Following a mass shooting that killed two children in Minnesota on Wednesday, Representative Ilhan Omar , a Minnesota Democrat, took issue with Senior Director of Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka 's view on the federal government's role in dealing with potential mass shooters, with the Trump official saying the onus rests with local governments and that people shouldn't turn to Washington, D.C.

Gorka and Omar appeared consecutively on Sunday's episode of State of the Union on CNN , with Gorka saying that mental health issues and local policies are to blame for not dealing with "warning signals."

Host Brianna Keilar pressed Gorka on the administration's decision to cut funding that affected the Minnesota Department of Public Safety that could have helped assess and manage such w

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