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Chapter 1: What recent attacks has Donald Trump made against Minnesota?
Donald Trump has just made a stunning admission as the pressure continues to grow against him from the American people based on the ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo invading places like Minnesota and other places throughout the country. Donald Trump, when he was leaving the White House moments ago, said that you can't have guns People can't have guns.
You can't just walk into places or be in public and have a gun or a concealed carry. Listen to what he says. Play this clip. Then Donald Trump says that he thinks that Kristi Noem is doing an amazing job. This says Democrats have now formally called for Noem to be impeached. Let's play this clip right here. I am. Yeah, I think he's doing a very good job. I think he's doing a very good job.
The border is totally secure. You know, you forget. And then in this kind of ghoulish moment after saying all of these horrific things and after the regime defamed Alex Preti and his family, Donald Trump says, I love Alex Preti's family. I love everybody. I love them all. What are you talking about? You have utterly defamed Alex Preti, an American hero. You've defamed his family.
And you say, I love them? The hell are you talking about? Here, play this clip. That whole situation. I love everybody. I love all of our people. I love his family. And it's a very sad situation. Now I want to bring in Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Governor Walz, good to see you. We really are at this inflection point right now. The horrific murder of Alex Preti over the weekend by Border Patrol.
Donald Trump has said that Tom Homan is now going to be going into Minnesota. Your office put out a statement.
saying that your office met with Tom Homan this morning, reiterating Minnesota's priorities and partial investigations into the shootings involving federal agents, a swift and significant reduction in the number of federal forces in Minnesota and an end to the campaign of retribution against Minnesota. I want to hear from you about how that call went. You know, one of the things is
you know donald trump will put out a statement and say we had a productive call and then you'll see he puts someone on tv who then starts defaming you defaming the state and you know says the opposite so where do we go from here governor
yeah and look when we know that and and minnesota is going through it and the world's seen that but i think also minnesotans are showing the side of us that we were resolved and we're not going anywhere um with that being said um the white house i wish it was because of the moral outrage of the murder of alex and renee and the you know liam the little boy and everything else that they've traumatized to our state but my guess is it probably has more to do with dropping poll numbers but either way they get to that place what i will say that i feel
you know, skeptically optimistic, if there's a term there, I'm a little bit cautious on it, that Tom Ullman landed last night and he was in my office this morning, you know, at nine o'clock. I never met Greg Bravino, Kristi Noem, who I've known for decades, served with in Congress, we're neighbors here in states. She never made any attempt to contact me.
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Chapter 2: How is Governor Walz responding to Trump's comments?
And I think that they quite honestly don't like that. I don't want to be Arkansas. I want to be Minnesota.
bovino's out you know do we know that he is he you know i there was mixed reporting on it obviously the good reporting was he was out or demoted they shut down his emails and then i saw trisha mclaughlin say he still has some role what what do we know that he's got like like that guy needs to go yeah frankly all of border patrol and ice they need to go they need to get out of the state but is that kind of
well i think so i mean and look again we're we're good neighbors on this people didn't like greg bravino i i don't know if he his ego knew that they they don't like him but last night people found out where he was staying and and my folks helped make sure they protected that hotel and that greg rubino could get whatever night's sleep you can get after the things they've done and then to leave.
So look, I think the way this works is, is that no one just fires somebody off that they kind of just shut them off.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of the murder of Alex Preti in this context?
We hope that that same thing is happening true with Kristi Noem. They're just ineffective. They don't they don't know what they're doing. It has nothing to do with law enforcement, nothing to do with safety. So a good he's gone. I think Tom Holman has the president's ear and has done this before. But as pointed out, you know, they have to show a change in this.
And this isn't us negotiating with this. This is an assault by the federal government on a state I don't think ever seen with this type of vindictiveness, maybe in our history. When the federal government went into Southern states during the Civil Rights Movement, it was because the states weren't honoring people's rights.
we're honoring the rights here and the federal government's trying to take them away so a full-out assault of a state simply because and look i between you and i've been i what is this all about it's donald trump lost his state three times and he's stating that he didn't and you saw that uh pam bondi tried to extort us out of our voting files which is never going to happen we're never going to give them to them um you know and all these republican 10th amendmenters folks where are they um so yeah there's there's a lot going on right now but
This is a really, really important moment.
Chapter 4: What are Minnesota's priorities regarding federal forces?
I would argue over the next 48 to 72 hours that we need to see a change in posture. And then it needs to extend for the other assaults on us, freezing our federal dollars. I'll remind you again, we are a donor state. We pay more in than almost any other state and get less back. And the idea that our federal dollars are being held up so that they can fund this operation is simply outrageous.
