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employees that he wants to cut with his hundreds of millions of followers. >> plus, we're tracking last minute holiday travel as millions are hitting the road or the skies. what to expect if you're among those leaving today. we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central thank you so much for joining us this afternoon on cnn news central. i'm boris sanchez along alongside rahel solomon here in the nation's capital. and if you are flying for thanksgiving this year, expect it to be quite busy at the airport. the tsa is forecasting that it's going to screen more than 18 million people for the holiday week with the longest lines anticipated on sunday. >> so you know what that means. we should check in with cnn aviation correspondent pete montini, who is live at reagan national airport in washington. pete you know, there's concern that a shortage of air traffic controllers that even one key airport could

snarl things for millions of people. how are things looking it's snarling things right now. >> there is a ground delay program, meaning flights held on the ground in route to newark. liberty international airport, just outside of new york that has been a particular pain point for the faa, really a microcosm of the staffing issues that they are having. and the faa administrator warned going into this travel rush that the faa may have to do that to keep things safe. the good news is things are moving relatively smoothly here on the ground at airports. the line here to get through standard screening and precheck here at the terminal two north checkpoint at reagan national airport under five minutes. right now, the tsa says today is going to be even bigger than yesterday. they saw about 2.7 million people at airports nationwide yesterday, but a 2% increase from the same day a year ago. today, they're anticipating about 2.9 million people at airports nationwide. the number just keeps getting bigger. today is the biggest day leading up to the thanksgiving rush. we will wait to see though because the rush

could be even bigger. coming back. that could set an all time air travel record on sunday since we are on the subject of lines, i want to show you this new technology that american airlines has rolled out at gates across the country. this is to tackle a problem that is called gate lice. the people who rush the gate and try to board out of their boarding group. it's a particular concern on american because they have nine count them nine different boarding groups so it's a little bit easy to get confused. now, what happens when you scan your boarding pass if you're not in the proper group, an alarm goes off and you have to do the walk of shame. essentially back to board with your group. we got to see it in action here at reagan national airport. watch this okay. >> you're in group five. airplane. i'm sorry i should call your phone. so i said moniepoint. >> it's just me. on saturday. i said it was a small test that

american was using this technology at. >> now, this has rolled out to 120 airports nationwide. so thanksgiving travel line cutters. consider this your last and final warning. the good news here is that american airlines says it's operating nearly all of its flights without being canceled. they said they didn't cancel one mainline flight yesterday, only three regional flights canceled in burbank and aspen due to bad weather there. americans operating about 6400 flights in total today. they say that means a takeoff about once every 15 seconds. really really busy today on the one hand, you cannot blame those who try to cut the line because when you see you're in zone nine, it is the worst feeling. >> on the other hand, i am in shock that pete muntean would publicly shame that lovely person who is simply trying to board a flight he got her on camera. >> hey pete, the producers are going to yell at me. they say we don't have enough time but i do wonder if you've packed your patience and how you're doing out there oh, you know what you know, boris, i'm

chilling. >> it's good i have my full setup here sometimes. just step into my office. sometimes folks ask me, do i have a cot here or anything? no, i have my chair here that i, that i use. this is my little temporary office. kelty chairs. get at me i love my little camp chair here. i got my dunkin from the terminal one dunkin donuts, where they're very kind enough to give me the airport employee discount even though technically i'm not an airport employee and even in my little laptop here to hammer away on my memoir in the downtime between live shots. so it's not so bad. you know, i love it when people come and visit me here at the terminal two checkpoint, i see pilots flight attendants, air traffic controllers, tsa. it's like a little it's like being in a little richard scarry storybook here. i love the little city of the airport. >> look forward to his memoir coming in 2027. it's called he's got that dog in him. pete muntean live from dc thanks so much, buddy or dunkin donuts get at me because he wants a sponsorship clearly pete muntean thank you.

