The White House is Scrambling to Contain Fallout Over Minneapolis Killing

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Sam Stein and Andrew Egger give their takes on the fallout from the White House after top officials like Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Greg Bovino called Alex Pretti a “would‑be assassin” and “domestic terrorist” in the minutes after federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis even as video evidence and witness accounts contradicted them. As the Trump team scrambles to change the narrative, Bovino has been moved out of his Minneapolis role.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. It's me, Sam Stein, managing out of the bulwark. Still unshaven after this weekend.
0:04.6	I probably should have shaved because I look pathetic. You look great.
0:08.0	That clean cut, Christmas sweater wearing, Washington Commander's Happ wearing, and Drager of morning trots.
0:16.6	What's up, man? How you doing? I haven't, I haven't shaven either. You just can't tell on account of my
0:20.9	condition. Andrew is actually only 16 years old. We're here to talk about something serious,
0:28.8	which is the, why does it appears? I'm putting air quotes around appears. I will debate how
0:36.4	serious this is, to be walking back or trying to find
0:40.1	an off ramp or whatever cliche you want to use where they are in Minneapolis. And Andrew are going
0:47.4	to talk about how serious we think it is. So first indications came this morning, Andrew, when it was
0:52.8	announced that Tom Homan, who has been
0:56.3	sort of on the outs on the Border Patrol, was going to be deputized, more or less, to run the show
1:01.6	in Minneapolis.
1:02.5	We got this bleat from President Trump that said Homan's now the guy in charge.
1:06.4	He's hanging over there.
1:07.7	A bit of a change.
1:09.2	We had some internal discussions about how significant it is,
1:12.1	and you and I were actually in agreement that it was significant. Can you explain why?
1:16.9	Yeah, so basically what we're getting out of this, it's not just that Homan is going in there.
1:22.2	Every indication we're getting is that he is in, and Greg Bevino, the Border Patrol kind of villain. Little guy. Who's been running the stuff there. Yeah, little guy, Nazi haircut, big leather coat. He is going to be out. He's no longer going to be running the day to day of this. It's a little strange because Tom Homan kind of in like the sort of just lay resistance imagination is a guy they hate. Not for no reason, right? I mean, this is the guy who got,
1:46.4	you know, the $50,000 in the Kava bag. Allegedly, allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly got that. This is a guy
1:52.7	who's like constantly on TV, you know, doing the Tough Guy Act on behalf of the administration's
1:57.7	border policies. But behind the scenes, as far as like the spectrum of
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