>> you're already doing that. >> damn. >> see, you're already doing that. and then about it and then aiming it back at yourself. the let them theory is a power move because you're letting people reveal who they are and who they're not. you're letting them reveal through their behavior what their priorities are and where you stand when you let somebody reveal who they are, let them. and then you go, let me remind myself that my relationships are my responsibility. let me remind myself that i get to choose how much time and energy i pour into another person, or a business meeting, or an interview, or a date, or a conversation, or a text chain. >> you have to say it a lot. in some instances, okay, all the time, especially with family. >> yeah, that's especially with family. it will change your family profoundly for the better. >> look, i tried this let them idea and it did have an effect on me. i sort of realized how much i was trying to control things around me that simply are never going to be in my

control. and how much energy that that takes. if you want to learn a little bit more about this, you can go to cnn.com. for more of my interview with mel and learn more about how the let them theory works and other helpful life hacks from her other bestselling books. the next hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> all right. we are standing by for the official approval of the ceasefire hostage deal in gaza. the israeli cabinet is meeting as we speak, and after unexpected delays, will this move forward? sources tell cnn that president-elect trump is plotting an immigration crackdown. basically, the minute he enters the oval office. and developing this hour, will medicare start covering popular weight loss drugs? those life changing drugs and others could soon get a lot cheaper. i'm john berman with sara sidner and kate

bolduan. this is cnn news center. >> let's get to that breaking news that we have this hour on the israel-hamas hostage and ceasefire deal. the israeli government will convene today, really right now, to vote on the agreement. that vote now scheduled to happen this hour. and with that, israel's full 33 member cabinet will set in motion a final countdown of sorts, as this is really the final hurdle to clear. before we could see hostages released this weekend and a ceasefire setting in in gaza as well. jeremy diamond is in tel aviv standing by tracking all of this for us. he's joining us now. jeremy, what are you hearing about all of this? >> well, kate, we actually have breaking news just coming in now from the prime minister's office saying that the political security cabinet, which was the first stage of approval for the cease fire

agreement, that they have indeed voted in favor of this agreement, recommending that the government approve the cease fire agreement that has been brought before them. the next stage of the process is for the full cabinet to vote on this, and we expect that that will happen within the next couple of hours. this whole process, after initially being delayed over the course of the last 24 hours, now appears to be on turbocharge being sped up by the israeli prime minister and his office in order to get all of these government approvals done today, before shabbat begins this evening, in order for this cease fire agreement to be implemented on sunday, as originally scheduled. last night, there had been some concerns that because of what the israeli prime minister's office claimed were some last minute demands by hamas at the negotiating table in doha. but what we also know to be some political wrangling happening here in israel, there were some concerns that the release of the first hostages, the

exchange of the first palestinian prisoners from israeli jails, would be delayed until monday instead. and so now things do indeed to be coming back on track. kate once the full cabinet approves this agreement in the coming hours, as we expect that they will, the next stage of the process will be for the supreme court in israel to be able to hear petitions arguing against the release of those palestinian prisoners, hundreds of whom will be released in exchange for those 33 israeli hostages. that process is largely pro forma. the prime minister and his government have extraordinarily extraordinary leeway to release those palestinian prisoners for national security reasons. and so then we expect that the cease fire will indeed come into effect come sunday. it is important to note, though, kate, that this war, until that cease fire goes into effect, it is still very much raging inside of the gaza strip. more than 100 palestinians have been killed

since this cease fire agreement was announced, according to the palestinian ministry of health. dozens of children among those who have been killed, according to the palestinian ministry of health. and so, until that ceasefire agreement goes into effect, people's lives are still very much at risk. kate. >> absolutely. jeremy. let's stick with this breaking news, because this is a one step at a critical one step towards what will set in motion what has was what seemed confusingly in flux yesterday after the announcement of this deal being reached. but now that the security that the security cabinet has voted in approval, it goes to the full cabinet for which will, you would assume then also gets approval. is this then? it is how much question is there then how this unfolds going forward? because that's the big concern. you've got a 42 day ceasefire to set in. and how much can happen to muck up the the

