Tim Walz

It is absolutely despicable.

Nothing on there again about the families, nothing about what's going.

And this untrained force that anybody to the casual observer knows these folks don't know what they're doing.

The great example is they had control of the Whipple building, the federal building.

That's the place where they staged because they're not going to use state property.

And every day it was a confrontation.

They would come out of there all geared up like they're in Afghanistan.

They would charge people.

retired teachers, nurses, students, people who were out there expressing their First Amendment rights, they would throw gas at them, they would yell at them, they would heckle, they would do all that.

Well, to try and ease this tension, we took that over, we being the state, and I sent National Guard, folks I served alongside for the years I was in,

And my first directive to them was, as I said, when you get up there, I said, you deliver donuts, you deliver hot chocolate, you deliver coffee, and you learn the names of those people who are there because they're human beings, they're your neighbors.

And my guard troops are there, no masks on, names on there delivering that.

And now the protesters are asking if they can deliver food to the National Guard who are away from their family.

That's how you do policing.

Now, look, if those protesters do something that crosses the line, if they throw something or if they would cross that line from nonviolence,

We will arrest them because we're rule of law.

But rule of law means we respect their right to protest.

So there's a resiliency here, but there's just deep frustration.

And I keep hearing from the White House that we need to cooperate.

I don't know what you want me to say about cooperating with a force who clearly was doing everything wrong.