ripped into mcaleenan about those detention facilities in mexico, saying those kids were sitting in their own filth and said they had a, quote, empathy deficit, and it went downhill from there in a big argument. fast-forward to the president watching television like he often does, his favorite network, fox news. a reporter went into west baltimore and videotaped some of the more troubled areas in the city where residents lacked certain basic sanitation, water facilities, trash collection, things of that nature, highlighting it. and that, of course, triggered the president just a few minutes later after that segment aired into tweeting about elijah cummings, his district, taking after the district as you reported, calling tait a rodent and rat-infested mess. as you report going back to his district every day, he says, and highlighting that the president
they didn t say that. looked like the courts were saying you could sign the agreement with the united states. so what the court said, which is a provisional injunction was define the process that has to be followed. as secretary mcaleenan mentioned, define how to do that procedure and we re going to implement it. can you explain how this will work? if someone leaves guatemalas and goes to the u.s., what will happen? a lot of good things happen. kevin? this is a return to the appropriate approach under international law to protecting asylum seekers at the earliest point in their journey. if you have a honduran family or salvadoran national, instead of paying a smuggler to seek asy m
earlier today, michael, the house oversight chairman elijah cummings got heated with mcaleenan over the family separation conditions at the border. watch this. i guess you feel like you re doing a great job, right? is that what you re saying? we re doing our level best in a very challenging what does that mean? what does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces, can t take a shower? come on, man. what s that about? none of us would have our children in that position. they are human beings. and i m trying to figure out and i get tired of folks saying, oh, oh, they just beating up on the border patrol. oh, they just beating up on homeland security. what i m saying is, i want to concentrate on these children. and i want to make sure that
anger of the issue going on at the border came a head with lawmakers unloading on acting secretary. the hearing was the latest held by house democrats targeting the trump administration s policies. mcaleenan was hammered for hours on the overcrowding as well as other issues involving his department. at one point, the committee s chairman tore into the acting secretary over this. watch this. you feel like you are doing a great job, right? we are doing our level best. what does that mean? what does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces. can t take a shower, come on, man. mcaleenan said more than
remarks. to the contrary of how people are living there, how what conditions are like day in and day out. whether he is actually able to let the media in with cameras to interview people unfettered, to allow republicans and democratic members of congress in remains to be seen. but it sounds like he s just interested in using adjectives and attacking the media like he usually does. and, molly, it s going to be an issue of full access, not just areas that, you know, mcaleenan wants reporters to see or the president wants reporters to see. but in order to see the full story of the treatment of how families, children, et cetera are being treated in these facilities. do you believe the president is going to advocate for that kind of full access? we ll see. i agree with you that that was the only thing he said in that