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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.
And despite the latest pushback, clearly he is still dead set on doing just that.
Well, put simply, we learned that inflation remains low.
On Tuesday, the Labor Department released their highly anticipated CPI report for the month of December, and it showed inflation sitting at 2.7 percent.
That is tied for the lowest mark we've seen since March of 2021.
Now, that still means prices have gone up a bit compared to the same month last year.
But more broadly, the pace of inflation has now fallen dramatically.