including speaker pelosi who struggled to answer when asked about it thursday. so i i m i i can just imagine how that happened. and i i just think it s such a shame for that to be the face of america around the world. it was here at this border patrol facility i had my chance encounter with isabella, the facility only designed to only 106 migrant whos for average of 8 to 12 hours but these are not normal circumstances. an official telling me they ve had up to 700 child migrants in custody at one i m on average of 6 to 10 days. as for isabella her brother believes she is being held in the facility but does not know what happens to her next erin. thank you very much, nick. and outfront now the acting director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services ken kuch nelly who spent the day on the border joining us from el paso texas. and director good to have you back on the show of course in your new role. good to be here erin.
good sunday morning. we re at one of the first pivot points of the election cycle. he kicked off his re-election bid in florida this week. you could argue he has been running for re-election since filing papers the day he was inaugurated. at the same time, democrats will hear the starting gun for their nomination fight when they face off for two nielts of debate in miami. even though he won t be there, president trump will be a dominant presence at the debates. one way or the other, the 2020 election will be a referendum on donald trump. he will argue he is a successful businessman. ended unnecessary regulations, reestablished a strong and feared america around the world. in short, he will argue he made america great again. democrats will say he is a bigot, lied shamelessly,
leader. chief of state means someone who represents us around the world, someone who is a president who you want to hold up to your children and say, this is someone i want you children to be like. and donald trump, that s just a side of this office that he doesn t care about and he really doesn t fulfill. even friends i have who like donald trump will say, i would never want my children to be like him, but he s doing things that i like. so that s why, in a time like this, it s very important for us to think of particularly political leaders who are people who represent qualities that we would like our children to grow up to be like and also represent america around the world. so for that reason, i think the brighter john mccain s legacy, the better for all of us. michael steele and michael bechsloz, thank you so much for spending some time with us. coming up, a quick break for us. more 11th hour after this.
state. it s not just to be a political leader. chief of state means someone who represents us around the world, someone who is a president who you want to hold up to your children and say, this is someone i want you children to be like. and donald trump, that s just a side of this office that he doesn t care about and he really doesn t fulfill. even friends i have who like donald trump will say, i would never want my children to be like him, but he s doing things that i like. so that s why, in a time like this, it s very important for us to think of particularly political leaders who are people who represent qualities that we would like our children to grow up to be like and also represent america around the world. so for that reason, i think the brighter john mccain s legacy, the better for all of us. michael steele and michael bechsloz, thank you so much for spending some time with us. coming up, a quick break for us. more 11th hour after this. today.
someone who is a president who you want to hold up to your children and say, this is someone i want you children to be like. and donald trump, that s just a side of this office that he doesn t care about and he really doesn t fulfill. even friends i have who like donald trump will say, i would never want my children to be like him, but he s doing things that i like. so that s why, in a time like this, it s very important for us to think of particularly political leaders who are people who represent qualities that we would like our children to grow up to be like and also represent america around the world. so for that reason, i think the brighter john mccain s legacy, the better for all of us. michael steele and michael bechsloz, thank you so much for spending some time with us. coming up, a quick break for us. more 11th hour after this. us more 11th hour after this.