Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Sunday repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 gangbanger as the Trump administration has alleged. Van Hollen (D-Md.), who met with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on Thursday notably refused to deny that Abrego Garcia was gang member and confessed he did not ask him about the alleged ties when they spoke — despite CNN’s Dana Bash asking him point-blank if he could say “with absolute certainty” that the deported illegal migrant wasn’t a member of the vicious gang.

Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen told ABC's "This Week" that his trip to El Salvador to meet deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not a defense of the man, but his right to due process. "The Trump administration has admitted in court that he was wrongfully detained and wrongfully deported.