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the words, donald trump lost again tonight. >> this >> is going have massive implications for the slim majority and the gop's ability to govern the resolution is adopted. >> the house voted to impeach alejandro, mayorkas, the homeland security secretary. >> what has happened to our southern border is travesty brought to us about the democrats. this is a terrible impeachment. it sets a terrible precedent. >> i think it's shameful and is >> purely designed to provide election fodder for donald trump and the republicans. if you really want a secure border, you better fire biden and hired trump good morning everyone it is the top of the hour and phil mattingly with poppy >> harlow in new york and democrats scored a, another huge victory in flipping a house seat once held by george santos. now, republicans already razor thin majority in the chamber is getting even slimmer. tom suozzi, the democratic winter says his win is reflection of americans being sick and tired of republicans founded donald trump and refusing to work

together on immigration and other urgent problems >> it's time to move beyond the petty partisan bickering and the finger-pointing it's time to focus on how to solve the problems. >> yeah >> it's time to get to work on immigration let's send a message to our friends running the congress these days. stopped running around for trump and start running the country >> losing the seed has big implications for house republicans and their ability to pass legislation once was he is seated speaker mike johnson can afford to lose lose only two republican votes if he's trying to push through a bill without any democratic support overnight, trump blasted the republican candidate who lost any, called her a very foolish woman. notably, trump did not endorse a mazi pilip. and for most of her campaign, pilip wouldn't say whether she voted for trump in 2020. >> know nikki haley is running

against donald trump, the republican primary, blaming trump for the loss or campaign releasing a statement saying, let's just say the quiet part out loud. donald trump continues to be a huge weight against republican candidates. miguel marquez starts things off for us, live in glencoe of new york. miguel we're talking about it earlier. it's not that suozzi one. it's the margin that i think was so surprising here. you get this far >> yeah, the margin was just incredible as you spoke to voters because they had what, nine days of early voting. and as you spoke to voters that had already voted because there were saying one thing before early voting started. and then as early voting starting to people we're actually going to the polls. it was both anger over santos and directions to know the country we're the biggest concerns and that direction of the country was on both sides republicans saying they didn't like where the democratic party was going and they didn't like biden very much, but lots and lots of independents and democrats coming out and saying, they don't like the politics of donald, donald trump. they don't like the idea of him

coming back. and that's what drove him to the polls. the turnout numbers, we're also big. it looks to be about 30, 32% or so, which for a special election in the middle of february is pretty darn big tom suozzi is a well-known centrist. what he spoke to his supporters last night, he reinforced that point we addressed the issues and we found way the bind are divisions. so now we have to carry the message of this campaign to the united states congress and across our entire country, either get on board or get out of the way >> and even though we had this massive snowstorm and that may have played some part in the number of republican votes that voters that came out on election day. those numbers were up for both democrats and republicans. so i think a lot of folks are going to look at this race and draw a lot of

lessons from both a way. tom suozzi ran and the way republicans tried to run somebody in this district as well >> you have a sense of when he's going to be sworn in what he would like to be sworn in today. i don't know that that's going to have it he thought it was a possibility that could happen, but the states, there are some some some technical things that have to happen before he can do that. if he's not sworn in by friday, congress apparently goes on break and then he wouldn't be able to be sworn in on the house floor until congress comes back in. and, you know, he's he yesterday, we asked him about that and he said the first thing he's going to say is wake up and realize that this is the way the country has to go toward the police political center back to you guys. >> thank you. thank you. even covering this from the jump, we appreciate it for the first time and almost 150 years, a cabinet secretary has been impeached house lawmakers impeach homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas

yesterday. by nick, extremely thin margin of one to 14 to two republicans voted with democrats against the measure house republicans accused mayorkas of high crimes and misdemeanors for failing to enforce border laws during a crisis of high illegal immigration. several constitutional experts say evidenced does not reach that high bar. >> now a thomas after the house republicans tried and failed to impeach mayorkas last week on the same accusations. now, it's highly unlikely mayorkas will be removed by the senate kradic majority. cnn's eva mckend is live on capitol hill with more either how significant is the impeachment and do we have any idea what the senate's going to do here >> well, it's non-binding. it, it has no material impact. it is symbolically significant feel as you mentioned, the first time a cabinet secretary has been impeached in 150 the years mayorkas is also the first latino to lead the department's so heavy with symbolism here. but if the goal was to actually remove him from office, republicans cannot achieve that because senate is still led by democrats. and

they have indicated that they have no appetite to do much with this listen, steve scalise returned from cancer treatment and that is what allowed house republicans to essentially eat this out by just one vote. but there were some republicans who oppose this. you had congressman gallagher congressman buck congressman mcclintock all republicans arguing that this amounted to a policy dispute that mayorkas didn't engage in public corruption or abusing power, and that this did not, this measure was not all that appropriate take a listen to how members described why they didn't they did or did not support this impeachment >> this guy essentially subverted the laws passed by this body and that can't stand. >> cabinet secretary doesn't get to pick and choose which laws they're going to force this is a policy difference. >> you can >> try to put lipstick on this pig. it is still a pig, and

this is a terrible impeachment has sets a terrible precedent if there's a public and president in next congress, you better expect an impeachment of a cabinet official >> so again, senate sources telling us that they aren't expected to take much time on this impeachment trial. mayorcas himself, in the weeks leading up to this dismissing this effort, phil poppy, a remarkable split-screen yesterday republicans in the house doing this as they ran on immigration and special election, they lost even, you know, the hilum politics better than anybody. >> great reporting. thank you will also new this morning, ukraine's military says it sank a prominent russian warship in the black sea. video footage looking at here appears to follow the drone as it approaches the warship and then you see that fiery explosion and this is the latest string of drone attacks hitting strategic targets in russia in recent weeks, cnn's melissa bell joins us now. melissa, do we know the significance, how big of a blow this could be for the black sea fleet? >> what were the ukrainians are saying is that essentially

they've died disabled, fill a third of that freight. now this is of course significant because of the asymmetry there was the ukrainian simply didn't have a functioning navy in the black sea and they were faced with this very substantial russian fleet that they've managed now to disable it. third, now, that is significant also the way by which they carried out this attack, i think is interesting what you're talking about are these highly mobile jetski propelled drones that are actually ukrainian-made, have a very long range, 800 kilometers and really allow the ukrainians. and this has been an important shift in their strategy, not only to use who may he'd weapons, but to target these substantial russian installations, whether they are in c, you're on land in a much more agile and effective way and in a way that the russians have marked a lot great deal of difficulty countering. so a number of different takeaways here, including the fact that what we've seen is a shift in ukrainian strategy as a result of those very static frontlines that we've seen over the course of the last few months to really moving their efforts

to the black sea. that's important symbolically, because you're talking about the crimean peninsula world is began, of course, back in 2014, but also strategically because they believe that if they can undermine russia's strength in that area then they might be able to cut off some of their supply lines to those front lines in ukraine itself, it is extremely strategically important, extremely symbolically important as has been the focus of their efforts over the last few months. what's interesting here is that they've managed to combine all of that to take out what they say it's important to target now for the time being, the kremlin is not commenting on this, but we have seen on the russian side some of their military bloggers speaking to the blow that this represents. and of course, remember that this is also psychologically important win for ukraine. again, at a time when it needs wins after so many months of very little progress on the frontlines themselves. >> yeah, a really important point, melissa bell. thank you. well, president biden is pressuring the house to maintain their support for ukraine by voting on that $95

