Amy Robach
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orders, when you actually put in an insurrection act, it is with the cooperation of the governor.
The most governors, most mayors of whatever local state or municipality, they don't want violence on their streets.
They don't want civil unrest.
So they oftentimes ask
the president, or when this has been used before, it's been almost always in coordination with local officials, not against.
Very, very different scenarios.
The city was burning.
Yes.
And, you know, the president, President Trump, actually threatened to institute the Insurrection Act in George Floyd 2020.
He didn't end up doing it.
But that was far worse in terms of what was happening on the streets and the violence and the looting and the unrest.
That was completely much, much bigger than what we're seeing right now.
I mean, you were there.
You were in Minneapolis.
Yeah, and now with this threat, does that then make protesters more angry?
Does it embolden them?
Does it want to make them say, hey, let's see what you got, or will they back down and react to what they are hearing from Governor Walz, what they are now hearing from Mayor Frey?
They are asking protesters to bring it down, and in terms of reacting to this threat, does
Tim Walz actually went on social media and he made a direct appeal to President Trump.
He wrote, let's turn the temperature down.