BRIAN KILMEADE (HOST): ​I'm just realizing, doing this show, there's some things getting some traction out there about something I said this morning about kids not being ​important or unimportant -- all kids are important, all kids are special. What I'm just trying to say, in this country when they come in, that as the president of the United States, you can only do so much for so many. And that's why we give so many aids (sic) to other countries. So everybody's important, but for the president of the United States, his point seems to be that the kids in this country are his priority. But straightening out the immigration laws at the border are key, that's why I hope something gets done. That's the bigger point on all of this.

But about kids and compassion, of course. That's why people, especially people I know, you give money to people outside our borders. But when it comes to our country, I think that you have to have a priority because you can't pay for everybody. Everybody for everything that you want, especially when you're a country that's $20 trillion in debt. And overall, get it fixed.

Kilmeade also addressed his remarks on Twitter:

On FOX & Friends earlier, Of course-I didn’t mean to make it seem like children coming into the U.S. illegally are less important because they live in another country. I have compassion for all children, especially for all the kids separated from their parents right now. 1 of 2

— Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) June 22, 2018

Nobody wants to see children in these circumstances and glad they are on their way to being reunited with their parents.https://t.co/d1mmMlq0j9



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— Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) June 22, 2018

Previously: 

Fox & Friends host: “These aren't our kids. ... It's not like [Trump] is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas”

MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle calls out a Fox host for excusing family separation because it isn't happening to “our kids”

Steve Doocy lies about Trump's policy of separating children from parents at the border

Fox & Friends host: “You can't even really blame an administration” for policy under Trump of separating parents from children at the border