Governor, you say Republicans pretended to care for the 10th Amendment. They pretended they were First Amendment absolutists, but hate free speech and peaceful protest. And Second Amendment, you know, they're all saying if you bring any concealed carrier, have a lawful permit.
You've heard them all say that they have all gone on, you know, Kristi Noem and all of them saying, you know, we shoot and kill you if you conceal carry with a lawful permit.
it's it's outrageous look we had a while back i remember this uh garrison keeler minnesotan one time said look they've made peace with their hypocrisy long ago um it's almost not worth pointing out but i will say it's maddening it is maddening that and but i will say this do too ben in all fairness and i saw marjorie taylor green said this today the nra some of them are starting to speak up it's taking a little while um but they're starting to speak up and i think that probably adds to this the white house has their problem with
independents and the left outraged by this now they've added another subset of the second amendment folks out here who who see this and again i've been asking this for months where are the don't tread on me people because they are treading on you every day and i don't know if people out there think somehow this isn't going to come to your state or if you're sitting there thinking well i'm a red state or whatever well shame on you
Shame on you, I am perfectly glad as a union that Minnesota tax dollars go to helping feed children in Louisiana through our tax dollars or helping in housing in Oklahoma. Whatever it may be, we're in this together. Donald Trump has made it clear that he sees two very different Americas and he uses the term, he calls us the enemy. You put that out, you put people's lives at risk.
So yeah, I hope some of them find their spines, I hope they find their decency. I do think we've got a chance here that these two murders and this murder of Alex is a point that could change American history and move in a way. Do I think they're gonna find good hearts and do things right?
I'm not real hopeful on that, but I do think they're scared to death about November and hopefully that changes their behavior.
Quick question for you before we go. You mentioned Kristi Noem, who was a colleague of yours in the House of Representatives. She doesn't even call you. She does a press conference now defaming you, like saying the most horrific things about you, defaming Alex Preti. You know, lots of people are calling for her impeachment now because her conduct has been so utterly outrageous.
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Chapter 5: How does Governor Walz describe the current political climate in Minnesota?
But yeah, I mean, for your viewers, and just to think about this, Ben, we were side by side in states. She and I worked together on the Ag Committee. We
co-wrote bills together things like beginning farmer and rancher and you know prairie pothole legislation and then we got together and we were the co-chairs of the governor's biofuels uh caucus where we work on things like sustainable aviation fuel i knew her children i knew her husband i talked to her i would see her every day and talk this would be somebody that was a colleague and friendly with and now this i i don't understand with these folks
who got into this, who are the mega movement or whatever, how you got so angry and flip and switch things off. She knows who I am. And when I was in Congress to the chagrin of maybe some on the left, I was more than willing to compromise with people. I'm a pretty centrist Democrat to try and get things done because I represented a rural district. But I have not changed much in my positions.
I was always a pro-choice person. I was always pro-marriage equality. So I hadn't changed my positions. And now all of a sudden we get this. So yeah, it's the weirdest damn thing. I don't know what to tell you, but I think she probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out.
You know, we all knew what an incredibly courageous person Alex is now. The world got to know what a kind heart he had, ICU nurse. We've all heard from his colleagues. Just if I can ask, obviously his parents are going through unthinkable tragedy. I hope they know that the world, you know, is so behind them. And how are they hanging in there? I just, you know.
I'm really proud of Minnesotans, but I'm proud of the media. I watched yesterday and the bulk of the coverage was on Alex's life. I spent an hour yesterday and sat down with his colleagues. And again, these are some of the toughest people you'll find. ICU nurses at one of the nation's largest VA hospitals. These are tough people and spend their lives looking for others.
And so I think telling that story, seeing that and look, the outrage of this and and in the moments after it happened this is the one that i'm having a hard time reconciling and i gotta be honest with you i have to like take a deep breath especially on saturday when i spoke to the press to have somebody like christine ohman jd vance and stephen miller label alex pretty as a
domestic terrorists and put it out there. Kristi Noem said he was coming to massacre massive law enforcement. He was a proud supporter of law enforcement in the military, proud Second Amendment defender. Just his colleagues said he had a deep, unmovable sense of morality and civil rights.
And they said, you know, the horror of the video, they said they knew the minute that that woman was pushed down, that there was no way that he couldn't get between it was just who he was. And as it turned out, that move to step in front and protect that woman cost him his life. And so Look, we're not going to forget this. We're not going to forget Rene Good.
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