Meet the Press NOW — January 26

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Trump administration grapples with the fallout from the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who was killed by a border patrol agent in Minneapolis. Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.) joins Meet the Press NOW as some Democrats threaten a partial government shutdown unless significant restrictions are imposed on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Hi there and welcome to meet the press now.
0:12.5	I'm Ryan Nobles in Washington, and we begin with breaking news in the investigation into the deadly shooting on Saturday by a federal border patrol officer in Minneapolis.
0:22.6	The Department of Homeland Security confirming exclusively to NBC News that there is body camera
0:28.1	footage of the deadly shooting of Alex Prettie, an ICU nurse for the VA who was shot
0:33.8	and killed by federal authorities during a skirmish amid the protest.
0:38.5	DHS officials say there are multiple angles of the killing captured on those body cameras
0:43.9	and that they're currently under review. Video captured by bystanders, which you're seeing
0:49.1	here in slow motion, appears to show that confrontation. The officers disarmed pretty of a firearm,
0:55.6	we now know he was legally permitted to carry and then shot him, claiming he was a threat.
1:02.0	Amid mounting blowback over the incident and ISIS tactics in Minnesota, new signs from the Trump
1:07.7	administration that it may be looking for an off-ramp to de-escalate the tensions.
1:12.8	First, President Trump telling the Wall Street Journal that his administration is, quote,
1:16.7	reviewing everything about the shooting and announcing on social media that there would be a shake-up in leadership on the ground,
1:23.5	with Borders-R Tom Holman now managing ICE operations there.
1:27.6	At the White House today, press secretary Caroline Levitt, signaling that the president himself
1:32.3	was distancing himself from allegations made by his top deputies about Preddy.
1:38.7	Regarding Minnesota, on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security posted that
1:43.5	Preddy looks like he wanted to do
1:45.0	maximum damage to massacre law enforcement.
1:48.1	Stephen Miller on Saturday posted that, or called Prattie a would-be assassin.
1:53.5	Why did administration officials jump to conclusions before an investigation and even
1:59.2	been conduct?
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