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right now on cnn this morning new clues. >> two days into the massive manhunt for the gunman who killed unitedhealthcare ceo. police following a growing trail of evidence, clues and let me be frank about this. >> government is too big. it does too many things and it does almost nothing well, everything is on the table. >> republicans meeting with elon musk and vivek ramaswamy about their plans to make major cuts to the federal budget and mission postponed another setback in nasa's plan for lunar exploration. so when will man set foot again on the moon all right. 5 a.m. here on the east coast, a live look at the nation's capital on this friday morning. good morning everyone i'm kasie hunt. we made it. it's friday. it's wonderful to have you with us.

there are new clues this morning in the manhunt in new york. a flirtatious smile could be the mistake that trips up the man that police are calling a person of interest wanted for questioning in connection to the wednesday killing of the unitedhealthcare ceo this newly released surveillance footage capturing the man smiling after the clerk at the hostel he was staying at asked him to lower his mask, a source tells cnn he used a fake new jersey driver's license when checking in. that was on manhattan's upper west side, and there is also new video of the suspect suspected gunman on an e-bike escaping from the crime scene. and heading towards central park as far as his trip to new york sources tell cnn he got there by greyhound bus ten days before the shooting. the bus route started in atlanta, but it's unclear if that's where he first boarded the bus the words delay and depose were found on a live round and a shell casing at the murder

scene. sources tell cnn. unitedhealthcare parent company was aware of threats against its executives. we're joined now by scott duffy. he is a retired supervisory fbi special agent, director of the criminal justice institute of wilmington university. scott, thanks very much for being with us this morning. that hostile image where he was apparently asked to show them his smile. is that going to be the thing that ultimately undoes this case for him yeah. >> good morning casey, and thank you for having me on this morning. it's definitely a step closer so we've seen all these video footages that law enforcement has been getting and then releasing to the public with regards to a white male. a light skinned male. however, he's been described with the hoodie some sort of face mask that's covering the lower portion of his face, and then to have this photo that's just it's it's just a better

part of evidence to lead to the identity of this individual. and you can see already what they're tracking, the fact of a greyhound bus where he stayed a few days before. the fact that he may have, um an electric bike as his escape, um, means of transportation, these are all just fantastic pieces scott, what is the impact of the the time that is elapsing here with this manhunt? >> i mean, obviously police are learning more as time goes on but is there a risk in the trail getting colder if they continue to not be able to identify this man yeah, i would say not with regards to identifying. >> they're going to identify him. it's a little bit slower than they would have wanted. obviously being in new york and getting that information out, especially as quickly, uh, with regards to the time of the morning, you're just flooded with video cameras watching

just about your every move. law enforcement and so not being able to capture him, um within hours of this fatal shooting is definitely an issue but as as the trail gets colder. yeah, those breadcrumbs kind of disappear with regards to pieces of evidence that will, um be with him at the time of his location and his arrest. but i can guarantee you law enforcement will identify him and capture him. >> so we were looking just there at video of him on that bicycle, and it it shows now the surveillance video that he goes into the park with this, you know, peak design backpack. it's a photographer's backpack that's, you know, pretty notable. and then he leaves the park without it. and yet they don't seem to be able to find the backpack. what are the hurdles to locating it yeah. >> so did somebody pick it up that hasn't yet made contact

with law enforcement? there is it? does he have a place we already know that he's done very good job in pre-planning. not only his mode of travel, but where he stayed. and then leading up to the hours of the shooting. so finding that backpack is key to law enforcement not only the backpack itself, but its contents. and so with with every day going by without him captured and and additional evidence that he might have left behind. um, yeah that's a concern to law enforcement but they still have plenty of ground to cover. >> what big picture are the the security concerns for other health care executives as we, you know, sit here not really knowing there's suggestions obviously that this is related to concerns about things related to the health care industry, but we don't seem to know if it's specifically unitedhealthcare, if it might be more broad than that yeah, i

can tell you that anything like this especially with targeting and then successfully um, fatally shooting a executive, much less a ceo of a major health care company you have probably all ceos and executives of major companies, but especially here, until we know more about the motive of the shooting, that health care executives. >> et cetera insurance companies and the like have probably stepped up their security measures and and then, of course those in unitedhealthcare making sure that they're um, other executives uh, have have plenty of security that would be provided. so i imagine there is definitely a step up security not only for the short term, but for the long term. >> all right. scott duffy, for us this morning, sir. very grateful to have your expertise with us. thanks for being here.

