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Tim Walz: “The National Guard is there to make sure that peaceful…”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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There's the disruptors in it and why. The vast majority of those protests were peaceful expressions of First Amendment rights. There were those that destroyed property and put people at risk. The National Guard is there to make sure that peaceful protests are able to be done and that those that want to do the destruction are stop from doing that. Yes. Yeah. And well. And I Think apparently by a federal agent, not by Minnesotans who were there to express their. Their First Amendment rights. I think we've seen this. (09:02–09:12)

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Asserts that the National Guard's role is to ensure peaceful protests and prevent destruction.

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