Watch live coverage as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a press briefing after President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act after a federal agent shot and injured a man on Wednesday evening in Minneapolis, sparking the latest wave of protests in the city. The Insurrection Act allows the president to send military troops to an area in an effort to tamp down on civil unrest. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. Same mission. New name. » Subscribe to