I am watching the replay of the President's announcement, with following Q & A session, right now. Here is ALL the President said about throwing of rocks and military shooting:
Journalist 1: "(unintelligible) firing upon any of these people? Could you see..."
President Trump: "I hope not, I hope not. It's the military. I hope, I hope there won't be that. "
President Trump: "But I will tell you this: anyone throwing stones, rocks, like they did to Mexico, and the Mexican military, the Mexican police, where they badly hurt police and soldiers of Mexico, we will consider that a firearm. "
President Trump: "Because there's not much difference, when you get hit in the face with a rock, which, as you know, it was very violent a few days ago, very very violent, that break-in, it was a break-in of a country. It broke into Mexico."
(Later) Journalist 2: "Saying rocks, rock throwing is (unintelligible)."
President Trump: "We will consider that the maximum we can consider that. Because they are throwing rocks viciously, and violently. You saw that three days ago, really hurting the military. We're not going to put up with that."
President Trump: "They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. We're going to consider it, 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'".
Thanks for the transcript.