>>acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan says it's been 40 days since the trump administration asked congress for emergency funding and so far nothing the last 40 days, 60,000 children have entered into dhs custody mcaleenan says migrants are crossing the border in record numbers and his agency is overwhelmed a wall will not fix this problem republican senator lindsey graham says to stop the flow of migrants we must help the countries they are flynn our goal is to improve life there and give people some hope and their own country. graham says his bill the secure and protect act would require those seeking

in a moment will speak with the acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan.ut first we'll begin with david, the with the latest from the north lot of the white house. >> president trump is back at the white house this morning after spending a week in europe. when he got home friday night, just a few after arriving her the white house, he announced to the trade deal that not only stops tariffs, but has put significant pressure on mexico to secure its own borders. >> president trump greeting supporters on the south lawn late friday afternoon. it just three hours later he made the official announcement tweeting "the tariffs scheduled to be u.s. on monday the specifics include mexico deploying 6,000 trips to its southern border with guatemala, migrants waiting in mexico for the asylum process to play out. mexico offering migrants jobs, health care and education and taking action against human smuggling and trafficking operations." saturday afternoon mexico's president held a rally in tijuana to celebrate the deal with the united states, but not everyone is celebr

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at least for now, in a moment speaking speaking with homeland acting secretary kevin mcaleenan, firstst from the north lawn. >> president trump back at the white house after spending week in europe when he got home friday night just a few hours after arriving at the white house, he announced trade deal that not only stops tariffs but puts significant pressure on mÉxico to secure its own borders. president trump greeting supporters on south lawn late friday afternoon just 3 hours later he made official announcement tweeting the tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the u.s. on monday against mÉxico are hereby indefinitely suspended. the specifics includes mÉxico deploying 6,000 troops to border with guatemala. migrants waiting in mÉxico for asylum process to play out. mÉxico offering migrants jobs, health care and education and taking action against human smuggling and trafficking operations. saturday afternoon mÉxico's president held a rally in tijuana to celebrate the deal with the united states but not everyone is celebrating. senate minority leader chuck schumer sarcastically twee

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acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan backed up his boss on "fox news sunday" earlier thisorning. >> people can disagree and i still came to the table with roll proposals, we have an agreement if they implement it will be effective. >> late yesterday afternoon next goes president held a rally in tijuana to celebrate the deal with the united states originally that was posted be in effort to convince the trump administration to back off on the tariffs and it turned into a party and not everybody is celebrating the president negotiating tactics with mexico. >> is becoming a threat and he is treating it like the poker chips at one of the bankruptcy. i think it's wrong and i think should have a consistent trade policy that works for everybody in america. >> speaking of trade policy, those tariffs went into effect last month. the mexican tariffs were a threat, chinese people are really feeling that part right now and president trump meeting with president she jumping with just a few weeks at the g20 summit at 2:00 p.m. molly: thank you so much. we can watch us unfold tomorrow. fo

. >> however, dhs acting secretary kevin mcaleenan ib cyst it is president's deal with mÉxico is new,mid border crisis the white house reporting more than 160,000 people who entered the u.s. illegally since december have been released into the country because border patrol simply doesn't have anymore more room. >> all of it is new. this is tenfold commitment. that's where people are entering from guatemala in southern mÉxico. >> by the way, tariffs are indefinitely suspended, not off the table but suspended. heather: not off the table, though, if they don't follow through on the agreements, thank you so much, appreciate it. we will talk much more about this coming up but in the meantime while president trump takes victory lap over deal with mÉxico, congressman says first step to mixborder crisis. >> when chuck schumer said it was a bluff, i said that probably a week of now he would be eating his words, this week he will. the president used what i think was a very important tool to convince mÉxico that securing southern border and working with us and we have potential of eliminating 60

