stands for the maricopa county sheriff's office animal safe haven. ly get animals in that are at death's door. >> m.a.s.h. is a housing unit for abused animals whose owners are incarcerated at maricopa. it's located in one of the original jail facilities, which was shut down for human occupants in 1999. >> we get animals in that are literally skin and bones. we nurse them back to health. we resocialize them. we get them used to being around people. and once their court case is cleared, and we take actual ownership of the animal, we adopt them out to a good home. >> good boy. >> the animals are cared for by inmate workers who have no history of animal abuse. male inmates take care of the horses and other farm animals. >> we get accused of standing around scratching our ass all day here at m.a.s.h. unit. best job on the yard. >> female inmates handle the dogs and cats. >> i bond more with the dogs here than any of the girls on the yard. what i like best about the dogs is they don't argue with everything that you say like the inmates do. >> abigail, calm

male housing units. >> these are the worst in maricopa county. get them out of gp and stuff downstairs. those are the shock collars out there. get them out there, stuff calms down for a while. >> these inmates have either committed violent acts in the jail or have been identified as gang members. like all inmates at maricopa, some are awaiting trial while others have been convicted and are appealing their verdicts or sentences. they are isolated in very stark cells, 23 hours a day, and get one hour of rec time in an empty concrete room with a skylight located right next door to their cells. >> our rec pen is the same size of our cell, so you're basically going from one cell to another to walk in circles. it's life in solitary confinement. no cellmates, no card games, no pie knuckle, no chess. but that's life. >> without the distraction of television, radio or cellmates, even the most hardened criminals can break under the pressure. >> every 25 minutes we do our walks to check on inmates to make sure the inmates are safe. they're a greater risk to

. ♪ >> the maricopa county jail is divided between two distinct worlds.he first is an outdoor world. the jail is internationally famous for tent city, a cluster of outdoor housing yards for both men and women. >> ladies, fall in. i'm not talking to the fence, am i? >> life here sucks. i mean it's terrible. i don't even think this place should exist to be honest with you. >> but the vast majority of maricopa inmates live in one of five different indoor facilities where they will rarely, if ever, experience any time outdoors. >> i'm cousin ashton, i come out blastin', i'm about as hungry as a taliban fasting so just like the clumps i'll fill my plate, ghetto grinding all day it's a crime of fate. >> in one of maricopa's primary men's facilities, the fourth avenue jail, when inmates are not in their small two-person cells, they can work out in an indoor rec room or in the common area between their cells. but every afternoon many of the inmates shift focus from their bodies to their bank accounts. >> this is how i make my money. i get 50 or 60 bucks every wee

. ♪ ♪ >> the maricopa county jail is divided between two distinct worlds. first is an outdoor world. the jail is internationally famous for tent city, a cluster of outdoor housing yards for both men and women. >> ladies, fall in. i'm not talking to the fence, am i? >> life here sucks. i mean it's terrible. i don't even think this place should exist to be honest with you. >> but the vast majority of maricopa inmates live in one of five different indoor facilities where they will rarely, if ever, experience any time outdoors. >> i'm cousin ashton, i come out blastin', i'm about as hungry as a taliban fasting so just like the clumps i'll fill my plate, ghetto grinding all day it's a crime of fate. >> in one of maricopa's primary men's facilities, the fourth avenue jail, when inmates are not in their small two-person cells, they can work out in an indoor rec room or in the common area between their cells. but every afternoon many of the inmates shift focus from their bodies to their bank accounts. >> this is how i make my money. i get 50 or 60 bucks every week.

. >> located on a 400-acre lot southwest of downtown phoenix, the maricopa county jail consists of fourndoor facilities that house up to 5,700 inmates and two outdoor tent facilities that can house another 2,000 men and women. a fifth indoor facility is located four miles away in the heart of the city. the fourth avenue jail houses approximately 2,000 male inmates considered amongst the highest security threats. while some have actually been convicted of crimes and are awaiting transport to prison, most are still facing trial or sentencing for everything from i.d. theft to murder. maintaining order here is up to a significantly smaller staff of detention officers. >> in sheer volume, we are greatly outnumbered, so we try to reduce that by finding out who the shot callers are and going about working smarter rather than harder. >> shot callers are highly ranking members of racially segregated gangs who try to control the inmates within their housing units. in a jail system where inmates of different races are housed together, that can lead to trouble. >> prisons segregate. jail settings d

