" Supreme Court Sends DACA Fight Back to Lower Courts.
BLITZER: The United States Supreme Court is staying out of the DACA debate, at least for now. The court said this morning there will be no ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program at the moment, the so-called DREAMers program. At the moment, President Trump has said March 5th was the deadline to find a deal to keep the program alive. Our Supreme Court reporter, Ariane de Vogue, is with us now. What does it mean, Ariane, for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court's decision not to hear arguments?</s>ARIANE DE VOGUE, CNN SUPREME COURT REPORTER: It is a loss for the Trump administration. The Supreme Court said it would not review the lower court opinion that temporarily blocked the administration from ending the program. So that means these renewals can continue. But this whole issue is going to return to the lower courts. Remember, it's the lower courts that blocked that March 5th deadline. The issue here was never the legality of DACA. It was always how the administration chose to end it.</s>BLITZER: So basically, the DREAMers, 700,000, 800,000, the president suggested maybe 1.8 million, including many who never signed up formally with the DACA program, the pressure is off them to come up with a solution by March 5th?</s>DE VOGUE: It's true the pressure is off. But these DREAMers aren't looking for the courts to fix this. They really want this long-term fix. And that's why they're really hoping the president and Congress are finally going to come together and figure something out here. Because the legal issue will play out, but it won't be the long-term fix --</s>BLITZER: But they have extra time now. Members of the House, members of the Senate, the White House, the president, they can work on it a little bit easier without the March 5th deadline hovering over them?</s>DE VOGUE: Absolutely. The renewals will be able to continue. The March 5th deadline is not in play now.</s>BLITZER: These lower court rulings have suggested people can go out there and register as potential DACA recipients.</s>DE VOGUE: What they have said is you can renew. You can't -- there can be no new people coming in. But if you are a part of the program, you can renew. That's where things stand with the lower courts right now.</s>BLITZER: The fear that some of the DREAMers have is, if they sign up, they could be in danger.</s>DE VOGUE: That's right. They have been apprehensive. What's the future? Should we give up all of our information? Should we come out of the shadows and then have this all go away? That's a very clear fear on their part.</s>BLITZER: If it eventually winds up in the hands of the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, any indication which way they might decide?</s>DE VOGUE: What the Trump administration asked for here was a long shot. They asked for this issue to come right to the Supreme Court and jump over the federal appeals court. The Supreme Court doesn't like requests like that. They want to see it going through the federal appeals court because they want to hear from more judges on the issue, so if it does reach them, they will have a more robust record here.</s>BLITZER: We'll see what happens. These are critical moments. There are hundreds of thousands of DREAMers who are anxious to get a solution. The president keeps saying he wants a deal, he wants a solution, but he's adding other stuff to this, and it's causing some serious debate now.</s>DE VOGUE: Absolutely.</s>BLITZER: We'll see if there is movement on that front. Ariane, thank you very much for that.</s>DE VOGUE: Thank you.</s>BLITZER: Meanwhile, the search is on to find the next head of the Federal Aviation Administration. President Trump reportedly has a nominee in mind. That nominee? Reportedly his personal pilot. Axios News reporting President Trump is pushing to have John Dunkin lead the FAA. Dunkin flew the president's personal plane during the presidential campaign. But an administration source is quoted as saying that Dunkin also has extensive airline management and certification experience. We'll see where that goes. In the meantime, that's it for me. Thank you very much for watching. I'll be back at 5:00 p.m. Eastern in "THE SITAUTION ROOM." For our international viewers, "AMANPOUR" is next. For our viewers in North America, "NEWSROOM" with Brooke Baldwin starts right after this.