'Pick up the phone': CNN's Blitzer questions why Trump won't take action after 'error'

CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Friday why President Donald Trump doesn't just "pick up the phone" to speed up the process of bringing home a man who was mistakenly deported from the U.S.

On Thursday, The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration must “facilitate the return” of Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was accidentally deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador last month.

However, the Supreme Court sent the case back to a lower court, so any possible date for Abrego Garcia's return remains up in the air.

The Trump administration later acknowledged that an "administrative error" led to the erroneous deportation, but continued to link Abrego Garcia to the violent Latin American MS-13 street gang. Abrego Garcia has denied the allegation.

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"There's a relatively decent relationship between the Trump administration and the government in El Salvador," CNN's Wolf Blitzer said Friday. "What I don't understand is, why doesn't the president simply pick up the phone, tell the leader in El Salvador, 'We made a mistake; we need this Maryland man back in the United States'?"

Correspondent Priscilla Alvarez added, "It is more than a decent relationship, it is a very good one. The Salvadoran president is a Trump-friendly president, and the administration has also given money to El Salvador for this effort."

The Trump administration struck a deal with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to pay the Central American country $6 million to hold more than 250 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, along with 23 suspected MS-13 members.

On MSNBC's Morning Joe Friday, contributor Pablo Torre claimed that neither the Trump administration nor El Salvador's president had much incentive to send Abrego Garcia back anytime soon.

"To be very blunt about it, this is clearly one country that is not really in favor of the rule of law cooperating with another country that is not really in favor of the rule of law," Torre said. "And it's hard to distinguish, is there a good guy in that dynamic?"

Watch the clip below via CNN or click here.