jim acosta made himself the story so much so it was a battle between jim acosta and stephen miller. it was all over "the washington post," the los angeles time, the "new york times," the "huffington post." it's pages and pages on the internet. he became the story. and i think that was his intention by bringing the poem he did not know by heart and read off a sheet of paper. it seems like he was prepared to make that statement and i don't know why stephen miller called on him. howie: let me play a sound bite of acosta talking about the encounter afterward on cnn. >> i was just essentially trying to test stephen miller on a couple of those points. i think what you saw unfold in the briefing room that he couldn't take that kind of heat and exploded before our eyes. howie: he says stephen miller exploded. there is a history here which some of our viewers may know of jim acosta getting in with president trump and criticizing sean spicer. i have to conclude this is what cnn wants him to do because he's a front-line white house correspondent. amy: they wanted him to go in there and create

jim acosta made himself the story so much so it was a battle between jim acosta and stephen miller. it was all over "the washington post," the los angeles time, the "new york times," the "huffington post." it's pages and pages on the internet. he became the story. and i think that was his intention by bringing the poem he did not know by heart and read off a sheet of paper. it seems like he was prepared to make that statement and i don't know why stephen miller called on him. howie: let me play a sound bite of acosta talking about the encounter afterward on cnn. >> i was just essentially trying to test stephen miller on a couple of those points. i think what you saw unfold in the briefing room that he couldn't take that kind of heat and exploded before our eyes. howie: he says stephen miller exploded. there is a history here which some of our viewers may know of jim acosta getting in with president trump and criticizing sean spicer. i have to conclude this is what cnn wants him to do because he's a front-line white house correspondent. amy: they wanted him to go in there and create

acosta out of there, kick him to the sidewalk and say if you want to do the jim acosta show, there is a rusting boxcar around the back of the freight yards with free semicomatose hobby bows who are interested in it. but nobody else here is. and that would have been the healthy reaction to that. as for the range of cliches he brought up, there are -- the french gave the americans a pretty good statue of liberty. and then the americans hammered a lousy poem by m.l. lazarus on to it and turned a pretty great statue of liberty into a statue of immigration. i regret that the fact is that steven miller was quite right in his point about oh, do you only want english men and australians. there are 60 countries in the world, including mine, that have english as an official language. for example, just a few years ago, after the genocide, rwanda, a belgium colony joined the british commonwealth. >> as part of it, even though it's never been a british colony. as part of that, they began, they started teaching french in schools and began teaching english. so you can have rwandans fliewntd in engli

amy: that was stephen miller accosting jim acosta. we go to say at --seattle, where we are joined by congresswoman pramila jayapal. she became the first woman born in india to be elected to the house of representatives. she formerly served as executive director of oneamerica, a pro-immigration n advocacy grou. welcome to democracynow, pramila jayapal. can you start off by responding to this raisese act. this is historic if it were to be passed. pramila jayapal: yes, but it is not a workable situation at all. and inhumane, butut equalllly important it igngnoree fact that what we need to do is a comprehensive overhaul of our system that t allows for our economy to work and for our families to be together. this, by cutting immigration in half and by completely overturning all of the essential components of immigration we have ever known to be true, which is we are a place of refuge, we are a place where people from all over the world come. this does s not do anything to x our broken legal immigration system. it just cuts the numbers inn

amy: that was stephen miller accosting jim acosta. we go to say at --seattle, where we are joined by congresswoman pramila jayapal. she became the first woman born in india to be elected to the house of representatives. she formerly served as executive director of oneamerica, a pro-immigration advocacy group. welcome to democracynow, pramila jayapal. can you start off by responding to this raise act. this is historic if it were to be passed. pramila jayapal: yes, but it is not a workable situation at all. and inhumane, but equally important it ignores the fact that what we need to do is a comprehensive overhaul of our system that allows for our economy to work and for our families to be together. this, by cutting immigration in half and by completely overturning all of the essential components of immigration we have ever known to be true, which is we are a place of refuge, we are a place where people from all over the world come. this does not do anything to fix our broken legal immigration system. it just cuts the numbers in half. th