works in the meantime? >> i mean, i think now that the security cabinet has voted that the full cabinet is going to vote, there is really very little that can happen to take things off the rails at this point. as i explained that supreme court petitions portion of things is really quite pro forma. we don't expect anything to come of that. that could derail this cease fire agreement. that doesn't, however, mean that the israeli prime minister's political woes have been entirely resolved because, as we've been watching over the last 48 hours, he has been facing quite an internal rebellion within his own coalition government from two far right ministers, itamar ben gvir, the national security minister, and bezalel smotrich, the finance minister, who have both been threatening to leave this coalition government if indeed this deal is approved. ben-gvir made very clear last night that he will leave the government if the deal is approved, which appears to be happening as we are speaking right now. so we expect him to leave the government. that will leave

prime minister netanyahu with only a two seat majority in his governing coalition. as as it relates to the finance minister, bezalel smotrich, he has been a little bit more, less unequivocal, i should say, in the sense that he has threatened to leave. but he has also said that the prime minister needs to provide assurances that israel will return to the war in gaza after the first phase of this agreement is concluded, and we don't know yet exactly what kinds of assurances the prime minister has provided. whether smotrich will stick around through the first phase of the deal and then make a decision once those six weeks are up. what is very clear, though, is that the israeli prime minister is under enormous pressure to go back to the war in gaza once those six weeks are complete. and if he does so, that would be sabotaging what the united states and the qatari and the egyptian mediators, mediators have been trying to build in here, which is that this six week ceasefire would ultimately turn into something more enduring, would result in a

permanent ceasefire and an end to the war in gaza. if the prime minister listens to his far right political allies here, he will be cutting that entire process short altogether. >> kate jeremy diamond in tel aviv. jeremy, thank you so much for bringing us the breaking news. john. >> all right. we've got new reporting just in to cnn. new details about donald trump's planned immigration crackdown on the very first hours after he is sworn into office on monday. sources tell cnn the plan includes targeted ice sweeps in major metropolitan areas, including washington, d.c., denver and chicago. let's get right to cnn's priscila alvarez, who is on capitol hill. priscilla, what is your reporting here? what have you learned? >> well, sources have described to me a slate of executive actions on immigration in those early hours of the trump administration, intended, again, to crack down on this signature issue for the president elect. now they fall into three different buckets interior enforcement. so those ice sweeps that you were talking about in those major

metropolitan areas, areas, of course, that have seen an influx of migrants over recent years. also, those sanctuary jurisdictions, you've heard the incoming border czar tom homan talk about these a lot. these are areas that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. so that is going to be a target for them as they try to make a point on this very issue. and sources tell me that the the intention here is to still focus on criminals. but of course, if they come across other undocumented immigrants, they too can be swept up. now the second bucket here is the border. so the border right now is relatively quiet. the numbers are very low, but all the same they are going or planning to issue a national emergency declaration. this may sound familiar to shore up pentagon resources on the u.s. southern rn border, and also add additional asylum restrictions. and the third bucket here is legal immigration. so the travel ban that president joe biden rolled back, one iteration of that is expected to come back. exactly who exactly who would be part of this travel ban is still under

consideration. other things under consideration, for example, are also ending birthright citizenship. of course, the strategy by the trump team there is to tee up a legal fight on that very issue, which has been was one that came up quite a bit during the campaign. so of course, all of these, all of these actions are intended to create a dramatic shift in immigration policy that is going to affect immigrants nationwide, if not the world. john, of course, as the president elect tries to make do on his promise. >> again, this is all new reporting just in from priscilla and her team. priscilla, obviously, immigration regulation and oversight falls within the department of homeland security. there are hearings that begin very, very shortly this morning for kristi noem to be donald trump's secretary of homeland security. what do we expect there? >> so she's the south dakota governor. she was selected, as you mentioned, by the president elect, to lead the department of homeland security. so during her confirmation hearing, you can expect that she is going to get many questions about the

trump immigration agenda. and so far, her meetings have gone pretty well, as far as we can tell. as far as the public comments from republicans and democrats, those meetings that she had behind closed doors. so we'll see how that plays out in public during this confirmation hearing. but we should note, john, that the power center for immigration policy is really going to be the white house with stephen miller, but also with the border czar, tom homan. of course, the first time around, trump didn't have a border czar. so this is going to be different. and tom homan is an operator. he is a veteran immigration enforcement officer. so it's going to be interesting to watch that dynamic. but even so, kristi noem is going to be someone that, if confirmed, would be charged with implementing this agenda. so she is going to be a key player, even if the policy is made mostly out of the white house. so certainly senators will have many questions about how all of this is going to unfold in the days and weeks to come. >> you bring up an interesting dynamic that is worth watching over the next several months. an extraordinary concentration of power inside the white house itself. really unprecedented.

