he sat in his car with his family. nbc news national correspondent miguel almaguer has the details on the story. reporter: for 25 minutes, i.c.e. agents in kansas city tried to make the arrest. i still have rights. reporter: but when vasquez refused to get out of his car, agents smashed his window and dragged him out while his small children cried in the backseat and his partner recorded the incident. she spoke out. i just want people to know that this is happening in our community. that this is real. and it can happen to nip. reporter: calling vasquez a fugitive with a prior history that includes misdemeanor offenses, i.c.e. stands by the arrest. neighbors here in nashville
i.c.e. agents are under the spotlight tonight after the arrest of an undocumented kansas city man in his car. miguel almaguer has details. reporter: for 25 minutes i.c.e. agents tried to make the arrest. i still have rights. reporter: but when florencio manuel vasquez refused to get out of his car, agents smashed his window and dragged him out while his small children cried in the back seat and his partner recorded the incident. today she spoke out. i jusan community, that this is real, and it can happen to anybody. reporter: calling vasquez a fugitive with a prior criminal history which includes misdemeanor or fences, i.c.e. stands by the arrest while
my hope is that the american people are listening because no one in that room was listening. do you get the sense, because i know law enforcement doesn t see red or blue. do you get the sense the american people understand where ice stands and border patrol stands in this whole political mess? i think a lot of them do. i think we are educating more of them, thanks to look, thank the fox network they re telling the truth and getting this out there. i have seen some of your stories this morning. brian, we have got to keep talking to the american people about the truth. because of the left and the media. the media controls everything and other than fox news i don t know anyone else who wants to educate the american people and what s actually happening on that border. so, yeah, i think we got to keep doing what we are doing. i was there on my time. i wasn t being paid to be there. like you said, i wasn t the ice director anymore. i went there because i was invited by jim jordan. i was
on this in november because the senate will have about three or four pick ups, the house, they ll hold easily. if it comes down to the average person in america saying, wait a minute, you really want to abolish i.c.e.? let s go what i.c.e. stands for, i-c-e, right. immigration and customs enforcement. all they want is a c now, customs. they want to be passport stampers. that s not true. if you abolish i.c.e., you talk about immigration enforcement. enforcement is not what you want. customs and border protection would still enforce the border. with what? their border control agents. you we still don t have enou agents. you re proving that people don t understand what i.c.e. does. they sit on joint terrorism task force. they go 100 miles in from the border. i.c.e. is the force that goes into chicago, they go into albuquerque, into the cities,
according to u.s. intelligence agencies. let bring in cnn s manu raju. dr. rice denies she did anything improper and as you know what rice stands accuse of doing, asking people on the intelligence community to unmask or name the person instead of individual a can be routine. how serious are folks on the hill taking the president s accusation that there was a crime? reporter: they don t really know what he was referring to, jake, because those documents in which the president appears to be referring to have not been made available to many members of congress. really only a handful have seen them, including the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee devin nunez who raised the incidental conversations and then the potential masking. nunes and a handful of other intelligence leaders have seen those hand i caught up with nunes moments ago and asked him point blank did susan rice