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Israel Recovers Last Hostage; Trump and Gov. Walz Hold Call; Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) is Interviewed about a Government Shutdown. Aired 6:30-7a ET

Aired January 27, 2026 - 06:30   ET

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AUDIE CORNISH, CNN ANCHOR: Aircraft carrier and other war ships arrive in the Middle East. According to the Pentagon, the deployment is meant to bolster security in the region amid mass protests against Iran's government. Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Yemen are threatening to retaliate against the U.S.

And the Federal Reserve meets today. And Fed Chairman Jerome Powell says the Central Bank is prepared to keep interest rates unchanged until inflation is under control. This comes as President Trump has pushed for rate cuts. And Powell says the Fed will not rush changes.

And Chris Madel, a Republican running for governor in Minnesota, has ended his bid. And he says it's because of ICE.

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CHRIS MADEL, FORMER MINNESOTA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE: I cannot support the national Republican stated retribution on the citizens of our state.

United States citizens are carrying papers to prove their citizenship. That's wrong.

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CORNISH: He says he no longer considers himself part of the Republican Party.

And the body of the last remaining hostage in Gaza is now back with his loved ones. Ran Gvili was an Israeli police officer. His body was taken to Gaza after he was killed on October 7, 2023. And his family will now finally be able to say goodbye. President Trump celebrated the recovery, calling it something, quote, "most thought of as impossible to do." Hamas says the returning of Gvili's body shows their, quote, "complete commitment" to the first phase of the Gaza peace plan.

CNN's Paula Hancocks joins us from Abu Dhabi.

Paula, help us understand where we are now, both in this moment, but also with the next phase of this peace plan. PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Audie, this is

certainly closure for the family of Ran Gvili. It's also closure for many in the state of Israel. This was a national trauma when 251 hostages were taken on October 7, 2023. And there has been this feeling that not all was completed with this phase one of the ceasefire until all of the hostages, the living and the deceased, were returned to Israel.

So, this now allows the process to move to phase two. It allows the process to move forward. In fact, we're seeing in Hostage Square today in Tel Aviv the clock which counts down the days, the minutes, the seconds of the hostages being held in Gaza is going to end, 843 days. The Missing Persons and Hostages Forum saying that for the first time since 2014 Israel is waking up with no hostages being held in Gaza.

So, what this means is hopefully this process can now move forward. Specifically in this second phase of the ceasefire, we understand that everyone's now looking at the Rafah Crossing. This is a crossing between Gaza and Egypt. We heard from the Israeli prime minister that this may be open in the near future once they had exhausted the search for the last hostage. Now, of course, Ran Gvili is back in Israel. Potentially we will see that opening later this week.

It will be for pedestrians. It won't be for humanitarian aid or for commercial use. But it's critical because it means that many people who are still injured inside Gaza will be able to leave via that crossing to be treated in other countries around the world, which have said that they are ready to treat them. We heard from the ministry of health in Gaza saying about 20,000 people who have medical referrals confirmed are still waiting to be able to leave.

So, this really marks the end of phase one. It is hoped that this will then propel both sides to phase two, and to be able to start the ceasefire in the fact that there will be Hamas giving up arms, there will be a reconstruction of Gaza, and there will be those injured in Gaza able to leave the Gaza Strip.

Audie.

CORNISH: OK. That's CNN's Paula Hancocks. Thank you so much.

I want to turn to this. President Trump says he and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are, quote, "on the same wavelength" after a call on Monday. They spoke for the first time since federal immigration agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. Walz says he told Trump he needs to reduce the number of federal agents in his state, and he said he felt a definite change in tone.

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GOV. TIM WALZ (D-MN): We've laid out the case that we do the right thing. We don't want criminals here. But we also recognize that someone coming here to find a better life should be treated with dignity, that Americans shouldn't be fearing for their lives to go out of their house just because of the color of their skin. And the atrocities we're seeing, and I -- look, I think Donald Trump understands it, too.

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CORNISH: Group chat is back.

I want to talk about this tonal shift for both of them. First, I think for the longest time I have heard this argument over the last couple of days, especially from conservative and right wing voices that say, basically, there was a far left organization that kind of put Pretti in harm's way or -- and turned him into a martyr, that this is all part of a strategy. And can I come to you? Sort of -- are you seeing this as well? And is that starting to fall apart under public scrutiny?

