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Mark: welcome back, america our first guest peter doocy, white house correspondent. for fox news channel. but i have a surprise for you. >> president biden ever been to the southern border? >> in his life? >> yes. >> i will have to look back in my history book and check the times. >> just following up on this basic. but important question, youre telling us that dhs chief has most recent numbers how much hari, haitians under the bridge have been sent back and who are in u.s., who else can you ask...

Thats roughly 5,000. we have know there were up to 18,000 people under that bridge in del rio at once a couple days ago. so 5,000 is not 18,000. >> harris: those are the numbers theyre giving us. they arent giving us the true numbers. >> exactly. listen to this exchange. i was trying to figure out why it is so hard to nail down. >> very important question. you are telling us that the dhs chief has the most recent numbers about how many people under the bridge have been sent back and released int...

Office when we were all in ther yesterday trying to hear from the president in the prime minister. >> which aspect? get the british prime minister called on british reporters and then went american reporters tried to call on the american president, we were escorted out lets put it that way. >> i think in that circumstance and i think our relationship with the united kingdom and tha i minister johnston is so stron forward and abiding, he called on individuals from his press corps without alerting...

Even after the white house told us theyre being sent back home. press secretary jen psaki trying to dodge the disaster in texas. instead lashing out at the border patrol agents on horseback. >> this has been an incredibly heart wrenching issue. weve watched the photos of haitians gathering under bridges and the horrific video of the officers on horses using brutal measures against people. they were placed on administrative leave and will not be interacting with any migrants. >> meanwhile, nobody...

Coming weeks, they will be moving into more open hearings. she says they are looking into releasing transcripts soon. eric, although, no word exactly when that will be. eric: lauren, thank you very much. arthel? arthel: thank you. president trump naming the next acting homeland security secretary. the new job elevating wolf from his undersecretary position within the agency, to become the fifth person to lead dhs in three years. lucas tomlinson has more from washington. lucas? >> before departin...

About tad wolf. >> before departing for his rally in mississippi president trump told his supporters to he appointed chad wolf in department of security. >> hes acting right now and well see where that goes. and as you know, john, i like acting. i mean, a lot of people say -- i like acting. it gives you great, great flexibility. i do. >> its not clear when wolf will take over as acting dhs chief. the federal governments third largest agency with over 240,000 employees. wolf will be the fifth per...

Dhs chief said i.c.e. did try to ease the burden on families impacted by the raids. >> i.c.e. took great pains to make sure there were no child dependent care issues that were ignored. 32 of the arrestees were released on sight. thats 45% of the people arrested release d for humanitarian reasons including child care. >> given the emotions of the country right now, in hindsight, do you wish this raid didnt happen this week? >> the timing was unfortunate. >> just imagine the familys reaction to al...

Documents and said we should live up to an ideal that all men were created equal. >> my aunt marched from selma. this is all very visceral for me. when i see that rally, that looks like a clan rally to me in 2019. and what are we going to do about that as american citizens to stand up against this hate before somebody gets hurt. >> youre coming back. thank you so much for that. we appreciate that. still ahead this hour, fiery testimony on capitol hill with the acting dhs chief taking heat for th...

This is tantamount to public declaration that our borders are open to all." that was jeh johnson. he was president obamas head of dhs. when a man like that, with both democratic credentials and respected by republicans says it leads to open borders, you got to listen. >> jessica: you do. obviously, the targets have these deportation orders. the removal orders. i would love to hear what you have to say about those collateral deportations and also that acting dhs chief, kevin mcaleenan, has expres...

An internal report showing that back in may conditions at a border station in el paso, texas were so bad that border agents feared riots. the documents challenge claims from the acting dhs chief kevin mclean an on friday, complaints from lawyers about poor conditions were unsubstantiated. im joined by nbcs julia ainsley whos been following the story from the beginning. what did the reports say about living conditions for migrants being detained at this station. >> craig, this report was done by ...