“Your father has authorised lethal force, he says, 'if necessary,'" ABC News' Deborah Roberts asked Trump. "Does that concern you?" Trump seemed put off and responded, "I don’t believe that that’s what he said, but his primary role as the nation’s commander in chief is obviously to protect our nation’s borders. He has to protect our country’s security." She scoffed and added: "But I don’t — lethal force, in this case would — that is not, I think, something that anyone’s talking about." ABC News then showed her a clip of the president saying : "If they have to, they’ve got to use lethal force. I’ve given the OK, yeah. If they have to. I hope they don’t have to."