Trump Changes Course in Minneapolis

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Daily — "Trump Changes Course in Minneapolis"

Date: January 28, 2026
Hosts/Reporters: Michael Barbaro, Zolan Kano-Youngs, Tyler Pager (The New York Times)

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Overview

This episode delves into the political crisis that erupted after the fatal shooting of Alex Preddy by federal agents in Minneapolis, the ensuing outrage, and how President Trump shifted tone and took visible actions to signal a change in his administration’s approach. The discussion interrogates whether these changes are substantive or merely rhetorical, as well as the complex interplay between policy, public outcry, and political pressure.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Backdrop: The Killing of Alex Preddy and Political Fallout (01:09–05:28)

• Incident Overview:
  • Alex Preddy, an American citizen, was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.
  • Video evidence contradicted official government statements; Preddy was holding a cellphone, not a weapon.
  • Public outrage erupted nationwide, with harsh criticism from across the political spectrum.
• Media Coverage:
  • Trump monitored cable news all weekend, noting both Fox News and other networks' critical coverage.
  • Notable bipartisan rebuke, with even Republican senators (e.g., Bill Cassidy, Thom Tillis) calling for investigation.
• Public and Political Reaction:
  • "Americans don't like what they're seeing right now. Nobody likes feds coming into their state." — Tyler Pager (03:10)
  • Sympathetic media figures and even Fox News hosts joined in criticism.

2. Trump’s Motivations and Initial Response (05:28–07:21)

• Primary Concern:
  • Trump's worry was political: the incident overshadowed his perceived progress on immigration enforcement and border security.
  • He vented to aides about how the narrative was undercutting his accomplishments, not the killing itself.
  • "He was disturbed that a man had been killed. But Michael, what he was really worried about was that this chaos, this narrative was overshadowing all of the progress he felt he has made...." — Zolan Kano Youngs (05:28)
• Early Public Pivot:
  • Trump gave a measured statement to the Wall Street Journal expressing willingness for an investigation, a significant tone shift after initially blaming local leaders and the victim.

3. Visible Changes and Personnel Shifts (07:21–11:17)

• Personnel Changes:
  • Trump announced he was sending Tom Homan, border czar, to Minneapolis to lead federal operations.
  • Greg Bevino, a key Border Patrol official who had vigorously defended the operation, was pulled from Minneapolis.
• Distancing from Rhetoric:
  • Trump stopped echoing the "domestic terrorist" and "assassin" rhetoric put forth by senior staff such as Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller.
  • “Suddenly, it felt like there were consequences for that conduct.” — Michael Barbaro (08:06)
• Improved Local Relations:
  • Trump reached out to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
  • Notably diplomatic calls after days of blaming those same officials.
  • Walz pressed for a "fair and independent investigation" and fewer federal agents, to which Trump reportedly agreed to consider.
  • "He pledged, look, I'm going to send Tom Holman in. We'll do things differently." — Gov. Tim Walz (11:12)

4. Is There Actual Change, or Just Rhetoric? (14:34–18:35)

• On-the-Ground Reality:
  • Despite conciliatory messaging, the federal operation remained robust: over 100 arrests in a single day, with no shrinking in federal presence.
  • "Even if we've seen a rhetorical shift here, we really don't have all that much evidence that we're seeing a substantial change on the ground." — Tyler Pager (15:06)
• Criteria for Real Change:
  • Reduction or withdrawal of federal agents from cities like Minneapolis.
  • Actual accountability for federal agents involved in shootings—no sign yet of such investigations or disciplinary actions.
  • Potential firing or removal of senior officials who propagated falsehoods (e.g., Kristi Noem), though Trump reaffirmed her job security.

