come from places you don t even want to know about, the way they ve lived and the way they ve been, the poverty they grew up in. with that, if we can get this bill signed, we ll be able to do it. the democrats don t want to sign anything. now, i think they re going to probably sign this, from what i understand, i call it humanitarian aid. here to talk about all of this, eli, white house reporter for the las angeles times. democratic strategist from washington and heidi, national political correspondent for nbc news and perry is at the facility from homestead, florida and jacob has been covering the ongoing situation at the border for us. eli, let me start with you. we just heard from the president there. he s talking about the situation in congress now a bill expected to make its way through the house tonight, democratic house, republican senate bill. we will see what happens there. in the meantime, as all of that plays out and we absorb these
it s grotesque. it makes you wonder what his supporters are thinking. heidi, we play some of the dates on those clips we just showed were the 2016 campaign. i think what makes this trying to think, presidents who have been in a situation like this there was an accusation of rape against bill clinton in 1999. he didn t talk about it this way and that s the only time you had a president accused of anything like this. in the case of trump, you had so much come out in the 2016 campaign. you had women stepping forward saying heeo. ed th ed saying he groped them. you had the access hollywood tape and he said, that s locker room talk. you listen to the access hollywood tape and that allegation, what do you make of it? i understand your point and mara s point, we almost become as the media desensitized to
separated from their parents in those cages sitting on floors on the mylar blankets. they don t let reporters in these facilities lightly and certainly not with cameras, be it video or still cameras. it is very unusual. we have gotten the reports from the settlement agreement going in and speaking out. you know the conditions were dire if the attorneys were speaking out. that s not their job to walk in and broadcast to the media what they re seeing inside. their job is to go in these facilities and see if there s compliance and if there isn t, work discreetly to see it is, but they were so alarmed they decided to speak to the public. heidi, is the response to congress is putting a bill through the house. pelosi sounding like she s got the votes. $4.5 billion. they want certain sanitary and
there s a lot of the government trying to verify identities. you have privately run detention facilities and basically prison, like the one behind me with thousands of children in it. you have kids with point of contact. heidi explained through those points of contact they are not being processed out quickly and to echo what jacob is saying, there is zero oversight. we can t take cameras in, not allowed access to these facilities and can t accurately report what we believe to be truly horrendous conditions. to heidi s talk about metering, you re talking about returning people to humanitarian conditions we re not clear on. the situation is very bad, getting worse, talking about thousands of people being released, en masse, from what are basically detention facility is in the u.s. into mexico, into a system also not equipped to handle it. on this end, the humanitarian