Jessica Tarlov

Scott, if you're watching, we all have fragile egos, apparently.

Fascinating.

Yeah.

Well, two words, damage control.

I mean, that's what this was, right?

I mean, Tom Holman was sent there to lower down the temperature publicly.

I think what a lot of people forget is that what's happening on the ground in Minnesota has been happening for a while and will continue to happen for a while, no matter what Holman says today.

The Trump administration, Donald Trump, was upset not because Alex Preddy was murdered and the way it happened.

He was upset because everyone saw it happening.

Same thing with Rene Good.

He is not happy with the public perception of his immigration enforcement activities.

And his polling is dropping, and that is what makes him upset, not the policy itself.

He's fine with the policy.

And so sending Homan there in that press conference to me was a way to shape the public narrative, to change the topic of conversation, because Homan also said that he's going to reduce the number of agents on the ground and that this is an effort to kind of deescalate in a sense.

But based on everything I hear, sure, you may reduce the number of agents from 3,000 to 1,000, but 1,000 is still more than the entire Minneapolis Police Department, right?

Like enforcement will still happen on the ground.

You'll still see these horrifying videos coming from on the ground.

But at least for today, no one is talking about why Alex Preddy was killed.

They're only talking about now Holman saying we need to de-escalate a little bit.

And so the public narrative is changing.