Cabot Phillips

Right.

On Thursday, President Trump posted on Truth Social that, quote, "...if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of ICE, we're only trying to do their job."

I will institute the Insurrection Act.

Now, for context, the Insurrection Act is an 1807 law that allows the president to deploy the military on U.S.

soil to suppress an insurrection or violent unrest in cases where the state is unable to do so.

It also applies to cases in which a state is unable or, importantly, unwilling to enforce federal law.

Historically, the Insurrection Act has been invoked more than 30 times over the last few centuries, most recently by George H.W.

Bush in 1992.

That was during the widespread Rodney King riots.

On Thursday, Secretary Noem defended the president's authority to invoke the act, but said she hoped it would not be necessary.

Well, Minnesota's Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison vowed to fight Trump in court if he invoked the Insurrection Act, calling it, quote, tyrannical federal overreach.

And then for his part, as you can imagine, Governor Tim Walz urged Trump to, quote, turn the temperature down and stop this campaign of retribution.

But Republicans were quick to remind folks that it

Governor Walz has played a big role in riling up these protesters to begin with.

They shared comments he made last week where he said that his state was, quote, at war with the federal government.

And elsewhere, he called on his state to fight for democracy the way that Minnesotans did during the Civil War.

And it's interesting.

We also spoke with pollster Brent Buchanan about whether these latest ICE operations and even these shootings have changed public perception about President Trump's immigration agenda.

And here's what he had to say.

So President Trump was elected in large part due to his promise to cut down on illegal immigration and begin mass deportations.