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The hostile rhetoric and dangerous threats and hate must stop. And we all agreed to that. All everybody I met here today, we got to stop the rhetoric, the hateful rhetoric, that is causing increase in assaults.
I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop.
I said in March that the rhetoric didn't stop, there's going to be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right.
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I want to ask you how he handled that situation. You've got tensions on both sides. Homan goes in and he wants to calm those tensions. How do you think that those elected leaders in that state are now going to approach this situation?
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Look, he's absolutely right. They have to tone it down. President Trump does not want anybody to get hurt, whether it's the protesters, whether it's the law enforcement officers. And they've got to do a reset. The rhetoric is dangerous.
It has cost people their lives.
It's gotten people to be arrested.
It's gotten people hurt.
And most of all, it's gotten our agents hurt.
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Not only that, you've got the agents that want to go into the jails that would make it a lot more safe. But now these agitators, they are agitators. There are some protesters, but a lot of them are agitators. And they're getting in the face of ICE agents. We've seen that, sadly, with Pretti.
He went and he did it multiple times. It cost him his life. But I want to get this thought here from President Trump. He was asked about this and whether or not if this continues, if they continue to get spit in their face, they get pushed, these ICE agents. Well, now President Trump says this is how they can respond.
Watch:
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I said, you're allowed, if somebody does that, you can do something back. You're not going to stand there and take it. If somebody spits in your face, that will not be a pleasant thing for the person that spits.
We're not letting people spit in our soldiers' face as they stand in attention, and they're not allowed to do anything.
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We saw this play out now. Lay, we've seen this happen in Minnesota. How is this going to change the rhetoric here?
President Trump wants his agents to be protected, but is this going to cause more chaos?
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Well, look, it just shows that President Trump has the back of law enforcement. And we know he's got our back, so we're going to be able to protect ourselves, protect our fellow agents.
That's essentially what it comes to. Nobody should be impeding, interfering, but most importantly, assaulting a law enforcement officer. And there will be consequences.
And we support his efforts to make sure that he puts it out there so that they know it's coming.
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Paul, I want to get your thoughts on this, because Governor Tim Walz says that, well, he wants safety in his community as well. He met with Border Czar Tom Homan, and they agreed that they had a productive conversation.
Then he goes on NPR, but he'd already made this comment about Gestapo. Watch.
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Donald Trump's modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets.
They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons.
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That was his comment. Then he was pressed again on NPR, where they wanted him to double down or potentially walk back that statement. Here's what he had to say. Watch.
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