Dr. Phil defends the ice raids after Bill Maher calls him

In a heated exchange, Bill Maher faced Phil McGraw, aka Dr. Phil, about his participation in Trump’s ice raids.

The host of “Real Time” joined Friday by the former television therapist and Stephen A. Smith of ESPN. The trio played a variety of issues, including President Donald Trump’s plans to run for re -election, an illegal act, and people who use AI for therapy.

But things got tense when Maher changed the conversation to the recent McGraw actions.

“Why are you going to these ice rates?” asked. “I don’t understand that.”

Maher nodded with McGraw’s past by working to repair broken families to express their confusion.

“You are a guy we know for so many years who have been working to assemble families. To unite families that are separated and heal them. And now you will go to raids with people who literally separate families,” he said.

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McGraw responded immediately with: “Now that is shit.”

Maher pressed more, asking if the Trump administration was not “separating families.”

To which McGraw replied: “Look, if you arrest someone who is a citizen, who has committed a crime or is DUI with a child in the back seat, do you think they don’t separate that family at that time, of course they do.”

“But that’s not what they are doing,” said Maher without Rodeos.

According to reports, McGraw was seen participating in an ice raid in Chicago earlier this year.

As the exchange continued, McGraw resorted to Maher’s opening monologue, where Maher mentioned “masked ice agents”, and defended the covers used by these officials. McGraw declared that the legislators “approved laws on immigration” and “financed these laws to be executed”, and now the ICE agents are being done as a result.

“They are putting their names, their photos, their addresses from their families on the Internet, they put them in telephone posts,” he said. “Then, of course, they are using masks so that they are not expelled, so that people can make violence against their families. Negative actions against ice agents increase by 1,000% in recent months.”

He also pointed out the privileged access to “files” that, he said, justified his participation in the raids.

“They have a rap sheet, 12, 14 different cases of children’s predators who are removing the street,” he said. “These are the worst first they are taking out of the streets. Who would like to return to their communities?”

Maher agreed that he would not want “criminals or violent gangs” that roam freely, but said the act “turned” when ICE agents began to go to places like Home Depot, kidnapping civilians “looking for an honest day.”