that is humane and that is compassionate and that keeps families together. with more, i m joined by the nbc correspondent who broke the story of the internal dhs reports. the reports from inside the inspector general of homeland security. so are they lying to the public what they know is the truth? they re covering it up? well, it it s a good question. what we good was through a foia request. freedom of information. yes, that s inside baseball. freedom of information. where they turned this over. but this was not something that was supposed to be made public. these are from initial visits where investigators went to different facilities run by border patrol in the el paso sector. one of those, of course, would be the clint facility that dediscussed last week and they found these terrible conditions. some of them were so bad, as you mentioned, they thought they might have hunger strikes or riots. they had four showers, chris, for nearly 800 immigrants. when you hear acting secre
mcaleenan saying, look, these children are getting showers as soon as we can get them, how soon is that when you have four showers? these aren t just people coming for a better job and life, these are people coming from hellholes where there is no law and order. they re seeking asylum and they re central americans. they said the morale is dropping among border acts. why do we have to keep locking these people up when they re coming here legally and turning themselves in to claim asylum? why do we have to continue to lock them up? now, one shred of optimism in all of this is the border bill that passed last week that would give $4.5 billion for more detention space so this overcrowding doesn t occur, but i don t know are they going to put more they talk about cages for kids. are they going to build larger, more humane facilities with all these money. they re not supposed to be held in the cages or facilities we re describing. they re supposed to go to health and human servic
saying they re understaffed. and then you also can t pull this apart from the pressure i m sure he s under from the white house as they see numbers rise at the border in recent months. how much do we know about whether the white house was involved in pressing mr. sanders to step down? we re still trying to figure that out. this is just really breaking in the last hour or so. he is leaving. it s not clear that they asked him to do so. right now the resignation sid he was leaving but think about this white house. they ve had a very heavy hand in the personnel at dhs. it was just two months ago kirstjen nielsen was asked to leave and mcaleenan became secretary which is how sanders got this in the first place. hard to see it doesn t have anything to do with the white house. and it seems they had to pick someone s head to roll over this and it seems it was his. we don t have that confirmed. we re just connecting some of
a damn thing has been done by either side to fix it. the left says we don t trust them to spend the money the right way and they won t give us the protections to take care of the kids the right way and the right says the democrats don t want to do anything. and the president says even though i have an emergency declaration and i can now loosen some purse strings, i only want to use it for the fence. don t forget, my sell is being harsh on these people. doesn t that sicken you, steve? something you admit as wrong and identify on one level as an ethnic is being ignored by your own party as part of this problem? no, listen, i don t think we re ignoring it at all. what has been done? i love legal immigration. mcaleenan keeps asking for money and you guys have not put anything forward. mcconnell won t even put it on the floor. look, i m not answering for mcconnell. the hell you re not. he s in your party. you re here to defend the
of the people trying to come. ainsley: 150 more after one day. steve: it can only hold 125, 150 and a multiple of that. brian: last people who should be blamed for this is border patrol agents. not enough room. they had acting home land security secretary go down and say listen i m going to need $4.5 billion. we need to house these people, transport these people. let alone on the other track is build the wall through dollars that the president has redirected? and they basically said i really can t do anything. kevin mcaleenan there last week trying to explain this week the same thing as people try to wonder why the ptedz is taking desperate measures with the tariffs on mexico. listen to how deattached bernie sanders is i hope people are not going to fall for. this 900 people held at border facility maximum capacity 125. this is dehumane and end the dehumanization of immigrants