Plus: China frees an imprisoned pastor after Trump's personal appeal, Josh Shapiro's "tyranny" claim, the license plate camera rebellion & the Reflecting Pool vandals — all in today's episode.

Something changed inside ICE at the end of June. The big-city sweeps you saw on the news? Gone. And yet 10,000 arrests happened in just five days — roughly 2,000 every single day, a pace first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by the White House. Chuck runs the math on where this quiet new playbook leads by the end of President Trump's term, and the number will stop you cold.

Then the story the mainstream almost buried: a pastor who spent nine months in a Chinese detention center landed in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July — and the chain of events that opened that prison door runs straight through one conversation in Beijing. Mea ...