THE PRESIDENT: Because your question is a very political question because you have an agenda. You’re CNN. You’re fake news. You have an agenda. The numbers that you gave are wrong.
Take a look at our federal prison population. See how many of them, percentage-wise, are illegal aliens. Just see. Go ahead and see. It’s a fake question.
Yes. Go ahead.
Q Can I ask a follow-up?
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Just to follow up on that, unifying crime reporting statistics — numbers from your own Border Patrol, numbers from this government — show that the amount of illegal immigrants are down, there is not violence on the border, and that most —
THE PRESIDENT: There’s not violence on the border?
Q There’s not as much violence as —
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, really?
Q Let me — wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait —
THE PRESIDENT: You had 26 people killed —
Q Let me finish the question, please. Let me finish the question, please.
THE PRESIDENT: Two weeks ago, 26 people were killed in a gunfight on the border —
Q I understand what you’re — I understand what you’re saying.
THE PRESIDENT: — a mile away from where I went.
Q I was there. I understand. That’s not the question. The question is —
THE PRESIDENT: Do we forget about that?