>> all right. it is clearly also a busy thanksgiving week in the halls of mar-a-lago. as president elect donald trump quickly fills more key roles in his incoming administration. just last hour, he announced that he has chosen retired lieutenant general keith kellogg as special envoy for ukraine and russia. kellogg previously served as national security advisor to former vice president mike pence. now, trump has now named 19 cabinet members. this is a huge difference from where we were at this point in 2016, when he had only made four cabinet picks. joining me now to discuss is cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein. ron, always good to see you. i mean, it sounds like i mean his cabinet is pretty much filled out nominations and confirmations aside, what are your thoughts about what his selections tell you about trump's vision for his second term? >> yeah, well, first of all, i hope i am onboarding here for the right segment after that. you know, after no alarms are going to go off while i'm talking. um, but look, you know, i think, you know you

have to look at trump's cabinet and other appointees really in two big categories. i mean you have a number of them that probably would have been appointed by any republican president, just kind of, you know the standard conservative in many cases, business oriented uh, appointees, doug burgum at interior lee zeldin at epa. but then you have the group that trump chose, i think, very explicitly to kind of rattle the foundations of washington where he picked matt gaetz as ag tulsi gabbard to run the nation's intelligence agencies. robert f. kennedy jr. at hhs, pete hegseth at the defense department, all of whom i think are very much put down as a gantlet for senate republicans by traditional metrics, it's hard to imagine another republican president nominating any of these for the jobs they hold. it's not really so much that they are necessarily unqualified. they're kind of anti qualified in the sense that they challenge the

traditional ideas of what those jobs should be. matt gaetz withdrew without a vote that may leave more room for republican senators to cast a public vote against one or more of these. and i think that's where the controversy and the focus is going to be in the weeks ahead. >> ron, to that point, i mean that these picks come from. i mean, across the political spectrum do you think that's more reflective of trump himself, who's not necessarily particularly ideological or is this more about building a coalition of loyalists? how do you see it? >> yeah, i think i think i think your second point, really kind of the thread that runs through all of this is personal loyalty to trump, you know, and people are kind of imputing onto for example, some of the economic choices, maybe trump will not go as far as he said during the campaign on things like imposing tariffs. you know but there he is on social media you know, threatening 25% tariffs on mexico and canada and big tariffs on china. the three largest trading partners. you know, right out of the box. i mean, the i think the the

expectation that you know, there's a broad expectation certainly in the stock market that trump will not try to do some of the most extreme things that he said he would do as a candidate. i think that's wrong. i mean, i think you forget about trump if you just look through history, presidential candidates who get elected overwhelmingly try to do what they said. sometimes they get stopped by the courts, sometimes they get stopped by congress. both of those may be less of a threat to trump, given the republican dominance. you know, the supreme court and both chambers of commerce, congress and i think that it is wrong for anyone to assume that when he says he's not going to, he's going to impose sweeping tariffs or mass deportation or talking about unilateral military action against the cartels in mexico, that all of that was just bluster he's going to go further down those roads than many people expect. >> yeah. i mean the market reaction is an interesting point ron, because on the one hand, you look at that muted reaction to the tariffs and you wonder is that perhaps because he has folks like scott bessent in his cabinet, folks who are

considered more moderate folks who are considered a steady hand, who truly understand capital markets, or is it because we've been here before, we've obviously lived through a term before. so investors have an idea of whether he's using this as a negotiating tactic right and right. >> that is the question. right. is trump to the same as trump one, certainly in the campaign, i think his his proposals across a wide range of issues were more explicit and more militant than what he ran on in 2016 or even in 2020. i mean, he has talked explicitly about sending special forces into mexico for example, with or without the permission of the mexican government. he's talked explicitly about ending the education department and you know, obviously, mass deportation and the use of the national guard for that. and so i think, you know, there is a sense and perhaps even among many voters, i think, you know voters who are dissatisfied with the economy wanted to vote