and probably the most important person in this discussion acting secretary kevin mcaleenan is out ofd from him. lou: yes and kevin mcaleenan is there to work on the third nation arrangement for asylum-seekers who would then be kept from entering the united states and entering asylum infrastructure and process which is an absolute disaster right now. your thoughts about your own reporting that five, as i recall, five sources that the acting secretary was behind the leaks on the president's proposed interior enforcement by immigration and customs enforcement. >> you know, lou, go down to the border pretty frequently. i've been down there 40 days since january. a lot of contact. lou: good for you. >> i.c.e. everything, after the story went up saturday, that said, the secretary was the mastermind in this leak to the post. lou: right. >> i had a number of officials, rank and file, upper department officials, a variety reaching out to say thank you, this is exactly what we have been concerned about that our secretary is not with us. and so now with the new i.c.e. director mark morgan movin

homeland security kevin mcaleenan backs up his boss on fox news sunday this morning. >> people can disagree with attached fix and i still came to the table with roll proposals, we have agreement if they implement will be affected. >> this is video of tijuana mexico a rally held by mexico president that celebrated the deal with the united states. it was supposed to be an effort to convince the trumper ministration tobacco from the tariffs but it turned into somewhat of a celebration, somewhat of a party. not everyone is celebrating the deposit is negotiating tactics with mexico. let's listen. >> using this issue as a political prop to visit political agenda. >> we need to work with other countries to lift up the poorest people around the world. yes we do. but trump's erratic threat and trade policies are not the way to go. reporter: president trump tweedy that those tariffs can be imposed on mexico if they don't follow through with their part of the deal that will not happen. in the tariffs talk goes to china, they will be meeting the president at the g20 summit in japan in just a few weeks.

that was kevin mcaleenan. your response? according to not just "the new york times" reporting but numerous outlets, that exact agreement had been made months ago by the ousted previous secretary kristjen nielsen. in fact, anyone can google, there been a series of stories, actually, about how a lot of the border towns have become basically armed camps where the whereops in the hotels migrants first thing are now being raided. this is happening already at the moment. it seems like it is another instance of trump, perhaps as a distraction on the democrats making clear the nafta deal he signed as is would not stop job outsourcing, would lock in high medicine prices, maybe you wanted to change the subject so he creates a crisis. maybe it was because he is worried about fallout from the mullah report. he created a crisis, set an arbor terry deadline, claims he got a deal -- which was does -- which does not exist, and started leaving the crisis on the silence for more chaos later. we think about the nafta replacement, that could be

>>acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan says it's been 40 days since the trump administration asked congress for emergency funding and so far nothing the last 40 days, 60,000 children have entered into dhs custody mcaleenan says migrants are crossing the border in record numbers and his agency is overwhelmed a wall will not fix this problem republican senator lindsey graham says to stop the flow of migrants we must help the countries they are flynn our goal is to improve life there and give people some hope and their own country. graham says his bill the secure and protect act would require those seeking asylum to apply in their home countries instead of at the border. it would also allow immigration officials to hold families with children for up to 100 days. the bill would also immediately add 500 new immigration judges to reduce the backlog of cases, texas republican senator john cornyn says democrats need to stop dragging their feet so far we've seen no willingness on the part of our democratic colleagues. >>to meet us halfway but illinois democrat dick durbin blames the p

desperately needs emergency funding the last 40 days, 60,000 children have entered into dhs custody kevin mcaleenan said last month 144,000 migrants crossed the border, setting a modern day record and most of that more families and children republicans like senator mike lee said asylum seekers have learned that the us rarely deportes these children tends to incentivize the more migration and more illegal smuggling of these miners and had to deal with the influx of families is creating a huge divide between democrats and republicans who are supporting competing bills, republican senator lindsey graham's bill would allow families to be held in government custody for up to 100 days and would force families and children to apply for asylum in their home or richard durbin says there was until recently a program that allowed children to do just that. >>it was shut down by the trump administration. yes, yes, yes. >>on the democratic side senator dianne feinstein's bill would ensure children are held in safe conditions for as short a time as possible. she pointed to recent inspections of immigration detent

kevin mcaleenan worked the border.homeland secretary under his title and he says listen, i have been asking congress for 18 months for money to fund humanitarian aid at our border for the illegals coming. in they won't even vote on it. they won't listen to it. they talk about asylum changes that would stop the flood of immigrants, illegals coming into our country, haven't even entertained it but have gotten very close to giving themselves big raises. yesterday kevin mcaleenan talked about how many cases he is dealing with at the border. >> solutions are essential to addressing the unprecedented security and humanitarian crisis we are facing on our southern border. it's been over 18 months since the administration asked for the legislative fixes that would have prevented the current crisis and 40 days since we asked the emergency funding necessary to manage it. >> what percentage of the people show up for the asylum hearing. >> we do see too many cases where people aren't showing up. out of 7,000 cases 90 received final

