At the White House, senior policy adviser Stephen Miller was asked about the inscription at the base of the Statue of Liberty by CNN’s Jim Acosta, the son of a Cuban immigrant who couldn’t speak English when he came to the U.S. Acosta quoted Emma Lazarus’s poem: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” This is Stephen Miller’s response.

Stephen Miller: “The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of liberty enlightening the world. It’s a symbol of American liberty lighting the world. The poem that you’re referring to was added later. It’s not actually a part of the original Statue of Liberty.”

CNN’s Jim Acosta went on to press Stephen Miller over President Trump’s push to admit only English-speaking immigrants. Miller shot back, accusing Acosta of “cosmopolitan bias.” The pair sparred for several minutes.

Jim Acosta: “It just sounds like you’re trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country through this policy.”

Stephen Miller: “Jim, that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things you’ve ever said. And for you, that’s still a really—the notion that you think that this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting.”

We’ll have more on President Trump’s immigration push later in the broadcast with Democratic Congressmember Pramila Jayapal of Washington.