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More about this 15-year-old and some of the other incidents that were in these incident reports. >> she was a young woman, 15 at the time. shes 16 now. and once she was transferred from the border patrol station, she sat down with a case manager, not immediately, but weeks after she was in hhs custody and decided she wanted to tell her story. you read the sickening details about what she alleges happened to her in border patrol custody. and dhs has said theyre inspecting this incident. and it ce...

Southern border, to partner with us, thats clearly having an impact on the flow. >> in terms of how you are keeping these people, what will you tell us about what the breakdowns are, how many kids, how many unaccompanied minors. how are you doing in terms of being able to keep them to the standard of care that this country expects. >> the effort with mexico has made a real impact in the last four weeks, as has the supplemental, which youve been covering from the beginning. our requests on may 1s...

On what the senate send us, and that was unacceptable. i would hardly call that a breach that rivals what the freedom caucus represents. there is no motion on the democratic side to vacate the chair and threaten the speaker. that happened twice both to boehner and ryan on the republican side. they had their hands full with a very unstable majority. our majority has fractures and differences, but its a healthy kind of debate. and its not unstable at all. >> can i ask you a final question? u.s. cu...

Accounts of border agents allegedly mistreating, punishing, even abusing kids at an overcrowded facility in yuma, arizona. one 15-year-old girl alleges she was sexually assaulted. jacob soboroff broke this story for nbc and hes been at front of this story from the start. jacob, tell us what you found. >> its pretty horrific. weve heard all these reports of what was going on in texas and for the first time weve heard what happened inside an arizona border patrol station. many of the issues we hea...

He made those comments. and you know, he called the deal indefensible. and i just dont think hell be around. you look at all these people. there was mattis. there was sessions. there was tillerson. there was priebus. there was comey. now price, the secretary of hhs. theyve all kind of come and gone. this is a lot more of a serious matter. so i think hell be gone. ive been a little surprised at why some of these republican senators are kind of saying, well, you know -- it doesnt make any sense to...

We also went into a classroom where children were being taught english. the girls were singing along to a song. i noticed the pledge of allegiance both in english and spanish on the wall there in the facility. but again, right now the children here, it costs about 7$750 to $800 per day to keep te children here. and what i should mention, there really seems to be a disconnect between officials with hhs and the department of homeland security. as you know first they are taking into custody, proces...

Way that it was intended, namely, to alleviate the situation of overcrowding and improving facilities on the border, and secondly, and very important, beef up the money thats given to hhs so that they can place these children in long-term suitable shelters and get them the heck out of these temporary detention facilities on the border. they have no business being there in the first place. >> in fairness to these border patrol agents are not trained to do child welfare. >> and thats why weve prov...

Boys complaining that their water tasted like chlorine and their food was inedible. >> it speaks to cruelty and abuse really, julia, if these allegations are correct. tell us what cpp is saying and how this has been reported up the chain or not. >> youre right. the first thing to realize is that we are just now finding out about this, thanks to these documents weve been able to obtain. but the government has known about this starting in april. >> is it hhs that documented it? >> hhs documents th...

Reviews. and the conditions, underlying conditions you also reported on and you heard congressman gaetz comment about april. april numbers were similar to the june numbers. may blew both of those months away. the only advantage we have now is that with the supplemental appropriation that went through last month the situation, particularly with respect to children, has been eased because of the money made available to hhs to reduce the pressure on retention of children. so we went from 2,500 kids...

Going on. >> well, but there is very little that can be done about the raw numbers on our side except to process them as quickly as we can and the border patrol became -- has gotten a lot of attention in this regard but realized why those people stay in border patrol facilities that are not designed for as many people as they have seen during 2019 and that is the next stage in the pipeline which is i.c.e., their beds are over subscribed already and in the case of children hhs didnt have enough b...