Shepard Smith smacked down a claim which was floated Monday morning on Fox & Friends, and then Tweeted by President Donald Trump.

Monday afternoon on Shepard Smith Reporting, the anchor took on the baseless suggestion which was made on Fox & Friends hours earlier, and then subsequently the president, that “unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with the caravan of migrants en route to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“President Trump is calling the caravan a national emergency,” Smith said. “And he’s claiming criminals and unknown alleged Middle Easterners are mixed in with the crowd. An important note: Fox News knows of no evidence to suggest the president is accurate on that matter. And the president has offered no evidence to support what he has said.”

Monday morning at 6:48 a.m., Pete Hegseth said this on Fox & Friends:

You’ve got the president of Guatemala saying to a local newspaper down there just last week they caught over 100 ISIS fighters in Guatemala trying to use this caravan…he talked to their local newspaper. We don’t know. It hasn’t been verified. But even one poison pill is too many in a caravan like that.

The president then fired off this Tweet at 8:37 a.m:

Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy. Must change laws! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2018

Watch above, via Fox News.

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