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all right. >> welcome back donald trump confident his approach with america's neighbors is working already canadian prime minister justin trudeau and mexican president claudia sheinbaum have both spoken to the president elect in the past two weeks amid threats from trump to close the border with mexico and slap tariffs on canadian goods trudeau even taking the extra step of personally flying to mar-a-lago last weekend to speak with trump about the tariff threat. here was trump on fox nation last night i spoke with canada and justin came flying right in because we talked about 25% tariffs. >> that's just the beginning. i spoke the other day to the president, the new president of mexico. very nice woman. and we had a very nice conversation. but she said why are you doing this to me? i said, i'm not. i'm just putting a lot of tariffs on because you're allowing criminals to pour into our country and we can't allow that anymore and it stopped it

stopped. it was so fast it stopped all right. >> joining us now to discuss is cnn's max foster live from london. max, good morning always wonderful to see you. so the mexican president, claudia sheinbaum did push back on donald trump's characterization of their phone call, particularly when it came to the border between the u.s. and mexico. let's listen to what she said. watch cada quien tiene su. >> everyone has their own way of communicating, but i can assure you i give you the certainty that we would never and we would be incapable of it, propose that we would close the border. >> la frontera nunca ha sido it has never been our approach. >> and of course, we don't agree with that max, what do you make of all this and of course, trump basically saying that the threats that he puts out there on social media get the results that he's looking for? >> yes so on truth social, he effectively said this after the

meeting. he said sheinbaum had agreed to stop migration through mexico and into the united states effectively closing our southern border. so that's what she was talking about there. i never promised to close the southern border so there's some misinterpretation , really, about what came out of that meeting. but i think she's making a point there. everyone has their own way of communicating, and she's speaking to what many world leaders have learned about donald trump is he speaks to a particular audience on the particular platform he's on. as far as she's concerned, they had a really excellent meeting. she said it was. and there was some progress made. um, it's just this idea of closing the border down, but obviously that is what effectively donald trump was threatening himself when, you know, with these tariffs, he wants. the big issue here is the southern border and the northern border with canada. and crossing it and the tariffs are going to come in. if those two countries don't resolve it. that's the headline. we just have to see what he does in the moment.

because as she says she can't close the border. and justin trudeau is going to struggle in the same way. >> right. well, and i mean, look there's when you use the phrase close the border, that implies an entire shutdown of all of the economic back and forth that occurs on a daily basis, much different than perhaps, you know focusing in on asylum seekers have been the main challenge in terms of the politics of this for, for over the course of the of the campaign max trudeau is also such an interesting figure in all of this. and if anything he reacted even more strongly with that trip down to mar-a-lago. and now, of course, dealing with the reporting and fallout that trump said, well, why doesn't canada become the 51st state? how is that all playing for him at home but also with donald trump? >> well, i think, you know, canadians have got used to the way donald trump speaks about canada. they certainly don't see themselves as an additional state there. you know you've

been there. i've been there. it's a very proud, um commonwealth nation actually yeah. and they've got the king of england, of all heads of state, you know, he's the head of state there i don't know, there's some complication to go there. i have to have you can imagine a chat with king charles, can't you, between donald trump, you know, when he visits at some point about whether or not he should take over canada, i don't know, i think people take what he says and what he does is two very different things. but there is genuine concern in canada certainly about these tariffs because the majority of their trade goes into america. if it happens, it will decimate the economy. but, you know, will he do it? that's the big question. >> of course it always is. max foster for us this morning. max thank you so much. have a wonderful weekend. >> thank you. >> all right. still ahead here on cnn this morning, pete hegseth in a series of high stakes meetings on capitol hill. can he get the votes to be donald trump's next defense secretary? plus, the end of an era taylor swift's record breaking tour coming to

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course, have been tapped by donald trump to lead the so-called department of government efficiency, or doge, which of course, isn't actually a government department at all. the initiative will sit outside the government. they won't have any actual power to make changes. instead they're going to make recommendations to the president. but that, of course, hasn't stopped the duo from proposing a totally overhauled federal budget. it's still unclear what might end up on the chopping block, but according to republicans who were in yesterday's meeting with musk and ramaswamy, quote everything is on the table following the meeting, cnn's manu raju tried to ask musk whether certain social programs would be safe elon is social security and medicare is off the table. >> is it off the table do you have any concerns about your company? >> earlier this week, one republican congressman had suggested this if you talk about 75% of the budget, 75% is non-discretionary. >> we're going to have to have some hard decisions. >> we've got to bring the democrats in and talk about social security medicaid,

