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dollars. all of this coming as the biden administration has pushed the kremlin to accept an offer they put on the table in june to get griner home. offering to swap griner and another american, paul whelan, for viktor bout, an arms smuggler serving a 25-year sentence in the united states. so far, russia has not agreed. >> they should have accepted it weeks ago when we first made it. it was an earnest attempt to see if we could get outcomes here. we are still going to keep making the attempts. >> reporter: as for where the efforts stand now, administration officials say the ball is in...

101 they teach you that in the first week. >> harris: you mentioned the white house and all of this and pushing back on the actual numbers of things. right now the white house is pushing back after that report that health and human services would be using taxpayer dollars to give crack pipes to drug addicts. let's watch this. >> hhs put out a statement clarifying around some of the reports that crack pipes are not going to be part of the safe smoking kits funded by the administration. were they never a part of the kit or were they removed in response to this pushback? >> they were never part o...

>> martha: fox news directing a tough line of questioning at the white house following reports of taxpayer-funded "crack pipes" in safe injection kits. are they or aren't that? what is the plan? watch this exchange. >> hhs put out a statement clarifying around some of the reports that crack pipes are part of the safe smoking kits funded by the administration. can you clarify for us, whether they never a part of the kit or were they removed in response to the push back and reporting?

Holding centers has been slow coming or non-existent. cal perry got a first look today at a facility. tell us what you saw. >> it wasn't shocking the conditions, which should be expected here in america. let's be clear about that. what we did see was fairly militaryized. it was equivalent to like a forward operating base you would see in american personnel putting out around the country. there were 22 tents. two tents for girls, 20 for boys. 20ities dmids each tent. they were walking around single file as their group coordinates theirent the. there was some astro turf out where kids could play...

>> if you are smuggling a child then we will prosecute you. and that child may be separated from you as required by law. we don't want to separate families, but we don't want families to come to the border illegally. >> every law enforcement agency in this country separates parents and children when they are arrested for a crime. this is no new policy. >> there is no bipartisan support for changing that. >> immigration specifically about immigrant children. 1500 of them, the headline said had been lost under the trump administration's adherence to this policy. hhs put out a statement refuting ...