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Administration has made very difficult by saying you have to go to very specific places, migrants dont know where to go. a very confusing thing. when you add putting thousands of troops on the border, militarizing the southern border it is a very dangerous thing. shannon: they cannot take on law enforcement activity at all. they work in support capacity. part of the lawsuit you are supporting from hunter and migrants representing their children on the way here, you say this but the lawsuit says ...

Considered that a midterm gift, a winning issue a president could make as his closing argument, something he would talk about endlessly and justifiably. but that is not what this president is doing. president trump mentioned the economy today but almost in passing. in fact, he said, and im quoting, sometimes it is not as exciting to talk about the economy because we have a lot of other things to talk about, unquote. by other things, he means things that might scare voters, he means talking about...

From the closest us border crossing as a threat to security. ordering military to the border. unless granted special powers they will be used in only a support capacity. but the president doesnt mention that. he continues to portray this caravan of men, women, and children as a caravan overrun by dangerous criminals, possibly even isis members. >> these are tough people. these are not angels. these are not little i think a gels. these are tough people. and we are not letting them into our countr...

And has been dedicating virtually all of his public energy, his time, his tweets to pushing this idea that there is a crisis and an invasion at the border. hes even gone so far as to suggest that the u.s. troops that hes sending to the border in a support capacity should greet rocks with guns. >> anybody throwing stones, rocks, like they did to mexico and the mexican military, mexican police, where they badly hurt police and soldiers of mexico, we will consider that a firearm. because theres not...

It is u.s. military rules of engagement that this is not allowed. is the white house answer on that that the president disagrees with that assessment or that the president is intending to instruct the military to disregard the rules of engagement? >> thats a very good question. it is not clear what the white houses official position on this. the president often says these things without having gone through some kind of consultation with his staff. i would also point out that based on our reporti...

Costing -- wove geve got in a days, 42 to $110 million? >> not at all. this caravan is about 1,000 miles away. there have been caravans over the years and they always get disbanded. imagine walking across mexico. it is incredibly difficult. by the time anyone reaches our borders, if they reach it at all, it is a very small group of people. most of them are turned away. to deploy the u.s. military down to the border is simply a waste of federal resources, and they cant even take any actions. they...

As they are being teach how to dive. >> elon musk is sending his engineers to help the team there in thailand. what kind of support can these divers be getting? >> reporter: those engineers will come here at first in support capacity apparently. what theyre primarily going to do is see what they can do. they have been talking to the thai government. theyre in the business of making tunnels the assumption that can be made is if they are able to locate another way into this cave system that perhap...

The other floors. no one came out of this with an injury. remarkable news. >> sandra: lifesaving decisions and good samaritans down below to catch them. amazing story there. >> bill: well done. >> these guard troops are there to support the border patrol so it allows us to get more from the border patrol to the border and gets more boots on the ground and they serve in a support capacity which theyll be very good at. >> sandra: arizona governor doug ducey ramping up border security and pledging ...

We no that helicopters, vehicles, vehicle is on its way to the border now. the pentagon has said that 4,000 troops can come to the border. their mission can extend through september of this year, but right now we have 150 troops that will be coming to the border here in arizona, 250 going to the border in texas. of course that 1200-mile-long border just across the way from us. part of the initial mission will be to figure out where they should be and what they should be doing. we know they will ...

Border called sasabe. the national guard has been here before in 2007. theyve had problems here with drug smugglers, people smugglers, immigrants coming over the border. and heres another reason. it looks like a fence as far as the eye can see, miles into the distance. but, wolf, sometimes the camera can lie. this fence ends right here. back to you, wolf. >> what do we know about the national guard troops who are going there? any specific information youre getting? >> well, what we know so far i...