for trump because they thought he would be better for his economic their immediate economic situation. i was told by one person who was doing focus groups and public opinion research that voters who decided that trump was better for their bottom line were actively resisting information that would cause them cognitive dissonance about what else he might do, what else might come with the package? well, that's going to be harder to do once he is actually in office. you know, against the backdrop of dissatisfaction with biden, i think voters look at trump primarily through the lens of he's going to bring down costs, he's going to get the border under control. but there is a lot else that goes with electing trump and i think you're going to see inevitably more of that come to the fore already with these, you know, with these threats to mexico and canada. and certainly once he takes office. >> yeah. really interesting fascinating points. ron brownstein, good to see you. and if we don't see you before, have a happy thanksgiving i know alarm bells went off. >> thanks. >> good to see you. >> all right. and among trump's trump's recent picks is jamieson greer for u.s.

trade representative. his appointment comes just a day after trump announced new tariffs that some economists warned will almost certainly cost americans more money. >> and now the mexican economic secretary says it would also cost american jobs some 400,000 jobs in the auto industry specifically, trump's proposed tariffs include 25% on all imports from mexico, as well as canada, and an additional 10% on imports from china. let's discuss the implications with justin wolfers, professor of economics at the university of michigan, and douglas holtz-eakin, chief economist on president george w. bush's council of economic advisers. thank you all for being with us. doug, first to you. the biden administration kept in place many of the tariffs that we saw from trump's first term. i wonder what your reaction is to this proposal and how these policies differ from what you saw during the first trump administration well these are very big proposals.

>> 25% on mexico and canada is about $100 billion in tariffs. a year. that translates into 8 or $900 per american household so that would be a significant hit to the american consumer. so they're not to be taken lightly. the question with mr. trump is always is this something he wants to do? or is this a negotiating tactic? and something he wants to to drop when he gets what he wants? well, what he said the terms were is they stay in place until we get no more border crossings by migrants, no more drugs, especially fentanyl, coming into the united states. those are sort of non-economic objectives. those are typical of when he wants to to cut a deal and indeed, these are both signatories to the north american trade agreement the usmca and this really sounds like him kicking off negotiations on the new version of the usmca that was scheduled to happen next year. he's just starting it this year so i think this looks like a negotiating tactic. that doesn't mean he won't go ahead and attempt to do this

now. i do want to say this is different than 2017. and one very important way the world has seen him do this already. they have seen him be in office. he has levied tariffs. they stayed in place and there was sort of shock and amazement when he made proposals in 2017. you sense none of that now. the world has been watching him campaign. they've been getting ready to retaliate. it took the mexicans about 38 seconds to say, fine, we'll do 25% too, and we'll keep going up until the u.s. auto industry screams. so this is not the same as the last time around and the economic damage will be greater if both sides go ahead and do the tariff and the retaliation. >> justin, to that point, if in fact these tariffs do come to pass, who would be the biggest losers, but also who might stand to benefit from this? who might be the biggest winner? >> well the biggest losers are you and me and the folks who are watching tv at home right now. um, between these three countries, canada mexico and

china, they account for almost half of all american trade so think about your fruit and vegetables. huge amounts. nearly half of our fruit and vegetables come across the border from these countries. we're going to see a 1,025% tariff on those. so going to the grocery store is going to become a whole lot more uncomfortable. we've got to i'm coming to you from just outside detroit. we have a vibrant auto industry here, which actually straddles the canadian border. our supply chains are very tightly linked where something as simple as a car seat might go back and forth across the border to and from different factories. up to half a dozen times. and that's going to become very uneconomic. and you saw actually the stock prices of the big three automakers plummeted on this announcement. um, it's also worth noting that one auto company has a very different business model, that being tesla. the president's very good mate, elon musk. and it's much less of a threat to that company. >> so, justin, i do wonder, given that the usmca was set to

