journalists cameras still have not been allowed to tour many of these facilities. so i m going to send it back to you, richard. as many questions there are still many questions about how these 2,000 or so children will be reunited with their family. gabe, quickly because you were alluding to those elected members down there and one or two were claiming that they saw girls still huddled in lumps or groups underneath those my lahr blankets you have been reporting on for so long. do we know if that is still the case? very difficult situations for these young girls in these detention centers. richard, we re moving actually right now because u.s. border patrol are asking us to move a little bit here from the barricades as they put up more police tape around here trying to keep the peace. so that s why we re moving right now. you were asking about the claims earlier by the congressional leaders that were saying children younger than 5 years
these are this is, again, no surprise that dysfunction in congress is near record high. no one individual alone is going to solve it and whether they re a veteran or not, but with a group, and it doesn t need to be that large, 20 to 30 veterans that are working together, that are focused on putting the country first, because the congress is so poll lahr polariz polarized. gillian: we re in our 15th, 16th year at war in the middle east, and before we shell out dollars and people fighting. if folks at home want to get involved, it s the holiday season, coming up to the end of the year, i m sure you have end of the year goals. how can folks get involved?
wind meter. you can see the boats getting tossed around. if this things get significant and the eye wall does stay as close to our area of key largo, some of these boats are going to break loose, and when they do, they come ashore, and it can cause even more damage. so, guys, as you can tell, the conditions here are worsing ping. about the last three or four hours here in key largo it got significantly worse. power is out throughout key lahr lahr key largo. there is still cell service as of this hour, but this thing s coming ashore, and people have hunkered down. as we reported yesterday, not nearly as many people stayed for the storm as did for hurricane andrew 25 years ago. they saw the video and the pictures coming out of the caribbean, and they said, you know what? this storm is flattening some of those islands. we don t want to take a risk, and we ve met a bunch of people that drove north a couple of days ago, decided not to stay. a couple of them had to evacuate a second time a
more miss lahr status quo muscular status quo budget. it s certainly not historic. leland: interesting. this is what john mccain, an advocate for the military regardless of what you think of him, had to say about the budget. it s probably dead on arrival. it doesn t rebuild the military. it doesn t give us the ships and the numbers of personnel we need, the capabilities we need. leland: so where is the disconnect between the administration s talking points and senator mccain? the disconnect is that president trump s budget is a repair effort to start to rebuild the military s foundation after the budget control act leland: budget control act is the sequester. yes, basically. leland: okay. but what it is not is a rebuild budget. leland: does the u.s. military need to be rebuilt? it does. we ve billion on 9/11, the post-9/11 buildup was i in many ways a hollow buildup, specifically funded for the wars in iraq and afghanistan. but with no longevity or modernization for the
fierce, and then when american tension turns elsewhere, the pressure eases off, the sanctions are disregarded and north korea proceeds on its way. look, it s possible this time that it s different, but it s equally possible that what we re talking about now is not news and hasn t been news for about 20 years. i think you have to go bigger than simply trying to get the north koreans to stop their nuclear weapons program. i think you ve got to persuade china that it s in their interests as well as ours to reunite the peninsula, to eliminate the regime entirely. because that s the point of the north koreans seeing a call to give up their nuking lahr weapons as a call to end the regime. the nuclear capability is synonymous with regime survival, in their view, and i don t think that s changed. rick: but the administration is talking, and perhaps prior administrations have said equally tough things, but now we have this naval strike group in the korean peninsula, we have a