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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...

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 ...

Also. reporter: [ inaudible ] i don't think the democrats want to make a deal. i think they'll talk about daca but don't want to help the daca deal. we used to say the daca children. i think you have a lot of sticking points, they're all democrat sticking points. we are ready to make a deal. they don't want it. they don't want security at the border, there are people pouring in. they don't want to stop drugs and want to take money away from the military which we cannot do. >> reporter: do you think your comments the other day made it harder? >> did you see what various senators in the room sai...

Lot of things can happen. reporter: [ inaudible ] >> we're ready, willing and able to make a deal on daca. the folks from daca should know the democrats are the ones that aren't going to make a deal. thank you, everybody. enjoy yourself. thank you. rick: so it appears to be a working weekend for the president down at the winter white house. he was there with the house majority leader kevin mccarthy going into some sort of meeting at the trump international golf club there. we'll bring you more when we get it. crews responding to a bizarre scene out west where they found a flaming car hanging...