balancing act for hillary clinton who today used the democratic national committee s summer meetings to try and convince the party faithful there s no need to turn to vice president joe biden. without directly attacking him. and also trying to turn attention away from her own e-mail fiasco. today the party of lincoln has become the party of trump. reporter: one day after comparing republicans to terrorists, clinton used a news conference to charge gop frontrunner donald trump wants to throw illegal immigrants into box cars. to go and literally pull people out of their homes and their workplaces, round them up, put them, i don t know, in buses, box cars? in order to take them across our border. reporter: yet clinton got defensive when fox news pressed her with three questions, including one about new e-mails obtained by fox showing former president bill clinton sought permission from the state department to give paid speeches
not a single one. and you know, hilary clinton compared republican to terrorists. today she s comparing home nazis saying that republicans want to take immigrants and put them in box cars. one that wreaks of desperation. two, it wreaks of hypocrisy. let s not forget it was her husband, bill clinton who sent federal agents armed with sub machine guns to bust down the doors of an immigrant s door and grab a child out of his home and put him back into cuba. if hilary clinton is worried about that, she ought to talk to her husband. how worried should she be about the terminology that she s using. the boxcar analogy, most people out there are going to think of the holocaust. that s the last image that anyone wants to be used. when people make those kinds of reference ors reference not city
terrorists, interestingly enough. pro-life. i m sorry. pro-life terrorists. interestingly she s got a president and she at benghazi was not willing to call real terrorists terrorists. it s an odd choice of words. but it shows that she s really on the defensive and doesn t have a lot that she can argue for. the one thing she is swinging against is republicans battle over the immigration issue. here she is talking about that today. i find it the height of irony that a party which espouses small government would want to unleash a massive law enforcement effort, including perhaps national guard and others, to go and literally pull people out of their homes and their workplaces, round them up, put them, i don t know, in buses, box cars? in order to take them across our
border. i just find that not only absurd but appalling. rip them out of their home and put them in box cars. well, she needs to do a few things. she need to do a lot of things right now. one of them is scare joe biden off, convince these other people that she s going to make it and become the nominee and become the next president. going after trump and going and trying to galvanize latinos against trump is a very good goal for her. and trying to convince the democrats that she can do that, take an issue that would rip up the republican party and definitely make any nominee who talked like that lose a general election. it makes her look like she s prepared for that fight. and that s why she s focusing on things like that. so let s at the last part of this panel head down to the democratic candidate casino. and this has changed quite dramatically over the weeks as we put $100 in chips on
i find that not only absurd but appalling and that s why i support comprehensive immigration reform and i have for years and i supported it when i was in the senate and i support it very strongly now, and it was a deep disappointment when there was a bipartisan agreement voted on by the senate to do what we needed, a comprehensive immigration reform that included an earned path to citizenship the house would not even give it a vote. i will oppose what i consider to be a political stunt and raise questions as i am doing today about what the realities of that kind of claims are. madam secretary, box cars?