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In october that essentially said they welcomed the investigation and had been working to make sure that everything was on the up and up. pamela, a source who is familiar with actions that were taken due to this situation tells us that two staffers were fired as a result and also other disciplinary measures were taken afterward dealing strictly with this >> what else is the government saying about this investigation? >> so to be honest, pamela, not a whole lot. we did get a statement actually abo...

Advisor to health and human services secretary alex azar is leading the fight at hhs. >> we have lost more lives due to drugs then we have lost in our modern wars combined. >> to combat the crisis, agencies like the department of health and human services and the justice department are implementing new and creative policies to fight the scourge. doj has proposed decreasing manufacturing quotas for opioid production in 2019. hhs has $10 billion and a five-point plan to attack the problem which th...

Hospitals lack basic supplies. things like blood pressure medicine and cancer drugs are impossible for average people. the average venezuelan has lost 20 pounds. how could you mess up a country that was so prosperous, so badly. >> paul: the answer is socialism. kate? >> i think what is the trumps administrations worst policy move this year, its an hhs rule that would basically look at tethering what we pay for certain drugs to what other countries pay. and paul, i thin i think what tt tells inve...

Approved. that wouldnd be i think a bad me for the u.s. economy but it might help him get things done. >> i think one thing we should cite on the upside is people talk all the time about the swap in washington, -- the swamp in washington. that includes the bureaucracies. for the past year, a lot of president trumps appointees across the bureaucracies have continued to enact deregulation -- deregulatory activities, some of which are in progress, some of which theyve accomplished. hhs, they remove...

Conclusions they came to was that the government was completely unprepared to deal with all of the sort of consequential issues that followed from bringing children across the border. and they didnt specifically at the time look at medical care for the children, but it should come as no surprise given the extent to which all different parts of the government, from hhs to the border patrol to dhs, they just werent ready for it. and this is what you get when you make consequential policy decisions...

As the american people learned that asylum claims are up 1700% over the past eight years, when they learned that 12,000 kids have come here unaccompanied and they are being held in in the e of hhs because they are coming without their parents to try to get into this country, when they hear all the things that are happening, that there are 800,000 cases right now pending in our courts for these asylum claims, they go, this is a crisis. this is ridiculous. the president is coming to the table with...

Asn the american people learn that asylum claims are up 1700% over the past eight years, when they learned that 12,000 kids have come here unaccompanied and they are being held in the carea of hhs because they are coming without their parents to try to get into this country, when they hear all the things that are happening, that there are 800,000 cases right now pending in our courts for these asylum claims, they go, this is a crisis.. this is ridiculous. the president is coming to the table wit...

As far as calling it a fence, which that word is not what his conservative base wants to hear, but you have to look at this. if you have a wall, however high, it is one thing for adults to somehow figure out a way to scale over it, you cannot scale a wall as a child. it would keep children out of the country. once they get here, what are we doing to properly handle these children were being detained for too long? that is the biggest issues, because the court cases take a long time whether you ar...

To the devastating tale, story of a little boy from guatemala who guide on christmas eve in the custody of customs and border protection. what can you tell us? >> reporter: weal, we hall, we detailed timeline from cpb down there letting us know how it happened. of course, it is a tragedy and as you mentioned earlier we dont want to necessarily bring the two issues together because totally complete and separate issues. what is clear on the border that they werent prepared for this number of migra...

Deaths in cpb custody at all and there could be more health risk associated with that. >> do we know the resources theyre putting into all of this and changing the procedures? we know that the girl died of septic shock and reported last week. so its interesting to hear that they sent this little boy home considering the news of the death of this young girl really a week or so it seems before. >> yeah. thats true. there are a lot of details that have to be ironed out. they reached out to the coas...