In a heated trade, Invoice Maher confronted Phil McGraw — aka Dr. Phil — about his involvement in Trump-era ICE raids.
The “Real Time” host was joined on Friday by the previous TV therapist and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith. The trio touched on a spread of subjects, together with President Donald Trump’s plans to run for re-election — an act that’s unlawful — and other people utilizing AI for remedy.
However issues received tense when Maher turned the dialog towards McGraw’s latest actions.
“Why are you going on these ICE raids?” he requested. “I don’t understand that.”
Maher nodded to McGraw’s previous in working to restore damaged households in voicing his confusion.
“You’re a guy who we know for so many years who has been working to put families together. To bring families who are apart and heal them. And now you’re going on raids with people who are literally separating families,” he stated.
McGraw instantly responded with, “Now that’s bullshit.”
Maher pressed additional, asking if the Trump administration wasn’t “separating families.”
To which McGraw responded, “Look, if you arrest somebody that’s a citizen, that has committed a crime or is DUI’d with a child in the backseat, do you think they don’t separate that family right then, right there? Of course they do.”
“But that’s not what they’re doing,” Maher responded bluntly.
In keeping with reviews, McGraw was seen collaborating in an ICE raid in Chicago earlier this yr.
Because the trade continued, McGraw turned to Maher’s opening monologue — the place Maher talked about “masked ICE agents” — and defended the coverings worn by these officers. McGraw acknowledged that legislators “passed laws about immigration” and “funded those laws to be executed,” and now ICE brokers are being doxed consequently.
“They’re putting their names, their pictures, their addresses of their families on the internet, they’re putting them on telephone poles,” he stated. “So, of course, they’re wearing masks so they don’t get outed, so people can do violence against their families. The negative actions against ICE agents are up 1,000% in the last several months.”
He additionally pointed to privileged entry to “files” that, he claimed, justified his participation within the raids.
“They’ve got a rap sheet, 12, 14 different cases long of child predators that they’re taking off the street,” he stated. “These are the worst first that they’re taking off the streets. Who would want them back in their communities?”
Maher agreed that he wouldn’t need “violent criminals or gangs” roaming free, however claimed that the act “pivoted” when ICE brokers began going to locations like Dwelling Depot, abducting civilians “looking for an honest day’s work.”
