CNN host Jake Tapper was taken aback by comments from a Republican senator on his program on Tuesday evening.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) joined Tapper on "The Lead" on Tuesday, where the two discussed the recent pushback to President Donald Trump's immigration raids after 37-year-old mother Renee Good was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last week. Marshall's support for the immigration raids was unsurprising, but one comment he made about Good seemed to catch Tapper's ear.
"The president's number one thing he ran on was to secure the border and to make your family safe and secure," Marshall said. "Now, I don't know every detail of every ICE agent, but what [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem tells me is that their focus is on violent criminal aliens."
"Look, there are 300,000 to 400,000 violent criminal aliens that are still in this country," he continued. "I think that's their focus. Sometimes there's collateral damage, but we certainly want our families to be safe and secure."
Tapper looked at the camera with a stunned expression.
"Did you just suggest that Renee Good is collateral damage?" Tapper shot back.
"No, of course not," Marshall retreated. "It's a very much a tragedy, Jake, but we could be just as easily talking about the death of ICE agents."
