CNN's Abby Phillip

M that they're just regular people seems just outlandish and crazy and unnecessary I think and you heard it in in Vance's clip I I do think it's a legitimate conversation to have about the societal Public Safety Health impacts anytime um cities or communities get drastically changed because of our immigration system whether that's in Springfield whether that's on the border with Mexico whether that's New York City which has had issues so I don't think that's an illegitimate conversation to have even in your answer obviously you don't agree with where Trump is on it you admitted there are Health impacts and that there have been Public Safety impacts those are not illegitimate those are not illegitimate conversations to have and I think people in communities all across this country are having them now whether we have them responsibly or flippantly or whether we have them seriously is the real question yesterday when he said when he said when he said that he wasn't being uh sarcastic he wasn't being hyperbolic he was amplifying a conspiracy theory that I think you would agree puts a Target on the backs of Haitian immigrants and that it is based on racism would you agree on that anti-black racism would be more pointed do you think that if do you think that if there were 20,000 Scandinavians that had been sent to Springfield they people would be saying that they're eating cats and dogs and geese I'm not going to answer for him for his memes or anything else but I am no no but I'm asking you do you think that conspiracy is based on racism mean because because because I'm because I'm not going to answer I don't know that was a long pause Scott I mean because I because I don't know the answer and I'm not going to sit here and answer for somebody I don't talk to Donald Trump about what the motivations are and I don't and I don't answer to you either but Scott the answer for you but but the bottom line is trying to give you a thoughtful answer but the bottom line is immigration is a top two issue in this election it must be discussed and we're either going to go down a rabbit hole here which is not not the real issue or we're going to talk about the real issues in which communities cities whatever are dealing with real societal and the reason we going the reason we are going down the rabbit hole is because the man you support is making us go down that rabbit hole the reason we're not talking about the legitimate issues you have brought up is because he is claiming with no facts that Haitian migrants are eating pets and that is a dangerous conspiracy theory to be spreading to America and you see he gets away with saying crazy things at his rally but when you're saying it to 70 million Americans when you're saying it to normal people then it sounds crazy and there's a lot of people that can get triggered by the things that Donald Trump or people in power say and it is irresponsible and it is dangerous Scott whether you want to admit it or not and I think here's the question it is an issue we do have issues to talk about who are the people going to choose moving in