Fox News Correspondent John Roberts Calls Out Trump’s Latest Lies on Border Wall

John Roberts, the chief White House correspondent for Donald Trump‘s favorite news network delivered some unpleasant news about Trump’s latest claims about the southwestern border of the United States: they’re lies.

On Thursday afternoon’s edition of Shepard Smith Reporting, Roberts fact-checked remarks that Trump made during a photo op with Prime Minister of Ireland Leo Varadkar.

Roberts began by reporting on the passage of a resolution rescinding Trump’s national emergency declaration, which sets up the potential first veto of Trump’s presidency.

Roberts noted that “In the new budget, he’s asked for $8.7 billion to build the wall,” and added that Trump was “insisting, this morning as he sat with Ireland’s prime minister, that a lot of wall is being built now.”

He also noted that Trump “said that we’re seeing record numbers of people apprehended at the border, which is not a factual statement.”

In fact, Trump Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen reluctantly refuted that claim during a hearing last week.

The numbers that we saw last month in February, 76,000 do represent a 11-year high but they’re well off the record, which was set in modern times going from 2000 all the way to 2018, the high point, shep, was this March of 2000 when 220,000 people were apprehended at the border. We’re not there but we’re at an 11-year high.

“And the claim of new wall, that is just inaccurate as well,” host Shep Smith pointed out. “Anything that is being build is from previous allocations, and nothing new because it’s not been approved.”

“It is,” Roberts agreed, and explained that any “new” fencing is being built to replace barriers that were already there.

Watch the clip above, via Fox News.