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President said. he invited the media in to sit in on a meeting with lawmakers to hear him say, if lawmakers came to an agreement on daca, he'd sign it. a group of bipartisan senators led by dirk durbin on the right, lindsey graham on the left on your screen, did that, and the president dismissed it, calling it, quote, a big step backward, in this tweet on january 12th. now daca sits at the center of the government shutdown, meaning any talks about getting the government up and running again are likely going to have to include what to do about immigration. joining me now is erica andiola, lead ...

Recipient, about dreamers. are you frustrated that there aren't more talk about stories like yours, that the media is not embracing a story like this? >> absolutely. that's why i'm so thankful for fox that they're talking about this. they are keeping this alive. these are the people, the first line people who are here to help us are the officers. and our politicians our lawmakers are doing nothing but protecting the folks that they're supposed to be keeping out of our country. and when you have stories like, this where officers are killed, all of a sudden, they are ignoring it completely. it's...

Trump committed to him he wouldn't back an immigration bill unless he and senator tom cotton backed it. if that's true, good luck on making any kind of deal at all. joining me now, jim manly, former chief spokesman for senate mujoerd leader harry rooet, and erica, daca recipient, leading to fight to get the d.r.e.a.m. act passed. jim, let me start with you. what do you make of cotton's role or the idea that cotton and meadows would have a veto on any of this? >> you know, it's just another symbol of the degradation of the political prosin this country. it's one thing for mark meadows to run ar...

And shouldn't that come before these other considerations which matter but aren't as urgent? >> we think not. we do think border security is a very urgent situation. say that to the family of kate steinle. say that to other families -- >> say that to the family of jorge garcigarcia, who just wat him get thrown out. >> chris, let's be clear. a daca fix would not help jorge garcia. he's not a daca recipient. >> he missed it by one year. but you could make changes in the law where you consider these kinds of things. >> we could. that is not even addressed by the graham/durbin proposal. let's be c...

Confusion the other day. and what strikes me as wildly wrong to say that president obama can create a program and that president trump cannot end it because of certain executive authority would seem to be the same. but can you tell us about the plans of the administration to appeal that or otherwise how you plan to address it? >> yes, sir. of course, the -- as the department of homeland security, we defer to the department of justice who is looking at a variety of ways in which to respond to that. but i can tell you is that dhs is complying with the court order. we have begun to accept renewal...