priscilla alvarez, thank you again for your reporting this morning, sarah. >> or ahead. new this morning, one of the last moves from the biden administration price negotiations over a new list of drugs through medicare coverage will. the popular weight loss and diabetes drugs. be on that list and is tiktok toast in less than 48 hours, the u.s. ban will go into effect unless the supreme court makes a decision against the ban rule when it convenes in just a couple of hours, and star power soured. actor and director justin baldoni is now suing his former costar blake lively after she sued him. how she is now responding that's ahead. of kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age is one of the most remarkable stories in sports history. >> i don't want to be remembered as just a basketball player. >> kobe premieres january 25th

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combined, at least 5 million, probably closer to 10 million at this point. this is just the latest stats i could pull over just the last week. and what's so fascinating about this is right, the reason tiktok was banned because of its associations with the chinese government. but take a look here rednote chinese owned and of course, little red book. you know, mao zedong. i mean, my goodness gracious, lemon8, not only is it chinese owned, but it's owned by the same company that owns tiktok. i mean, what is going on here, people? and then finally at number three, clapper, that is american owned. but the bottom line is there are a ton of people who are worried about tiktok going, adios, amigos. so they're running to new apps. many of them are running the new apps over 5 million. and two of those apps, the top two are chinese owned, which i kind of feel like defeats the entire purpose of this whole thing of potentially banning tiktok. >> yeah, i mean, this one in particular, a lot of people going to to this particular one. yes. i do want to ask you about donald trump. donald trump was sort of the originator of this idea of the

ban. he was going after them. and he's really changed, has he not? >> yeah, he he has really changed. he's really changed. and you know, now of course, donald trump is potentially going to save tiktok. and i guess the question is why does donald trump feel like he has permission from the republican base to do so, given, of course, the republican base is filled with a lot of chinese hardliners. i mean, think of tom cotton, right? senator from arkansas. how about banning to 2020, it was 69%. i mean, ck you can't really get that much higher than 69 unless you go all the way to 100. but 69 is a pretty high number. my goodness gracious. it's quite a nice number. then you go to 2023. it dropped down to 60%. and then look at where we were in 2024. it was down to 42%. so the gop base has lessened, has lessened its yearning to ban tiktok. so i feel like donald trump has permission from the republican base to potentially be the guy who, dare i say, saves tiktok. >> you have to wonder, too, whether some of this has to do with the users. there's a third of americans are on this app, and

they are very loud and clear about how much, how important it is to them. so what are the chances, i mean, the reasons why donald trump feels this way. >> you know, you were talking about a lot more folks being on tiktok. you know, who a lot of those folks are? they're younger folks. they're under the age of 30, right? they're 18 to 29 year olds. and look at this in 2020, just 32%, just 32% of age 18 to 29 used tiktok. look at where we were in 2024. my goodness gracious. all the way up to 59%. and of course, those voters as well. a significant chunk of those more 36% age 18 to 29 voted for trump in 2020, all the way up to 43%. so more younger tiktok users and more of those younger tiktok users are more supportive of trump than they were just back in 2020. >> i remember him saying, tiktok likes me. i remember him specifically saying that when we're talking about whether or not the ban should go into place, indicating he's not really for it, tiktok likes him. >> therefore donald trump likes tiktok. >> there you are, harry enten.

thank you so much. thank you. over to you, kate. >> and we do have new breaking news this hour. the popular and expensive weight loss drugs ozempic and wegovy are now among 15 new medications that will be included in the next round of medicare price negotiations. this news just coming in from the biden administration. moments ago, those drugs and the others that the administration has added to the list are used by more than 5 million medicare enrollees and treat a slew of diseases. we talked about obesity, but also including cancer, asthma and diabetes. this list is the first step in a negotiation process between medicare and drug companies that's expected to take place over coming months, part of a program created by the inflation reduction act that president biden's signature legislation, these negotiations here triggered by the biden administration but will now be left for the trump administration to pull off. joining us right now on this breaking news is the secretary of health and human services, secretary xavier becerra. secretary, thank you for being here. lower drug costs for

