michel of the maria you know right now we're witnessing in my own martyr what would happen in syria in years ago when he had demonstrators asking for you know freedom for democracy and the army their main mar army is meeting them with snipers who are shooting at them and today they killed about 30 or 50 people 'd demonstrators that have been in syria for 9 months where the you have peaceful demonstration 'd is there is in asking for the same freedom that we enjoy in the west and the united states and europe and other places and there were they were met by snipers and by the army and you know eventually people carried arms to britain to protect themselves to to protect their families and communities from mass rape from displacement from snipers from people coming to the hospitals to pull out patients and then there's of carrying it from torture you know we're talking about a scale of torture that we have never witnessed in the recent memory 'd 200000 people disappeared in syria 88000 of them were tortured to death by the assad regime 600000 people were killed which is 2.7 percent of the

starting to get more specifics and with the announcements of michelle brenier from the women's referee commission as executive director of the task force, you can see like maria pointed out, what advocates have been calling for, for a long time are actually becoming the realities here for these separated families. >> in and maria teresa, it was exactly what you were talking about, the advocacy groups are working with this white house, with common goals, if perhaps not the same timetable. >> exactly right. these conversations were happening the moment that it was announced that biden won the election. so this was months ahead of time. but what's also interesting is he's talking about the importance of getting buy-in from the local countries, from guatemala. he talks about how a lot of the stuff that these children had to go to the border were completely unnecessary but they were done purposefully by the trump administration. when he says that he is inheriting an agency that was completely gutted, not only do i believe it, but we see it in their inability from the trump administration to allow individual minors to go to their local embassy to seek for help, to