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Jen psaki said they would approach without labeling, so psaki and other others rushed to say there was no crisis, but some journalists kept pressing the point. 22,000 unaccompanied children in our country right now. Thats a record. That sounds to most folks like a crisis. Well, look, its way down now. Weve now gotten control. Howard and now with the president sending another 1500 troops to the border and pan pandemic era restrictions being lifted this thursday, the expected surge of Illegal Migr...

jen psaki said they would approach without labeling, so psaki and other others rushed to say there was no crisis, but some journalists kept pressing the point. >> 22,000 unaccompanied children in our country right now. thats a record. that sounds to most folks like a crisis. >> well, look, its way down now. weve now gotten control. howard: and now with the president sending another 1500 troops to the border and pan pandemic era restrictions being lifted this thursday, the expected surg...

A look at the days top news and headlines. That he was copied on, blank copied on that he had during his time at the Bush Administration and the senators on the republican side saying, he you have already said that you are going to void against them, so why do we have to go through this . I think that they are going to run into a brick wall as far as logistics of getting those requests answered, Mitch Mcconnell has said that this is going to go forward october 1st. Chuck grassley has said that y...

Situation and make political hay out of it. >> and id just bring up, i mean, the best example of this was "the new york times" about the child migrants that were being forced into labor here in the united states. right? this is breaking federal law. you had a 15-year-old girl stuffing cheetos into boxes at a warehouse. she shouldnt have been working. you had teenagers, girls who were changing hotel sheets in virginia. you had people delivering food, your food, in new york city. kids who came her...

Custody right now and not reunited with their families, and where are they? >> sec. nielsen: there are a few hundred. the number that is left, what we have done is worked very closely in coordination with the court. of that number, the vast majority of their parents have already been removed, or were removed prior to the court injunction. and at the parents now, three different times have said they do not want to be reunited. so they are not reunited. the kids will stay in the hhs care, as laws ...

Adults unfortunately our hard earned criminals, we are not going to place children at the hands of those who have already been convicted in some cases of kidnapping, child abuse, and smuggling and trafficking. >> dana: so they dont have a legal status, do they become less and dreamers? >> we have 10,000 children at the care of hhs who came here unaccompanied, parents separated before they got to the border and send them with the hands of smugglers, criminals, frankly. and in some cases other adu...

People. >> hes signing that executive order undoing the policy he signed to stop it. he didnt have to sign anything. there were a specific number of children taken by their families by the government. a week later they stopped breaking out that figure, about 11,000, most of whom arrived here unaccompanied. today, secretary azhar made the claim that the number of children who may av been separated from their parents under zero tolerance or other reasons was lower than 3,000, about 100 are younger...

They were also low? when the economy was good. >> you have to go to the border yourself and see whats happening. >> ive been there. >> i have, too. >> let me tell you something, the people on the border dont like these practices, they dont like the idea of enforcing harshness as a reality for what america is about. >> i dont like it either. >> but the president does and thats why he came out and said hey, these stories youre hearing, theyre phony. the same stories his wife went down there to see...

Judge, i cant -- you cant judge us on this. that is discretionary policy. they said this is our choice to do what we want, this is our policy, its not about the law or any kind of reckoning of a statute, beat it. now theyre saying the opposite. >> no question and what the government said is after the hearings, then you hear the president say, well, were bound by all these localized old laws now. lets not get into the weeds. the easiest way to understand no law requires this policy is the laws th...

Language about kids in cages and a lot of those photos -- >> there are kids in cages. >> but it happened under obama. thats whats so funny. >> those were kids who came here unaccompanied. >> were kids kept in steel cages with four steel corrugated walls around them? >> sorry. >> do you think kids are being kids are being kept in things that you could suggest are cages. yes or no. >> no, i dont think they are cages. >> so your argue. is yes they are -- >> hold on. hold on. one voice at a time. yo...