Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta passionately spoke about his anti-ICE politics in an interview with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) on his podcast “The Jim Acosta Show.” Acosta told Crockett he is worried about President Donald Trump arresting her and other “more outspoken” Congressmembers.

REP. JASMINE CROCKETT (D-TX): So things are looking up. Yeah, I mean, it’ll be interesting to see what happens once we get back since obviously Congress in both chambers is currently out on recess. But we were not sleeping. JIM ACOSTA, HOST: I remember that. REP. JASMINE CROCKETT (D-TX): Yeah, from dealing with — Well, for me, it started at least probably two days earlier because the McIver situation that took place with Representative McIver in New Jersey, they decided that they were going to have a hearing on that. They announced a hearing before they actually had announced charges against her. And that hearing was going to be or was held in the judiciary subcommittee that I actually am the ranking member on. So I needed to prepare for that. I needed to make sure that they didn’t just kind of steamroll over us and just get all of their crazy talking points out, but make sure that I could put up a fierce defense of what it is that Representative McIver as well as the other two representatives were doing on that day and what representatives all over the country are doing as we are trying to make sure that we are honoring our constitutional oaths that we have taken and we are conducting oversight at these ICE detention facilities. So I needed to get ready for that. And then that poured over into all of the ridiculousness overnight for two days trying to get through the reconciliation bill in the rules committee as well as trying to get through it on the floor. ACOSTA: Well, let me ask you about the ICE stuff because I mean, I have been going off on this on my show. To me, it’s not America when ICE agents can show up in masks, sweep people up off the street, send them out of the country without due process, put them in these facilities and we don’t even know what’s happening inside these facilities. So of course it makes sense that members of Congress would wanna go visit one of these ICE facilities and say, okay, what’s going on here? We’re members of Congress. We represent the people. We wanna know what’s going on here. And then there’s this whole, there’s this scuffle where they’re giving these members of Congress a hard time. And I’m worried about folks like yourself, Congresswoman, because I have to assume that, of course they would like to arrest you and some of the others who are more outspoken in the House. That’s just me thinking that. CROCKETT: No, you’re absolutely right. It’s interesting because my deputy chief, who’s quite young, still has his grandmother who he calls this particular one, Nay-Nay. And so I was having to go to El Paso after I got done in DC. I had to go to El Paso to testify in federal court as it relates to the redistricting that was done in 2020 in the state of Texas. And his grandmother did not know why we were going to El Paso, but she thought we were going to a detention facility. That I don’t know about Jasmine going because you know they wanna lock her up and they probably gonna grab her and throw her in too. And so it is sad that people are fearful and that they are looking at people like me and really scared because they know there is a target on my back when you have the president of the United States who consistently drops my name and gets- Yeah, what’s that all about? Yeah, it’s, you know, for me, I think that he is listening to the polling. Republicans poll all the time and I have no idea what all is happening in their polling, but I can tell you in real life that I’ve had a number of Republicans that approach me as they see me out and they say, hey, I just wanted to let you know that I really like you. Like we come from completely different parties, but I believe that you are fighting for the people. I believe that you are trying to do what’s best for all of us. I may disagree with like how you feel like we get there, but I agree with your fight. And I think that that’s what’s scary for them is this idea that it’s not just say black folk that are listening to me, right? Or it’s not just like super liberal folk. It’s this idea that, you know, people who even aren’t Democrats would actually listen to what I have to say.

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