Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offers comments about the deal at Davos on Greenland, the president’s threat against Canada not to sign a free trade agreement with China, and the protests against immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, on ABC’s “This Week.”

JON KARL, ABC NEWS: And before you go, I know this is not your lane, but I got to ask you about what’s happened in Minneapolis. As a member of the — of the Trump cabinet, are you concerned to see another American citizen ends up dead, shot by federal law enforcement? TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT: Jonathan, it’s a tragedy when anyone dies, but I can tell you the situation on the ground there is being stirred up by Governor Walz. I was out there two weeks ago. Governor Walz declined to provide a security detail for me to go into the Minnesota capital with the state police. So, he is fomenting the — he is fomenting chaos because there is substantial waste, fraud and abuse. My job as Treasury secretary is to investigate that, and I think that, you know, this chaos that’s going on out there, and again, I am sorry that this gentleman is dead, but he did bring a nine-millimeter semi-automatic weapon with two cartridges to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. I think that there are a lot of paid agitators who are ginning things up, and the governor has not done a good job of tamping this down. KARL: Yes. I mean, as you know, he was an ICU nurse, worked for the Veterans Administration, and there’s no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever. In fact, it appears that — BESSENT: He brought a gun. KARL: He’d been disarmed before he was — BESSENT: He brought a gun. Have you ever gone to a protest, Jonathan? KARL: I mean, we do have a Second Amendment in this country that — BESSENT: Jonathan, have you ever gone to a protest? Have you gone to a protest? KARL: I mean, I’ve — no, actually. As a reporter covering it. BESSENT: OK. I’ve been to a protest. Guess what? I didn’t bring a gun. I brought a billboard.

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