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Congress is going to do, the marking up of bills and the legislation, it almost feels like we should be having hearings every day, bringing forward head of i.c.e., hhs, dhs, and asking them the hard questions and holding them accountablement w accountable. why is that not happening? >> we saw two hearings in judiciary, oversight, were going to keep having hearings. ive requested field hearings in el paso, texas, which has been ground zero for the presidents abhorrent attacks on migrants, and you...

Profits that drug companies make from selling a drug would be taxed at a rate of 100%. proceeds going directly to consumers as rebates. harris says if congress does not act during her first 100 days in office, she would take executive action to investigate price gouging. she says hhs could allow imports from canada or other countries if drugs are available for lower price there. in egregious cases she said the government would use march in rights under the buy dole act of 1980 to license a paten...

Opportunity zones, jared kushner give a briefing on where they are with immigration. alex azar from hhs talked about lowering drug prices, and progress being made at fighting hiv/aids, and alex acosta say goodbye. it was his final meeting. the president wanted to get back to business here. he didnt want to seem to want to talk too much, even though hes been tweeting about it all morning, this feud thats been going on between him and the four women who make up the squad. the freshman congresswome...

The border is because i.c.e. and hhs which is where people are supposed to go from the boarder are clogged up. and so people cannot be transferred from -- theyre not detention centers but only holding and processing centers at the border. they are supposed to be transferred from there to detention centers but theyre so backed up that they cant make that processing. theyre backed because of the policies of the administration and the asylum idea is unamerican. it will fail in court. everybody know...

Needed for hhs to buy more shelter care for the kids that are coming to the border every single day in the aid that cbp needs for consumables and the conditions in those facilities to expand the floor space, so what is the alternative? >> martha: i think its very difficult to understand, if they are so concerned about these children and the families, and they should be wanting there to be better facilities, better supplies of those facilities. they dont want to remove their ability to complain a...

Pledging to help those being targeted, officials in new york, denver, atlanta and dc all promising local law enforcement will not assist in any apprehensions. >> house democrats are heading to florida today to inspect a shelter for unoccupied migrant children, unaccompanied migrant children, excuse me, members from the house subcommittee that oversee funding for hhs, findings will be part of hearing set for next wednesday. >> today jeffrey epstein to be in court, lawyers argue he should be allow...

Needed to have places like the one we set up temporarily in arizona to house the kids until they could be placed with hhs. and the partitions you see, some call them cages, are meant to separate the women from the men, the girls from the boys, but these were temporary. >> okay. so quickly, your response to what he has to say. and if migrant advocates say they have a case against the u.s. government of human rights abuses, do you think they have a case based on what you saw and what you just hear...

Wasnt necessarily going to get cooperation from congress, the numbers started going back up. we were hitting crisis level, starting last year department of homeland security is warning about this while lots of people in this government were saying it is manufactured crisis, it isnt real. well those people are now coming to the border and realize we do have a real crisis. the border patrol is strapped, i.c.e. is strapped and even hhs. >> there is a crisis. humanitarian crisis at the border. kevin...

The major drop in illegal crossings we saw in 2017. when people in other parts of the world realized judges were going to interfere with this presidents policies and he wasnt necessarily going to get cooperation from congress, the numbers started going back up. we were hitting crisis level starting last year. department of homeland security is warning about this while lots of people in this government were saying its a manufactured crisis, it isnt real. those people are now coming to the border ...

Havent reunited all the families that were separated. they came up with that inhumane policy. lets work together to address it. we have $4.7 billion going -- $4.6 billion going to the border. lets get sure that it gets to the treatment of these families and to improvements there and lets make it happen. start asking them when are they going to sending it. >> ken cuccinelli says there are some precedents, that the obama administration kdid it and the former homeland security secretary, jeh johnso...