Clay Masters
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And we've even seen the head of Border Patrol, Greg Bovino, talking in press conference about how Minneapolis resistance is much more organized.
And so it's a group of people.
It's a community that is very well organized to continue to push back against what they're seeing happen across across the Twin Cities.
And I should note, too, that Secretary of State Steve Simon, who is in charge of elections in the state of Minnesota, I was talking with him yesterday, and he said that he will not allow the U.S.
Department of Justice to access the state's voter rolls.
Over the weekend, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota on Meet the Press said that she didn't plan to vote for the DHS funding.
That's something she had not committed to in previous interviews that I've had with her the last couple of weeks.
We should be clear that the troops are on standby, and this comes as Governor Walz has directed the Minnesota National Guard to prepare for possible deployment to assist local law enforcement and emergency management agencies.
I mean, it really remains to be seen what that would look like to have two units potentially receiving conflicting orders.
Well, it was a bipartisan group.
It skewed heavily towards Democrats.
But Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said we shouldn't take the lack of Republicans there as an indicator for a lack of their support, saying this delegation came together rather quickly.
And the goal was to de-escalate a tense situation.
Well, I spoke with Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire.
She said the president has shown a lack of understanding about the importance of allies to U.S.
security.
Many times this weekend, Steve, lawmakers said that they hadn't received any intelligence about this idea that Russia and China are encircling Greenland and posing an imminent threat.
And as to national security for the United States, they point out that there is already cooperation between the Kingdom of Denmark and the U.S.
And the U.S., in fact, as you said, already has a military presence in Greenland.
Well, there was a massive demonstration on Saturday.