it is not t going to be open unl wewe have a wall, fence, whatevr they would like to call it. will call it whatever they want. the people of this country one border security. it is not a question of me. i would rather not be doing shutdowns. reporter: ron washington squabbles, -- while washington squabbles, two families are in mourning. the u.s. customs and border protection commissioioner says immigration authorities need more money for medical care and more support for sheltering vulnerable children like felipe and jakelin. carl: in china, the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer has ended without an announced verdict. wang quanzhang is charged with subverting state powerful to use one of 250 targeted by chinese authorities since they launched a crackdown three years ago. we have this e exclusive repepo. reporter: three hours before the trial started, he sense of the last messages to supportrt his > yesterday there were five cars from thehe security department outside of our house. i don't know what will happen. reporter: together with a friend, she plans to go to the tr

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she defeated steve knight in los angeles and ventura unls. she vowed to handle homelessness and helping out the middle class and the lgbt community. hill is part of a fresh generation of leaders in a newu majority. and congresswoman-elect katie hill joins me now viakype from santa clarita. thanks for joining us. >> thanouyou. thankor having me. >> what have the past weeks been like you sincehe winning election? >> it's been a whirl win.ng it was go back and forth to d.c. we had a ton of leadershipct ens and getting our offices squared away. then we went for kind of bipartisan kind of training. now it is back home. i am working a little this week and toin i am to try to take a little bit of time off. it's been 18 month >> i bet, you have been working very hard. in fact, you are 1 one of elected members of the new house caucus.ic congratulations on that. >> thank you so much. >> what perspective -- you are 1 years old 678 you have a background in ruing an organization that provides homeless services. what perspective do you bring to the caucus

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. ♪ >>> a long list of unl answered questions about the death of a 7-year-old guatemalan girl.ey has been reporting on the death of this little girl. she joins me from washington, d.c., with the latest. julia, what do we know about what happened while she was in u.s. custody? >> all right, chris. jacqueline call crossed the border in new mexico and she was apprehended near a place called antelope wells. it's not your typical border station that would have medical personnel or asylum officers who were ready to hear her case and administer care. she was actually held with 163 other immigrants for about eight hours, before they were put on a bus and taken to a larger facility more inland. it was determined that she was not feeling well before the bus left. her father said she was starting to throw up. they put her on the bus anyway, and she spent an hour and a half on that bus ride, and at the end of it, chris, she wasn't breathing. there were two people there once she got there, medical personnel who revived her. they airlifted her to a hospital. she eventually died of a cardiac

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a prosecution or civil litigation against wikileaks poses a real threat to media freedom unle you can come up with clear ways of distinguishing what wikileaks does from what we think of as standard newsgathering tactics. we have not seen the full indictment against julian assange if it exists, but we have seen to lawsuits against wikileaks. i have looked at those and it is unclear the difference between what wikileaks did compared to what national security journalists do every day. which is acquire classified information from sources not authorized to reveal it, and time the release of that information with the news cycle. if there is more than that, we should study it. >> the real difference is that wikileaks would be the first entity which is pervasively anti-american, which was accused in this area. so, i have always thought, and i am not alone, that the pentagon papers case was won in part because of the basic trust that the supreme court had that all americans were not going to do things to hurt the country if they could avoid it. journalists can make mistakes but they will not p

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