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Yuma, arizona. the trump administration has not released any information about conditions at that facility, let alone incidents like this. now that nbc news has obtained this information, though, what's going to happen in response? joining us now is one of the two reporters who broke this story, jacob soboroff. jacob, thanks for your time tonight. i appreciate you taking time. >> rachel, thanks. and thanks to you and your team for collaborating with us on this. >> yeah, i understand this originated with essentially a tip from a viewer, somebody alerting us to the existence of these -- of these...

Reporters who broke this story, jacob soboroff. jacob, thank you for your time tonight. i appreciate you taking time. >> rachel, thanks. and thanks to you and your team for collaborating with us on this. >> yeah, i understand this originated with essentially a tip from a viewer, somebody alerting us to the existence of these -- of these incident reports. let me just ask you about your reporting process a little bit and how you were able to verify what these were what they appear to be. >> these significant incident reports, rachel, are basically taken down by every single case manager at healt...

To take weeks, right? so many organizations on the ground are saying there was no real intent to reunify these families, because then why didn't you do the intake process properly to begin with when you separated them at the border. >> to ensure we're not going to lose track of parents and their children. the fact that they have lost track suggests perhaps that this wasn't the most buttoned-down operation. >> and i'm not making this up. we are actually talking to a mother who wants to get reunited with her 2-year-old son. this is supposed to happen by tuesday if the deadline doesn't get extend...

Means that the intake process at the outset wasn't done properly. meaning that there was no real plan to rooeunify these kids wi their parents when this process began and that's why this white house and the administration is scrambling to do this right now under the deadline. >> that's the most important point. apparently nobody thought they should keep track of the kids they're separating. anyway, mariana atencio, i've got to let you go. thank you very much. much appreciate your reporting. panel, you guys are stuck with me for one more segment. coming up, president trump's trade war, and wh...

Anyone inside there except the immediate points of contact who were there. children who smiled or said hello to us, we were pushed away from. i can tell you i've been inside one of those processing centers as well where you see the cages everybody sees. that's not what's happening here. this essentially looks like a run-down elementary school with dormitories. about 12 kids per room, two sinks inside there. all the kids walking around with these tags with qr codes on them. they buzz in and out of every single place they go into. there are about 1200 kids in here. two-thirds of them are boys, a...