REPORTER:
00:00:47
Why did you decide to shake up your leadership team in Minnesota?
ED O'KEEFE:
00:00:51
CBS News has learned Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is facing internal scrutiny over her handling of the shooting. After a two hour Oval Office meeting Monday night with the president, Noem will no longer oversee ICE operations in Minnesota and refocus on Southern border security and FEMA. I think he's done a very good job. I think she's doing a very good job.
ED O'KEEFE:
00:01:11
The president is standing by Noem as the calls for her ouster grow. Now, more than 150 Democrats are calling for her impeachment. Republicans, concerned about what they've seen in Minneapolis, are urging the White House to take a new approach. GOV.
GREG ABBOTT:
00:01:24
They, being the White House, need to recalibrate on what needs to be done to make sure that that respect is going to be re-instilled.
ED O'KEEFE:
00:01:32
Kentucky's Rand Paul and at least a dozen other Senate Republicans are calling for independent investigations. The president supports a probe, but his remark that Pretti shouldn't have taken a gun to the protest has put him at odds with gun rights organizations. I don't like that he had a gun. I don't like that he had two fully loaded magazines. That's a lot of bad stuff.
ED O'KEEFE:
00:01:50
Minnesota is an open carry state, and Pretti was a legal gun owner. The National Association for gun rights said there is no more crucial place to carry a firearm for self-defense than a protest. Former NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch says administration officials should be careful with their words. Simply approaching law enforcement with a firearm isn't indicative of ill intent, nor is it a crime. And in yet another example of the growing anger among Republicans, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis tonight says the incompetence of Secretary Noem and the president's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, who oversees immigration policy have quote, "destroyed the Republican Party's advantage on immigration ahead of the midterm elections. Tony.
TONY DOKOUPIL:
00:02:31
Ed, thank you very much.