“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough laid into Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) on Monday, criticizing her defense of a video in which she and several others in her party had actively encouraged service members to refuse “unlawful” orders from President Donald Trump.

Scarborough’s issue was not the fact that Slotkin, a former CIA analyst — and several others who had served in the military — had made the video insinuating that Trump either had already or would soon issue unlawful orders and telling military service members that they had a responsibility to refuse them. He did not take issue with the fact that she was defending the video, but rather, he was upset that she’d been unable to answer a specific question about it to his satisfaction during a recent interview.

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Joe Scarborough is very mad at Senator Slotkin for saying Trump hasn’t issued any illegal orders.

“Wrong answer!”

Joe then goes on to cite a hypothetical scenario of what Trump might do as evidence of illegal orders. https://t.co/viCkHoAxMJ pic.twitter.com/NNyUdgizPw

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 24, 2025

Scarborough was responding to Slotkin’s answer to host Martha Raddatz — on ABC’s “This Week” —  when she admitted that she didn’t actually know of any illegal orders that President Trump had given.

“I’m sorry, with all due respect, wrong answer. President of the United States, the commander-in-chief does have wide latitude, just does. And the Senate can take that up. But he has wide latitude on strikes. Ask Barack Obama on drone strikes. Ask George W. Bush on drone strikes,” Scarborough said, referencing the Trump administration’s actions against narco-terrorists.

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“But where we know the president has said, I am going to give illegal orders to people in the military, is when he was on Air Force One coming back, I forget where he was coming back from, but he said, ‘I can send the Marines. I can send the Army. I can send the Air Force. I can send the Coast Guard into any city I want to control crime. And the courts can’t do anything about it.’ That’s illegal. It’s just illegal,” Scarborough continued, insisting that Trump had said he’d give illegal orders despite the fact that thus far, he had not done so.

“And so Democrats kind of need to – if the president has already said, I’m going to commit this illegal act, then I’m kind of surprised they don’t have the answer when they go on a Sunday show for that,” he complained.

CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan claimed on Sunday that nearly half of the illegal immigrants being deported by President Donald Trump’s administration had neither been charged nor convicted of any crimes — but the Department of Homeland Security took a different view of things.

Brennan laid out the situation on “Face the Nation,” where she explained, “The number of detainees held by U.S. immigration and customs enforcement has reached a record high of nearly 66,000, according to data released Friday by DHS.”

“Earlier this month, our Camilo Montoya-Galvez reported that roughly half of those in custody have no criminal charges or convictions on their record,” she added, claiming that they were “being held solely because of alleged civil violations of immigration law … 48% of current detainees lack criminal charges or convictions.”

She went on to claim that the number of “non-criminal detainees” held by immigration officers had gone up more than 2,000% since Trump took office. She went on to share the most recent poling data stating that President Trump was slightly underwater on his handling of immigration — 45% approved, and 55% disapproved.

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The DHS struck back in an X post, however, and contested the data Brennan had put forth.

“WRONG. ~ 70% of illegal aliens arrested have pending criminal charges or criminal convictions. Does CBS really want us to release accused murderers and rapists back on the streets?” the DHS post read. “But @FaceTheNation is right about one thing: our deportation operations are at a RECORD HIGH.”

WRONG. ~ 70% of illegal aliens arrested have pending criminal charges or criminal convictions.

Does CBS really want us to release accused murderers and rapists back on the streets?

But @FaceTheNation is right about one thing: our deportation operations are at a RECORD HIGH. https://t.co/JFQ044rfZe

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 24, 2025

A number of others pushed back as well, criticizing Brennan’s efforts to frame the illegal actions of illegal immigrants as “less than” when compared to others who had broken the law.

“100 percent of them are in the U.S. illegally. The real headline should be ‘Biden and Mayorkas allowed tens of thousands of violent criminal illegals to remain in the country,’ but these propagandists aren’t about to go there,” one said.