there has been, you know, years of efforts from residents to say, "let's transition dollars from mpdother, you know, holistic social services that actually deals with the root causes of crime." and, you know, there have been very small investments into that work. but as we stand right now, of today, two years later, the the police budget for the minneapolis police department still stands close to $200 million. and as you mentioned, the movement backwards, we really saw -- in the wake of george floyd's murder and the uprising, we saw this, you know, broad movement rallied around the demand to defund the police. you know, there was efforts by that coalition of organizations, black-led organizations, to try to even put something on the ballot that would have allowed us to basically dismantle the police department as it currently stands and create a new department of public safety, that would have, you know, not replicated many of the racist and violent components of policing as it currently stands. and we had an unelected body, the charter commission. and we've seen this play out throug

they're very concerned about it, mpd keeping some of those police resources at least through sunday. thank you. the latest book to peel back the curtain on the strum administration makes a being shocking accusation that donald trump wanted to use missiles. >> prum esident trump saying we could just shoot some patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly, adding that no one would know it was us. i'll play the sound. this is about sending a quarter of a million u.s. troops to the mexico border. have a listen. i'll get your reaction. >> who suggested that we accepted a quarter million u.s. troops to the border? >> steven miller. we were in a meeting waiting for the president to come out, standing around the resolute desk, he's behind me and this voice just starts talking about caravans are coming and we need to get troops to the border and we need a quarter million troops. and i think he's joking and then i turned and and i looked at him and these dead pan eyes, clearly he is not joking. i was just flabbergasted that not only was the idea proposed but that they were working on it. >>