people on medicare, lower costs for all taxpayers who fund medicare. people will love the sound of that. secretary. do you have assurances that the incoming trump administration will continue to support the program, or how they'll approach negotiating the drug prices with drug companies? >> well, kate, we proved that drug negotiation works last year when we took the ten most expensive drugs in medicare, which cost us over $50 billion just for those ten drugs in one year. and we negotiated prices that were between 40 to 80% lower than what their list price was, which, as you said, saved billions of dollars, not just for the medicare recipients out of their own pocket, about a billion and a half out of their own pocket, but several billion dollars more for all taxpayers. by the way, those medicare beneficiaries are also taxpayers. so we save a second time because medicare now is paying less. so the prescription, the formula for having success is there. these 15 drugs. that's another $40 billion or so in spending a year. we should be able to

negotiate those down as well. >> the man that donald trump wants to be, the next health and human services secretary, he has been very critical of medications like ozempic and wegovy. i've tracked this really closely. he's pushed full claim. robert f. kennedy has pushed false claims about the meds. he's tried to make the case against using them, saying americans are stupid and addicted to drugs and just should be eating better in order to combat the obesity crisis. does that sound like someone who wants to make it easier to gain access to these medicines? >> when you're secretary, you don't get to play with politics and conjecture. you have to base your actions on science and the facts and the drugs that are on this list have been on this list for a while, because they've been proven fairly effective in treating certain conditions. as you mentioned, diabetes, heart disease, renal disease, and what we're going to try to do is negotiate better prices, because there are a whole bunch of americans who are listening to the facts, not to other

folks, and buying these drugs. >> one of the people that we listen to often is a very well known, very well respected doctor named doctor paul offit, the head of children's hospital of philadelphia. and in speaking with him, he has said that the now nominee to be the next health secretary to take over after you leave office, after you leave the post, rfk, he calls rfk dangerous, he says, simply given his views on vaccines, that rfk jr. is a dangerous person to have in charge of america's health agencies. secretary, let me play this for you. >> he's not a vaccine skeptic. i'm a vaccine skeptic. everyone who sits around the table at the fda vaccine advisory committee is a skeptic, right? show us the data. show us the data. prove that it's safe and effective. he's not a skeptic. he's a cynic. he doesn't believe those data. he thinks there's a big conspiracy to hide the truth, making him a dangerous man. >> secretary, do you think rfk

jr.. would be dangerous? as the head of america's health agency? >> well, it would be dangerous not to follow the science and the facts. and again, you don't have the luxury when you're secretary of the largest health agency in the world to play with anything but the facts. and so i would hope that anyone walking into this position would rely on the science, the experts and the facts to make decisions. and the reason we're going to negotiate for lower prices of these 15 drugs the way we did last year for the ten most expensive drugs, is because the facts show that not not only do they work, but those drugs are too expensive and should be lowered in price. >> i completely understand and respect not wanting to go, you know, take him on by name. i've seen that you've avoided name checking rfk jr. in other interviews as you're leaving office. someone who says that there's no such thing as a safe and effective vaccine. what would you say to that person if he's about to take over the job that you have overseeing 13 health agencies

that also oversee america's vaccine programs for america's children? >> kate talk to the millions of americans who today are alive because they got the covid vaccine. talk to the tens and actually hundreds of millions of americans who got vaccinated during covid who are now back at work, back at school. vaccines have proven effective. talk to the folks who took the polio vaccine. talk to people who have taken the vaccines that have saved their lives for any number of conditions. we know they work because they've been tested. it's not conjecture, it's fact. and we should rely on the science and the facts. at the end of the day, this is going to be about saving lives and keeping keeping people healthier. president biden, at least for four years, not only left america healthier left, he left it stronger. so that's a pretty good prescription for success. i hope the next secretary will follow that. >> are you nervous about that? with rfk

jr.? is the secretary. >> look, any person who comes into this position is going to find some of the most talented expert individuals ready to serve government and the people of this country. at the end of the day, when you're faced with with those liver dye. uh. situations, i, i trust that people believe in public service and doing the right thing. i trust that they'll rely on the science and the facts. >> you've had a very big job overseeing the rollout of this program. when we're talking about drug price negotiations for medicare throughout this administration. thanks for coming on on some of your final days in the post. secretary, i appreciate your time, john. >> all right. brand new this morning. cnn has learned that some federal employees are scrambling to rewrite their job descriptions, trying to avoid the ax before elon musk led budget cuts. end quote. hopefully i will run into a few friendly faces. some rioters who attacked the u.s. capitol on january 6th are planning a reunion at donald

