was sent to them from the department of justice. to send 21 defense department attorneys to expedite the backlog of the cases. they will work for 1729 days 179 days and designateed the special u.s. attorneys to expedite backlog of the cases. in the meantime, the administration trying to send a simple message about parental responsibility. the simple fact the way to prevent separation and the way to prevent children coming i our t come in the country illegally or cross at an illegal crossing. go present yourself at a legal border crossing with the permission to come in the country or make make a case why you should enter the country. reminder the secretary of the homeland security said at the white house, of the 12,000 children in custody, 10,000
defense attorneys are being resourced in this case. for example, one of them complained they haven t had a dedicated translator for a year and the designateed attorney doesn t speak arabic. they make the claim that the military wants to keep information secret because it s embarrassing. there really are sources and methods about future attacks and future dangers. again, i understand the skepticism. it is not a justifyification to not disclose information because it is embarrassing or because it violates a law. i was in court in 2008 when the menem first arraigned and they tried to take control then by acting as their own attorneys. clearly they re trying to do the same thing today by frustrating the process by refusing to cooperate. and what seems to have been lost in today s hearing is the fact
of school on dr. king s holiday which has been designateed january so i have introduced this bill which will be taken to the floor of the house, the house floor, very soon and we will have a cohesiveness among the state where all the school districts will be closed on that day and we will not have this problem. shepard: it is not as if we didn t know, and no one is making any defense for anything but we knew before today that if you have too much snow in south carolina you are going do make it up on martin luther king day, on memorial day, and on one other. and that it always was on the books since this was designated as a national and state holiday and i wonder if we knew it was like that why didn t someone look into it before now? guest: well, i start off by saying i am newly elected to the house of representatives and this is my second term in the house of representatives and i