ABC This Week host Jonathan Karl interviewed Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday all about their favorite illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but Karl never mentioned the trial about the murder of Maryland mother of five Rachel Morin by an illegal alien. ABC clearly doesn't care about her family's loss -- and neither did the senator. He went to El Salvador for Abrego Garcia, but never got in touch with Patty Morin, Rachel Morin's mother.
In a mostly soft interview, Karl was toughest in nudging Van Hollen to push back on the the attacks on his trip, like from the president of El Salvador: "Bukele put out a statement saying, miraculously risen from the death camps and torture and sipping margaritas with you. I mean, they were really trying to make you look like you were hanging out with somebody that they say is a gang member."
It's like Karl has no time to investigate what conservative media are putting out, just like he couldn't figure out Kamala Harris's actual positions.
In nine minutes with @ChrisVanHollen, ABC's @JonKarl never asked about the murder conviction this past week for the illegal alien who killed Maryland mom Rachel Morin whose mother appeared in the White House press room on Wednesday to point out how Van Hollen never expressed… pic.twitter.com/dN0Iwd6jvp
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Karl also raised Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom suggesting this deportation fight plays into Trump's hands: "Is he right about the politics of this? I mean, the Republicans have taken great joy in portraying you as somebody who is defending somebody who's in this country illegally, they say as a gang member, and, you know, and -- and they're saying that they're trying to just enforce the laws." Van Hollen posed: "Jon, I don't think it's ever wrong to protect the Constitution and protect due process rights."
Karl did add the restraining order from Kilmar's wife:
The Republicans as you know, the president himself has been attacking you by pointing out some of the aspects of Abrego Garcia's record, including the fact that his wife had an order of protection against him in 2021, and -- and alleged some pretty serious allegations of abuse, and even that that he had -- he had detained her."
Are you concerned about your defense of somebody -- obviously, everybody in this country -- even those undocumented immigrants have rights. But are you concerned about standing so forcefully with somebody that has, you know, at least a questionable record?
Van Hollen claimed he "wasn’t defending the man," when he's acted like a defense lawyer with this gaudy trip that made him the star of the Sunday shows.
On NBC's Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker also stuck to Democrat concerns -- asking about the Newsom critique, the usual softball about a "constitutional crisis" -- but at least she raised the Morin murder to Van Hollen:
Unlike ABC’s @JonKarl, NBC’s @kwelkernbc confronted Maryland Senator @ChrisVanHollen with the criticism of him from Rachel Morin’s mother whose daughter was murdered by an illegal immigrant. Patty Morin: “To have a Senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge, or barely… pic.twitter.com/osTVOhFbeI
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WELKER: You know, the other thing that we witnessed at the White House this week, Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, who is a Maryland woman who was murdered by an undocumented immigrant, you're very familiar with this, was at the White House. And she did speak from the White House briefing room. I want to play you a little bit of what she had to say and get your reaction on the other side. Take a look.
PATTY MORIN: To have a senator from Maryland, who didn't even acknowledge – or barely acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother, and now a grandbaby without a grandmother, so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that's not even an American citizen. Why does that person have more right than I do, or my daughter?
KRISTEN WELKER: What is your response to Mrs. Morin?
SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: My heart goes out to the Morin family. They suffered, experienced an unspeakable tragedy in the murder of their daughter. And I said at the time that my heart goes out to the Morin family [in a press statement]. And I'm very glad that the killer of Rachel has been convicted in a court of law....And I'm not sure why Abrego Garcia's rights should be denied based on an awful murder that he had absolutely nothing to do with.
