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Together on this, but some read into that, not handing the president a political win. what do you think? >> the aspect as it relates to our elected officials is, we certainly need the support. weve garnered that with the appropriations bill recently, that helped with the humanitarian crisis and enabled us to move family units and more importantly children out of their care into hhs. any effort that they can make towards improving border security is appreciated by us. >> so they didnt, they didnt...

Were doing everything we can to keep the individuals safe while they are detained here. >> reporter: theres 31 of those across the country. these do not hold children. thats done separately through hhss office of refugee resettle phpbtd. but what we saw was a different contrast from what a group of california democratic lawmakers saw a year ago when they visited the facility and came out and said it was lacking resources. >> julie: what do migrants think about the center, griff? >> reporter: tha...

Senators hirono said, we were in a different posture because the attention that was put on these facilities has caused the government to the dramatically reduce numbers. so the numbers of them down. if youre in a facility run by custom and border patrol and they have -- it was built for 100 adults and now they have 750 kids in facilities that arent air conditioned that are dangerous where kids are getting communicate kabul diseases and they can hardly isolate them from each other, they dont have...

Then committed a crime and was put in jail and ice put a detainer on them. some people, some third of these because of the crowded situations but by the time you get here the families are either put in a family detention facility or put in a child facility, children brought to the interior run by hhs under the office of refugee resettlement. so here it is only adults, no families are being separated here. that process, that would have been much farther down by the time you came across the border...

Security this year. jonathan hayes said that was the highest number in the hhs program. he said theyre currently caring for 11,000 children. meantime, i.c.e. has granted a 30 day extension. she was separated from her father for four years and she was des spon dent. manuel was allowed into the u.s. to deal with her death. an explosive report from the senate intelligence committee talks about the unprecedented scope of russias sbrer feerns. all states were affected. state and local officials w...

In the mother and father infor the at some point today your kid is going to be taken away, in the middle of the night someone snatches the kid. what is supposed to happen? >> we would inform the mother or father of the charges and the reason and provide them the time to say good-bye to the child. >> charges and the reason and the time in advance. >> yes, how far in advance? >> its going to vary depending upon. >> vary from what, hours, minutes and seconds? >> i dont know what spec one youre talk...

Tom, theyve offered up a billion dollars but they dont agree on the wall and now using the democratic party wants to have these type of conditions for the political reasons? >> they do not want to fix the problem because they want to embarrass the president and this is about resisting the president. they would want to secure the border and that money was for relief because of the search. they need to address the search by closing the loopholes in a note about the loopholes for two years and have...

This administration you want -- >> we want to keep families together. >> by keeping kids longer? >> lets bring in senior advisor to senator patty murray, dave brown, fair former acting ice director, fox news contributor tom homan, great to have you. listen to this exchange with elijah cummings and i will ask you to respond. >> were doing her best -- >> what does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces, cant take a shower? >> is that congressional grandstanding with the lights on and...

Have gone to congress time and time again and asked them for money. pete: exactly. ainsley: finely a week ago or month ago they did give them $4 billion. he did say yesterday that is working. we appreciate that money. that is helping us expedite. this buff he said time and time again i have asked yall for money and yall didnt give it. why are yall complaining? steve: look, you have a problem with these laws that interest on the books. change the laws, youre congress. tom homan, former ice direct...

>> keeping kids longer. >> mike: former senior advisor to senator patty murray and former acting i.c.e. director, fox news contributor, tom homan. listen to this exchange with elijah cummings. i will ask you to respond. >> were doing our level best. >> what does that mean? what does in a mean when a child is sitting in their own feces? cant take a shower. come on, man. >> mike: tom is that congressional grand staying with the lights on and cameras rolling? >> absolutely. they continue to push th...