how long do the children usually stay in the shelter and how often do they get to speak with family members. her next stop is scheduled to be the customs detention center. but getting around the city with this flooding is going to be difficult. it s not clear whether that s going to come off or not. first lady whose opposition to the separation of parents from their children is well-known and mentioned by the president showing her commitment on the ground here today in mcallen, harris. harris: steve, i m glad you mentioned flooding so people can see that obviously behind you. and the ursula detention center where the first lady set to meet with ice and dhs she may not be able to get. to say we know that from our notes coming from the white house. just want to say quickly for the people of mcallen, texas particularly difficult time with the flooding. appreciate your reporting, steve. thank you very much. let s bring in republican mark walker. he chairs the house republican committee a
hoping i shouldn t say no doubt, but hopefully you heard congressman walker. i followed up on that very point that the president said zero tolerance policy. he said that s with regard to catch and release. what we no longer see is the separation of families at the border. and they are trying to figure out moving forward the president says he has ordered all these agencies, doj, hhs and dhs to reunite those families. you say there are some 2300? i think my colleague from north carolina is conflating some of these issues if the the washington post article is correct. harris: fox is working to confirm. fox is working to confirm. and the president is walking back zero tolerance and saying family units won t be prosecuted. what happens? how do we reunite those 2300 plus young people who have already been separated? the executive order doesn t say that hhs gave conflicting information yesterday as to what s going to happen and how they are going to be reunited. look, i understand t
thank you all. it s time to go. thank you. harris: so the president of the united states wrapping this cabinet meeting up. we knew that that was coming. we had shown you a good 30 minutes of those taped comments from the cabinet room from the pool reporters who were there. so now those are the final comments from the president. i want to bring back republican mark walker of north korenorth carolina who chs house oversight. just quickly, to hit what the president was saying right there, as i understand it then, zero tolerance policy is still in place. he says without it our country would be overrun. so what has changed? 1235rs what we are doing at the border right now? i think zero tolerance is a policy that ends catch and release. that ends the opportunity to continue to move through the our country. we have over 40,000 convicted felons, not just charged but convicted that are roaming around in this country. we have got to be able to have a zero tolerance policy. but it doesn t
have to separate families. there is room to do both. the other point that he mentioned was the overall immigration we need to transition to merit based. 10% of our immigration is merit based. england and canada 40%. we knowed those kind of votes to change it long term. harris: i want to step in with you this to this news has been breaks. we talked before that b. that the washington post report that the prosecutions would be stayed. in fact, just a suspension of those prosecutions coming over our southern border illegally, you are taking a look at that and you were telling us about that before. i just want to reinforce what you were saying so the people don t think this is a permanent change. congressman walker along for the breaking news. sir, thank you for your time. always a privilege. thanks, harris. harris: a voice now from the other side of the political aisle. congressman pete aguilar is a member ever the congressional hispanic caulk and new democrat coalition.
because the speaker has said that publicly and his saf said that publicly. there is no doubt that is not the reason. it would have been smarter to let him serve out his term. issues of pastoral support are among the most personal and private matters of fauth and family that you can imagine. so discussing them publicly is not a good idea. so it s brave of the speaker to take the heat over this issue. doesn t it make it harder to have anyone other because of congressman walker s comments, which from the evangelical point of view, we re disputing anyone that could be a secelibate prie could be if the shoe were on the foot here and democrats had fired a chaplain for preaching the gospel and then come out and