He doesn't really care what it makes him look like. Are all of the headlines about him? If they are about him, they are about nobody else. Now, this is a curious moment, which is why he has to ramp this up, because the headlines are also about this poor woman.

Renee Nicole Good. How does he get away from that? Trump, again, just the opposite.

Let's not walk this back at all. Let's double down. Let's have the headlines about the

Insurrection Act rather than about this poor woman. Michael. Joanna.

Hard to be flippant on a morning like this.

We always try to be cheerful,

but it does seem that the situation in Minneapolis is getting worse,

that there's a lot of provocation going on,

and it's unnerving.

You know, once again, Minneapolis is ground ground zero and I think that that may not be coincident you know I think that the Trump people the MAGA people

for them Black Lives Matter has always been a particular, I almost insult to them.

And not only that, but I think a point of conflict that they've found that they've, that has been very useful to them.

These kinds of conflicts with, with what they consider the left in whatever iteration,

black left, white left, it doesn't make any difference,

I think is a thing that goes to the heart of MAGA

and the heart of what they believe gives them their identity.

And so I think that they, that they're finding this at, at this point, this is a fight that they want to have, which is awfully scary.

And, and, and I think, well, let's go back to ground zero.

This is, this is fundamental.

And then this idea of extending this, and there's no back down on their part, which is the other extraordinary thing.

I mean, this terrible thing has happened.

A woman lost her life in, at best, highly ambiguous circumstances.

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