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Welcome back. this story matter rs. were following breaking news right now. customs and borders protection is report iing the death of another mite grant child in custody. five migrant children have died since the month of since. joining me now is jacob soboroff who has been covering this story from the begin ining. what do we know specifically? >> lets stop and repeat what you said. we have had five migrant children, the majority of them from guatemala, die since december. we talked about on th...

Areas where hhs is the entity with care and feeding. >> one of the things that is very clear, jacob and the mayor is talking about, there is something different happening started in 2015 really but intensified, which is the kinds of crossings, where people come from and mismatch between that and the capacity legal, judicial, social services to deal with that. >> but why and how did we get here is the question we have to ask and you have to look back to bill clinton to understand how the border e...

>> and i think we have to remember that the crisis, the humanitarian crisis that is described by donald trump as taking place with women and children suffering along the border, if not created by the trump administration, was largely exacerbated by it. the separations were a crisis created by the administration. by systematically doing that, putting it into place as a stated deterrence policy. metering people at the ports of entry on the other sides of walls like this is a policy put into place ...

Widely discussed -- >> these are u.s. federal workers that have continually asked for more help from the white house because of the conditions, because the facilities are not set up to handle children and theyve basically been ignored. >> thats what they told us. instead they are told they need to focus more on deterrence policy. we know the asylum ban was blocked by the court. so the new policies that are under preparation now wanting to set up tent cities along the border for families and othe...

The legal way that historically people have used. >> because youve been covering the story for quite some time, it is surprising to me that it has taken them so long to figure out they need to change sort of the medical screening process that they have for these children. especially considering the family separation policy going on back in late spring, early springtime. were hearing about children getting sick back then in detention centers and nothing was done. is it surprising to you that it h...

So i think the democrats really need to think about how to address this crisis at the border and it is a crisis. its a crisis created by the trump administration. but what is -- what is actually the democratic line on this? what is the alternative vision? and we want it to be one thats, of course, more inclusive. a lot of us. but what is that? i mean, i think you have to have some answer. >> uh-huh. >> otherwise its, you know, trump controls the narrative. if thats what its really about, its not...

Children. keeping children with their parents for a year or 18 months, thats the families kept together in family detention. there are still, jacob, lots of children who are alone by themselves. hundreds who have been, who were separated from their families under the now abandoned family separation policy who a judge said you have to put them back together again and where are we on that tonight. i want to say, 460 children. all summer, those children have been separated from their parents while ...

Together again and where are we on that tonight. i want to say, 460 children. all summer, those children have been separated from their parents while weve been off doing our summer. the american people, president trump has been going golfing, et cetera. the whole treenl trump administration put in this policy was to terrorize these folks. it was the stated deterrence policy to get congress to act, to basically get rid of the flores policy so they could detain all the children. that didnt work ou...

Parents, to do this as a deterrence policy that nobody else would come into this country illegally. a strategy we know doesnt make sense. and then when the thing doesnt work out, just lake there was no plan in the beginning to put it into place and thats why it was such a disaster, they just decided, you know what, were not really going to come up with a plan anyways to undo this and well ask somebody else to do it. >> right. so theres a lot of mess there. i do want to hit one positive part that...

Establish a zero tolerance deterrence policy now only to find that it wasnt zero tolerance, that it was only aimed at the most vulnerable, at parents and children, should be a reminder to the american people of the cruelty of this administration. when ivanka trump looks at the american people and says this is something that he is painfully aware and believes that we should not be doing family separation, i agree 100% with her. she should be looking into the presidents sites and see if they are g...