wild guess where this one falls in your fact checking. trump has been saying this since 2020. and it is a reversal of reality, jim. he said the democratic governor didn t do anything, so he had to take action. it was democratic governor tim walls who himself activated the minnesota national guard amid this unrest. and he told cnn in 2020 that he did so at the request of the democratic mayors in minneapolis and st. paul. trump did demand that minnesota activate the national guard, but walls had already done so seven hours earlier, jim. all right. daniel dale, we knew that you would be busy last night. i suspect you ll be busy in the days and weeks and months to come. daniel, thanks so much. let s discuss all of this with former top aide to mitt romney s presidential campaign, kevin madden and miles taylor, former chief of staff to trump homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen. kevin, let me go to you first. i ll put aside the
minneapolis police. we saved minneapolis, the thing is we re not supposed to did that because it s up to the democratic governor. they never want any help. it s like they don t want to have any help having their cities destroyed. something there s something wrong with these people. he said the governor of minnesota wouldn t do anything about the civil unrest he, trump had to, in fact it was that democratic governor tim walls who activated the minnesota national guard to deal with the unrest. and his office told cnn in 2020 he did so in response to requests from democratic mayors of minneapolis and st. paul. now, trump did demand that walls activate the guard but in reality, he had already done so seven hours before the then president made the demand in public. daniel dale, cnn, washington. and trump does have the same pull of republican voters that he had in 2015? we canned stephanie grisham what
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