acosta out of there, kick him to the sidewalk and say if you j want to do "the jim acosta show," there is a rusting boxcar around the back ofst the freight yards with free semi-comatose hobos whoth are interested in it. but nobody else here is. and that would have been the healthy reaction to that. as for the range of cliches he brought up, there are -- the french gave the americans a pretty good statue of liberty. and then the americans hammered a lousy poem by emma lazarus on to it and turned a pretty great statue of liberty into a statue of immigration. i regret that but the fact is that steven miller was quite right in his point about oh, do you only want englishmen and australians? there are 60 countries in the world, including mine, that have english as an official language. for example, just a few years ago, after the genocide, rwanda, a belgian colony, joined the british commonwealth. as part of it, even thoughd it's never been a british colony. as part of that, they began -- they stopped teaching french in schools and began teaching english. so you can have rwandans fluent in

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. >> harris: we move on, new questions about mainstream media bias after cnn's jim acosta got into a heated exchange with a trump aid over the administration's new immigration proposal. >> this whole notion of they have to learn english before they get to the united states, are we just bring in people from great britain and australia? >> i am shocked at your statement. >> harris: it was tense. we'll show you more of it, show you what acosta said after the briefing that's raising even more eyebrows. and yet more leaks of the white house launching transcript of phone calls between president trump of the leaders of mexico and australia. who is leaking, people? who? and what will they do about it? after the show, you can see is pop up alive after the tv version of us goes away. click the overtime tab on our page, foxnews.com/outnumbered or go to facebook, watch us live there. our handle, fnc and tweet us anytime you want. ♪ to folks everywhere whose diabetic... ...nerve pain shoots and burns its way into your day... ...i hear you. when that pain makes simple errands simply unbearable..

a great job by jim acosta. this is not about jim, john, or any of the white house reporters or april ryan. it's about the white house, their administration talking to the american people, conveying the fight. some loved it, some hated it. did it convince americans of why it's needed? let us know@ earlystart on twitter. >> and we are joined from washington with opinions and expertise and analysis. good morning. >> good morning. >> you look at this bill, it's looking to slash legal immigration by half. and donald trump standing up there along with the two who co-wrote the bill, and it's all about making america great again, right? is this really making america great again? you see donald trump focused on growing the economy. isn't this bill counterproductive? you need immigrant workers to grow the economy. we need them in agriculture and construction. we're watching the work force change. we've got this aging population in the work force. we need these workers, don't we? >> there's a large number of economists wh

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jim acosta was there for us. jim, tell our viewers about your exchange with the president's policy adviser, steven miller. >> reporter: that's right, wolf, steven miller came into the briefing room today to sell the president's new immigration plan, and as you said, it hopes to revamp the new immigration system but it would do so in a pretty striking way. it would prioritize english-speaking people coming into the u.s., highly skilled people coming into the u.s. which is not a tradition with foreigners coming into the united states. but i reminded him what it says on the statue of liberty. give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses to breathe free. he talked about undocumented immigrants coming into the united states. >> what you or the president are proposing does not sound like our past when it comes to immigration. it doesn't say anything about speaking english or being able to be a computer programmer. aren't you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you're tell

jesse: what do you think of cnn's jim acosta? >> i couldn't watch the clinton news network. >> have you never meth an immigrant from another country who speaks english outside of great britain and australia? is that your experience? it shows your bias. jesse: what do you think of donald trump? >> good guy. >> everybody loves me. jesse: do you know who i am? >> no, but my husband does. he said "watters world." jesse: how the 2016 presidential election ruined a florida power couple's marriage. now the former nf there cheerleader speak out for the first time. al gore getting burned big time by his own green greens. you won't see these folks at the post office. they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. jesse: time for real news. this week i

