On Tuesday, a cellphone and dashboard video started going viral, showing an ICE agent pointing a gun at anti-ICE agitator Carolina Molina, through the window of her car, in Falls Church, Virginia on Monday. The agent claimed she had tried to run over agents. Despite the fact that video of what led up to the confrontation was not available, the left wing media sprinted to Molina's defense, while attacking ICE, and that was the case Wednesday night on CNN's NewsNight With Abby Phillip, hosted by CNN Contributor Lulu Garcia-Navarro, a New York Times podcaster.
Garcia-Navarro played a portion of the video.
AGENT: Yes, you recorded us. You almost ran us over.
MOLINA: I didn't almost run you over.
AGENT: You almost ran us over. Stop playing.
MOLINA:: You are full of (expletive).
AGENT:: I will arrest you. Keep it up.
MOLINA: I'm a legal citizen.
AGENT: I don't care.
MOLINA: I got recording, I got dash cam. That's a lie.
Garcia-Navarro, then mentioned that ICE plans to spend $20 million on gloves that deliver electric shocks for ICE to use, and gave Josh Rogin of the Washington Post, first crack at ripping the ICE agents, and he didn't didn't disappoint, even after she put a qualifier on the whole situation.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Of course we don't know the full context of this, what happened before this video was taken, but we see him exit the vehicle with his gun pointing it in the face of Carolina Molina. What does this say to you?
ROGIN: He's pointing a gun at someone's face. He clearly is threatening the person. The justification that he used was, you tried to run me over, was the exact same justification that ICE agents used, in that case falsely, before they shot Renee Good to death in Minnesota.
That the ICE agent's claim was false is Rogin's opinion, and he left out that the agent who shot Good, was injured by her car and was taken to the hospital. Rogin continued to draw his own conclusions about the Virginia video.
ROGIN: That's not a random thing to say, you were about to run me over. That's clearly a threat against this driver. And that's scary, that's thuggish. That's, in my view, un- American....I think there's plenty of video to show that what the ICE agent was saying was not true, and until more evidence emerges, I think that's the preponderance of the evidence.
Next up, CNN's Scott Jennings who brought common sense to the table, which was too much for Rogan.
JENNINGS: I don't think we've seen near enough to pass judgment on it one way or the other....I do find it strange. We see people showing up. They're in their cars, and they're somehow in very close proximity to people.
ROGIN: You're allowed to tape the police.
JENNINGS: I know, but you're not allowed to threaten them with a vehicle....They're facing an environment and rhetoric from Democrat politicians in this country that have put a target on their backs.
ROGIN: You set up an army of masked thugs running the streets and rounding people up and then blaming people for reacting. It is just gaslighting.
In fact there has been a 3,300% increase in vehicular attacks on ICE agents from January 21, 2025, when Trump was sworn in, to January 26 of this year. CNN's liberal pundits don't care.
Next up, former WH Deputy Press Secretary in the first Trump administration, turned Trump critic Sarah Matthews, who reached a new low.
MATTHEWS: Obama was able to deport more than 3 million people without all of this chaos, without having to give agents these shock gloves, and there weren't murders of American citizens in our streets.
JENNINGS: What murder are you talking about?
MATTHEWS: I'm talking about Renee Good, Alex Pretti.
JENNINGS: Have there been convicted murderers in these cases?
MATTHEWS: We've seen the video evidence, which shows a very -- No, they were overly aggressive.
JENNINGS: Is that what you're saying, for the record?
MATTHEWS: I'm saying that they look like they murdered those people in cold blood, in broad daylight.
JENNINGS: I'll say it one more time. They murdered her, is that right?
MATTHEWS: I'll say it. It looked like those agents murdered those innocent American citizens in our streets.
Remember that Team Obama used funny math, that if someone was turned around at the border without entering, they were still "deported." CNN's Bakari Sellers, would also claim, without prompting, that Good and Pretti were murdered by ICE.
SELLERS: You're talking about people being run over by cars....You're seeing ICE agents actually put themselves in the line of danger.... When you're talking about Pretti and you're talking about Renee Good, were they murdered? The answer is yes. The fact is they were murdered in the street.
The segment continued with more blasting of ICE and their agents. Presumption of guilt outrageous, period. Having three panelists make that assumption is abhorrent. This is CNN!