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humanitarian situation there? >> i would say that it really eclipses sort of the scale that we have of rhetoric and words that would be able to properly describe it. >> look, i've been in and out of war zones for the last 20 years, and i have never actually seen anything that comes close to describing what it is that people are having to go through in gaza. when you're there, you're really struck by how everything is in just such shades of gray. there's no real color that is left. and that is because everything has been so destroyed and decimated. there's no access to things like clean water or medicine or, you know, proper sanitary facilities. there is a situation across gaza right now where, you know, in south and central gaza, we are seeing children who are being crushed to death at bakeries because that's how desperate people are for a piece of bread. you have, you

know, at least eight babies that that froze to death. and you also have numerous situations where children who need emergency medical evacuations are unable to leave the gaza strip, families, at best are eating one meal a day. and then the constancy of the trauma that comes at every single moment, you know, even now with this, you know, cease fire, hostage deal pending, there's still over 100 people that are reported to have been killed in israeli bombardments in gaza. it's just it's absolutely suffocating. sarah. >> yeah, it's the most that we've seen in a week. the latest bombardment just before everyone expects this ceasefire to go into effect. arwa, i do want to ask you about some of the things you talked about, because the un has warned of the huge obstacles in delivering aid. there could be up to 600 trucks per day. i mean, is

there even enough aid workers and enough folks to distribute this aid safely? because, as you said already, you know, children are getting crushed and people desperately trying to get to the aid. and then there are some some armed factions that have taken over. some of this aid. is there enough folks on the ground who have been dealing with this for so long to to even get this out to a large number of people? >> look, the aid community is very confident that if the trucks are able to get into gaza, we can distribute them, because you have to remember that the minute that humanitarian aid gets in, look, there's going to be a plethora of volunteers, even if staff is insufficient, waiting and wanting to jump in and help. if there's anything that i have witnessed in gaza during my, you know, four trips there over the last 15 months has been really the sense of how gazans are rallying around gazans and are rallying around each other.

individual efforts that are taking place. but when it comes to the practicalities of actually getting that aid in, you know, there are so many factors to take into consideration. it's all going to also depend on which routes does israel allow us to use? does this cease fire hostage deal mean that we can actually have freedom of movement so that we can bypass some of these routes that the criminal gangs and the looters are working on? you know, does this mean that we can use some of the remnants of, you know, what was gaza's police force to try to secure the aid convoys through some of the more dangerous areas? and if, for example, the rafah border crossing with egypt were to reopen, what condition is it in? will trucks even be able to drive along that route? you know, on the one hand, yes, getting 600 trucks cleared to enter gaza per day would be amazing. extraordinarily beneficial for the population. but then

there's the reality of moving those trucks around within within gaza itself. but the bottom line is everybody, whether it's a humanitarian aid worker, to anyone who's willing or able to volunteer, is going to rally around at that point in time to get the aid to the people, because so much pain has reverberated across the gaza strip, so much hunger, so much loss that people are really and we've seen this coming together to help and support each other. >> arwa damon, thank you for for letting us know just your experience there and how you see things unfolding as so many people hope for this ceasefire and hostage deal to go through and start on sunday. appreciate you, kate minutes from now. >> north dakota governor kristi noem will be in the hot seat, taking questions from senators to win confirmation to be the next secretary of homeland security. we'll bring you live coverage of what is sure to be

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come back to d.c. for a victory lap on the other side, for the prosecutors that prosecuted many of these cases and the victims of the assault on the capitol four years ago, it's a betrayal. and it is, in their words, it's it's just outrageous. so we're not talking about a massive group of people. there are not droves and droves of rioters coming back to d.c. on monday. but we have looked through the court records and we found about a dozen cases where charged or convicted rioters have asked for permission to come back to d.c. for the inauguration. seven of them got approval. four were rejected. most of the people coming back are nonviolent misdemeanor cases. but i did speak to one man, william pope from kansas, whose trial is later this year. he has pleaded not guilty to some felonies. he's excited to come back. he said that he hopes to run into some friendly faces, meet up with some people he knows from twitter. and they're not just celebrating the inauguration kate. they're also celebrating the pardons

