https://www.opb.org/article/2020/07/30/portland-protest-kate-brown-mike-pence-federal-officers/Quote:
At 8:30 a.m. Monday, [Governor) Brown was on the phone with Pence as he sat aboard Air Force Two.
"What she basically said was, 'I need someone I can negotiate with on this. We have a concept,'" said Blosser, who listened in on the call.
The conversation, according to Blosser, was warm. Brown expressed concern someone was going to be killed in the nightly clashes. Pence, too, worried escalating violence might lead to a death.
Pence also voiced an admiration for Mark Hatfield, the former Republican U.S. senator from Oregon and the namesake of the city's federal courthouse.
"They talked about how he stood for peace and justice," Blosser said. "Neither of them wanted this happening in front of his name on the courthouse."
Plus, Pence told Brown, he had an affinity for state troopers from his time as a governor. He closed the call by saying he would do a "download" with Wolf, the acting homeland security secretary.
Not long after noon on Monday, Brown was on the phone with Meadows. Once again, Brown walked the president's top aide through the plan. According to Blosser, Meadows said he'd already been over the proposal with Wolf and Attorney General Bill Barr "and they agreed with the approach."
At 4 p.m. Brown set up a meeting with more senior administration officials this time in person. FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich and Rudolph "Tex" Alles, the undersecretary of management at DHS, had come to Portland because of the ongoing tensions.
.. "Basically over the course of that 12-hour period Monday we kind of had worked things out," Blosser said..
