Noel King

Are any Republican lawmakers changing the way that they talk about ICE in light of what happened this weekend?

What does it mean that there are divisions here forming in the Republican Party?

President Trump said on Truth Social that he's going to send Tom Homan, his border czar, to Minnesota and that Homan will report directly to him.

Is there any significance in that?

What we're talking about here ultimately is the potential of a partial government shutdown.

We had another one not so long ago.

And I wonder what you think the lessons of the last shutdown were for Democrats and whether any of them apply here.

And a question that I imagine a lot of Americans are asking themselves right now, if Democrats do shut the government down until they get what they want on ICE, on Border Patrol, does that fix the situation?

Does that mean the masked men leave the streets, leave Minneapolis?

Leanne Caldwell is the chief Washington correspondent for Puck News.

Thanks so much, Leanne.

Thank you.

Miles Bryan and Dustin DeSoto produced today's show with help from Ariana Espudu.

Amin El-Sadi edited, David Tadishore and Bridger Dunnigan engineered.

Andrea Lopez-Crusado is our fact checker and I'm Noelle King.

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