Ruling. A Major Court Ruling with implications for talks on immigration and government funding. A federal judge in california temporarily blocking the Trump Administrations effort to end daca. Thats the Obama Era Program protecting about 700,000 dreamers. Dreamers are young people who were brought here illegally as children. The judge ruled the department of Homeland Security must resume taking daca renewal applications while the lawsuit proceeds. The ruling does not require the administration to process papers for first time applicants. The white house plan to wind down the Dreamer Program by early march, but the judge said the plaintiff showed they are likely to win their claim, but the move was arbitrary and capricious. The Justice Department says the ruling does not change the position on the Obama Administration circumventing congress when it created the daca program. The suit was filed by four states and the university of california. Uc president helped create the daca program when she was Homeland Security secretary under president obama. Lets discuss this with cnn legal analyst via skype from los angeles. Good morning to you. Good morning. Thanks for being here so bright and early or late in your case. Lets talk about this ruling and first what does it mean for the some 700,000 dreamers here . This is a huge victory for the dreamers. It rescinds the policy enacted by the Trump Administration in september. It says that those dreamers that are leer have an opportunity to reapply and to remain in the united states. And the irony is this is this ruling comes on the same day that trump is meeting with republican and democratic senators, trying to work out some kind of deal to address the issue with the dacas that are supposed to be under the Trump Administration deported starting in march. So now you can still file for a renewal of your daca status, but not new daca applications. That seems to be a little bit of a wrinkle here, but in the end isnt it going to be congress thats going to have to fix this . The president and congress . How much say or how much leeway do the courts have here . This is a temporary victory for those Daca Recipients. We can expect the Justice Department to appeal this decision and for this fight to play itself out in the court system and probably make its way to the Supreme Court and well have to see what does congress do, but youre right. Essentially this is going to be a decision that has to be made by legislation either bipartisan agreement between republicans or democrats or maybe the republicans going it alone and President Trump signing some piece of legislation to deal with the Daca Recipients. For now, they have a brief repeal. Im sure theres a lot of celebration happening, but this story is far from over. Dave and i looking at the front cover of usa today this morning which really i think puts the its a tale of twofolds. Trump declares he wants immigration bill of love. Below the fold, american darkens for the usa for salvadorens. Potentially a pathway to citizenship even if you really listen to what he said yesterday for people already here, but for those people, 200,000 people from el salvador, theyre going to use their temporary protected status. What do you see about the strategy here, the continuity or lack of it in immigration . Can you hear us . Im sorry. I theres a lot of confusion in terms of what the president wants in terms of immigration. If you look at that bipartisan meeting that was held in the white house on one hand he first agreed with senator Diane Fienstein saying a daca bill could be decided or what would happen with the recipients would be decided separate from the border wall and then minutes later hes saying it has to be died to a broader immigration policy. So the president in that same meeting flip flopped on the issue of what should happen with those recipients and i think it remains to be seen what comes out of that discussion that happened yesterday and ultimately a larger immigration policy. Bill of love and American Dream darkens. Youre right. A tale of twofolds. Thank you so much for that. Daca is all but guaranteed come up when the president holds a joint meeting today with the president of norway. How the judges order will affect talks between the house and both parties in congress. Democrats had been demanding a deal on daca in order to vote for government funding, so the question now is whether this temporary reprieve is enough for democrats to back off the threat of a government shutdown. Before the ruling President Trump was holding the line on twitter saying a border wall must be part of any daca deal. That does not square with his remarks at that bipartisan white house meeting earlier in the day. This should be a bipartisan bill. This would be a bill of love. If we do this properly, daca, youre not so far away from comprehensive Immigration Reform and if you want to take it that further step ill take the heat. That doesnt mean 2,000 miles of wall because you just dont need that because of mountains and rivers and lots of other things, but we need a certain portion of that border to have the wall. A certain portion. That is not what the president has said before. In the event that daca does remain a sticking point, yesterdays extraordinary session at the white house could go down as a turning point. The president kept engaging with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on camera. His positions kept ez involving as the cameras kept rolling. A sen yeor Administration Officials says it was done intentional and to put to rest the question about the president s mental state. Joining us now cnn politics dij cal director zach wolf. So what do the dems dos with this . I think