Kristi Noem

I'm asking you, sorry to interrupt, but the president approved ahead of time you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently.

He did?

Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to.

Those are the general orders.

All the way to the top.

Everybody fucking gets it if they touch you.

You hear what I'm saying?

It'll come with me.

In regards to the real ID mandates, you'll get some folks that will criticize and say, oh, my God, I don't want to do real ID, you know, surveillance.

The state's watching everything I'm doing.

And, you know, they'll criticize it.

Why would we do this?

Why should we do this?

That's already happened in many different states.

We all have that logo that's already on there.

What do you say to critics when they criticize the real ID mandates?

Well, Real ID has been law for over 20 years.

I was just the first secretary that actually implemented it, actually said that we were going to enforce it.

And what it does is

give you an opportunity to prove you really are who you are and that you have legal status in this country, that you should be here and that you have the ability to do it.