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Portion of the report on lack of dna sampling by customs and border patrol and it is, quote, the year 2017 ice took dna samples from approximately 3% of apprehended individuals while cvp took samples from fewer than 100 out of approximately 330,000 individuals they arrested or apprehended. that is essentially nothing. >> it borders on malfeasance. you have these people in custody, find out who you're dealing with. we had this happen in the 80s with an individual named ramirez who became known as the railway killer who was arrested and deported multiple times by border patrol and each time he c...

Alongside the americans during the korean war? >> we have a high confidence. so in the early '90s, the north koreans would repatriate unilaterally remains they had recovered. out of those 208 boxes or five years, we estimated after dna sampling 400 individuals. from that, 200 were americans. so the likelihood, are you correct, there may be some of u.n. sending force, some south korean soldier's remains as well as chinese and north korean, our laboratories, dna and forensic have the capability to differentiate shows remains over the course of the next several years. >> i think you mentioned you...

Next several years. when you look at what is at stake, we're going to be doing a lot of dna sampling. that's what dr. mcmahon's lab does. they process the samples and go into a mass database where they can be compared to other samples and compared to the family members. so it takes some time to get the samples processed through the lab and takes some time to get them into the mass comparison. once they're in there, we'll start looking for the quick identifications that can be made where you have compelling matches that showed themselves early on. we also look for comparisons to dental records ...

Over the coming months and maybe the next several years. when you look at what's at stake, we are going to be doing a lot of dna sampling. that's what the doctor's lab does. they process the samples and then they go into a mass database where they can be compared to all of the other simples that we generated from remains from north korea and compared to the family members. it takes some time to get the samples processed through the lab and it takes time to get them into the mass comparison, but once they are in there, we will start looking for the quick identifications that can be made where y...

Closure to so many families across the country. 55 sets of remains, some 7,000 plus were hopeful to get that we know of the amazing and the prisoners of war. what is the journey ahead like it how long do you think it will take? >> well, we have really a better way to put this, we have 55 boxes that have remains in them. we are not sure how many individuals this will turn out to be. in the past, we have received large numbers of boxes of remains from north korea, stretched over many years, and what we do is we use an extensive dna sampling, where we have teeth, we have systematic ways of doing ...