5. Pattern of Trump’s Crisis Management (18:35–20:08)

• Bystander in Chief:
  • The hosts note how Trump often projects himself as a bystander, distancing himself rhetorically from the direct consequences of his policies when politically expedient.
  • "This is another example of that, of the President trying to be a bystander to his own policies." — Tyler Pager (19:22)
• Political Guardrails:
  • Trump's pivot appears driven primarily by political peril rather than genuine policy reconsideration or moral outrage.
  • "He was moved on this when he heard that it was hurting him politically. That's the guardrail, it seems..." — Tyler Pager (24:16)

6. Potential Policy and Political Consequences (20:08–24:16)

• Congressional & Party Response:
  • Both Democrats and Republicans (e.g., Susan Collins) are demanding pauses or rollbacks in ICE enforcement, using government funding bills as leverage.
  • Possible risk of a government shutdown exists as lawmakers tie this controversy to broader budget negotiations.
• Remark on Trump’s Immigration Achievements:
  • The episode closes highlighting that Trump achieved much of his immigration agenda, but this crisis threatens to turn those achievements into liabilities.
  • "He turned what many see as a kind of achievement into this exceptionally dark chapter of his presidency." — Michael Barbaro (22:29)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Political Backlash:
  • “One of the gravest political threats to Trump since his inauguration in this second term.”—Michael Barbaro (12:24)
• On The Nature of Trump’s Shift:
  • "Are these just words? Is this just lip service? ...or are we in the midst here of a real moment where we could see concrete change on the ground?" — Tyler Pager (12:07)
• On Holding Officials Accountable:
  • “They could name the Border Patrol agent who shot [Preddy]. They could open an investigation into that agent. They could arrest that agent.” — Michael Barbaro (16:23)
• On the Real Reason for the Pivot:
  • “President Trump wasn’t moved to scale back this operation upon learning that Renee Goode was shot and killed or upon learning that Mr. Pretty was shot and killed. In fact, he initially laid the blame on both of them. He was moved on this when he heard that it was hurting him politically.” — Tyler Pager (24:16)
• On Trump as Bystander:
  • “The President conducting himself like a bystander to his own presidency and its policies and its actions.” — Michael Barbaro (19:08)

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Key Timestamps

• 01:09–05:28 — The immediate fallout, media coverage and bipartisan outrage
• 05:28–07:21 — Trump’s political calculus and first rhetorical shifts
• 07:21–11:17 — Personnel changes, distancing from false narratives, and outreach to local officials
• 14:34–18:35 — Assessment of real progress on the ground vs. rhetorical change
• 18:35–20:08 — Patterns in Trump crisis management; the "bystander in chief" approach
• 20:08–24:16 — Congress’s growing leverage, risk of government shutdown
• 22:29–24:16 — Reflection on the longer-term implications for Trump’s legacy

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Concluding Thoughts

This episode scrutinizes the interplay between political damage control and genuine policy change, using the Minneapolis crisis as a prime example. At the time of recording, despite a notable change in tone and some symbolic personnel moves, investigation and accountability measures remain conspicuously absent, leading to skepticism about the depth and reality of the shift. The hosts and reporters warn that public and Congressional patience is running thin, and that Trump’s handling of this crisis—with rhetoric outpacing reality—may have lasting consequences for both his administration and the nation's immigration debates.

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Transcript

[Michael Albaro]

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[Podcast Host]

This is THE Daily. Today, the story of how the fallout from Alex Preddy's death forced President Trump to change course in Minneapolis and the debate over whether those changes are real or merely symbolic. I spoke with White House reporters Zolan Kano Youngs and Tyler pager. It's Wednesday, January 28th.

[Michael Barbaro]

Zolin and Tyler, we are having this conversation with you on Tuesday afternoon at this moment when President Trump has clearly decided that to try to telegraph that he wants to change course or at least change the tone around his administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis following the killing of Alex Preddy and all of the outrage it inspired. And we're going to talk about how meaningful or superficial that change really is. But Tyler, let's first talk through what's actually happened behind the scenes in the days since Preddy's death.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

So, Michael, one of the interesting things just about this weekend is that it's one of the rare weekends in the winter where Donald Trump is in Washington and not in Palm Beach, Florida, at his club and residence, Mar A Lago. And the reason that Trump stayed in Washington was because he was hosting a special premiere at the White House for the new documentary about his wife Melania.

[Michael Barbaro]

Right.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

And so the president is spending a lot of the weekend in the Oval Office and in the dining room off the Oval Office watching media coverage of what's going on in Minneapolis and the shooting of Alex Preddy. He spent a lot of the time watching FOX News but flips around channels.

