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The guard, governor doocy got an aerial view of the border via black hawk helicopter. the border shared by arizona and mexico is 378 miles long. and reports from the department of homeland security show the number of arrests of illegal immigrants along the southern border has risen roughly 200% over the last year. now, california will soon join arizona, new mexico and texas in sending national guard troops to the border. presidents obama and george w. bush also deployed the national guard, but critics worry this amounts to a militarization of the border and could be a waste of resources. kelly...

Strike. kelly? kelly: john roberts from the white house tonight. thank you. for more on this, let's bring in retired marine corps gunnery sergeant and senior fellow at the london center for policy research. good to see you. thank you for joining us. let's go to the heart of what john was saying at the end, about russia's so called antimissile defense system which didn't come into play at all during last night's joint military strike, supported by the united states, the u.k. as well as france. tell me if you can, what you think about that. is russia blustering? >> well, russia's always been b...

Military force by proposing a comprehensive strategy with clear objectives that keep our military safe and avoid collateral damage to innocent civilians. let's bring in the deputy managing editor for the weekly standard. kelly, thank you very much for joining us tonight. the question that comes to mind, as house minority leader pelosi and senator tim kaine and other leading democrats, they are now blasting the president on his joint military strike on syria. senator kaine even going so far as to call the action reckless. and he says the last thing congress should be doing is giving the preside...

Morning, and he said if the syrian regime uses this poisonous again, the united states is locked and loaded. when our president draws a red line, our president enforces the red line. >> and after today's meeting, there's talk about the next step, and the french ambassador indicated that he will be working with his allies to conduct -- to get a new resolution really together on the table to work on syria's issues, including getting more chemical inspections going, and on a side note, kelly, it just so happens that the entire security council including russia will be going to sweden on friday. a...

Be built. >> it's important for everybody here to understand today that border security is a national security issue. and i think the president has demonstrated his commitment to using every available tool and resource is to help us down here on the border. kelly: anita vogel is following the story from los angeles. anita? >> well, hi there, kelly. it is called operation guardian shield and already underway in arizona. the main goal is for the guard to provide support for the border patrol in securing the southern border with mexico. 60 guardsmen have arrived there at that border yesterday. th...