should have seen coming and basically were unprepared a few months ago. that is right now the question. and there seems to be a blame game going between departments, department of health and human services and the department of homeland security. i should point out we ourselves were not allowed to bring cameras inside the facility. but the government has given handout video which i believe that you are watching. and the associated press went in yesterday and take still photos and video and that has also just been released. gabe, thank you for your reporting. just ahead, alex acosta set to speak to reporters in moments. nbc news has learned that president trump is the one who urged acosta to hold this upcoming presser to answer questions about acosta s handling of the jeffrey epstein case. we will bring that to you live. when you have diabetes, dietary choices are crucial to help manage blood sugar,
officials that a month and a half ago there were nearly 700 children crammed into this facility. right now it is still over capacity. it has 117 children inside here. it was originally built less than a decade ago to hold 106. so let me tell you exactly what we saw. we were brought inside. we were not allowed to speak to any of the children. we were not allowed to bring cameras inside, just a pen and a paper as is common in these types of tours. no handout video was given, no still photos were given out. we were taken to a conference room for a briefing, and then we were shown several areas of this facility. we saw children held in nine cells in a central processing area. i did see one older child in tears, apparently walking back from a phone, heading back to this cell, apparently to reunite with her brother or her sister. she was in tears. but other than that, i did not see any signs any clear signs of children in any distress. i can tell you that the cells, many of them were full.
el salvador and honduras and all were captured by border patrol agents in texas, california and arizona. two nights ago h.h.s. released a handout video from what it s like inside. what we saw on the structured tour that is how it is. clean classrooms where the kids have six hours of academics every day. the cafeteria, three square meals. we saw breakfast. scrambled eggs, biscuit, fruit and hash browns like a school cafeteria. segregated dorm stories for the boys and the girls. there are 12 kids to each room. this afternoon florida senator marco rubio got inside as well and told us afterwards the whole situation is sad and he supports keeping the families together. every country in the country has migratory laws. by the way, much stricter than ours. i would say of course we do. like my parents, people continue to arrive every day in the united states. they do sow there a legal do so through a legal process. reporter: h.h.s. tells us the goal at all of the 100