Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former DNC Chair Donna Brazile, former communications director of the RNC Doug Heye, and New York Times Opinion correspondent Michelle Cottle join George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” roundtable.

CHRIS CHRISTIE: Never in my life did I think Tom Homan would be seen as a calming influence. But that’s who he sends out there to be the calming influence in Minnesota, which tells you two things. One, how out of control Bovino and that group had gotten that Homan could actually be perceived that way. And secondly, that there’s going to be really no change in policy here because Tom Homan is the architect of this policy. … When you look at the conduct on the ground, that’s offensive to not only the American people, but to people’s sense of rule of law and what rule of law is supposed to look like. The border situation that the Biden administration allowed to happen is a large part of the reason I think Donald Trump was re-elected in 2024. And people are all for the fact that he has secured the border. But law enforcement, I think in many ways, is uncomfortable with this at the state level. I see it in my own state as well. And now, what you’re seeing are judges are saying, no, this is not the way you conduct law enforcement activities. Not that the actions are not legitimate in terms of wanting to remove certain people from the country, but the way they’re doing it is something that is repulsive to the American people. And Trump knows, you know, one thing he can read is how people are reacting.

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