White House Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to discuss President Trump’s plans for illegal immigration following his order to move National Guard troops to the border. Fill-in host Martha Raddatz deployed the classic liberal media tactics such as selectively picking data points and placing false blame in an effort to trip up her guest. But Bossert held her off and schooled her on the issues.

After Bossert noted the 40-year low in illegal border crossings and knocking those who said it was “good enough,” Raddatz tried to grill him on the need for the National Guard. “But you bring up those lows. 46-year low in apprehension. So what was the crisis here? Why did he have to rush the National Guard in,” she pressed.

“Yeah, so this is the problem with statistics and comparisons,” Bossert quipped. “What I'll throw back to you is the more appropriate comparison, what we briefed the President on was the trends that we're seeing and what we're seeing is a 200 percent increase this month, March, this past month in apprehensions.” Bossert noted that along with that large increase came some 50,000 apprehensions.

Raddatz tried to downplay the increase by arguing it was just the seasonal uptick, but Bossert had a counter for that too, noting: “No, so, that's exactly the point, Martha. The seasonal uptick normally begins next month and what we're doing is taking action now at the appropriate time instead of waiting as others have in the past for that uptick to get in front of us.”

“Did someone in the White House or somewhere in the administration conduct any kind of intelligence assessment on why you needed to do this now,” a skeptical Raddatz scoffed. Bossert explained that the President came to the decision to put the National Guard on the border because of Customs and Border Protection briefings on the issue. “So the over 200 percent increase coupled with the pending seasonal uptick coupled with the caravan that is an annual event all trended in the wrong direction,” he said.

Raddatz also pushed back on President Trump’s claim that women making the journey across the border were being raped in large numbers. “Do you have any sort of government data to back that up,” Raddatz demanded to know.

“That's very difficult to collect because it's Mexican government data and they don't collect it but at this point, well-known practice and don't trust me, trust--” Bossert began before Raddatz interrupted, again demanding to know who specifically knew. He cited “all the people in this trade and by the reporters in Mexico,” including anti-Trump critic Jorge Ramos. “So no government data,” she huffed.

It’s really ridiculous for her to demand such specific answers since the government can’t get exact numbers on rapes here in the U.S. since many go unreported. But according to the left-leaning Amnesty International, “Rape is widespread. It is believed that as many as six out of every 10 migrant women and girls experience sexual violence during the journey.”

Raddatz also tried to put Congress’ failure to codify DACA solely on the President. “It's just the Democrats' problem? (…) President Trump could have accepted a compromise,” she told her guest. But Bossert reminded the ABC host that Trump put a DACA offer on the table that would have put 1.8 million so-called Dreamers on a path to citizenship, something not even Obama offered them.

The relevant portions of the transcript are below, click "expand" to read: