Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) said on Sunday she thinks the Trump administration is trying to "cover up" the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer by pushing a narrative before investigators were able to gather information.
"I think what we are seeing here is the federal government, [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem, Vice President Vance, Donald Trump, attempt to cover up what happened here in the Twin Cities. And I don't think that people here and around the country are believing it," Smith said in an interview on ABC News's "This Week." |
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) expressed further frustration Sunday with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changing the childhood vaccine schedule. The CDC, overseen by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reduced the number of recommended vaccines for children from 17 to 11 on Monday, putting it in line with Denmark. |
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday said he's concerned that bombing Iran could backfire and undermine President Trump's aim to support peaceful protesters in the country.
In an interview on ABC News's "This Week," the libertarian senator said he hopes the protesters are successful in their efforts to push back against Tehran, but he expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of Trump's threats to intervene if Iran killed any demonstrators.
"We're always hopeful that, you know, a freedom movement will develop and overwhelm the authoritarian government there," Paul said. "The only problem I have with saying, 'Oh, we're going to bomb Iran,' is that sometimes it has the opposite effect." |
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| White House border czar Tom Homan on Sunday said he believed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer thought he "did the right thing" in the recent fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis.
"I truly believe, and again, this will come out in the investigation, that in his mind, he feared for his life, and he took appropriate action," Homan told NBC News's Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press." |
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) commented on a recent fraud scandal in his state that has drawn national attention, saying, "You do not hold an entire community, any community, accountable for the actions of individuals."
"Obviously, everybody could have done more to prevent fraud. And I think that's a fair point to make. You do more to prevent fraud. And you look what he's doing right now. He's setting up a whole bunch of infrastructure to do that. And by the way, look, the fraud's real. We've all got to acknowledge it," Frey told NBC News's Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press," referencing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D). |
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended her response to a fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer this week, amid concerns that she too quickly characterized the woman's actions as "domestic terrorism."
In a heated interview on CNN's "State of the Union," the secretary doubled down on her initial assessment that the woman "weaponized" her vehicle in a way that justified the ICE officers using lethal force to defend themselves. |
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) doubled down on his explicit comments about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that he made after a fatal shooting in his city last week.
"We had, I don't know, 10,000 or so people that were protesting and marching yesterday. And virtually all of it was [a] very peaceful expression of First Amendment rights," Frey told NBC News's Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press" in an interview that aired Sunday. |
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday criticized the Trump administration's handling of Greenland, warning that raising the prospect of military action could undercut any meaningful diplomatic efforts.
In an interview on ABC New's "This Week," Paul doubted President Trump's musings about taking over Greenland by military force would materialize — noting the strong bipartisan opposition to the idea — but he urged the president to avoid making those threats if he wants to strike a deal with the resources-rich territory of Denmark. |
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) went after the Trump administration on Sunday for its handling of immigration operations, saying "the way in which [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] is operating today is inhumane and illegal."
"Of course, you need a domestic enforcement mechanism for the immigration laws of this country, but the way in which ICE is operating today is inhumane and illegal. They rounded up a 16-year-old kid in Meriden, Connecticut, weeks before he was about to graduate, in the country legally, put him in detention for six months," Murphy told NBC News's Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press."
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Sunday pushed back on Trump administration attacks on Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a woman who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer last week in Minneapolis. "It is not acceptable for Kristi Noem and the president and the vice president to make these kind of judgments without there being a full investigation, even though we can see in the videos that have been produced so far that what they are describing is really not what is taking place," Omar told CBS News's Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation." |
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