treatment of migrants arrested by capitol police. joining me now is julia ansly. it s good to see both of you. julia, a lot of emotion on the democratic side. we just saw that from the chairman. he tried to respond by dropping a lot of numbers today. what did he say and are those numbers accurate? he did drop a lot of numbers and for the most part they are accurate, but i want to put them in context. he talked about 700 children separated from their parents or legal guardians this fiscal year so since october. he talked about how that is such a small percentage when you think about the fact that there are nearly 400,000 people who have come across the border as part of a family. that does actually jive from what we have heard from immigration attorneys. it s somewhere within that
absolutely. when the dhs and customs says we are doing the best we can, but we were not cut out for this population, that s true. these facilities were not built for the pop las vegas, but there are undenial health concerns. they were quarantining people for the flu, lace, measles, chickenpox, these were big concerns that went on for some time. this visit was on may 7th and here we are almost two months later still dealing with a lot of same problems. julia, our job as journalists is to bear witness and hold those in power. trump says russia meddling didn t tip the scales in his favor, but what in russia propaganda changed voters minds? we are back after this.
julia ansly, nbc national security and justice reporter who is tenacious. kevin mcaleenan said these reports are unsubstantiated, but this isn t reporting you got from a random source, that is government report, the inspector general of that department issued the report. that s right. on may 7th, the inspector sent agents to the same sector where the little girl was kept and found conditions that we are now hearing about, things like that overcrowding, four showers for 756 immigrants. they even said the conditions were so bad that customs and border protection agents started to arm themselves in areas where they are not supposed to have arms because they were worried about riots. they thought it could raise to that level of arrest. we are talking about people who can t lie down sleep, people outside.
issues that are going develop out of all of that. absolutely. when the dhs and customs says we are doing the best we can, but we were not cut out for this population, that s true. these facilities were not built for the pop las vegas, but there are undenial health concerns. they were quarantining people for the flu, lace, measles, chickenpox, these were big concerns that went on for some time. this visit was on may 7th and here we are almost two months later still dealing with a lot of same problems. julia, our job as journalists is to bear witness and hold those in power. trump says russia meddling didn t tip the scales in his favor, but what in russia propaganda changed voters minds? we are back after this. ter this that s why there s otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream.
with us to talk about it all, julia ansly, nbc national security and justice reporter who is tenacious. kevin mcaleenan said these reports are unsubstantiated, but this isn t reporting you got from a random source, that is government report, the inspector general of that department issued the report. that s right. on may 7th, the inspector sent agents to the same sector where the little girl was kept and found conditions that we are now hearing about, things like that overcrowding, four showers for 756 immigrants. they even said the conditions were so bad that customs and border protection agents started to arm themselves in areas where they are not supposed to have arms because they were worried about rye ioriots. they thought it could raise to