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Troops are heading to the u.s./mexico border this weekend in response to the presidents order for tighter security, texas began sending 250 troops, arizona will follow suit with 150. this is the first wave of up to 4,000 approved last night by defense secretary james mattis. president trump tweeting "we are sealing up our southern border, the people of our great country want safety and security, the dems have been a disaster on this very important issue." ill bring in hipolito acosta, a former b...

And border protection standing by their screen left. we start with william la jeunesse in los angeles. as californias governor is responding early this morning. hi, william. >> each state guard answers to a governor. oregon and montgomery say no troops. the ones run by republicans say yes. governors are willing to send troops to the border. that is still developing. homeland security has only reached out to some states. if asked the oregon governor has said no if asked. >> there has been no plan...

Crossing the border. what they will do is do reconnaissance and surveillance, conduct logistic operation. maybe take some of the administrative burden off of the border patrol. theyre more in a support role than in a direct confrontation role. >> dana: when president bush and president obama sent guard troops to support the border patrol, did that have a good impact on trying to push back people from coming here illegally? >> yeah. the action reports on it is that illegal trafficking went down r...

Security secretary could not say how many troops or how much it would cost. as for what theyll do, u.s. troops cannot do law enforcement functions such as arresting illegal border crossers. this would be a support role, such as helping with surveillance. >> it will be strong. it will be as many as is needed to fill the gaps that we have today. thats what i can tell you. so, well go through and make sure. >> reporter: just last week, the president also suggested he would use military funds to bui...

How many national guard soldiers will be involved, exactly what they will be doing. some of that is a little bit clearer today based on both what secretary homeland security kristin nielsen said earlier today and then what were hearing about the national guard soldiers hearing about more of a support role. they might drive and whatnot but they wont actually be involved in law enforcement or interdiction of immigrants that might be crossing the border. it seems like the cell is the one who is goi...

Support -- trucks and others who are needed as back-up for the border police. >> thats right. and thats something that dhs secretary nielsen reiterated today when i pressed her on that. she essentially said the expectation would be that they will be in some type of support role and that they will be helping those who are on the front lines already to protect the border. but again, andrea, so many of these details about when they are going to actually be deployed and what it will look like are st...

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On iran woouf weve seen this united front. when hickey haley whose been outspoken about iran, came out and said that iran had fired one missile into saudi arabia and it had been provided by iran. yemen is another one, that is the terrible protracted civil war that saudi arabia and the united arab byes have been involved in what is a pretty small u.s. support role. they provide a little bit of intelligence, us military provided intelligence and fuelled some saudi jets. thats something theyll talk...

International foreign terrorist organization. the fbi would be in a support role at this stage unless there seems to be a pickup of evidence regarding some sort of motive that might be a federal motive. now, hes dead, so unless theres sort of co-conspirators, there may not be a case, unfortunately, but, you know, one final thing when it sort of relates to this, were hearing a lot about the videos being taken of the church. >> there was a recording of the church service that was going on. >> righ...

When we were there on the ground in st. thomas and st. john, one of the things we saw ubiquitous, presence of the u.s. army, military. saul a lot more of them than fema tarps. what is the status of recovery and is there significant army presses on the ground and is fema there? >> yes, fema is here and troops from 30 states, but a good number playing a support role and then a good number that are augmenting our police force in terms of security as military police. i was touched by the opening pie...