. >> reporter: maricopa county voted overwhelmingly for donald trump, many seeking change after obamacare premiums spiked dramatically and health insurance companies fled the market. kim, a small business owner in phoenix, met with president trump yesterday. >> we have a lot of people in arizona paying a big penalty? >> yes. not only with the premiums go up and the cancellation letters keep coming but my deductibles would go up. >> reporter: the republican plan would mean higher costs for many needing to by insurance especially those older and low income. the plan replaces direct subsidies to buy insurance with tax credits and those tax credits would average 71% less than the current subsidies for someone in arizona who is 60 years old making $40,000, according to the kaiser family foundation. for some patients in this red state, the future of their health care is uncertain. katie beck, nbc news, mesa, arizona. >>> let's turn now to the heated moments in our nations capital. the marine corps top brass took incoming fire from senators over the nude photo scandal rocking the military and fa

one or two crimes, we should not focus on one or two crimes we have seen across america, yet in maricopa county recently, more than 3600 criminally violent aliens were released back onto the streets of the states along just -- largest county. we know they were criminally violent because they had been in the system, charged and convicted of crimes and get were released without being deported. appreciating the mention of the case where a convenience store clerk had been brutally shot and killed for failing to deliver a pack of cigarettes to a criminally violent, illegal alien who had been convicted and yet was on the streets of maricopa county. that's why i want grants law here in congress, it should pass, it is a no-brainer. it includes the due process laws that has been mentioned, it deports those violent immigrants within 90 days. i want to talk specifically with regard to the apprehension rates reported. if we were to look at the apprehension rates historically, we would see their work consistently over one million people, sometimes more than 1.5 million people actually apprehended at the bor

one or two crimes, we should not focus on one or two crimes we have seen across america, yet in maricopa county recently, more than 3600 criminally violent aliens were released back onto the streets of the state's largest county. there are two things to point out about that. we know they were criminally violent because they had been in the system, charged and convicted of crimes, and yet were released without being deported. i was appreciating the mention of the case where a convenience store clerk had been brutally shot and killed for failing to deliver a pack of cigarettes to a criminally violent, illegal alien who had been convicted and yet was on the streets of maricopa county. that is why i introduced grant's law here in congress, it should pass, it is a no-brainer. it includes the due process laws aughan has been mentioned, it deports those violent immigrants within 90 days. i want to talk specifically with regard to the apprehension rates reported. if we were to look at the apprehension rates historically, we would see their work consistently over one million people, sometimes more than

focus on one or two crimes that we've seen across america, yet one recent 15-month period in maricopa county, the largest county in arizona, more than 3,600 criminally violent illegal aliens were released back on to the streets of the state's largest county. there are two things to point out about that. we know they were criminally violent because they had been in the system, charged and convicted of crimes, yet they were released without being deported, so i appreciate ms. vaughn mentioning the case where an unfortunate 21-year-old clerk had been brutally shot and killed for failing to deliver a pack of cigarettes to a criminally violent illegal alien who had been convicted and yet was on the streets of maricopa county. that's why i introduced grant's law here in congress, which should pass. it is a no-brainer, and it requires the very accelerated due process requirements ms. vaughn has mentioned. i wanted to talk specifically with regard to you, ms. vaughn, with regard to the apprehension rates reported. if we were to look at the apprehension rates, historically we'd see there were consist

the fastest growing, maricopa county, phoenix. united states. >> in the united states. stuart: that's where they're going? >> yep. stuart: fascinating. let's get back to the big story of the day which is the obamacare replacement vote. there will be a vote later on today. earlier this morning we heard from freedom caucus member congressman louis gohmert. roll tape. >> well, i am a no, and i do -- [laughter] i can't help but like you and respect you and have admiration for you and president trump. this is the first time in his life he has put together a deal that he didn't put together. i have got to stand up, as unpopular as people i love think it is, and i don't enjoy being a coward for standing up by myself. there are going to be at least five, there could be nine that -- and there could be more that vote no. stuart: okay. i'd love to follow up on that, but let's go live to congressman adam schiff. he is the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, he is now responding to what chair devin nuÑes said earlier. listen in