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right. i mean, people like to talk a big game about wanting to cut funding. and in reality, it really never happens, regardless of which party is in power. i know representative max miller told reporters yesterday as he was leaving the doge meeting, that he said half the people in there are really excited, the other half are in reality that really that like this is not going to happen. i mean, i mean, last trump administration, i mean government funding did not get cut. um, there's spending kind of increased or drastically increased same under this administration. spending has increased. and so it just i mean, people like to say, oh, we're going to cut funding, we're going to cut funding but when it comes down to it, i mean no one really wants to do it. >> well, and these big entitlement programs also, i mean, we saw donald trump campaign as a populist in all of the campaigns that he has run in, in a way that really put the republican party in a place that was much closer to where the democratic party had been for many years on this. why do you think it's plausible that if they if if elon musk and vivek ramaswamy were to go

to president trump with proposals around social security and medicare, that he would go for it? >> i think i think there's always a possibility i mean, trump could always be persuaded one way or the other. i mean, just depending. i know during the campaign, he did put on truth social a couple times that these things would be off the table. but if he's truly serious about cutting government funding, as mccormick said, those are really the things that you really have to touch because those do make up a big part and that is such, like you said, the kind of third rail. the third rail that you grab, it can't really go back from it. and it is really politically unpopular to touch those things, which is why, again, you never really see government funding get cut. so will could trump be convinced? maybe. will it actually happen. because again, spending like congress controls it probably not. yeah. >> so let's also touch on the fact that we learned yesterday. part of why elon musk is likely in this position that he's in is that he spent more than a quarter billion dollars on donald trump. these new filings show that musk is one of the

largest single political underwriters of a presidential campaign, and underscores the outsized influence of the world's wealthiest person on this year's election. does that explain why he's where he is? >> i think after you spend a quarter billion dollars, you probably need some position in government. i think that he wanted to be close to trump. he saw. i mean, he has a lot of business interests before the government. i think that he did spend money because it was in his best interest to see trump elected. and trump's rewarding him for this. but again, i mean, this is not like a government agency that has any power. it's not an agency at all. it's a commission basically, that can make recommendations. and so i do think that this is why that trump gave him this position, because of how much he helped him. i mean, it really has no power to do anything other than just say, hey, we should do this. and trump could listen or not listen. >> right. and of course there may be a little bit more leeway over things like the federal workforce, places where the executive branch has some discretion over how the money congress gives them can be spent. but to your point at the end of the day, it's congress

that that writes the checks. ryan gorman, thanks very much for being here on this friday appreciate it. all right. let's turn now to this donald trump. donald trump's pick for defense secretary pete hegseth, remaining defiant despite multiple allegations of misconduct, putting his confirmation in jeopardy this week. he's continued to try to win over congressional support meeting with lawmakers on the hill, including a number who have voiced concern about his nomination. while at least one staunch trump supporter criticized republicans for their hesitation inside the offices who are we to say that we're a better, better and picker of people than donald trump? >> but isn't that your your advise and consent that's your job advise and consent. >> but that's more the democrats. >> sources tell cnn that trump is sticking by hegseth as his choice to run the pentagon for now. trump telling hegseth he wants to see him fight for votes, according to sources close to both men, seemed like hegseth trying to do just that i'm not going to back down from them one bit. >> i will answer all of these senators questions, but this

will not be a process tried in the media. i don't answer to anyone in this group, none of you not to. >> that camera at all. >> i answer to president trump. i answer to the 50, the 100 senators who are a part of this process and those in the committee. and i answer to my lord and savior and my wife and my family doesn't answer to the camera. >> he says clearly expertly looking right at it. joining us now to discuss national political reporter for the washington post, sabrina rodriguez. sabrina good morning. it's nice to see you. what's your read on where this nomination stands? because the reporting seems to be that donald trump isn't going out of his way necessarily to push him forward, but he's willing to let to watch him fight, to see if he can do it. and there aren't very many senators right now who are coming out straight out saying they're going to vote no on hegseth but there is a lot of concern behind the scenes. what are you hearing? >> i think right now we're in some level of a standstill and

