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Agency in clint, texas. hhs says the children will be shifted into its shelter system by today. our jake tapper asked vice president mike pence about poor health conditions and pence pivoted to politics. >> would he have money to give toothpaste, soap and blankets to these kids in el paso county right now. dont we? >> of course we do. >> why arent we? >> my point is its all a part of the a appropriations policy. >> as of june 10th more than 52,000, 52,000 unaccompanied children have been transfe...

They are provided three square meals a day, snacks when we have funding from congress, they get recreation, full education services. >> laura: by the way do they have health and dental?ti >> alex: mental health dental, vision and by the way there is this false narrative h that somehow we are trying to keep these kids with us for a long period of time. our goal at hhs is to have these kids with us for zero days if wa could. we dont want any kids in their -- our care. we have actually decrease the...

Now hhs is now responding to that with a statement. i want to read that in part. quote, last week the office of refugee resettlement addressed shelters space in its 149 facilities, and these children should all be in hhs care as of tuesday, june 25th. and they conducted interviews with more than 30 children, and absolutely filthy, squalid conditions. some of these teenagers they interviewed hadnt showered in weeks. theres limited access to toothpaste, toothbrushes and soap. one woman said theres...

We had one family where the father, the mother and the sister were taken in one direction and this little girl, who was probably about second grade, was taken in another direction. she didnt want to go with the border patrol and she was very upset and her father came to her and said, honey, its okay, theyre going to take you to a place thats better for children and they, in fact, took her to the clint border patrol facility. so basically youve got children coming across the border with relatives...

Aocs want to use this as a political talking point rather than solving the problem. you have aoc calling hhs facilities and dhs facilities in them, concentration camps. but now when its getting $4.5 billion to fund the beds, get more diapers, that border patrol agents and hhs staff are trying to take care of. there are over. they dont want to vote for that, they want to talk about a "bigger situation." the fact is they dont want any kind of immigration enforcement or any kind of detention. they ...

Crisis at our border. largely of president trumps making. the idea hes not responsible for the conditions at the border and the ways in which children in custody of the american government are being treated, i think misses the core point here which is as president he is responsible for what happens in hhs and in cbp facilities and by their organization. that he said in a segment you just showed earlier this evening, he literally hasnt met and doesnt know the name of senior officials within the r...

About why you shouldnt put the kids in the facilities in the first place. >> just to make a quick point, the man we just saw speaking on fox is the one going to take over the system of sort of baby jails basically that theyre using because they cant process people out into the hhs system fast enough. so just today, the head of the acting head of customs and border patrol resigned. that guy is moving over to take the job. you see this huge amount of turnover even in the midst of this crisis. but ...

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 sustain that outrage. we need to sustain that sense of desperation because this is not changing. its not getting any better. part of what is happening thats so deeply troubling is that as -- as hhs, the health and human services agency, r...

Joining me now, nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez from outside that border patrol facility in client, texas. gabe, its an enormous deal these lawyers came forward and told these stories. they dont do that. you spoke to one of these lawyers that said they needed to given the conditions. what did you learn? >> reporter: hi, stephanie, good morning. these lawyers are starting to come out. these immigration advocates say these conditions are apaling. this facility is the border protection and pr...

Interest.e >> 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 many foreign countries and the department of health and human services want to impose the failed foreign price on medicare.hese >> laura: it is slick, a movie trailer of the secretary. the villain. i like the ones...