marine corps understand civil disobedience training. you don t use maximum force. you use minimum force. you don t attack, you defend. you restore order. he has it all wrong. those kinds of orders will not be transmitted down the chacin f command. normally you would call a group of thousands of fleeing migrants, still about 1,000 miles away, a humanitarian crisis. the president calls it an invasion. does calling it an invasion change the rules for the u.s. military and does it justify deploying 15,000 troops to the border? i don t think it justifies the deployment of the troops and changing the name and labeling it an invasion. it isn t an invasion. thousands of people come to the borders every year. it s not an invasion.
he want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. we re going to consider and i told them, consider it a rifle. when they throw rocks like they did at the mexico military police, i say consider it a rifle. reporter: critics pounced, calling that an abuse of the commander-in-chief s authority. you don t use maximum force. you use minimum force. and you don t attack. you defend. you restore order. so he has it all wrong. reporter: the president s incendiary rhetoric on immigration is throwing the gop off its message on the economy. mr. trump tweeted about the latest unemployment numbers. wow, the u.s. at a 250,000 jobs in october. unemployment at 3.7%. wages up. these are incredible numbers. keep it going. vote republican. so the country is doing i think maybe you could say better than it s ever done. reporter: but the president is riding immigration more than any other issue heading into next week s midterm elections with continued vows to end birthright ci