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Now, the government says the court-imposed deadline is extreme and doesn't account for the time needed to verify the parents. a judge of the southern district of california has said he will agree to delay the deadline if the government could provide a master list of all the children and status of their parents by monday morning. that is a tall order, i'm guessing. msnbc correspondent mariana atencio has been following the story of separated families. she joins us now from new york. the panel is back, by the way, shawna, alfonso, ruth. mariana, let me start with you, though. so i guess the trum...

Picks by name. we saw chuck schumer singling out amy bennett. is that something that is -- barrett, that is likely to move or would potentially move the president in terms of his final pick? >> in a word, no. i mean, the democrats really lost this battle in 2016 when they lost the election. republicans are fully aware that they are in the driver's seat here. they do have that slim majority in the senate and the republicans in the senate who would ultimately confirm the president's pick here have for the most part completely supported the president's lower court choices and all for the most par...

Politicians filter through, the rio grande valley today, we saw democratic legislators, more than 20 of them trying to tour facilities, get a sense of the conditions on the grounds for the parents and the children, but really those democrats coming out and saying we have more questions than answers, one of their main questions is is there a main list, the master list of these children about 2,000 of them still separating from parents, where they are and how quickly they will be reunited with their parents. laura, back to you. >> steve, thank you. >> immigration battle heating up on capitol hil...

Initially seeing a number of politicians pass to the rio grande valley in the last several days to get a look at conditions on the ground firsthand. today there was more than 20 democratic lawmakers. many of whom have criticisms about what they've seen inside. here is one of them. >> i think we had to take this out of the criminal justice system and put into the social service system. that is the way these people should be processed and handled and care given to them. >> one of the real questions we have heard from these lawmakers over and over today is that they say, is there a master list? a...

But it is overwhelming. we have no way of knowing even when the questions have been asked of what is happening to the 2300 childn who were separated from their families. where is the plan? where is the list of the names, their names, where they're from, where they're going, what shelters are they in. >> reporter: that's one basic question we continue to hear from lawmakers, is there a master list, a master list of children who have been separated from their parents. health and human services have said they are organizing an emergency response team, similar to what they do in the wake of natura...