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>> the number of children in hhs custody is phigher than previously said. hhs said it's about a thousand more kid than we were previously told. do you get the sense they have any kind of grasp on hard numbers here or know how to get these kids back to their parents? >> the last two weeks i visited parents in baltimore, children out in prince william county virginia. and there's this tremendous sense that there's no coordination at all. we go back to scott pruitt and unethical. you may want to know when secretary nielsen will stop lying about the separation policy the administration has. i was ...

Post" has a question. congressman, scott pruitt is from your state. is it time for him to resign. >> it's a decision for him and the president to make. they certainly raise a lot of questions and in this business you can't afford that. >> what specifically has raised questions to you? >> i just think the personal activities of looking like you're bending the rules to favor yourself personally. those things are troublesome. i think using staff for things that are clearly personal, you know, soliciting positions for a spouse. that seems to be beyond the pale. your opponents will take advantage...

Thank you very much. to a dramatization video that is getting a lot of attention now. it shows a young boy peering over a wooden table at the immigration judge before him. his legs dangle, too short to reach the ground, he has headphones to hear the translation of the judge's words. he's sitting there all alone without an attorney, without his parents, and he is about to represent himself in court. this is part of an ad, it's called "unaccompanied: alone in america." it was made last august for the nonprofit immigration counseling service before, before the trump administration's zero-tolera...

Of the trump administration's previous separation policy. as of the most recent update on june 26th, at least 2,047 were still separated from their parents. meanwhile, a group of democrats including senator elizabeth warn sent a letter to hhs and dhs asking for a list of all children separated. a list by the way that would be anonmized so it wouldn't get out to the president. they want to know how long the children have been detained and whether their family members have been successfully contacted. back with us is anita kumar. anita, what do you make of the fact -- we've been saying we keep r...

Them in detention as long as possible and deport them as quickly as possible. >> we have more on how hard it has been for the administration to unite them. as the deadline looms, trump frls struggling to reunite migrant families. they're now working under a clock. do we have a sense of what the numbers are? they seem lying they've gone dark in terms of reporting what the status of things are. >> they went dark. the numbers we were using a lot when the separation policy was really gearing up in full swing was about 2,300. there are 2,300 children who were made unaccompanied minors because of th...