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Make a large group entry. it was in those engagements where people started throwing rocks, assaulting our agents. we had four agents hit with rocks. thankfully, they were wearing protective gear. we don't have any serious injuries. they had to respond to resolve those assaulting engagements as safely as possible with less lethal pepper ball spray. >> is there such a thing as the good kind of tear gas? every tear gas i have been hit with has been nasty. there's only one kind. i get what pepper balls are. that's something else. tear gas is tear gas? >> the gas we deploy is standard law enforceme...

But were not able to get through the final barrier. that's when border agents used tear gas canisters and pepper bullets or pepper balls to keep them back, saying they were able to hold them back. 42 arrested. mexico now saying if others engage in this sort of behavior and try to cross illegally that they will be deported as well. back to you guys. >> miguel marquez, thank you very much. let's go to the other side of the border. nick watt has been in san diego. enormous deployment of resources there. a lot of attention focused. this morning, the morning after, in effect. do border control agen...

They overwhelmed a mexican policecades and moved over this direction, under this bridge, and into the tijuana river here. and then moved all the way up to the u.s. border. what you're looking at, the brownish steel fence out over there, that is the u.s. border. they moved to that for this riverbed and then all along the border looking for any sort of place that they could get over the border. there were women and children that were among the many hundreds that ran in that direction. cpd that's several of their officers were hit with rocks. they weren't injured because they were wearing riot ge...

In the border fence and they started trying to pull it back a little bit. and run through. and they were, of course, met with u.s. border patrol agents on the other side. and one or maybe two or three of those young men picked up rocks and started hurling them across the border. and that's when border patrol agents responded with nonlethal fire, so they were firing off maybe pepper balls, they were firing off flash bangs. so non-lethal explosions to scare people back away from the line. so at that moment when they threw that or they fired what sounded like gunfire, a large group of the migrant...

Fired tear-gas canisters and pepper bullets or pepper balls at them. many of these individuals were women, children, and some men, cpb also says they are throwing projectiles at some of their officers as well and they shut down the border for several hours and things are back to normal right now, and we kraucrd over several times and things are normal right now but tensions were higher. >> let's talk about this. we want to bring in cnn chief analyst, jeffrey toobin and michael smerconish and nia-malika henderson. i want to begin with you, nia, because this does not prove we need a border wall,...