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Kwhildn are, the stench of the clothing was so strong it spread to the agents own children. they cried constantly. one girl seemed likely enough to try to kill herself that the agents made her sleep on a caught in front of them while they processed new arrivals. i know youre not happy with these conditions either. but do we need stop it and how? >> and thats age nnts telling e "new york times" reporters. they shouldnt hold anybody for any length of time, let alone children. we should be handling...

Leland: the conversation though he said he did not think the president was acting in good faith and one of the solutions he said he felt as though set republicans thought that this was better as an election wedge issue than it is to something to get salt or feather in your cap for getting it solved. you think its true on the other side with democrats as well? >> look, its also the case on the other side. you cant vote against funding to give to hhs and i.c.e. and border patrol to deal with the p...

By making them go through agony. this is not america. it needs to stop, period. >> jacob soboroff. >> respectively, to both the senator and the congressman, both of you served when these facilities were already in place. in 2014, president obama had a surge of unaccompanied migrant children in facilities just like this and we saw pictures just like this. so, these conditions are not new. i do agree with, senator boxer, president trump has made this worse than ever before. congressman curbelo, i ...

But children are coming because they cant be detained more than 72 hours and the sponsors or give it to hhs. so if they want to expand who they cant detained, what do you think will happen? you think there is a crisis now, hold on tight because it will get worse. >> the the bond you cannot hold them more than seven days. do we have the facility? looking at some of the facility which i will get to in a moment, do we have the facility to hold this volume of people? or do we want to release everyth...

Buy to get more hhs beds to house families to have the proper facilities but congress will not do nothing about the crisis. and part of the backup. you dont have ice or hhs with the facilities to house the families and the children, court order by law have to be housed separately and make comfortable. >> gunther: we were never prepared to jump from 500 to 5,000. but that is not new. this has been going on for a year. president trump has been told over and over by immigration attorneys and judges...

72 hours and the sponsors or give it to hhs. so if they want to expand who e they cant detain, what do you think will happen? you think there is a crisis now hold on tight because it will get worse. >> the bond you cannot hold them more than seven days. do we have the facility? looking at some of the facility which i will get to in a moment do we have the facility to hold this volume of people? or do we want to release everything if it is a seven-day retainer? >> the capability of detention fund...

House families to have the proper facilities but congress will not do nothing about the crisis. >> isnt that part of the backup. you dont have ice or hhs with the facilities to house the families and the children, court order by law have to be housed separately and make comfortable. >> gunther: we were never prepared to jump from 500 to 5,000. but that is not new. this has been going on for a year. president trump has been told over and over by immigration attorneys and judges to provide more re...

On their own volition and we have nowhere to put them. dan crenshaw, a texas republican, said this about why we are at where we are at right now. >> they fought us tooth and nail against that $4.5 billion of hiewmplet aid that the president needed, that dhs needed that hhs needed in order to better conditions at these facilities. they fought us for months on this. they said there was no crisis. we asked for a vote in the house 17 times. they refused to do it. dont talk about what the actual prob...

Overwhelmed and they have been for many months. >> so when the president tweets words, what hes saying, is he wrong? >> hes saying that this is -- the situation is bad. hes been talking about this crisis for weeks and weeks. for a long time people ignored it. people who could do something about it and ignored it -- >> well when he said many of the illegal ale yep -- aliens are living better now than -- >> they are just processed and move down the road. all of the people that came with children a...

Children in border protection in facilities just like this. as of yesterday there was only a couple of hundred and theyve been moved to facilities that are operated by hhs in other areas, not just at the southwest border but across the country. it doesnt mean that the facilities are getting any better, it means that the children for now have been moved out in large part at lea, at le according to what julia has learned from cdp. >> i thought at one point a baby was being held in a place that was...