standing by for me at the white house. hello to you, coming to us on this segment on what is a breaking news afternoon. address something for me. the president has decided -- we got a statement at least. who knows when he's at that event in new jersey? maybe a reporter will yell something out at him and he will answer. but why would the president not want to make a statement today? >> reporter: because what's going on here behind the scenes at the white house, they are very carefully deferring to the justice department and the department of homeland security as you just read that statement. jeanne meserve had the justice department statement before that. this is a complex legal matter. the white house realizes a complex political matter. they want to let the legalities of it take effect and deal with all that and sort all this out and not just have the president jump inning in they figure out exactly what all this means. nevertheless, as you can imagine, i've been digging around with sources here at the white house and trying to dig out what the president does know and what's been going on behind the scenes. we've got some new information