find live coverage of the senatehere at 3 pm eastern. again, just waiting for the white house briefing to begin . >>. [silence] >> just waiting for the white house briefing to begin with jen psaki, until then will take a look at some of today's washington journal. >> joining us from el paso texas is angela tortuga, news director for kt tep public radio. thanks for being with us. let's begin with the situation on the border. >> we continue to see large numbers of people come across families and what the border patrol calls unaccompanied minors. these are children in some cases but often teenagers who are coming over, looking to ask for asylum so a large number of people and real concerns about overcrowding in some of the border patrol holding stations that were not designed for long-term holding of adults but now we got children crowded into these facilities and we are seeing a real ramp up very quickly by the biden administration to open more health and human services shelters so that the children can be moved into those locations and th