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Democrats win one for a change, as Andrew Puzder, Trump's labor-hating billionaire nominee to head the Labor Department removes himself from contention after a number of Republicans threaten to vote against him. Congress sends a bill to the President that will kill an Obama-era regulation that would have made it slightly more difficult for some with mental disorders to purchase fire arms. Then, though the Trump Administration may appear to be in chaos right now, D.D. Guttenplan, editor-at-large at The Nation, joins us to explain how a lot of that chaos is being purposely deployed in order to keep both the media and the public off balance on and on edge. Trump's supporters, he argues, are quite happy with what he's doing despite the disarray, and Democrats need to stay focused on the issues that made it possible for Trump to win in the first place -- particularly in traditionally Dem-leaning working class jurisdictions. Finally, speaking of avoiding distractions: last week, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) arrested and detained a man who came here from Mexico with his parents illegally when he was seven years old. Despite legal work permits from the federal government's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program under Obama, no criminal record, and Trump's that immigrants like him would not be rounded up, he has been detained for the past week, according to his attorneys, in the first such case reported since the new President took office.