Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) defends President Trump's comments about the Constitution.
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00:00You have to talk about the Constitution, how important it is to you.
00:03Yesterday, Trump, in an interview, would not say he would uphold the Constitution.
00:08He was asked about due process for citizens and not citizens alike.
00:12Is that appropriate for him to say that?
00:14Yeah, that's not what the president said.
00:15I mean, what the president said was...
00:16He said, I don't know.
00:17No, the president said that he has lawyers to make recommendations to him about what due process applies and to whom under the opinions of the court.
00:26He's talking about what should apply to those people who are here illegally, which there are, of course, due process protections for all persons in the United States of America.
00:35But there are also court interpretations dealing with where and how you can make determinations of status, including immigration judges in the executive branch.
00:43And we've got overreaching Article 3 judges that are extending beyond, I believe, the law to interfere with what the president's trying to do to protect the country.
00:51I think all the president's saying is he's not going to lawyer this.
00:54He's just simply saying, we're going to go follow the law, but one person's interpretation of the law.
00:59I mean, there's a reason why Supreme Court opinions split, right?
01:01You have different views on it.
01:02So he's allowing his lawyers to make the recommendations that he should allow.
01:05He could just say yes.
01:06He could just say yes, and I would uphold the Constitution.
01:09Well, but remember with the question he was being pushed was just this very point you're trying to do.
01:13You're trying to somehow imply that the president's not trying to protect the due process rights under afforded under the Constitution.
01:20It's simply not true, right?
01:22There are different ways that it applies for different people based on their status if you're here illegally.
01:26It just is true.
01:27You have due process protections.
01:29But if you're, you know, if you're charged with a crime, murder, you know, assault or something,
01:34and you're afforded the right to have a counsel and so forth, go before a judge,
01:38your status questions, you know, have a right under interpretation by judges to have counsel and so forth.
01:43But you also have the ability to go before immigration judges to make determinations of status.
01:48And the president's saying that an executive branch, he believes, has authority to have determinations of status,
01:52particularly when he's talking about under the, you know, whatever, the ALM Act and removing these dangerous people from our streets.
01:58And so I think you guys are extending beyond what the president said.
02:01Can I?