[Tyler Pager]

Another American citizen has been shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis.

[Michael Barbaro]

The Trump administration is defending the agent's.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

Actions and just saw this cacophony of voices criticizing the response and the killing of this man in Minneapolis.

[Tyler Pager]

It should freak the American public out that the Trump administration lies this easily. Will lie to your face when you can see the evidence for yourself.

[Michael Barbaro]

He was called by the Trump administration officials a domestic terrorist when all he had in his hand was a cell phone.

[Tyler Pager]

Americans don't like what they're seeing right now. Nobody likes feds coming into their state. And so what's the goal right now? And this criticism is notable and rare because it's not just Democrats. And it's not the usual loudest critics in the Republican Party that are pushing back on him.

[Interviewer]

Senator Bill Cassidy calling the situation disturbing, writing the credibility of ICE and DHS are at stake.

[Tyler Pager]

Senator, you've got Senator Bill Cassidy who said on social media that the shooting was incredibly disturbing. Thom Tillis called for an investigation as well. That's notable pushback against this White House, particularly a White House that demands loyalty from its party.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

And beyond the Republican lawmakers, even some sympathetic media figures like Fox News host Trey Gowdy and Maria Bartiromo were also criticizing the rhetoric from senior administration officials.

[Interviewer]

You've collected the evidence you said, right? You have the handgun in your possession.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

That's right.

[Interviewer]

And how was he using that handgun in terms of threatening Border Patrol? What was the threat? He had his camera. Right. He was filming it.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

And Michael, that's to say nothing of what Trump would have seen if he tuned into MSNOW or cnn.

[Tyler Pager]

What do you see when watch those videos?

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[Interviewer]

Him while his body was lifeless on.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

The ground where officials were saying that the government basically gunned down this man and bungled the response.

[Tyler Pager]

The lies do more than mislead. They justify the unjustifiable. And in the absence of accountability from the Department of Homeland Security, from ice, from Customs and Border Protection, it is up to us to hold on to the truth.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

Right.

[Michael Barbaro]

I caught some of that coverage and it was basically the government has murdered this man and then systematically lied about what happened in the face of video that very clearly contradicted it.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

Absolutely, Michael. And what the president was concerned about was not necessarily the incident itself. You know, he was disturbed that a man had been killed. But Michael, what he was really worried about was that this chaos, this narrative was overshadowing all of the progress he felt he has made on the issue of immigration enforcement and the border with Mexico. These are issues that are core to his political identity. And the president was talking to aides and allies throughout the weekend and venting about how the narrative was being overtaken by this use of force and by the killing of a man. And it was distracting from the message that he wanted to be driving home, which was that he had sealed the border and he was getting rid of, in his parlance, the most violent undocumented immigrants in the country.

[Michael Barbaro]

And Zolan, when did we start to see him reacting accordingly?

[Tyler Pager]

Late Sunday night, an interview with the Wall Street Journal published with President Trump in which he made somewhat measured for him. He actually expressed a willingness in an investigation into this shooting and said that his administration was reviewing the shooting and that eventually they would come out determination. These comments are starkly different from the way the President was talking about this shooting even just 24 hours before.

[Michael Barbaro]

Right.

[Tyler Pager]

In the initial aftermath, President Trump once again laid blame on the victim. He attacked local leaders in Minnesota. Now he's coming out in actually saying that they want to take a look at this. That is really different than the usual reactionary defense we see from President Trump when it comes to anything really involving ICE or his immigration agenda.

[Michael Barbaro]

Right. And it turns out that ends up Tyler being kind of just the beginning of a pretty public pivot that I wonder if you can keep describing here.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

Yeah. It starts very early Monday morning when the President announces on Truth Social that he's sending in Tom Homan, the White House border czar, from Washington to Minneapolis to lead the operation. And a few hours later, we learn that Greg Bevino, a top Border Patrol official who had been leading these operations all over the country, would be leaving Minneapolis. And it's a clear sign that changes are underway, at least in terms of personnel in response to this horrible kill.

