White House shifts response to Minneapolis shooting after bipartisan outrage
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Let's look now at some of the political fallout from the immigration crackdown in fatal shooting in Minnesota. |
| 0:06.0 | At the White House today, Press Secretary Caroline Levitt delivered a somewhat different message than administration officials did over the weekend. |
| 0:13.0 | Our own Liz Landers was in the briefing room and she joins us now from the White House. |
| 0:18.0 | So Liz, when it comes to the shooting and killing of Alex Pready, what did |
| 0:20.8 | we hear from the White House today? Yeah, as you mentioned, a very different tone coming out of the |
| 0:26.5 | White House, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, this afternoon when talking about the shooting |
| 0:32.1 | that occurred over the weekend, especially when you compare that to what we heard from administration |
| 0:36.2 | officials on Saturday and Sunday. |
| 0:38.3 | The White House press secretary today calling Alex Prattie's death a tragedy saying that President |
| 0:43.3 | Trump never wants to see Americans shot and killed in the streets. And when she was asked if the |
| 0:49.3 | president thought that the shooting was a mistake, this is what she had to say. |
| 0:56.3 | Again, the president has said, you know, we have to review it and this investigation needs to continue and he's letting the |
| 1:02.1 | facts on the investigation lead itself. Those investigations are being conducted right now by the FBI |
| 1:08.0 | and by Homeland Security themselves. There's also an internal investigation |
| 1:12.2 | that Customs and Border Patrol is also undertaking. And Omna, one of the main sort of differences |
| 1:18.8 | that we heard today from Leavitt at the podium was specifically some of the comments that |
| 1:24.0 | Kristy Nome and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller had made |
| 1:28.4 | in the press and online over the weekend. She was asked if the president thought that |
| 1:32.9 | Prattie had committed a domestic act of terrorism or that he was an assassin. Leavitt said, |
| 1:38.2 | I have not heard the president characterize Mr. Prattie in that way. |
| 1:41.7 | Liz, we also heard the president announce he's going to send his border czar, Tom |
| 1:45.0 | Holman, to Minneapolis, and that Homan's going to report directly to him. |
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