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We have held over two dozen hearings on some aspect of our unsecured border? i'm looking at producing peace legislation myself. a bunch of us are working on this. this is a problem we want to fix but we have to do root cause analysis. we can't look at just all the rhetoric around this thing. we have to look at facts and solve the problem which we have not done. one thing we have done is i go back and list about six or seven laws passed and then i list the number of people in the country illegally going from 3.5 million to 6 to 12 million people in the country illegally. we have never fixed the...

Now reports say they were beaten and left in solitary confinement under the obama administration. >> that's not accurate. i think if you remember there was a lot of discussion and a lot of concern about how undocumented people were treated under obama. but under obama there was not a policy that says that you are a mom with a little boy coming over we will grab that boy and put him into a detention center which will cause long term psychological problems for that kid. that was not the policy of the obama administration and must never be the policies of the united states of america. we have to ...

The goal of our policy literally ought to be to reduce that flow. we have history in terms of how to do this. the same problem was faced with brazilians flooding this country in 2005. started the operation texas hold em. they immediately apprehended and sent them home. next year it was 1,500. within three years it was less than a thousand. we learned if you apprehend and quickly process and return people it discourages further illegal immigration. we have been encouraging illegal immigration. >> is your committee going to hold hearings on the separation of 2,500 children from their parents? is...

Problem. the decision really initiated 1985 so this is just a huge problem. we don't have the capacity to handle all unaccompanied children and all family units that are flooding our border because a host of judicial decisions, legal precedent and laws i think well intentioned but have negative unintended consequences that have created these incentives for people to flood our border. this problem has been around for a long time. >> absolutely, the problem of illegal immigration has been around for decades. i'm referring to the policy of 100% family separation at the border taking kids from the...

Laws, don't resist. we are doing a far better job than bush and obama. we need strength and security at the border. cannot accept all people trying to break into the country. joining me now to respond is bernie sanders of vermont. thank you for joining us. you are in the minority and the senate and the house and you don't hold the white house when it comes to immigration. what is your side of the aisle willing to compromise on to have some sort of immigration reform? >> jake, i lost you. i'm not hearing anything. >> you can't hear me right now, senator? we are going to take a quick break and c...