they take it and run with it if they can. Although i think after that meeting already were starting to see some of those normal divisions play themselves out again. You know, democrats are one thing here, and they really want daca and trump sounded open to that and open even to comprehensive Immigration Reform so thats great. But i think more importantly is going to be republicans who control the senate and the house and the floor and everything thats going to actually go into legislation. So democrats are kind of foils to that republicans who are going to decide whats in here. As for this a 55 minute meeting it was in Lindsey Grahams words fascinating. Di then you can consider the evolution of President Trump on immigration in the grand scheme of things and its hard to wrap your mind around. Lets listen to the president talking about this bill yesterday and then juxtapose that with what he said about jeb bushs characterization of immigration. Listen. There should be a bill of love, truly it should be a bill of love and we can do that. If you remember he said they come as an act of love. Okay . Tell that to the families and there are many, many, many families who lost a loved one. Act of love. Okay . Theres no act of love. Its tough stuff, its mean stuff and its going to be taken care of. And that is why donald trump is the president of the united states. Largely because of what he said about immigration, those immigration hard liners, not so impressed by yesterdays meeting and coulter tweeting this, nothing michael wolf could say about President Trump has hurt him as much as the daca lovefest right now. The president says he can take the heat. Have we any sense of how hot its about to get . Yeah, and it will be incredible. Lindsey graham was talking about the difficulty of conservative talk radio and trump said hed take the heat on that. Well, you know, this is a guy who loves to consume media. Im not sure, you know, the folks at fox news are ever going to turn on him with regards to this, but it would be that kind of thing, i think, that would really frustrate him as he moves forward. Bu but what we really saw was a guy who wants another win. He wants to have things behind his name. He wants to get things done in his own mind and i would point out, you know, we were all kind of spinning around, what does he actually want in this bill. He didnt say during that meeting but he did clarify after wards that a ball has to be pwat of it. Is it a big wall, is it a little wall . Is part of it going to be a river . So he doesnt want to be involved in the details. It felt like he didnt care what was in the immigration bill. Even a pathway to citizenship. There are die hard Trump Supporters who did not elect him to oversee a pathway of citizenship for people here illegally. That it is a total reversal of the political brand that brought him to the white house. But on the other hand, if you want to get any sort of thing done in washington you have to be a little bit malleable. So those are two competing interests. He puts all this out there with democrats in a big show of bipartisanship and now the deal making begins. But then he introduced the concept of bringing back earmarks well, you talk about draining the swamp. We dont have time to get into it now. Hopefully we will in about 30 minutes. That concept was eyebrow raising. Thanks. Thank you. There are signs the white house may be facing an exodus of key staffers. Aides have been told they should decide by the end of january whether they will stay or leave through the midterms. Among the departure list, dan mcgahn and h. R. Mcmaster. Revolving doors come in any administration, but sources tell cnn President Trump is finding it especially tough to fill vacancies. They siee a chaotic white house and an ongoing russia investigation. As one senior official put it its been a year, but doesnt it feel like a decade. The Senate Judiciary committees russia investigation could be in jeopardy after Diane Fienstein released testimony from glen simpson. His company hired former british spy to compile that infamous dossier on donald trump. According to the transcript simpson told the Senate Committee steele was concerned mr. Trump was being blackmailed. The release of simpsons testimony undermines republican attempts to discredit steeles motives. Republican Committee Chairman blasting fienstein for releasing simpsons testimony. He says it undercuts the committees ability to bring in new witnesses. Although as we learned, si simpson wanted this testimony released, the suggestion that someone was murdered as a result of this dossier has not been confirmed by cnn or any other outlet, but wow. More than a dozen people are dead after powerful mud slides in california. Well take you there. 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More from montecito. Reporter im in montecito, hard hit by this flood that came down from the burn area left by the thomas fire in its fiery wake. If you look right here, the remnants of a car, now half a car mangled up with trees and more. Behind me the historic inn, the front of it now devastated. The sign broken apart. What happened here with this high velocity flood, it goes from about 3,000 feet to sea level in no time here in montecito. They just worried about that and once that rain hit those hillsides, it just came roaring down, brought rocks with it, trees, debris of all manner. If you look over on this direction you will see that theres a car in the garage at the montecito inn, completely submerged. And the roads turned into rivers here in montecito, just torrents. It came all the way toward the ocean with nothing to stop it and it came right down here. This is the 101 freeway, the main