AUDREY FAHLBERG, POLITICS REPORTER, "NATIONAL REVIEW": I think it is. And I think the important thing to remember here is when a tragic situation like this happens, our government officials are supposed to tone down the temperature, say this is a tragedy, and we're going to investigate the matter. That's not really what we saw from people like Noem and Miller, who again accused him of being a domestic terrorist. I think if he had withdrawn his weapon -- he did have a concealed carry permit. If he had withdrawn his weapon and, you know, tried to shoot somebody, that would have been a different situation. But that wasn't the case here. He was filming a law enforcement operation.

CORNISH: Yes. And they sort of stepped on a rake going after his gun rights. It felt like you had some voices saying, like, the criminal intent is having a gun, and then your own party is then not going to love that.

THOMPSON: Yes, and the -- the pro-Second Amendment party was now saying that, well, just by having a gun around law enforcement you are thereby a threat. They also completely misrepresented what happened. And if we had not had cell phone video from lots of different angles, they -- like, the government's word would have been perhaps the last word.

CORNISH: Yes.

THOMPSON: And so, by then misrepresenting it. And then we still haven't even seen the body cam footage from many of the officers too, which could actually make this a bigger crisis for the administration.

CORNISH: In a statement, Governor Tim Walz's office, they said, "the president also agreed to look into reducing the number of federal agents in Minnesota and working with the state in a more coordinated fashion on immigration enforcement and regarding violent criminals."

There are some people who are going to see that statement and say, look, if Tim Walz had cooperated in the first place, maybe none of this would happen.

CHUCK ROCHA, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: I don't think any amount of cooperation would have stopped this administration or the Republicans for trying to get the visual what they want, which is them trying to be tough and, quote/unquote, "deporting bad criminals." And absolutely any bad criminal who done something bad should be deported. But this is not what they did.

And let's be clear that there's real consequences to what they're saying. I was on the phone all weekend. We were all snowed in. Lots of group chats going on. In my actual group chats with Latino leaders around the country, and there's folks traumatized. This left-wing stuff is not about left-wing stuff. This is about folks that are out there, that are Democrats or progressives that are just fighting for regular folks and U.S. citizens that are getting killed that's bringing real trauma to a group of people on the ground there. They're not trying to fight their government, they're just wanting to live and not be attacked by their government.

CORNISH: But does this mean they're in your group chats because they're like, how can we be more politically active? Because a lot of people looked to Latino voters and said, look, you are the reason that Trump is in office.

ROCHA: Yes. Right. And a lot of that this weekend was about, how do we take what power we have, like with Latino senators, Latino electeds, or folks on TV talking about the trauma that's going on, on the ground right now with folks that are just trying to abide by the law?

CORNISH: I have one more thing. Just, sorry, I have to play this. It's the Oklahoma governor, Kevin Stitt. He has publicly questioned the direction of this. And this is a very succinct statement that's sort of saying the loud part out loud.

Here he is with Dana Bash.

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GOV. KEVIN STITT (R-OK): But now Americans are asking themselves, what is the end game? What is the solution? And, you know, we believe in federalism and state rights, and nobody likes feds coming into their state. And so, what's the goal right now? Is it to deport every single non-U.S. citizen? I don't think that's what Americans want.

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CORNISH: Oklahoma.

THOMPSON: I mean this -- it is extraordinary what you are seeing in terms of the rhetoric on both sides here. For the first time in many years, Democrats actually want to talk about immigration, and they actually feel that they have the political advantage by talking about it. That has not happened perhaps since 2015, 2016, in a way that most of the party does.

And the fact that you have a, you know, Republican of Oklahoma saying, actually, the policy is not to deport every person that's here illegally, that has --

CORNISH: Which is a surprise to me. THOMPSON: I mean -- but I think that shows because -- and this is what

people have always been saying is that that could never be the policy because you would have inevitably some of these images.

ROCHA: You should tell -- you should tell Stephen Miller. He's the one who said that they wanted to take away the rights of folks who were going through the processes right now.

