Fox host Emily Compagno voices support for Trump invoking the Insurrection Act: “There is absolutely ground for that”
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From the January 15, 2026, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered.
KAYLEIGH MCENANY (CO-HOST): President Trump has made very clear what he is going to do. In a Truth Social tweet this morning, you can see this here, he said, ‘If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of ICE, who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the Insurrection Act, which many presidents have done before me.' And then he goes on to say this, Emily, the Insurrection Act last time this was put into place was 1992, George H.W. Bush, and one of the ways you can use it is —
LISA KENNEDY MONTGOMERY (CO-HOST): L.A. riots, right?
MCENANY: Yes, and the governor was complicit in that case, working with the federal government. In this case, you have a resistant governor. But the president can invoke it when it's impractical to enforce federal law because you cannot enforce normal judicial means due to unlawful obstructionists. I would argue we are very close to that line.
EMILY COMPAGNO (CO-HOST): Yeah, I mean, I think, frankly, in 2020, that mirrored, I mean, each is their own beast, but the Watts riots, I think the George Floyd 2020 riots, it should have been called in then, too.
MCENANY: Yes.
COMPAGNO: This is absolutely grounds for that. And I want to focus a little bit on the rhetoric, just to underscore, because I can't wrap my brain around when we hear this particular language from the governor and the mayor there. From the mayor, disgusting, intolerable behavior. To me, I would think that would mean sodomizing minors, that would mean recidivist rapes, that would mean homicides.
When we hear the governor talk about helping people in danger, to me that means helping all of those citizens there in Minnesota and Minneapolis who were subjected to these horrific recidivist crimes at the hands of illegal immigrants. And when he talks about a database of atrocities against Minnesotans, yeah, that's what we already have. That's in the criminal, federal, and state database of the judiciary. Because when we talked about and put up on our screens the litany of individuals that have been arrested by ICE, enforcing the law for those crimes, those were convictions.
And I know the left made much about allegations versus convictions, where there you have those convictions. So, to your point, I don't know why we are still hearing from them, not only that fomenting language as ICE agents are continue to be assaulted in broad daylight, in the middle of the night and have to defend themselves, and we see the complete breakdown of law and order there. The sensitivity of the information in those documents, the contents of the weapons box, the fragility and sacredness of the ICE agents' lives, those are all and more at stake. And most importantly, the protection and safety of all of us Americans that right now is being obliterated at the hands of, not Donald Trump, but the governor and the mayor there who refuse to see common sense for what it is.