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Tim Walz: “Now having to close it down and have the scanners.”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Gov. Tim Walz on Minnesota lawmaker shootings 1 year later

Published | Video Starts at 04:19

… kids could sit on the steps and eat their sandwiches and wander in and out and I would walk by. She loved that. She defended that. Yes, defended it. And Now having to close it down and have the scanners. Look, it makes sense. We've had it. But that loss of innocence of this process, that we're all just people in this and we're part time legislators. (04:19–04:24)

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Asserts that the state capitol now requires security scanners due to the incident.

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