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Tim Walz: “We created a masked, unmarked, unregulated, untrained…”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Gov. Tim Walz's first interview since dropping out of 2026 race

Published | Video Starts at 08:44

Senator Schumer, Senator Murphy, just others who have called me, Senator Padilla, all have called and committed to that. Absolutely not. They've got $70 billion already. This is what happens. We created a masked, unmarked, unregulated, untrained personal army. that was out there and this was the inevitable end of it. So, no, put the guardrails around this. Hold them accountable. (08:44–08:51)

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Asserts that [the federal government] created an unregulated and untrained force.

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