. >> reporter: acting secretary of homeland security kevin mcaleenan says this plan is different. >> people can disagree with the tactics. mexico came to the table with real proposals. we have an agreement that if they implement will be effective. >> reporter: critics sounding off. >> he's becoming the threatener in chief. >> you can't use it to threaten. you can't have a trade policy based on tweets. >> reporter: and tonight, the president hinting what would happen if there isn't sufficient cooperation from mexico to stop illegal border crossings, tweeting, "we can always go back to our previous, very profitable, position of tariffs." >> tara, following all of this, a trade war with mexico averted for now. but news from the treasury secretary that president trump would be perfectly happy to escalate another one? >> reporter: talks are at a standstill with china. and steven mnuchin said that president trump is still considering slapping more tariffs on chinese goods, but he won't do that until speaking with the chinese president later this month. tom? >> tara, thank you. >>> next we

acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan said d.h.s.holding more than 80,000 migrants in custody. earlier this month, mcaleenan addressed the crisis at the border on "face the nation." >> so, yes, i'm very concerned about the conditions. these are not appropriate facilities for families and children, in particular. >> reporter: families make up the bulk of the apprehensions. between january and april of this year, of the more than 306,000 people apprehended at the southern border, more than half were family units. andrew seely of the migration policy institute says mexico is already trying to curb the flow of migrants. >> since 2014, the mexican government has actually deported more people to central america than the united states has. mexico has a fairly active enforcement regime, but it's not clear that it's up to the task right now. >> reporter: omar villafranca, cbs news, dallas. >> brennan: a judge in st. louis today temporarily blocked efforts to shut down missouri's last abortion clinic. the court battle drew crowds of demonstrat

immigration and customs enforcement, and today i talked with the acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenanhis evening. in a talk on the phone, he absolutely denied categorically all charges of leaking, and we take that up here tonight. >>> the nba moves away from calling the people who own nba teams owners despite being owners. >>> and california governor gavin newsom cries foul at the republican party's, quote, hyper-masculinity, end quote. what is going on? hyper-masculinity? toxic masculinity? former nfl star, businessman, author burgess owens among our guests here tonight. we'll take up that. >>> and president trump today slapping another round of sanctions against iran, targeting the iranian supreme leader as well and other high ranking iranian military leaders. president trump standing firm to never allow iran to possess a nuclear weapon. for the latest on the president's sanctions against iran, we turn to fox chief white house correspondent john with roberts. john roberts. >> reporter: good evening. the trump administration has imposed more than 1,000 sanctions against iran since th

. >> okay, so what is dhs have to say, kevin mcaleenan insist that is the president's deal with mÉxicond necessary, the white house says fleerl 200,000 migrants who entered the u.s. illegally since december have been released because border patrol simply does not have room. >> all of it is new, i mean, we've heard commitments before from mÉxico to do more on their southern border, the last time they deployed down there was 4 or 500 officers, this is more than tenfold commitment to increase security. that's where people are entering from guatemala into southern mÉxico. >> tariffs are indefinitely suspended but not off the table. rob: thanks so much. julie: david ortiz ambushed an shot in the back. former boston red sox star reportedly telling a doctor, please don't let me die, i'm a good man before undergoing emergency surgery, he's in stable condition. police got off motorcycle and attacked ortiz at bar, the suspect taken into custody after being caught and beaten by a crowd of witnesses, ortiz known as big papi retired in 2015 after leading red sox to 3 world series titles. estranged

