.twitter.com/ZmPJRnr3J3 — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) January 27, 2026   After mocking Bovino’s pronunciation of “Gestapo” by adding a bunch of unnecessary H-sounds to various words, Stewart got to his point by putting up a picture of Bovino in a Border Patrol trench coat and declaring, “I get that that language can be hyperbolic, certainly. But one thing that may not be helping your case, Sergeant Bovino, or whatever—can we get a quick fit check on this mother[bleep]? You know, first of all, it is slightly terrifying that you might be dressing for the job you want.” Calling a trench coat proof of Nazism is like citing vegetarianism as proof that someone admires Hitler: it’s insane. Nevertheless, Stewart rolled on and had some suggestions on how Bovino could improve his message, “So if I can say, if you love the Gestapo coat, you may want to change the Gestapo hair. Because together, it's really 'shtapo. So, if you love the coat? Keep the coat. Instead of the fashi, you might want to give yourself the Garfunkel. Changes everything.” Breaking out his Borat voice, Stewart continued, “Or if you're really into the reverse Larry David, keep the hair but maybe a less threatening uniform. ‘Very nice! Very nice! Very nice! Nobody is buying your shit right now.” Later, on CBS, an unhappy Colbert reacted to a clip of Bovino on CNN claiming that Border Patrol agents are the real victims, “The only way they could ever be considered in any way victims is that they are, at best, weak-minded individuals, full of anger, who have been led to the darkness by Donald Trump and are now participating in an evil system that will stick to them like hot black tar for the rest of their lives. Guys. I’d cook at home from now, fellas, because no meal will ever go un-spit upon. Bovino went on complaining.”   Stephen Colbert also reacts to Bovino and declares, "Yes, do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That's an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces." pic.twitter.com/PHR7CIOeMm — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) January 27, 2026   He then played another clip from the same interview where Bovino told Dana Bash, “They're trying to portray Border Patrol agents and ICE agents as Gestapo, Nazi, and many other words.” Colbert actually suggested the Nazis are actually above ICE on the moral ladder, “Yes, do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That's an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces.” Later, Colbert continued his tradition of welcoming politicians to parrot what he said in his monologue. This time the guest was Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and Colbert asked him, “Clearly you believe the government is a force for good. What is your reaction to this violence and incitement coming from Homeland Security?”   Later, Colbert continues his habit of having on politicians who agree with him to tell him what he wants to hear. This time he asks Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, "Clearly you believe the government is a force for good. What is your reaction to this violence and incitement… pic.twitter.com/g1HxUJeRHv — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) January 27, 2026   Shapiro proclaimed, “I do believe that government is a force for good and I believe this administration in Washington is using it for pure evil in Minnesota right now. And it should not be hard to say that… What they are doing, what they are doing there is violating people's constitutional rights. What we are seeing is a lawlessness from this administration that must stop.” Such broad allegations of Gestapo-like behavior are untruthful and dangerous. Even if the investigation in this case reveals that ICE was in the wrong, it still does not change the fact that Renee Good drove her car at an ICE agent and that another agent was forced to fire his gun after being attacked by men with snow shovels. Here are transcripts for the January 26 shows: Comedy Central The Daily Show 1/26/2026 11:13 PM ET JON STEWART: I’m sorry, Greg Bovino, you've got more to say? GREG BOVINO: Politicians, community leaders, and some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric. [jump cut] Calling law enforcement names like Gestapo. STEWART: [Bovino impression] “I'm shorry. Oh, I'm Shorry. Could you pronounce that again?” You went full 'shtapo! Geshtapo? Geshtapo! I thought you guys hate when people do that. The way a Latino newscaster might throw out a "Maduro," a “Nicolas Maduro.” But you are out there full Gesthapo! Like you're an extra in Jojo Rabbit. “Geshtapo. I’m Geshtapo.” In America we pronounce it Gestapo. And I get that that language can be hyperbolic, certainly. But one thing that may not be helping your case, Sergeant Bovino, or whatever—can we get a quick fit check on this mother[bleep]? You know, first of all, it is slightly terrifying that you might be dressing for the job you want. So if I can say, if you love the Gestapo coat, you may want to change the Gestapo hair. Because together, it's really 'shtapo. So, if you love the coat? Keep the coat. Instead of the fashi, you might want to give yourself the Garfunkel. Changes everything. Or if you're really into the reverse Larry David, keep the hair but maybe a less threatening uniform. [Borat impression] "Very nice! Very nice! Very nice!" Nobody is buying your shit right now. I mean, we can't even get through a snowstorm without being reminded of how badly this is going for you. *** CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 