artery, one of the main arteries between los angeles and san francisco. It knocked out a guardrail here and then you can see another boulder precariously perched right over the edge of the freeway. It is completely impassable. Off in the distance, work crews trying their best to start clearing. You can see that theres a submerged car in the distance, an absolute mess as some called it. A disaster of huge proportions. This was the first bit of rain to hit after the thomas fire and you can see what its done. Back to you now, dave, christine. Just devastating. North carolina will have to quickly redraw its 13 congressional districts after a federal court ruled the map is partisan and unconstitutional. The three judge panel rejecting the map drawn by the republican controlled general assembly. The state has about three weeks to file a new plan with the court so it will be in place before the midterm elections. It is the First Federal court ruling to strike down a congressional map as a partisan gerrymander. 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National security advisor, the white house counsel, just two of the officials who could exit the white house. The president is struggling to staff amid the building ai dont say chaos. Devastating mud slides. They are now left to clean up after yet another natural disaster. They are still in rescue and recovery mode this morning. Early starts coverage begins right now. Welcome back. This 55 minute discussion on immigration at the white house yesterday called extraordinary, fascinating, head spinning. Well get to that in a moment. Breaking overnight a Major Court Ruling with implications on immigration and government funding. A judge temporarily blocking the Trump Administrations efforts to end daca. The Obama Era Program protecting people here illegally brought here as children. The ruling does not require the administration to process papers for firsttime applicants. The white house planned to wind down that Dreamer Program by early march, but the judge said the plaintiffs showed theyre likely to win their claim that the move was arbitrary and capricious. The Justice Department says the ruling does not change its position on the Obama Administration illegally circumventing congress when it created the program. The sulets bring in cnn leg analyst and civil rights attorney from los angeles. Good morning to you. Good morning. If you are one of those some 700,000 dreamers here in this country, what does it mean both in the short and the longterm, this ruling . Well, i think if youre one of those 700,000, dave, youre excited about this ruling. If you watch the bipartisan meeting that happened at the white house yesterday, you were probably left confused about what the future of the Daca Recipients would be, but this ruling gives those recipients a temporary reprieve. It says that they can remain in the country, they can continue to work. They can continue to live in their communities and they can reapply for daca status for another two years. Thats huge, because the Daca Recipients have been waiting, their fate has been in the balance to see what congress was going to do. This doesnt end the debate around Immigration Reform, but this is a huge victory for the recipients. Yeah, its one piece of a very big and complicated picture and trying to figure out what the administration plans to do with that complicated picture. On the one hand the president talking about a potential pathway to citizenship, something you never would have heard him talk about on the campaign trail. On the other hand, the administration has moved to give only 18 more months for people from el salvador who are here on temporary protected status so i wonder how much sway do the courts have here and how important is you know, congress fixing the immigration mess. Well, this is a huge issue for congress and we knew it was coming to this when in september when the department of Homeland Security made the decision to rescind the daca program. A time limit was set to march for a decision to be made and congress was quite frankly slow, dragging its feet on this issue and the courts stepped up and acted. I think one thing that was important when you look at the decision from the federal court, they talk about the government not giving due consideration to the disruption that the decision made by the department of Homeland Security would have on these Daca Recipients. They talked about the amount of information that the recipients had given to the government, the fees they had paid and how difficult it would be for them if they were abruptly removed from the country and that seemed to be a Critical Role in this judges decision. Now the ball is in the court of the department of justice. Will they appeal this decision . This is a nationwide preliminary injunction so it not only affects those Daca Recipients in california but it impacts recipients all over the country. Up early i think or staying up late. 2 30 there in california. Thank you. Thank you. Daca all but guaranteed to come up when the president holds a joint News Conference with the president of norway. What is unclear clear is how the judges order will affect talks between the white house and both parties in congress. Democrats had been demanding a deal on daca. The question now is whether this temporary reprieve for daca is enough for democrats to back off the threat of a government shutdown. The president saying a border wall must be part of any daca deal. That doesnt entirely square with his remarks at this bipartisan white house meeting earlier in the day. This should be a bipartisan bill. This should be a bill of love. If we do this properly, daca, youre not so far away from comprehensive