. ♪ lou: department of homeland security acting secretary kevin mcaleenan reported by met with cnn anchoran off the record meeting in late may. according to one report, an administration official said that mcaleenan is, quote, more concerned with ingratiating himself with oh never- other never-trumpers. mcaleenan appeared this weekend on cnn's "state of the union." >>> a brand new report from the hill's john solomon detailing the clinton campaign's abuse of the intelligence community in an effort to stop president trump from being elected to white house. well, in that article solomon says clinton gained dozens of political ious who donated to clinton foundation. it's now time for the american public to call. in their own ious on political transparency and to get some answers to ten questions that he asks in his newest article on "the hill." award-winning investigate9ive journalist john solomon with us tonight. great to have you here. >> thanks, lou. lou: this is one of the most frustrating questions, i think, in of us face and you are in the lead journalistically in this story of spygate.

and whether mÉxico can hold up its end of the bargain with acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenann my conference for tariffs, that's for sure. >> how much of the role defiance play in the president's plans, we will ask senate home security chair ron johnson. plus, house democtsla

and here acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan saying while people may disagree with the president's tactics he did get results. >> we've heard commitments from mexico before to do more on their southern border. the last time they deployed was 400 or 500 officers. that's where people are entering from guatemala in southern mexico. the president put a charge in this whole dialogue with mexico with the tariff threat. brought them to the table. foreign minister from mexico arrived within hours. he arrived the next day with real proposals on the table. >> you know, just to jump into the numbers for a second. i had a democrat on my show last week who was calling names like a disaster, catastrophe, that sort of thing. but making the markets look like they were just on fire negatively. we had one day of going back and forth. >> look at what is happening. >> which they can do at any time. >> they can, of course markets are very nervous about trade issues. just to focus for a second on what the democrat was saying, which is really outrageous, that we have to rely on the mexicans i

acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan says it's time for congress to do something. >> theorder is that the breaking point. we are having emergency care. our conditions are not appropriate. i could not agree more with the ig findings that we need a solution to change this. we have solutions on the table of congress. he mentioned the supplemental. we asked for $4.5 billion, 3.3 of that to take better care of children in federal custody for hhs. not for dhs, for health and human services. so we need that funding from congress and we need to immediately. >> harris: so many voices joining this script, if you will, echoing the same thing. "help." hector gaza now, vice president to the border patrol council, second in command. good to see you today. what does command looks like when things are falling apart? what can you do, what do you need? >> like secretary mcaleenan said, i think congress needs to make sure we fund it. mcaleenan has testified in congress that we are going to run out of money. a lot of this money is going to be used so we can hold some of these people. you har

secretary of state mike pompeo and acting department of homeland security secretary, kevin mcaleenan. either mexico cuts migration or tariffs hit mexican products monday. >> they have to step up. if they don't, tariffs will go on. if they go high, the companies will move to the united states. it's simple. >> the president has threatened 5% tariffs on all mexican imports into the united states, potentially rising to 25%. mexican officials argue american tariffs would make it more difficult to address those migrants traversing their country. >> i am optimistic. i think we'll reach an agreement. we'll reach an arrangement. >> mexico says central america needs international aid to improve conditions in the region. remove an incentive for citizens there to attempt to enter mexico and then the united states. president trump cut aid to guatemala, honduras and el salvador saying they fail to address illegal migration. the u.s. is in the middle of a trade fight with china featuring tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars on chinese and american products. there is bipartisan opposition to ev

immigration and customs enforcement, and today i talked with the acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan on the phone, he absolutely denied categorically all charges of leaking, and we take that up here tonight. >>> the nba moves away from calling the people who own nba teams owners despite being owners. >>> and california governor gavin newsom cries foul at the republican party's,

the acting secretary, kevin mcaleenan, put three areas that mexico needs to work on, and he's right.ed to increase their interior enforcement operation, target the transnational organization of cartels, and work with us on asylum. those absolutely need to be done. mexico has not done it and they are not doing it. the reason why is because the cartel's everything and the cartels are a multibillion-dollar industry. they could to sit back and be facilitators and let it go down. they need to be in the game and the president the present is forcing them to do so. >> harris: acting director of ice, mark morgan. you mention congress more than once in all this. democratic caucus vice chair catherine clark is praising her party's immigration bill, the one you take exception to. let's watch. >> i think it's really a cause of celebration for the caucus. it has been 18 years in the making, and today we have the chance to go to the dreamers. today we are going to say to them, "we see you, you matter, you're part of the fabric of this country, and we are going to acknowledge that." >> harris: your