let's go to cnn's jim acosta with more. >> reporter: the white house is bristling at questions over its plan for sweeping changes to the u.s. immigration system that would install a points system for people coming into the country legally. the president's policy adviser, stephen miller, sparred with reporters who were asking questions about the president's proposal and seemed to suggest that the statue of liberty is not the beacon of hope to immigrants that it's been for generations. an inscription says, "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." here's what miller had to say -- >> i don't want to get into a whole thing about history, but the statue of liberty is a symbol of liberty enlightening the world, american liberty lighting the world. the poem that was added later is not part of the original statue of liberty. more fundamentally -- more fundamentally -- >> you're saying that does not represent -- >> i'm saying that the notion -- >> -- what the country has always been thought of -- >> i'm saying the notion -- >> i'm sorry -- >> no, it sounds --

and our jim acosta is like the goating dan rather. but for donald trump to be backing neo-nazi and have -- he should be in the bart lets book of quotations, jim acosta, there are no fine nazis. trump is backing nazis with no understanding of what we did in world war ii and the horror of what nazis are. it was a jaw dropping moment never before seen in history. >> the access hollywood tape out in october, journalists wrote off his chances and now he's in the white house. is there a risk of an overreaction. >> not if we do our job. there are many commentators who do opinion pieces i'm talking about reporting. i'm going to look at one of these republicans i talked to, we have a fundamental problem that the president does not know right from wrong and is not stable. we keep hearing about these military leaders keeping the president from doing dangerous things. and i would say as somebody who spent 50 years as a reporter around washington that this is an unprecedented situation, a dangerous situation such as we've never seen for an extende

the vitriol that jim acosta approached it with. this is what we are dealing with now any time the subject comes up, and it is frustrating. >> juan: this ends this whole argument that this is just about legal immigrants. you have a policy on the table that will cut legal immigration in half. >> greg: i agree with you for once. >> dana: it is hard not to agree with you because that is a fact. all right, "the new york times" said the justice department could be preparing to sue some of america's politics, but the department of justice fired back. we will have those details next. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends, three jobs... you're like nothing can replace brad. then liberty mutual calls... and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement™, we'll pay for a car that's a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. what are all these different topped & loaded meals? it's an american

let's go to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. covering the president up in bedminster, new jersey. this is major news. a very significant development and it comes on the heels of several other senior officials leaving. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and i'm hearing from one white house official in the last couple of minutes here that it is believed that steve bannon resigned, but it is also believed that he may have been given the option to resign. so sounds like, wolf from a source i'm talking to in the last couple of minutes here that he was essentially forced out of this position, as chief strategist at the white house, and one of the big reasons why and we've heard it time and again, from people close to the president. the president does not like other people inside the white house stealing the limelight. you saw this happen time and again. steve bannon appearing on the cover of "time" magazine. steve bannon lampooned on "saturday night live." times this just got under the president's skin and as you know, over the last wee

cnn's jim acosta has the details. >> reporter: as the president rolled out a new immigration plan that prioritizes english speak people coming into the u.s., the white house sent one of its top policy advisers stephen miller to defend. but miller reminded what the statue of liberty has said to generations of immigrants. give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. >> aren't you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you're telling them you have to speak english? can't people learn how to speak english when they get here? >> well, first of all, right now it's a requirement that you be naturalized to speak english. the notion that speaking english wouldn't be part of immigration systems would be ahistorical. secondly, the statue of liberty is a symbol of liberty and light in the world. it's a symbol of american liberty lighting the world. the poem that you're referring to was added later. it's not actually part of the original statue of liberty. but more fundamentally -- >> you're saying that does not represent -- >>

