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Try to place them with relatives if it is not about reunification process. we place them in a safe environment with other relatives who are here in the country. even if they're here illegally. it's what we do as part of the program regularly. but it is always about child welfare, compassion, love towards these kids. and protecting them. i know that's what you want. any one else wants. >> everybody wants, wants these little kids to be with their mothers and fathers. mr. secretary, if you could go back in time, start this whole process from scratch. what would you do differently? >> wolf, i'm fo...

>> nay have had these lists of unaccompanied high nors, so there is no reason, no excuse not to know exactly where they are all of the time. >> this same administration gave us a an estimate last week for the number of kids overall. he say feuder than 3,000, he doesn't know the full number. it is clear they don't have an exact accounting, isn't it? >> there is no reason they should not have an exact -- i would say not only impact, but to the moment, know where each of the individual kids are. >> they should, they should, but i think that is part of the problem. i think it will be self evident ...

Deadline imposed by a federal judge in california just a couple of weeks ago after a move by the american civil liberties union and that was the deadline imposed by the federal judge saying children under the age of 5 had to be reunited with their families by tomorrow. the government in a court hearing today in california said that of the roughly little more than 100 children applying under the specific ruling this only a little more than 50 of them to be reunited by the deadline tomorrow and the work is in place. however, the federal judge did say that they were encouraged by the progress fed...

Relatives and parents exactly the treatment the kids have, but secondly, you need to know immediately, if you know in the process, where the reunification process is. >> so that if i felt has not given you the answers? the one that turned you away? >> zero, i could not even get the director of the facility to come tell me the basics. >> as the administration given you any answers? >> no, but we precleared it. the white house knew as well as hhs knew that i was going to this facility. ultimately a lot of what we're dealing with now is a law that needs to be changed. both parties should be worki...

Difficult. it's a giant policy challenge. and it is. give the government a bit of grace. they're the ones who separated these families. now reuniting them is hard. politically this has become a giant headache. >> absolutely because now you have the president having sort of gone back on what he originally said was a no holds barred policy, a zero tolerance policy. he signed that executive order to try to get this problem under control. he didn't want to do it. his base didn't like he had to do it, but he did it because had become a problem that politically was not sustainable for them. but inst...