White House avoids Minneapolis tirade as signs suggest Trump backing down

Karoline Leavitt seemed unusually defensive in discussing Alex Pretti's killing - and refused to endorse Stephen Miller

What Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, did not say on Monday was more important than what she did.

When Leavitt stepped up to the briefing room podium to address the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, she avoided the kind of victim-blaming tirade that has become de rigueur for Donald Trump's administration.