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The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

'Trump set that tone': Growing outrage over deadly MN immigration operation

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

Washington, Policy, Politics, President, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Msnbc, Congress, Versant, Senate, Government

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On tonight’s Nightcap: Tensions in Minnesota remain high as new footage is released showing an altercation 11 days before Alex Pretti was killed. Then, the FBI searches an elections office in Georgia for records related to the 2020 election. Plus, Trump escalates tensions with Iran as he threatens a "massive armada" is headed to the country. Jason Johnson, Daniel Koh, Peter Goodman, and John Avlon join The 11th Hour this Wednesday night.

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0:00.0

Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhl and welcome to the midweek nightcap.

0:09.1

Check your calendar because we are now 278 long days away from the midterms.

0:14.6

And tension in Minnesota is still high, high, high.

0:17.9

The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that investigators are now reviewing new footage

0:23.3

of an altercation between someone who appears to be Alex Preti

0:26.8

and law enforcement 11 days before his death.

0:29.8

We have obtained the video from the news movement.

0:32.3

We do not have any context as to what led up to the interaction.

0:38.3

This is a moment the news movement filmed on January 13th in Minneapolis, showing a man who appears to be Alex Prattie interacting with federal immigration agents 11 days before Border Patrol shot and killed him.

0:51.3

Our footage was analyzed by the BBC, whose facial recognition technology confirmed his

0:57.0

identity to a 97% degree of accuracy.

1:02.0

Please remember, this was 11 days before Preddy was shot dead by Border Patrol agents while he was peacefully protesting.

1:10.0

There's currently no indication that the officers

1:12.5

on Saturday recognized him from the earlier incident. We also have learned that the two agents who

1:17.8

shot Alex Pretti have been placed on paid administrative leave. They'll be out of work for three

1:22.8

days on death duty as the investigation proceeds. As backlash is continuing over the response to the shooting,

1:29.4

Minnesota Governor Tim Wals sat down with our colleague,

1:32.3

Jacob Soberoff, to talk about the arrival of Tom Holman in Minneapolis.

1:36.2

Here's a clip.

1:38.8

Tom Homan called me, not something Bavino or Noam would ever do.

1:43.6

But the fear I have with that is, is it we going to get more of the same but more efficient

1:49.0

at this oppression?

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