The U.S. entered into the weekend bracing for conflict.
President Trump was celebrating his birthday with a military parade that had people on edge.
No King's protests were scheduled in hundreds of cities had people on edge.
L.A., unresolved with Marines still on the ground, had people on edge.
The shocker was so much of what was feared didn't come to pass, except in Minnesota.
A moment in this country where we watched violence erupt.
This cannot be the norm.
It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences.
A gunman dressed as a police officer shot four people, killing two of them,
in what the governor called a targeted assassination of Minnesota state lawmakers.
Vance Bolter was caught last night.
These were 72 hours that had Americans asking, what the hell is going on?
And we're going to do our best to answer that on Today Explained.
Do you feel like you have a clear sense of what that goal is?
I mean, do you really think it's regime change?
Yeah, I think it's full consolidation of power in his own hands.
The ability to act unfettered, the ability to control and corral the opposition.
And the opposition here is broadly construed.
It's not just the Democratic Party.
It's the press.