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Still, though, Danielle, Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem have both called Pretty a domestic terrorist, a would-be assassin.
It really seems hard to walk back that rhetoric.
That is NPR White House correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben.
Thank you so much, Danielle.
And to learn more about Preti, we reached out to Heather Zielinski, his friend.
They had known each other for more than 10 years.
We reached her earlier this afternoon.
Heather, thanks for talking to us.
Tell me how you knew Alex Preti.
Is that how you'd usually get together over coffee or lunch or something like that?
What was he like to talk to?
Was he a talker?
Was he a listener?
Was he funny?
Yeah.
And we know he loved the outdoors.
We also know he had a tough job.
He was a nurse in the ICU at the Veterans Administration.
What did he ever say about that job?
What he liked about it?