them no differently than criminals when they are pursuing their basic human rights. katie: democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez alleging dehumanizing treatment of migrants as tensions over the border crisis explode during a house oversight committee hearing this morning. ocasio-cortez joining three other freshman democrats describing what they call poor conditions after the recent tour of migrant detention facilities in texas. one of those freshman, rashida tlaib, getting emotional emotional. watch. stop sending money. it s not working. another one said, i wasn t trained for this. i m not a social worker. i m not a medical care worker. he actually said, i want to be at the border. that was i was trained to be at. the last one, mr. chairman, the separation policy isn t working, he said. he knew about the separation policy that he was enacting. cbp morale is one of the lowest
because the military itself knows about interrogations and that s the way they should have probably taken this program over in the first place. so the washington post is reporting mitchell seized on a controversial concept known as learned helplessness. the idea that a prisoner could be reduced through dehumanizing treatment to utter dependency on his captors. one of the ideas to achieve that, that the cia eventually rejected, was mock burials. does this kind of stuff work? carol, this is just psychological mumbo-jumbo. it doesn t work. you know, the cia has looked in on interrogations, hostile interrogations over the years in the middle east, south america and they general ly don t work, waterboarding doesn t work. breaking somebody down doesn t work. they tend to give false leads and it s not helpful at all, really. and i think yesterday with
egregious searches happening on korans, genital searches and all sorts of dehumanizing treatment. these are men largely who had been cleared for release. if you think about the effect of their hunger strike, it turned the national attention back to guantanamo, got the attention of the president to recommit himself to closing the base. speaking of the president today at the u.n. he addressed the issue of guantanamo bay. let s play a little of what he said. we re transferring detainees to other countries and trying terrorists in courts of law while working diligently to close the prison at guantanamo bay. that s a bit of what the president said. there s really no conclusion to this. we know there are people there who could be innocent. there are a number of people who the government has said actually can be released. so the question is why is congress holding back and keeping making it more difficult for president obama to do it. i will say he released two people in the last se
discrimination. i have three daughters and i do not want them to grow up accepting dehumanizing treatment. reporter: she says because of the delay in her flight she couldn t publish her thesis, had to delay her masters and her job prospects are not as strong. southwest says when the incident happened back in march we apologized to this customer for the inconvenience and addressed her concerns in good faith. our employees raise eud a safety concern based on the customer s behavior and we had a duty to thoroughly address those concerns. southwest went onto say, we have a very diverse workforce and people who fly with us, this had nothing to do with anything except for safety concerns. unclear exactly what the woman is seeking from southwest airlines. megyn. megyn: that is an interesting case. trace, thanks. we are awaiting a news conference right now with several arizona sheriffs who are demanding to know more about