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To try to have some sort of comprehensive immigration so we don't see scenes like this at the border. i think it was going to give president trump a lot of funding. what's the sticking point? >> neither country wants to -- neither party wants to give the other anything that seems like a victory. and everything breaks down here. right there in that tweet that you read from president trump, as ana said, as jeff said, this is a super complicated situation and there will be ugly ones like we saw yesterday. we won't get past it if the president continues fear mongering and lies. that's not who is i...

Side of the border. we're hearing from the first time for you that there were 42 arrests on the u.s. side? 42 people did manage to cross the border? >> that is correct. 42 crossed the border and were arrested. to be completely frank, there were numerous people who actually made it across the border. we're in the process of building the new border wall here but we don't have it completed. there were sections that had dilapida tch dilapidated border wall made out of scrap that the military gave us. the group breached a couple of sections of that, tore down one section. they started to rush acros...

Majority of these people were claiming asylum. we made 42 arrests. 8 of those were females and a few children were involved. the vast majority we're dealing with are adult males. similarly to what we saw the first wave of the caravan came up a week or so ago, and immediately throwing rocks at our agents, taunting our agents. once our agents were assault sbtd numbers started growing, we had two or three agents at a time initially, facing hundreds of people at a time they deployed tear gas to protect themselves and the border. >> were any of your agents hurt? >> at least three agents were actual...

Answer for that problem. but a wall in and of itself strikes me as much more symbol than substance. >> ana navarro is with us this morning. did you find that to be a compelling answer from chief scott about the use of tear gas, which was essentially, look, our job is to protect the border. by the time they're here or through the fence, what are we supposed to do? his claim that most of the people storming the fence were men not the women and children we see in the pictures. >> look, there are no easy answers here. and it's a very difficult situation, a very complicated situation. i don't find ...

Legitimate trade/travel every day, 100,000 people if you will. so, any additional resources we assign to processing asylum seekers literally slows down the economy of the united states, it slows down people that legitimate cross back and forth across our borders to include the international airports that many of you, i'm sure, fly in. we get complaints constantly about the lines as they are. we just have limited resources. >> i do understand that. i guess what i'm getting at as we talk about a more comprehensive process to fixing the situation at the border, if making the process quicker would...