CNN’s Paula Reid Laughs Out Loud At Trump Adviser Stephen Miller’s Oval Office Rant About ‘Kidnapping’
CNN chief legal analyst Paula Reid laughed out loud at Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller over his rant about “kidnapping” during President Donald Trump’s photo op.
Trump met with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office for a photo op on Monday, during which Trump repeatedly attacked CNN anchor and senior White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins, which culminated in a heated exchange over the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported Maryland man at the heart of a Supreme Court ruling.
At one point, he tagged Miller in so he could equate facilitating Garcia’s return with “kidnapping” him.
On Monday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, anchor Jake Tapper played Miller’s stunning rant, and Reid laughed out loud as she refuted it:
TAPPER: And take a listen to how White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller views it.
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MILLER: And a district court judge tried to tell the administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador and fly him back here. That issue was raised with the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed 9-0 unanimously, stating clearly that neither Secretary of State nor the President could be compelled by anybody to forcibly retrieve a citizen of El Salvador.
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REID: Stephen, you got the win. I don’t know why he had to go so far because what he’s saying is not completely accurate.
TAPPER: Kidnapping?
REID: (LAUGHING) No one talked about kidnapping. All right. So the district court said that the administration needed to facilitate and effectuate the return of this man to the United States and gave a date. The Supreme Court says, yes, you need to facilitate this. But when it comes to effectuating, making it happen, they said this needs to go back down to the lower court. They need to clarify what that meant.
And they warned the lower court, you need to be deferential to the executive branch because we’re talking about foreign affairs. And they gave no deadline. So, again, they’re not running a foul, but Steven’s, summary of the case there, the holding, it’s not exactly accurate.
TAPPER: All right. Paula Reid, thanks so much. Appreciate it.
Watch above via CNN’s The Lead.
