The strongest weve seen in years. Ahead, what we know about when and where irma might hit. Im jon scott in for shepard smith. The white house says President Trump wrestled with his decision to end the program that protects the socalled dreamers from deportation. That from press secretary sarah sander as short time ago. She said it was the best decision. Congress now has six months to save the program or come up with a new plan. Dreamers is a catchall term for some 800,000 immigrants that came to the u. S. Illegally as children. Jeff sessions announced the decision to end the program protecting them, calling it unconstitutional. We are passion of compassion and people of law. Theres nothing compassionate about the failure to enforce immigration laws. Protests popping up across the country, including demonstrations in front of the white house and outside trump tower in new york. John roberts live now. The protesters have moved from away from the white house and marching through Downtown Washington d. C. Sarah Huckabee Sanders portrayed the move as the responsible thing to do. She said rather than let a judge shut down daca wholesale and do it overnight, the president was pursuing a dismantling of the program, dismantling of the program. Opponents of daca are not happy either because they thought he should have shut it down and not extended it for six months and kicked it to congress. Heres what will really happen in the next six months to people that are socalled part of the daca program. No new applications for daca status will be taken by the department of customs and immigration. Furthermore, people that have applications in the process also will be processed. Renewal requests for continues daca status that have been received will be adjudicated on a casebycase basis. For people whose benefits expire after march 5, only renewal requests that are already in the pipeline will be considered. Meaning if youre a dreamer and your benefits expire in may of 2018 and you dont already have a renewal request in, you will not be able to file a renewal request. This moves on to congress now where the white house is expecting that democrats and republicans alike will take this up. Within six months come up with a fix. The president is asking for some sort of responsible Immigration Reform that the white house is indicating needs to contain more than just daca. Possibly funding for a border whale, other enforcement provisions. Already we see a split in the Republican Party over the more centrist side of the party that wants to do something to fix it and more conservative side that says hey, we shouldnt be involved in this at all. I asked sarah Huckabee Sanders who said she was confident that congress could come up with something. Why shes confident . Listen here. Getting something on the republican side is not going to be easy with the divisions that we see between the center and the right and the Republican Party will become deeper what gives you confidence with all due respect, i dont think the American People elected congress to do things that were easy. Thats their job. If they cant do it, they need to get out of the way and let somebody else that can take on a heavy lift. We just heard from president obama. He weighed in a statement. He said in july of 2012 he moved to protect the dreamers because he wanted to lift the shadow of deportation off of them. Heres what the former president said. He said today the shadow has been cast over the best and brightest young people again to target these people is wrong because they have done nothing wrong. It is selfdefeating because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military and otherwise contribute to the country we love and it is cruel. Jon . Stay there, john. President trump says the u. S. Will send two allies, more firepower after north koreas latest nuclear test. The president tweeted today, im allowing japan and south korea to buy a substantially amount of sophisticated equipment from the United States. Military officials in pyongyang said they test add Hydrogen Bomb over the weekend. Their most powerful ever. Scientists in the u. S. Say they estimated the blast to be several times stronger than the atomic bombs the u. S. Dropped on japan. Now the white house is trying to pressure china and other members to cut off all oil and fuels going into north korea. Thats according to the new york times. A Senior Administration official tells the paper this is the last best chance to resolve the Nuclear Standoff without getting the military involved. Back the john roberts now live at the white house. John . The past 48 hours, the president has been rattling sabers against north korea. Had several calls with the president s of japan and merkel of germany. They were all specific about the fact that the president mentioned the u. S. Has Nuclear Weapons and is ready to counter any sort of Common Threat that comes from north korea on that point. That follows james mattis in sunday afternoon statement out here on the driveway, one that was to me i never heard anything like that before, it was extraordinary where he side were not looking to the annihilation of a country but we have many military options for doing so. He said they do seem to be here at the white house putting an extra emphasis on diplomatic and economic measures to bring north to heel. Heres what sarah Huckabee Sanders said a short time ago. Now is not the time for us to spend a lot of time focused on talking with north korea but putting all measures of pressure that we can and were going to continue through that process. Weve also said everybody including russia and china need to do more to address the threat, this is a global threat. She said china and russia need to do more. Secretary of state tillerson talked with his counterpart