'Don't you think that's relevant?' CNN panel gets heated over Trump's deportations

Things got heated on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" on Wednesday as the panel tried to dissect the rationale offered by President Donald Trump's administration to justify the recent killing of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis.

Host Abby Phillip clashed with Joe Borelli, the former Republican leader of the New York City Council, over whether justifiable circumstances existed in the death of Alex Pretti, a nurse who was gunned down by a swarm of immigration agents in Minneapolis over the weekend. Borelli claimed Pretti put himself in danger by carrying his weapon while protesting. He also claimed that the whole situation could have been avoided if Minneapolis police officers cooperated with Trump's deportation operations.

"Clearly, the president thinks there needs to be some recalibration," Borelli said. "He replaced the leadership in Minnesota with Tom Homan, a change of direction at the top. You saw him pull back and ask for these DHS agents to be investigated. Ultimately, though, the president's goal, and I think Tom Homan's mission, is to get compliance in the jails, in the system, in the prison system in Minnesota. This is not a crisis of anything but a crisis of cooperation."

The conversation broke down when Phillip started digging for more specifics. She asked whether local officials should take people out of their homes and hand them over to ICE.

Phillip also pressed Borelli on his argument that anyone with an ICE detainer should be deported. A detainer is a request from an immigration agency to transfer someone in custody to the federal government for deportation.

Phillip asked Borelli to clarify the time period during which the detainer needed to have been written. When Borelli demurred, the conversation got heated

"Don't you think that's relevant information?" Phillip said to Borelli.