1/26/2025 11:40 PM ET STEPHEN COLBERT: The only way they could ever be considered in any way victims is that they are, at best, weak-minded individuals, full of anger, who have been led to the darkness by Donald Trump and are now participating in an evil system that will stick to them like hot black tar for the rest of their lives. Guys. I’d cook at home from now, fellas, because no meal will ever go un-spit upon. Bovino went on complaining. GREG BOVINO: Look, Dana, they're trying to portray Border Patrol agents and ICE agents as Gestapo, Nazi, and many other words. COLBERT: Yes, do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That's an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces. … COLBERT: Clearly you believe the government is a force for good. JOSH SHAPIRO: I do. COLBERT: What is your reaction to this violence and incitement coming from Homeland Security? SHAPIRO: I do believe that government is a force for good and I believe this administration in Washington is using it for pure evil in Minnesota right now. And it should not be hard to say that. I think Americans are outraged by what they see. And no matter how many times this administration tells us to not see what we're seeing with our own eyes, I think all that does is create more of a rift in our country. Here's what is clear. And I know this is certainly as a former chief law enforcement officer of our commonwealth. I also just know this as a common sense American. That the mission in Minnesota must be terminated immediately. What they are doing, what they are doing there is violating people's constitutional rights. What we are seeing is a lawlessness from this administration that must stop.

In castigating the Trump administration for its rhetoric on the ICE shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Morning Joe spoke of "lie, lies, or lying" 21 times in the show's first 15 minutes. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was singled out for particular opprobrium. And while Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire, and Willie Geist also got into the action, it was Joe Scarborough who carried the bulk of the "lying" load. If there's one person we don't need to hear pontificating about lying, it's Joe Scarborough. Joe's the guy who—just three months before Joe Biden's candidacy-ending debate meltdown—looked into the camera and angrily declared that the current Biden was "the best ever . . . and f-you if you don't believe it." You might say that Scarborough's reputation for veracity is not precisely pristine! The media in general have criticized Noem for claiming Pretti was "brandishing" a handgun, which doesn't match videos of the shooting. He had a cell phone in his hand. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino had said that Pretti "wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement," and that Noem was "100% correct" in alleging that Pretti had been "brandishing" a gun. But Scarborough said everything DHS said about Renee Good was "lies," as they hit every ICE-hating take. On Good, Morning Joe insisted on calling her the "victim," villainizing ICE, while Mika Brzezinski insisted that the fact that ICE agent Jonathan Ross was previously dragged by a car and required 33 stitches in his leg wasn't sympathetic, it was proof he was "trigger happy" and shouldn't have been in the field.  Later, Scarborough compared the ICE agents in Minnesota to Putin's Russia, even the Soviet Union: "This looks like something that you would expect in Russia. That protesters—this is happening to protesters, not suspected murderers or rapists. This is what America looks like in 2025 for protesters.” Suffice it to say that this isn't the Best Scarborough Ever. When they lament the deaths of Americans, we can recall how many times they felt pain for the families of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, or Jocelyn Nungaray. That wasn't 21 times in 15 minutes.  Here's the transcript. MS NOW Morning Joe 1/27/26 6:06 am ET JOE SCARBOROUGH: The repeated lies . . . And then Kristi Noem, going back to Renee Good, lying through her teeth . . . "I'm not mad." And then she turns and tries to leave. They lie about her and immediately Kristi Noem, without knowing any of the facts, lies through her teeth. It happened again here with Alex Pretti. The same exact thing happened. DHS lying through their teeth . . .  All the lies that Kristi Noem has been telling . . . It's the lies that seem to really have gotten a lot of these Republicans saying, no, no, what she's saying here is a lie. What she said about Renee Good, all lies. What she said about Alex Pretti, all lies. They lied, lied, lied through their teeth . . . They're lying to the American people. They're lying to our constituents. DHS is lying nonstop.  JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yeah, lies from Secretary Noem, from DHS staff, from over the weekend, Stephen Miller, suggesting that Mr. Pretti was an assassin, intent to kill federal agents. A lie, mind you, on social media that was then amplified by the Vice President of the United States.  And there were Republicans who were uneasy about some of the lies they heard.  . . .  WILLIE GEIST: And so much of the problem stems from Kristi Noem's immediate lies about what happened in both of these cases.  MIKA BRZEZINSKI: These two killings were jarring. US citizens.  SCARBOROUGH: Americans.  MIKA: And then the lies that followed were so fast and so furious that I think it was chilling universally. 

