and senator jeff merkley is also with us. jacob, tell us what you saw, and can you show us anything that you saw inside there? >> i think right around the same time we're coming on the air with you, we're getting some of the firsthand out photos from the department of human health and services. we were not allowed to bring our cameras inside.

>> senator jeff merkley. u.s. senator jeff merkley. >> how do you spell? >> m-e-r-k-l-e-y. >> and your date of birth, sir? >> october. >> 24th, 1956. i'm a u.s. senator. and u.s. policy is involved right now with children. are you familiar with this policy? >> no. this is not something that we specifically deal with. but just so i can id it and advise my sergeant that you're here. >> the supervisor is here. if he wants us to leave the property, he can ask. but he hasn't asked yet. >> would you guys mind? >> have i now been asked to leave the property. so i'll comply with that. >> and senator jeff merkley, democrat of oregon, joins me now from washington, d.c. it's good to see you, senator. i want to be clear on. this you reached out to dhs through your staff through official channels to arrange some sort of visit before going down there, correct? >> well, i was seeking to get into three different places. one is a processing center run by dhs, the department of homeland security. and i was given permission to do that. the second was a respite center run by

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this is we should point out the same facility senator jeff merkley was turned away from. give us a sense of the situation inside what you witnessed. >> reporter: as you said it is almost at capacity. there are 1,460 kids that slept in there last night. capacity is 1,497. there have never been more kids inside this former wal-mart since it opened doors in march of 2017 specifically because of the trump administration's policy. until the policy was announced most kids came without parents. now that the administration is trying to charge every undocumented immigrant that crosses into the country illegally, those numbers are sky rocketing. i saw some footage that was

you heard jeff merkley offer criticism of the particulars of that bill.cornyn said in a speech on the senate floor he intended to do the same thing given beta o'rourke took the lead on there issue. also in a letter, house speaker joe strauss asked the president move immediately to rescind the policy of separating immigrant families and then made it clear this is not a binary choice between ramp in crime and tearing families apart. tanya chavez is a strategist with immigration rights group and democratic state representative terry carnales. what are your concerns your organization has what the effects of this policy are. >> one of the fears that we have is that we have dealt with the issue of immigration for many years and families who have resided here for many years are now wondering are we next. right? and. >> this has cast a pall over the community. >> exactly. now we're starting to get some calls into our office and how to reunite the children with their mariners. our biggest concern is that when children get routed through the system and they're read

and senator jeff merkley is also with us.and can you show us anything that you saw inside there? >> i think right around the same time we're coming on the air with you, we're getting some of the firsthand out photos from the department of human health and services. we were not allowed to bring our cameras inside. that is because there are 1,500 boys almost, between the ages of 10 to 17 years old, that are going to sleep in there at night. at 9:00 the lights go out. it's essentially a prison or jail without cages or cells for these young boys. the majority of them who arrived in america as unaccompanied minors, crossed on their own.bu know are separated from their parents because of the trump administration zero tolerance policy. it's hard to wrap your head around but you go inside and there are hundreds of kids at a time in line for chow, doing activities. but eye all there because they were picked up by the border patrol and locked up. and they're not going to be able to get out of there for the next couple months. at least

>> senator jeff merkley.. >> and your date of birtrth? >> november 24, 1956. >> and you said you are a senator? >> a u.s. senator. are you familiar with this policy? >> this is not something that we specifically deal with. >> we won't takeke up their time anymore b but i think it is important for you to be the children n who were previously kept with their families under a newew policy just implemented by the attorney generalal are being separated d from their families and warehouse here. -- warehoused here. amy: thatt was senator jeff merkley, unable to get into that walmart. well for more we go now to the epicenter of this zero tolerance crackdown. the rio grande valley in south texas is where more than half of all migrant families and children have been apprehended by border patrol agents since mid-may. we begin in mcallen, where democracy now! correspondent renee feltz went this past weekend to spepeak with residents who are taking action in response to the widely condemned practice of separating famililies. among those she met with w

jeff merkley / he sign reads welcome to casa padre- but after senator jeff jeff merkley was turned awayand other lawmakers returned for an official toursen. jeff merkley / oregon (d) they went from 500 kids here in april to almost 1500 here now. theres no place to put them, theyre talking about putting a tent city for children near el paso. as lawmakers visited various detention centers... people gathered to protest the separation of families.in the past many immigrants were simply deported with their kids. some call that policy catch and release.the trump administrations new zero tolerance policy means all adults are charged and their kids are separated from them when the parents head to court. the administration says its necessary to discourage people from trafficking drugs and committing heinous crimes manuel padilla / rgv border patrol chiefthere has to be a consequence for entering the country illegally.but lawmakers say the practice of separating from their families causes irreperable harm and trauma.rep. sheila jackson lee / texas (d)my fear is that there may be loss of life, and

