country on a tough on illegal immigration message. border crossings, though, are now on the down swing. still, you wouldn't know that listening to president trump's messaging on twitter this morning. he said, tremendous numbers of people are coming through mexico in the hopes of flooding our southern border. we have sent additional military. we will build a human wall if necessary. if we had a real wall, this would be a nonevent. joining me from el paso, texas, nbc news correspondent, cal perry, politico's senior writer ja jake sherman, and former acting director of i.c.e. during the obama administration, john sandwig. john, i want to start with you. that was a tough on immigration message from bill clinton at a time when those crossings were on the rise. they peaked in the early -- >> different situation now. >> what is the situation? what is the state of immigration in this country now? >> back then there was no infrastructure along our border. today we've invested billions in our border security. we have more border patrol agents than ever before, more