jonathan turley and friend of the program. charles cook joining us live as well from atlanta.rting. i always want to know the tea leaves. how the argument sounds. can you point me in either direction when you heard the challenges from those eight, yes, eight justices. i will not ask you to pontificate about what you think will happen but what it will sound like. >> reporter: it's dangerous to tell you but the eight justices seem deeply divided over whether the president has the authority to create an executive order that shields millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and gives them work authorization and benefits. the conservative justices seemed to think that was a job for congress and that this was executive overreach and in fact, at one point, justice candy said this seems upside down and seemed concerned with the language saying that this would give them lawful presence. they said, how can they be given lawful presence if they're in violation of the law? the administration said this will just be a tolerated presence while we focus on the highest priority targ