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Principled and going to stay focused. getting him on the record to talk through the ten counts of obstruction and 272 plus points of contact that the trump campaign tried to cover-up and coordinated with a couple of folks behind the scenes? one thing about mueller is while he may be dry, is he direct. we saw that when he wrote to barr after barr released his summary in april and said this doesnt capture the con test, the content or substance of my report. please release the content that my team ...

Over children in facilities that were never designed for children. these are border patrol agents signed on to basically go chase drug smugglers through the desert, apprehend them and remove them from the united states. now theyre the guardians of children in facilities that are inadequate to house children. >> just moments ago, though we saw a drop in june, total enforcement increased 1.3% over fiscal 2018. this year we have had more arp tensions, 688 kaum 375 total by the end of june. to put t...

>> reporter: melisande is pushing to make the institution the first institution in the country to make payments for reparation. recently they got one step closer to their goal. an overwhelming majority of students voted to increase their own tuition by $27.20 per semester. thats 10 cents for each of the persons the university sold. the money will go to a louisiana community where many of the descendants live, a community that lacks basic services like a hospital and secondary school. >> were not...

About whether the nation should be paying reparations to its african american citizens. recently reporter trymaine lee visited georgetown university in washington, d.c. where students are pushing for their school to repair the sins of its past. >> reporter: georgetown is one of the most prestigious universities in the united states. it was founded by jesuits in 1789 on the backs of slave labor. the university owned plantations in maryland and even enslaved people on campus, but it wasnt until 20...

>> right now were still paying pensions from the spanish american war, things that happened long before i was alive and you were alive, yet we dont have any problem with that. >> one of the points that struck me about the georgetown story, and i think georgetown is fascinating. this isnt the whole country. its one university. its a little pilot program. >> right. >> but in that case, there are records of this stuff. >> oh, sure. its not hard. >> they have the 272 names. they have the amount of m...

Right now there is a national conversation going on about whether the nation should be paying reparations to its african american citizens. recently reporter trymaine lee visited georgetown university in washington, d.c. where students are pushing for their school to repair the sins of its past. >> reporter: georgetown is one of the most prestigious universities in the united states. it was founded by jesuits in 1789 on the backs of slave labor. the university owned plantations in maryland and e...

And maryland, if youre put in a community that doesnt have a lot of social mobility and resource, thats directly the result of georgetown selling your ancestors to individuals in this location. >> reporter: shepherd thomas is one of the many descendants of those 272 people. he still has relatives in that community in louisiana. >> treat this as justice. so even though like you could say justice is -- it is fairness for all. equality is one thing but equity is another. >> reporter: what do you ho...

Built by enslaved people. you are enthere enjoying the benefits of their labor. if we dont want to acknowledge our ties, how be you go work out on the anacostia river somewhere or some place like that. im being flip about that, but i was doing a research for that testimony. as late as 2017, we were pegging pensions to the last heir of a civil war veteran. >> wow. >> right now were still paying pensions from the spanish american war, things that happened long before i was alive and you were alive...

Pegging pensions to the last heir of a civil war veteran. we are at this very moment still paying pensions to the veterans of spanish-american war. long before i was alive and you were alive and we dont have a problem with that. >> one of the points that struck me about the georgetown story, this is fascinating. this is one university. its a laboratory and a little pilot program. in that case, its like there are records of this stuff. >> sure. >> they have the 272 names and the amount of money t...

>> were not making a gift to these people. their, like, quality of life is directly tied to the actions of the university. even just geographically. being put in communities in louisiana and maryland, if youre put in a community that doesnt have a lot of social mobility and resource, thats directly the result of georgetown selling your ancestors to individuals in this location. >> reporter: shepard thomas is one of the many descendants of 272 people. he still has relatives in that community in l...