Because that way you give it less oxygen to continue the news cycle. I think the other way you might want to talk about this is maybe just knock it down forcefully. Dismiss it out of hand as no merit. As i mentioned, it looks like the white house has decided to do the second option. That is simply ignore this. Dont give this as much oxygen perhaps as it would like to have in the news cycle. Although we did hear this from the president himself. Did you want to fire Robert Muleer . Fake news, folks. Typical New York Times fake stories. Did you ever want to fire Robert Mueller . Reporter there you go. Fake news. For the record, white house sources remind us that if the president wanted to fire bob mueller, he could. He has the right. The white house counsels, they do come and go, for that matter. They also point out he didnt fire mueller. Even if it was a conversation, it never happened so this is a nonstory being drummed up by the times about a conversation that happened seven months ago. That said, adam schiff, no stranger to criticizing the president , is tossing red meat to his base, writing in a statement that reads in part, Congress Must make clear that any effort to remove the special counsel or impede his work would touch off a constitutional crisis which would imperil this presidency and do grave damage to our nation. Clearly that is hyperbolie. I think hes trying to illustrate the point that when youre the chief executive, you have to have the appearance, if nothing else, of completely staying out of an occasion like this. Thats why hes making that statement. I think its being well received by his supporters, talking about mr. Schiff there. Dana i guess on your point, theres a way to deal with the story, which is to ignore it. That is harder to do if the president comments on it. Reporter thats a problem, right . Dana thats all i have got. Kevin, thank you. Reporter all right. Dana President Trump is set to outline his immigration proposal next week as democrats are already reacting to it. Senate minority leader chuck shumer slamming the plan, calling it a tool to tear apart our Legal Immigration system. Chief Congressional CorrespondentMike E Manuel is live on capitol hill. Mike, what is the response from President Trump on this . Reporter well, dana, President Trump took a swipe at the Senate Democratic leader on twitter saying daca has been increasingly difficult, made increasingly difficult by the fact that crying chuck shumer took such a beating over the shutdown that he is unable to act on immigration. The president spoke more seriously about the immigration issue during his address to the World Economic forum. We will defend our citizens and our borders. We are also securing our immigration system as a matter of both national and economic security. America is a cutting edge economy. But our immigration system is stuck in the past. Reporter you saw the outline of the plan last night. This is just the start of the president and his team making his pitch for these immigration principles. Dana . Dana the president is talking about what chuck shumer said, but what are other democrats saying . There are some things in it that they want. Reporter absolutely. They are all for the idea of making legal status for 1. 8 Million People, but they are critical of some other components of it. Some suggesting that some of the dreamers brought to this country illegally by their parents are being used as political pawns. Senator corey booker, a democrat from new jersey, said the idea of using that much money for a border wall is something that is unacceptable to him. Booker suggests its money for 19th Century Technology at a time when the u. S. Should use 21st Century Technology to protect our borders. The House Democratic leader launched an attack of her own. They want the ransom for these children to be 25 billion for a wall when we have all of the needs that we have for infrastructure in our own country. So this is a fight that we will be having. Not about people not just about people, but about values. Reporter you can expect much more on this war of words in the coming weeks. Dana . Dana all right, mike. Thank you. Editor of Halftime ReportChris Stirewalt joins us now. Lets start with a story out of the New York Times about this question of whether President Trump considered firing Robert Mueller if doug mcgann said he was going to resign if he was forced to do that. I guess at this point, everyone is going to have to say, the Investigation Continues, so is that really that big a deal . Its significant. Its always good to know. We here in washington, as you know, though you have escaped the city, we live for these more sells, these little crumblets that come out, the scoop, the palace intrigue, the inside this, the inside that. What matters more than anything, your take away top line is, donald trump wanted to this was no secret at the time. The white house denied it. Donald trump very much wanted to fire Robert Mueller and try for this sort of, the night of the long knives like nixon had. Start slashing and burning his way through the Justice Department and do all this stuff. He was advised against it, whether dont mcgann said hed quit over it or not, thats the matter of some dispute. Whatever the case, they convinced the president that it would be, and it sure would have been, a remarkably foolish under taking that would have back fired on him even worse than his firing of comby did. It didnt happen. Dana i was thinking how it is true. Washington does pick up on any little morsel. Like when youre overcaffeineated. I have decided everyone in d. C. Is overmediated every morning. Heres a tweet from the atlantic. Trump asked comey for loyalty. Fired comby. Pressured sessions to fire. Pressured multiple congress men to say he wasnt under fbi investigation and tried to fire mueller. But from the white house, Mercedes Schlapp said this. Listen. The reality is, is that the president and this white house has been cooperative with the special counsel and as we continue to see, theres no evidence of collusion, theres no evidence of wrongdoing. The white house turned over 20,000 records to the special counsel. Dana its true. The Investigation Continues a pace. You dont hear a peep out of bob mueller himself. And trump though did not try to fire the guy running the leaf blower behind mercedes as she was doing that. Donald trump is very clear. Also missing from that list is when he is said to have asked mccabe, who he voted for in the election, this is not cricket. This is not the way you do things. It doesnt respect the criminal justice process. But then, of course, you get to the end and to miss schlapps point, has merit. Yeah, he tried a lot of things, but hes not trying those things anymore. In fact, he is respecting the process here. Like everyone, were waiting for mueller to finish his work in the weeks to come. Dana can i get a final word from you about immigration . Laying out this frame work before the state of the union with some things