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America illegally as children through no fault of their own, and then were willing to register with the federal government later in life. but tonight, just hours after the attorney general, jeff sessions, made the announcement, the president wrote on twitter "congress now has six months to legalize daca, something the obama administration was unable to do. if they can't, i will revisit this issue!" the white house has not provide any other information clarifying what the president means by "revisit the issue." more on that in a moment. shortly after the daca announcement was made, "the new yor...

For more on this. i'm joined by senator al franken of minnesota. thank you and changes on your book. let's get to this. it seems like trump is thrown a hot potato. he didn't want to say i'll give them chance. by their parents. i'm going to let them stay and not be prosecuted. he is saying, let congress do it. >> first of all, the executive order that president obama gave on this was actually lawful. president reagan did a similar thing, george w. bush did a similar order so that's bogus. i guess he was doing it to appeal to his base which is really the only people who are for getting rid of da...

Probably in most cases, america is the only country they know. and i think everything that former president obama said is absolutely true. >> if all of that is true and it is a legitimate law, why didn't congress just pass it? >> well, i hope we can. i don't know if it will be tomorrow. we have to get the votes. >> is it hard to get 50 votes for daca? >> i think we'll be able to do and it it depends on what bill we pass. i know that senator durbin has been the leader. >> can we attach to it some bill and move it? >> well -- >> i have an old memory of how things used to be done on the hill. i d...

It reflects that this is a president who legitimately has been torn on this issue in recent weeks. as much as during the campaign, consistently he said we're going to terminate this program, do it on day one. when he was exposed to some of the stories of daca, when he was exposed to the political reality surrounding it, that many in his own party don't want him to get rid of it, he saw this as sort of a untenable situation and was looking for a way out. in some ways, pushing this to congress is his way of doing that. and also i would hike to point out, that tweet tonight, may will reflective o...

And farm worker. came to the u.s. at the age of 8 and was undocumented. congressman, as someone who is not personally a d.r.e.a.m.er in the sense of a daca recipient but whose experience is very much ha lined with theirs, what was your reaction when you first heard this was snapping. >> thank you for having me. very disheartening. to see that the president a few days after saying that he loves these people, that he will take away their dreams by taking away this daca status. i know what it is like to live in fearful i was a dreamer at one point. i was here as dakota will and now i'm a member o...