CORNISH: Or birthright citizenship.

ROCHA: That's the birthright citizenship piece.

CORNISH: But I want to acknowledge all of the sort of conservative publications that were waving their arms in the air and saying, hey, this isn't working. Like, you went to make an example of Minnesota, and you ended up making an example of yourself.

ROCHA: And losing the narrative.

FAHLBERG: Yes, I think -- I think there's a lot of confusion about why Minnesota was singled out here. There's, again, this perception among a lot of people that Noem, Miller, Lewandowski want deportations for their own sake. Remember, immigration, along with the economy, those were the main issues that vaulted Trump to the presidency. Here, this is a reminder how quickly the pendulum can shift.

CORNISH: Yes. Because they thought Walz was vulnerable, right, because of the massive scandal over social welfare.

ROCHA: Right.

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CORNISH: Even though most of those people have been charged already. And many of them were citizens, frankly. And I noted that, you know, Charlotte, 200 Border Patrol. New Orleans, 200 plus Border Patrol. Chicago, a few hundred. Minnesota, 2,000 to 3,000. Like the odds of walking, kicking a rock and hitting an ICE agent are actually pretty high. And did they basically over index themselves on Minnesota?

FAHLBERG: And I do -- I -- beyond that I -- yes. And I think beyond that I think there's a real concern that, again, this is a winning issue for Republicans.

ROCHA: (INAUDIBLE).

FAHLBERG: Trump, you know, you can criticize him on a lot of different things. He did have a wild success in closing off illegal immigration at the southern border. That is something that he was vote -- that Republicans wanted to see. Independent voters, suburban voters wanted to see. But there's kind of this inevitable, kind of, when it comes to deportation tactics, OK, maybe this is a little bit too much. And I think, you know, the administration constantly testing those boundaries and going a little bit too far on what should have been a winning issue for them. THOMPSON: Well, and there was -- there is a little bit of personnel

drama because I can tell you that Republicans, very quietly, had serious concerns about entrusting the top domestic political issue in the hands of Kristi Noem, and did not feel that she was -- and had real concerns that she was up to the job.

CORNISH: OK, we're going to see what that means.

You guys, stay with me.

Coming up, we're going to talk a little bit more. We're going to have a lawmaker on the scene.

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And stay with us because the government shutdown, yes, again, that deadline is looming. The timing, however, collides with these controversies surrounding immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. So, we have got Congressman James Walkinshaw of Virginia joining us now. He's here to talk about what's at stake and what lawmakers are pushing for.

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REP. MIKE LAWLER (R-NY): I think if the objective of some of my colleagues is to abolish ICE and to stop that process, I do not support that.

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CORNISH: Lawmakers face a deadline -- a Friday deadline to fund the government or face a partial government shutdown. Now, the Senate returns to D.C. today to take up the funding deal, but a deal to avoid the shutdown is now in doubt over Department of Homeland Security funding. After the killing of Alex Pretti over the weekend at the hands of federal agents, Democrats are demanding the DHS bill be separated into its own vote. Republicans want all the bills to pass together. So now Democratic senators who had previously voted to keep the government open are demanding more accountability.

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SEN. ANGUS KING (I-ME): I hate shutdowns. I'm one of the people that helped negotiate the solution to the last -- the end of the last shutdown. But I can't vote for a bill that includes ICE funding under these circumstances.

Take up DHS by itself. Let's have an honest negotiation. Put some guardrails on what's going on, some accountability. And that would solve this problem. We don't have to have a shutdown.

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CORNISH: And joining me now, Congressman James Walkinshaw, a Democrat from Virginia.

Thank you so much for being here.

REP. JAMES WALKINSHAW (D-VA): Thanks for having me.

CORNISH: So, you sit on committees where you do have some scrutiny of Homeland Security and oversight. The House, of course, passed this massive funding infusion into the Department of Homeland Security for ICE. They're on track to be our -- like our largest law enforcement agency. It turns out now the Senate is going to be the ones to raise questions. What can they do?

WALKINSHAW: Well, first, important to note, that bill that passed the House was part of the so-called big, beautiful bill. Republicans overwhelmingly voted for it. Democrats didn't. That's the bill that --

CORNISH: Yes. Just to show people, the ICE budget now. This is what's in play.

