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And a -- a tight district, was just on my show saying i don't like this. the politics seem to be point ago way from the white house. what do you think? >> chris, no one has more actual experience of this issue than people who live in the border states. people who have been living in texas for decades have seen versions of this for decades and they know that the world doesn't come to an end if you release a parent and a child instead of putting them into custody. as we're doing now for the first time. and so there is no surprise that people in border states like texas would be reacting against ...

Do you think the people showing up here bedraggaled having traveled 1,000 miles are coming to "infest the united states"? >> most are coming to try to improve their quality of life. if you violate the law there should be consequences. when people are in our custody, we should treat them humanely and respectively. this is a symptom of a broken immigration system. in a broken system, you shouldn't be resorting to kids and your previous segment, somebody was asking a bunch of questions. some of the questions i have, what were some of the taurls being discussed versus this current policy? how does...

>> chris, no one has more actual experience of this issue than people who live in the border states. people who have been living in texas for decades have seen versions of this for decades and they know that the world doesn't come to an end if you release a parent and a child instead of putting them into custody. as we're doing now for the first time. and so there is no surprise that people in border states like texas would be reacting against this. >> there is also a sort of question here about what -- is there a breaking point. everyone keeps looking for the breaking point and a question abo...

Not. nobody is suffering. no, they're not. then you try to find the data on people's insurance and hhs doesn't give it to you. >> i think that's where we are. i think we really are in a place where they're going to scrub the data. they're scrubbing websites now. and it's really a challenge. i mean i know a lot of academics and others who are working to preserve the data that they already have. i mean there's a robust community studying the aca and they know -- they know what the numbers are now. but it's going to be on us to go out and report and find the people who lost their coverage and rep...

Conferences that cost $100,000 or more. they actually have more conferences than that. and hhs actually spent $56 million on conferences alone in 2012. >> it's stunning, though. if you look at four conferences, if you sort of the inspector general looks at four of them and finds 100% mistakes, they have 136 more at over $100,000 a year a conference, and nobody is going to bother to look at those? >> right, exactly. you can only imagine that there is similar waste in all of the other conferences. and keep in mind that this was two years ago. so there was, you know, two years of additional confe...