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Care for juveniles in their custody and provided these monitors all along. they also added, kate, theyve been transparent this whole time. theyve been transparent in calling for more funding, 4.are $5 billion for emergency funding theyre asking for, for congress to resolve, they say, what is currently an overwhelming crisis at the border. kate? >> nick, let me quickly ask you -- i hope i didnt miss it. sorry if i did. why are these kids, 100 of them, being moved back into the facility? >> so it ...

Held at a customs and border protections agency in clint, texas. these charn will be shifted into its shelter system by today. this comes days after cnn roshted on a team of lawyers, doctors and advocates warning of what they called major health and hygiene problems at that clint facility. our jay tapper asked vice president pence about those conditions. pence quickly pivoted to politics. as of june 10th there was a 60% increase from dhs to hhs. we are counting down to the first democratic deb...

♪ >> laura: as we told you at the top of the show, fox news reporting to the democrats are bulking at the supplemental border request $4.5 billion. so let me get this straight, they claim president trump is making this crisis worse. yet they will not step up to fix the facilities and actually pay for beds for children. joining me now exclusively on this and huge breaking news today, transparency for prescription drugs. secretary alex lazar, thank you for being here tonight. your response to to...

For nearly 250 migrant children held at the customs and border protection facility in clint, mexico. jake tapper asked vice president p pence. we have known give toothpaste, soap, blankets we would. >> of course we do. >> why arent we? >> my point is, its all a part of the appropriations process. congress needs to provide additional support to deal with the crisis at the southern border. >> as of june 10th, more than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been transferred from dhs to hhs. thats a ...

Course of these last few days, i feel like americas moral conscience has been hit again by this and that people are worked up and upset about this. do you foresee that people are going to be out protesting at these facilities again? i mean, i know you helped lead protests at tornillo when we first learned kids were being taken there. i know that in el paso, there has been marches in support, demonstrations. do you think thats where this is going? >> i do, and i have to tell you, we need to susta...

Actually doing that? we cant believe you have the courage to take on special interest. >> laura: u.s. chamber of commerce -- congress, this is an ad they ran against you, alex, watch this. >> in america government doesnt set government prices or block to life-saving drugs because a bureaucrat decides its not worth the price. but that is exactly what happens in any foreign countries and the department of health and human services want to impose the failed foreign price on medicare. >> laura: it i...

Its not so much with the border patrol, its really with orr not coming and getting these kids and giving them to their parents immediately. >> so this is key. youre saying the office of refugee resettlement, which is under the department -- under hhs and notoriously was part of the bureaucracy that oversaw child separation, that they are essentially just allowing these children to languish in these facilities? >> right. and i dont want to say that theyre allowing them to languish because thats n...

♪ >> laura: as we told you at the top of the show, fox news reporting to the democrats are balking at the supplemental border request $4.5 billion. so let me get this straight they claim president trump is making this crisis worse. yet they will not step up to fix the facilities and actually pay for beds for children.. joining me now exclusively on this and huge breaking newsow today, transparency for prescription drugs..r secretary alex azar, thank you for being here tonight. your response to...

The border by herself. what do you do with her? give her to hhs him we take care of her in a shelter. we are full and running out of money.h we need this money to take care of these kids periods >> laura: 72 hours transferr hhs facilities but there is no facilities.. >> alex: i cant put a kid in2 a bed that does not exist and i cannot make a bed the government doesnt fund. >> laura: over the weekend check it out. >> if hhs needs $3 billion to improve the conditions to build more housing, wouldnt...

That he does, things that he does on everything. we saw it with tariffs with mexico. weve seen it with other situations across the world. hell come up, put a hard ask, tough thing that hes going to do, pull back and try to claim victory, whether its a victory for him or not. >> just tonight, hhs says some 249 children will be moved out of an overcrowded border facility in clint, texas. i mean, this comes after lawyers visiting the facility flagged reported unsanitary conditions like a lack of so...