Donald Trump’s Arctic strategy has been 500 years in the making. When Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic in 1492, he intended to find a direct path from Europe to Asia. He didn’t, of course — but the first transatlantic explorer to sail under an English flag, John Cabot, tried again a few years later and became the first modern explorer to reach what is now Canada. The commercial potential of the Northwest Passage was obvious from the start, but even once explorers at last figured out how to thread their way through the Arctic’s ice and islands, there was no possibility of developing the route: the sea ice was just too dense. Until now, that is: warmer temperatures and 21st-century technology put a trade route the world has sought for centuries within reach — but whose? Canada claims the passage as its own territorial waters. America, like most of the world, has never accepted that assertion. The future of what one day may be the planet’s most important shipping lane is being decided today. China is already literally testing the waters. In 2017, the Chinese used a research vessel to confirm that cargo ships can now make it through the passage. Talk of a “Polar Silk Road” has been rife since the Xue Long made its trek. “It opened up a new sea lane for China,” the state news agency Xinhua boasted. “From Shanghai to New York, the traditional route that passes through the Panama Canal is 10,500 nautical miles, while the route that passes through the Northwest Passage is 8,600 nautical miles, which saves 7 days of time.” Canada granted the ship permission to make the crossing but didn’t know its “research” had a commercial angle until China announced its triumph. Since then, Beijing has focused most of its Arctic attention on its relationship with Russia, whose northeastern sea routes are already well developed — the Arctic’s overall economic activity is still small, but Moscow is the dominant player. Yet there’s no doubt about China’s long-range intentions. One former Canadian security official, professor Stephanie Carvin, told the Canadian Broadcasting Company last September that China “has an ambitious plan to basically control a lot of the rare-earth elements and mining and wants to invest in the Canadian Arctic.” President Trump recognizes the dangers here. Canada is heavily reliant on America’s intelligence capabilities and military strength, but Canadian security also depends on Canadian politics, and that’s the weak link — for us as well as them. Successive governments in Ottawa have failed to meet Canada’s NATO commitments to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense. They’ve also been complacent about Chinese and Russian activities in the waters Canada claims as its own. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s courtship of Chinese trade in recent weeks highlights how economically vulnerable America’s northern neighbor is. Carney quickly backed off after Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs if Canada sought a major trade deal with Beijing. Carney now says he’s never intended to strike a free-trade bargain with China, despite recent bilateral agreements. The Northwest Passage and the Arctic’s mineral resources are vital to the economic security and military defense of America, Europe and Canada alike. Yet national pride — the claim of exclusive dominion over the Northwest Passage — will lead to national disaster, and a global crisis, if Ottawa doesn’t get serious soon. Trump’s hardball diplomacy with Ottawa, his tariffs, and his jokes about Canada becoming America’s 51st state put a strain on America-Canada relations, but they also force Canadian leaders to think about the country’s ultimate choices: Can Canada develop and defend the Arctic without America? If Trump seems like a bully, what can Ottawa expect from China and Russia as the Northwest Passage’s potential is realized in the decades to come? Americans, too, have to face reality: we can’t afford to be complacent about how this neighbor and ally governs the waters it claims but can’t secure. Canada should take a lesson from Greenland’s experience: Trump seemed to demand nothing less than Denmark’s surrender of the territory to America, but once he’d succeeded in shocking everyone into thinking about the most basic questions of sovereignty and security, he used the opportunity to strengthen America’s commitments to Greenland’s defense. His approach to Canada is similar — Trump is not trying to repeat James Madison’s folly in the War of 1812, when America actually tried to annex Canada. Instead, he’s asking Canada’s leaders to acknowledge they can’t take our trade and defense assistance for granted while resenting our interests in the Northwest Passage and the region as a whole. Today the Arctic is the free world’s frontier, and Canada can keep it safe only by treating America as a partner, not a piggy bank. Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy, visit www.creators.com.

