mo elleithee, emily jashinsky, and jonathan swan. up next a closer look at the "new yorker" story and the playmate and the mystery of her handwritten notes. howie: a piece last week at the "new yorker." mcdougal is a former playboy play mate. and the centerpiece of the story is 8 pages of her handwritten notes. mcdoug alps notes were written a decade later during the 2016 cam pawn or since then. first there was a tale that it was written on a notebook written on a notebook that wasn't manufactured until 2016. the article makes clear the idea to sell her story to american media first occurred in 2016. and her written account is supported by additional sourcing and representation in the article. it seemed like these were contemporaneous notes as "the washington post" put it. the "enquirer" agreed to pay her for the rights to her story about an affair with a married man. the new york quoted ex-staffers. and that he buys a story to kill it. and it bars her from talking about trump. so her friend gave her scribbled notes to the "new yorke

howie: joining us to analyze the coverage, emily jashinsky, ed henry, and capri cafaro. emily, the ouster of rob porter. and the shifting explanations at the white house, does it warrant the coverage it's getting? emily: yes, it's so persistent because of the rolling accusations. he said maybe he didn't realize they were domestic violence abuse. then we have reports that john kelly was aware. we have to get to the bottom of those questions. howie: the fbi never gave porter a permanent security clearance. fox news corporation covered this story as it should. but when it was exploding, there was no mention of porter being ousted at the white house. capri: this has been in every news outlet including the daily mail which always british news corporation. headlines are what get people to click on something online. that's how so many of us get our news. if you are scrolling through twitter and up see cnn, their made line says rob porter's wives detail porter allegations. fox says trump wishes porter well ban was surprised by allegations. both are true, but the approach how they

emily jashinsky. and bob, this whole thing with unity i thought resonated very well. i thought it was a fantastic state of the union speech. i thought the democrats did themselves a disservice. can it keep the gop united and somehow unite the rest of the country? >> there is no doubt about it, the republicans have a spring to their step. they had a rough start to 2017, but it ended withing a bang. they got the tax bill and the dplilg alaska. history is not kind to presidents in mid-terms generally speaking. and listen, the year got off to a good start for republicans. contrary to other shut-down battles, republicans won because they stayed for the most of part united. charles: the center issue is wall versus daca. i want to play sow sound from president trump, his most of recent comments. president trump: 7 in 10 americans support an immigration package that includes a permanent solution on daca. some people call it dreamers. don't fall tine that trap. it's much different than dreamers. i said the other night. we have dreamers in this country, too. you can't forget ou

emily. jashinsky. whatever they think about the other news organizations not paying to attention to markets on the way up, they are certainly now on the way down. how do they handle it. should they handle it, what do they do? >> i us speck they will be quiet about the market if the trend continues. the strategy today was at least see the forest for the trees. let's take a big picture look on daily occasions touting daily increases. we'll see if the trend continues of less talk from the white house. neil: ronald reagan comes to mind, bill clinton comes to mind, hadley, not talked in terms of the markets but more specifically about the jobs, underlying economy, economic growth, consumer spending, all of that, didn't align themselves to the market, they pointed out ronald reagan after eight years, after the the '87 crash, are markets higher than what i took office? yeah, they doubled. that is where he left it. what if markets rebound from this and donald trump is tempted to start quoting them again, what