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dollars. all of this coming as the biden administration has pushed the kremlin to accept an offer they put on the table in june to get griner home. offering to swap griner and another american, paul whelan, for viktor bout, an arms smuggler serving a 25-year sentence in the united states. so far, russia has not agreed. >> they should have accepted it weeks ago when we first made it. it was an earnest attempt to see if we could get outcomes here. we are still going to keep making the at...

101 they teach you that in the first week. >> harris: you mentioned the white house and all of this and pushing back on the actual numbers of things. right now the white house is pushing back after that report that health and human services would be using taxpayer dollars to give crack pipes to drug addicts. lets watch this. >> hhs put out a statement clarifying around some of the reports that crack pipes are not going to be part of the safe smoking kits funded by the administration. were they n...

>> martha: fox news directing a tough line of questioning at the white house following reports of taxpayer-funded "crack pipes" in safe injection kits. are they or arent that? what is the plan? watch this exchange. >> hhs put out a statement clarifying around some of the reports that crack pipes are part of the safe smoking kits funded by the administration. can you clarify for us, whether they never a part of the kit or were they removed in response to the push back and reporting?

Holding centers has been slow coming or non-existent. cal perry got a first look today at a facility. tell us what you saw. >> it wasnt shocking the conditions, which should be expected here in america. lets be clear about that. what we did see was fairly militaryized. it was equivalent to like a forward operating base you would see in american personnel putting out around the country. there were 22 tents. two tents for girls, 20 for boys. 20ities dmids each tent. they were walking around single...

>> if you are smuggling a child then we will prosecute you. and that child may be separated from you as required by law. we dont want to separate families, but we dont want families to come to the border illegally. >> every law enforcement agency in this country separates parents and children when they are arrested for a crime. this is no new policy. >> there is no bipartisan support for changing that. >> immigration specifically about immigrant children. 1500 of them, the headline said had been...

For being here today. lets get to it. one of the biggest concerns is how to break down and handle preexisting conditions. many americans are very worried about how their premiums will go up especially now that the cbo released its report saying they have reason to worry. you put out an article on twincities.com outlining a list of the myths about the a hca. tell us about it. >> hhs put out a report saying under obamacare in 2013 to last year premiums more than doubled, they went up 105%. under t...

There are state leaders who decided not to expand medicaid. that means that there are people in those states who arent going to have good options for health coverage and thats a real shame. it is important to note that there are millions of people across the country who do stand to benefit. h.h.s. put out some information this week showing eight out of ten latinos do have opportunities for enrollment. so were doing that work to make sure that those that do stand to benefit, those millions of fol...

We appreciate it. we want to turn back to the brand new obamacare enrollment numbers. they may not be that new. we heard yesterday that they talked about 1.1 million people signing up through the federal health care exchange. it seems like were starting to see some of the state-based numbers rolling in, as well and the department of health and human services combining that. lets bring in michael sheer, a white house dont for the "new york times" and with us later on this hour to talk about the o...