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Hearing arguments on whether the third iteration of the president's travel ban is unconstitutional. separately, a third federal judge issue aed a setback for the administration's efforts to end the daca program ordering the government to continue processing applications by dreamers and resume accepting new ones, and giving the government 90 days to offer better reasons for abolishing the program. for more on the two major policy battles i bring in nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, start, if we can, with what's going on with donald trump, and i'm going back to when he announce...

No. it was a practicality. the other side of the argument is this -- you're right. but i was arguing that because he's on the right. you're on the left. there are two sides to the argument. you don't have a deadline on friday for daca. as long as they abide by the federal court decision out of california and keep processing applications for extension, the dreamers are okay or held in a advance. you have a real deadline in march not friday, you can do this budget resolution and do daca after. that is if you trust the republicans to do it with you. >> but every day people are going out of status...

Individuals. >> that's to continue processing applications. you get expirations that is creates anxiety uncertainty. >> there's time to do what the election is about. do what we campaigned on. there's a reason the american people put republicans in the control of the house and made president trump the president of the country. there's a bill the piece of legislation that the president endorsed. that piece of legislation does everything i just droibed and it also deals with the 700,000 daca individuals across the country. it deals with them. that's the legislation we should pass and pass as qui...

It was unconstitutional. the courts were going to overturn it. it always should have been in the purview of congress, so he gave it to you with a time line. did he have to do it? no. they say it was a practicality. but he did it. the other side of the argument is this, though. and you're right. i'm not being hypocritical, but i was arguing that to raj because he'sen right. you're on the left, and there are two sides to the argument here's the other one. you don't have a dead line on friday for daca. as long as they abide by the federal court decision out of california and they keep processing ...

>> the timing is not as critical as it is for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. people are losing their eligibility day by day. >> the court just ruled, chris. there's no hard deadline now for the daca individuals. >> that's to continue processing applications. >> there's time to -- >> you're still getting expirations. that creates anxiety. >> there is time to do what the election is about, do what we all campaigned on. there's a reason the american people put republicans in control of the house, the senate, and a big reason why they made donald trump the president of this great country. so let's focus on th...