conspiracy theory cooked up by the gop to get votes in the midterms. instead, the media s echo chamber is spinning out of control over the use of non-lethal tear gas. why? to disburse a massive group of migrants that attempted to break all of our laws, rush the border, and many assaulting our own border patrol with rocks and bottles and other projectiles. and we have it on tape. take a look. speak about things breaking out of this san isidro port near tijuana. the president falsely describe the caravan is an invasion. now he seems intent is try to make it as likely as he imagined that. is there any defense for using tear gas on? americans, especially from supporters, people who don t quite see the inhumanity that is going on here, who maybe think that 3-year-olds neared teargas. there has to be a pragmatic and compassionate answer that does not involve tear gassing children.
does not involve tear gassing children. we look at tear gassing for children. that s the united states causing that. he wants that chaos on the border as he continues to treat these people, so many of whom are leaving violent lives in central america, like try terrorists. your mainstream media doing anything and everything to vilify president trump over the crisis at our southern border. however, as per usual, they have completely failed to tell the whole truth. look at the study tonight from news busters. last night, networks totally ignored the use of tear gas during the obama administration. do you remember this kind of his tear ya? tear gas was used about once a month during barack obama s time in offense in order to repel migrants at the border. once a month. think about that. isn t that all you need to
tijuana. a report which you ll see in a moment tells a more complicated story and accounts that chaos erupted, of course in addition to a larger controversy about the migrant caravan and sending active duty truths and untruths he told yesterday, saying the obama administration did the exact same thing, and in fact it did not not. family separation was at the time the exception and not the rule. mexico s foreign minister asked for an investigation of the tear gassing. more now from all of this from leyla santiago who joins us from tijuana. what are you learning from what was going on? reporter: a lot of folks are still trying to make sense of what happened. we are at a makeshift shelt, sort of an athletic mufilt turned shelter where many are still in tents waiting to see where they make their next move. city officials tell us there are about 5,000 people. the majority of them men here,
did the exact same thing. in fact, it did not. family separation was a rare exception, not the rule. in any case, there is breaking news tonight. mexico s foreign ministry sent a diplomatic note to the u.s. embassy asking for an investigation of the tear gassing. more from leyla santiago who joins us from tijuana. what have you learned about what went on? a lot of folks are trying to make sense of what happened. we are at a makeshift shelter, a sort of athletic facility turned shelter where many are in tents waiting to see where they make their next move. there are about 5,000 people, the majority men and when we arrived this morning we saw buses still arriving, central american migrants making their way here to tijuana, despite the clash at the border over the
to that. are you being put in a position where you re doing something that you find morally and ethically wrong? no. which i assume is how you feel about tear gassing children, whoever they re attached to. absolutely not. i would ask, where was your guest during the obama administration, when we were doing the exact same thing? where was your gas during the obama administration you tear gassed children then too. in 2013, look at the history, again, what we re doing is so there s no we are being put so there s no specific thing we are being put in a situation, where the rhetoric of military being on the border means more use of force. that s not true. the military is on the boarder to build our barriers, to be our eyes, to see what s going on, to direct our agents. the military is not on the border to use force, but to say the military on the border is to be used as force. that s completely not true, and that s rhetoric and that s dangerous. that s a red he