Kellyanne Conway: Trump not using migrant children's deaths as 'political pawns'

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump’s tweets about the deaths of two migrant children while in federal custody, arguing that her boss was not politicizing the issue to secure more border security funding.

“No. The president is not doing that. The president does not want these children to come on a perilous journey to begin with. They are paying — now some of them are paying the ultimate price — but many of them are paying these coyotes who don’t give a whiff about human life,” Conway said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” referring to smugglers who offer to help migrants illegally cross the U.S border.