cold floors. cold floors. having no hygiene. no toothbrushes, no soap. 7, 8-year-olds having to take care of 2, 3-year-olds who don t have diapers or walking around in dirty diapers. this is deplorable. and i i just wonder what the president and the republican members of congress are going to do about it. i mean, there have to be republican senators that have children and grandchildren who actually understand that it doesn t matter what color these children s skin is. they re just as precious in god s sight as their own children and grandchildren. joe, every day for many, many weeks now we read anecdotal reports, actual news reports coming from the board and coming from various detention camps. that s what they are, detention camps. holding children from the age of
moved out of border patrol custody without unnecessary delays. the conditions the lawyers found were shocking. flu and lice outbreaks were going untreated and children were filthy, sleeping on cold floors and taking care of each other because of the lack of attention from guards. some of them had been in the facility for weeks. just last week a justice department lawyer went before the panel of judges to argue that the government shouldn t be required to provide detained migrant children with soap, toothbrushes and showers at the detention facilities. it s within everybody s common understanding that you know if you don t have a toothbrush, if you don t have soap, if you don t have a blanket, it s not safe and sanitary. wouldn t everybody agree with that? do you agree with that? well, i think it s i think those are there s fair reason to find that those things may be part of safe
empty, immoral and defensible. i wonder what you learned from watching that. i thought that struggling was the least that should have happened there. i mean, that was a horrific policy decision by the trump administration to say that safe and sanitary conditions don t include toothbrushes, don t include blankets, forcing people to sleep on concrete floors with only a sheet of aluminum foil over them as a blanket. saying that sleep is not part of a safe and sanitary condition. i mean, all this stuff is horrific, you know. i do think the trump administration deserves all the condemnation that they received in the wake of that. these are not even the geneva convention requires prisoners of war to get toothbrushes and soap. i mean, the idea that we can t do that or what the vice-president said, the appropriations process prevents it, that s just flatly wrong.
president trump often argues that he s not moved by press reports or criticism, but that s his words. if you watch what his administration does time and again, facts and pressure do shift things. today trump administration on defense over its treatment of migrant children and it s acting to remove 300 from a texas federal facility that had horrific conditions. 10-year-old children taking care of sick toddlers because there was no one else to. untreated flu and lice outbreaks. on this program we reported on the trump d.o.j., going to court to argue that they want to be able to legally deny those very kids who are in detention. soap, toothbrushes, blankets. few politicians want to be seen supporting that kind of position, but it is factually the current position the trump administration. vice-president pence just conceded that, quote, of course children should be provided toothbrushes and blankets.
he goes on to try to pretend he doesn t know that he and his boss are doing the exact opposite. aren t toothbrushes and blankets and medicine basic conditions for kids? aren t they a part of how the united states of america, the trump administration treats children? well, of course they are, jake. the lawyer was arguing i can t speak to what that lawyer was saying. we have money to give to tooth paste and blankets to the kids in el paso county right now. of course we do. so why aren t we? it is all part of the appropriations process. congress needs to provide additional support to deal with the crisis at our southern border. turning to former acting assistant general neal katyal who leads our opening argument series. neil, i want to get right into it. take a listen to the trump lawyer referenced getting grilled on this in court, and this clip not only did we hit it on the beat, it s also gone viral online.