Work. And the president saying this is not changing the law, but simply using legally permissible discretion in enforcing it. With crowds chanting, in spanish, yes, he could, in the freezing cold outside the white house, the president put his case for executive action before the american public. These people, our neighbors, our classmates, our friends, they did not come here in search of a free ride or an easy life. They came to work. At one point, quoting scripture. We shall not oppress a stranger. For we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too. My fellow americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. His plan allows the department of Homeland Security to take certain groups off the priority list for deportation, while keeping others high up. Felons, not families. Criminals, not children. Gang members, not a mom who is working hard to provide for her kids. Putting more resources at the border and focusing on deporting criminals and those entering the u. S. Most recently. The plan will allow immigrants who have been in america five years and with children, the chance to apply to stay for three years, provided they pass a background check and start paying taxes. Theyll expand such relief granted by the president to people brought here illegally as kids. The socalled dreamers. For example, eliminating the age limit. And promises to streamline the immigration system, helping highskilled workers, graduates and entrepreneurs, with a chance to stay. What im describing is accountability. A commonsense middleground approach. If you meet the criteria, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law if youre a criminal, youll be deported. The speech was played just before the Latin Grammys. Cheers went up at watch parties around the country. Its emotional, so maybe one day my mom will be, my parents will be able to go to you know back to ecuador and families will be connected again. Obviously this is a huge victory for our community. But obviously this is not enough. We got to the plan is not a path to citizenship. The republican response . I hear what he has done is torn article 1 out of the constitution, put it into his own pocket and said inch now the legislative branch, too. House speaker john bain anywhere a statement said the president cemented his legacy of lawlessness and squandered what little credibility he had left. To all of which president obama responded with those three little political words. Pass a bill. Will this spur congress to pass its own bill and supersede what the president has just done . Or will it as some have warned, ruin the chances of them taking this snup or alternatively, will they be taking Something Else up . Like a lawsuit. Alisyn . There are still so many questions. Michelle, thanks so much for breaking it down. Lets bring in ron brownstein, our cnn political analyst and editorial director of the National Journal and alan gomez for u. S. A. Today, who has followed this issue extensively. Ron let me start with you, how significant are the changes that the president announced last night . This is i think a huge moment. Substantively it affects us as the spot pointed out, potentially five Million People and also politically. A huge moment for both parties. Like many other things that the president has done in his second term, this really aligns the Democratic Party with the priorities of its new president ial coalition, which are minorities, millennials at the expense of further alienating older, more conservative voters who moved away from him in 2014. And for the republicans in their response, on one hand they feel enraged the president is doing this in the face of the election. But they also face a longterm demographic challenge, if they cant improve their share of the growing minority vote, the math gets tougher for them to win the white house. A big moment for both parties. Alan, theres a fascinating article in politico about how this was not a rash decision by the president , this had been going on for nine months in backroom dealings. Little did we know just how close the republicans in the house were to signing on to some sort of bipartisan bill when suddenly, majority leader eric cantor lost his position and it all fell apart. Well, yeah, i mean theres been efforts by republicans in the house to try to get something passed through congress. For a very long time. Representative Mario Diaz Balart from florida was leading a team of legislators to try to get a bill through the house. John boehner said he never wanted a bill so they were working on that for quite a bit of time there were several reasons that House Republicans gave for not wanting to take that up. At first they said they couldnt trust the president on Border Security. To enforce that portion of any sort of immigration bill. Then they said it was because of eric cantors loss. He come out sort of in support of Immigration Reform and a lot of people blame that for his loss, even though thats debatable. Over the summer we had the wave of Central American children coming over. At that time they said we cant do it now, we got this crisis going on. Along the way theres people always trying, but a lot of skepticism about whether they are going to get something going. Ron, now what do republicans do . They fight it in many