When you’re NPR alum Audie Cornish, what higher method to lead a dialogue of the anti-ICE protests/riots than with a visitor who leads a self-described radical Resistance Faculty?
That is exactly what Cornish, now host of CNN This Morning, did at this time. To start the dialogue, Cornish known as on Karen Attiah, the creator and chief of the Resistance Summer time Faculty. As per its web site, the college is:
A “construction for radical studying . . . College students will discover how colonial legacies and racial hierarchies form international politics, diplomacy, battle, and protection—and the way media methods typically reinforce (or resist) these energy buildings.”
Have a look beneath on the college’s insignia that includes a clenched fist, a conventional socialist image. And it adopts as its motto, “A Luta Continua” [The Struggle Continues.] That was the slogan of the Mozambique Liberation Entrance, an explicitly Marxist-Leninist revolutionary group.
In the middle of her considerably muddled feedback, Attiah made a blatantly inaccurate declare. Talking of ICE’s arrest of union chief David Huerta, Attiah claimed:
“He was eager to oversee, , what was occurring and simply ask questions, proper?”
Fallacious.
Huerta wasn’t making an attempt to “oversee” and “simply ask questions.” As we famous earlier this week, Huerta had been trying to dam ICE brokers from coming into a enterprise suspected of hiring unlawful aliens. Video reveals that he positioned himself in entrance of the gate, and struggled with ICE brokers as they tried to cuff him and lead him to a automobile. The charging doc says that he yelled out to his followers: “cease the automobiles. It is a public sidewalk, they cannot cease us.”
Attiah was additionally the founding editor of the Washington Publish‘s World Opinions part, and stays a employees columnist. After issues cool down post-nuptials, maybe Bezos ought to contemplate altering the paper’s slogan to learn: “Democracy Dies In Marxism-Leninism.”
Attiah wasn’t the one left-leaning panel member. There was additionally CNN’s Zach Wolf, a Berkeley alum who writes CNN’s “What Issues” e-newsletter. And what issues to Zach is attacking the Trump administration. Pattern headlines:
- What precisely is Trump’s new journey ban about? Not nationwide safety
- The Trump administration revives an previous intimidation tactic: the polygraph machine
- It took 250 years to construct what Trump is making an attempt to undo
Headlines important of Democrats? We rely . . . zero.
Word: Cornish additionally performed a clip of L.A. Mayor Karen Bass downplaying the seriousness of the violence, saying it solely encompasses six out of the town’s 500 sq. miles. By that normal, because the space of the World Commerce Heart Towers was solely about one sq. mile, would Bass say that 9/11 was no large deal?
This is the transcript.
CNN This Morning
6/12/25
6:10 am EDTAUDIE CORNISH: The resistance seems to be constructing. The entire cities highlighted within the map are actually coping with protests because the Trump administration accelerates its raids. Greater than 70 undocumented staff have been detained on Wednesday when ICE brokers stormed a meat plant in Omaha, Nebraska.
MAYOR JOHN EWING: There’s been some pointless worry created by the incidents yesterday. There was one raid after which there have been a number of makes an attempt by federal brokers to enter companies with out warrants, and so they have been denied entry. And in order that’s created worry.
CORNISH: 4,000 Nationwide Guard troops and 700 Marines have been deployed to L.A., and Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth suggests Nationwide Guard orders may lengthen to extra states.
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Becoming a member of me now within the group chat this morning, Kevin Frey, Washington correspondent for Spectrum Information, New York One, Zachary Wolf, CNN politics author and and creator of CNN’s What Issues e-newsletter, and Karen Attiah, Washington Publish columnist. To start with, welcome the brand new of us to the chat. It is a busy week for you guys to leap in.
And I wish to begin with you, Karen, only for a minute, since you even have executed sort of, I feel, a resistance college [chuckles] this summer time for people who find themselves concerned about becoming a member of protest actions. The rationale why I am coming to you first is as a result of there’s such factor as a tipping level. There are sparks. which is what you see in L.A. Individuals bodily preventing again. It isn’t deliberate. It isn’t organized. However then organized protests can spring out of that in consequence. What are you anticipating?
KAREN ATTIAH: I feel particularly in the case of L.A., and that is one thing that sort of went underneath the radar for these of us who aren’t from California, the arrest of David Huerta —
CORNISH: — The SEIU chief.
ATTIAH: Sure, SEIU chief, a really well-respected labor chief. Not simply the arrest, however being injured by ICE by, , he was eager to oversee, , what was occurring and simply ask questions, proper?
So I feel as we’re seeing all of those protests, it is significantly the arrests of politicians, proper? We noticed this Ras Baraka, proper? And to me, watching that over the weekend, that was, I used to be like, oh, wow, it is a tipping level.
CORNISH: A tipping level for the viewer, proper? For individuals at house who’re like, how is that this taking part in out?
ATTIAH: However then additionally the, mobilization of labor unions sounding the alarm. California Democratic, excuse me, California politicians over the weekend saying, this isn’t okay.
CORNISH: Proper.
ATTIAH: After all, it isn’t okay to, , brutalize individuals no matter your stature. However I feel from taking a look at this and taking a look at, effectively, to begin with, , simply to be very reasonable to, regardless of the image that the president needs to color of what is occurring in L.A., I am additionally watching pals, individuals on social media in L.A. who’re like, this isn’t the disastrous, loopy conflict zone that’s being painted.
CORNISH: Let me soar in right here as a result of the mayor, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass was talking, I feel it was on Wednesday, the place she was outright saying that saying there’s widespread dysfunction is a lie. Let’s examine if now we have that.
KAREN BASS: The curfew that we put in place yesterday is about six sq. miles of a metropolis that’s 500 sq. miles. So the portrayal is that every one of our cities are in chaos, rioting is going on in every single place, and it’s a lie.
