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Liz Collin’s Interview On The Tucker Carlson Show (Transcript)

Read the full transcript of journalist Liz Collin’s interview on The Tucker Carlson Show episode titled “Everything You Need to Know About the Minnesota Assassinations and Tim Walz Destroying His State”, premiered June 25, 2025. 

The George Floyd Aftermath and Minnesota’s Current State

TUCKER CARLSON: Five years ago this summer, George Floyd, a convicted felon, OD’d on fentanyl outside a convenience store in Minneapolis, and the country changed forever. Five years later, Tim Walz is still the governor. Keith Ellison is still the attorney general. The cops who were falsely convicted of murdering George Floyd are mostly still in prison. But what happened in Minneapolis itself, well, it’s been wrecked, and no one has said a word about it.

Liz Collin is one of the only journalists remaining in the state of Minnesota, and she gives us an update on the aftermath of the George Floyd revolution. Liz, thank you. Media’s died across the country. Newspapers are going out of business. They’re useless. Local news, basically gone. And the hope was always that there would be responsible people who cared about facts, reporting on what’s happening at the state level and in cities and in most places. That’s not true, but it is true in Minnesota, thanks to you.

So I’m just grateful that you’re filling that void because we need to know what’s happening. I want to start by asking you, because I think you’re an expert on what is the truth about the assassinations in your state of a couple Democratic lawmakers. Who’s the guy who did it? What is that? There’s lying around it? What’s the truth?

The Saturday Night Shooting Spree

LIZ COLLIN: Yeah, sadly, the chaos really continues in Minnesota. Appreciate you having me on and thank you for your kind words about our reporting that we do over at Alpha News. But this all starts on a Saturday. It’s Saturday, June 14th. Two in the morning, and this shooting spree begins.

Vance Boelter is the man who is charged now with the assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. But what we know is that he first arrives at Senator John Hoffman’s home, the home he shares with his wife, Boelter. Their adult daughter happens to be in town during this. And Boelter is dressed as a police officer. He’s wearing also a latex mask. He has a flashlight. Arrives at their door saying, “police, open up.” He’s shouting. It’s very chaotic.

And basically this is two in the morning. They open their door to him and he starts shooting. From what we understand, Senator Hoffman is hit multiple times, his wife hit multiple times. His daughter heroically calls 911, tells the police it’s Senator Hoffman that’s been shot. And this, in a way, I think, sends a message to the rest of the surrounding agencies that this could have something to do with legislators or perhaps people are being targeted to look for this person.

Obviously, we know now that Boelter stops at two more homes. People who are not home, legislators that are not home. At one point, he encounters a police officer in New Hope. That officer actually approaches his vehicle. He is in a vehicle that looks like a squad car, an SUV squad car. Goes so far as to outfit it with police lettering. Actually on the license plate. It says police. On the license plate, a light bar. All the things you would look for in a squad.

This New Hope officer rolls up next to him. He is looking straight ahead and does not acknowledge the officer at all. She then rolls her window up and continues on to this lawmaker’s home. So there’s some questions about how was he not apprehended in that moment.

The Hortman Home Attack

This is when he then continues to the former house speaker, DFL House speaker Melissa Hortman’s home. And at this point, the police catch up to him. The Brooklyn Park Police Department, they are doing a welfare check basically on the Hortman home, saying, you know, she doesn’t live that far away. We should go to the speaker emerita, Melissa Hortman’s home.

And they get there. Shots ring out. But from what we understand between the police and Boelter, somehow Boelter still gets inside the Hortman home. Mark is killed. And then they find Melissa’s body inside the home as well later on.

TUCKER CARLSON: So the police are there for the shooting.

LIZ COLLIN: They are.

TUCKER CARLSON: So how did he get away?

LIZ COLLIN: Still a lot of questions about that.

TUCKER CARLSON: I’m sorry, I didn’t know that. I didn’t get that.

The Escape and Strange Living Arrangements

LIZ COLLIN: He goes out a back door, from what we understand, escapes on foot because he leaves his police cruiser there on scene. This is where they find out it’s Vance Boelter. He has utility bills in this vehicle, things that all trace back to him.

And he gets back to an address that mysteriously he’d been renting for the last couple years. It’s very strange. He shared his home with his wife and five children in Green Isle, Minnesota, which is about an hour outside of Minneapolis. But yet he was renting this room in Minneapolis where he would stay two or three nights a week, from what we understand from the neighbors.

And he’d show up at sometimes midnight, leave at 4 or 5 in the morning. We’ve been able to look a lot at his social media and what he’s put out there. He was working at some funeral homes, we understand, and would keep these strange hours. But neighbors actually thought he was a detective. That’s what they thought of him. They thought it was strange that this guy would just show up a couple times a week.

TUCKER CARLSON: He’s working at funeral homes, right?

LIZ COLLIN: What he said that people he was doing kind of some just disposal of bodies he would talk about openly in a little college course that we found a clip of.