BROOKE BALDWIN (HOST): With Donald Trump now at the top of the Republican ticket, as the presumptive nominee, a new report shows Hispanics are rushing out to register to vote against him. And they are also lining up to apply for citizenship. If you picked up the Houston Chronicle this morning or logged on, it reports average monthly citizenship application jumped nationwide to about 65,000 people between August and January -- you do the math, that's about a 15 percent spike. Trump, after all, kicked off his campaign last summer by angering a lot of Latinos when he called some Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers. He's also threatened to deport all illegal immigrants. Mr. Trump has definitely managed to frustrate a lot of people, but not my next guest. Carlos Limon is a Mexican-American who supports Donald Trump for president and is an adviser to Trump's National Diversity Coalition. Carlos, welcome.
CARLOS LIMON: Hi Brooke, thank you for having me.
BALDWIN: You just saw the numbers in the Houston Chronicle this morning, the anger generated by your candidate, they want to vote against him, they want citizenship. How do you respond to that?
LIMON: Definitely. I'm Mexican. Born and raised. I read the article this morning. And just like them, I mean, they have the right to do what's best but I think Mr. Trump and them, they're being victims of the Hispanic media. Mexican media, this comes from Mexico, it's a lot of manipulated information. Mr. Trump, I met him a couple of weeks ago, and he's not the things that people say.
BALDWIN: Hold on. Are you saying the manipulated -- the numbers in the Houston Chronicle article are manipulated? Because that's a pretty solid paper, let me just stand up for them.
LIMON: Yeah that's true. We're Hispanics and we're very emotional. Since the very beginning, when I was sitting on my couch watching Mr. Trump say his ideas and his campaign, it didn't offend me. I knew exactly, it took a very little common sense to figure out he doesn't believe that all of us Mexicans are criminals, rapists. But the media, the media especially the Mexican, Hispanic media, here and in Mexico, they have a very, it's very easy for them to play with those feelings. Emotions. And to put just like them, they're a group, what you just report there's a lot of groups who are also registering to vote for him. Like us, the National Diversity Coalition for Trump, there’s a very nice, it's a very beautiful thing. Good group of people, different backgrounds, different ethnicities.
BALDWIN: OK, OK, OK, OK. I'm kind of over people throwing the media under the bus, whether it's the American media or the Mexican media, and I don't know if all Hispanics would agree with you in thinking that they are emotional.
