mentioned, he says he brought the original birth certificate as the child as well as his id. presented those documents the customs and border protection at the port of entry and was transferred to immigration and custom where he no longer had the documents and they said he didn t have enough evidence that this was his baby. i followed up with customed and abo border protection to see if they received it, they neither confirmed nor denied. i think what this reporting shows is there are instances in which even when asylum seekers go the legal route and present themselves at the ports of entry, the trump administration is sometimes separating families and secretary nielson said yesterday they are fot doing this. if people cross legally, they will not be separated.
reporter: why isn t hhs talking to dhs? they re supposed to be working together every single day. it s the agency that comes to this facility to pick up the children. yesterday in that press conference secretary nielson said she had toured detention facilities before. after some prodding today by our colleagues, she d never been here, ever. this is the epicenter. this is the place where more than anywhere else children are being separated from their parents. how is she talking about what happens in there without have been be in there, without seeing the mylar blankets and the mats and the cages? can you truth squad this for us a little bit. it becomes jarring to watch the volume of lies that come out of washington. you re on the ground. what are we being most misled about? reporter: wow. that s a good question. frankly, what s happening here and why it s happening. i mean, it s pretty simple actually. the answer is president trump decided to put in place a policy
their side. secretary nielson yesterday had a lot of misleading and untrue facts. nevertheless, they feel confident in what the administration is doing and they feel like it s up to congress to try to fix this problem. in private, they re just simply echoing what president trump has been saying in public. it s stunning that they view this as a story. these are babies being ripped from the arms of their parents. this isn t a story. this is a humanitarian crisis along the border of their own creation. was there any reaction to laura bush and michelle obama and the wall street journal and republicans in congress all sort of failing to follow donald trump down the rabbit hole of his own delusions? you re right in that they see it as a story. they view a lot of these things as political public relations issues. is he winning, is he losing. because that s how the president sees so much of this stuff. he s watching the coverage. he s been upset with some of the
border. just to reiterate one thing that jacob and others down there on the scene are trying to do, they re trying to see these facilities themselves. yesterday homeland security secretary nielson asked the people in that news briefing to have faith that the children are being taken care of, that the border agents that the conditions are good, that there s nothing awry there. yet we ve seen no evidence of that. where are the girls? we ve yet to see the girls. to ask the public to have faith that this administration is true to its word would be difficult because of the track record of this administration so far. they ve not been truthful. but they ve also not been particularly compassionate in how they re managing this crisis. there were not really any words of compassion from the secretary yesterday in her briefing. in fact, it happened a few hours after the audio recording came out of those girls wailing and crying. she acknowledged at the podium that he didn t know what we were t
breaking news now. just minutes ago we learned that the department of homeland security secretary kirsten nielson is coming to the white house to address the outrage over the children being taken from parents as they are apprehended at the border. sarah sanders the white house press secretary did not want to do the briefing today, amid the swirl of questions about the separation policy. so secretary nielson was flown back from new orleans where she was addressing law enforcement to explain the questions and that is explaining why the briefing was delayed several times and more than usual today. let s go to kaitlin collins. so sarah sanders is unable to defend this policy? is that what i am to gather. reporter: clearly she doesn t want to take questions from reporters by herself up here in