by news week malg seen show the unvarnished military assessment that was not to be made public, what the military believes it is being sent to the border to confront. these documents obtained by news week magazine. we re going to talk to the reporter from the story in just a moment. but here s the reason they were leaked in the first place. this is the military intelligence assessment of the threat that the president is hyping so much as justifying this deployment. this is what this document says. according to the military in this internal document. quote, based on historic trends, it is assessed that only a small percentage of the migrants will likely reach the border. see over here in military documents love acronyms. acronym is mlcoa, most likely course of action, mlcoa. this is the most likely koirsco of action. this is what the military decides. caravan dwindle as it nears the
limited experience in the intelligence community, you would see this in what we call intelligence preparation of the battle field. i don t want to caveat battle field is not what i m calling the southern border. usually you would see this, it is an assessment of, just like you said, the most likely course of action, the most dangerous course of action, but based on historical trends, what the intelligence community predicts will happen. i m not going to ask you to talk about your sources. i m not pressuring you about that. i don t need you to explain exactly how you got this document, which you say is law enforcement, it s not for public scrutiny. can you tell me why this document was leaked? why somebody wanted a reporter such as yourself to have access to this information? well, my sources and both other people i just talked to today in terms of sort of what is the overall feeling in the
fake uniform help. it s not helpful. the people who work on the border for u.s. law enforcement never think it s helpful. so, tonight we re reporting on these leaked documents from the u.s. military that have ended up getting published in news week magazine. the top line result here is that in terms of this deployment that the president has ordered of u.s. active duty troops to the border right ahead of the election, the military assessment about the threat they re going there to stop, this migrant caravan coming up from central america, military s assessment about that sz an actual threat is only a small percentage of those migrants part of the caravan will end up ever reaching the border. here s what the military assesses as the most likely course of action for that caravan. caravan dwindles as it nears us u, no criminal exploitation and no terrorist infestation.
illegal immigration and they support what s actually going on. that is not from what i m hearing, is not the majority view. there is a second group that they are pure military. they are going to follow the orders of the president, just regardless of political ideology. they re going to follow the orders, but they really come at this problem in terms of the money situation, like, you know, how much is this going to cost. and then the third group is really how is this going to overall affect military readiness, that it s a waste of money. even the troop level response coming down to the command authority doesn t equate with the most likely course of action. like you said, they re assessing the migrants are to dwindle down to the smallest group 20% make it to the border. if you re taking the 7,000 which
deployment. these documents just published by newsweek magazine show the unvarnished internal military assessment that was not supposed to be made public about what exactly the military believes it is being sent to the border to confront. these documents obtained by newsweek magazine, there is a lot here. we re going to talk to the reporter from this story in just a moment. here is the reason they were leaked in the first place. this is the military assessment of the threat that the president is hyping so much as justifying this deployment. this is what this document says. according to the military in this internal document, quote, based on historic trends, it has assessed that only a small percentage of the migrants will likely reach the border. and then see over here? military documents love acronyms. the acronym is mlcoa, most likely course of action. mlcoa, what the military itself