Good morning. It is Saturday, March the 21st. I'm Ali Valshi. And we begin this hour with a warning.

President Trump is trying to change the narrative of his brutal, indiscriminate, and deliberately cruel immigration crackdown. He wants to change the narrative,

but he can't change the story, the one that we see with our eyes and on video, and the ones brought

to us by journalists who are committed to bearing witness. Following sustained public outrage and

sliding poll numbers over violent deployments by federal immigration officers in cities like Minneapolis and

Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and Chicago, this administration has signaled a reset. They started

in late January. Christy Noam, then still head of DHS, stepped back a bit. The borders are Tom

Holman was brought into Minneapolis with a tacit promise to rain in ICE and CBP

after officers killed two American citizens and the administration lied about the circumstances of their

deaths. And this week, Trump made clear what the real problem was with that operation. Because as

the Wall Street Journal reports, quote, President Trump is seeking to lower the profile

of his mass deportation effort, end quote. The president, the journal reports, has told advisors that

he wants to see more attention on arresting bad guys and less chaos in American cities,

according to people familiar with the matter, end quote. The report goes on to note that the change is being driven by Trump's chief of staff, Susie

Wiles, who believes his immigration team turned one of his marquee issues into a challenge for the

midterms, and that the firing of Christy Nome as DHS secretary is being seen as the moment for a reset.

Pay attention to what they're saying here.

For the White House, the problem is the optics.

What it looks like on TV, how it's talked about, what the headlines and the polls say,

and crucially, the reporting on the reset talk at the White House is source to, quote,

people familiar with the matter, end quote. The official statement to the journal from the White House is sourced to, quote, people familiar with the matter, end quote.

The official statement to the journal from the White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson is, quote,

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