national security funding bill, which cleared the senate this time yesterday, biden saying it's critical to advancing america's national security interests using some of his most forceful words yet morning republican to opposed funding for ukraine. that history is watching the president also said, quote, failure to support ukraine at this critical moment will never be forgotten or lead time joins us from the white house this morning. i'm interested in what behind the scenes there, they're trying to do to push the house to get this on the floor and move with urgency well poppy for now, president biden appears to be embracing the bully pulpit to urge lawmakers to pass this legislation quickly. the president really spoke in stark terms yesterday saying it's not just about helping ukraine on the battlefield, but also about protecting america's national security interests warned that not acting is playing into the hands of vladimir putin, which could have repercussions far beyond ukraine. and he said that republicans need to take notice. now, take a listen for

republicans in congress who think they can oppose funding for ukraine and not be held accountable. history is watching. history is watching history is watching failure to support ukraine. this critical moment will never be forgotten >> but despite his warnings, president biden is running up against the political reality in the house where the speaker mike johnson has shown no willingness to bring up this aid package for ukraine, israel, and taiwan's johnson still saying that there needs to be border policy changes, even though he opposed those bipartisan efforts to do so. in the senate. now, the white house has not outlined exactly what they consider plan b to b. we know that house democrats will be huddling to see if there's a way forward, but it's entirely unclear whether this will ever actually come up for a vote. i think what's also striking about the president's speech yesterday is the way that he went out against former president donald trump, president biden was particularly irked by trump's

recent comments suggesting he would encourage russia to do whatever it wants to. nato countries who have not met their obligations. president biden spoke very bluntly about those comments yesterday, calling them dumb, shameful, and un-american. and it comes as president biden has really ramped up his attacks on the former president. and twice in the last month, biden has stood here at the white house to portray the republican party as simply beholden to trump in his remarks yesterday, he said that the republic blinken says are facing a question of whether they will stand with america or with trump. this is something the president and his campaign plan to really lean into in the coming months, hoping that voters will take notice and november, arlette saenz at the white house. thank you. >> president biden really >> slamming trump's comments as dangerous. he also called him un-american after trump encouraged russia to go after nato allies who don't pay off more on that ahead, >> plus a crucial legal week ahead for donald trump, a ruling in a civil case could

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$370 million in penalties against donald trump and his businesses here. obviously, if she gets anything close to that, it'll be the biggest civil verdict that we've ever seen against donald trump, surpassing the 80 plus million dollars that we saw a couple of weeks ago in the e jean carroll case. and finally we'll the judge suspend donald trump's business certificates, which of course would impair or eliminate his ability to continue doing business in new york moving forward, also important to keep in mind whatever happens, donald trump will have his appeal rights and a lot of this won't go into effect until after his appeals are done. >> can we turn to what the supreme court is doing with this call from trump trump's team to reverse the dc circuit saying no, he doesn't have immunity when it comes to the january 6 case, jack smith's now got a put a brief forward responding. >> do you think the >> supreme court takes this up, elie boy, this is going to be a close call. so the next thing that we're going to see really within the next few days is jack smith's position on this. now, jack smith, again, i will

make the least bold prediction and legal history and say jack smith will urge the supreme court not to take the case. and b, two unfreeze the district court. but the problem for jack exmouth is two months ago, you may remember he made an emergency motion to the supreme court and he begged them to take this very case. in fact, he said, it is imperative that you and only you supreme court can decide this case. so he's going to do a 1e80 watch for this. and the way he's going to justify that, he's going to say, well now i'm like two months ago now we have this really competitive telling decision from the dc court of appeals. so we're good, but that's a little bit disingenuous because two months ago he said, forget about the dc court of appeals. in fact, skip them because only you supreme court can take this case. ultimately, you need four of them to take the case. you need five of them to pause to proceedings down in the district court and this one's going to be a really close call. >> do you think the judges the supreme court justices, care about being disingenuous and i'm not i'm not trying to be snarky when i say that. well,

