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Is it clear to you they had zero plans to reunite? >> i think thats right and youre hitting the right point. this is not a bureaucratic snafu. this was an intentional plan to separate and purposely no plan to reunite. >> really? you really think that? >> i dont mean necessarily permanent separation, but no plan for immediate reunification, so now when they claim they were ending family separation, of course theres no plan to reunite because they never -- when i say no plan to reunite, no strateg...

There is this plan being floated that the defense department would take on the care for 20,000 migrants. how comfortable are you with that, with migrants, children or adults, being housed and cared for on military bases in this country? >> im actually comfortable with it because military bases are really nice. i guarantee you, theyll take care of them. some people try to make this sound ominous because its a military base. but if anybodyser been on a military base, youll see its just like a comm...

Doesnt work. he was the secretary of housing and urban development in the clinton administration. "time" magazine has obtained a secret united states navy memo which says, quote, the u.s. navy is preparing plans to construct sprawling detention centers for tens of thousands of immigrants on remote bases in california, alabama, and arizona. the navy memo outlines plans to build temporary and austere tent cities to house 25,000 migrants at abandoned air fields just outside the florida panhandle, n...

>> its impossible legally to reunite the child and the parent. by law, they cannot put the child in a detention facility and what the administration is still doing is keeping the parents in a detention facility. so you cannot unite them with a parngt. when they talk about reunification, theyre talking about trying to find another family member in this country, an aunt, uncle or something, and see if that relative will take in the child. >> andrew cuomo knows how the federal bureaucracy works and...

Do about reunification, separated children continue to be september to facilities and government or homes across the country, leaving states scrambling to track how many are in their care. >> i tried to get hhs, health and human services, to tell us how many children were in the state today, so i can provide help. they wont even tell me. i dont know that they even know. >> and they are now requesting that they prepare to house 20,000 children on military bases. the first lady making a surprise t...

Families. the order instructs federal agencies, particularly the defense department, to prepare facilities to house the potentially thousands of families that will be detained. hhs has reportedly told the military to prepare for up to 20,000 unaccompanied minors on bases in the coming months. so theyre going to round up more people and then figure out where to put them. is that strength or is that stupidity? to quote a jacket in the news, do they really care? now i know that my guests want to ge...

Beginning in july, lasting through the year. this is their assessment if the current trend of people crossing the border continues of the capacity they might need. this does not mean its happening yet, but it does mean in these bases in texas and arkansas that hhs has looked at to see if they have spare capacity, thats what might happen. now, the pentagons position is they will turn over any spare capacity they have to hhs, but that the military would not be involved at all in the housing or the...

Shows the policy has effectively been curtailed for now. or something. i.c.e. has instructed field offices to stop referring parents for prosecution after crossing illegally with their children. >> and the pentagon prepared to house up to 20,000 children on military bases. also asking a judge to limit the children in detention for 20 days in an effort to keep parents who may be detained longer. it is an uphill climb for the doj. >> these are covers from "time" magazine and "the new yorker." the ...

Contractors to run these facilities on the bases, again, to keep the military completely out of it. the notification was made, we believe, before the presidents executive order, so its another case of not being very clear how its all going to work. but look, the pentagon is, you know, getting more involved. of course 21 military lawyers now have been earmarked to go run some of these immigration cases on the border. >> barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you so much. andrew cuomo says 700 chi...

Have laws and break the laws. >> this is how you chose tone force that law. >> dont rob a bank with your children. chris, if you rob a bank with your children, guess what -- >> its a felony. its not a misdemeanor for crossing a border. youve shown intent to hurt people. youve shown an intent to deprive people of their property. but this is just crossing a border. >> what if you did this in a different country? if you went to any other country in the world and crossed their border illegally would...