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And so am I. He also, though, you see in Tim Walz's statement, something a bit similar.
Governor Walz had a productive call with President Trump today.
The governor made the case that we need impartial investigations of the Minneapolis shooting, that we need to reduce the number of federal agents.
The president agreed he would talk to Department of Homeland Security about ensuring Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is able to conduct an independent investigation, as would ordinarily be in the case.
The president also agreed to look into the reducing.
the number of federal agents in Minnesota and working with the state in a more coordinated fashion on immigration enforcement regarding violent criminals.
So you can see very clearly in that.
And the next one, Mac, if we can, Trump's announcement of Tom Homan.
This was, I actually think, the most significant one because...
As you said, there's been a bit turf turf war inside of the administration between Kirstie Noem, Kirstie Noem, Corey Lewandowski and Tom Homan.
So as you said, Tom Homan is not some shrinking violet.
But fundamentally, and Ryan even talked about this yesterday when he noted Tom Homan's response to the Renee Good shooting.
He didn't immediately come out and say anything.
He's like, look, we need to wait for a process.
And it's because at the end of the day, like he's a cop, like this is somebody who worked under the Obama administration.
for example.
And yes, he definitely has like strongly held political views, but is also somebody who at least reportedly has wanted to take a very different tactic whenever it comes to deportation and specifically trying to focus on criminals and people with violent history, existing detainers, which he has been arguing with Lewandowski and Kirstie Noem is not only more efficient, but, you know, does not invite the same public backlash.
So at the very least, you can say that this is a massive change of tactic because not only does Bovino lose his job, he's going back to San Diego reportedly, but many of the agents who were with him have been ordered out of the state of Minnesota.
They even locked Bovino out of his own Twitter account.
He's obviously been like the death penalty in this.