More Time to Reunite Families; Jordan Knew About Alleged Abuse.
BERMAN: The Justice Department will appeal today for more time to reunite families. The U.S. government is facing a court ordered deadline to reunite children younger than five years old with their parents by tomorrow. Undocumented parents have been making their way out of detention facilities and searching for their children. CNN's Miguel Marquez live am Brownsville, Texas, with the latest. Miguel.</s>MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, John, it seems very clear that the government never had a plan in place to reunite these parents from the get-go. It looks like, from what the ACLU is saying, that more than half of those parents with children under five won't be reunited by the deadline. And for all parents looking for their kids, it is not likely to happen by the end of this month either.</s>MARQUEZ (voice over): A mother's anguish, separated from their son. Only God knows what we've been through, she says. Brenda Alvarado (ph) separated from her six-year-old son Gody (ph) for over a month. Brenda and four other parents who spoke to CNN now facing what the Trump administration promised was a process for reuniting with their kids. More parents like them getting out of detention every day, all of them now desperate to hold their children again. It's not right for them to detention my son, she says. He hasn't committed any crime. I don't know what to tell him. Lesvia (ph) visited her 10-year-old son Yudum (ph), being detained here in Brownsville. They've been separated more than a month. Despite having documents proving their relationship, officials here won't turn him over to his mother. I already gave them information and documents, she says, but they said they need fingerprint from all the people where I'm going to stay. And that alone will take 15 days. After forcefully separating these parents from their kids, the Trump administration is now telling them they must fill out a 32 page application and background check to prove they are who they say they are.</s>JODI GOODWIN, IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY: In any normal case we usually expect about a month before there can be reunification.</s>MARQUEZ: The Trump administration, under a judge's order, has until July 26th to reunite all families separated by the president's zero tolerance policy.</s>MARQUEZ: What the government seems to be saying is that for those parents who are locked up and the kids that are locked up, they can put those people together and they, at least in some cases, intend to move them, it seems, to another facility where they will try to house them together. For parents that were deported, for kids that were deported, for parents who are now getting out on bond on their asylum hearings, the government's saying it's up to you to prove to us that you're actually these kids parents. Just no thought given to it whatsoever. Back to you.</s>BERMAN: No unified process, not even close at this point it seems.</s>HILL: No. Not at all. It's a -- it's mind boggling, even though in some ways it is not surprising because we've been talking about this for so long and we have known that there was not a system in place and we have known that there were a number of questions about even the identities of both the children and the adults. Just to see this all play out, it leaves you speechless.</s>JOHN AVLON, CNN ANCHOR: It's the human cost, which is what we knew. But right now they're admitting that that first deadline they're confronting, you know, the judge ordered them to reunite all children under five by tomorrow. And they're basically saying, that's not going to happen for at least half of them.</s>HILL: We do know there's another hearing this afternoon. But among those children --</s>AVLON: Yes.</s>HILL: Nineteen parents of those young children already deported we know.</s>AVLON: That's right.</s>HILL: We also want to bring you up to date on this. More former Ohio State University wrestlers now say Congressman Jim Jordan had to know about sexual abuse claims against a team doctor. Jordan was an assistant coach at OSU at one point but maintains he knew nothing. CNN's Jean Casarez joining us now with more on that. Jean.</s>JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, there's definitely a difference of opinion here. One former Ohio State athlete, who wrestled under Assistant Coach Jim Jordan in the late 1980s says he was sexually abused by Dr. Richard Strauss and never told Jordan. He describes Larkins Hall, the athletic facility where the wrestlers showed, as a pedophile's dreamland. And that if Jordan didn't know, he was living under a rock. He described Jordan, though, as a class act. Another alleged victim, former OSU wrestler Mike Olf (ph), tells CNN he didn't consider it abuse at the time. They wrestlers joked about it. But the physicals were weird with inappropriate behavior. Jim Jordan, he believes, did not know. He would have done anything to protect us. Another former OSU wrestler told CNN Dr. Strauss was always first man in, last man out of the shower and that former head coach Russ Hellickson and Jordan knew because they too were in the shower area at the same time. They knew he was in the showers, he said, adding that they may not have known the extent of the allegations that are now surfacing in the media. I don't think that we look at this kind of thing with the same lens as sex abuse today, he tells CNN. At least not to that degree. Now, as Jordan continues to say he never knew or heard that athletes were being sexually abused and would have done something if he knew, Jordan has mentioned a conviction. One former wrestler that has probably the most serious accusations, that wrestler, Danyasi Yets (ph), confirmed to CNN what he told NBC, that he and his teammates told Jordan multiple times about the alleged sexual abuse and nothing was done. Yets was convicted and served 18 months in federal prison for fraud related to an investment scheme. He tells CNN though over this weekend, if my mistake happened over 18 years ago, people just need to move on. I'm now a successful businessman. And, Erica and John, the investigation at OSU continues to see if sexual misconduct did take place with this physician, Dr. Richard Strauss. He died in 2005.</s>BERMAN: If I'm clear, Jordan hasn't been asked directly what he did see or hear about Dr. Strauss, not about the abuse, but what did he hear? That's one question he hasn't answered directly, at least not yet.</s>CASAREZ: Good question.</s>BERMAN: Jean Casarez, great. Thanks for having -- thanks for being here with us. That's it for us this morning. CNN "NEWSROOM" with Poppy Harlow picks up after a quick break.