A path to citizenship for illegal immigrants is "off the table" for GOP nominee Donald Trump, Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus declared Sunday.
In an interview with NBC News' "Meet The Press," Priebus said Trump's immigration position will be "tough," "fair" and "humane."
"He'll go after people here and are criminals who shouldn't be here," he said, adding: "You're not going to have a pathway to citizenship with Donald Trump," he added. "That's off the table. There is no method by which someone is here illegally that is going to become a citizen and jump the line as Hillary Clinton wants to do. "
Priebus also disagrees with Trump on birthright citizenship, saying "my opinion on birthright citizen ship does not necessarily have to be adopted by a nominee."
"My exact view of immigration and how it should be pursued does not have to be adopted by a nominee," he added.
Priebus says he trusts Trump's thought process because he speaks to him every day.
"I know Donald Trump in private — I talk to him every day," he said. "I know what he's thinking about the issues and this is a good and descent man that wants to do the right thing and take every position he's talking about and pepper it with decency, dignity and humanity."
Priebus also angrily pushed back hard against demands that Trump must release his tax forms before election day, and host Chuck Todd's suggestions that there's no "smoking gun" in the accusations about pay-for-play in the Clinton Foundation.
"You're telling me we don't have a smoking gun and we know that confidential top secret emails were part of the information that was put in a private secret server," he said. "You're equating that knowledge to the possibility of maybe something isn't right in a tax return that we don't know about? Come on!"
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