Fox host: President Trump has “got all the justification” to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota
Trey Gowdy: “I actually think we may be beyond this point in Minnesota”
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From the January 15, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
STEVE DOOCY (HOST): I'm looking at these pictures out of Minneapolis and I'm thinking man something is so messed up there, and obviously the president looking at the same things. If he does invoke the Insurrection Act, doesn't that mean that he can send in the National Guard. He is emboldened to do that by law, if there's a civil disobedience and occurrence -- and that's the definition of it, what I'm looking at right there.
TREY GOWDY (GUEST): Yeah, it's one of the few exceptions to the Posse Comitatus, where you cannot deploy military forces for domestic use and it's often done when state authorities either cannot or will not. So think back to the 1960s, southern states said, 'we refuse to integrate our schools' presidents used the Insurrection Act to say you know what, you are going to follow the law. I actually think we may be beyond this point in Minnesota. You actually have governors and mayors who are openly defying federal law enforcement. I mean they are not like ambiguous or agnostic about it. They are openly defying it. So I think he's got all the justification. I'm sure he's wanting Minnesota to get in the right hymnal themselves, but they are going the opposite direction, Steve.