CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan shall be taking over an even bigger “breaking information” function quickly on the CBS Night Information. Is {that a} mistake? As a result of on her Sunday present, she requested Newt Gingrich if Donald Trump placing a strict restrict on refugees to America would block the subsequent Albert Einstein.
Final 12 months, Brennan outraged Republicans by “reality checking” J.D. Vance on the vice presidential debate, and reducing off his mike. CBS had promised they might not try this — partly as a result of they’ve a nasty tendency to debate Republicans as a substitute of average. They could not assist themselves.
Gingrich and his spouse Callista made a documentary for PBS that airs this week titled Journey to America celebrating the contributions of authorized immigrants and refugees. So CBS made it about Trump:
MARGARET BRENNAN: On this documentary, you inform the tales of those people who immigrated to the U.S. And so they had been very profitable individuals, like Albert Einstein. You realize, if you take a look at Einstein and also you take a look at Henry Kissinger, they had been refugees to this nation. Donald Trump set refugee admissions at very low ranges first time period. He is speaking about block refugee admissions this time period. Is {that a} mistake?
CBS’s @MargBrennan to @NewtGingrich: Einstein and Kissinger “had been refugees to this nation. Donald Trump set refugee admissions at very low ranges first time period. He’s speaking about blocking refugee admissions this time period. Is {that a} mistake?” #FTN pic.twitter.com/f7MDHfLx1E
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) January 13, 2025
So Newt made it about Biden:
NEWT GINGRICH: Nicely, I feel – I feel we’re going by way of a interval of, frankly, reacting to an terribly disastrous immigration coverage, so you are going to have some twists and turns. In the long term, we do need to have a capability to permit official refugees to come back right here. We additionally, and a part of the rationale Callista and I made this documentary for PBS is, we actually imagine strongly that authorized immigrants are a significant contribution to America’s success and to its distinctive nature.
And we need to guarantee that, you understand, as many People favor authorized immigration as oppose to unlawful immigration. It is crucial to differentiate the 2. And we need to strongly talk that authorized immigration in a wide range of types, refugees is one, one other is numerous work permits, however we would like individuals to have the ability to come to America in the event that they accomplish that legally.
Opinion polls at all times discover assist for authorized immigration, for individuals who undergo a authorized course of, versus people who find themselves unlawful immigrants. Folks additionally favor refugees from dire conditions, akin to individuals who aided the American forces in Afghanistan. However some individuals claiming refugee standing additionally commit murders and rapes, so if limits would possibly stop an Einstein, additionally they would possibly save a life. Brennan saved urgent:
BRENNAN: You stated immigrants inhabit the very soul of what it’s to be an American. While you say official refugees, what do you imply?
GINGRICH: Nicely, I feel individuals can rise up and say, I’ve now determined I am a refugee, I really feel threatened. The query is, is it true or not? Are they actually threatened? Or, in actual fact, is that simply their means of stepping into america? I feel there is a large distinction between any individual who genuinely faces a possible lack of life or freedom and any individual who merely desires to come back to America and decides to say that standing.
The Gingrich documentary strains up immigrants with our “founding rules,” and the liberal networks do not imagine within the founding rules, and are not involved once we welcome immigrants and refugees who’re brazenly hostile to our nation.
