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Debate over daca in quite a tizzy and i think it's going to continue to influence it and dominate the conversation going forward the next few days. rick: one other question on the topic, morgan. immigration officials are encouraging some 800,000 dreamers to apply for renewals now before it's too late. you can explain why that's happening? >> because the trump administration plans to shut this down in march. and, of course, if congress doesn't agree on a deal to actually make this program law, it's going to expire. rick: yeah, we're going to ask you to stay there for a minute if you don't mind....

The trump administration has not conducted a full-scale exercise for this type of event, dhs secretary kiersten nielsen said they operate under the national response framework and had an exercise with deputy secretaries of the department, specifically related to this type of threat. she said there were plans for a cabinet level exercise in february. rick? rick: ellison bash or this remarkable story. thank you. let's bring back morgan, reporter from the hill. senator cotton said what happened in hawaii could be a game-changer on missile defense? >> absolutely. i think that this is a very, you k...

Debate over daca in quite a tizzy and i think it's going to continue to influence it and dominate the conversation going forward the next few days. rick: one other question on the topic, morgan. immigration officials are encouraging some 800,000 dreamers to apply for renewals now before it's too late. you can explain why that's happening? >> because the trump administration plans to shut this down in march. and, of course, if congress doesn't agree on a deal to actually make this program law, it's going to expire. rick: yeah, we're going to ask you to stay there for a minute if you don't mind....

The olympics, you know about. lot of things can happen. >> reporter: do you have the responsibility on daca? >> we're ready, able and willing to make a deal on daca, i don't think the democrats want to make a deal. the folks from daca should know the democrats are the ones that aren't going to make a deal, okay? thank you, everybody. enjoy yourself. thank you. rick: i know there's a lot there, morgan. back to daca. looked like they might be close to a deal earlier this week and now seem pretty far apart. >> reporter: right, rick, that was the president doubling down on the tweets that he sent ...

Merit. one democrat remains hopeful they'll strike a deal. >> i'm encouraged. first of all, we have a bipartisan recommendation. a bipartisan legislation that's been worked out after they sat down last week with the president, and it seems to do everything that was asked of them. i would be very, very encouraged that hopefully all my colleagues are going to look at this in a very positive way. if the president said what he said as far as you give me something in a bipartisan way, something you work out and i'll sign it. we hope to work that out and get done. this, all the hypergoing around it ...