Jake Tapper

We'd love to have the partnership of Mayor Frey.

We'd love to have the partnership with the chief of police and of Governor Walz.

Every day when we're out there to make sure they tone down the rhetoric and they do the right thing for the people of Minnesota.

Well, everything that I've said has been proven to be factual and the truth.

This administration wants to operate in transparency.

I have the responsibility as the Secretary of Homeland Security to know this information as soon as possible.

Had just been in Minneapolis the day before, had already had conversations with officers on the ground and supervisors and knew the facts and decided that the department and the people of this country

deserve to know the truth of the situation of what had unfolded in Minneapolis.

It absolutely is what happened.

Those officers.

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Action.

A vehicle had been stuck.

They had come to help get that vehicle out.

That's when this individual started blocking traffic for minutes and minutes.

Blocked the road for a long time and was yelling at them and impeding a federal law enforcement investigation.

And that's what you need to focus on, Jake, is they were breaking the law by impeding and obstructing a law enforcement operation.

They were breaking the law already.

And these officers were doing their due diligence and what their training had prepared them to do.

to make sure they were handling it appropriately.