and now, joining us from london, kevin, great to see you. let s talk about the military and the role at the border, and what are the rules for the military, and 15,000 now he says right now, and it is 5,200, but he said up to 15,000 sent to border. can they use their rifles against migrants who are throwing rocks? well, there is a whole lot of fact versus myth here to separate as you said in the introduction. the pentagon said the rules of engagement are the same where they are, and that means the propo proportionate in force and return fire and the short answer is no, the pentagon is not going to ord ter troops to fire back at immigrants with rock throwers. there are the a.p. saying that there is only a couple hundred troops and the rest are staging nearby at border states, and the entire mission of the the military is not supposed to be at the border guns drawn and pointed down into the southern, into mexico, but sustainment,
they view it as a threat to their voice. and so they are galvanized, and they are getting up and they are going to do everything possibleb to vote. i have said on air many, many times when it comes to the voter suppression efforts of african-americans, the last thing that anybody should do is to tell a black person that they cannot vote. and oprah yesterday gave all of the history of what you need to know about why that is. boy, did she give voice to it. let e s talk about charlie, the way that the whole election is shaping up, and the closing message from the president which is all about they are coming to get you, and the mi granl tnnd coming to get you and calling it an invasion when it is a march of people who won t be here for weeks to come, and mis-stating, you know, the fact that they are all men and all gangs and ms-13, and does it work?
on its own. the president s fudging comment makes no sense. you know, and it s a year-plus after he had a chance 15 months. to say, oh, he took me out of context but there s also the may 9th, 2017, letter in which president trump notified comey he was fired where he referenced i appreciate that you told me three different times that i wasn t under investigation, but i still agree with the justice department that you ve got to go. that s in a let e so i it s hard for the president to maintain at this point the investigation had nothing to do with comey s firing. joan, i got to ask you before we go, the new york times reporting that michael cohen and then-candidate trump came up with this potential plan to buy these catch and kill stories from the national enquirer that could prove damaging to trump and backs up a report that cnn, you remember we heard on tape yes. right, of them talking about, you know, our friend, david. david. gets hit by a bus truck.
from the war. the time line for transferring the remains is the next 14 to 21 days and subject to change without notification. and mike pompeo says that the u.s. got a firm commitment to get the remains back, but we should remind you that it is all happening more than a month after president trump said this. we got back our great fallen heroes, the remain, and in fact, today, already 200 have been sent back. let e s talk it over with a senior fellow at the atlantic council who worked on the atlantic council with the clinton administration, and he said that we had the remains back, and the meeting with kim jong-un is more than a month ago, and how can you explain that the remains are not back in the u.s. it is a side show. and it is great to be getting the remains back and we should have gotten them back whether it is the end of the summit or now
i watched him interact with angela merkel on a number of occasions and certainly treats her with respect. all the time? really? that s where we begin the hour. again, call it the new world disorder. key u.s. allies already on edge because of trade tensions are now getting lectured from president trump because he wants them to spend more on their militaries. among those on the receiving end of a tough letter from the president, the german chancellor angela merkel, who just had to make a major policy retreat on my griegs a migration and refugees to keep her grip on power. the president has repeatedly called her soft on migration issues. the new york times obtained the new trump let e complaining the chancellor is hurting, in the president s view, the nato alliance. quote, there s growing frustration in the united states that some allies have not stepped up as promised. continued german underspending on defense undermines the security of the alliance and provides validation for ot