‘You Should Look Them Up’: Karoline Leavitt Fumes at NBC News Reporter Pushing for Information on Migrants Jailed in El Salvador

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fumed at NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez after he asked why the administration had not provided information about the people it deported to El Salvador to be detained in a notorious foreign prison at a briefing on Tuesday.

Here’s how the exchange went:

GUTIERREZ: Thank you, Karoline. I also want to thank your press office for releasing that information that you cited up there regarding the ICE arrests over the last couple of days, and I have them right here. But what I might ask is why not release the same information for those who were deported to El Salvador?

LEAVITT: Well, first of all, the information was released by the Department of Homeland Security. The individuals on the flights to El Salvador are foreign terrorists and those are counterterrorism operations. They are much different than the arrests and final order of removals that you see on a day-to-day basis that law enforcement agents are conducting around the country.

GUTIERREZ: That information was not, to that detail, was not released by DHS, though.

LEAVITT: I just told you the reason. It was a counterterrorism operation, a deportation of foreign terrorists, not illegal criminals who have been convicted of heinous crimes living in our American communities. Two different things: Foreign terrorists, illegal immigrant criminal. Two different things, two different definitions, you should look them up.