J.B. Pritzker Spars with Bret Baier Over ICE Agents: They Are Taking Away People’s Rights, Not Following Protocols

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BAIER: “You were in an interview and you called ice agents and looking like they’re acting like nazis after the Holocaust. Take a listen.”

PRITZKER: “What I’m saying is that this is how authoritarian regimes do it. They create fake ideas that there’s an enemy out there and could be next to you at one of these tables.”

McCORMICK: “This language, fascism, naziism is permission. We went to destroy the war to get the nazis. This is unacceptable. It’s pervasive on the left. We saw it pre-Charlie Kirk and post his assassination.”

BAIER: “How do you respond to senator mccormick?”

PRITZKER: “I can tell you, alberto Pinochet was an authoritarian. It happens that I know best because I helped build a Holocaust museum sitting next to Holocaust survivors about what the nazis did in the early year. I’m not talking about the Holocaust. I’m talking about taking away people’s rights, arresting people, asking them for papers. Early on in an authoritarian regime, where it is throughout history, this is what happens. It’s the beginning of something very —“

BAIER: “To his point, in this environment, you’re demonizing ice agents. If an agent gets killed — we saw an assassination attempt in Dallas — isn’t that not something that we should be talking about like that?”

PRITZKER: “The thing we’re demonizing is when ice agents are not following protocols. They’re not acting like law enforcement should act. They’re instead literally racially profiling. We’ve seen it. All you have to do is look at some of the videos. Just to be clear — I think —“

BAIER: “You don’t think that you’re painting with a broad bush of all the ice agents —“

PRITZKER: “We’re saying if you’re an agent and doing these things — yet nobody in Washington is holding anybody accountable. There’s not been any suspensions or firings for the terrible things that they have done literally grabbing people, tackling them that have done zero wrong.”