acting secretary of homeland security kevin mcaleenan announced the plan as part of a larger scheme to offset trump administration cuts to central american assistance funds earlier this year. the plan also includes sending 80 homeland security agents to guatemala to train local authorities on breaking up human trafficking rings. as president trump continues his state visit to britain, meeting with outgoing prime minister theresa may today, londoners have come out in droves to protest president trump. on monday, demonstrators gathered near buckingham palace as the trump family attended a state dinner with the british royals. >> i'm here to protest against donald trump's racism, justt , separatingbout him children from their families, pulling out of the climate agreement -- he is just a horrible person. amy: before arriving in britain, president trump consulted london's first muslim mayor sadiq khan after he called out trump's divisive far right policies. n reminds med "khab of the blah zero who has also done a terrible job, only half his height." trump also called khan stone cold loser

appearing on fox news sunday acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan disputed the new york times reporting this plan has been around for months. >> all of it is new. we've heard commitments before from mexico to do more on their southern border. the last time they deployed down there it was about 4 or 500 officers. this is more than a 10-fold commitment to increase their security from where people are entering from guatemala into southern mexico. >>> mexico's president held a rally to celebrate the deal with the united states. originally the event was supposed to be an effort to convince the trump administration to back off of tariffs, but it turned into a party. not everyone is celebrating the president's negotiating tactics with mexico. >> he's becoming the threatener in chief. >> they're poker chips basically at one of his bankrupt casinos. i think it's wrong and we should have a consistent strong trade policy that works for everyone in america. >> reporter: now the tariff talks switches to china, president trump and his counterpart xi jinping will meet in a few weeks. >

immigration and customs enforcement, and today i talked with the acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenann a talk on the phone, he absolutely denied categorically all charges of leaking, and we take that up here tonight. >>> the nba moves away from calling the people who own nba teams owners despite being owners. >>> and california governor gavin newsom cries foul at the republican party's,

. >> reporter: however, dhs acting secretary kevin mcaleenan insisting the president's deal with mexico is new and it's a relief amid an escalating border crisis. the white house reporting more than 160,000 people who entered the u.s. illegally since december have been released into the country because border patrol doesn't have enough room. >> all of it is new. we've heard commitments before from mexico to do more on their southern border. the last time they deployed down there is 4 or 500 officers. this is a 10-fold commitment to increase security. >> reporter: the tariffs are indefinitely suspended, but not off the table. cheryl: thank you very much. well, a massive protest in hong kong over a proposed law on extradition. org's nicers say -- organizers say 1 million people took to te streets to show opposition, which would allow people from hong kong to be taken to mainland china to stand trial. critics worry they could target political dissidents and activists. the leader of hong kong said the government will move forward with the legislation. britain returned control of hong kong t

back in the u.s., acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan told congress tuesday that 60,000 children have been taken into dhs custody in the last 40 days alone. critics say mcaleenan's testimony is part of an ongoing effort to build up a case for more border funding. his hearing came ahead of a planned vote by the senate appropriations committee next week on president trump's request for $4.5 billion in emergency spending tied to the u.s.-mexico border. meanwhile, immigration and human rights advocates are continuing to raise alarm over the dire conditions in which migrgrant children are being locked up. we will have more on that report later in the show. meanwhile, immigration hardliner ken cuccinelli has assumed the role of acting head of citizenship and immigration services. several l top republicans have come out against cuccinelli's temporary appointment, and senate whip john thune warned the republican controlled senate was unlikely to approve a potential nomination for cuccinelli to become permanent head of the agency. as a state lawmaker in virginia, cuccinelli autho

