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Detention centers. and so the idea that now you can keep children in there indefinitely has all sorts of repercussions. so we have jeff markly coming up. he has just written a book about all this about what this means for the country. >> thank you very much. since the massacres in el paso and dayton, dozens of people have been arrested for threatening violent acts. this morning we have a live report next. just between us, you know what's better than mopping? anything! at the end of a long day, it's the last thing i want to do. well i switched to swiffer wet jet and its awesome. it's an all-i...

>> no, that's not what i'm saying. don't try to put words in my mouth. >> that's what you just said. you said it. >> we could have fixed it a long time ago. >> i also want to play that shocking audio as we get ready to talk to jeff merkel at the front of this. this is the audio from inside a facility where some of these children have been separated from their parents. listen in. [ crying ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> senator jeff markly has been inside the detention centers, he's going to talk about that. plus, two trump confidants suddenly remembering a meeting with a russian who promise...

They don't know when they'll see their parents again. and their parents don't know what's going on either. everybody who works with these kids is bringing forward how -- what type of irreparable harm is done in these separations. it just rips your heart apart. >> the chief of the american association of pediatrics said it was akin to child abuse. reporters asked kirstjen nielsen, the homeland security secretary about whether the kids were being used as pawns, leverage, to get you guys in congress to pass an immigration bill that would include funding for the president's wall. here's the exchan...

Jeff merkley, who's been speaking out. he's been down to the border and seen the detention facility first hand. senator, you saw obviously what was happening in one detention center and now this audio is getting a lot of attention tonight. the homeland security secretary was asked about it today, it was played in the background of the entire briefing. does what we just heard reflect what you witnessed and saw? >> well, what i saw at the processing center were children who had been assembled into a 30 by 30 chain link fence space who had been, many of whom had been separated from their parents ...

During that process. and he said, well, listen, you gotta amend your testimony to the house investigation. it's closed now, but you gotta do it. you also have to reveal this to the senate if they ask and the mueller team if they ask. i prepared to do both of those things. at the first, the senate, nobody asked me something to where this would be responsive. remember, to this point, i thought this was just some guy who called me and i passed him off to roger stone. it was about two minutes of my life, and i still thought at that point that it was nothing. and then i went to mueller on may 2nd -...