i'm sorry, senator -- >> senator jeff merkley. >> reporter: and merkley not allowed in. >> the childreneing separated from their families, warehoused here. >> reporter: one of those families separated, profiled here last week. we brought you the story of jocelyn, who told us she was fleeing an abusive husband back in brazil. but when she crossed illegally into the u.s. with her 14-year-old son, james, back in august of last year, immigration officials took her child away. she says, "he looked at me, like, mom, help me, because i don't know where they're taking me." her son taken more than 1,000 miles away to a refugee center in chicago while she's seeking asylum. but today, after eight months of separation, mother and son back in each other's arms. the government finally reuniting them. the trump administration has recently separated around 700 children from their parents. it's part of an enforcement tactic under a hardline immigration policy. >> if you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally. >> tom llamas continuing his reporting on thi

senator jeff merkley trying to get inside this very center last week. >> can you please give me a tour of it? >> a tour? >> reporter: but denied entry. >> what is your name again, sir? i'm sorry, senator? >> senator jeff merkley. >> reporter: and tonight attorney general jeff sessions invoking the bible in defense of the administration's hard line immigration policy. >> you know that the lord told nehemiah that when he got to come back home to jerusalem, to build a wall. that's the first thing he told him to do. it wasn't to keep people in, it was to keep bad people out. >> reporter: this mother telling us "what is happening is inhumane." her 5-year-old daughter taken from her for days after she illegally crossed the border. she now worries the little girl may have psychological trauma. >> tom llamas with us live from houston. tom, you said the government is running out of space with these facilities. what's the plan moving forward? where will they put the children? >> there are more than 100 facilities across the u.s. they're reaching capacity. they'll have to open emergency and tempo

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i'm senator jeff merkley from congress. my team contacted this facility and asked for permission for me to come and see what is going on inside with these children. >> we don't have any -- i'm going to have to ask you to step away. >> senator jeff merkley joins us now on the phone from texas. good morning, senator. >> good morning, alisyn. good to be with you. >> good to have you. tell us what happened. did you try to enter that facility yesterday and what exactly did they tell you for banning your access? >> yes, i did try to enter the facility yesterday. this is following up on president trump's new policy of removing children from their parents when the families are seeking asylum. these are families that have gone through traumatic experiences abroad and we've always treated such families very graciously as they waited adjudication of their case. now they're being treated in an enormously cruel fashion, a fashion that rips children out of the arms of their parents, sends them off to places unknown while the parents are

ofes senator jeff merkley oregon. >> tber bert f kenny, whose life was brutally, savagely cut short 50 years ago. robert kennedy was a presidential candidate. a u.s. senator, a member of this chamber. an attorney general. and naval officerfaa n, a hband, a brother. but more than all of that, he was acon of hope amidst turbulent and difficult times in our nation. he was an insti generations of americans. speaking at his younger brother's funeral, our former colleague senator ted kennedy said that robert kennedy "need ine idol o beyond what he was life." he saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. toas inspired by his efforts write wrong and heal suffering and stop war. inspired enoughhat wh i became a u.s. senator and was assigned in office, they happened to be the former office kennedy, i proudly pointed that out to visitors. here in my office once sat the great robert kennedy who did see wrong and trd to right itnd and try to stop it. in may 1968, i was in sixth grade. i was an 11-year-old out in oregon, and bobby kennedy, as we affectionately referred to him,

>> senator jeff merkley. u.s. senator jeff merkley.> october 24, 1956. >> and you say you are a senator? >> u.s. senator. and u.s. policy is involved right now with children -- are you familiar with this policy? >> this is not something that we specifically deal with. but just so i get an idea and advise my sergeant that you are here. >> i've been asked to leave the property. and so i'll comply with that. >> oh, wow. what is the federal government so key to hide that they will not let a understand senator, a member of the congress take a look? jeff merkley was a blockednd se member of the congress take a look? jeff merkley was a blocked from centering this facility in texas where child migrants are being leld. some likely victims of trump administration policy to separate children from parents. when asked, trump defaults to what really can only be described as a complete and total lie. >> samantha bee says you are breaking up families. >> democrats -- this is a democrat bill. the democrats can end in a very quickly. all they have to do