let's bring in cnn's jim acosta now along with cnn political analyst april ryan. that was kind of a bizarre exchange. you know, i got where you were going with this. who are we? what is our definitional premise of who we want in this country? and miller wanted to dance. you know, talking about numbers and what you know and don't know. but at bottom, what do you think this policy is about for the white house? >> well, i'm not sure it was a highly skilled performance, if i could borrow a term there from the president's immigration policy on the part of stephen miller. it was very much attack the messenger and, you know, who would have thought that the statue of liberty doesn't mean what the statue of liberty means because a poem was attached to it later on and wasn't originally inscribed with those words. i think most americans understand, chris, what the statue of liberty is all about. it's odd to see the white house, the united states of america try to redefine what the statue of liberty means and i think it goes to a larger issue here, chris. you'll recall when t

this just a few moments away, by jim acosta he dismisses it. this is a time and opportunity for the president to speak with moral clarity. it took him just -- from ken frazier to condemn him, but it took him two days to responsibility to the raci -- that's unacceptable. and it's a fate yurt on the part of the entire republican party to allow this to happen. >> paris, how do you see it? >> i 100% disagree with everything he says, but that's no surprise. i was proud to see him disavow. why he does not associate himself with these hate groups. he did this with respect to david duke. he said it's a bad person, i disavow, and disavow from the kkk. he game a statement this weekend that wasn't strong in you have for a lot of people. he democrat name specifically. >> was it strong enough for you? >> yes. he says -- and that was true. when president obama after charleston same out and gave his wracks, it was a very tempered response, and he did not go into details. he did not name all of those people by name, all those hate groups by name, and democrat

let's bring in cnn's jim acosta now along with cnn political analyst april ryan. that was kind of a bizarre exchange. you know, i got where you were going with this. who are we? what is our definitional premise of who we want in this country? and miller wanted to dance. you know, talking about numbers and what you know and don't know. but at bottom, what do you think this policy is about for the white house? >> well, i'm not sure it was a highly skilled performance, if i could borrow a term there from the president's immigration policy on the part of stephen miller. it was very much attack the messenger and, you know, who would have thought that the statue of liberty doesn't mean what the statue of liberty means because a poem was attached to it later on and wasn't originally inscribed with those words. i think most americans understand what the statue of liberty is all about. it's odd to see the white house, the united states of america try to redefine what the statue of liberty means and i think it goes to a larger issue here, chris. you'll recall when the presi

jesse: what do you think of cnn's jim acosta? >> i couldn't watch the clinton news network. >> have you never meth an immigrant from another country who speaks english outside of great britain and australia? is that your experience? it shows your bias. jesse: what do you think of donald trump? >> good guy. >> everybody loves me. jesse: do you know who i am? >> no, but my husband does. he said "watters world." jesse: how the 2016 presidential election ruined a florida power couple's marriage. now the former nf there cheerleader speak out for the first time. al gore getting burned big time by his own green greens. jesse: time for real news. this week i'm joined by "watters world" favorites diamond and silk. nice to have you guys here in studio this time. >> thank you for having us. this is amazing. jesse: how does it feel to be in "watters world" in the flesh? >> it's wonderful. jesse: i want to start off with jeff sessions, a.g. he wants to crack down on leakers. if you guys were attorneys general what would you like to see happen

jesse: what do you think of cnn's jim acosta? >> i couldn't watch the clinton news network. >> have you never meth an immigrant from another country who speaks english outside of great britain and australia? is that your experience? it shows your bias. jesse: what do you think of donald trump? >> good guy. >> everybody loves me. jesse: do you know who i am? >> no, but my husband does. he said "watters world." jesse: how the 2016 presidential election ruined a florida power couple's marriage. now the former nf there cheerleader speak out for the first time. al gore getting burned big time by his own green greens. i love spending time with my grandson. but my bladder leakage was making me feel like i couldn't fully participate. most of the products i used worked, but you kinda felt like you were wearing them, you know? now depend fit-flex has their fastest absorbing material inside. having the depend product makes me more confident because when i am dry and comfortable, i know that i am protected to do the things that i want to do.

