To be honest, Seth Tupper kind of thought he was done covering Christine Ome.

Seth is a reporter in South Dakota, chronicled Nome's rise from Congresswoman to governor,

and he thought, once she landed in D.C., he'd get to pass the baton, as it were.

Turns out, no such luck.

She's kind of inescapable. She's in the news every day, and it's hard not to think about her, really.

I called Seth, because I wanted someone to talk me through something Nome said last week that I just kept thinking about.

I want to specifically thank the Army.

I want to thank the Marines, the National Guard, our soldiers, our military men and women who've shown up here.

Secretary Nome was speaking in Los Angeles,

talking about what exactly federal agents and troops

were doing on the ground there.

She said her agents were trying to deport immigrants,

but also that the feds were investigating protesters.

She said the IRS was looking into how protesters are being funded.

And then she said this.

We are not going away.

We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership

that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and

what they have tried to insert into this city. So I want to say thank you. This stood out to me because

that's not what U.S. troops or ICE agents were really supposed to be doing in L.A. Was it?

Well, right.

And, you know, the question with her that we always had when we were covering

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