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Emergency declaration. he can do it. >> that is short term and band-aid solutions and he's trying to put it at least in the public discussion a long-term solution -- >> i'm fine with that. >> to rally support. >> but that long-term solution doesn't address the detention issue, which is what chris is talking about is the emergency. >> you're right. >> that's the whole point. eliminating diversity visas is not an emergency. dealing with the fact that people are -- >> look, folks -- >> low skilled versus high skilled and focussing on high skilled is not an emergency. making sure that veterans and...

Food and help, you're saying let's fix the levees. >> chris, the long-term solutions -- the long-term solutions all have to come through congress. they do. whether it's money -- >> why not do what they're asking them to do through the emergency declaration. he can do it. >> that is short term and band-aid solutions and he's trying to put it at least in the public discussion a long-term solution -- >> i'm fine with that. >> to rally support. >> but that long-term solution doesn't address the detention issue, which is what chris is talking about is the emergency. >> you're right. >> that's the w...

But let me tell what you i think about your zero-tolerance border policy when it comes to little children. when these two 7-year-olds died, they were in the custody of the united states. this was not a border issue. this was ha detention issue. why are we not making sure that those that we detain, whether i agree with the detention or others do or not, have medical care, checkup to see if there is any existing condition they bring to the country that should be treated? why are we acting as though children are expendable to the policies of democrats or republicans? they're children. they were b...

>> detention issue, many folks, so many activist attorneys and judges, you cannot detain folks too long because it is inhumane. and asylum process can take up to years in some cases so there has got to be something that can be done to speed it up. to get these folks get the asylum they deserve or not. shannon: migrants crossing the border illegally cannot apply for asylum, illegal entrants will be placed into expedited deportation proceedings and only claims accepted i once filed it legal ports of entry and let's look at the stats according to dhs and ap, 568% increase

Inhumane. they want them to think it's part of a bigger issue, but clearly, this is something that could be fixed right now if they wanted to. >> and i think we need to remember, wochl tharks the president is the one who could fix it. this doesn't have to be done by congress. congress can address the detention issue by overturning the judge's ruling that families should be separated, but the president could address the issue with one pau phone call and he's trying to pass the buck off the konz because he sees what this has become. >> he clearly doesn't want to make phone call. not yet. thank y...