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>> leland: the white house giving u.s. troops the green light to use lethal force at the southern border if necessary. some legal analysts say that move may violate american law. national security correspondent jennifer griffin breaking it down for us. hi, jennifer. >> hi, leland. it's misleading for the president to suggest the troops will be using lethal force along the border any time soon. the deployment of 5,900 troops has led to lawyers going back and forth at the pentagon to determine what those u.s. troops are allowed to do. senior military leaders visited troops yesterday for thanksgi...

President trump threatening to close the border if the white house believes mexico has lost control of the situation as more migrants arrive seeking asylum in the u.s. jonathan hunt is live in los angeles with more on this. jonathan. >> good morning, rick. 5,000 migrants on mexico's side of the border. president trump is threatening as you heard to shut the southern border completely. >> president trump: if we mind it is uncontrollable, josh, if we find that it's -- it gets to a level where we're going to lose control or people will start getting hurt, we'll close entry into the country for a ...

Finally time for action. fix the border for once and for all now. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has more from the pentagon. >> reporter: the deployment of 5900 u.s. troops to the border has led to a lot of lawyers going back and forth to determine what those u.s. troops are allowed to do. senior military troops visited for thanksgiving. most of the unarmed troops have been laying down wire at the border and that job is almost complete. about 400 pm's have been shifted from texas to california to protect the border patrol facing the arrival of more migrants. but jim mattis, w...

The other is, do you go to a venue that is ground zero for your domestic political argument and your base, a place where you are in a controversial fashion utilizing the u.s. military. that kind of a visit is all about something completely different in any case. >> if you look at the troops that are deployed, they don't necessarily think about the troops in the way we should. southern border 5900. syria has 2,000. we know that the president has talked about the troops on the southern border being able to use lethal force at this point. you have the pentagon saying nothing changed with his miss...

It n it's not the first holiday they'll be spending away from each other. but it's not easy. they're deployed. i think i would have advised the president to be more understanding of that. >> that price tag of $72 million. you and i talked about previous deployments under bush and obama. can you just compare that to those missions. give us some perspective on that cost. >> talking to folks at the point go -- pentagon, i think is roughly comparative per soldier. the number of soldiers here, 5,900, that's a lot. that's more than in the case of president obama than he sent down there. but comparat...