live from the briefing room, jim acosta versus the joker, smoker, steven muller. unscripted, totally unpredictable and the first 100 people arrive get a free. [inaudible] we will sell you the whole seat but you only need. [inaudible] [cheering] greg: they will sell you the whole seat but you only need the edge. probably the line of the night, so far. you want to talk about this in the last walk, go to it. >> it's mayweather and mcgregor with no muscle tone. really, what jim acosta knows about immigration reminds me of what don lemmon thought that the malaysian airliner had disappeared into a black hole knows about astrophysicist. it's like what chris cuomo said that it's illegal to read wikileaks knows about the bill of rights. they all go to cnn university and then they come on tv and -- i don't know. greg: cnn university, that's funny. that's our commercial next week. [laughter] dave, what did you make of this thing? i don't believe that muller was serious but he was trolling him. >> i want to retract what i said because i said it can't get worse but it can't ge

jesse: what do you think of cnn's jim acosta? >> i couldn't watch the clinton news network. >> have you never meth an immigrant from another country who speaks english outside of great britain and australia? is that your experience? it shows your bias. jesse: what do you think of donald trump? >> good guy. >> everybody loves me. jesse: do you know who i am? >> no, but my husband does. he said "watters world." jesse: how the 2016 presidential election ruined a florida power couple's marriage. now the former nf there cheerleader speak out for the first time. al gore getting burned big time by his own green greens. americans - 83% try to eat healthy. yet up 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more. add one a day 50+ a complete multi-vitamin with 100% daily value of more than 15 key nutrients. one a day 50+. whuuuuuat?rtgage offer from the bank today. you never just get one offer. go to lendingtree.com and shop multiple loan offers for free! free? yeah. could save thousands. you should probably buy me di

stephen miller made headlines earlier this week when he clashed with cnn's jim acosta there in the white house press room. it happened during a briefing on the president's new legal immigration plan. miller did not like acosta bringing up the famous poem, in part, on the statue of liberty's pedest pedestal. >> i don't want to get off into a thing about history here, but the statue of liberty is a symbol of liberty and lighting the world. american liberty lighting the world. the poem you're referring to was added later and is not part of the original statue of liberty. more fundamentally -- >> you're saying that does not represent where the country is -- >> i'm saying the notion that the -- >> at the -- >> here -- >> it sounds like -- >> jim, i'll ask you a question. >> sounds like a revisionism. >> jim, let me ask you a question. >> the statue of liberty is hope for the world, for people to say -- >> jim -- >> people aren't always going to speak english. they're not always going to be highly skilled. >> jim, jim. i appreciate your speech. let's talk about this. >> let's bring in cnn's se

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jim acosta joins us now from the white house. did they give any explanation why the president was citing phone calls that never happened? >>

the vitriol that jim acosta approached it with. this is what we are dealing with now any time the subject comes up, and it is frustrating. >> juan: this ends this whole argument that this is just about legal immigrants. you have a policy on the table that will cut legal immigration in half. >> dana: >> greg: i agree with r once. all right, "the new york times" said the justice department could be preparing to sue some of america's politics, but the >> kimberly: two stories developing out of washington today. "the new york times" put out a report of the trump administration could be targeting affirmative action policies on campus, but the justice department says the paper got the story wrong. also today, the president signed a bill to impose new sanctions on russia, but he wasn't happy about it. ed henry has all the details. >> good to see you. dare i say this administer ration is going to call it fake news by "the new york times" that discrimination story that you mentioned. a job ad over at the justice department, basically a help

