that is when a district court judge will decide if the trump administration should get an extension, more time to reunite children under 5 years old with their parents who are separated at the southern border. the deadline for that of course is tomorrow. with me now is congresswoman, a democrat of washington state sits on the subcommittee on immigration and border security. thank you for being here. thank you, poppy. you have been vocal about this and even arrested last week in washington, d.c., participating in one of these immigration protests against the administration s policy and practice. given the fact that the deadline is tomorrow for the youngest of the children to be reunited with their parents, you were on the phone call with hhs on friday i believe asking a lot of questions about this. did they give you any answers as to the process for reunifying? no, this is what has troubled me from the very beginning because of the stories that i heard personally from the women an
he will lose seats this november because people are outraged by this traumatic abuse of these children. i want to make sure i understand this. i get a lot of e-mails. and there has been a conspiracy theory that is floated out there. they are going to take the children away and put them up for adoption. there is no evidence of that and i don t think that is the case. your staff, in calls with officials, they kmacommunicated with you that they place foster care as equivalent as reunifying with the parent. they have not responded which is also typical of them. we have written them repeated letters on this subject and they have ignored them all. we called them on it and we should be alarmed on this. a five-year-old who has never met a foster parent, they ought
understand this. i get a lot of e-mails. and there has been a conspiracy theory that is floated out there. they are going to take the children away and put them up for adoption. there is no evidence of that and i don t think that is the case. your staff, in calls with officials, they communicated with you that they place foster care as equivalent as reunifying with the parent. they have not responded which is also typical of them. we have written them repeated letters on this subject and they have ignored them all. we called them on it and we should be alarmed on this. a five-year-old who has never met a foster parent, they ought to have their mothers and mothers ought to have their
this passion for reunifying korea. and america has really been painted as an ultimate evil in north korea. why would he give it up? what would he have to get in exchange? i mean that s a very good question because north koreans have always said they need a security guarantee. but how do we give a security guarantee? north korea met by that by u.s. pulling troops out of south korea. but it s hard to give a guarantee to north korea. and north korea s existence was all about having the united states as their number one hostile enemy. that sort of justified their existence and all the suffering of the north korean people all these years since the founding of north korea. beyond having nuclear weapons as deterrence against the united states, beyond trying to get guarantee from the united states, it s also the reason for their existence. i think it s going to be a very hard thing to achieve.
doing so? that s right. and we ve already done that by president trump already meeting with kim jong-un in the first place in singapore. we elevated him, we gave him legitimacy, and so we cannot invite him to new york. and kim jong-un cannot stand at the united nations general assembly and give a speech or meet with president trump without giving anything. i think now we have to get something back such as a time line at least of how to move forward or get a complete declaration of their nuclear weapons program of facilities. just some sort of broad road map now we re going to move forward on denuclearization. otherwise what do we have? we have nothing. what is the impetus? what would be the thing that would motivate kim jong-un to give up his nuclear program? because it has been driven by this passion for reunifying korea. and america has really been