is 100% the responsibility of the administration. joining us jeff merkley, who has visited some of the detention centers the kids have been kept. senator merkley, thanks for being with us. do you have any understanding as to why the government thought it was the aclu's responsibility to relow -- to find these parents, to essentially right these wrong in the first place? it wasn't the aclu that separated the kids from their parents. >> no, absolutely not, anderson. the situation is that the government has so botched the connection between the parents and the children that they'd like to shed that responsibility and put it off on to someone else. when they sent the parents back without their children, and many of the children of the 700 still not reconnected to their parents, 500 or so their parents have been deported that. >> didn't track carefully where the parents would be. we don't know if they have more information than they revealed in terms of phone numbers or e-mail addresses. but in terms of street dresses,