. >>> later i'm joined exclusively by senators jeff merkley and chris van hollen as they descend on theder detention centers to try and find some answers. >>> now, every president, every party has left their fingerprints on the state of our immigration system today. the reagan administration's amnesty policy drew widespread backlash and still gives some nservatives pause today. the bush administration had its faults. the administration struggled to handle a spike in migrations amid mass deportations. but at the moment, the current administration is separating families from their children at our bor with mexico, not because of a law, but because this administration has chosen to do so. so far despite nearly 2000 children being separated from their families, what's missing from this story are a flood of images of these young children. it was images of children, after all, that spurred the president to change course in syria. so far, this young toddler has become the face of this policy. stop and look at her for just a moment. and remember that there are thousands -- thousands of other fac

the aumf introduced by senator jeff merkley avoid these pitfalls. it's about as tightly and smartly crafted as a war authorization can be. limited to two countries, iraq and afghanistan, and three groups of the countries and targets must be push liberiaed, can't be classified and it turns things right side up. for the most part the president is required to come to congress to add new countries and new groups. even so, even the merkley resolution bypasses the debate that we ought to be having about even the core groups that are included in each alternative aumf, that is al qaeda, the taliban and isis. we taught be debating why continuing war authorities are necessary for those groups. instead, john and i argue for a war powers reset. restoring -- sunsetting the aumf, keeping it separate from a debate about new war authorizations, and restoring america's default setting to peace, not war. the president decides that al shabaab or boko haram, for example, represent serious long term threats to our national security, he'll be free to make that case to th

the president who is literally, coing to senator jeff merkley's report, putting those children in cages. the pre ws n according to the united nations a human rights violator. we will have more on the president who has decided to put kids in ces next. >>> on the day when the united nations high commissioneor human rights said that the united states is violating the human rights of children on the southern border, the attorney general said this. >> it's certainly not our goal to separate children, but i do think it's cle it's legitimate to warn people who come to the country la bringing children with them that they can't expect that they'll always be kept together. >> joining our discussion now, mara teresa kumar, president and ceo of voto latino and an msnbc contributor. and maria thereeresa, the first point i want to make here, and please feel cree to make any point you want, this is a new policy. this is not forced on the trump administration by law. there is no law that has to be changed, new change to thi policy. this is a choice of donald trump and jeff sessions. >> that's exactly r

>> woodruff: senator jeff merkley of oregon, just back fr the border with xico. we thank you. >> you're welcome. thank you,udy. >> woodruff: the president is i engaging agaa bitter cultural battle with n.f.l. players over the national anthem, questions of respect for it and the right of players to protest. as amna nawaz reports, this time the stakes involved a trip from the super bowl champion philadelphia eagles to meet the president, and a decision by mr. trump uninvited the team after many players opted out of seeing him. >> nawaz: these are some of the superbowl ampion philadelphia eagles the president was planning to meet at the white house today. a meeting that's become almost as much a tradition, as the victory parade itself. but president trump cancelled that meeting saying too many players opted out at the last minute, and that they disagreede with his inse on standing during the national anthem. du fact, none of the eagles players took a kneng the anthem last season. today, the white house hosted what they called "a celebration of america" instead. flan

on sunday, senator jeff merkley was blocked from an immigration detention center in texas where he thinks hundreds of children are being detained without their parents. the white house is now trying to blame senator merkley for this policy somehow now. joining us is senator merkley. we had you on monday just after you had tried to enter that detention center. you were blocked by officials even after you showed your credentials. were you ever able to get in and see what's happening inside there? >> no. i wasn't getting in. a supervisor came out to talk to me. when he said he came out he said he wasn't able to actually converse about anything going on inside the facility. so i didn't get it, nor did i get any information about what was going on with those children. >> do you still think 1,000 children are in there without their parents? >> well, we don't know the number for sure. that's the -- we have heard from others that's the guess. i wanted to ask how many children are here, how long have they been here? how many came unaccompanied from the united states? i didn't get any answers. >> t

senator jeff merkley of oregon he's been at this from the beginning. he's joining lawrence you don't want to miss that. that's does it for me tonight now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening. >> good evening. the reporter you had on in your hour changed our understanding of this story again. there's been heroic reporting coming out of the southern border but that audio she was able to make of those children under those conditions is like nothing we've heard before. >> there will be an ongoing fight to get visuals beyond allowing us to hear what it's like. but she's the first one to have published anything from inside the facilities. it's gut wrenching to hear it. this will mark a pivot point in this story. mark my words. >> we'll play it several times during this hour and we have to warn people it is the most difficult thing you'll hear. >> thank you, lawrence. >> melania speaks. she didn't speak but the current first lady of the united states took the extraordinary step for her of allowing her spokesperson to issue a writ

democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon is accusing the administration of, quote, rule effort against migrant children. we're talking about this. he made this trip to texas on sunday to visit a detention center where kids are separated from their parents. it's in an old walmart. he was not allowed in and those running it called the police to get him to leave. according to merkley, he says there's roughly 1,000 kids from toddlers to parents. yesterday hogan giddily issued a statement says senator merkley is irresponsibly selling lies about routine immigration enforcement while smearing headworking dedicated officials at ice. there are hard working enforcement officials but who's lying? put politics aside. merkley or hogan lying? let's talk about decency. >> i think the senator is shedding light on an important issue. the administration's policy is overcrowding the system. and so they're intentionally separating families that's now overcrowding border patrol stations which in tune are going to overcrowd the rest of the system. we are the ones jamming the system, because the attorney gen

. >> joining me now is up with of those democratic senators, oregon's jeff merkley. to a migrant detention facility in brownsville texas more than three weeks ago, arguably you could say of the elected officials out there was one of the first to sound the alarm of what we were seeing at the border. senator welcome back to the show. >> thank you chuck. good to be with you. >> i want to get to both issues. let me go to this larger issue of the immigration refroorm and what's doable and what isn't. if i'm not mistaken the president of the united states offered chuck shumary deal, schumer took and it the president rescinded the deal. the deal essentially was daca and full funding for the wall, you know work out some of the details, done deal. is that your understanding and was that still a form of a deal that you could still support if it showed back up? >> absolutely. it's true they brought in the media and the house and the senate and said he would like to have a love bill and get this done and take the heat. two days later after taking the heat he collapsed. and he re

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. >> senator jeff merkley, u.s. senator jeff merkley. i've now been asked to leave the property. l comply with that.>> two jeff americacally tried to get a tour of a detention center at an abandoned walmart that houses children. he was not allowed inside. no one would grant him an was asked, jacob sober rof ce finally did get a tour. jacob, you were with a few other journalists let into the facility. what did you see? >> you know, chris, i have been inside federal a federal prison before, i've been inside several county jails. this place is called a shelter effectively these kids are incourse rated. there are over 1400 of them that are spending not weeks, months t they're not actually literally in canes in or in cells but i kid you not, one of the first things an employee said to me is when we walked inside, can you try to smile at these kids because it's weird to see people from the outside. they feel like animals locked up in cages being looked at. it was an extraordinary thing to see. >> talk me through what's it look like. it's a walmart that's been refashioned. is it open air

. >>> ahead on "cbs this morning" we'll talk with senator jeff merkley about his visit yesterday to a children's facility near the mexican border. and "cbs this morning" co-host gayle king will be in mcallen, texas, at a border facility where hundreds of migrant families are being detained. >>> also in texas, police this morning are investigating a deadly border patrol case. at least five people were killed and several ores hurt yesterday when an suv carried 14 people overturned as it was being pursued by a border patrol agent. it happened southwest of san antonio. authorities say the driver local control at speeds of more than 100 miles an hour. st of the passengers inside were ejected. a nurse was one of the first ones on the scene. >> there was a big dust of dirt in the air and as soon as it settled, i saw all the bodies. they were asking, help me, help me, i'm hurt, you know. it was just chaotic. >> authorities believe many of the passengers were in the u.s. illegally.>>ecial unsel robert muler is reportedly looking into a previously up disclosed meeting between long-time donald t

jeff merkley: "the president has also argued in the last few days that this policy gives him politicallation. hurting kids to get legislative leverage is unacceptable. it is evil." customs and border protection released these photos sunday of the detention facility in mcallen, texas.the media was able to tour the facility but barred from shooting any pictures or video due to what customs officials cited as privacy concerns.congress members who saw inside compared it to a prison. rep. mark pocan: "you don't think a child who is in this facility who has a 6 by 10 living area - by the way a supermax prison cell is 8 by 12 - a six by ten area and you get out two hours a day? that to i think a child 10 years old i a prison." homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen took to twitter late sunday denying any policy of separating families at the border saying... "...we have continued the policy from previous administrations and will only separate if the child is in danger, there is no custodial relationship between 'family' members, or if the adult has broken a law." the white house says the

