CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan attempted to corner Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio on what former President Donald Trump has said about Springfield, Ohio but she was taken school by the senator.

The interview was on Sunday on “Face The Nation” when the senator brought the conversation back to what Vice President Kamala Harris does not want to talk about.

“Well, here in this country, in terms of people being inspired to take action, we have been looking, as you heard about, what the perception of the public is right now, particularly some of the things that Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance say. Our poll shows two-thirds of Trump supporters believe those false and disparaging claims about Haitian migrants are true. The governor of Ohio has said he is a big supporter of the ticket, but he’s sad about this because there’s no evidence of these claims, he’s disparaging migrants who are legal, and the verbal attacks dilute and cloud what should be a winning argument for Republicans about the border. Do you agree that this kind of thing is a distraction from the broader point and dangerous?” the anchor said before the senator annihilated her.

“Well it shouldn’t be a distraction because, at a minimum, it shouldn’t keep us from, for example, saying, ‘Okay, well maybe I don’t believe I don’t believe the dogs and the cats thing, but there are literally people moving in by the by the thousands in the case of Springfield.’ Charleroi in Pennsylvania, you know, that’s a 4,000-person city that has 2,500 migrants,” the senator said.

“I think one of the problems here is that somehow Americans who are not intolerant, they’re not bigots, they’re not — but they are troubled by the fact that their city is being flooded. In Springfield, you see reports, these are legitimate reports of huge increases in traffic accidents leading to slower police response time, overcrowded schools. I mean the strain this puts on a community, and if you complain about it, somehow you’re a bigot, you’re a racist, you’re a hater,” Rubio added.

“That is a story here that everyday Americans are being made to feel like they’re haters because they’re complaining about something all- any of us would complain. If any of us, I don’t care who we are, live in a city of 4,000 people, and you bring in 2,500 migrants overnight into one place, there are going to be problems there,” he said.