that's why i am here because i need help with my hands so that so glad that the leash with claudia kevin miller, an employee of freedom stuff international, has been flying to afghanistan for years. she and her team have to make life and death decisions in the which one of the many children are brought to germany for further treatment. i wish i should have seen the hats. it's quite hard to say he can come with us. so you can come with us next time without knowing that, and especially with the bone informations, if the children will still be alive in 6 months, half life to know laboratory this time more children showed up than ever before. $2200.00 families and total. the situation in afghanistan is disastrous. the economy has collapsed. many people are starving. doctors have left the country. and so have many 8 organizations we kinda call them in session with. meanwhile, the children are coming to us again without bandages. plus, they can get pain killers. we have seen severely injured children. he will be treated in an intensive care unit in germany, land without painkillers, without bandages

kevin miller joins me now. have we reached a point in society where a bill like this is necessary?i believe it is necessary. this fath er is flying this fla in honor of his son, there is nothing political about that. this bill we are going to move through the assembly in ohio will honor the fallen, like this chief, support our current heroes and promote the profession, the men and women that go out and protect us each and everyday. >> todd: have we reached the point where something like this even needs to be said? >> this bill was brought forth in the 132nd general asem blee and passed on credit 13-0 and on the house floor 90-2. this is bipartisan support. >> todd: here is what the father of this slain police chief said, the american flag represents our freedom, blue line flag represents my son, that flag was given to me when my son was buried, it represents him, nothing else. isn't the plight of this father something we should all be behind? >> absolutely and i think that is within the blue line flag and that is why i'm bringing this bill forward to represent us and the men and wo

it wasn't just stephen miller, it was people like tom homan, who i mentioned, who was the head of i.c.e., kevinen nielsen, who was the dhs secretary, who is the highest ranking law enforcement official who is responsible for this and signed off on it, there is no getting around it. but what i learned, which is important, is she wasn't given good information. she was told that processes were in place that would allow for the swift reunification of children and parents within a few days after prosecutions of parents took place. which, as you pointed out, was this argument that came up. when the public finally came to understand that thousands of families had been separated after many months of being completely misled about it, the administration changed course and started to say, well, prosecution was the goal, not separation. that wasn't the case. kirstjen nielsen was given bad information. part of that is what led to her signing this off. >> wow. staff writer at the "atlantic," caitlin dickerson, thank you very much for your reporting this morning. >>> still ahead, the latest from capitol hill