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To that? >> i'm sure there are positives in all of this. i'm sure there are a lot of good hearted and well meaning people who obliged to work in this terrible mess that the trump policy has created. but that doesn't make the sounds recorded of children crying go away. that doesn't make the allegations of child abuse in these facilities go away. that certainly doesn't make the image of children in cages go away. >> senator, yesterday you repeatedly asked the panel in front of you what went wrong. you failed to get any real answers, honest answers from anyone other than commander white. is part ...

Because you wouldn't send your children there. i'll answer for her. people as you said, in your words, ma'am, you said people would prefer to be free. you don't take children and imprison them and think that a soccer field or a basketball court is going to replace their parents or their family. are you idiots running this country? you seem like child abusers to me. you seem like people who kidnap children and make excuses for holding them indefinitely, deporting their families and then saying it's like a summer camp. this is insane. this is insanity. >> you know, mika, the difference between a...

Border, the little boy who never knew if he would see his mom again but thought she was looking for him who is 10 years old and his mom flees honduras because she's domestically abused, he didn't like being at that alleged summer camp. he wanted to be back with his mom. >> i would think so. >> so senator, let me ask you, 711 children, that's basically 711 amber alerts with these children spread across the country, if you called today to the agency involved here, could they tell you today where each of those children are in terms of location? >> i think they know where the kids are but they don...

What about all those parents who have been deported without their kids? they need to be reunited. >> when you look at those -- the latest numbers, it's more than 700 children are in government custody. the government says, the families were ineligible to be reunified for various reasons. what happens to the 711 kids? >> the judge has made absolutely clear he wants them reunited. what he has said is by thursday, we need to de-- >> this thursday? >> the government needs to give them a plan about what information they will give us to track down those families who have been deported. the governmen...

The government is at fault for losing several hundred parents in the process. that's where we go now. here is the latest that we know. the government says it reunited more than 1,400 families with kids age 5 and older. 711 children taken from their parents are still in government custody. 431 of those are children whose parents have already been deported. the government acknowledges that. joining me to discuss is lee geller. he is with the aclu leading the lawsuit over the separations at the border. thank you for coming in again. the government says as of last week that the deadline was met in...