On Minneapolis, Meyers was optimistic that the administration is losing, “It seems as though, certainly today, there’s a bit of Trump maybe doing his classic thing of backing off a little bit. There's talk that maybe Bovino is going to leave Minneapolis. Tom Homan’s going to come in. That they might actually sense the way the wind is blowing on this, which is it is deeply unpopular. And they are not, at least at this point, capable of bending this reality in the way that maybe they have with other issues in the past. Do you feel like they're stepping back from the precipice of this a little?” Hayes agreed, “They are. Here's what I feel. They are unambiguously losing. They are losing.”   MS NOW host Chris Hayes tells Seth Meyers that the Minneapolis protestors are like those who marched in Selma, "refusing to give an inch to the regime, you expose its malevolence. And that's what happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge when the cops started beating up the… pic.twitter.com/rekFk43Q81 — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) January 27, 2026   According to Hayes, that is because the protestors are just the latest in a non-violent resistance, “And part of the tradition of non-violent civil resistance and disobedience from Gandhi, through King, through what we've seen on the streets of Minneapolis is that in fearlessly—in a fearless and disciplined fashion, refusing to give an inch to the regime, you expose its malevolence. And that's what happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge when the cops started beating up the protesters. It's what we've seen in Minneapolis.” He added, “And the hope for that kind of disciplined resistance is that it wakes people up to the moral truth that's at the core of the relationship between the forces of oppression and the people being oppressed. And we are seeing one of those moments right now. It has cost two people their lives. And other people not going to school, and other people being tear gassed, and other people being thrown into detention. But this has been a tremendous political and moral victory. Even if nothing happens up until this point, at the horrible tragic cost of these two lives—and they are absolutely getting their butts kicked—they're not going to just throw in the towel and admit it. But I think they are now looking for the exits in a real way.” One of the two people Hayes referenced, Renee Good, drove her car at an ICE agent after being told to get out of the car. Regardless of what the investigation surrounding the Alex Pretti shooting reveals, that will not change. What did change was the subject in the second segment. Meyers lamented that in the future, uncharismatic politicians are going to try a little too hard to be cool, “Do you fear that we are now going to see a lot of less charismatic politicians try to pull off the Mamdani/Trump playbook?” Hayes agreed that it will happen but “I actually don't think it's the worst thing. I mean, look, this is the way politics works. It's the way sports work, right? Some new team figures out some new offense, and everyone kind of copycats it. You've seen a lot of, like, really cringe worthy knockoff Donald Trump impressions by Republicans. Ron DeSantis coming to mind most foremost.” Moving on to all the snow that dumped on New York over the weekend, Hayes continued, “But one of the things I think that's been really interesting about watching Mamdani make that transition from campaigning to governing is his continued understanding of how important that attention is. I mean, he put out this video about snow plowing, right? And it wasn't a campaign video. It was totally non-ideological. It wasn't even political. It was just like, ‘Here's how we're going to plow the snow in the streets, and here's what you should expect.’ But it was really good. And it was compelling.”   And now for something completely different. Later, Hayes gushes over Zohran Mamdani's shoveling snow, "he put out this video about snowplowing, right? And it wasn't a campaign video. It was totally non-ideological. It wasn't even political. It was just like, 'Here's how we're… pic.twitter.com/witJFxioH2 — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) January 27, 2026   Both Meyers and Hayes then agreed the video was so “fun” that you could show it to your kids. Speaking of Mamdani and the weather, earlier, on The Tonight Show, Fallon was doing his “it’s so cold” bit, “It's so cold, JD Vance shrunk to the size of Marco Rubio. It is so cold, I watched the Melania movie just to warm my heart, you know? It’s so cold, President Trump got a space heater installed in his MRI machine.”   Speaking of Mamdani and the weather, Jimmy Fallon welcomes Mamdani to quip, "It’s so cold in New York City, the rent froze itself. Good night, everybody." pic.twitter.com/7KovPKa7hs — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) January 27, 2026   Mamdani then interrupted, and after a long standing ovation from the audience, promoted one of his worst ideas, “It’s so cold in New York City, the rent froze itself. Good night, everybody.” Even the weather does not make the late night shows immune from pushing far-left values. Here are transcripts for the January 26-taped shows: NBC Late Night with Seth Meyers 1/27/2026 1:03 AM ET SETH MEYERS: It seems as though, certainly today, there’s a bit of Trump maybe doing his classic thing of backing off a little bit. There's talk that maybe Bovino is going to leave Minneapolis. Tom Homan’s going to come in. That they might actually sense the way the wind is blowing on this, which is it is deeply unpopular. And they are not, at least at this point, capable of bending