Tim Walz
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We are resilient people.
And just to be clear, the president bending a little bit and then, of course, backtracking now, the reason that he is bending is because of the faceless, nameless leadership that's on the streets that is organizing peaceful protests at a scale.
You saw it.
The same thing is why we needed justice with George Floyd, that policing has to be about trust.
So Minnesotans have been through this, but you're right.
The murder of one of our true shining stars in Melissa and Mark,
the attempt on a senator and his wife.
We have been through a lot.
And in each one of those cases, we're mocked, downplayed.
Our state's grieving.
I'm grieving with them.
But I think what we understand is this is bigger than us.
And I would just, to your listeners, say this happens everywhere.
It's much easier to hold a democracy than to try and get one back.
And I'm just going to state it that, again, I'll go ahead and
We are on the right side of history.
Thank you for telling the story.
And at this point in time, I told Tom, I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt, but unless I see a reduction in these folks on the streets,
I'm going to have to say that to my folks.
So look, we all think we all want to avoid that.