WH Border Czar: Working On MN “Drawdown”

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Tom Homan says he's drawing down ICE operations in Minneapolis after admitting mistakes.

No questions. That is what Burnett notices first, because Trump usually takes them, and immigration is normally where he wants the fight. Today, the cabinet meeting barely touched the border, and his refusal to answer became the story before he later took a question at a movie premiere. So what changed? The segment puts that silence next to polling pressure over his crackdown in Minnesota, with less interest in the spectacle than in the political cost. Then the hour gets more concrete. CNN previews a new look at the two officers placed on administrative leave after Alex Preddy was killed. What were they doing before and during the incident? What do their movements show? Another thread raises a different kind of question. Trump's director of national intelligence is shown facing scrutiny after appearing at an FBI raid on a Fulton County, Georgia, elections office. Why was she there? The segment does not treat the answer as settled. It points to a reported connection to unfounded 2020 election fraud theories and keeps pressing for a clearer account. A national security figure at an elections office is not background noise. It needs an explanation people can understand. The hour also changes tone when Bruce Willis's wife talks about caregiving, love, and dementia. That close feels quieter after the politics and investigations. The common thread is simple: who answers, who avoids answering, and what the facts on the ground show.

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Trump's border silence, a police-shooting investigation, and Georgia election questions anchor a crowded hour.

Erin Burnett OutFront keeps a firm grip on Trump's border politics, opening with a president who skips questions while the cabinet meeting barely lingers on border and immigration, even as polls suggest the crackdown in Minnesota is having a cost.

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