to ask why russia is opposing tougher sanctions. Lavrov said they wanted to start a dialogue with north korea but kim jongun is not serious about wanting a dialogue. Lavrov said the moves with this nuclear test over the weekend had them moving away from dialogue as opposed to moving toward it. Thank you, john. Breaking news. Republican senator Lindsey Graham and democratic senator dick durbin holding a News Conference about their bipartisan bill, the dream act. Lets listen to senator durbin. The announcement by the white house was a disappointment to me. The first and only conversation i had with President Trump, i thanked him for the kind words he said about the dreamers and daca. He said dont worry about the dreamers. Were going to take care of them. I trusted the president would do that. I hoped to work with him. We had many meetings in the white house with people on his staff talking about how to achieve the goal and making certain the dreamers will have their day and their opportunity. Today this announcement that was handed down first by attorney general sessions and by the president tells us that the clock is ticking. Were now in a countdown towards deportation for 780,000 protected by daca today. For those young men and women across america, i can tell you, this is a moment of great concern, great fear and great anxiety about what is going to happen to their lives. They include teachers and engineers, medical students at Loyola School of medicine. Senator graham and i want to deliver the message is that we need to do our job here in the United States senate. We need to pass in this month of september a dream act, a permanent law in this country that says that these young people will have their chance to become part of americas future. The dream act is not a new idea introduced years ago, gone through the judiciary committee, part of our comprehensive Immigration Reform and the day we included it, i can remember we met add hand one of the shortest meetings of our bipartisan group. We said fine. Everybody is for the dream act. Lets go to immigration. So we have included this as our main item in the agenda for the month of september. We want to make certain that the senate and the house vote on the permanent enactment of the dream act as allow of the land. My last message before i turn it over to my colleague is this. Its to the dreamers. Weve stood together through thick and thin for almost 16 years now. Weve had moments when we passed this major in the senate, moments in the house but never both chambers at the same time. This is our chance to do it do not give up hope. If you are one of those dreamers, one of those protected by daca, you need to be part of america in its future. We made a promise to you that if you gave this information to our government about you and your family, it wouldnt be used against you. I dont want that to ever happen. So lets stand together. Lets take heart and stand together and make sure that we do the right thing for the dreamers this month of september. Senator graham. Thank you. To the dream act population, theres a lot of people in the republican side of the aisle that understand your dilemma and we want to find a fair solution. Because you have done nothing wrong. You came here as children, contributed to society, you have passed criminal background checks, you have demonstrated your ability to be beneficial to the count trip, now and in the future. The only thing that stands between you and certainty is the congress. That cannot be that reassuring. Heres the deal. The congress is going to have to up this game. As to the president , i think he was right to determinate daca. I believe from day one it was an unconstitutional overreach by president obama. He had a dilemma on his hand. I understand why dick wrote the letter. I tried to do my part to find conference in Immigration Reform not only for the dream act kids and their parents. I tried to make sure that 20 years from now we dont have 11 million more illegal immigrants. Fix it once and for all. The president did the country a service by going back to Constitutional Order by allowing six months for the congress to take care of these kids. The president was right on the law but he was also right to give us six months to figure out a solution to this. My challenge to the president , youve taught very glowingly about these kids. Help us. Help us in the house. Help us in the senate. I think youre a good man. Get involved personally. Work the phones. Try to find a consensus here. Heres what i think will happen. Theres going to be elements of the Republican Party that believe that if you pass this dream act, youre rewarding future ilLegal Immigration, incentivizing future ilLegal Immigration in the future. I would be right if you say you stop with the dream act. Were going to do more. 70 of americans want to control who comes to the country and create order out of chaos. 70 of americans want to give these kids a Second Chance and a good life in our country. When you tell them to go home, theyll go back to the house they were raised in. They have no other country other than america. Theres mo more connected to their home country where i am to scotland where my grandfather came from. So the reality of the situation is these children basically have no place to go other than america. Heres to good news for america. You should want them to stay. Theyre working, productive. This is a winwin. If there was ever a winwin in modern terms, it would be the dream act. You may like the executive order for dream act kids but where does it end . What is the limitation of power of a president to give 900,000 a Million People status by stroke of a pen . If youre a constitutional conservative passing the dream act should please you. Congress is doing their job with