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>> jim acosta at the white house. thank you very much. joining us now, republican congressm congressman. >> wolf, it's great to be with you. >> what is your reaction of the president's decision to rescind daca affecting these 800,000 young people? >> obviously i support the president's decision, wolf. one of the things that's perhaps not getting reported a whole lot is the jurisprudence that is out there would suggest this was going away, anyway. the president took a decisive action. he did it in a way that gave congress six months to deal with it. you saw dick durbin and lindsey graham workin...

Solution. because if you do look at the polling on this issue, dana is absolutely right, this is a part of a facet of immigration reform that does have broad bipartisan support, ask children who are left in this situation are very sympathetic figures to many people. >> the one thing to keep in mind is the difference between kind of the debate before president obama put daca in place and now is that these people came out of the shadows. they gave all their information to the united states government. so they have that. they are known quantities. they are known people. and so if this isn't fixed...

I'm gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. former president barack obama rolled back daca registrations for 800,000 undocumented children. president trump is stopping it hoping congress can change the move. jeff zeleny, you learned how much the president has struggled with this issue himself over these past many months. i want to play for our viewers how he described the dilemma back in february.

>> do you really fear realistically that these 800,000 young people could be deported from the united states? >> absolutely no doubt. you just heard mr. mett lerks s ta -- mettles talk about that. literally they bring their children to school. here we have 800,000 targets for them. this is going to be a major challenge across this nation. totally unnecessary. it would work its way through the courts, the current daca situation, and found to be constitutional or not. and the congress has to come to grips with a comprehensive immigration reform. >> but is that realistic given the nature of the u...

Wolf. right now we're dealing with 800,000 people. if we don't secure a southern border, how many are we dealing with? at what point does amnesty become the de facto immigration policy? if we're going to deal with this in terms of a legal status or anything else you were mentioning, we have to make sure we have e-verify in place. we have a border security to make sure that. it's all part of a debate that's ongoing that daca and our border security has to come together as we try to resolve this. >> are you okay -- i want to be precise on this -- assuming there is no other legislation deporting ...