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>> our policy is that the same really fundamentally as the holder policy. which is that the federal law remains in effect. but it still remains illegal with regard to federal purposes. >> okay. it seems to me that theres always been a tremendous amount of gray area in that whole field which i think as a nation, you know, we need to look much more closely at both from the states point of view and the federal government point of view. but thats just my feeling on that. running out of time. i had a...

Strongly oppose in the house and in the senate by, for the most part, suggesting they should do that really prompted a lot of republicans to scratch their head, including senator john cornyn, number two republican told me that is a guaranteed recipe for failure if they were to go that route. so, really unclear how to go forward, especially if the white house does not signal what exactly they want, would have. >> jeffrey tubin, youre our legal expert. was the attorney general of the united states...

Latest will be monday. >> thanks, everyone. >> great feeling for daca. excuse me? >> daca is -- [ inaudible ]. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. >> well be making a request. absolutely. for the state of texas, yes. tomorrow im going to louisiana with the first lady, and texas. it will be texas, louisiana. okay? thank you. thank you, everybody. okay. we just want to get viewers caught up what we just saw. talking to douglas brinkley about this. earlier in the hour y...

With browny in katrina. nevertheless, fema is going to be inundated with requests. theyll have a hard time meeting some of them. youll see the town of houston pull together. this weekend the houston astros are playing a doubleheader, giving out free tickets. the citys taking pride in houston and theyll want to talk about local heroes. hue to houstonians saves houstonians. in katrina, gulfport and mississippi. dont forget port aran is and rockport. the towns that really took the brunt of the stor...

Dreamers. that is in reference to the daca policy that was implemented during the obama administration. the obama administration giving relief to kids who were brought in to the country by their undocumented parents. theyve had relief the last several years. heres the president now. lets go to the president and hear what he has to say on those topics and more. hearon the president in the oval office just a few moments ago. >> a decision on daca? >> sometime today, or over the weekend well have a...

Daca. the funny thing that could happen here, the president decides to keep daca in place, a handful of state attorney generals republicans are going to sue. then the justice department has to decide, are they going to argue that daca is legal? that would be sessions decision. >> weve heard the white house may just decide to let the attorney generals go ahead and do that see what happens and give congress time to look at it. play the video from earlier this year, manu. this was back in february....

You show great heart to the dreamers while at the same time ending this program? even if you give these folks a year or two to sort their lives out, i suppose some of them do face the prospect of having to go back to a home that they fled when they were babies and may not know the native language of that country? a big problem for this white house. >> absolutely. a number of these from venezuela pap current thats changed drastically as weve seen violence unfurl there. and dacas recipients should...

President saying we wont get a decision on this today. doug, since talking about daca, how big of a decision is this? this seems to be a larger decision, a more profound decision that could be very defining for him than it was for pardoning joe arpaio. because you have so many young kids affected by this. >> absolutely. i mean, one has to hope that president trump does the right thing and allows these daca dreamers to stay here in the united states. the idea of booting them out, giving them a ye...

Responses about their decision to fire comey as well as whatever this letter says. if it contradicts what the president said publicly that would also be problematic for this white house. and as we know, the president said that, you know, comeys credibility was tarnished and in a later interview with nbc news said the russia investigation was on his mind when he fired comey. >> of course, he could say other things were on his mind. seems there could be an explanation from all of these looking at ...

>> dreamers are terrific. thank you very much, everybody. >> thank you. >> have a good afternoon. >> thank you. and so you hear the president there just a few moments ago in respect with the vice president and others in the oval office talking about storm funding. for people dealing with the aftermath of harvey. he was also asked about this decision thats coming up on daca. dealing with those dreamers that are here in the country awaiting for some kind of decision from the government. it appea...