Tim Pawlenty: “Our country, our Congress, our federal government is in big trouble on all kinds of fronts.”

The entity that was negligent, or entities, plural, should be responsible for their negligence.

The most important thing for this race, for these candidates is not all the people that are already commenting or made up their minds. It's just those people in the swing states who are independent or persuadable.

And, by the way, I think this situation is partly a referendum on Hegseth, but it's partly a referendum on Donald Trump. And the Republican Party has been taken over by Trump and he's calling the question.

We also see goodness in bystanders and good samaritans who weren't wearing a uniform, but ran to the problem, ran to the crisis, ran to the challenge and the danger to be helpful, another reflection of Minnesotans' goodness. And, so, it's…