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Opportunity. he's the commander in chief. he can decide how he wants this to go, and it's very clear that this is an attempt for him to kind of push this off to someone else, to congress, to jeff sessions, as john said, so that he doesn't have to make the really hard decision. what exactly they end up doing to square that circle today is going to be really important because i think for all of these people there's a huge lack of certainty in the next six months even if there is a delay in ending the program. >> 800,000 people at least do not know where they will be in six months plus one day. t...

And it protects them currently from being deported but that could change. the president is punting the fate of these hundreds of thousands of dreamers to congress. cnn's joe johns is live at the white house with more. what are we expecting, joe? >> alisyn, what to do about daca is a question the president has struggled with over weeks and months and today does appear to be decision day with the attorney general set to make the announcement at the briefing here in washington later this morning. sense of drama continues to hang over this, because sources have told cnn even this late in the proce...

Young undocumented immigrants from being deported. >> dreamers here to stay! dreamers here to stay! >> reporter: this possibility drawing backlash from both sides of the aisle. >> what i hope the president says tomorrow is that he supports the policy of the daca program, and wants congress to pass it in a lto law. >> to end the daca program is one of the most cruel and ugly decisions ever made in the modern history of this country by a president. >> but the president promised during the campaign that he would end protections for dreamers, attorneys general from ten states threatened to sue if ...

Conflicted? >> yes, i mean i think is he genuinely conflicted but as those clips really illustrate, the strategy of making daca a scapegoat in the election was just that, it was an actual strategy. it was not by chance, not because he didn't understand the program. the reality of governing is much harder and republicans recognize getting rid of this program is not going to be popular. what i'm looking for in the next, today really and the next couple of days in terms of clarity from this administration is what happens to daca recipients in the interim, even if there is a six-month deadline you...

Is it to try to see that the merger of the korean peninsula? the trump administration has not articulated for any of us what its long-term goal is. it's clear that the north koreans are not going to give up their nuclear program. the best question hope for is a freeze, and that will involve a lot of diplomacy, but to get there, you have to sit down with each other, and there's no indication yet that washington or pyongyang are willing to do that with an agenda that is at all realistic. diplomatic sanctions can do so much, but the ones that are the most punitive may actually unnerve the north k...