Immigration Reform and if you want to take it that further step ill take the heat. I dont care. That doesnt mean 2,000 miles of wall because you just dont need that because of nature, because of mountains and rivers and lots of other things, but we need a certain portion of that border to have the wall. A certain portion. That is not what the president has said numerous times before. Not even close, actually. In the event that daca does remain a sticking point, yesterdays extraordinary session at the white house, it could be seen as a turning point here. Instead of the usual brief opportunity, the president basically moderated this exchange with lawmakers on camera for an hour. His positions evolving as the cameras rolled. Fascinating transparency really. A Senior Administration official says it was all done intentionally to seize the megaphone and to put to rest recent questions about the president s mental state. Phil has the latest. Reporter dave and christine, republicans, democrats, the white house, they have nine days, just six legislative days to figure out some path forward on a host of issues all of which are complicated. There was a wildly entertaining was the words of one republican aide, how he described the meeting at the white house between republicans and democrats and the president. It was public. It was for everybody to see and it was about immigration, a very divisive issue when it comes to congress, an area where its not just democrats and republicans who disagree on the policy. Its intraparty on a number of levels. They have until march to deal with that issue, but you want to put the calendar on it, democrats have made clear they want that addressed in the same time line as the budget deal which has that january 19th deadline. The president is a huge player in this. President trump in that meeting at the white house said he was willing to sign anything that congress came up with. He was willing to leave it to congress to figure out the direction forward. That is not what Republican Leaders want to hear. That is not the discussion theyve had with the white house. They know because this issue is so complicated within their conference that they need the president not just to sign whatever they agree to, but to endorse it and to help them push forward on it. There are still negotiations that are considered the core of everything thats p haing right now. President trump has laid out four principles that he wants to be addressed. Democrats acknowledge those four principles will will to be addressed and the devil is in the details particularly on some of the most complicated of those policy issues. Whether they figure out that path forward right now, still an open question. Joining us to look at the political impact, cnn politics zach wolf back with us again live in washington. The president there with a democrat on the right and a democrat on the left. Shaking his head sometimes, i cant tell what he might have been thinking but what do democrats do with this now . Reporter well, i think democrats, we heard them say after wards, they were encouraged by this and to see the president open to a daca fix and even comprehensive Immigration Reform it seemed and not necessarily would you say that one more time . The president actually seemed open to Immigration Reform . The president elected by hard line positions on immigration, thats just remarkable. Yeah. You know, the white house has actually said that before although it was noticed a little bit less. So its not quite as new as you might think, but to have him say it openly in this bipartisan meeting, i guess for democrats the question is okay, this is great. This is good. Lets keep working with this. Are republicans going to come up with a bill and put it on the floor that includes a daca fix, that includes, you know, these other things that they want in exchange for democratic votes which republicans now need to pass a spending bill. So thats kind of the question. This was a good step but im sure that they are not going to take this to to bank. In at right land it is comprehensive Immigration Reform equals amnesty. No question about that and just the amnesty for the dreamers will cost our economy more than building a wall. Hell have to explain that in the days ahead, but here are the demands says the president republicans in this bill. They want border security, how that looks, were not sure. Is it a wall . Is it not . Chain migration, they want to end that. The visa lottery they want to end that in exchange for a deal on daca. This is kind of the art of the deal and shes right. I looked it up. The president believed i never get attached to one deal or one approach. I keep a lot of balls in the air. Was this a good day for the president . Was this a good day for Congressional Republicans . I think it was a good day for the president in that there had been questions about his mental acuity, whether he was up to the job. The white house put him out there and he certainly looked in command of this meeting and he looked like he was able to steer the conversation. That was good. What was bad is that he didnt really have any sort of ideology he was espousing. He didnt seem to care what was inside an immigration bill as long as theres an immigration bill and maybe thats a sign of a good president , but its certainly not the sign of the donald trump that weve seen who made immigration such a big deal. But it is the president a lot of people thought he could be, not having a true policy. And also thinking that he could work with democrats. There would be a turning point where he would be able to work with democrats. Hes given lots of money to democrats so he clearly sees their perspective. He calls this a