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Received from the intelligence committee, from all of those who have come in in public and testified to be able to say to us and the american public, here is how were starting, here is what were doing. >> the intelligence committee and their inquiry and everything they did and now moving on to the judiciary, this is definitely, they have presented i think very clearly what this president did and why he needs to be impeached. >> all right. just some of the interview that i had at the top of the h...

Starting to hear that from the hispanic caucus, a lot of people saying hey, why is it that there is no -- nothing here? >> sandra: this is the higher-ups, where you just mention the congressional black caucus, hispanic caucus. they were very upset with cheri bustos. they did not see diversity represented in the campaign arm of the party. >> right, so the question is is this something that is debilitating? they said youve got to have this thing running in full gear, given that we are so close. >>...

Give you pause. does the investigation run its course. >> if you see the full body of evidence, youll see he was harassed. they threw head phones at one of his security folks. so really these young men were harassed and pushed to the precipice and they reacted. not only they reacted, but they reacted after they were harassed. so we want fairness. we dont want any special treatment. we want all three young men -- i believe they are innocent. and they should be back home. >> you vouch to keep figh...

You think that all of the parties here need to do? >> well, i think what would be advisable is for everyone to take a step back and reconvene. i mean our caucus is a big tent caucus. we have blue dogs and we have new dems and we have progressives and then we have the black caucus and hispanic caucus. then there are subsets among all of these groups. and so i think weve got to refocus ourselves on maintaining a majority and making sure that the principles that we espouse are being protected. affo...

Decriminalization. as far as other immigration issues go, the hispanic caucus was very upset with president obama for not allowing undocumented immigrants to be part of the affordable air contacare act to be able to sign up under it and we saw them say undocumented immigrants should have access to a medicare for all plan or for another healthcare plan that would take the place of aca eventually. so all these issues are going to be big in the primary. in the general election, i think whoever the ...

Able to control it, hes actually broken down our whole system. >> i want to go back to something you have just said a few moments ago recording the vice president -- former vice president. did you guys in that room take him to task on the deportation policy under the obama administration? >> we certainly did. look, we were very honest -- >> why? >> excuse me? why? >> yeah. >> because its our job as members the hispanic caucus to keep ourselves honest as well as anybody else, especially any futur...

Outrage over the controversy at the southern border. there was outrage after a private post to a facebook group associated with customs and border enforcement members came to light. cnn has now discovered another facebook group with ties to cbp that just like the first includes vulgar and sexually explicit posts about migrants and some members of congress. awkwardly, this came as members of the democratic hispanic caucus toured two texas border facilities this week and called the conditions at t...

Demoralizing, not treating them as human beings. we have not independently verified that -- >> they havent denied td. >> they say it goes against their norms. what ill say based on the reporting weve done where customs and border protection agents talk to inspectors, it sounds like theyre doing all they can in these incredibly tough situations. now, they talk about how some are having to buy food because theres no system to bring down food on a regular basis. they talk about being worried about ...

50 days. several complained they had not received their medication. joining me now, texas democratic congressman joaquin castro. is the chairman of the of the congressional hispanic caucus. thanks for being here today. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to start with the basics here. i think its hard for a lot of americans to wrap their heads around the idea that you as members of congress, regardless of what party you may belong to arent able to go into facilities our government is paying for a...

It was clear that the water was not running. there was a toilet but there was no running water for people to drink. in fact, one of the women said that she was told by an agent to drink water out of the toilet. >> there were protesters there with maga hats, so this has become obviously a political, you know, firestorm there at the border with these members of the hispanic caucus. the things that were said against some poispecific memberf congress were outrageous. >> well, what weve really been t...