[Michael Barbaro]

And the Bevino departure, just to linger on that for a minute, feels especially notable because he had literally been on the ground in Minneapolis very unapologetically defending the most aggressive tactics that ICE and Border Patrol were using. And because he had told the public something that turned out to be completely wrong about Alex Preddy and about his intent and his actions that was very much contradicted by the videos that emerged. And so suddenly, it felt like there were consequences for that conduct.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

Absolutely, Michael. And I think, you know, it wasn't just Bovino who was spreading these false messages about Preddy. They were echoed by Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Stephen Miller, a senior advisor in the White House, who is the architect of much of Trump's immigration agenda. And the President was distancing himself from those exact messages. He was not saying that Preddy was a domestic terrorist, as Stephen Miller said. And he also was not saying that Preddy was an assassin who was trying to inflict mass harm on Border Patrol agents, as Kristi Noem suggested and Bovino did as well. And so those individuals who were really spreading the most inaccurate messages about the victim were sort of being pushed aside.

[Tyler Pager]

And on top of that, deciding to. To pull back. Greg Pavino. We also hear that President Trump is having these phone calls with Governor Tim Waltz and the mayor of Minneapolis as well, Jacob Fry. This is also pretty remarkable. Just a couple days earlier, President Trump was attacking these same officials, blaming them for the unrest that we are seeing in Minneapolis, Right.

[Michael Barbaro]

And in fact, his Department of Justice is actively investigating both of them criminally for blocking his immigration crackdown. But suddenly he's having what by all accounts, I think are somewhat diplomatic phone calls.

[Tyler Pager]

He doesn't just talk to them. He also describes it kind of positively as well.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

And based on the readouts from the calls, Michael, it seems that they really did get into some substantive issues.

[Tyler Pager]

But I had two very good talks. I had Jacob Fry and I had Governor Walsh. And I mean, they were, they were great calls.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

So, as you know, the president made clear that he wanted to enhance cooperation between state and local officials with federal officials on the ground. And the Democratic leaders also pushed back.

[Governor Tim Walz]

First of all, I ask that we have a fair and independent investigation into the murder of both Renee Goode and Alex, and that we have to be able to do that. And he said, we'll look at that. We'll take a look at that.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

They said they wanted a real investigation into the shootings of Minneapolis residents. And also on readout from Tim Walls office said that the president agreed to look into reducing the number of federal agents in Minnesota.

[Governor Tim Walz]

He pledged, look, I'm going to send Tom Holman in. We'll do things differently.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

And really what it seems, Michael, is that both sides had an opportunity to raise their own grievances and maybe had some breakthroughs, Right?

[Michael Barbaro]

And so it felt by Tuesday afternoon that we ended up in a situation that we've become kind of familiar with in the Trump presidency, which is the administration has gone too far. People are furious. I mean, our colleagues described this as, and I'm going to quote from them, one of the gravest political threats to Trump since his inauguration in this second term. And the president, based on everything you're describing here, seems to understand that and wants to say in his own way, I get it. And I'm ready to try to defuse this.

[Tyler Pager]

Michael. That's right. And I mean, just to that point, as we're speaking to you right now, the president just told Fox News that his administration was going to work on de escalating a little bit the situation in Minneapolis. But not a Trump word, not a word you often hear from this president. But look, I guess that's the big question we have now moving forward. Are these just words? You know, is this just lip service at this point in the response to intense political backlash? PR or are we in the midst here of A real moment where we could see concrete change on the ground when it comes to these kind of federal crackdowns on American cities.

[Podcast Host]

We'll be right back.

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[Michael Barbaro]

So, Tyler and Zolyn, let's further pursue the question posed right before the break, which is amid all these signals and symbols of some sort of a change in course and tone from the President, has anything actually changed on the ground in Minneapolis, where ICE and the Border Patrol are still very much there? And has the administration's thinking about its role in the city changed at all?

[Tyler Pager]

Yeah. So even if we've seen a rhetorical shift here, we really don't have all that much evidence that we're seeing a substantial change on the ground. This operation in Minneapolis still appears active. We're hearing as well that roughly 100 arrests were recorded in Minneapolis just today. So at this point, we have not seen that reality on the ground match the shift in rhetoric from the President. On this topic, Tyler, what would it.

