Sen. Van Hollen CATCHES DHS Secretary With Government's Own Documents

In a Senate hearing, Senator Chris Van Hollen confronts the Secretary of Homeland Security with an official DHS press release — dated, signed, and distributed in the name of the United States government. The statement describes a federal officer ambushed in Minneapolis, attacked with snow shovels and broom handles, firing in self-defense. The city's own cameras told a different story. State investigators in Hennepin County opened their own inquiry — and arrested the officer. Van Hollen doesn't stop there. He presents two additional cases — Alex Prey and Renee Good — where DHS officials publicly labeled civilians as domestic terrorists. In both cases, the facts didn't support it. Then comes the question the Secretary refuses to answer: will you share the evidence with state investigators running parallel inquiries into these killings? The answer is no. The hearing also surfaces the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a man wrongfully deported, brought back, then hit with new criminal charges. A federal judge has already ruled the prosecution vindictive. Van Hollen asks whether it will stop. The Secretary asks whether the man is in the country legally. In this breakdown, we examine what each of these cases reveals — and what it means when the department that issued the false statements is also the sole custodian of the evidence.