different ways, i think theyre debating how far they can go while trying to hold to the line of not seeming so intemperate that they alienate, further alienate hispanic voters. Think its a very difficult moment for them. I myself am dubious that they were ever going to pass a bill acceptable to the president. We saw the same thing under george w. Bush in 2006 as under president obama in 2013. In each case, the Senate Passed a bipartisan bill with measurable republican support and the House Republicans refused to take it up. 80 of them represent districts more white than the national average, they feel very little personal incentive to do this. For the party, youre going to see a lot of forceful response and a real struggle by the leadership in both parties to prevent the most extreme members from defining this in a way that does further alienate hispanic voters. Alan, lets talk about the strategic timing. Last night wasnt any other thursday night, it was the Latin Grammys awards and millions of people were watching unavision when the network cut away from the latin Grammy Awards to take the president s speech live. He had a captive audience of the very demographic that he was courting. Are latinos happy today . Or did it not go far enough for them . Theyre happy, but of course some of them are a little bit upset. The president could have got a little bit they think he could have got a little bit further with this action. Theyre still a lot of undocumented immigrants who are not going to be protected under this. Those who have lived in the country for a long time, but dont happen to have any u. S. Children. They think theres more he could have done. The timing is interesting, he was thinking about doing this over the summer. He delayed it, to help his some of his democratic colleagues who were trying to get reelected in the senate, who thought him doing it over the summer would enrage the more conservative side of the states and lead to a loss. Obviously it didnt work out for them either way. But he ended up doing this now and i think the timing worked out incredibly well. Obviously were going into a cycle now where its going to be president ial election season very soon. And were facing a president ial election. And so its, this is where the hispanic vote is critical. They werent that influential in the last elections that we just saw, the demographics, the geography of the election didnt work out for that. But in a president ial election they are paramount, they are critical. Mittmy got 27 of the hispanic vote and that was one of the things that helped sink him. So republicans, their response now in these next couple of weeks, next couple of months to what the president did is going to go a long way towards determining how many of those hispanics come around and vote for the republican party. Thanks so much for being with us on new day and help us understand whats happened last night. And well be joined by the White House Press secretary in the next hour, josh earnest who will answer some of the many remaining questions about the president s plan. Lets go over to chris. Another big story to be watching today is whats going to happen in ferguson. Now its Police OfficerDarren Wilson who center stage. Reportedly in talks to resign from the department. He says its to make life easier on his fellow officers. But his decision could be pending outcome of the grand jury decision. That decision could come today. We have evan perez in clayton, missouri, where the grand jury has been deliberating. Etch, what do we know about what wilson is negotiating or not and what do we know about the timing of the grand jury. Chris, good morning, the timing is very much dependant upon the grand jury. As we know the grand jury is coming back here today, to the st. Louis county Justice Center to do some of the deliberations and they could make a decision later today. And that comes as Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown, is in negotiations, final stages of negotiations to resign. His resignation has been in the works for some time. And one of his concerns was not to resign at a time when the grand jury was still hearing evidence. For fear that that would signal that he is admitting any guilt or any fault here. He maintains that he did not wrong. And hes really just doing this to ease the pressure in some of his fellow officers. All right, evan, thank you very much. Well have to see whether or not hes indicted because of the suggestion of it. Well have to see, today could be a very big day for the entire community. Alisyn . Were also getting word that china is capable of mounting hack attacks with enough juice to shut down the u. S. Electrical grid and other critical systems. The words of warning from the head of the nsa who says malware from china and other countries has been detected. So can a catastrophic event be prevented . Lets get to chief National Security correspondent jim schutto with the latest. What do we know . This is alarming testimony before the House Intelligence Committee by the nsa chief Michael Rodgers, also the head of the u. S. Cybercommand. China and one or two other countries, which he did not identify, have the capacity to shut down not just the nations power grid, but also other political infrastructure. He says we see them