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Demonstrators' message for the president is: "Stand with frontline communities, stand with future generations, stop approving fossil fuel projects, declare a climate emergency now."

"Do not think we are going quietly into the night, we will continue to stand on the frontlines until every last tar sands pipeline is shut down and Indigenous communities are no longer targeted."

"What is your plan?" one demonstrator asked while interrupting a speech by Ellison. "Are you going to take a stand?"

"The state of Minnesota simply cannot meet our carbon reduction targets if this pipeline goes through," said the Democratic congresswoman. "Our future is on the line."

"If President Biden believes this is an actual 'code red' situation, he should treat it as such by declaring a climate emergency immediately through an executive order and stopping all fossil fuel projects."

"The last thing we need to do," said Rep. Ilhan Omar, "is allow the very criminals who created this crisis to build more fossil fuel infrastructure."

"Water protectors marched 256 miles from the headwaters of the Mississippi River to speak with this gentleman," an Indigenous organizer said of Gov. Tim Walz. "He has not come to listen to their voices and so we came here."