Secretary Kristi Noem: “I had a conversation with the Senator after this. We sat down for 10-15 minutes and talked about the fact that nobody knew who he was. He didn’t say who he was until he already had been lunging forward and people were trying to detain him for quite a period of time. Coming into a press conference like this is political theater. It’s wrong and it does a disservice to this country and the people who live here.”
“So, we sat down, had a conversation. We probably disagree on 90% of the topics, but we agreed to exchange phone numbers, we’ll continue to talk and share information, and I think that’s the way it should be in this country. I wish he would have acted that way in the beginning instead of creating a scene like this.”