. ♪ >> melissa: just moments ago, acting, and security kevin mcaleenan running up testimony.secretary speaking up after the president announced a new deal with mexico, to control a surge of migrants of. chairman lindsey graham asking him if this deal will solve the problem. >> what mexico is doing is helpful, but is not an adequate substitute for congress acting. is that accurate? >> i agree with that. >> so mexico cannot solve this problem by itself. >> right. it's beyond meantime, "the washington post" reviewing documents detailing some key paf the immigration deal that president trump's healing is a major victory. the post reporting that mexico has agreed to deploy its national guard to the guatemala border, conduct thousands more migrant arrests per week, and accept busloads of asylum-seekers that u.s. border officials have turned away. this has president trump lashes out at democrats critical of the deal, as well as "the new york times." the times reported that much of the deal with mexico had been negotiated months ago. andy, do you buy it, that argument? i'm sure they

officials on this, including the current acting secretary of the department of homeland security, kevin mcaleenan. making the case that the threat against mexican imports was what brought the mexican government to the negotiating table. listen to what he said. >> the president put a charge in this whole dialogue with mexico, with the terror threat, brought them to the table. the former minister of mexico arrived within hours, he arrived the next day with real proposals on the table. this is the first time we've heard this number of law enforcement being deployed in mexico to address migration, not just on the southern border but also on the transportation routes to the northern border and coordinated patrols in key areas along our southern border. >> as far as comments from secretary mnuchin of tariff negotiations still being at play, it's not really a surprise considering there is a 90-day window for both sides to come up with further agreements, more areas they can cooperate to stem the flow of migrants traveling from central america through mexico into the united states. it wouldn't be a surpr

. >> reporter: kevin mcaleenan tried to win over skeptical lawmakers on capitol hill today. agreement with mexico is a good start democrats claim it won't work. >> donald trump takes pride in being the most anti-immigrant president in modern history. and at the same time, his border security strategy is producing the worst results in our history. >> along mexico's southern border with guatemala the military is already starting to deploy and migrants are being detained rather than allowed to cross to the country. local activists strongly protesting against the new agreement calling it a human rights violation. >> migrants can't leave, even if they wanted to it is condemning people who want to escape the violence and seek safety. >> reporter: to secure and protect act of being disgusted today discussed today also this thought with a safe third processing country. in washington, mcelwee, fox news. >> there is no evidence night in a case from a woman missing in connecticut, and the suspicion surrounding her estranged husband. >>> jennifer doolittle's is appeared last month. her

reports claim the delay was prompted by a leak by acting department of homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan or his staff, which could have compromised the plan. democratic lawmakers accused the trump administration of using the threat of mass deportations as a bargaining chip to push its immigration agenda. texas congressmember joaquin castro said -- "the threat to knock and drag people away from their families and out of their communities shouldn't be a negotiation tactic for an american president." a number of cities said they would not cooperate with ice if they started to carry out mass removals. the los angeles police department tweeted it would not participate in any immigration enforcement activities and the newly elected mayor of chicago lori lightfoot announced she withdrew ice's access to the chicago's police immigration databases. in other immigration news, republican texas governor greg abbott announced friday he would deploy 1000 additional national guard troops to aid the federal government in what he calls the "crisis at the border." new accusations of sexual -- rape have bee

listen to the current head of dhs, the acting director of dhs kevin mcaleenan on one of the sunday morning. >> the president brought them to the table. the foreign minister from mexico arrived within hours with real proposals on the table. this is the first time we've heard anything of this kind of law enforcement being deployed in mexico and coordinated patrols and key areas along our southwest border. >> now, remember, these two sides are going to keep communicating for about 90 days in which they may announce more agreements, so it's no surprise to hear the treasury secretary steve mnuchin make that kind of statement and trying to imply that pressure is still being placed on the mexican government. we should point out though that the president has been very aggressive with mexico and other central american nations in the past. just a few months ago we threatened to shut down the entire southern border before aides eventually talked about him. the president gets very aggressive on the issue of immigration. something that was central to his candidacy and central to his presidency and some

. >> kevin mcaleenan, is fund the countries and provide them with aid. >> from 2018 you saw migrantselel salvador will . and they try to escape desperate situations that are going on in their home countries. >> scott, what is your take? >> well, i think that the way forward here is pretty clear. both the house and senate have approved legislation but only one of those bills has a chance to become law and that is the senate bill. >> you're talking about the supplemental $4.5. >> to deal with the humanitarian crisis at the border and right now the house bill is dead. the president will veto it. it has no chance to become law. the senate bill passed, got 84 votes, the fact is mitch mcconnell and his team and chuck schumer and his team work together to get a bill that was palatable to both parties. and so i think the way forward for u.s. policy in the short-term is to get on top of the humanitarian crisis. everybody is outraged and heartbroken by this photo. one way we can stop the heartbreaking images is to get on top of the humanitarian crisis. the senate bill does it and the only one

