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Current national security advisor, john boltons interaction with nationals, in eresponse to his appearance in a video. and secretary wilbur ross will testify. he is exelkted to be answer about his out loo is to add a controversial citizen question on the kenss. the hhs is an parent agency of the office of refugee resettlement, the ones who over saw the ripping away of thousand oz of migrant children away from their parents and had no means of reuniting them again. in the last count there are the...

Criminal history with a parent or guardian. this report was part of a two-week fact finding mission, collection of data where inspectors visited a total of 45 sites. here is what hhs is saying in response to the oig report. the effort undertaken by hhs was complex, fast moving and resource sensitive. oigs report provides a window into the herculean work of the hhs career staff to rapidly identify children in orr care who had been separated from their parents. we will potentially learn more at a ...

Homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen for lying to congress. and let me help people understand why. she said before congress on june 17th, 2018, we do not have a policy of separating families at the border. you were part of a group that released a memo that surfaced from inside homeland security which was a draft apparently that said separate family units -- separating family units announce the dhs is considering separating family units placing the adults in adult detention and the minors...

Criminal justice system, you are separating them from their children. and everyone in doj and dhs and hhs had to have known that and thought that through. thought through the implications of that. and so when my successor says there was no policy to separate kids, theres a bit of a semantic game going on there because that was the consequence of zero tolerance. everybody had to know that. >> and that consequence was outlined in these memos. >> correct. >> in 2017. >> which makes one believe that...

A newly released draft memo shows that as early as 2017, the trump administration had a plan to separate migrant children from their families at the u.s./mexico border. another watchdog reports that the trump administration has no idea how many kids were separated, but its thousands more than previously admitted. heres cnns nick valencia. >> reporter: the report is stunning. the hhs office of the inspector general found that the trump administration has no idea how many children were separated f...

Aware. if you remember, it was last summer that a federal judge ruled that there must be a unification, reunification deadline. cnn previously reported that children were still being separated after that deadline passed, but what we learned on thursday from this oig report is that there was a total of at least 118 children that were separated. they say mostly because of a criminal history with a parent or guardian. now, this report was part of a two-week fact-finding mission, a collection of dat...

Reports. they dont know where they are. its 10:00 p.m., do you know where your children are, you get the sense that hhs has no idea. >> it really is astonishing when we think, this is the type of action that had another government or another leader around the world engaged in this type of activity, they would be hauled before the world court under some type of charge of child trafficking or kidnapping. the government separated them with no plan for their reunification. then when the court ordere...

Looking at them as vulnerable human beings. this comes less than a day of another report from the office of the inspector general, hhs, saying the trump administration has no idea how many children that they separated under their zero-tolerance policy. its potentially that thousands others that the government didnt know about that were separated during that time. brooke? >> thank you so much for jumping on and getting us that news. coming up next, todays news about michael cohen tops off an as...

Went into place, an uptick in 2017. this did not occur previously under the obama administration, as trump has tried to say. its unclear why they were all separated. we asked today what the criminality was of their parents. was it simply that they were crossing illegally or was there something more? they said frankly hhs had very little information about what the parents did to cause this separati separation. as journalists we want more specifics. the most important thing, andrea, is we dont kno...

That america has a crisis of addiction and that putting the limited resources of our federal government into locking up people who suffer from a public health crisis is probably not the smartest use of taxpayer dollars. so if confirmed id ask that you take a look at the more recent perspective on the drug crisis that is afflicting our country and then ill move on. >> could i just say something in response to that? >> sure. >> i was just making the observation that the job of the department of ju...