Scott Jennings on Sending American Prisoners to El Salvador: ‘So? ... If It’s OK by the Law to Put Someone in Prison’

EXCERPT:

JENNINGS: "I'm saying, what's wrong with sending people who are convicted of violent crimes to prison, period?"

PHILLIP: "No, no, no. That's what he said. He said he's going to send them to a prison."

JENNINGS: "Yeah. So?"

PHILLIP: "The vice president called it a gulag in El Salvador. Is that okay with you?"

JENNINGS: "If you — if you are convicted of a violent crime in this country and a court finds you guilty of whatever, those things he just listed, and it's — and it's okay by the law, which he said at the end of his answer, I mean — "

PHILLIP: "How is it okay by the law to extradite Americans to a foreign country for crimes they committed here?"

JENNINGS: "Well, I mean, I think what he's saying is if it's by the law to put someone in prison, then they're going to do it. But — "

PHILLIP: "Okay, but — I know, Scott, but — "

JENNINGS: "But he said, if it's okay by the law, I don't know if it is or not, but that's what he's saying."