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Bovino hurls accusations at CNN's Jake Tapper — and gets bruising reply

Customs and Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino took a shot at CNN anchor Jake Tapper Monday — and got shot down by facts from the journalist.

Tapper had pointed out how Bovino's credibility has come under question in the past as Bovino tried to make a series of claims after ICE agents killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this weekend.

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DHS admits officers were wearing body cameras during Alex Pretti's shooting

The Department of Homeland Security reportedly confirmed that some of the officers involved in the shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti had body-worn cameras activated at the time of the incident.

On Monday, a DHS spokesperson admitted to Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin that "several federal agents" were wearing the cameras when Pretti was shot to death in Minnesota over the weekend.

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Tim Walz gives own version of call with Trump: 'The president agreed'

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) revealed that President Donald Trump has agreed to allow his state law enforcement agencies to "conduct an independent investigation."

On Monday, Trump first reported that he had "a very good call" with Walz despite ongoing acrimony between the two leaders over immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.

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Trump promise after ICE killing immediately undercut by own officials: 'Hell no'

President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal Sunday that his administration was “reviewing everything” regarding the deadly Border Patrol shooting Saturday and would “come out with a determination” soon — but was immediately undercut by his own senior officials, Zeteo reported Monday.

“We’re looking, we’re reviewing everything and will come out with a determination,” Trump told the Journal Sunday, referring to the shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday — an incident that has sparked outrage across the nation and calls to axe funding for federal immigration enforcement agencies.

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Kash Patel squirms under MAGA backlash over Alex Pretti killing

FBI Director Kah Patel reversed course after receiving backlash over his assertion that it was illegal to bring a firearm to a protest.

On Sunday, Patel responded to a DHS officer killing Alex Pretti by suggesting the 37-year-old nurse had deserved it because he legally carried a handgun while video recording ICE and Border Patrol agents.

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Trump blames doctors for sparking alarming health concerns: 'Stupidest thing I ever did'

President Donald Trump put his doctors on the spot during an interview with a reporter seeking clarification on his health.

New York Magazine's Ben Terris scored an Oval Office interview last month with the 79-year-old president to gain insight into his health, following speculation about cognitive tests and MRI exams, strange bruising on his hands and other evidence of age-related decline. The interviewer found two men clutching pieces of paper labeled "talking points."

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Trump muses on his own death while watching funeral on TV: 'That'll be me'

President Donald Trump fantasized about his own death while watching the funeral of one of his predecessors, according to a new report.

New York Magazine reporter Ben Terris spoke to the 79-year-old president and those around him about Trump's health, which has been the topic of much speculation after he revealed taking cognitive tests and undergoing MRI exams. Sources close to him say he's been musing about his own demise.

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Exposed: Probe finds ICE wrongly detained staggering 2,300 people in just 6 months

In yet another display of the Trump administration’s disregard for the US Constitution, there have been at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled that immigration officials illegally detained people without bond or due process since just July, according to one journalist.

Politico reporter Kyle Cheney shared some of the cases he’s tracked in a thread on the social media platform X late Saturday. “This is one that stands out,” he said of Sonik Manaserian, an Iranian woman of Armenian ethnicity who is a member of the Baha’i faith.

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Trump makes major U-turn as he lavishes praise on Tim Walz

Amid the ongoing chaos in Minnesota as thousands of federal immigration officers continue to swarm the state, President Donald Trump revealed that he had a “very good call” with Gov. Tim Walz, praising the governor just days after accusing him of “inciting insurrection.”

“Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

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'I failed': Dem who voted for DHS funding grovels to angry constituents

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) admitted that he had "failed" after voting for Department of Homeland Security funding that enabled the federal government's reign of violence in Minnesota.

On Monday, Suozzi responded to a DHS officer killing 37-year-old Alex Pretti by apologizing to his constituents.

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Trump move is admission that top aides ‘have created a disaster’ in MN: Ex-FBI director​

A former FBI director said Monday that President Donald Trump has realized he has a problem as criticism grows over the fatal shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis.

Andrew McCabe told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer that Trump's announcement that he's sending his designated "border czar" Tom Homan to oversee the ongoing immigration crackdown in Minnesota is a sign that he's growing frustrated and suggested he could be losing confidence with federal officials Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino.

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'You cannot de-escalate': Trump urged to increase violence against Minnesota 'insurgents'

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon called on the Trump administration to double down after officers from the Department of Homeland Security killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, over the weekend.

"In Minneapolis is just the center of an outright revolution, highly organized, highly financed, with our enemies, the Chinese Communist Party in back of this, but Soros, many other groups, highly organized, as sophisticated as what they did against our troops in Baghdad during the insurgency there," Bannon argued on his Monday War Room program. "And during the Iraq War, this is highly sophisticated. Under no circumstances can we de-escalate. Under no circumstances can we blink."

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MAGA host on Pretti shooting: 'Time for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act’

The pro-MAGA hosts on Real America's Voice argued that Alex Pretti's death at the hands of DHS officers should prompt President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act against anti-ICE protesters.

"As you can imagine, a number of protests broke out there in Minneapolis, and it really has just been a tragic situation," co-host Terrence Bates noted on Monday. "It's about time for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, just to try to really get a handle on this and send a message."

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