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surrounding former president donald trump. why a grand jury could soon hear from former vice president mike pence. also, our exclusive interview with the leaders of three powerful congressional caucuses, the first time the three have sat down for an interview together. >> we stand in unity together. i think that is the power of the tricaucus, the power of us is being able to stand together, to make change, and to be there to support each other. but first, the breaking news, a secon...

Like as we can. new details are emerging about the living conditions at a border patrol facility that houses minors in clint, texas. according to the "new york times," quote, children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants theyve just met, toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants, teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk. most of the young detainees have not been able to shower or wash their ...

It hostage? >> well, the thing is theyre being used by very bad people on the other side -- >> but politically used. >> money is being made using them because our laws are so bad. because if you have a child, you have an advantage. you know that better than anybody. if the democrats would change the asylum laws and the loopholes, which they refuse to do because they think its good politics, everything would be solved immediately. but they refuse to do it. >> julia ainsley, let me bring you in he...

The other team members are mostly mandatory reporters. if we saw this in a persons house or another facility, we would be obligated to report these caregivers for child abuse and neglect. these children are hungry, they are sick, theyre being locked up, they literally -- we have as many as 300 children locked up in a warehouse with no windows. it is insane. its something that youd never imagine to see in our country. >> what is your sense of where these children are coming from, how theyre getti...

These other family members as well. however, we absolutely positively did see children separated from their parents in this facility, including one little girl who was separated from both her mother, her father, and her younger sibling. its totally unacceptable and its severely traumatizing these children. >> did they give a reason for that separation? was it that this parent had done anything more than just cross the border illegally, like so many other parents do? >> no, the process that we co...

Neglected. its critical people conduct their congress person and demand adequate oversight over this, and that these children be removed from this facility and all border patrol facilities immediately. talking about theme being overwhelmed, we are nowhere near the height in immigration that weve seen in recent decades. so its not really a problem with the numbers coming across is border, its a mar -- an issue of mismanagement by this administration. they are paying $775 per day to put these chil...

They can be placed in a safe home with their parents or another family member or another adult whos authorized by the parents to take care of their children in the united states, which is whats required under the law of flores. >> so the president was asked about these conditions at this facility. lets play what he had to say about it. >> what weve done is weve created -- weve ended separation. you know, under president obama you had separation. i was the one that ended it. i said one thing. whe...

The parents ourselves right there in the conference room and talk to them. they would come and pick up their kids that day if the government would simply release them to their families. they would pay for the children to be put on flights so that they can be in the safe and loving homes that these families have created for their children. and theres really no explanation as to why the government is holding these children in these warehouses, in these cells that are not intended for children at a...

Him with the flu. they gave him tamiflu, then he was transferred. 24 hours later, they found him unresponsive. the 16-year-old had died. alisyn, again, like you said, this is the fifth child from guatemala to die after being in u.s. custody in just the past six months. of course, everyone remembers that 7-year-old girl, that 8-year-old boy, both who died of complications of sepsis last year. last month, a 16-year-old died in a hospital after arriving in an orr facility. last week, a 2-year-old c...