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Anybody. they show up at a port of entry. thats the law. you show up at the port of entry. you claim asylum. you get in the door. you cant show up in the middle of the desert. its against the law. >> the problem that we have -- >> all right, dave, back to van. >> the problem that we have is that people who were doing it the way that you said, people who were not breaking our law, but who were following our law wound up in the exact same situation and their babies were taken too. hey, listen, we ...

>> we have a plan to do that. we do have the back end. hhs reuniting as quickly as we can. >> keeping them honest, her answer seemed to refer to current procedures, which require parents to call government hotlines to locate their kids. she also appeared to be referring to the thousands of unaccompanied minors in custody, not the recently separated 2,300 kids. as for them, weve gotten no clear plan nor apparently has the department of health and human services. a spokesperson telling cnn they ar...

Thats the law. you show up at the port of entry. you claim asylum. you cant show up in the middle of the desert. its against the law. >> back to van. >> the problem that we have is that people who were doing it the way that you said, people who were not breaking our law, but were following our law, wound up in the exact same situation and their babies were taken too. listen, we have a major problem now because inside that building, inside the white house, there seems to be a tug of war, some kin...

And mexico border. authorities trying and failing to provide guidance on implementation. what will happen to the 2,300 children separated from parents now in shelters all over the country? no one seems to know for sure. >> the president says zero tolerance is still in place, but e-mail traffic obtained by cnn shows the policy has effectively been curtailed for now. i.c.e. has instructed field offices to stop separation practices for now. >> and preparing up to house 20,000 unaccompanied children...

You and your family during the mid to late 194s. h . >> these were not japanese internment camps. these were japanese-american prison camps. >> of course. >> right. so its -- stays with me today. im 74 years old. its been a life-long process dealing with the trauma of being incarcerated with my mother and father in the prison camp. >> forgive me for misspeaking there. i want to just ask you about the magnitude of what we are seeing today, the circumstances are in some ways different but you look...

Detentions and prosecutions? thats an open question. i think were going to see some of the folks you mentioned scramble for the business. >> its not just the not for forecasts getting in on the business. you have defense contractors like general dynamics making their presence felt. how potentially dangerous is it for defense contractors to be tasked with operating private prisons? especially detention centers that have kids in them? some toddlers, babies? >> yeah. i mean, i think we should alway...

Technically right now as we understand it is in charge of most of these kids told cnn theyre quote awaiting further guidance on the implementation of the executive order. as i said. so theyre awaiting the implementation. who is going to give them that guidance? >> the white house should. theres a national security staff and a homeland security staff. theres a new homeland security adviser. this is a complicated issue and its requiring not just hhs, dhs, dod, all the acronyms we talk about, but s...

Attorneys here in south texas definitely want an answer to that question that theres still not clarification on. some of the attorneys traveled here to the federal courthouse in mcallen and said they witnessed something they havent seen since the implementation of this policy, a u.s. attorney not filing charges against the families crossing did border illegally. in a trump era of zero tolerance, these are among the first parents to be spared. a group of 17 undocumented immigrants of central amer...

Through the policy and the implementation and so here we are with just a lot of questions and a white house trying to backtrack very quickly. >> mark, if the federal courts as widely expected reject the trump administrations argument to allow the migrant children to remain in detention with their parents for more than 20 days, what happens then? if the courts reject this request from the administration. >> well, let me just pick up on the thread that abby started there. the bottom line is we don...

Children. >> its not who we are. >> it is not who we are, but it is who this president is. and thats why we are so angry about this. this is going to get worse. because journalists are going to ensure we continue to followhe story. the next step is implementation. which they dont have. they dont have a plan. this was a knee jerk reaction based on the presidents own decisionmaking yesterday. where are the recessions? when is the policy going to change? if it does where are the resources to change...