WALKINSHAW: Yes, that's a bill that took money from health care and put it into ICE and DHS.

Look, what should happen at this point is the Senate should separate the DHS bill out from the package, which is what happened in the House. We had a separate vote on the larger package and the DHS bill, separated out, passed the larger package and negotiate for the common sense protections the American people are demanding from DHS. That's what should happen.

CORNISH: So, it's worth a shutdown?

We went into this week where I feel like for months people have been saying, Senator Schumer doesn't want another shutdown. Nobody won last time. And it sounds like the Democrats feel like the politics have changed and that you can go through another shutdown if it's over ICE.

WALKINSHAW: I don't want there to be a shutdown. Like I said, we should return -- the House should return this week. We can negotiate to end the masking, to require use of force standards so officers are disciplined when they violate them, and the other protections that are just common sense that the American people want. Speaker Johnson should bring the House back to do that, and the Senate should separate the bills, pass the larger package, fund that part of the government and negotiate over DHS.

CORNISH: One other thing. You have called for Secretary Noem to be impeached. Do I have that correct?

WALKINSHAW: That's correct.

CORNISH: Now, obviously, this would depend on Democrats taking the House, et cetera.

WALKINSHAW: Right.

CORNISH: But is that worth your time? I mean I remember Nancy Pelosi saying, look, don't bother trying to impeach Trump. Do you want to go through that kind of conversation again over Kristi Noem?

WALKINSHAW: I think one of the things that's unique about Kristi Noem is, there is bipartisan frustration with Kristi Noem in Congress. She has failed to get resources to communities in the wake of natural disasters that desperately need it. She --

CORNISH: So, this is under the FEMA capacity?

WALKINSHAW: That's right. And she funded a $220 million advertising campaign that was largely self-promotion and funneled 100 plus million dollars of that to her political allies.

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And I think even in the Trump White House they're frustrated with how she handled the aftermath of this Alex Pretti killing.

So, I think she's -- she is on the ropes. I believe she's violated her oath of office. I think the fact that there have been 2,300 documented cases of DHS officers illegally detaining people --

CORNISH: But are there any Republicans in the House that want to ask this list of questions you have? You're saying there's frustration, but will there be bipartisan action?

WALKINSHAW: I hope there will be. I think if they hear from their constituents some of these frustrations there will be. Republicans have asked questions, especially about the disaster funding not getting out the door in Texas in the wake of (INAUDIBLE).

CORNISH: OK. My panel is going to have a couple questions here, but I want to ask you one more thing, which is this movement to return to the mantra of abolish ICE. Some people disagree. Chuck, are you a disagree with abolish ICE person? I can't remember.

ROCHA: Yes, I disagree.

CORNISH: OK. We'll come back to you then.

Do you want to see Democrats using that phrase again? Does it symbolize something that's worth returning to?

WALKINSHAW: I think the problem with that phrase is it puts all of the focus on ICE. And we know now, and talk about Alex Pretti, it wasn't an ICE officer, it was CBP. We got thousands of CBP officers who have committed some of the most egregious abuses. So, I think all of it, the entire mass deportation, mass destruction apparatus the Trump administration has put together has to be rebuilt from the ground up in a way that's consistent with our values, consistent with the Constitution.

CORNISH: So, you think there's a Democratic constituency after all this that's going to be like, we want to see ICE, just like a nicer ICE?

WALKINSHAW: Look, I think ICE, probably as an agency, has lost so much trust with the American people that you got to do that immigration enforcement in a different way with a different agency. But the issue isn't the name of the agency. The issue is having the safeguards in place so that whatever agency is involved with enforcing our immigration laws, and I believe in enforcing our immigration laws, does it in a way that's constitutional and consistent with the values.

ROCHA: And I'm not going to give the Republicans the gift of saying defund anything. We've seen this agency run the right way under Obama and Biden, who deported thousands and thousands of hardened criminals that were immigrants to this country. The way we're seeing it bastardized right now is not the way we want to see this thing run. There's a way we can do this. If we can figure out how to put a -- my Apple phone in a watch, we can figure out how to run a federal agency.

