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I didn't see any proof of financing by george soros. or by the dictatorships in nicaragua or venezuela. as a matter of fact, what i saw is people who are so poor, they don't even have $1 to buy a bottle of water. so, the image that the president is presenting to the american people is a complete lie. i didn't see any of that, anderson. absolutely any of that. >> the president seems to be painting this image that u.s. troops are going to be manning the borders with, you know, with rifles and bayonets out and stopping people from crossing over. every military expert i talked to points out that t...

Strong signal to the people in that caravan that you have 15,000 american troops, along with the customs and border patrol, the walls, the drones and everything else that we have at our border, that are prepared to stop you. >> so on that note, you say they're there to support. rear admiral john kirby, who is a cnn analyst, former spokesman for the defense department, says they're going to be there as cooks, as pilots, mechanics. they're not there to combat the migrants from coming in or stop them from coming in, they're there to be in support roles. is it misleading for the president to paint...

Troops to the border to deal with a caravan? >> they will have limited effect at best. because of the the law we have against what we refer to as a pos sit. the military cannot engage in domestic law enforcement. that includes arrests on the boarder. so when we send troops, active duty, guard, reserve, under federal control to the border, they can only serve in support roles. they can't engage in direct law enforcement. they are not standing on the rio grand with rifles. >> the white house refused to say today whether they would try to suspend habous corpus to allow them to do more. >> we have...

Block from the white house, they were reassigned and given no reason for reassignments. these are people who have served multiple va secretaries, and they're in crucial support roles for a new secretary to kind of get the new person acclimated. robert wilke who is waiting in the wings at the pentagon, a top personnel official himself, is said to not know anything about these moves who were done by the acting team in power now, led by peter o'rourke, the acting secretary. >> the va as you know has long been troubled, underfunded, understaffed. doesn't such a staff shakeup exacerbate those probl...

Down at the border. >> yeah, but they are the words of one union leader who, you know, i think is disgruntled a bit with his interactions with the administration. if you actually look at what is happening happening with the deployment of 4,000 national guard troops on the border is they have already picked up thousands of people in just the last six weeks who have come across our border illegally. they have picked up huge quantities of illegal drugs. they have got people ready to be deported. so actually, this program has received or at least achieved more results in a shorter period of time t...