Trump Ups Rhetoric On Minneapolis, Despite Calls For De-Escalation
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Two federal agents involved in the killing of Alex Preti last Saturday have been put on administrative leave. |
| 0:08.0 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:10.0 | One day, after calling for a little bit of a de-escalation, President Trump is now accusing the Minneapolis mayor of playing with fire, bucking calls to fire his homeland |
| 0:23.1 | security secretary Christy Noem and accusing a Democratic Congresswoman who was attacked of staging |
| 0:30.0 | it. Republican Senator Tom Tillis is among those wanting Christy Noem out. He's going to join |
| 0:35.8 | us in a moment here on the lead. Plus, as I mentioned, |
| 0:39.1 | Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar attacked at a town hall what we know about the attacker and about |
| 0:44.5 | the liquid sprayed on her by a man who charged at her from the front row. And CNN has rare access |
| 0:51.4 | inside Iran, what its leaders told CNN about deadly demonstration, |
| 0:56.1 | Trump's recent threats, and how the regime is pushing back. |
| 1:06.6 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start with breaking news at our national lead, President Trump, now warning Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye that he is, quote, playing with fire, unquote, if the city does not enforce federal immigration laws. The Democratic mayor responded on X or Twitter posting, quote, the job of our police is to keep people safe, not enforce federal |
| 1:29.0 | immigration laws. |
| 1:30.6 | I want our police preventing homicides, not hunting down a working dad. |
| 1:35.3 | Everyone should feel safe, calling 911. |
| 1:38.9 | Mayor Frye also pointed out that his immigration policies for Minneapolis are similar to the ones that Rudy Giuliani |
| 1:46.0 | had when he was mayor of New York City. Now, Trump's threat comes just one day after his tone |
| 1:51.9 | slightly softened momentarily, saying he planned to de-escalate the high-octane situation |
| 1:59.2 | in Minneapolis. |
| 2:05.7 | But then Trump remarked on last night's physical attack on Democratic Congresswoman Ilan Omar, |
| 2:07.2 | saying, quote, I think she's a fraud. |
| 2:11.6 | She probably had herself sprayed knowing her. |
| 2:21.4 | There is no possible evidence of that, and that is not a particularly compassionate response to a member of Congress getting attacked. So I think we can call this one of the shortest-lived Trump changes |
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