[Michael Barbaro]

Look like for things to actually change on the ground?

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

One obvious step, Michael, would be that they Pulled back the Border Patrol agents and the other federal officials who are patrolling all across Minneapolis and other cities where leaders have said they don't want.

[Michael Barbaro]

Those forces, they'd start to reduce the numbers. They would literally recall these agents.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

Right. And another step could possibly be that there's firings of President Trump's aides. There are many critics of the president and even some of his allies privately saying someone like Kristi Noem maybe isn't right for running the Homeland Security Department. But the President walked out of the White House today with Stephen Miller and told reporters that Kristi Noem was doing a great job and she certainly was not resigning.

[Michael Barbaro]

Right. I mean, I suppose the other sign of an on the ground change that matched the, the rhetoric, to use your word, Zolin, would be that the administration took steps to follow through with an investigation into Alex Preddy's killing. They could, for example, name the Border Patrol agent who shot him. They could open an investigation into that agent, they could arrest that agent. In theory.

[Tyler Pager]

Right. As of right now, the investigation into this shooting does not involve looking into criminal wrongdoing of the agents that were involved in this shooting. Right. We've seen that this administration not only has blamed the victims of these shootings, but has also refrained from actually investigating real wrongdoing when it comes to the federal agents involved here. So that would be an active step. And, you know, yes, ICE does typically have a presence in all of these cities, but it's worth reminding folks that we have something different with this kind of operation, which is that you have this Alphabet soup of federal agents that are in Minneapolis right now. It's not a normal ICE deployment. You also have Border Patrol, which was involved in this shooting, as well as other federal agents. So that's another step they could take in just sort of turning this into a more typical ICE deployment, rather than one where you have this hodgepodge of federal agents donned and camouflage that are now currently marching through the streets of Minneapolis.

[Michael Barbaro]

Right. And seemingly with a hair trigger approach to something as simple as somebody holding a phone out in front of them. In the case of Alex Preddy.

[Tyler Pager]

That's right. You would not only be saying, as the President, we're going to de escalate this situation, but actually taking concrete steps to scale back this operation, which could then lead to de escalation as well.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

Right.

[Michael Barbaro]

I mean, I'm repeating what you said to a degree, Zolan, but when you step back and really examine what's truly different here beyond the rhetoric, it seems like the answer is not much.

[Tyler Pager]

Not much yet. Right. And that's important because often with President Trump, when you're going through these news cycles, when he's facing political blowback, and this one, it's definitely relevant, he kind of has this two handed approach. Right. He both has this reactionary defense for federal agents, for the federal crackdown, for his agenda, and then at the very same time, he will try to distance himself from that same agenda when it gets political backlash, when it causes trouble for him.

[Michael Barbaro]

Right. Zolin, when you walked out of the Oval Office with Tyler a week and a half ago after your interview with Trump, you described this as the President conducting himself like a bystander to his own presidency and its policies and its actions.

[Tyler Pager]

Yes. And I think this is another example of that, of the President trying to be a bystander to his own policies. This is the President that talked about mass deportations, not only mass deportations, but deploying federal agents to American cities.

[Michael Barbaro]

Right.

[Tyler Pager]

And this is what's come with that. This is also the President that at times has talked about how law enforcement could deter crime by holding, quote, one really violent day. That's something he said during his own campaign.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

Right.

[Michael Barbaro]

And we have seen many violent days.

[Tyler Pager]

That's right. But it seems, at least in this current moment, we're seeing President Trump as a bystander to his own policy and not President Trump aggressively defending his policy, no matter the circumstances.

[Michael Barbaro]

Tyler, if people sense that this tone shift is just a tone shift, really kind of a veneer, it's clearly not going to satisfy the fury of Minnesotans, of those Republicans in Congress who are demanding change, who are demanding hearings, including in the Senate. And it's especially not going to satisfy Democrats who are currently threatening to block funding bills required to keep the federal government open through the end of this week.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

Yeah, Michael, we have not seen the end of this story. And just as we're talking now, the President is taking questions and when he's asked, do you plan to pull agents out of Minnesota? He says, we'll do whatever appropriate. That's a decision that the President gets to make. Right. And he's not defining the parameters by which he would change course. And I think that's really notable. And I think those are going to be the questions that lawmakers are asking of the administration as they move forward with these critical government funding bills. I mean, we just saw Susan Collins, a Republican of Maine, who told Kristi Noem that she wants a pause of ICE enforcement in Maine and Minnesota.