but the acting department of homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan has been warning for monthscrisis would happen and he needed this money, most of 3-billion dollars of it for facilities for kids. >> but the progressives are worried now that the acting cbp director is stepping down that they -- these are agencies that are chaos, they don't know where the money is going. and so what they want is some kind of enforcement mechanism that if they money isn't directed to go to dhs and cbp they have some kind of, quote, hammer as mark pokan of wisconsin put it, another leader of the progressive caucus, they want a mechanism, stronger language and they did get a few concessions last night to make them happier and they are making sure there are standards for hygiene at the facilities. >> and for want of a better term, say that the secretary mcaleenan is pragmatic and then others in the administration are hardlineser for simplicity sake. his now outgoing replacement at cbp is resigning. what does that mean? does that mean that a hard liner will be put in there necessarily? >> that seems

for fear that they might have mumps, it comes at the same time that the acting dhs secretary kevin mcaleenanearings on the hill that conditions at the border are at a breaking point. in fact, just a few days ago just this week mcaleenan talked about the dangerous contagious diseases at the border saying it's not just dangerous to the migrants flowing across the border but also border agents and really the numbers here are stunning. last month there were had a record number of migrants encountered or arrested at the border. that will number was 144,000. that's the highest total in one month in more than a decade. of course, we've heard from president trump striking that deal with mexico and putting more pressure on that country putting the stem of flow of migrants to the u.s., but really the stung numbers today is that at i.c.e. detention centers around the country we're seeing a huge uptick of people quarantined, the number now standing at 5,200 people quarantined because of mumps and chicken pox. >> an alarming number. thanks north breaking news. turning now it our political radar. a few ot

desperately needs emergency funding last 40 days, 60,000 children have entered into dhs custody kevin mcaleenan month 144,000 migrants crossed the border, setting a modern day record and most of that more families and children republicans like senator mike lee said asylum seekers have learned that the us rarely deportes enth tends t the more gration and more illegal smuggling of these miners and had to deal with the influx of families is creating a huge divide between democrats and republicans who are supporting competing bills, republican senator lindsey graham's bill would allow families to be held in government custody for up to 100 days and would force families and children to apply for asylum in their home countries senator richard durbin says there was until recently a program that allowed children to do just that. >>it was shut down by the trump administration. yes, yes, yes. >>on the democratic side senator dianne feinstein's bill would ensure children are held in safe conditions for as short a time as possible she pointed to recent inspections of immigration detention centers facilitie

then dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen from the department and replaced her with then commissioner kevin mcaleenan. the exact reason for this resignation are still very much unclear about what we do know is that the department of homeland security is dealing with a major crisis of the border, huge influx of migrants. there also dealing with a lot of controversy and accusations regarding the handling of migrant children in their custody. the fact that it's happening now, happening at a time when this department could really use a bit of stability and they are not getting it right now. >> dana: kristin fisher, thank you. we offer our congratulations to stephanie grisham. president trump hit iran's leaders with new sanctions and the president was firing back with a series of tweets. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. what has been the reaction from iran to the new sanctions? >> one day after president trump signed a new sanctions order, top iranian officials mocked the sanctions in the white house and said the potential for talks are now dead. here is iran's pre

. >>> acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan testifies tuesday on security issues at the southwest border. he'll speak before the senate judiciary committee. that's live beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> on tuesday, the house meets to consider a resolution that would let the house judiciary committee sue attorney general william barr, and former white house general counsel don mcgahn for the unredacted mueller report and other information. the resolution would also shorten the process for other house committees to sue trump administration officials. live house coverage starts at noon eastern on c-span. and wednesday, more on the mueller report as the house intelligence committee holds a hearing to discuss counterintelligence implications. stephanie douglas and robert anderson are two former fbi officials who worked in the bureau's national security branch. they're scheduled to testify live wednesday at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> and we welcome back to our washington journal desk this morning robert gebbia, who serves as ceo of the american foundation