bill of love. I thought that was an interesting turn of phrase especially since the president back in 2015 had ridiculed jeb bush about using similar language. Lets listen. This should be a bill of love, truly it should be a bill of love and we can do that. If you remember he said they come as an act of love. Okay . Tell that to the families and there are many, many, many families who lost a loved one. Act of love. Okay . Theres no act of love. Its tough stuff. Its mean stuff, and its going to be taken care of. Whoa. Okay. So its a bill of love after ridiculing you know, i mean, its an evolving position clearly. An evolving position, a stunning turn around. You can call it the word flip flop, it goes any which way but it all comes back to he just wants a bill. He wants to get something. Well we dont have time but equally as stunning is the president suggesting that bipartisan cooperation could be increased by reintroducing earmarks. We do have time. Heres what the president said about yes, bringing back earmarks. Maybe you should start bringing back a concept of earmarks thats going to bring you together, youre going to do it honestly, youre going to get rid of the problems that the other system had but one thing it did is it brought everyone together. If you played the tape there there was audible laughter and its not clear if congressmen were thinking, is that a joke or is there not . Because republicans, democrats, certainly the trump media has long railed against earmarks. Is that opinion shared by anyone in the administration . You know, one defender of earmarks is dick derben who was sitting right next to him. But the vast majority of lawmakers its took them decades to get rid of earmarks and they did that under john. I dont think the people are going to share our pots of money. That would not be draining the swamp. That would be diving into it head first. Zach wolf, thank you. Nice to see you, zach and well hear the president today at 3 20 eastern time. Hell have a press conference with the norwegian prime minister. More than a dozen people are dead after powerful mud slides in california. Will the weather cooperate for cleanup efforts, next. Lets go to sumatra. Wheres sumatra . Good question. This is win. And thats wins goat, adi. The coffee here is amazing. Because the volcanic soil is amazing. Making the coffee erupt with flavor. So we give farmers like win more plants. To grow more delicious coffee. That erupts with even more flavor. Which helps provide for wins family. And adi the goats family too. Because his kids eat a lot. All, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. Green mountain Coffee Roasters. Packed with goodness. Stay at la quinta. Where were changing with stylish makeovers. 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What happened with this high velocity flood, it goes from about 3,000 feet to sea level in no time here in montecito, they just worried about that. And once that rain hit those hillsides, it just came roaring down, brought rocks with it, trees, debris of all manner. If you look over on this direction, you will see that theres a car in the garage at the montecito inn, completely submerged. And the roads turned into rivers here in montecito, just torrents. It came all the way toward the ocean with nothing to stop it and it came right down here. This is the 101 freeway, the main artery, one of the main arteries between los angeles and san francisco. It knocked out a guardrail here and then you can see another boulder precariously perched right over the edge of the freeway. It is completely impassable. Off in the distance, work crews trying their best to start clearing. You can see that theres a submerged car in the distance. An absolute mess as some called it, a disaster of huge proportions. This was the first bit of rain to hit after the thomas fire and you can see what its done. Back to you now, dave, christine . Just awful. The weather is improving as the cleanup in california gets underway. Dave and christine, what a storm here across parts of california producing as much as 4 to almost 6 inches of rainfall in an area that frankly really hasnt seen that much rainfall in a matter of 12 months put together. You look at whats happening. The burn scars have been in place so the soil not only becomes brittle but also hydrophobic so it becomes water repellant so anything there becomes runoff. You get landslides, rock slides, precisely whats played out and now the next is the next system. Parts of 12 states dealing with Winter Weather alerts. This system producing maybe 4 to 6 inches for most but it will cause some travel disruptions across the upper midwest. 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After talking with governor scott, the secretary decided to change his decision for florida, not clear what this means for other states that have offshore areas. Governor cuomo tweeted about this saying wheres our waiver . Global stock markets mixed but wall streets new years rally endures. The s p 500 has had its best start to the year since 1987 when dave had a mullet. A big win for bit coin mania. So is jp morgans ceo walking back his criticisms of bitcoin. He told fox business he regrets calling it a fraud and that the tech behind it is real. Americans Credit Card Debt hit a record high. More than a trillion dollars according to the federal reserve. More than back in 2008. Analysts tell us this time is different. It doesnt pose the same risks as 2008 because incomes are higher and the ratio of debt to Economic Growth is lower. All right. Microsoft is updating your pc to protect against that huge computer chip flaw weve been telling you about. 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