Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) asked NBC to “selectively omit” important parts of the 14th Amendment in a question about birthright citizenship during an interview with President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday. I asked the news.
During a roundtable interview aired on NBC's “Meet the Press,” President Trump was asked about a number of reforms he plans to implement once he takes office, including his plan to abolish birthright citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States, regardless of whether their parents are citizens. President Trump called the policy “ridiculous” and acknowledged he intended to end it “on day one.”
NBC host Kristen Welker fired back, saying that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution “provides that every person in the United States is a citizen. Can executive action circumvent the 14th Amendment?” ?” he insisted. she asked.
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Donald Trump said in an interview on “Meet the Press” that he intends to abolish birthright citizenship on day one. (Screenshot/NBC)
President Trump said he was open to using executive action and reiterated that the United States is “the only country with this problem” and “we have to end it.”
Lee shared a clip of the exchange on X later Sunday, criticizing the NBC host for omitting six key words from the 14th Amendment in a question to Trump.
“All persons born in the United States and *subject to the jurisdiction of the United States* shall be citizens of the United States,” Lee wrote about the X, highlighting the missing words with an asterisk.
“Those words matter,” he added.
The senator continued to unpack the issue in a long 12-part thread.
“Congress has the power to define what it means to be born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction,” he said.
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“Although current law does not contain such a limitation, Congress has created a system that would in the future exclude individuals born in the United States who are natural-born citizens to illegal aliens; could pass legislation that defines what it means to 'obey.'
“Those who suggest that Congress is powerless to limit birthright citizenship in any way ignore an important constitutional provision that gives Congress the power to limit who among those “born in the United States'' falls under its jurisdiction. It defines what is born.”
“I'm concerned that @MeetThePress, long respected as America's leading Sunday political news program, has become so one-sided,” he continued.
“In this case, @MeetThePress appears to be trying to make an uncontroversial issue up for debate by selectively omitting important words from the Constitution, and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution It seems to falsely appear that all restrictions are prohibited.”
NBC did not respond to Fox News Digital's request whether the omission was intentional.
President Trump touched on a number of other topics in the wide-ranging interview, including his plans to restore the country's reputation globally, his thoughts on FBI Director Christopher Wray and how he plans to unify a divided country in his inaugural address. did.
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“This is going to be a message of unity, and I think success brings unity. And I experienced that. As I said, I experienced it during my first term. We are about unity. We're going to talk about it. And we're going to talk about making our country safe. I don't think that's good, but we have to do it. Basically, it's about making our country safe. “Together,” President Trump said.