improve upon nafta in the eyes of of donald trump and the fact that he touted it after it was negotiated, that he would now seek to essentially undo a great part of it by pursuing these tariffs. i mean, what does that tell you might. >> it just tells you that if that was if you just saw me sigh. that's the sigh of an economics teacher who says we actually understand how tariffs work. we understand the people that they hurt. um trump went to rip up nafta, and in some sense was convinced that what he should do is just rebrand it as as nafta and trump approved. that's what the usmca really is and now, despite the fact that it's his trade agreement that he passed with two countries, he's now ripping it up with sharp tariffs on both of those. look, disentangling american business from mexico and from canada would be very bad for mexico, very bad for canada, and very bad for american business. >> i want to give you the last word here. you were the chief economist as we said, on the council of economic advisers

under president george w. bush. if you were serving in this trump administration, what advice would you share with the president on their tariff proposals and his tariff proposals well, i'm not going to be serving in this administration because i was in an administration that believed in lowering lowering barriers to trade, that american workers benefited from selling our goods around the world, that we fostered allies by having trade agreements with them. >> and that world is gone. there is now a protectionist tilt to trade policy everywhere, not just in the united states. mr. trump has left that world behind and and believes evidently, quite sincerely that we should simply get rid of all imports and make everything here which is completely economically irrational and undoable. so i would be at a loss as to how to convince him to to simply recognize that there are smart workers and smart consumers and smart businessmen all across this country who are relying on trade flows because that's the best way to do things that are

good for america. and that's what we want in the end. >> doug holtz-eakin, justin wolfers, thank you both. pleasure and happy thanksgiving, by the way thank you. still ahead this hour on cnn news central we're live in new york at the site where macy's inflates all of its balloons for the big parade tomorrow. we're going to take you behind the scenes with harry enten, who's promised to be wearing a turkey outfit. plus, we have an inside look at how a methane leak hunting satellite could help combat climate change. that story is next but first, it's a story you will only see here. >> cnn speaks exclusively with ukrainian soldiers anxious about dwindling resources and donald trump's looming presidency holiday. >> yeah yeah. to say ukraine at the center of civil how do you sleep at night on a

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cnn's media correspondent hadas gold is here with more hadas. do we know exactly why elon musk highlighted these people in particular? >> well, these posts came last week in the flurry of daily posts that elon musk makes on x, and he was reposting an anonymous account that was highlighting screengrabs from a publicly available database of federal employees. and in these screengrabs were the list of the names of the people who occupy these different positions. those titles that you put up there, things like director of climate diversification, included their name their title as well as the city in which they are located. now musk reposted at least two of these posts, commenting things like so many fake jobs and this is all in line with what they are trying to do in terms of what they say. making the government more efficient and likely cutting a lot of federal jobs. now, there is likely a lot of bipartisan support, including amongst federal employees, about cutting down the size of the federal government and making it more efficient. and a lot of federal employees that i spoke to know that there's likely

going to be job cuts as a result of this, but what they were not expecting is for the world's richest man, a close confidant of the president elect, to be posting the names of what are otherwise unknown federal government employees who are not in public facing roles. these are not necessarily the spokespeople for these departments and putting them essentially on blast. as a result and what this what he is doing is legitimately scaring a lot of federal employees who are fearful that in the process of trying to cut down on the size of the federal government that musk will be highlighting the privacy or trying or in some way threatening the privacy of these federal government employees who are not public facing people and he has done this before when he's targeted people that, you know, he believes wrongs him or have gotten in their way and he puts them on, blast his legions of followers often attack them. i spoke to somebody who used to be on the national highway transportation safety advisory board, and she said that when elon musk went after her, she got death threats she had to temporarily leave her home before eventually moving. and that is what a lot of these

