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It is up from last week. that is despite the federal court order issued on tuesday that requires migrant families to be reunited within 30 days. i have asked you this question. how are they going to do that? a federal judge says do it. i would like to know the process. >> we know the federal government is overwhelmed of its own doing by the way. the department has 11,869 children in its care. that's 70 more than hhs reported last wednesday. we should make clear the only way we know these numbers is because the government gives us to it. bloomberg news is reporting that the prison operators cou...

>> amazing. bloomberg's rob urban is joining us now. he has been covering this very closely. there's a piece of your reporting that's particularly interesting. you talk about two private prison operators who happen to have been big donors to republican coffers. >> yeah. the two companies of course the two biggest prison operators gave about $2.5 million to political causes. mostly republicans. some of that associated with the president. including $250,000 each to the inauguration. >> wow. to the inauguration. now, towards the end of president obama's second term, wasn't he looking to curb or e...

Subcontractors paid $80 million and they didn't know about terrorism and the culture or the language. they devised these techniques and made $80 million. it was poorly run and not well managed and not good analysis. one of the prison operators and chiefs kept calling and saying give me more information. let me ask to you respond to that. john mccain is taking the floor. >> a convict response to that would be i'm not sure i trust what's in this report. people need to read the rebuttal. they are clinical and carefully done. i can give you example after example from this report of where they dist...

One of the big stories we found during our trip to florida is that crime indeed does pay for some political individuals and prison operators. lawmakers are fast tracking a bill to privatize 26 florida prisons to become for profit, which means they benefit from stricter drug laws. 10% of the state's inmates already housed in similar private facilities, but the new legislation would add another 16,000 inmates to the private prison roles, making it the largest expansion of private prisons in america. and this in a state with prison undercrowding because crime rates have been declining in florida....