the legal battle is escalating over the case of Kilar Abrego Garcia a Maryland man deported to a mega prison in El Salvador a month ago in what the Trump administration said was an administrative error a federal judge ordered the Salvadoran national to be returned to the US the Department of Justice appealed but the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration is required to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return the federal judge overseeing the case says so far there's no evidence the Trump administration is following that order which could be considered criminal contempt after an Oval Office meeting with El Salvador's president this week neither government appeared willing to bring him back democratic Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman immediately sounded off on what she says has been a lack of due process and she joins me now congresswoman good to talk to you i want to ask you first about this series of of documents that the Trump administration released today um really seeking to bolster its assertation that Abrego Garcia was a member of MS13 um a gang uh in it they had a gang field interview sheet they referenced um a quote you know reliable uh source that he was a member of a gang um noted that at the time he was swept up um several years ago uh that he did not have a criminal history but that he had been questioned in relation to a murder investigation what do you make of all of these supporting documents well first of all I don't know that they're supporting documents because I don't trust this administration to bring forth the truth but I don't know specifically about these documents um I'm just hearing about them right now what I do know is that um Mr garcia had a um an an experience with our judicial system and they found no reason to detain him or to charge him with anything and that there was an order of on his behalf a holding order not to send him to El Salvador because of a possible uh harm that could come to him that he was picked up in March the beginning of March u by ICE he was in properly uh detained and then transported to that torturous prison in El Salvador that the administration admitted that it made an ad administrative mistake the courts have held that he needs to be returned the Supreme Court even upheld that our country needs to facilitate his return and the administration refuses to do what the court has said so what I know right now is that this administration is illegally defying a court order this is a direct violation of our Constitution and that we're living under what is a dictatorship where this administration thinks it can do anything it wants to anyone it wants and not be humble and while we have our courts trying to maintain some rule of law here we've got a Congress that's woefully in inadequate and insufficient in doing its job so this is a chaotic mess in the United States of America i mean you put out some pretty some some strongly worded statement calling the president a dictator and saying that we're in a constitutional crisis if if the administration is in contempt of court what would you like to see Congress do well I would like to see Congress hold up its um up its responsibility and hold the the president this administration responsible whether or not it is um filing action against him um or whatever but supporting the courts in what they're trying to do if we allow him to get away with this without his without any accountability then we can kiss our democracy completely goodbye it's slipping through our fingers right now because of his actions his actions are very dictatorial what is your very unamerican what is of top concern for you there's been a lot of talk about comments that the president made um this week about sending American citizens to be jailed outside of America's borders particularly in El Salvador is that something that you're worried about happening under this administration absolutely um and I'm more worried about the fact that people aren't taking him seriously because I don't think that this uh president is governed by anything that is of the rule of law is morally right um and will do anything he wants and he's a very vengeful person he will use every resource he has to get at people that he doesn't like he's using his administration to threaten our educational system to threaten the legal system threaten uh law law firms threatening the the media this is so scary and so imminent it is what we are living right now and we need to respond to it the people in this country this government was created of by and for the people and the people need to stand up and say this is enough congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman not mincing words there uh thanks so much for your time thank you for um having me and I pray that Mr garcia is safe and that he finds his way back to United States of America where he belongs thank you Congresswoman good to talk to you appreciate your time as always thank you thank you take care [Music]