Colby Hall

Brian Kilmeade all morning on Fox and Friends, which is Trump's favorite show.

was saying, where's Tom Homan?

Tom Homan is the grown-up.

And by like 9.30, he announced that Tom Homan was going to be sent to Minneapolis, basically benching Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino.

And that doesn't necessarily look like a retreat, but in the context of Trump, that's as close to an admission of failure as you will ever, ever get.

And I think you're right to question this.

I'm not sure this is just...

this specific murder of Alex Pretty, rest in peace, but it's a larger sort of retreat and acknowledgement that the ICE, the Stephen Miller sort of ICE anti-immigration policy, which is so controversial,

is killing him and republicans in the polls this was something that he was elected on that that helped get him elected because he was strong in immigration and america sees what's happening and they're saying no this is not what america is so i think it's a pretty historic moment that trump was basically pivoting saying yeah this isn't working because i don't think he's really principled i think he only wants to try to win the narrative and this is an admission that he lost

I mean, one thing, Peter Doocy asked it politely, but a good, tough question.

That was, Kristi Noem was backtracking from what she had said initially on Saturday, that it was, he was a domestic terrorist.

But when I watched this live, when I watched him speak live, her speak live, and when I saw Greg Vino say all this crap on...

Part of me was saying like, you know, initially I was like, holy shit, I can't believe they're just openly lying.

But there was part of me that was thinking, good, keep going, keep lying, keep trying to gaslight because you know what?

Average American people across the partisan spectrum are going to watch that and say, like, what the hell are you talking about?

And they dug, they kept digging.

And that was effectively the point of my column is that today, Trump said, you know what, we got to stop digging.

We're digging this hole.

We're going to pivot.

Mm-hmm.