more from jim acostaer in the president's golf club -- acosta near the president's golf club in new jersey. >> reporter: a day after his incendiary comments on race, president trump was steering clear of the cameras, and the white house was trying to stay on message, insisting the president had no regrets about his comments. still, we're told some white house officials were upset by the president's remarks. one adviser said his comments are not "disqualifying." that may explain why vice president mike pence was still backing the president as he explained to reporters down in south america. here's what he had to say -- >> what happened in charlottesville was a tragedy, and the president has been clear on this tragedy, and so have i. i spoke at length about in heartbreaking situation on sunday night in columbia, and i stands with the president and by those words. >> reporter: in the words of one white house official, "nothing surprises me. there are many around the president who saw him survive the "access hollywood" scandal during the campaign and believe he will survive this firestorm, as

stuart: really getting into it with cnn's jim acosta. subject was immigration and the proposal they're on. we will deal with a lot more on that. joining us is the president next -- the president's proposal on immigration branded by many as racist, your take, please. >> that's the kind of smear that's designed to prevent and examination of a horribly flawed immigration policy. the policy is a total mess telephone legal. i came to america as immigrant in 1978 as exchange student and then i became naturalized. if i had played the immigration system, i could have by now brought 40 members of my family, my cousins, their cousins under the family unification provision. i bring my mom, my mom sponsors brother and she sponsors parents and on and on goes. this is a ridiculous system. it was intended initially so husbands could bring wives to america. there needs to be reform. most other countries are simple about it. if they need nurses, they take nurses. they need doctors, they take doctors, they need unskilled workers, they get unskilled worker

we're certainly not putting this on jim acosta. you can watch the clip and choose sides. or just say as tim said after, maybe we shouldn't have tvs in the press room after all. but then jim acosta used the language of it seems like your policies are trying to engineer racial and ethnic percentages, or something, it sure sounded like something that you would read out of mine calm of or something. something we would have accused thor is -- at that point it went off the rails. >> this is all of a piece, the policy the trump administration announced yesterday, the president's trackdown on latino gangs. he's planning from i'm told so to the start talking more about building the wall. trump is pivoting back to the base in a hard and direct way. >> you're saying he's going to build the wall? >> and mexico's going to pay for it, but i know after that exchange with jim acosta yesterday they were high fiving each other behind the scenes. >> jim acosta, that's not only feeding into the narrative about the policy but also about the press. and at the same time i'm going to speak in de

listen to this exchange with cnn's jim acosta -- >> mr. president, can you explain why you did not condemn the hatred by name over the weekend. >> they have been condemned. they have been condemned. >> why are we not having press conferences today? you said on friday we would have a press conference. >> we had a press conference. we just had a press conference. >> can we ask more questions, sir? >> i like real news, not fake news. you're fake news. >> that was not a press conference. that was a scripted response. and at a press conference, the media assemble to ask questions. president followed up with this twitter attack on the press, "made additional remarks on charlottesville and realized once again that the fake news media will never be satisfied. truly bad people!" >>> business leaders are not happy with president trump's response to charlottesville. three ceos quit his manufacturing council. the heads of intel and under armour stepping down following the lead of one of the most prominent black ceos, merck chief kenneth frazier. he qu

all the behavior we're seeing from the podium and looking at the podium, jim acosta over at cnn. i'm not sure people could hear the point he was making. he is the son of a man who came here not speaking a word of english, just pre-castro cuba. he feels this issue innately. do you think the appearance of mr. miller before the usual daily briefing was intended to be a kind of shiny object distraction given the thakt that no one gives this immigration measure any future at all on the hill. >> it seems that way. this is yet another pivot to the base by this administration. there's enough opposition to this bill in the senate. this has very little chance of actually passing. they put stephen miller up there today. he calls it historic legislation, the most important thing any president has done on immigration in decades, even though he recognizes this is probably doa when it goes to the senate. he even lectures jim acosta as to when the famous poem on the statue of liberty was actually inscribed, he makes a point of saying that wasn't there initially. that was added later. i think thi

