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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Trump has taken credit for himself, has claimed its his hard line stance that has led to these talks, but we certainly saw that from the south korean president as well potentially because he wants to give a message that there is no wedge between the u. S. And south korea. Theres been speculation that pyongyang by wanting to talk to seoul and not to washington almost sidelining washington was trying to draw a wedge within that alliance and the south korean president making it clear that hasnt happened today. He also said that President Trump was very happy that the north and south were talking saying he loved the idea of north and south coming together. He said that he is willing to meet with the north Korean Leader kim jongun and have a summit, but not a meeting for a meetings sake. He wanted more substance to it and more conditions to be met. He also said the denuclearization was very important, important because at the end of the meeting on tuesday, the chief negotiator said south korean media got it wrong that that was talked about. That was nonsense. All right. Thank you. You just wonder if the net result of that is legitimizing kim jongun and his regime. How much credit do you want for those talks . The judge says the white hou