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Heather: he gave the president a helmet as a thank you gift. he should have gotten that card and given it away. that would have been awesome. in a few hours acting dhs chief will urge congress to do its part to secure the border after mexico struck a deal with the us to stem the tide of illegal migrants. will congress finally step up? brandon judd joins me with more. what should he say to congress? >> the main message is we are putting vulnerable women and children in the hands of cartels. our lacks laws, lacks policies. if they want to protect these women and children they will do what they n...

Dhs chief. >> with 5 kids the died, 5000 separated. the evidence is clear this is intentional. it is intentional. it is a policy choice made on purpose by this administration and it is cruel and inhumane. >> that is an appalling accusation, we work hard to protect people in custody every day. >> reporter: the comments during the hearing of the house homeland security committee so incendiary they were taken down from the record. members of the 2020 democratic field trying to score political points off the tragedy. elizabeth warren stating, quote, congress and republicans, the steps you are taki...

President would approve the request to begin with. the uss lincoln is already deployed to the persian gulf. officials say it's present is working to deter attacks. a fire exchange on capitol hill, freshman democrat lauren underwood calling migrant child deaths in the us custody and intentional policy at the border. that accusation coming as we learn the sixth child died in us custody last year. todd pyro joins us. 2020 democrats trying to score political points off of the tragedy. shannon: was a child a tragedy whenever it happens but that didn't stop democratic congresswoman lauren underwood ...

Asylum seekers from central america arriving at the southern border to claim their legal right to humanitarian relief and our government is not prepared to process them, hold them and determine ultimately whether or not they will receive asylum. the second problem goes to credibility. we have this president in large part because he campaigned about what he sees as the scourge of illegal immigration and repeatedly references undocumented people as being dangerous criminals, the caravan as a threat. what we see, secretary nielsen doing in my view some damage control, when she testified before co...

That americans could go down to help reform their communities to held build up their communities and make them stronger is that they would be safe when they live, you know, in these parts of central america. >> we have our own issue ors here in our country. a ton of money. we have plenty of them our defense secretary james mattis is at our southern border in texas today 7,000 troops as we know have been dispatched to the border. he's going to review things as well. amid fact with a number of stories floating arranged that it sounds like after midterms shakeup in administration and, in fact, th...