<jim acosta/reporter> mr. president can you explain why you did not condemn those hate groups by name over the weeekend? "they have been condemned. they have been condemned."the president was on the defensive after first attributing the violence to "many sides," without naming them.after meeting today with attorney general jeff sessions and f=b=i director christopher wray, he made this promise.to anyone who acted criminally in this weekend's racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. justice will be delivered.attorney general sessions says an investigation is under way. it does meet the definition of domestic terrorism. we are pursuing it in the department of justice. in charlottesville, the police chief mourned the deaths of heyer and two state police officers in a helicopter crash. "absolutely i have regrets. we lost three lives ." (pam) we have learned that there are right- wing rally's planned

jim acosta, the president's remarks, very specific. a lot of people are insisting he should have uttered these words on saturday. it would have saved him some criticism. >> reporter: saved a lot of trouble, wolf. clearly, a cleanup job we saw here at the white house within the last hour. i was in the room as part of the white house tv pool, wolf, when the president made thee remarks. they were scripted. he was reading off a teleprompter and i can tell you as he left the room, reporters were shouting questions at the president, as to why he did not make this kind of statement on saturday. why he did not clearly condemn these groups that he condemned today. he obviously heard those questions as he left the room there, wolf, but did not answer those questions. but it is worth noting, yes, during these remarks he did condemn those groups by name. called out the kkk, white supremacists and neo-nazis and said justice will be delivered when it comes to the investigation into the death of the woman that was killed in that violence in charlotte

the vitriol that jim acosta approached it with. this is what we are dealing with now any time the subject comes up, and it is frustrating. >> juan: this ends this whole argument that this is just about legal immigrants. you have a policy on the table that will cut legal immigration in half. >> dana: >> greg: i agree with r once. all right, "the new york times" said the justice department could be preparing to sue some of america's politics, but the department of justice fired back. we will have most he tells neck. (dad) don't worry about it. (mom) honey, honey, honey, honey! (vo) at our house, we need things that are built to last. that's why we got a subaru. (avo) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. get 0% apr financing for 63 months on all new 2017 subaru legacy models. now through august 31st. what are all these different topped & loaded meals? it's an american favorite on top of an american favorite, alice. it's mozzarella sticks on top of grilled chicken. it's cajun shrimp on top of steak. it's labor day weekend on top o

well, on wednesday, cnn's jim acosta, the son of immigrants pressed senior policy adviser , stephen miller over president trump's push to admit only english-speaking immigrants in a back and forth that lasted for several minutes. this is an excerpt. >> you really don't know that. >> came in this country right before the cuban missile prices and obtained a green card. yes -- >> a factual question, jim. as a factual question -- >> -- do obtain a green part at some point, and they do it by a lot of hard work. yes, they may learn english as a second language later on in life. tos notion of they have learn english before they get to the united states, are we just going to bring in people from great britain and australia? >> honestly, i am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from great britain and australia and with no english. it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to shocking degree. moment. is an amazing this is an amazing moment, that you think only people from great britain or australia would think -- speak english is so insulting to millions of hard-working immigrants who

we will bring you the latest in just a >> tucker: cnn jim acosta embarrassed himself in public yesterday when he used his position as a white house correspondent to try to lecture steven miller at the white house about how american immigration law ought to be dictated by 100 word, 130-year-old poem. acosta is not the only reporter who has given himself over to full blown editorializing over there. today anchor chris cuomo posted this on facebook. we can't get enough. watch. >> immigration proposal embraced by the white house, would you make the cut, your ancestors? did they speak english? did they make enough money to pay for their healthcare were they high skilled laborers? do you agree with steven miller the policy advisor for the president who says that m.l. lazarus the poem promise signature of this country for so many generations were just words that were added later? somehow separate from what the statue of liberty represents? are we no longer about the desperate who are yearning to be free? it's a fundamental question about who we are. >> tucker: yep, that's journalism. the questi

