Rand Paul Explains Why He Bolted From A Dreamer

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) sought to explain viral footage showing him hastily moving away from an undocumented immigrant in Iowa on Tuesday.

In the video, Paul abruptly gets up from a table and leaves his half-eaten burger behind after immigration activists confronted Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who was sitting across from him, about his vote to end an Obama administration program that delays deportations for young people who were brought into the country illegally as children.

The Kentucky Republican said an aide had pulled him aside to do another media interview nearby.

"About five minutes before that or two minutes before that the video doesn't show that another reporter came up and said, 'Will you do an interview?'" Paul told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren.

"And I said, 'I need to take a couple more bites and we'll do an interview,' and then I was told we had to leave and I had to do the interview. So actually I stood about 10 feet from those people who were doing sort of a kamikaze interview and I stood 10 feet from them and did another interview."

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