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And they're all on concrete floors in cages. there's just no other way to describe it. >> all of this coming after the donald trump administrati trump administration releases a plan to reunite servve severed families. white house correspondent boris sanchez is at the white house with the latest from the president on this. there is some mixed messaging still. on one hand the president reversing the practice of separating families, but still intensifying his rhetoric. >> reporter: the president in his speech to the republican nevada convention specifically mentioned a hint as to why he's continu...

He's quoting a staffer in washington, d.c. "you do the small talk thing and you have a very good conversation. and then they might say, you didn't vote for trump, right? she says. as soon as i say, of course i did, it just devolves into an all-caps how could you be such a racist and a bigot?" i lived in washington, d.c. for the better part of a decade. it is the place where if it is not the first question, it is the second question, where do you work or who do you work for. has the response changed? do you sense a reluctance among those who work for the administrati administration? >> absolute...

Courage to take care of it. but we're going to take a few days it. it's been going on for a long time. >> 60 years certainly is a very long time. it's 60 years. it's a whole lot longer than 3 1/2 months, all of it during his administrati that this has actually been going on. to be charitle, and to assume the president was talking about the underlying law, that's only been around for ten years and was never enforced this way until now. it's hard to see exactly what he meant. now there's the breaking news i mentioned at the top of the broadcast that the executive order that the president signed ...

Provides conditional legal status and a path to citizenship for people who came to the u.s. without documentation as children. it also bars the separation of kids from their parents or legal guardian at the border. in exchange, $25 billion would be allocated for the construction of a wall along the southern u.s. border. it would also replace the current diversity visa lottery system with a new merit based visa program. the bill's major caveat though, the measure ties visas to money spend on border security. if funding is suddenly blocked by future legislation after the proposed bill is hypothe...

These laws are the same that have been on the books for over a decade and the president is simply enforcing them. >> i don't understand it. some republicans are distancing themselves from the administrati administration's policy. >> what i'm making a request to the white house on is keep families together as much as we can possibly keep families together for as long as we can possibly keep them together. >> speaker, are you comfortable with the current zero tolerance policy leading to parents and children being separated at the border? >> no, i'm not. we don't want kids being separated from th...