Top Senate Republican Declines To Defend Kristi NoemAsked if he had confidence in Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem amid the outcry over ICE in Minneapolis, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said: “That’s the president’s judgment call.”The GOP leader told reporters that Noem, his fellow South Dakotan and the state’s former governor, “serves at the pleasure of the president.”“The important thing is that the president’s got confidence in his team,” he added on Capitol Hill.Thune also said that Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a federal agent last week, was in “compliance with the laws and he has a constitutional right” to carry a gun, breaking with President Donald Trump, who said “you can't walk in” to a protest with a gun.See All Updates