Welcome to the beat. We begin with the breaking news, as we've continued to follow, a lot of concern,

protest, controversy, and basically clashing between the federal government and a state government

about that horrific ice agent shooting an American citizen, this woman to death in Minneapolis.

And tonight the Trump administration has doubled down on what many see as a blatant cover-up. They're doing something

unusual, and we're going to report this out tonight. They are blocking state officials, who, of course,

are on the ground and involved, and normally would be a key part of gathering information over time,

but they're blocking state officials from participating meaningfully in the investigation of that shooting yesterday.

Minnesota officials say, quote, the FBI informed them they would no longer have access to case materials,

seen evidence, or investigative interviews.

In other words, the feds are cutting them out. And that means

you have a Trump loyalist who's been very controversial. There's been talk about removing him even

because Trump aides aren't happy with him. And he's had, as you may have noticed this year,

quite a few errors and blunders in the investigative capacity, but Cash Patel at the FBI will basically

be the person looking into Christy Knomes DHS. That is a recipe for a cover-up and suspicious that

they don't want any local officials looking at facts and evidence. The feds have not sifted through

materials yet or said, hey, let's get our arms around this and then let's have a process or any of

the normal things you would expect. But this is not a normal time. This is not a normal government.

And it's our job to level with you about what's happening. In more normal times, we cover these type of stories,

and if you live in America, you have probably lived through the discussions and coverage

locally or nationally of a lot of times where the authorities, be it local police or the feds,

have used heavy or lethal force. In fact, just about everyone alive in the United States

who's an adult remembers George Floyd and the BLM protest that came out of the use of police

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