CNN host visibly stunned by incoming border czar saying he’ll ‘jail’ Denver mayor for refusing deportations

CNN big Kasie Hunt was visibly stunned by incoming borderline czar Tom Homan’s caller connection that he'd jailhouse 1 Democratic politician who said helium whitethorn not comply with the 2nd Trump administration’s deportation plans.

After playing a clip Wednesday greeting of Homan saying he’s "willing to put" Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston successful jailhouse for declaring helium volition not deport amerciable immigrants surviving successful his metropolis – Johnston had said himself helium was consenting to beryllium arrested for his defiant stance – Hunt looked visibly disturbed and described the rhetoric arsenic "more extreme" than that connected the Trump run trail.

"That has immoderate important and much utmost echoes than immoderate of what we heard from the Trump run connected the trail," Hunt said to a web panel, which included ex-Trump White House communications manager Mike Dubke and Democratic operative Hyma Moore.

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CNN's Kasie Hunt appeared visibly disturbed aft proceeding incoming borderline czar Tom Homan endanger to jailhouse the Denver politician who indicated helium whitethorn garbage to comply with a 2nd Trump administrations deportation strategy.

Johnston told 9News successful a recent interview that helium would beryllium consenting to spell to jailhouse to basal up against immoderate "illegal oregon immoral" deportation strategy that the 2nd Trump medication would deploy successful bid to trim the amerciable migration colonisation successful Colorado’s capitol city.

"Yeah, I'm not acrophobic of that, and I'm besides not seeking that," Johnston said successful effect to the jailhouse question. "I deliberation the extremity is we privation to beryllium capable to negociate with tenable radical however to lick hard problems," helium added, elsewhere noting helium does enactment constricted deportations for those convicted of "serious crimes."

In a caller interrogation with Fox News Channel, Homan – who was nominated for borderline czar successful aboriginal November – responded to the mayor’s comments, accusing him of perchance "breaking the law" and declaring he’d apprehension him if helium persisted.

"You are perfectly breaking the law," Homan told Fox News' Sean Hannity. "All helium has to bash is look astatine Arizona v. U.S. and helium would spot he's breaking the law. But, look, maine and the Denver mayor, we hold connected 1 thing. He’s consenting to spell to jail, I’m consenting to enactment him successful jail."

Hunt played the clips of Johnston and Homan back-to-back, and grew wide-eyed aft proceeding the borderline czar nominee’s words. She past exhaled audibly, adding a concerned, "Oooooof."

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She asked Dubke to remark connected Homan’s rhetoric, and the erstwhile Trump authoritative argued it was an effectual portion of Trump’s first-term migration strategy.

"There are respective stages to benignant of arresting – and I should take a antithetic connection – but arresting migration astatine the border, 1 of which that worked incredibly good successful the aboriginal days of the archetypal Trump Administration was the rhetoric… So Tom Homan’s precise beardown connection is going to restrict and impede the fig of radical that are really flooding the border," helium said.

"You’re saying it‘s going to discourage radical from trying to come?" Hunt asked. 

"Totally discourage that," Dubke replied. "That is ace important and that is thing we saw – erstwhile the Biden medication came in, determination was a flood for a reason. The rhetoric was toned down."

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Fox News Digital's Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.