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But just watch toward the end here when you can hear the discussion in the room and when it becomes clear that one of the things these members of congress are doing in the room is pressing the staff at this facility, this facility in el paso, advocating for these women who they've been interviewing, who they've been meeting with, and who need some very specific medical care they haven't been able to get. there, for example, is a discussion about a woman who has had medication taken away from her. some of the members of congress in this delegation said they spoke with a woman who had epilepsy w...

On his turf and playing to an image that he likes for his base? >> number one, i don't think we have any choice. he has a huge bullhorn, and so he's going to make this an issue. so i believe that we have to offer a compelling strong alternative. now, i've said that we can maintain border security, but what i'm betting is that there are enough people out there that know that we can do this a better way, and if he's going to proceed with a dark heart of cruelty then i want to proceed with a heart of compassion and common sense, and i'll tell you, about a year ago i was at the ursula processing c...

Facilities run by the trump administration in south texas in the rio grande valley. and, again, this comes right after the head of that agency and some senior official of border patrol went on the record with these public proclamations about these terribly unsubstantiated hysterical allegations and how they don't really believe anything is wrong in these facilities. well, here is their own department spelling it out, and remarkably including pictures of what exactly they're describing. start with just one of the five border patrol facilities they say they visited in south texas. this is the ft...

The u.s. government didn't used to get itself into, at least for this duration, because they didn't have the same kind of policies about holding on to people indefinitely. i mean, you can see these aren't facilities that are designed to hold people for any length of time at all. this is a pen basically, a concrete floor. and they're holding people in conditions just like this for weeks and months at a time. the inspector general's office has blurred out a lot of the faces in these pictures, but as you can see, this includes little kids being held in these conditions. including in one of those ...

This is weslaco, texas. which i think is the way you say it. it's in between mcallen and brownsville. and, again, this is in the middle of a normal american neighborhood. this facility is right next door to an olive garden and a longhorn steakhouse and there is a lowe's home improvement right there on the same side of the street, next to the local police station, across the street from a super 8 motel. and these are the conditions inside that facility in america. this is not like an overcrowded waiting room where people are parked for an hour or two before they're processed and moved on. this ...