Congressman Mike Lawler joins us now so we can talk to him about the state of play and what isn't being played with because of what we're dealing with writ large.

Tony, bring in the congressman, Mr. Mike Lawler.

Hey, Chris.

How are you?

Hey, Congressman, thank you so much for joining us in the morning.

Appreciate you, appreciate you.

So let's touch on Minnesota and then let's go into affordability.

The president taking Walls' call, let's work on this, give me access to the jails and prisons,

let's agree on the bad guys that we want to go

after that you can help us with. And let's bring down the temperature. I'll take guys off the

streets. We'll do this a different way. Are you okay with that accommodation?

Yeah, look, I think, unfortunately, that's what should have happened from the start.

There should have been greater cooperation between federal, state, and local officials.

This has been one of my critiques of sanctuary city policies for years, is that, you know,

you're actually endangering the public by not allowing law enforcement

to fully cooperate with each other. Even if you just viewed it through the prism of crowd

control, which we saw last night, where finally the police were engaged on crowd control,

that would prevent, you know, in my opinion,

these types of interactions between ICE agents and the general public.

And I think that was something that, you know, is long overdue.

I'm glad they finally spoke.

And I think that's a positive step forward towards de-escalating the situation.

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