attempting to steal information on how our systems are kong figured, the schematics of most of our control systems, right down to the engineering level of detail so they can look where there are vulnerabilities, how theyre constructed and how can i get in and defeat them . They say there are multiple nations, as well as surrogate criminal actors acting on behalf of nations. While he didnt identify the other one or two countries involved, russia certainly a knt here and russia is a country that has used criminal groups, hacking groups as surrogates to carry out attacks on sensitive government systems. It comes after a new report by pew which predicts a catastrophic cyberattack, causes significant losses of life and money by 2025. Rodgers before the committee was asked about that report and he said he did not disagree. Alisyn, with that assessment. So troubling. Jim schutto, thanks so much for explaining it. Other news to talk about, lets get over to michaela. Happy friday. Let me be the first to say it to you. We begin with breaking news for you, israel has arrested three palestinians who allegedly planned to assassinate israels foreign minister. Israeli defense Officials Say the men planned to fire a rocket toward the Foreign Ministers convoy near his home during operation protective edge over the summer. More violence breaking out in mexico overnight skirmishes broke out between protesters and police who forcibly cleared demonstrators from the main square in thor in of mexico city. Earlier police used fire extinguishers to disburse protesters throwing molotov cocktails in the streets. Demonstrators are demanding answers in the case of 43 missing College Students. It is feared they were massacred by a cartel on orders from a mexican mayor. One person is dead, three others have been injured after a deadly blast at an offshore oil platform near louisiana. Investigators are trying to figure out exactly what sparked the explosion. Some 12 miles off the coast of new orleans. Happened around 3 00 local Time Thursday afternoon. Officials say that rig was not in production at the time. The damage has been limited to the explosion area and no pollution was reported. The latest developments for you in the fsu shooting. The shooter has been identified as this young man, myron may, a lawyer and a 2005 fsu graduate. Weve learned that he messaged eight friends to tell them they would be receiving packages, those packages should arrive today. Investigators are hoping the packages may hold some clues as to why he opened fire. One of mays three victims has been identified as Library Worker nathan scott. He was shot in the leg. But he is recovering. We send our best to him and to the other victims. We still stay on that. More ahead from ferguson, missouri on what could be a pivotal day. A decision is imminent on whether to indict the officer who shot Michael Brown. Plus he could lose his job. Celebrate whats new, the bigger, better menu at red lobster with more of what you love try our newest woodgrilled combination maine lobster, extra jumbo shrimp, and salmon so hurry in and sea food differently. Wouldnt it be great if hiring plumbers, shopping online is as easy as it gets. Carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple . Thanks to angies list, now it is. Start shopping online from a list of toprated providers. Visit angieslist. Com today. 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Well it just would be something that would make the supporters of Michael Brown feel like theres a little ounce of some justice, you know sort of on a community level. Because i cant imagine that he would believe, even if hes not indicted, that he could then go back into that community and be a Police Officer. So i mean for the heart, it probably would make Michael Brown supporters feel really good. And its probably a prudent thing for him to do. Danny, he could keep, if hes not indicted, especially, he would keep his job and it would be the assumption is that he didnt do anything wrong. What could this mean to the grand jury, if anything . I dont know that it will make that much of a difference on the grand jury itself. But remember this is a Police Officer. Hes experienced at testifying. Whether or not he was still on the job or not on the job, this is Law Enforcement knows how to testify in court. Whether its before a grand jury or a petit jury. And remember, grand juries are sust onesided affairs, theres no defense attorney, its the prosecutions show. So when we talk about the old saying of a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich, thats true. But a prosecutor can also not indict a ham sandwich if he is so inclined. Heres something, i get your point, i know legally its correct. But mo, prosecutors usually dont go to a grand jury if they dont want to bring a case. You could argue that wouldnt be ethical. If you take it to the grand jury, its because you want to make a case, right . Sure, which then says if you feel like there is enough evidence for a case, you dont even have to go to the grand jury, you can just prosecute yourself. So you know, that example is exactly right. What danny said. But i think in this situation, it gives people a lot of pause, because the prosecutor is actually supposed to be working to find justice for Michael Brown