So, did President Trump try to fire Robert Mueller?

And if so, does it matter?

Plus, the Trump administration rolls out its big immigration plan and people on both sides are unhappy and we'll go to the mailbag.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is the Ben Shapiro show.

All righty.

So here we are.

And it's finally a Friday.

Time has moved so slowly that,

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We have now gone down to the water planet and interstellar, where every hour is actually

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you actually need to fulfill one of three laws.

And I've gone through the three laws a couple of times explaining what exactly these three laws mean,

because there are three different statutes.

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