CBS News' Margaret Brennan took a decidedly hostile approach
her interview Along with Vice President J.D. Vance, which aired on Sunday, attempted on multiple occasions and across a variety of topics to corner the 40-year-old Republican or extract concessions.
Brennan not only found that she was winning, but also that she demonstrated both the toothlessness of last year's liberal presumptions and Vance's commitment to prioritizing Americans over all other concerns. helped.
The “Face the Nation” host appears to be particularly enthusiastic about the needle vance on the Trump administration's immigration policies, saying the removal of illegal aliens and President Donald Trump's attempt to end natural-born citizenship is a sign of concern for the nation and its It states that it conflicts with the spirit of the Constitution. , “This is a country founded by immigrants.”
“America should actually look at the interests of our citizens first.”
Vance rejects the premise, saying, “This is a very unique country, founded by some immigrants and some settlers. But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean we've had 240 years. It doesn't mean we have to have the stupidest immigration policy in the world.
The Vice President further emphasized. [and] Their children will be given full access to the benefits and blessings of American citizenship. America actually needs to look out for the interests of our citizens first. ”
Brennan failed to land a rhetorical punch on the issues of birthright citizenship and illegal immigration, alluding to hypocrisy on the vice president's part and pushing Vance to the administration's moratorium on refugee admissions.
Brennan mentioned her.
August 2024 interview With Vance, she asked whether America “owed anything to the 80,000 or so Afghans left behind.” [during the Biden withdrawal]many of whom worked in the United States. “And whether they should be offered asylum.
“I think we should bring people in here that will help us and are properly vetted,” Vance said at the time. “And that's very important because a lot of the people that the Biden administration is bringing in have not been properly vetted.”
A few years ago, Vance was one of the Republican lawmakers who warned that failing to get the vetting process right could end in tragedy.
stated August 23, 2021, “According to Pew, 40% of people [in Afghanistan] Believe that committing suicide bombing and blowing yourself up is an acceptable way to solve the problem. …make sure we vet them properly, like there are a lot of people out there who believe they should blow themselves up at the mall because someone looked at their wife the wrong way. Sho. ”
After saying that refugees are being “heavily scrutinized,” Brennan asked Vance in an interview Sunday whether he stood by Trump's recent statements of his.
executive action cancel Afghanistan flights and applications.
Again, Brennan's premise is, “Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees were properly vetted. In fact, we believe that they were properly vetted and then , we know that there are cases of people who are suspected of literally planning terrorist attacks in our country.”
“I don't want that person in my country.”
Blaze News previously reported that an Afghan national who entered the United States on a special immigrant visa on September 9, 2021, was arrested in October and charged with allegedly plotting an ISIS Election Day terrorist attack in Oklahoma. I reported it. After his capture, Nasir Ahmad Tawedi allegedly admitted to purchasing weapons with the intention of targeting large gatherings of people near polling stations and dying in the process.
Last week, the Oakland County Sheriff's Office arrested another Afghan refugee in Michigan after he allegedly stabbed a caseworker multiple times.
Brennan got caught on the back foot when faced with the Oklahoma incident, admitting that not all of the Afghans were properly vetted. But she desperately clung to her question, asking again if Vance had stood by his previous statement.
Vance simply attacked the point. “My main concern as Vice President Margaret is to take care of the American people. … And now we know that we have problems with many of these refugee programs. They unleashed thousands of unmanned people on our country.”
Vance stressed that just as he would not tolerate such risks for his own children, he would not expose the children of other American citizens to the threat of improperly vetted foreigners.
When Brennan tried to split hairs, suggesting that one of the imported threats in question might have become radicalized in the United States, Vance replied, “I don't really care, Margaret. I don't want that person in my country, and I think most Americans agree with me.”
Without dunking on Vance when discussing immigration, Brennan hastily pivoted to the topic of Trump's pardons for the defendants on January 6, again pointing out that the vice president's support for the president's decision precluded hypocrisy. suggested.
After noting the context missing from the quote Brennan shared, Vance suggested an alternative framing of the issue than the one provided by the CBS News interviewer.
Brennan has embraced challenging democratic talking points, saying that by issuing blanket pardons to violent and nonviolent protesters just like the January 6 protesters, Trump It implied that he downplayed violence against law enforcement. Vance said the power of pardons is “not just for angels and perfect people,” and that the Biden Justice Department should properly use it to redress the subjection of American citizens to “an incredibly unfair process.” It was countered by suggesting that it had been, a denial of constitutional rights, and frankly, of course, black people who had killed more than two dozen people and had no weight of a weaponized Justice Department. They object to the double standards that did not apply to many people, including rioters of living substances.”
“What people actually did on January 6th, I'm not saying everyone did everything perfectly,” Vance said. “And what did Merrick Garland’s Justice Department do by wrongfully prosecuting well over 1,000 Americans in a politically motivated manner?”
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