does that matter in their calculation if you said this originally, now you're saying this. we know why, but we're going to go back to what you said originally. >> it's actually a very good question. so i tend to look at these things pragmatically. i think the supreme court justices may roll their eyes and go quiet quite a change of heart. you've had mr. smith, but i don't think they're going to say you're automatically bound to what you said two months ago, i think smith is a good enough lawyer that hillside look circumstances have changed and so i do view it sort of pragmatic badly. and the things that jack smith asked for before are not necessarily binding on him now, so long as he can explain why it's substantially different. >> when do you think that's all going to play out? elie, like the trumps brief went in and now smith is going to respond with a brief. how long? because time is of the essence here for in different ways, right? trump wants it to take a lot of time. and smith wants this thing to get moving >> yeah, that one's pushing one way ones pushing the other way. the supreme court has given jack smith until early

next week to put in his paper. i wouldn't surprise me at all if he responds in less time than that may be even today or tomorrow, i think he wants to make a point here that time is of the essence. and i think we'll hear from the supreme court within a week or so of that. i think everyone understands that whatever is going to happen with this case, whether the supreme court is going to take it up fully or not, time does matter, and the supreme court, generally speaking, has really three options on one extreme, they can just say no, we're not telling taking it, we're out. everything goes back to the trial court. you're unfrozen have at it the other extreme is the supreme court could say everything remains frozen. we're going to take this case. we're going to set out a briefing schedule. it's going to be deliberate. it's going to take months. and then there's a middle ground where they could say, okay, trial court, you can resume, but we're going to hear things on an expedited basis. they have lot of flexibility here and it's really i think anyone who tries to predict what the supreme court does next is in first surprise. yeah, a lot to watch, wait and see elie honig. thank you. well, this morning, a us official says hostage talks

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shameful dangerous, it's un-american when america gives us word, it means something when we make a commitment, we keep it and nato is a sacred commitment >> joining us now cnn global affairs analyst, former defense secretary under president trump, mark asked for our sector is it's great to have you appreciate it. well, morning, poppy cnn as well, glad to have you. >> do you >> do re with biden's comments that what trump said there was un-american, certainly irresponsible, dangerous, and no oh, american president that i'm aware of has ever said anything like that before. but is it un-american? >> probably, yes. yeah. >> so chris murphy, senator chris murphy was on with us just a couple of days ago and i was struck by his response to what trump said over the weekend. let's play that what donald trump is doing is giving a green light to russia, but also a green light to china as well. immediately, it's effectively an invitation for world war three. >> that part effectively an invitation for world war three, hyperbole or something. you

also agree with >> i think there's some hyperbole we too often then people are throwing around the term world war three for this or that. but look clearly, it's an invitation. it's a green light >> if if >> not a flashing green light. and what presidents and even former president say matters. so i get concerned not just about what vladmir putin hears, but what the, what the ayatollah in iran hears. and most importantly, what does xi jinping in beijing? >> can they here? >> i think they hear that america is retreating or at least america under donald trump would be retreating from the world stage, would be leaving our allies exposed unless they do certain things. in this case meet a certain spending target, which by the way, i agree with i think the allies should live up to their commitments. they have not been but set that aside and quiet increase. we've seen there's 11 now out of 31, and we think the number is going up, but it's still no, that's not reason to withdraw from the alliance. say use those words because what it does is it invites aggression from autocrats who are inclined to be aggressive in the first place. >> john bolton, who was national security adviser under

trump, has been really clear multiple times here on cnn in the past couple of days, did he does think trump would move to withdraw now, he's going to need congress to do that now, because the way the law is written, you were in the room with trump in discussions like this. do you agree with bolton? >> sure. look, i think president trump has disdain for nato. he doesn't understand it. he doesn't understand the importance store our own security. >> and look, i >> think one of the first thing they'll do is move to cut off all funding for ukraine. the next thing he'll probably do is to begin withdrawing troops from key countries unless they meet a spending commitment, but ultimately will try to withdraw from nato. but look on the other hand and despite a law recently passed by congress saying that he can't without congress's approval, there's so many other things that president can do to undermine the lies. he could pull troops out, he could, he could declare that he will not support a nato ally just like he did because that is on the power of the executive in the commander in chief and we could withdraw from exercises. we could withdraw ourselves from nato

