Rachel Maddow

This is a headline from the Concord Monitor out of New Hampshire, quote, If the governor truly did not know about the ICE prison being built in her state, then New Hampshire has a governor who is not paying attention to critical developments.

If she did know and chose not to engage publicly, that is even worse.

Either way, the result is the same, a failure of leadership at a moment when clarity and accountability are essential.

That very tough wording in an op-ed from New Hampshire State Rep.

Wendy Thomas, who represents the town of Merrimack, where ICE wants to turn a warehouse into a huge Trump prison camp.

Joining us now is State Rep.

Wendy Thomas of New Hampshire.

Representative Thomas, it's a pleasure to have you here.

Thank you for making time.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me here.

So I should just tell you, my office, we reached out to Governor Ayotte in New Hampshire today.

We haven't yet heard back.

But can I just get your take, your read on what's going on here with your governor?

She's refusing to say whether or not she wants this Trump prison camp or not in Merrimack.

And she's professing to be basically confused and unaware that it's happening.

It's very hard to follow from the outside.

I know that you led a community Zoom, a community meeting over Zoom on this yesterday with a couple of your fellow Democratic lawmakers, some other local leaders, too, from Merrimack.

And from what I understand, you got a really big turnout for that, and your constituents have been pretty up in arms about this.

What came out of that meeting?