this reality in the way that maybe they have with other issues in the past. Do you feel like they're stepping back from the precipice of this a little? CHRIS HAYES: They are. Here's what I feel. They are unambiguously losing. MEYERS: Right. HAYES: They are losing. And part of the tradition of non-violent civil resistance and disobedience from Gandhi, through King, through what we've seen on the streets of Minneapolis is that in fearlessly—in a fearless and disciplined fashion, refusing to give an inch to the regime, you expose its malevolence. And that's what happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge when the cops started beating up the protesters. It's what we've seen in Minneapolis. And the hope for that kind of disciplined resistance is that it wakes people up to the moral truth that's at the core of the relationship between the forces of oppression and the people being oppressed. And we are seeing one of those moments right now. It has cost two people their lives. And other people not going to school, and other people being tear gassed, and other people being thrown into detention. But this has been a tremendous political and moral victory. Even if nothing happens up until this point, at the horrible tragic cost of these two lives—and they are absolutely getting their butts kicked—they're not going to just throw in the towel and admit it. But I think they are now looking for the exits in a real way. … MEYERS: Our mayor, Mamdani, did seem to understand that, maybe the first, sort of, post-Trump politician— HAYES: Totally. MEYERS: —to become national in a position that is not a national position. Do you fear that we are now going to see a lot of less charismatic politicians try to pull off the Mamdani/Trump playbook? HAYES: Oh, we're going to get so much vertical video— MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: —you're going to be— I mean, you're already seeing, like, every Democratic candidate— MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: —trying to take the form of elements. But I actually don't think it's the worst thing. I mean, look, this is the way politics works. MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: It's the way sports work, right? Some new team figures out some new offense, and everyone kind of copycats it. MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: You've seen a lot of, like, really cringe worthy knockoff Donald Trump impressions by Republicans. MEYERS: Yep. Yep. HAYES: Ron DeSantis coming to mind most foremost. MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: And I think you'll get a lot of that with Mamdani. But one of the things I think that's been really interesting about watching Mamdani make that transition from campaigning to governing is his continued understanding of how important that attention is. MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: I mean, he put out this video about snow plowing, right? And it wasn't a campaign video. It was totally non-ideological. It wasn't even political. It was just like, "Here's how we're going to plow the snow in the streets— MEYERS: Yeah. HAYES: — and here's what you should expect." But it was really good. And it was compelling.  MEYERS: It was fun to show my kids. HAYES: It was fun to show your kids. *** NBC The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 1/26/2026 11:35 PM ET JIMMY FALLON: It's so cold, JD Vance shrunk to the size of Marco Rubio. It is so cold, I watched the Melania movie just to warm my heart, you know? It’s so cold, President Trump got a space heater installed in his MRI machine. ZOHRAN MAMDANI: Hey, Jimmy, let me try one. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s so cold in New York City, the rent froze itself. Good night, everybody. FALLON: Mayor Zohran Mamdani, everyone. Thank you, mayor, very much.

Virginia Commonwealth University police are investigating a nurse at the VCU Health system after videos surfaced of the employee apparently encouraging viewers on social media to poison and drug the food of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, VCU Health reported Tuesday in a statement. “We are aware of a series of videos that appear to have been posted by an individual confirmed to be an employee of our health system,” the VCU Health statement says. “The content of the videos is highly inappropriate and does not reflect the integrity or values of our health system.” “VCU Police are assisting with this investigation,” VCU Health says, noting that the employee “is on administrative leave and will not be in our facilities or interacting with patients.” The VCU statement appears to refer to video of a nurse exposed Monday evening by Libs of TikTok, which identifies her as “Melinda”: “Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.” “Get them sick,” the woman in the video says. “Let’s get them where they eat,” she says, describing a way to drug their food. Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food. Any… pic.twitter.com/CMJN12GhOc — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 27, 2026   The goal, she says, is to incapacitate, not kill, the ICE agents – adding that her tactics are “highly, easily deniable.” In one video, she announces her plan to put poison ivy and poison oak in water and then spray the mixture on ICE agents. “Stay toxic,” the woman encourages. A nurse named Malinda (not Melinda) Cook is listed as an employee on the VCU Health website and on Doximity.com, which bills itself as “the largest community of healthcare professionals in the country.” A profile picture Cook, a CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiology) is posted on Doximity.com.