formations. >> we at turning to the issue of ukraine and the fact is that this $95 billion aid bill, 60 billion to ukraine is not going to make it to the house floor according to speaker johnson, at least not in this form. we just had this really fascinating meaning reporting from our melissa bell overnight, just highlighting the successful attacks ukraine is continuing to carry out on, on russia. this one on the black sea fleet, which now they've decimated by a third, which is pretty remarkable, isn't it? in a way that they're doing it? >> but how long >> can you crane sustain that without much more aid? in the >> us, i think it's going to be very difficult. i mean, there is aid in the pipeline. we are the largest provider of military aid, europeans, largest provider of financial aid when that pipeline runs out i can't tell you right now. we do know that the ukrainians are are really metering out their ammunition and how they fight the fight. and that's going to wear down over time as a, as they do that final question,

you on a different topic. the house just impeach homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas for 750 years, a cabinet secretary has been impeached. the republicans who oppose it, like ken buck say, look at the precedent and you're setting here as a former cabinet secretary, do you agree with that? yeah. i don't like the precedent either. i mean, look at the border is a crisis. it's a mess. everybody knows it to include a lot of democrats. >> but >> this is president biden's policy, not mayorkas's policy. and so if you want change, you've got to change who's in the white house i do not like the precedent of impeaching doing this because it'll become a for tat and we need to avoid that type of stuff. we need to get back to a more simpler days when we did we didn't personally attack everybody. we didn't try to impeach everybody who didn't do exactly what we wanted. and that's what we need to get back to. that's why i'm very anxious about this upcoming election. >> and secretary mark esper. thank you. nice to have you here. appreciate it. felt lama >> heels of impeaching secretary mayorkas, the house republican party. it looks to

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sensitive information. it's an image that certainly difficult for biden's campaign prospects. and when republicans have been seizing on, especially as polls for months have shown biden's age is a major concern for voters, even >> democrats, sources tell cnn and house republican leaders have reached out to her for possible testimony before the house judiciary committee. they've also asked the doj for the transcript and any recordings and notes of this special counsel's interview with the president. let's bring in co-author of politico's new york playbook, emily know and former new york state official sarah feinberg. morning to you guys i'm really interested, so we're given your work on obama administration, obviously, biden was vice president to how they respond to this it's most effectively, we saw the press conference. but now house republicans aren't letting go of it. i mean, they want to talk to her. they want to hear it's different thing to hear it. >> right? if they're able to hear it, then to see in the writing about biden's age and memory loss, look, i think the most important thing for the

biden administration to do right now is to is to explain to the american people exactly with is, which is look, i think her really overstepped. this feels very partisan. this is length. i'm not a lawyer, but this is language that lawyers tend not to use if the cases that he didn't do anything that we're going to charge on them like that's the news and move on. look, the most interesting thing i saw is that her is now hired. the most partisan, well-known publican lawyer and all of washington dc, bill burke, who has represented trump. it's represented kavanaugh. he's represented other major republicans. so what does that tell you, right? i mean, this feels like a partisan exercise to me >> i think the question and all true, fair. in terms of what you're pointing out also true and fair that democratic members of the house and senate endorsed her. good things about her in the past when he was nominated for things. the question to sarah's point, this is clearly heading down that pathway, right? if it's just going to be partisan warfare? >> if you're the biden team

fighting this to a wash doesn't necessarily help you. you need to actually make inroads, convince people the opposite given where things have been for several rods. and so how do they do that if it just devolves into both sides? >> well, it may come down to the release of the transcript, right after it's declassified and certainly on the part of the house republicans, it is a safer gamble to try to get her out speaking, deliver that testimony that certainly will be blockbuster than it is to rely on the release of the transcript, which might hurt their case. that biden's memory was faulty if her appears before house republicans to testify in this manner, if those soundbites go viral, it will not matter necessarily the democrats are trying to push back that he made a political case where he could make a legal case that he has an attorney and not a physician, and that he overstepped his mandate. it's going to be out there a resonating and backing up the case that both democrats and republicans independence have