in it that democrats should like. I understand there are things they dont. Some on the right dont like things either. Is this the beginning of what could be a pretty good compromise . Could be the beginning of a transformative moment. Nobody should care particularly what democrats, especially liberal democrats, think about this legislation. The only thing that matters now is, can republicans not slit each others throats and get something through the house and get something that can get at least 50 votes in the United States senate. If they cant do that, the rest of this stuff is just a bunch of flap doodles. If the president can bring them around a plan, doesnt matter, the democrats will have their way. Dana before i let you go, what is a flap doodle . You were in washington long enough to know what flap doodle is. Dont step in it. Dana have a good weekend. Yes, maam. Dana hackers getting hacked. One countrys Intelligence Agency was watching as the russians broke into the servers belonging to the dnc. Plus, more on immigration as we speak to the head of an agency that tracks how immigrants impact the American Economy. Hold together. A little to the left. 1, 2, 3, push easy easy easy horn honking alright alright weve all got places to go weve all got places to go Washington Crossing the delaware turnpike . Surprising. 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Dana an Intelligence Service reportedly broke into computers used by the Russian Hackers that targeted the Democratic National convention. Thats according to the washington post. The Agency Alerted u. S. Intelligence to the breach. The dutch agents got into the Russian Hackers computers and watched them for more than a year. So far, no response from the u. S. Intelligence agency or the Trump Administration. President trump preparing to announce his frame work for an immigration deal monday and then deliver his first state of the Union Address tuesday. Already the Republican National committee has released an excerpt from his speech saying, quote, all americans are rightly disturbed by the large number of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise by held by citizens or legal immigrants. The Public Services they use impose burdens on the taxpayers. That is why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders. Your focus with your group is on how immigration affects the American Economy. So youve been following this very closely. You see this frame work from last night. Lets take a listen and ill get your take on it. This is nancy pelosi and her reaction after she saw this. This is a fight about who we are. Its not just about a fight about dreamers, as important as that is. If any country got up and said were going to send 800,000 young people who came here with their parents back to where they came from, wed say, that country is outside the circle of civilized human behavior. Instead, its whats happening here. Dana what President Trump is offering is even bond 800,000. Hes saying the possibility for legalization and possibly citizenship for 1. 8 Million People that could fit that bill. Thats right. Two things are happening here, dana. On the one hand were talking about protecting dreamers up to 1. 8 and securing our border. Thats a deal where we are getting closer. The president is increasing that number as a positive sign. The deal or the frame work was more than that. The other issue, the last thing people talk about when they talk about this deal is dramatically shaping our immigration system. President reagan, president bush sounded a lot like nancy pelosi when they talked about, we want immigrants coming to our country. It was a great thing for america that people want to come here. This frame work, when you get beyond the dreamer and the border part, you look at the other element. It would cut immigration in this country in half. Dana i understand that, what president s reagan and bush might have said. But do you think Public Opinion has changed and that the president is right. Now Public Opinion is saying, look, we dont think immigrants are a good thing for our economy, theyre taking peoples jobs, the president said they are a burden on our resources. Look, this is a changing economy. I think there are millions of americans who are rightly concerned about what their future looks like. The future for america isnt putting our head in the sand. It is saying, immigration has been great for this country. If we can bring other people who have a different set of skills, who are more likely to be in the work force, pay into social security, medicare, thats going to help our economy. What we have, what the rest of the world doesnt have is that people want to come here. We can have a diverse economy that we need to grow. Dana President Trump is having, riding on all of these great headlines after the tax reform because theres real results happening. He has a pretty Good Relationship with the Business Community. If the Business Community thinks it needs more worker, do you think theyll try to make their case publicly . They havent really spoken up for a long time. I disagree. I think december you had more than 100 different Coalition Come forward with the i march to make this case. You had high skilled businesses. You had tech companies. You had farmers, hospitality, home builders. In industry after industry, we need workers. We need better jobs. We also need workers who will come and fill the gap to help our economy grow. If you want to grow faster at a time when you have 4 unemployment, you need to have the skills. Its not just high schools, although that is extremely important. Its also people that are going to pick the strawberries and work in our fields and help with our construction boom. Dana so then what will your group, which is the new American Economy, the new American Economy, will you make any public statements either way, in trying to encourage this frame work . Absolutely. We put out a statement. Well continue to speak out publicly on this. We need a deal that better protects American Workers and better attracts the talent that we need to grow. I think this deal, by and large, reshaping the immigration system to cut immigration in half is not there. The idea that we need to recognize, yes, we want to give citizenship to dreamers and, yes, we need to do more to secure our borders, well grow on that. Dana well see if the deal gets bigger or narrower or doesnt happen at all. Jeremy, thank you for being here. President trump delivering his America First message as the economy gross following tax reform. How american businesses are cashing in. But not everyone is happy about the new tax law. Multiple states are threatening to take legal action. Okay folks lets team up to get the lady of the house back on her feet. And help her feel more strength and energy in just two weeks yaaay the complete balanced nutrition of great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. Ensure. Always be you. 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