Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’

President Donald Trump said “I don’t know” when asked directly whether he needs to uphold the Constitution as President of the United States.

In a stunning exchange during his Meet the Press interview which aired Sunday, NBC’s Kristen Welker questioned Trump about the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and more broadly about migrant deportations.

“Your Secretary of State says everyone who’s here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process,” Welker said. “Do you agree, Mr. President?”

“I don’t know,” Trump replied. “I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.”

“Well, the Fifth Amendment says as much,” Welker replied.

But Trump argued that the justice system could not handle the number of trials it would take to expedite the deportations of criminal migrants.

“I don’t know,” Trump said. “It seems – it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials. We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth. Some of the worst, most dangerous people on Earth. And I was elected to get them the hell out of here and the courts are holding me from doing it.”

Welker then asked Trump directly: “But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?”

Trump replied: “I don’t know. I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said. What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation.”

Watch above, via NBC.