Abby Phillip Confronts Conservative Guest's Claims About ‘Certain Cultures’ In U.S.

“This is not a race issue. This is a cultural issue,” the New York Post correspondent argued.

New York Post financial correspondent Lydia Moynihan was pressed hard Saturday morning on CNN after claiming certain cultures are “not compatible” with the United States, which led host Abby Phillip to ask her, “Which ones?”

“Culturally, there are things that we do not want in America,” Moynihan said on “Table For Five.” “Female genital mutilation happens in Somalia. We don’t want that here. So I think it’s OK to say, ‘Look, there are cultural things that we don’t want to bring into America.’”

Moynihan’s commentary comes after remarks President Donald Trump made earlier this week in Pennsylvania, in which the president bragged about his immigration crackdown on people “from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries. He later admitted he had called those places “shithole countries.”

“We had a meeting, and I said, ‘Why is it we only take people from shithole countries?’ Right? ‘Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden?’” Trump said. “But we always take people from Somalia. Places that are a disaster. Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

Phillip told her guest she believes Trump knows there are no longer penalties for his remarks and that “it’s OK now in the Republican Party, to say, ‘We only want to let white people come into this country. We only want immigrants from European countries.’”