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Then he got on a plane and went without his chief which is typically by his side we should note for this. the tension between these two men has grown. the president does not like to be undermined. we've seen this several other staffers. this isn't the first time we've seen this flare-up. it happened with the interview with john kelly on another network where he said the president's views had evolved on immigration and the wall. quickly the president got on twitter and says, no they haven't. >> chris cillizza, one of the most fascinating nuggets from kaitlan's reporting this morning, trump has ...

Family-based migration and the diversity lottery. on family migration, what the administration wants to do is take away all of the family sponsorship categories besides spouses and minor children. so that gets rid of adult children, parents, brothers and sisters. that's a substantial cut to the number of legal immigrants to the u.s. every year. initially those numbers will be used to work through a backlog that is decades long for some people waiting in line for these green cards. they're also going to cut the diversery lottery which is much smaller, use that as well to work through the backlo...

Judges. >> susan hennessy, now we know from our reporting, "the new york times" reporting, our outlets that the president asked mcgann to fire mueller in june of last year, what does that do to the on going mueller investigation when it comes specifically to potential obstruction of justice? >> it's important to note that trump actually didn't undertake this activity. so it's a little different than how we would consider the comey firing -- >> what about intent? >> one thing that's a striking resemblance between this episode and the comey episode is trump appears to be offering a pretextual le...

How are senate republicans and congressional republicans reacting to the news this morning. that's going to be more significant than the technical legal ramifications. >> paul callan, final question to you. is it possible, if the president chooses to reverse course here -- this morning his answer was totally fake news, none of this is true, even though multiple outlets have this reporting. could the president claim, look, bob mueller can no longer lead an unbiased investigation because he thinks that i wanted to fire him. so flip it on its head. do you see what i'm saying? can he do that? >> h...

>> no one can. let's keep in mind another cnn contributor, april ryan actually reported this at the time. she didn't have the details, the president tried to fire robert mueller. you start piecing together all the different kind of early reporting with this now confirmed from multiple sources and i don't know if they could just turn around and say this never happened. when the president says someone is being unfair to him, he says it's negative. >> they could because, as we just played in the last block, bianna, this is two months after he ordered don mcgann to fire bob mueller. and mcgann say...