You, Congressman, have a ton of federal employees in your district. I understand. I've been in your district. And you work with the Hispanic Caucus really closely. What we're hearing through the caucus from our members is, we're under attack. We want law and order. We want to see bad people deported. But we also don't want to see our people killed in the street because we're brown.

CORNISH: Audrey, what do you --

FAHLBERG: I do think, Audie's alluding to an important point here, though. There are clear long-term questions about, you know, with this issue it's a reminder of how quickly the pendulum can swing on immigration and other issues. How do you ensure that, you know, the Democrats don't become beholden to the activist base with this sort of rhetoric?

WALKINSHAW: Well, I think the important thing is to start every conversation by laying out what the American people want. The American people want secure borders, southern and northern The American people want our immigration laws enforced, but they want it done in a way that's fair and humane and consistent with our values.

ROCHA: That's right.

WALKINSHAW: They don't want pregnant women dragged through the streets. They don't want American citizens illegally detained. And they don't want mothers and V.A. nurses shot dead by federal agents. We can do both. We can have it all.

CORNISH: The reason why I'm -- I'm asking this in part because what I saw happen with the Black Lives Matter movement and defund police, which is, you did have a turning point moment where people said, gee, local police are over militarized. We all should talk about this. And very quickly that devolved and turned. And then we're in a situation now where we are actually still living in the political reality of those who said, everything went woke, and it was all because of BLM and all because of defund police. Everything bad that's happened, happened because of that protest movement.

WALKINSHAW: Right.

CORNISH: So, having what you may perceive as the moral hand coming out of a moment doesn't actually guarantee an electoral victory.

WALKINSHAW: That's right. I think, look, activist groups are going to advocate, as they should. It's incumbent upon leaders to recognize where the broad swath of the American public is on that issue. During that defund the police movement I was in local government. I got thousands of emails and messages saying we need to defund the police. I explained to people why that didn't make sense. We can invest in human services, invest in communities and have strong public safety. And I think that's where we, as a Democratic Party, need to be.

CORNISH: All right, in the meantime, you've got someone like Rep. Tom -- I can never pronounce his last name. You're going to do it for me.

WALKINSHAW: Suozzi.

CORNISH: Suozzi. Sorry, Tom Suozzi. But here's your statement on Department of Homeland Security vote, saying, "I fail to view the DHS funding vote as a referendum on the legal and moral conduct of ICE in Minneapolis."

There are some lawmakers who are going to say, look, we don't want to play this game over ICE. People are usually, quote/unquote, "frontline lawmakers," right, in those purple districts. How are you guys going to help them? Like, what's the -- are you going to be talking to them?

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Are you going to be trying to win them over? What's the conversation?

WALKINSHAW: Yes, that's why I think we need to stay focused on the common sense safeguards that Americans broadly, and I think all Democrats now in Congress agree, agents shouldn't be masked. They should identify themselves just as our local police do in every community across the country. There should be warrants for arrests and detentions. And there should be real use of force standards and body cameras.

And CBP, by the way, should get back to the border. They don't need to have 3,000 CBP agents in Minnesota. They should be securing the border. That's their job.

CORNISH: OK, so here's a brief palate cleanser. I'm going to show you a video from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nice on display. You've got National Guard troops handing out coffee and donuts to protesters out in the cold. They had been activated by Governor Walz to provide a backup to local police amid the ICE surge.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think that's true Minnesota energy. This is all about community. We're all kind of taking turns. We're sharing warm drinks, warm food, hand warmers. That's kind of what Minnesota is all about. So, I'm glad to see that our National Guard is standing with us because we need it.

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CORNISH: So, I understand you were actually on the emergency call with Governor Walz and House Democrats about next steps. Do I have that right?

WALKINSHAW: That's right.

CORNISH: What are the next steps? I mean is there something -- more conversation about Minnesota or, like, what was the conversation?

WALKINSHAW: Well, Governor Walz laid out the situation of what people are experiencing on the ground. A lot has happened since we had that call.

CORNISH: Yes.

WALKINSHAW: I know there have been calls between President Trump and Governor Walz and President Trump and Mayor Frey. And we have now Tom Homan replacing Greg Bovino. And hopefully the Trump administration has realized that the American people are rejecting this violent, brutal approach that they're taking. And I hope they will continue to back off.

