No, Dr. Phil wasn't present at L.A. ICE raids, but he taped interview with Trump's border advisor

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries retired raids crossed Los Angeles, erstwhile daytime speech amusement big Dr. Phil McGraw and his TV web MeritTV are covering the actions and protests successful the city.

McGraw conducted an interrogation Friday with White House borderline advisor Tom Homan, who was starring the agency’s raids. A information of the interrogation was posted connected MeritTV’s website and the web plans to aerial a speech betwixt the men that was “taped the time earlier and the time aft the L.A. operation” successful 2 parts opening Monday astatine 5 p.m. PT, according to a web spokesperson reached via email. MeritTV, which launched precocious past year, chiefly features McGraw’s amusement “Dr. Phil Primetime,” wherever helium comments connected the quality and interviews figures ranging from New York City Mayor Eric Adams to businessman and erstwhile L.A. mayoral campaigner Rick Caruso.

The TV big has antecedently embedded with ICE officials during raids, including successful Chicago earlier this year, wherever helium and his unit taped arrests. However, that wasn’t the lawsuit this clip astir successful L.A., but crews from his web did seizure footage from the enforcement enactment implicit the weekend.

“MeritTV quality crews were connected the crushed during the caller ICE cognition successful L.A. connected Friday,” a MeritTV spokesperson said. “In bid to not escalate immoderate situation, Dr. Phil McGraw did not articulation and was not embedded, arsenic helium antecedently was successful Chicago.”

The interrogation was taped astatine the Homeland Security Investigations’ downtown tract office. ICE declined to remark connected the interrogation and whether McGraw was fixed beforehand announcement of the raids.

McGraw was antecedently the big of his eponymous speech show, which ended successful 2023 aft 21 seasons. At the time, CBS Media Ventures, which syndicated the speech show, and McGraw said helium wanted to grow his assemblage successful a caller task due to the fact that of “grave concerns for the American family.” During the 2024 election, McGraw spoke astatine then-presidential campaigner Trump’s rally astatine Madison Square Garden, though helium claimed it wasn’t an endorsement. However, helium has been a proponent of the administration’s positions connected migration and helium was precocious named to the president’s spiritual liberty commission.