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After their deaths, federal officials painted the two Minnesota protesters as radicals.

This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.

The feds, in part because they spoke before investigations even began, have lost control of their narrative.

President Trump seems to have copped on.

He said today he's sending his border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis and that Homan will report directly to him.

Homan famously dislikes Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief who has, along with Kristi Noem, become the public face of the catastrophe in Minneapolis.

Coming up on Today Explained, ice, lies, and videotape.

My name is J. Patrick Kulikin.

I'm the editor-in-chief of Minnesota Reformer, which is a small nonprofit online news outlet covering politics and policy in Minnesota.

What's it been like running cover to this story?

It's been exhausting and exhilarating and at times depressing and debilitating.

I've never quite encountered a story like this with so many moving pieces and it's evolving so quickly and then bam, you get hit with something new that is catastrophic and causes you to really shift focus.

I was watching video, you know, here in D.C.

of what happened this weekend and of the reaction afterward.

And, you know, you see people being really angry, really heartbroken.

It feels like right now that the people are being packed in the corner because we are being invaded on our state.

I'm 70 years old.

Angry.

Stop.

Look out.