"Do you think they are vigilantes?"
I didn't hear or see a yes or no. That is weaseling. W certainly didn't straighten out his position. He only reiterated his non-position.
Around and around we go. We've already gone through this.
The reporter's question was stupid. The MM weren't even on the border yet.
If the president had responded to the question by saying that the MM weren't vigilantes, then the president would have been wrong if the MM subsequently came down and did something wrong.
If the president had responded to the question by saying that the MM were vigilantes, then the president would have been wrong because he would have been making an accusation before the fact.
Simply put the question was a put-up job by the MSM. Not getting any of the two answers that they wanted, the MSM then ignored in pathetic fashion the full context of the President's response by removing the word "vigilante" completely from his full context. The MSM falsely created the idea that the President made an accusation.
You don't have an trouble with that, fine. I don't think that it's fine.
One more thing. Myself being a supporter of indepenent-from-government citizens going down to the border, I would never ask my president to guarantee to the rest of the country that my future actions would be within the law.
LOL! If I wanted the president to guarantee my actions I would simply join a government run watch group.