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Basically set all of the minimum standards for detention. it did not have this 20 day rule. the 20 day rule only came into effect under president obama when they were challenging it. the judge stated that a child cannot be detained for more than 20 days. what happened is you have all of these illegal crossings, is gone up by 90 percent about 475,000 the first 10 months of this year. basically, what happened is it open up the floodgates. because after 20 days the families get released together. now we will have the family residential centers which are much different than what we are seeing on t...

Headline or end. kevin mcaleenan joins us exclusively live. mr. secretary, good morning to you. the new rule changes just announced, make them clear to us as we begin here. >> this is a significant step in increasing the integrity of our system and the core aspect of our crisis at the border which has been the arrival of family units and absolutely record numbers. through july we saw 475,000 family units which is more than three times any previous full year, arriving at our border in just ten months. they've been coming to exploit the vulnerability in our immigration framework that says if you...

Right now, acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan is announcing a new policy. this policy will overrule what is known as the flores settlement agreement. the new policy would allow for longer detention of migrant families at the southern border. joining me now, julia ainsley. what's going on? >> we evhave the settlement agreement, and that is the court ruling telling the administration they cannot hold children longer than 20 days. and that is with their parents. they said, we can hold the parents longer and separate the children out. now they're saying this is their way of keeping...

Eight minutes after the mueller hearings were gavelled to a close, the president's lawyers were in court filing an emergency writ to try to block his tax returns from being released. we've talked a number of times about, a, historical it is he kept his tax returns from public view. >> right. >> did you sense there may be more urgency around that issue now? certainly the white house seems more urgent about it. >> might well be. there's a historical parallel to that because in 1973, richard nixon, there was a leak from his taxes, showed he paid a thousand dollars in 1970, 1971, and so, therefore...

Unprecedented territory? >> not a bit. congress is now doing its job, which it should have been doing for the last two years. in 1973 richard nixon, there was a report that nixon had seriously underpaid his $1,000. each of those years. congress investigated. they found it was absolutely right. nixon had taken illegal tax deduction, backdating a gift of his vis presidential papers to the national archives. he owed $475,000 which he had to pay up, half of his net worth. in the process, nixon voluntarily gave his tax returns to congress so that they could track this down. >> and that relates to t...