made as well, that the biden has too old for this office sara, back back to the question of what they do now though, the best strategies some people thought the press conference was a good >> strategy, other people thought it wasn't given the mix-ups he made during it. what about now over the next nine months? >> look, i think the president should be out there making the case on the economy. what he's going to do to move the country forward in the next for years, she should both run on his record. but what else is happening? acknowledge it. but like, you know, the people around him, the campaign, the political operatives can make the case about partisanship, about trump. the fact that trump has made as many mistakes about with faulty memory and calling nancy pelosi by the wrong name or bond is not the president we've turkey exactly, exactly. so let the political operatives make that case. the president should be running on his record and what he's going to do in the next four years. >> what switches you about this is the voluntarily agreed to sit down for the interviews. two of the interviews over the course of 56 hours in the immediate aftermath of october

7, they also didn't ask for any redactions the counsel's office released it entirety report it's interesting because we're actually doing the things that had they not done, they would have gotten killed four. and here they are. it's been interesting to watch it play out. i have to ask you about the special election because as i've said during the break, i've heard 76 different hot takes for what it all means. clearly, it tells us everything we need to know for november but in reality, what did it tell you >> of course democrats can claim momentum going into november and they can say that having a centrist, moderate candidate who distances themselves from president biden can be effective in swing districts, but it's a bellwether set of perfect bellwether along island had been leaning red for some time. there suburbs in new york stayed california elsewhere that are leaning blue. so if anything that gives a playbook to democrats on how they can win some of these crucial seats that pave a path back to the gavel for them. but there's a lot of lessons to be taken away as to how popular biden actually is. and trump is as well in that district if there is one lesson to learn out of the special election, please.

democratic candidates. i hope you're listening tom suozzi has given you a playbook for how to win an election. do not pretend the migrant crisis is not happening. acknowledged it, talk about what you're going to do to solve it. do not pretend the economy isn't a problem. acknowledge it, talk about what you're going to do to solve it. do not just whistle past the graveyard and say it's all fine. and anyone worried is bedwetting. that is not what we learned here. we learned is acknowledged that the world is not perfect. how are you going to fix it? >> i mean, after the fact that seems very obvious, and they were helped because house republicans completely said no to a bipartisan border compromise. >> but i'm wondering why >> that hasn't been necessarily the case up until now. now, everybody's like tom suozzi. he's the one who's got it. he figured it out. >> well, look, there have been lots of democrats, particularly moderate democrats, who have been saying for months, stop pretending that the polls aren't real, stop pretending that everything is fine. stop accusing anyone worried about polling, as, you know, bedwetters and panickers. so the voices have been out there.

i think there's been momentum saying so everything's fine. that's not the case. like acknowledged the shoes and then run a campaign on them. >> thank you. both great to have you good to see you >> well, the second time, apparently it's a charm if through the house republicans republican-led house impeached. finally, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, why republicans were finally able to get that vote together by one all right, take a look at the market futures this morning, following some higher-than-expected inflation data. what the report reveals and what it means for you at home to, be a head wind wars vegas >> that's what i want to do. >> they, had the biggest entertainers in america >> vegas's always marketed itself on its naughtiness. >> and the only way you find that what you can't do is if you do it it's unlike anywhere else in the world's >> vegas, the story of sin city premieres sunday the worry 25th

