Overview
- The exchange occurred on CNN’s The Arena after a video showed ICE agents in Minneapolis asking a woman for her birthplace and identification.
- Jennings asserted that an ICE agent was attacked by three Venezuelan nationals using brooms and shovels, saying the agent fired his weapon.
- He described Minnesota as “a state of insurrection” and urged the governor and mayor to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
- Host Kasie Hunt pressed him on ID checks and use-of-force documentation, and Jennings replied that he carries his passport in his backpack.
- Coverage reported his statements without independently confirming the Minneapolis incident’s details, with Mediaite summarizing the exchange and Townhall praising his enforcement-themed argument and noting his separate pushback on “canceling the midterms” talk.