military spending bill were dianne feinstein kristen gillibrand of all harris mike lee merkley jeff merkley rand paul elizabeth warren and ron wyden so you know a lot of democrats obviously but at the end of the day it's like you could put legislation. and should have been put legislation in place to curtail this kind of spending or say you know what like we do with other things that if you are going to have this in the budget every year must have a cost of living pay raise if you're making amends are you don't pay your soldiers the same amount of money when they're sitting at home as when they're getting shot at right and then you don't come back and go well we can't quiet for the money to fix the v.a. we can't find someone to fix the v.a. that's exactly right there's a grid and it's and it's when you see these like massive numbers and then your mind merely goes like will who are the people that say this is ok who are the people that like a line up and say hey let's spend more money on nuclear weapons let's do this i mean just a name a few of them look a lot of these are part of the so-cal

democrats like senator jeff merkley attempt to reveal the reality behind the statistics he's been refused access to several detention centers and on this father's day is leading a delegation of fellow democrats in a number to investigate conditions it's incredibly difficult for them to find out where their children are and to be able to talk to them so the reality is it's very hard for the parents to know where their kids are and be able to connect with a number of republicans to have raised concerns what the administration has decided to do is to separate children from their parents to try to send a message that if you cross the border with children your children are gonna be ripped away from you that's traumatizing to the children who are innocent victims and it is contrary to our values but trump supporters like steve bannon remain unapologetic to zero tolerance it's a crime to come across illegally and showing a separate i mean i hate to say it that's that's the law and he's enforcing the law and other trump advisors have also confirmed the separation of children from parents is part

the military spending bill were dianne feinstein kristen gillibrand paul harris mike lee merkley jeff merkley rand paul elizabeth warren and ron wyatt so you know a lot of democrats obviously but at the end of the day it's like you can put legislation. and should have been put legislation in place to curtail this kind of spending or say you know what like we do with other things that if you are going to have this in the budget every year must have a cost of living pay raise if you're making amends are you don't pay your soldiers the same amount of money when they're sitting at home as when they're getting shot at right and then you don't come back and go well we can't quite find the money to fix the v.a. well we can't find someone to fix the v.a. that's exactly right that's exactly it it is and it's when you see these like massive numbers and then your mind immediately goes like will who are the people that say this is ok who are the people that like a line up and say hey let's spend more money on nuclear weapons let's do this i mean just a name a few of them look a lot of these are part of t

introduced by senator jeff merkley avoids most of these pitfalls. it is about as smartly and tightly crafted as a war authorization can be. limited to two countries, iraq and targetstan, must be published and not classified. and it turns things right side up. part, the president is required to come to congress to add new countries and new groups. even this resolution bypasses the debate we ought to be having about each of the core groups that are included in each , that is alaumf qaeda, the taliban, and isis. instead, john and i argue for a war powers reset. f, keeping ite aum separate from a debate on new war authorizations, and restoring america's default setting to peace. that asident decides group represents serious long-term threats to our national security, he will be free to make that case to the people's representatives and secure normal authorization for war in the way the constitution envisions. told, for example, in the quarter-kaine resolution, numerous terrorist group now pose a dangerous threat for the united states. the united states

the sign reads welcome to casa padre- but after senator jeff jeff merkley was turned away the warehouse that now houses undocumented immigrant children has been the center of a hot debateon fatehrs day senator merkley and other lawmakers returned for an official toursot they went from 500 kids here in april to almost 1500 here now. theres no place to put them, theyre talking about putting a tent city for children near and paso.as lawmakers visited various detention centers... people gathered to protest the separation of families.in the past many immigrants were simply deported with their kids. some call that policy catch and release.the trump administrations new zero tolerance policy means all adults are charged and their kids are separated from them when the parents head to court. the administration says its necessary to discourage people from trafficking drugs and committing heinous crimes manuel padilla / rgv border patrol chiefthere has to be a consequence for entering the country illegally.but lawmakers say the practice of separating from their families causes irreperable harm and

gets into an immigrant children's shelter, the trump team slamming jeff merkley saying he spoke irresponsiblyeading blatant lies about routine immigration enforcement, he was trying to get answers about migrant children being separated from their families, it comes a week after democrats shared a photo of immigrant children sleeping in cages. that photo was taken during the obama administration. special counsel robert mueller wants paul manzo baeza before wn in jail now while waiting for his trial. the former trump campaign chairman accused of tampering with witnesses by sending encrypted messages to ukrainian contacts which prosecutors claim violates the terms of house arrest. manzo baeza before to guilty to charges of conspiracy and failing to register as a foreign agent, the investigation has no connection to his time in the trump campaign. the supreme court ruling in favor of a baker who refused to make a cake for same-sex wedding, justices ruling colorado baker did not violate human rights laws when he turned them away for religious reasons. shannon prima has reaction from those justices