trump is not going out of his way here. >> it's not that we're seeing trump, you know, come out defiantly in support of pete hegseth. he's clearly letting him kind of have to navigate and do the jostling on capitol hill. we've seen him throughout this week you know meeting with senators across the board, across the republican party, but especially some of those who he knows have reservations about him. we haven't heard those senators come out either saying that, you know, okay, he sold me. okay. he talked about you know, the allegations of misconduct against women or the drinking and just all those allegations. you know, we haven't heard people come out and say, okay, no, now i have no reservations. i'm ready to support him. so really, you know the reality is, you know, we've had the reporting earlier this week about trump having conversations about potentially replacing him with ron desantis. him potentially replacing him with congressman michael waltz. so it's clear that trump is kind of letting this simmer, letting this see

how this plays out. but it's clear also that trump is not above, um, you know moving on to someone else if need be. >> so one critical person that we're all watching in this debate is senator joni ernst of iowa. she's obviously a veteran she was a victim of sexual assault. she's talked about that publicly and she's been meeting with. she did an interview on fox news yesterday and it. let's watch the clip and we'll talk about it. take a look he will continue with the vetting process. >> i think that that is incredibly important. >> doesn't sound on your answer that you've gotten to a yes. if i'm wrong about that, correct me. and if that is the case, it sounds to me as if the hearing will be critical for his nomination. am i right about that? i think i think you are right. >> i think for a number of our senators, they want to make sure that any allegations have been cleared.

>> what do you make of how she framed that i mean, i think it speaks to the fact that that senators are going to let this go through. >> you know, i think it's not lost on anyone that you know, matt gaetz is nomination was was derailed because he did not have the votes because there was not going to be the support for him. clearly here with pete hegseth people get there. there are you know, those conversations happening. pete hegseth is is being defiant and saying, i will continue to have as many conversations as i need to have. um, so clearly they're trying to see this process through and really go through that vetting process in a way that it just wasn't going to happen with matt gaetz. but i think it's a question of you know, we've talked about this before, but sort of the juggling over, okay, who is who are the positions that people are not going to move on? you know, there's conversations that will be happening soon more around tulsi gabbard around rfk jr.. and i think for republicans on capitol hill, there's sort of a question of, okay, who is someone that is

there anyone left that we just cannot support? and who are they going to sort of use that political capital around? >> all right. sabrina rodriguez for us this morning sabrina, very grateful to have you on the show. thanks for being here all right ahead here on cnn this morning, sending astronauts back to the moon. why nasa's ambitious artemis program just got pushed back. plus the last second kick that led the lions over the packers. bleacher report next cnn heroes on, man, heroes on all star tribune sunday at eight on cnn what do you do? >> i'm a thief. >> promise me i won't lose her i love this job satisfaction

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that's one small step for man one giant leap for mankind. >> oh, it's beautiful mike. it really is it was beautiful. >> but we are now a giant leap away from that. the moon is going to have to wait for its next human visitor nasa announcing that its artemis lunar mission, planned for 2026, will now take place in mid 2027 at the earliest. the delay, linked to issues with the orion crew capsule, its heat shield was unexpectedly charred and eroded during an uncrewed mission in 2022. nasa's administrator, not taking any chances we need to get this test flight right this artemis two test flight right to ensure the success of our return to the moon and then return safely to earth in order

for the rest of the artemis campaign to proceed all right, keith cowing joins us now. he's a former nasa space biologist and the editor of nasa watch com keith, thanks so much for being back with us. i appreciate it. can you help us understand? i mean, i think for so many people, obviously the moon landing, i'm dating myself here. i don't remember it myself, but my parents sure remember exactly where they were i mean, this is something that we did a generation ago and now our technology should be so much better. i i feel like there are a lot of people out there being like, why why can't we do this well, i'll date myself, i was 14, i watched it and i remember it like it was yesterday. >> and we were told at the time that we were going to keep doing it. we'd be on mars by 1981. here we are i'll be 70 next year. i'll be in my 70s. >> when we go back to something we did when i was a teenager. so yeah, we're been there, done that, but we're going back. that's the important thing. it's just frustrating that it

