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Is this normal to -- to throw everything against the wall in order to stop something like this from being released? have you seen efforts like this, aggressive efforts like this before? >> well, sure. i've seen aggressive efforts by lawyers to defend their clients, yes. and whatever jurisdiction they have. one of the arguments the president's lawyers make here, by the way, is a first amendment claim. they say the only reason anybody wants the president's taxes is for political reasons and that's kind of something that is under -- underlying all these various legal changes. >> what about dreame...

From bolivia. >> daca truly changed my life. and you know, i have a social security number, i have the ability to work, i have the ability to contribute and pay taxes. president trump tried to shut daca down, but lower courts blocked the move. in another high profile case the justices will decide whether existing federal law makes it illegal to fire employees because they're gay, lesbian, or transgender. gerald lost his county job in georgia after joining a gay softball league. >> i was fired for being gay. i lost everything. i lost my income and my medical insurance. >> does a law that ba...

Countries on the temporary protected status list. it is trump's first public offer to democrats since the shutdown began on december 22nd. now at 31 days and counting. house speaker nancy pelosi called the proposal a nonstarter and said that his offers of protection do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people's lives. trump's proposal came a day after reporting that the supreme court is unlikely to hear the administration's appeal to a lower court ruling that blocked him from shutting daca down. meaning the program will stay in place for at least ten more months. on sun...

Shutting daca down. stay with me. today was the deadline we believe for the court to grant any cases if the cases are to be heard this term in is the last conference by the justices until mid february. if they don't grant a case now after this con friend, there is no way the court will hear the case this term. we think now that it is unlikely the court will hear daca, we'll have a chance to find out for sure on monday, but we expected an orders list today, a list of any cases the court would grant. we have just been told flow wnoe will be no such list today. we can't be 100% sure about that, b...

Appeals and come directly to the supreme court and the supreme court said we're not going to do that. although it did say they expect the appeals court to rule expeditiously. that was the term. as a practical matter, what does this mean? it means this case is staying out of the supreme court for at least several more months. it's going to have to go through the court of appeals. this judge in san francisco said the government wrongly tried to shut daca down, used illegal reasoning to shut daca down, and he ordered the federal government to keep daca going. the trump administration appealed tha...