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Base like goodfellow, dias or little rock. and any of those bases have an operational mission. goodfellow has a training mission. near a abilene is the home of the b-1 bomber. so if they get this particular mission, they will have to have massive expenditure of resources, create a tent city or something like that in order to house all of these kids and possibly their families. >> so maybe a tent city? that is 20,000 beds spread out across the country. are we talking about like parts of the base ...

And if that is the case that brings up a whole other series of policing functions which kind of take you back to what we did for the vietnamese refugees when they came to this country after the end of the vietnam war. and that was a lot of work that went into that, a lot of planning had to be done. and i dont think weve done any of that based on what ive seen so far. >> so im making almost like a list then of the cost. so if you are saying policing functions, and then you have the 20,000 people ...

Families. the order instructs federal agencies, particularly the defense department, to prepare facilities to house the potentially thousands of families that will be detained. the 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 that is in the news, do they really care? now i know that my guest...

You would have to do that. so you would be talking easily in the it ens of millions of dollars. and again, that really depends on the type of tenure were talking about, how long these people would be housed on these bases, what kind of court proceedings they would have, how competent addition slus those cou expeditious the court hearings would be. so a lot of different factors. and any budgetary estimate would be probably quite inaccurate at best. >> then also how the military feels about this. ...

Buses, 60 kids per bus, you would need 333 school buses. the department of health and human services is taking a look at bases in arkansas, texas, new mexico. lets talk to our military analyst colonel layton. when i first heard the number 20,000, socked me in the gut. and now trying to understand what does that look like on these bases, period? >> it is a huge thing because most of these bases, biggest one ft. bliss has a population of active duty military about 27,000 personnel, a little over t...

20,000 children potentially being housed in these military bases. we dont know yet whether that would include families or just unaccompanied minors. we dont know yet whether theyre really going to continue with the prosecutions under this zero-tolerance policy that attorney general sessions put it place or not. the justice department says one thing. you hear a different thing from the border patrol. so they havent yet got their act together in this 24 hours since the presidents order, and its le...

Mostly majority muslim countries, and there was great confusion, a great deal of conflict, a great deal of protests as you say at the airports, sort of spontaneous people rushing to the airports to make their feelings known, to try to express solidarity with the people they saw were being targeted by these orders. and you have a situation here where the president decided yesterday to reverse course without really having decided how to do it. and theres so many unanswered questions today. you men...

That doesnt mean anything other than theyll go through the process on go end up in a foster home. >> they put out a statement that was deceptive. they said, of course, its our goal to reunite them with a sponsor or relative. that is not the same as get them back to the person that took them here and was taken away from. >> that doesnt mean were going to undo the terrible mistake we have made with this executive order and put them back with their parents they were separatesed from. they could ver...

Authorization coming down for 20,000 beds to be made available on military bases. >> thats right. >> what is the deal with that plan. >> so military bases as we were talking about last night, sort of are this carveout that allow the federal government to do things in this unlicensed way, theyre not being detained in i.c.e. detention which means they would have to let them out after 20 days unless they could get around the existing law in some ways. those 20,000 beds are 20,000 human beings we do...

Important executive order. its about keeping families together while at the same time being sure that we have a very powerful, very strong border. i didnt like the sight or the feeling of families being separated. >> so the president says he doesnt like families being separated. but it is worth noting that his administration has no specific plan and no time line for those families to be brought back together. now, in addition, the pentagon is getting 20,000 bed ready on military bases to house u...