Shame on those anti-ICE protesters who invaded a St. Paul, Minnesota church. Don't they realize they might have harmed the anti-ICE movement? That was Audie Cornish's not-so-subtle suggestion on Tuesday's edition of the CNN This Morning show she hosts. Using Katie Couric's old "some say" trick, Audie put her concerns in the mouths of others. As she expressed it to fellow lib Chuck Rocha: "As people were talking about this yesterday, I heard over and over again, I feel like [protesting in] the church is too far. I feel like the activists are taking it to a place that I can't follow. I feel like I feel like it could it be something that the administration can use against the protest movement." So, nothing intrinsically wrong about invading a house of worship to stage a protest. The concern is only that it's something the terrible Trump administration "can use against the protest movement."  And while Cornish didn't explicitly blame the Trump administration for the church protest, she noted that "the government did open the door to ICE being allowed to go into churches. They made an adjustment to the targeting rules." Was Audie somehow implying that what is sauce for ICE is sauce for protesters?  Cornish failed to mention the involvement of ex-CNN host Don Lemon in the protest. Somewhat surprising, considering that, as we noted back in 2023, it was Audie herself who, live on the air, called out Lemon over his idiotic claim that Nikki Haley was no longer "in her prime" because she was 51. If Lemon ever was in his prime when it comes to understanding the Constitution, those days have clearly passed. During the protest, Lemon told a pastor that there is a constitutional right to freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, and freedom to protest. Uh, not in someone else's private property! Would protesters have a constitutional right to bust into your home or studio to protest your inanity, Don?  Cornish played a clip of Minnesota AG Keith Ellison saying that whereas the church members might otherwise have had a First Amendment right, it's "difficult to say" that, given that the Trump administration is investigating various people. Huh? Zachary Wolf, who writes CNN's "What Matters" newsletter, pitched in to say that Ellison "does have a point." Right on, Zach! The DoJ's investigation of Tish James and others obviously cancels out the church members' right to pray without being interrupted by screaming anti-ICE protesters!    At least Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Andersen explained the conservative view: "Remember, this was, when Charlie Kirk was shot. This was a big piece of what conservatives were saying. Look, we've told you, we're not allowed to do what we want without liberals coming in and stopping us and shutting down our speech, and coming into our spaces, and harming us. And this is yet another example of something like that." Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 1/20/26 6:32 am ET AUDIE CORNISH: In Minneapolis, we have the latest on the investigation into the killing of Renee Good, or what has now become the investigation of Renee Good and those close to her. Two sources tell CNN the FBI opened a civil rights investigation into the officer who shot and killed Renee Good two weeks ago before quickly closing it and shifting the focus to whether or not the officer had been assaulted.  Instead, the focus now seems to be here [video of anti-ICE protest inside St. Paul church.] The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is now focusing on this protest, which disrupted church services in a St. Paul church on Sunday. Protesters say one of the pastors is a local ICE official. CNN spoke with one of the organizers of the protest, and she said she felt it was her job to inform people at the church about their pastor's alleged ties to ICE.  NEKIMA LEVY ARMSTRONG: I have not heard from the DOJ. But I think that it's interesting that the Trump administration will charge everyone except people who are actually violating the law. I do not have any regrets about going in and raising the questions.  CORNISH: Group chat is back. Chuck, I want to talk to you because as people were talking about this yesterday, I heard over and over again, I feel like the church is too far. I feel like the activists are taking it to a place that I can't follow. I feel like I feel like it could it be something that the administration can use against the protest movement.  CHUCK ROCHA: If they could, and they want to wrap this up. We've all talked about why, and I know we'll probably talk about the possibility of bringing 1,500 U.S. troops to that city as well. The administration wants to wrap this up because this is the playing field for political messaging, and messaging that they can talk about, that's in their lane. They love talking about this because it's positive for them. They're talking about law and order.  But for all of you in Minnesota thinking about going to a church or you want to punish Target, this is what you should know: is that these ICE agents can go into a public space and there's nothing Target can do or any other people can do because it's a public space. So we need to make sure we're protesting peacefully in the right areas and not punishing small business owners or Target or churches or whatever, because these ICE agents can go almost anywhere they want to go and that's what you should be protesting and that's the thing that worries me.  CORNISH: It's interesting, the government did open the door to ICE being allowed to go into churches. ROCHA: Right!  CORNISH: They made an adjustment to the targeting rules.  . . .  KRISTEN SOLTIS ANDERSON: One of the things that I think is the reason why this particular, the videos are getting so much circulation, there is so much focus on this in conservative circles in particular, is because they, this is not new, have for the last couple of years really felt like being a conservative Christian in America is something you're not allowed to be, or that you are targeted. Remember, this was, when Charlie Kirk was shot. This was a big piece of what conservatives were saying. Look, we've told you, we're not allowed to do what we want without liberals coming in and stopping us and shutting down our speech, and coming into our spaces, and harming us.  And this is yet another example of something like that, and is why conservatives are now saying, send in everything you've got because this is unacceptable . . . But for a long time, this has also been a part of the whole message of kind of the MAGA movement, was that for too long, conservatives were too nice, and allowed tools to be used against them that now that they're in charge, they're saying, we're gonna take these tools and use them for our own ends.  CORNISH: All right, well, needless to say, there's no more Mr. Nice Guy under Trump 2.0. Here's Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of Minnesota, talking about the context he sees.  KEITH ELLISON: Well, we live in the age when people like Jerome Powell are under investigation. Tish James, James Comey, Mark Kelly, Elise Slotkin, the list goes on and on. Under this DOJ, wrongdoing has nothing to do with whether they're going to focus or investigate you.  So, I wish, in a normal time, I would say, no, I say this is First Amendment activity. In time like this, it's just really difficult to say.  ZACHARY WOLF: I mean, he does have a point. It feels like everybody the administration disagrees with on anything is the subject of some kind of investigation. You talked about the FACE Act. I saw some reports they might use laws designed to go after the Ku Klux Klan to go after some of these protesters, which would be a strange turn of events.