[Michael Barbaro]

So very quickly, is there a real risk that a situation that the president and those around him have created in a place like Minneapolis, with ice, with Border Patrol, could actually lead to some form of a government shutdown in the next few days.

[Tyler Pager]

It's always tough to make a prediction, particularly when it comes to Congress. But when you have not only Democrats, but also Republicans who are expressing concern about the agency at the center of this operation, and as Tyler said, you also have someone who's incredibly influential in the Appropriations Committee, Susan Collins, also expressing that concern. That is like a red alert moment for those in the White House who are anxious about a government shutdown. Right. So we have to watch what's going to happen here. But there are definitely signs that members of Congress that would be needed in order to prevent a government shutdown, that they are watching what's going on in Minneapolis as well as other cities. When it comes to this operation.

[Michael Barbaro]

You just to end this conversation, it strikes me and Zolin, you talked about this in the very beginning of this conversation, that the president has just, objectively speaking over the past year, quickly achieved many of his immigration goals. He sealed the border. He reduced crossings to a historic low, a trickle. And then with these deployments of ICE and Border Patrol in cities like Minneapolis, it no longer feels like much of a debate here. He turned what many see as a kind of achievement into this exceptionally dark chapter of his presidency, and it just.

[Podcast Host]

Didn'T need to be that way.

[Tyler Pager]

Yes. And you know, this policy more than any other policy, the President has just been incredibly emboldened. He's been surrounded by people that will turn his impulses into actually policy that will impact people on the ground. He has felt that he has had the political support of his own party and for the most part, the country when it comes to this immigration agenda from the campaign until now. And yeah, he's, he's faced pushback at times, but he has never really even rhetorically acknowledged the need to scale back. And now it seems we are at the point where the President has realized that he might have overshot on this agenda item, where actually he went so far on this agenda that now the optics are actually not working in his favor.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

Right.

[Tyler Pager]

And it is still early in this cycle, and we don't know what's going to happen next. But we actually do have one takeaway that we can say already from this, and that's that President Trump wasn't moved to scale back this operation upon learning that Renee Goode was shot and killed or upon learning that Mr. Pretty was shot and killed. In fact, he initially laid the blame on both of them. He was moved on this when he heard that it was hurting him politically. That's the guardrail, it seems at this moment, for his immigration policy. And I think that's notable. And it's something we should watch as we try to report out just how much further this is going to expand or if this is really going to be scaled back in a definitive way.

[Michael Barbaro]

Well, Zolin and Tyler, thank you very much.

[Podcast Host]

We appreciate it.

[Zolan Kano Youngs]

Thanks so much, Michael.

[Tyler Pager]

Thank you, Michael.

[Podcast Host]

On Tuesday night, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller appeared to back away from his original inaccurate claims about Alex Preddy's death. In a statement to cnn, Miller said that the White House was now evaluating why the Border Patrol agents responsible for Preddy's death may have failed to follow government protocols. We'll.

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[Tyler Pager]

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[Podcast Host]

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During a town hall meeting moments after Omar called for abolishing ICE and impeaching Kristi Noem. The attacker was quickly tackled and arrested and Omar was unhurt. And New census data shows that over the last year, America's population grew at one of the slowest rates in the country's history. A major reason for the slowdown was the decline in immigration, which plunged by more than 50% because of President Trump's second term policies, combined with a long term decline in the American birth rate. Overall, the country's population grew by about 1.8 million people, a growth rate of about half a percentage point. Today's episode was produced by Eric Krupke, Mary Wilson and Rob Zipko. It was edited by M.J. davis. Lynn contains music by Marion Lozano, Roni Misto and Dan Powell. Ann was engineered by Chris Wood. That's it for the Daily I'm Michael Albaro.

[Michael Barbaro]

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[Michael Albaro]

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