For more on the Trump administration's evolving response to the deadly shootings in Minneapolis,

we're joined now by our White House correspondent Liz Landers. So Liz, we saw in Fred's report there.

President Trump told you he did not think Pretti was an assassin. Why is that significant?

It's notable because the administration is changing their tone on what happened in Minneapolis.

On Saturday, within hours of this shooting happening, White House Deputy Chief of Staff,

Stephen Miller, took to social media to call Preddy an assassin, and that was reposted by the

vice president of the United States. So within a few hours, you had two top White House

officials taking this stance that he was an assassin.

Today, we're seeing the president distancing himself from that, saying that Preddy and René Goods

shootings were both terrible. He said, I hate to see that. And I also just want to note something

else about our exchange about handguns there and the gun that Preddy was apparently carrying on

his person when that happened. He was legally permitted to have that gun and Minnesota has open

carry policies there if you have a permit. We also know that the Homeland Security Secretary,

Christine Noam, her top aide, Corey Lewandowski, had a two-hour meeting last night at the White

House. What do we know about that?

The New York Times reported that they requested the meeting with the president in the over office with a number of top White House officials to talk about what happened in Minnesota.

And apparently the president is still backing Nome. He said today that he has confidence in her,

that she's not going to step down. He said she's doing a very good

job. And I also want to add, Omna, that within the last few minutes, the Department of Homeland

Security has sent a note to Congress with more information about what actually happened in the

Preti shooting, saying that two federal officers fired shots on Saturday. That's new.

We should also note that during all this criticism of ICE, the president is in Iowa today.

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