I don't know if that's what will happen, but I hope that's what will happen.

ALEX THOMPSON, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Congressman, Tom Homan has said that one thing that would help is if the city jails would cooperate, especially in Minneapolis, would cooperate with ICE and CBP. Do you think they should?

WALKINSHAW: Well, look, jails in Minnesota already cooperate with ICE and CBP.

THOMPSON: The state -- the state ones do, but not the city ones.

WALKINSHAW: Well, look, those are decisions -- I'm a local government guy. I believe in federalism. I don't think local government should be forced literally at gunpoint, which is what we're talking about here, to change their policies. I think those are good conversations to be had, but can't be had in a productive way under these circumstances where people are getting gunned down in the streets.

THOMPSON: But how can you enforce immigration laws if you're not letting immigration officials into these jails?

WALKINSHAW: Well, there are many ways you can enforce immigration laws. I mean, one, the prisons in Minnesota, Department of Corrections, notifies ICE and CBP when someone is being released if they have a criminal warrant. ICE can go any day of the week and get a criminal warrant. And every law enforcement agency in the country honors a criminal warrant.

What the Trump administration is pushing for is essentially the deputization of local law enforcement to federal immigration enforcement. And when you do that, and I've been in local government, you violate the trust with your communities. You break trust with your communities, and you're less safe. If communities see local police as immigration enforcement agents, they're not going to come forward and report domestic violence. They're not going to come forward and report what's going on in their communities that local police need to deal with.

CORNISH: Yes. But thank you for asking, Alex, because so much of this conversation is around, what do we mean when we say cooperation and how do you play that out.

WALKINSHAW: I also think it's important to note, you know, the Trump administration is saying now that's the key issue. Just a few days ago, Secretary Noem sent a letter to Minnesota and said, if you turn over your voter rolls, we'll withdraw the federal agents.

ROCHA: Right.

WALKINSHAW: If you turn over the voter rolls. What the heck does that have to do with it? What do the voter rolls have to do with public safety in Minnesota? That was the demand the Trump administration was making just a few days ago.

CORNISH: All right. So, was that in your group chat? Because we talk about group chats on this show? Is that what lawmakers are talking about?

WALKINSHAW: Yes. Unfortunately, my group chat has been filled with all of this. I wish I had something light and funny for my group chat.

CORNISH: I'll go to Alex for that.

Alex, what do you have?

THOMPSON: Something light and funny, which was that the Smithsonian put out a video of the pandas playing in the snow this past weekend. And that went around my group chats.

WALKINSHAW: I need to get in his group chat.

CORNISH: Yes. Oh, look what you're doing for you.

ROCHA: I don't see how these things survive in the wild (ph).

CORNISH: Look what we're trying to do for you. OK.

ROCHA: Whatever. I don't think they can survive in the wild. Go ahead.

CORNISH: And for you? ROCHA: Look, did y'all see the Kanye thing in the paper? Kanye is back. My wife done told me that it's Ye or Ya but that he is back to normal.

CORNISH: Let me translate this. Kanye West putting out a lengthy note in "The Wall Street Journal," apologizing for his past rants and pointing to health issues he believes --

ROCHA: From a 25 year ago car accident.

CORNISH: OK.

And for you?

FAHLBERG: Mine is frustration with how long it's taking the D.C. government to plow the darn roads and sidewalks. I almost tripped on my two-minute walk to Giant the other day. So.

ROCHA: I drive -- I drive a monster truck. I'll take you home. Don't worry about it.

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WALKINSHAW: You got to -- you go to move to Virginia. You won't have that problem.

FAHLBERG: That's right.

CORNISH: Oh, that's nice. Nice plug for constituent services.

ROCHA: Local government.

WALKINSHAW: Yes, yes, yes.

CORNISH: Thank you so much for being here. We're going to be keeping an eye on you and your committee to see if anything happens bipartisan wise, if there's going to be investigations of any kind. We hope to have you back. Thank you so much.

WALKINSHAW: Thank you.

CORNISH: All right. And thank you for waking up with us. Please stay with us because the headlines are next.