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Being buffeted between various factions. >> david gergen, we saw that clearly on camera on the daca meeting when he agreed with senator feinstein saying that's what we will go with, daca first, then other stuff afterward, comprehensive immigration reform, using a phrase that i'm not even sure he understood how that's commonly used, then you had mccarthy, senator mccarthy jump in and say actually, mr. president, i think what you mean is this. congressman mccarthy, i should point out. >> yeah. this is all very peculiar and it is unprecedented at least in my experience going back some time. ander...

The problem now is you got the politics involved in washington. that's what's so frustrating to all of us in the real world. rick: molly joins us from the nation's capitol. what are the options right now. >> reporter: it's a program not a law, and the president plans to shut it down in march unless legislators send him a bill making it a law. if they let daca end in march or create a stand-alone piece of legislation affirming daca or wrap daca and immigration reform into a spending bill that funds the government. democrats say daca first. >> i, for one, will not vote for government funding unt...

Reform, molly annenberg joins us with the latest details. >> daca, that's the program to prevent illegal miners from being deported and its vexing members of congress right now.the trump administration plans to shut it down in march unless legislators send him a bill making it along so legislators are trying to find out if they let it and/or they put in a stand-alone bill to wrap up some type of daca and immigration reform in a bill to fund the government. democrats say daca first. >> what we are dealing with now our children brought here through a very young age, no faultof their own. that's ...

Is also why dni put out a new policy this morning. this is top of mind for the president, top of mind for the administration, and he has a full understanding. >> so, you see, the white house there defending the president's knowledge of today's fisa vote despite his conflicting tweet on the subject this morning. the president's confusion over official white house policy was also evident earlier in the week when republicans rushed to correct him at that bipartisan immigration meeting. >> what about a clean daca bill now? >> i have no -- i think that's basically what dick is saying. we're going t...

That? >> i would like -- go ahead. i think a lot of people would like to see that. but i think we have to do daca first. >> mr. president, you need to be clear, though. i think what senator feinstein is asking here, when we talk about just daca, we don't want to be back here two years later. you have to have security as the secretary would tell you. >> but i think that's what she's saying. >> no, no, i think she's saying something -- >> so, you see, moments like that and this new michael wolff book that's out have only fueled this discussion about fitness for office. last night on this network...