the president signing a bill passed by the congress. If you worry about these kids, you should vote for the dream act because it gives them what they deserve. A new life in their home country. To those in the Republican Party who vote no, i respect it. I respect your decision. Lets have a healthy debate. Make the case that these kids dont belong here. Im going to make the case they do. Were all going to vote. So from a Republican Party point of view, this is a defining moment. We need to create a step, a process forward to fix a broken immigration system. Starting with the dream act is a good down payment on what will eventually be a comprehensive solution to a broken immigration system to the president. You have a chance to show the nation as the president said all of us where our heart is at. You a chance to lead the republican and do two things. Saying were the party of a constitutional process, that we believe in doing it right, but right means taking care of these kids. For both of you, there are a lot of reasons that feel that if you give people legal status, youre going to insentivize to bring kids here illegally. What do you say to that . This is a realtime problem. This doesnt help fix a broken immigration system, to take these kids and ruin their lives. Thats what youd be doing. Most republicans believe that you have to have a secure border or youll get 11 million more in the future. Most democrats want Border Security too. We practically militarized the border in the gang of eight bill. What about the parents of these kids . Heres the dilemma. Were going to deal with the dream act kids first. But to get to the parents, you have to have a comprehensive solution in place. I dont think republicans are going to legalize the 11 million and hope one day to secure the border, increase Legal Immigration will come from the democrats. I bet you democrats wont give us the legal increases we want without knowing what happened to 11 million. John mccain said he was against this idea because he wants to go back to comprehensive Immigration Reform. I have walked the walk when it comes to voting at comprehensive Immigration Reform. We dont have that luxury right now. As dick said, we have six months. Im with dick durbin. By the end of september, we need to take care of the dreamers and work on the other parts of the problem. I promised my republican colleagues, i wont stop with the dream act because that incentivizes future ilLegal Immigration. Im committed to fixing this problem once and for all. Let me say a word about the six months. Thats to march 5. So we have plenty of time, right . Not by senate standards we dont. Who know whats next months topic du jour will be. Is it kim jongun, is it going to be irma, harvey . What will it be . Lets move and do it now. Thats why we think its important to make the dream act the law of the land now. Congress has tried and failed more than ten times to pass protections for dreamers. Why should dreamers today have any confidence this time around youll get this done . Some people look at the doughnut and see the hole. In this circumstance, if you look at the history, this measure has passed the house, passed the senate. Never did it as required by the constitution at the same time. Now we have a compelling reason, a timely reason. Daca is about to expire. We need to act on this or we know the consequences are a countdown clock to deportation to 700,000 of best and brightest people in our country. We have a timetable. A timetable is what most americans needs when it comes to filing taxes and going to the denti dentist. We have to act and get it done now. You have the speaker of the house that is republican, the majority leader of the republican that is a republican and both express ago desire to take care of the dream act kids. What the final bill looks like, i dont know. I like our bill. Got 68 votes in the senate in bipartisan fashion. You also have the president of the United States who did two things today. He rejected the idea of president obamas executive order as being a president ial overreach. I think he was right to do that. But expressly gave us six months. The reason i think it will get done now is because the leadership of the Republican Party, including president , realizes its good for the country economically and otherwise to give these kids the certainty they need in their lives. Senator, are you concerned that the administration wouldnt see a clean daca fix and they wanted what they called responsible Immigration Reform . Well, all i can say is that the process of taking care of the kids he be a negotiated process. The comprehensive gang of eight bill was negotiation. A lot of people believe a good marriage is Border Security and dream act. Now, i know this, theres not much of an appetite for a 2,200 mile wall. If thats what you mean by Border Security, you wont get a lot of votes. Dick durbin has voted in the past for dramatic increases of Border Patrol agents, fencing where it makes sense, walls where it makes sense, drones and technology where it makes sense. So i dont know how this movie ends. Heres what ill predict. Were not going to allow these kids to be a victim of a broken political process. As a matter of fact, this may be what we need in congress to get our act together. Real people. Something we can put our hands around and the public can understand. A real issue with real live people that need us to act decisi decisively. Were going to take care of the hurricane victims in texas and then these kids. Would you entertain the idea of tapping a dream act bill that would be tied to funding a border wall . Im not going to get into specific negotiations on what i will accept or not. The wall is a nonstarter in terms of the political controversy. I dont disagree with what lindsey