democratic senator jeff merkley tells what he saw inside a ci oulityfasing h parents./mexico border. >>> how abraham lincoln's famous top hat and other precious artifacts may be going from his tial library to the highestidenpr bidder. >>> first the eye opener. >> the battle over the zero tolerance policy on immigration is intensifying. >> cages with fathers and kids. there were other cages with mothers and kids. there was a cage of just children. >>> there are roughly 200 boys but at its peak, at its capacity, this place could house up to 4,000 children. >> does this seem like a cruel and inhumane treatment to you? >> if a united states citizen violates the law, the children are separated from that parent because the kids are not going through that process. >> some of the criminals are getting in with the children. >> when you separate a parent and child and that child is crying for mommy, you probably don't have a trafficker. >> last month chief of staff john kelly called the policy a tough deterrent but late last night, the department of homeland security denied ther

the tour came after senator jeff merkley was turned away when he tried to visit the facility earlier this month. merkley's visit was motivated by his and other people's concerns about the detention of undocumented minors. some kids crossed into the u-s unaccompanied, and others were separated from their families. merkley linked his concerns to "zero-tolerance" border policies calling for taking away children and prosecuting parents who cross the border with them illegally. it was cooler around the bay area today but still warm in the valleys. highs there were still in the 80s but 5 to 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. on the satellite image you can see low presure moving closer to the bay area. it will conitinue to deepen and usher in more fog and cooler weather into the weekend. it will be partly cloudy tomorrow with patchy coastal fog. highs will be in the 70s to low 80s inland with cooler 50s and 60s at the coast. more clouds and breezy weather will bring even cooler weather into the weekend. warmer weather is expected toward the middle of next week. (grant) san (grant) (grant) sa

last week democratic senator jeff merkley attempted to go into a brownsville, texas, facility where theatch this. >> i'm a u.s. senator. >> okay and u.s. policy is involved right now with children. are you familiar with this policy? >> no, not exactly. deal with. hear a what i'm saying? i'll advise my sergeant that you're other. >> i've been asked to leave the property and i'll comply with that. >> that sparked outrage who in a letter to president trump called the actions inhumane and said, quote, this policy has traumatized children who are fleeing extreme violence. our government has a humanitarian duty to the chirp and families seeking asylum in the united states to end this policy immediately. joining me now julian aguilar, immigration and border security reporter for "the texas tribune" in el paso, texas. julian, let me begin with you, if i may, and thanks so much for your time this afternoon i know you've been on the front lines covering this story. what has stood out for you in your reporting? what have you revealed that you think this country needs to know right now? >> well, i

attorney general john sessions in serious about enforcing the law, but jeff merkley who is visiting iscy at the trump administration that goes against historical american ideals. >> now we have a whole new message to those fleeing persecution. he washed up on the shores ofthe you will be arrested as a criminal and be put in prison your children taken away from you. >> hhs spokesperson confirming other locations for additional temporary housing units are also being can entered. what they would not elaborate on whether some of those new facilities would be more like 10 cities. hhs has no they didn't release any other details. senator merkley said in a press conference yesterday that the problem goes beyond the u.s.-mexico border in other members of the democratic delegation. met with those seeking asylum from countries all over the world claiming religious and political persecution from places like china, nepal and india, all of whom he says have been incarcerated. turning to thank you so much for your arthel appeared arthel: thank you. a big week ahead for immigration. house republicans

. >> and jeff merkley has shown leadership on this by going down there to the border to learn what's going on. leaving it there, maria, thank you very much for joining us. really appreciate it. >> thank you for covering this. >>> as you know and can tell on the screen, it's election night in america tonight. that means steve j us next to tushat to watch. >>> hello, again, breaking news california imary election results, again, following this possibility of democrats, lock the out of the general election ballot in one of the districts in california, that they think they can flip the poll, but they need to flip the poll it win back the house. the republican in 48, something we are keeping a particularly close eye on. see the situation here? there's a lot of confusion around here now for a couple reons. number one, there's a lot of vos ming in through the ot of mail. there's days of counting here, but right now, there's a situation, oic results showing a second republican hundreds of votes away from joining dana there in the top two. that would be the scenario for democrats. there's rep