takes so long so what is it about this technology? >> i mean, if we could build the apollo capsule with computing power that, you know now is dwarfed by what's just in this, in this phone, like, why can't we get this capsule right when we've done it before well, it is rocket science. >> the interesting thing is that the rocket that we're using, at least nasa is using, was mandated by congress to be built out of parts from a 70s era space shuttle and had to be built in certain ways in certain states. and la la la la. and, you know, um you know, when congress starts to design things as we your set up piece before the last story, you know, i mean, it gets complicated and it's frustrating because just as nasa says well, it was six years to fly the first sls, four to fly the second, and now there's more delays. how do you get the cadence that we had with apollo, where it was every six months? but then you look at starship and elon musk makes these things like corn silos, and he just keeps launching them. and you know, kind of why can't we have that? well,

maybe we will well, i mean, let's i mean, let's dig into that a little bit because it's clear i mean, when i was i took my my son is super into space as well, probably partly because i am and my husband is too. >> and we're introducing it to him, to him early but the rocket launches, we were able to see were all spacex launches, and we saw a number of them in just a week's time. when we were down there. what is it about spacex and the things that they have to deal with that make it different from what nasa is, is able to do well, what you're seeing with the spacex rockets, it's a consumer product. >> elon musk came from the silicon valley world. he it's a continuous improvement process. these things are designed to be upgraded, reused thrown away, improved and they've put some thought into how what the customer needs and how to adapt it. nasa's rockets have one use and one use only. you don't get them back. they cost far too much and the more they cost and the more they're delayed, the fewer they can

launch. so you have two completely opposing takes on how to launch things into space. and again those of us in the space community are saying, well can i have some of that spacex stuff and i maybe don't want that other stuff that nasa has been building so, i mean, it seems it's like almost duplicative, right? >> because i mean, elon musk has also been working on you know, crewed missions and, you know human spacewalks and his he's his stated goal is ultimately to go to mars. obviously, we see him where that occupy mars shirt at a lot of the events that he does um how do you think what do you think the best plan would be for the u.s. government in terms of human space flight with spacex because clearly, as you note we're on two different tracks here well, i some history i met i've known ellen for a long time. >> i met him when he was in his 20s at a conference about going to mars, and that's all he talked about. and that's all he has talked about. so anybody

who thinks that this is just a thing that he's thought up no, this is what he's been his entire adult life. and like jeff bezos and some other people of means, they read too much science fiction as kids, and they have the money to do it. and they don't know any better than to try to make this fantasy reality. and we're seeing that every day so you have that new space as they call it, trend going. well. you have the old way of nasa doing things and there is a conflict. and nasa has sought to take a new approach to the lunar lander from spacex. and one from blue origin. that's just the beginning. but the real question now is, with the new administration coming in with mr. musk having some influence and somebody he knows well as the nominee to be nasa administrator i think you're going to see some changes. we might see things sooner but at the end of the day, it comes to show me the money. show me the money, show me the money. >> money and of course, you know safety at the very top of the list. but that, of course, is not cheap. keith cowing very grateful to have you. love

having you. i hope you come back thank you. all right. time now for sports. the lions playoff bound after a gutsy last second win over the packers. andy scholes has this morning's bleacher report. andy good morning. yeah. >> good morning casey. so lions head coach dan campbell he's arguably the most aggressive coach in the nfl. and he was in a gambling mood last night going for it on fourth down five times. and this was a great game. pick it up in the third quarter. lions fourth and goal jared goff. he's going to find tim patrick for the touchdown this makes it 24 to 21 lions. then later in the quarter detroit with the ball inside their own 30. they go for it on fourth and one. the packers stop jahmyr gibbs to take over and that led to josh jacobs four yard touchdown to give the packers the lead. we're in the fourth quarter now tied at 31. the lions in field goal range. with a minute left. they decide to go for it on fourth and one near disaster as goff fell down. but he's able to get that hand off to david montgomery who gets the first down. lions converting

four of their five fourth down tries. they were then able to kick a game winning field goal as time expired. they win 34 to 31. detroit, the first team in the nfc to clinch a playoff spot. they get their 11th win in a row. here was goff afterwards on his coach's fourth down calls. >> i think he's done a really good job of deciding when to go and when not to go, and certainly because it worked. everyone's going to say, you guys are going to say great call. and if it didn't work, you guys would be crushing them. and that's that's the game he plays. and that's why he's he's the guy with the big stones and we trust him. >> i just felt like we needed to end it on offense, you know? and i did not want to give that ball back. and i believed we could get that. i believe we can convert. i knew how i wanted to play this game. the team knew it and and everything in me told me that let's let's finish this and so we did. all right. >> former patriots head coach bill belichick, meanwhile has interviewed with north carolina for their head coaching job. according to multiple reports,

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