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Officer, but why didnt they contact mississippi child services in advance? why didnt they bring in hhs? >> and so i pressed the acting director on a few of those things. they say they didnt have to contact child protective services and they did contact school districts. >> not in advance. >> the director says because this is a law enforcement operation, they argue that, you know, for law enforcement operations you cant tip anyone off. that was his argument. now i did press him on why more of the...

You know, i can take they say that their job is law enforcement. but there are policymakers, kevin mcallenen at the top. i know they didnt tell the white house because they wanted to avoid leaks. for someone in the white house not to have said this is back timing -- in fact the president was asked about this by kristen welker on friday. he said that they were happy about the deterrent value. >> correct. thats something thats significant. quite a while now this has been seen by many as a deterren...

American dream? so it can be as heartless as you can imagine. >> another question that i had is why, they were not going to notify the schools, okay, they should have, i believe. but why didnt they notify the mississippi department of child services or child welfare, or hhs? some social welfare workers so these children were not as terrorized as they were? >> well, it just says that this administration wants to inflict as much pain as they can on some of the most vulnerable people in this countr...

Fundamentally because it was these kids first day of school. they were coming home excited to tell their parents what it was that they experienced that day. from now on and for forever, that is going to be a reminder for their first day of school the trauma that they felt. and we have this i think were kind of also disallusioned about thinking that he only doesnt like people of color. hes actively doing it with his policies, putting all of us in danger. so obama right before he left into the whi...

In american history tearing hundreds of people from their families. and also it was gross, this was the kids first day of school. they were excited coming home to tell their kids what their first day of school and from now on forever that will be their remembrance of the first day of school. were also disillusioned to think he only does not like people of color. hes actively doing policy, putting all of us in danger. obama right before he left the white house, he had basically an evaluation sayi...

A lot depends on legal help. these people do not have a right to an attorney. what happens going forward in terms of how these are processed. not everyone arrested even gets deported. >> so just quickly, i think pictures of the kids eating. if youre a u.s. citizen and youre a child, what happens to you? >> you have a right to stay here. if you dont have a legal guardian, youre like any u.s. child without a parent, and you can wind up in the foster system. sometimes there will be a relative they ...

Controlling drug prices. the biopharma is where things will go. its about the breakthroughs with the whole -- excuse me, immune system. what we have to do now is we have to have a form that sits in the hhs and says as you develop a drug, you got to come to us and decide what you can sell it for. we will set the price and secondly, it says that you cannot raise that price beyond the cost of inflation from this point on. >> thank you, mr. vice president. >> i want to bring in senator bennett. last...

Care in america. im going to go back to vice president biden. your plan does not cover everyone in america by your staffs and your own definition. 10 million people, as many as 10 million people will not have access to health care. and in 2019 in america, for a democrat to be running for president with a plan that does not cover everyone, i think its without excuse. our plan covers everyone. >> thank you, senator. >> and gives people choice. >> thank you, senator. vice president biden? >> my pla...

For the drugs you take is creating common ground between president trump and the hhs. letting consumers import drugs from places like canada in hopes of increasing competition and lowering prices. there are still some really thorny issues to work out, though, especially when it comes to safety concerns. the proposal may get the green light from the 2020 democrats who have been pushing this kind of thing. earlier this week senator bernie sanders headed across the border to buy insulin because it ...

Be open for states, pharmacies and wholesalers to come forward with a plan. but we wanted to announce this so they could start thinking about how to plan for this. we want 20 see the plans right away as soon as the regs are ready. >> i think the aclu filed a lawsuit against the trump administration for separating 900 more children from their families at the border. i know this is a dhs issue. you work at dhs at hhs on this topic here. back when the controversy last year erupted over family separ...