How Walz, Frey responded to Trump’s threats during ICE surge

He was spinning up on the Insurrection Act. But if I needed it, I'd use it. It's very powerful. We did discuss the Insurrection Act. He certainly has the constitutional authority to utilize that. We cannot let Minnesota be the reason why the Insurrection Act would be implemented. There were 1,800 militarized troops that were located in Alaska ready to be deployed at any given moment. And I was incredibly ...concern that the president had been building up to, had been marshaling the forces both in North Carolina and Alaska to invoke the Insurrection Act. You were calling for it to be invoked. At what point did you think it should have been? Right off the bat. Behind the scenes, the language I was using was very specifically aimed at trying to prevent the invoking of the Insurrection Act and what I think would have been a catastrophic situation on the streets and been very difficult to contain. Not just ICE, not just Border Patrol, militarized troops coming into the city. How the hell do you deal with that? A mayor of a major American city. Saying that federal authority doesn't matter. That's the statutory definition of insurrection in federal code. The Department of Justice was being weaponized to come after local elected officials, including myself, criminally. Was there ever a moment where you did think you could be arrested by federal authorities? Yeah, yeah, we made plans for succession.