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This, good evening, garrett. >> good evening to you. according to "the new york times" the health and human services is considering a much narrower gender, one determined by the genitals a person is born with. "means a persons status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth. listed on the first dome at birth certificate as originally issued shall constitute definitive proof of a persons confinement -- hhs is not commenting on what it calls an alleged...

Hhs was following a court order blocking anything related to gender at this point. thats where we stand on this. >> so a proposal, but at least its being considered at this point. may not look forward. lauren fox, thanks very much. >> thanks to you for joining me today. im jim sciutto. "at this hour" starts right now. hello, im erica hill in for kate bolduan on this monday. could be the smoking gun in a murder mystery that is getting less mysterious by the day. this is a new cnn exclusive were...

The trump administration revoked that and defining sex as male or female, unchangeable and determined by the genitals a person is born with. disputds clarified by genetic testing and could have an impact on an estimated 1.4 million americans who recognize themselves as a gender other than the one assigned at birth. joining us is justice department reporter katie benner, a reporter that broke this story. the administration didnt pull this out of thin air. theyre basing it on a 2016 ruling by a fe...

That was just word salad. >> so the health and human services when asked about this said everyone deserves to be treated with respect and hhs office for civil rights will continue to vigorously enforce all laws written and passed by congress. prohibitting discrimination on the base ifs race, krm, religion, national origin, and sex. do you feel legally that you have standing to be able to say if thats what hhs is saying then transgend are people are protected. >> no both. they believe they are sa...

Then. that was the record numbers. were about at a third record high this year. but the reason those existed was for a very temporary part. they only held them 30 days and got them out quickly. hhs says under those policies they couldnt be sure the children were going to a safe home and that there was a handful of people who came forward claiming to be parents when they werent. but i think a lot of advocates would tell you the majority of these parents are telling the truth and that the child sh...

Tent facilities existed under the obama administration primarily in 2014 when we saw an influx of children coming across the border like we do now. it was actually much higher then. that was the record numbers. were about at a third record high this year. but the reason those existed was for a very temporary part. they only held them 30 days and got them out quickly. hhs says under those policies they couldnt be sure the children were going to a safe home and that there was a handful of people w...

They dont have control. i will point out, some of these tent facilities existed under the obama administration primarily in 2014 when we saw an influx of children coming across the border like we do now. it was actually much higher then. that was the record numbers. were about at a third record high this year. but the reason those existed was for a very temporary part. they only held them 30 days and got them out quickly. hhs says under those policies they couldnt be sure the children were going...

And when i asked them how long they have been here, every single one i talked to, and we were limited in what we could ask and how much time we could spend with them. every single one i talked to said they have been here for more than a month. and immigrant advocates are saying thats too long. they should have already been released. so we went to the government officials who gave us a tour inside, cameras, by the way, not allowed. and we asked them, what is taking so long? why are these children...

Reporting. this isnt some outside group coming in. this is the inspector general? >> thats right. its their inspector general. every governmental agency has an inspector general that operates independently but they have full access to the data of that agency. to have your own inspector general come out with a report like this really shows that through an independent assessment with full access there were major problems here. and the big takeaway in this report is that they werent set up from the...

United states, markedly more expensive, that made them translate to hear and then you get job layoffs. we havent seen anything quite like that yet but the sentiment of one the best time to do it is when the economy is flexing major muscle and we have that now. >> bret: for illegal immigrants are among a people killed in a head-on crash on an arizona highway, and have been late yesterday. more than 120 miles north of the mexico border. not saying whether an suv involved in that coalition was part...