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many people, if they have not already traveled, they will be traveling in the weeks to come. how do people use loyalty programs to try to save money this holiday season? >> yeah, points are the key. you know, the airlines gouge last minute travelers when it comes to fare prices, but you'd be shocked at how much award availability there is so my number one tip is always make sure to check award availability right before the segment. appointme is a website that will actually check multiple airlines for the dates you want to go. so if you've got credit card points with lots of different transfer partners, point me will actually show you what's available and they just sent me a bunch of deals. you can go for new year's this year. chicago to nassau, new york to bermuda, and even europe. and if you want to actually buy flights, i highly recommend google flights. so google.com slash flights. they have an explorer button and you can put in your home city and then put in caribbean or put in europe, and it'll pull all fares to

that entire continent or region yeah, new york to bermuda sounds really nice right about now talk to me a little bit about the pitfalls, though, of using points. >> i mean, there are of course personal finance experts who warn that chasing points also encourages people to buy on credit yeah. >> so using points is incredible for consumers because you can cancel and get your points back for free in most major programs. unlike airlines which will give you a voucher, maybe, and have change fees, using points is like buying a fully refundable ticket so that's what i can't stress to people enough even if you're at the airport and your flight's getting delayed and you might be canceled and you've got to get home, pull out your points, book yourself on another carrier. even if you don't end up needing to use that flight, you can cancel and get all of your points back for free and but to your point, never spend on a credit card if you can't pay it off in full every month because the interest you pay will negate the value of any of the points that you earn.

>> is there a good rule of thumb, brian, about when the best time is to buy travel tickets? i feel like every time i'm looking to buy a flight, i wonder, wait when am i supposed to buy it again? like, what is that time frame? what's a good rule of thumb a good rule of thumb is 4 to 6 weeks prior for domestic and basically three months, 2 to 3 months, and prior for international. >> now note the airlines will take advantage of you if you want to book a year in advance. they charge a premium, but most airlines will release frequent flier mile awards for most of their flights at 11 months or so in advance so if you can plan a year in advance and have miles book as soon as the calendar opens up for that airline, that's how a lot of people in the points and miles world will snag those really hard to get tickets, like to the maldives or hawaii. >> oh, okay brian kelly, great advice. thank you thanks for having me. see, the issue is when you want to buy your tickets like 11 months in advance like me, but your

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day harry, i can't say that you look delicious because i would get in trouble for saying that, but i'm glad you said it. >> um talk to us about how americans are telling you that their favorite part of how they dress up their thanksgiving meal yeah i mean, look, i am actually not a big turkey fan, but interestingly enough, we have a poll for everything we asked, do you favor turkey as your main thanksgiving meal? >> and the vast majority, nearly three quarters of americans say, yes, turkey is what they want on thanksgiving. i am part of the quarter of americans who are opposed to it. i don't want to eat myself. i would much rather eat a piece of fried chicken. so i think that three quarters of americans on this are wrong. wrong wrong. >> harry's also a big frozen custard guy. i don't know if folks know this, but he will give you an entire dissertation on frozen custard if we get him started on that. so let's stick to turkey. harry, how do people like to prepare their turkey on thanksgiving the vast majority,

the clear majority say they want it roasted. >> we're talking about 60% a little bit north there of i disagree with that. i think your turkey gets so dried out if you roast it. but who am i to say i never cook the turkey myself i'm actually a big, bigger fan of the number three option, which is a piece of fried turkey. i actually did that last year for cnn. i think you keep it far more juicy that way. so if you're going to eat me you should get me as hot as possible fry me. and i think that would be the best but my dear friend and i over there, you know what we prefer? if you stuck to chicken, maybe be a little unorthodox, as i think a lot of people would describe me as being boris fried chicken. >> yeah, i don't know about fried chicken for thanksgiving, but harry, next year maybe we will try to fry you. we'll see how it goes harry enten live for us in new york city. >> i feel like this has been so insightful. we have learned so much about harry enten the last two hours, revealing so much of himself, and now we see him dressed as a turkey. >> it's magnificent. thanks, harry thank you. hey, just a

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