Vanderbilt Television News Archive

(Studio: Anderson Cooper) A Keeping Them Honest look at testimony from Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen about the detention of children at the US-Mexico border in which she did not know the numbers introduced; details given about the administration's use of the word "deterrent." [In response to a question, NIELSEN - says children are not put in "cages": they are processed for their protection; speaks about "consequences" to decrease crime.] [On Fox, June 11, Attorney General Jeff SESSIONS - speaks about illegal immigrants getting the message.] [On CNN, Mar. 6, 2017, White House chief of staff Gen. John KELLY - uses the term "deter."] [Last June, NIELSEN - denies it ia policy of deterrence.] How Nielsen is playing word games about separating families & how children were separated from families reviewed. [Today, NIELSEN - answers questions about the zero tolerance policy & separation of children from parents.]

(Studio: Anderson Cooper) Recent interview held with Representative Kathleen Rice about Nielsen being misleading. [RICE - says Nielsen has been misleading the public for over a year with false testimony before a Congressional committee so now we are going over the testimony: a trend of people in positions of power listening to President Trump giving us false information, that there is no transparency here & she owes the people the truth about the zero tolerance policy, that she is either giving false testimony or is clueless: unacceptable, how she does not seem bothered about separating children from parents.]