The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Oct 13, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min · 12 segments
Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland welcome Akbar Shahid Ahmed, diplomatic correspondent at The Washington Sun and author of Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza. More from…
Sam SederHost
Akbar Shahid AhmedGuest
Emma VigelandHost
Matt LiebPanelist
Francesca FiorentiniPanelistMatt LechPanelist
This Ilhan Omar raid is pretty both naked in what Trump is doing here, but also just an incredible breach.

The raid supposedly followed a criminal fraud investigation into Ilhan Omar's immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her father.

Yeah, this is nothing more than a vendetta, a lawless vendetta against an opponent of the president, an outspoken opponent of the president who is black, who is a woman, who is Muslim, who is an immigrant.

All things that Trump really, really despises and he can't stand and his supporters want to punish as well.

And I would say also, remember that for the past couple of weeks, the Trump administration has been playing up the Somali fraud.

They think this is their best shot of stopping Flanagan in Minnesota from winning the Senate race.

And they think they can steal one here, essentially, because everything else is looking so bleak for them.

That at the very least, the Flanagan's numbers are being hurt by the fact that she was lieutenant governor during this.

But we should also say it is important to note that he is using his jackbooted thugs in the DHS to do this because the FBI, under the auspices of the Department of Justice... still operates, for now, under the strict rule that you do not do something like this within what they consider more or less a safe harbor of an election.

And so this is a prime example of Trump having his own sort of... royal guard go out and do these uh type of things they were um they searched her home i'm not clear where else she searched but here is um let's start uh now first with this clip of mike johnson being asked if he knows anything about it surprise surprise
a loud voice
Okay, I want to ask you one last question.

This Ilhan Omar raid is pretty both naked in what Trump is doing here, but also just an incredible breach.

The raid supposedly followed a criminal fraud investigation into Ilhan Omar's immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her father.

Yeah, this is nothing more than a vendetta, a lawless vendetta against an opponent of the president, an outspoken opponent of the president who is black, who is a woman, who is Muslim, who is an immigrant.

All things that Trump really, really despises and he can't stand and his supporters want to punish as well.

And I would say also, remember that for the past couple of weeks, the Trump administration has been playing up the Somali fraud.

They think this is their best shot of stopping Flanagan in Minnesota from winning the Senate race.

And they think they can steal one here, essentially, because everything else is looking so bleak for them.

That at the very least, the Flanagan's numbers are being hurt by the fact that she was lieutenant governor during this.

But we should also say it is important to note that he is using his jackbooted thugs in the DHS to do this because the FBI, under the auspices of the Department of Justice... still operates, for now, under the strict rule that you do not do something like this within what they consider more or less a safe harbor of an election.

And so this is a prime example of Trump having his own sort of... royal guard go out and do these uh type of things they were um they searched her home i'm not clear where else she searched but here is um let's start uh now first with this clip of mike johnson being asked if he knows anything about it surprise surprise
a loud voice
Okay, I want to ask you one last question.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.