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more warning and you look at this number, what does it tell us sort of big picture and about what the fed is going to go. >> yeah, i think wallstreet has been on winning streak, a hot streak, and they got a little burned yesterday. they were expecting cpi to come in under 3%. they were hoping for 2.9%. they didn't get that. they got 13.1% >> and wall >> street had been on this rally for many, many months now, in part because tech stocks have been doing very well but also because they thought that the federal reserve would start to cut rates this spring. now, because of this number, the cpi number 3.1% that is looking less likely, folks are now anticipating that a rate cut is not coming in march, not coming in may, probably more like june and july. >> the fed has been pretty trivial this parent about rate cuts. they baked in three this year. wall street largely ignored that and decided actually maybe we'll see four to five this year, but that's not the reality and the fed has

been pretty transparent about that. so you now have a sobering of the markets right now, the dow just not a record on monday and then yesterday, the dow fell more than 700 points closing down more than 500 points and it's just an opportunity to reset at this point. we see futures up a little bit this morning. so maybe investors have had time to digest the information that they've seen in this cpi report. >> but >> it's a signal that you just don't bet against the federal reserve and wall street largely has done that these past couple of months. >> and look whilst your forecasts are just had a great record the last year-and-a-half, i'm getting literally everything wrong. >> correct. >> anticodon know, everyone has gotten everything wrong about the yes. economy, which is why it's been so hard to figure out to this idea that poppy always scolds me. you don't see cpi, you don't see pce like explain what i say these things on, which is right, because cpi is one important data point, the crumbs, there's pce, this

jobs report, there's all different elements. if >> is just coming later this week i mean to people, what cpi actually means and how it's just one of the many, right, kind of broader picture. >> they're all indicators of inflation in different ways. cpi is consumer prices, ppi is producer prices, and pce, which the fed likes to look at. in particular, is personal consumption expenditure. it's really gets into the details of what people are spending. so the fed actually looks likes, look at that report more closely than cpi. so it is a question of how much is the fed going to put on this one report? i mean, this could be a little bit out of the ordinary, maybe a little hotter than people expected, still cooling now we're still in a pulling trend. but next month we could see a better number, lower number that both wall street on the fed would like. that would encourage them to potentially start to cut rates sooner. you have to look at all the data. and that's what jerome powell wants. he wants to see a lot of

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>> surgical robot bound for outer space. >> so mira is the small surgical robot >> mira made by a company called virtual incision, arrived at the international space station in february and onset he today, it did something that's never been done before. >> saturday was the first time that surgical robot in space was controlled by surgeons on earth to perform simulated surgical activities, virtual incision provided cnn with exclusive video, has six surgeons at the company's headquarters in lincoln, nebraska, took turns operating the robot after it was powered up by nasa astronauts, roughly 250 miles above, the adrenaline was pumping and i could feel my heart pounding it was really exhilarating, but at the same time, once i saw that robotic device doing the things that i'm used to it doing settled down dr. michael jokowi says he's already performed 15 surgeries with mira during clinical trials on human

patients. here on earth. but he's never had to contend with zero gravity or a time delay of about half a second, split second during a half a second is going to be significant. so this was a big challenge. you can see a left-hand with a grasp and a right hand with a pair of scissors. and we use rubber bands here to simulate surgical tissue. >> so you could think of those rubber bands is perhaps blood vessels are tendons, are other connective tissue that has elasticity the two were able to grab hold of the rubber bands and then take the scissors and just to basically to cut them >> all right. i'm going small rubber band that great to be for surgery >> now, in addition to someday being able to perform remote

surgeries on people in space, they also want to use this type of technology here on earth someday in places where it's not always easy to get a surgeon. phil and poppy think places like really remote rural areas, or maybe even war zones that is such a good point that was absolutely fascinating and also because we have you here, talk to us about spacex scrubbing the launch of that lunar lander. what is significant about that? >> well, poppy, if successful, this would be the first american made spacecraft to successfully land on the surface of the moon. since the end of the apollo program, way back in 1972 and if successful, the company behind this lunar lander accompany called intuitive machines. it would become the first private company the in history to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon. so two big firsts here the mission was scrubbed last night, but they're going to try again tonight. so fingers crossed washington. thank you. cnn this morning continues now