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Two Republican senators, Tom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, have now called for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Knoem.

This angered Donald Trump greatly. He lashed out at them as losers and terrible senators. But in truth, Noam's tenure suddenly does look very shaky.

A new review of the killing of Alex Preddy undercuts Noam's initial account. Senate Majority Leader

John Thune has declined to express confidence

in Noam, and Stephen Miller even undercutter. It's very clear this whole thing has gotten away

from Trump and his advisors and has taken on a momentum that is now highly unpredictable.

We think this is just the beginning of GOP panic. So we're talking to New Republic

contributor Virginia Heffernan, who's been documenting the backlash against ICE among ordinary

people about where this is all going. Virginia, nice to have you on. I'm so glad to be here, Greg. I'm

a fan of the show. Thank you very much. Well, Senators Tom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski both called

for Nome to step down this week. Others like Susan Collins are calling on her to pause the

surging of enforcement in Minnesota and Maine. A number of other Republicans are calling for a real

investigation into the murder of Alex Prattie, and some are admitting that the video is damning.

Virginia, something seems to have broken here among Republicans in a way that even the murder of

Renee Good, as horrific as it was, didn't seem to. What do you think happened here?

I think that this is a story about guns and video, And that, you know, the fact that Prattie's

phone, the fact that his camera was first described as a gun by Kristianome is kind of no

accident. And the fact that there's been intimations that protesters will not be allowed to use cameras

or that when they pull out

their phones that that's a provocation. So why is that important? That's important because

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