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Attorney General Pam Bondi making an unexpected trip to Minnesota tonight, sending a warning to the state's top leaders.

Whether it's a public official, whether it's a law enforcement officer, no one is above the law in this state or in this country and people will be held accountable.

Her warning coming on the same day that we learned the Justice Department has sent subpoenas to at least five more top officials across Minnesota.

So that now includes the Governor, Tim Walz, the Attorney General Keith Ellis Ellison, the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob fry, and

Paul mayor, Khalid Hare, who I will speak to in just a moment.

All part of the DOJ probe into whether the officials obstructed ICE efforts in the state.

Governor Walls wasting no time firing back to the doj, saying, quote, minnesota will not be intimidated into silence and neither will I.

So I guess just to start with this subpoena, you know, I don't know if you thought maybe you wouldn't be on that list, but

You're now on what are you being asked for by the doj.

Have they said anything about the possible charges that you might be facing?

Well, Erin, there's more that's going to be coming out about the subpoena.

But for right now, we know that Trump promised retribution.

And consistent with that, we were served a subpoena today.

But we remain committed to our residents and to our communities and neighbors in protecting them.

So Attorney General Pam Bondi was in your state today, unexpected, incredibly rare.

Was there anything that you're hearing with your interpretation of this?

You know, I haven't heard specifically as to the reason why she's here, but

it's pretty clear that this administration is sending people in to intimidate us and we will not be intimidated, as the governor said.

So one of the looming DOJ cases, such that we understand it specifically seems to be about the protesters who rushed into that church that was in your city in St.

They said they were there to protest a pastor there who's also a local ICE official, the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, says whatever it was, it was anti Christian and it was a crime.

Do you think that some of those protesters may have gone beyond their First Amendment rights and going into a church like that and broke the law?

I will say that ISIS led the way in their charge of going onto school properties and Detaining people, places that should be just as well kept sacred.

And so we responded the exact same way we would have at any place of worship that our PD came in.

And because this is an ongoing investigation, I can't comment more than that, but

I would say we would have handled this in any other way, in any other place of worship the same way.

Just to be clear, though, at the beginning, you were saying, well, they go into schools in sacred places.

I mean, is this sort of a situation where if they're doing it, it's okay then if protesters are doing it?

I don't ever believe that it is okay for us to cross the line in which there are spaces in which people have certain rights and freedoms.

But I will say that if this government wants us to obey rule of law, that they also need to follow that as well, and

that they cannot expect residents who are feeling terrorized and sieged to be operating under any different circumstances or any different rules than they are operating in.

So President Trump today was asked then about what ICE is doing in your state and other cities across the country, I guess to this point that you're making about whether.

And they have have gone too far in what they're doing.

Here's specifically what he said to that.

And you know, they're going to make mistakes.

Sometimes ICE is going to be too rough with somebody or, you know, they deal with rough people, they're going to make a mistake.

I mean, it's a rare admission that he said.

I mean, he did say they're going to make a mistake, that sometimes it can happen.

I mean, I think it's interesting that he would say now that they would make a mistake when really just a couple nights ago, when ICE went in and forcibly took an American citizen out of his home on the east side of St Paul, the treatment that was given and then the statement made by his officers, the federal government, and

saying that they were looking for individuals who are sex offenders, who live in that house with that family, when that is just not true.

There was no admission of a mistake that was being made.

So I think it is important for us to remember that the words that are coming out of our president's mouth does not match the actions that we are seeing on the streets.

I want to ask you one question about that.

DHS does tell CNN it was executing a search warrant at that home.

You're referring to that they were looking for two men they say were convicted of sex crimes.

Obviously, as you point out, his family denies anybody like that lives in the house.

And then Tom Homan said today the homeowner was not cooperating with officers, so that they detained him until they could confirm his identity.

That's what they've told us at this point.

I've been asked this question to try to understand the individuals that they're talking about, the ones convicted of sex crimes.

Do you know anything that would contradict that, those other individuals?

And if so, do you have any understanding as to why those individuals would not long ago have been deported?

You know, I can't assume what it is that ICE is doing or who they're looking for.

I mean, I have to believe that they are carrying out the orders that they are supposed to.

What I can tell you is that I have spoken firsthand with this family.

No one in that home lives there with that kind of background and with that kind of criminal record.

And that this family has been in this home for the last two years.

And so what they are saying about who they were looking for just isn't true.

And when they were offered offered identification of the individual that they were detaining, they did not even entertain that.

And so I think that the facts of what the family is experiencing and what they are reporting out are two very different things.

And I will say that based on all of the cases that I have seen unfold here, I am more likely to believe my residents than what is being reported out of this federal government.

The Department of Justice has issued subpoenas in Minnesota, including to the office of Democratic Governor Tim Waltz and the office of Democratic Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Fry.

It's part of the federal government's investigation into whether state and local officials have obstructed immigration enforcement efforts.

Waltz and Frey have been highly critical of the actions of federal immigration officers.

And this afternoon, President Trump doubled down on his claim that many immigrants are committing a lot of crime in Minnesota.

I can show you some of the people vicious, many of them murderers.

These are all out of Minnesota, Just Minnesota.

The reason is because these are insurrectionists that are doing this work.

And, you know, they're going to make mistakes.

Sometimes ICE is going to be too rough with somebody or, you know, they're dealing with rough people.

Well, today, Greg Bevino, a top Border Patrol official in Minneapolis, defended the actions of immigration officers called out Waltz and Fry directly.

Leaders like Tim Waltz or Mayor Fry have relied on heated rhetoric and accusations that distract.

Everything we do every day is legal, ethical, moral, well grounded in law.

Want to discuss the developments with Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin County Attorney.

That county was subpoenaed by the Department of Justice.

Ms. Moriarty, you hear what, first of all, what Greg Bevino just said.

Is it ethical, legal and moral what you have been seeing on the streets of Minneapolis and throughout Minnesota?

In fact, our law enforcement partners, local law enforcement, had a press conference today, and

one of the police chiefs was talking about one of his own police officers who was off duty.

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