well, on wednesday, cnn's jim acosta, the son of immigrants pressed senior policy adviser , stephen miller over president trump's push to admit only english-speaking immigrants in a back and forth that lasted for several minutes. this is an excerpt. >> you really don't know that. >> came in this country rht before the cuban missile prices and obtained a green card. yes -- >> a factual question, jim. as a factual question -- >> -- do obtain a green part at some point, and they do it by a lot of hard work. yes, they may learn english as a second language later on in life. tos notion of they have learn english before they get to the united states, are we just going to bring in people from great britain and australia? >> honestly, i am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from great britain and australia and with no english. it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to shocking degree. moment. isn amazing this is an amazing moment, that you think only people from great britain or australia would think -- speak english is so insulting to millions of hard-working immigrants who do s

the name-calling, jim acosta, he looked like an idiot. he was quoting the statue of liberty and he looked like a fool. and they bring racism into it, that is baloney. thatandfather was black, is how black he was, from greece. people had to do this, they had to go through all this. that is what they are saying, have a job and learn english and appreciate the country and respect it. that is what this is all about. host: fred in new jersey, democrat. guest: hi. thank you for taking my call. the idea that the inscription on the base of the statue of liberty should influence our immigration policy is kind of ludicrous. there is from a public. -- poem. it was written over 130 years ago. so for our policies in the year 2017 to be influenced by that is not make a lot of sense. host: that was another issue that came up in the exchange between stephen miller and jim acosta. for viewers that missed the briefing, you can watch it in its entirety at c-span.org. go ahead. guest: times have changed, the frontier is closed. we do not need so much unskill

one, jim acosta is absolutely right. it doesn't change trump, and a lot of the chaos didn't come from trump. it comes from trump, the hatred and a lot of that is welled up inside him. but there is now going to be an interesting conflict because a lot of conservatives feel that steve bannon and the people around him represent the last conservative stronghold in the white house. i think they're wrong, mick mull -- mulvaney is obviously very conservative. and now breitbart wants to declare war. >> whatever that means. >> the white house that remains is full of democrats, wall street types, and hawks. >> manhattan. >> and they want to -- there's going to be a big pressure on. steve bannon's very close to the freedom caucus in the house, which was so instrumental in getting the health care reform passed in the house. so, i think there's going to be some rough spots ahead. steve bannon's not going away. he is, as he calls himself, the classic honey badger. >> we know his saying, and we won't repeat it on tv. >> i agree. >> ric

all the behavior we're seeing from the podium and looking at the podium, jim acosta over at cnn. i'm not sure people could hear the point he was making. he is the son of a man who came here not speaking a word of english, just pre-castro cuba. he feels this issue innately. do you think the appearance of mr. miller before the usual daily briefing was intended to be a kind of shiny object distraction given the fact that no one gives this immigration measure any future at all on the hill. >> it seems that way. this is yet another pivot to the base by this administration. there's enough opposition to this bill in the senate. this has very little chance of actually passing. they put stephen miller up there today. he calls it historic legislation, the most important thing any president has done on immigration in decades, even though he recognizes this is probably doa when it goes to the senate. he even lectures jim acosta as to when the famous poem on the statue of liberty was actually inscribed, he makes a point of saying that wasn't there initially. that was added later. i think this

plus, the white house getting personal with our own jim acosta over immigration. and the dow hitting an all-time high today. is it the trump bump or the trump bubble? let's go outfront. >> i'm erin burnett. president trump's problem with the truth. every day that problem seems to get worse. tonight there are two phone calls that president trump said happened that did not, in fact, happen. one, trump bragging that the head of the boy scouts called him to say his speech to the scouts was, in trump's words, the greatest speech ever given to the group. the second one saying the mention cal president called him to offer what trump said was the ultimate compliment, that very few people are crossing over the southern border. we now know that neither of those statements are true. here's press secretary sarah huckabee sanders admitting this today. >> on mexico, he was referencing a conversation that they had had at the g-20 summit where they talked about the issues he referenced. in terms of the boy scouts, multiple members of the boy squad leadership following his speech