that they are expecting donald trump to hand down within hours of his swearing in on monday. president-elect trump hasn't been exactly clear about how many of the 1600 people facing charges are going to get those pardons, but they are expecting this to be a glorious day. of course, not everyone feels that way. many of the justice department prosecutors working these cases have argued strongly in court against letting these people come back to dc. they said it maybe posed a threat to the community here. some judges did step in to prevent a january 6th rioters from coming back. one judge said that this is a privilege, not a right, and that they're not going to allow it. and some of the victims kate have spoken out as well. i want to read you a quote from one of the most famous faces from january 6th, because he testified on capitol hill about his injuries. that's former staff sergeant aquilino gonell. he said that

these rioters are getting a chance to return to their crime scene to gloat. they want to be there, to be pardoned at the place where they committed their crimes and be seen as heroes and honorable. and he said, that can't be farther from the truth. kate last thing i got to point out, many of the police officers who will be there on monday to protect the crowd, to guard over the peaceful transfer of power. they were there four years ago, being beaten and assaulted by the mob. >> marshall cohen, great reporting. marshall, thanks for bringing it to us. appreciate it. sara. >> all right. ahead, a new twist in a real life hollywood fight. actress blake lively, facing allegations of extortion and defamation in a civil lawsuit by her former costar and director justin baldoni lively's sharp response to his suit. that is ahead still congested? >> nope. >> uh oh. >> new mucinex 2 in 1 saline nasal spray spray. goodbye new

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>> all right. new this morning. sources tell cnn some federal employees are editing their job descriptions to save them. they are worried that the government efficiency effort, led by elon musk and vivek ramaswamy, is about, to, quote, use a hatchet, not a scalpel, when it comes to layoffs. cnn's hadas gold has this new reporting. what have you learned here? >> well, first of all, this is not a coordinated effort. >> these are individuals, managers at different agencies who are trying to not just protect people's jobs, but also protect what they say are critical job functions ahead of doge. we spoke to five sources familiar with the matter, all at different agencies, and there's a few things we heard from them. >> one of them relates to policy. one senior staffer at an agency told me that there's an effort to remove mentions of policy from people's job descriptions. so instead of saying provides policy guidance, it just says provides guidance. and that's because of something called schedule f. this was an executive order that trump did in his term. that was then immediately rescinded by president biden. but what schedule f does is it creates a new job category for

federal employees, specifically those who work on policy, and it removes some of their special protections, making it much easier to fire them. so by removing mentions of policy in their job descriptions might make it harder to fire them. but then also, what i heard a lot of is about dei. so there's a lot of efforts to remove mentions of diversity, equity, inclusion. obviously, dei has become a big right wing boogeyman. elon musk has equated it to racism, and i've heard of people removing it from performance reviews and the like. and that's because they're worried that doge is going to go through using things like a.i., looking for buzzwords, and is going to come in with a hatchet and not a scalpel to try to get rid of these jobs and cut these employees. and again, it's not just about people's jobs that they're worried about. they're also worried about the critical functions of the federal government. and so it's really interesting to see these individual efforts being undertaken by these federal employees to try to protect these functions. and i should say, quite a few of them. they support the effort to streamline their government. they're just worried about how it's going to be carried out, the detail, the specific

engineering and the strategy really revealing there. >> all right. thank you very much for that reporting, sarah. >> all right. listen up, john and kate, you know how your parents or your both parents say that they do not have a favorite child? >> literally just texted my father. >> and he's like, i'm the favorite. a new study published by the american psychological association reveals what many of us secretly suspected parents do play favorites, particularly with daughters and easygoing kids. um yeah, you two got the short end of the stick, but those easygoing children do get the better end of the deal. those golden children typically enjoy better mental health and grades, but can struggle later with pressure to perform. so to be on top the remedy parents he's talking about who are honest about these natural biases and explain different treatment to their kids. it can help the family get into sync problem. >> how do you handle that with twins, though?

>> i tell them both i love them equally as far as they know. or i say like, you're my favorite child that's here with me right now. >> i use it all the time. i'm like, do you want to be the favorite child? then you will do. just kidding. just kidding. >> sort of. kind of a little bit. well, the psychology says that you guys are choosing. and you also have been chosen potentially. >> i mean, i was the easygoing one for sure, right? >> said no one ever. brand new hour of cnn news central starts now. and we do have breaking news. we are standing by for the senate confirmation hearing for kristi noem. this is set to begin any minute. this is president-elect donald trump's pick to be secretary of homeland security. you're seeing live pictures right now from inside the hearing room. this hearing was actually originally scheduled for wednesday but got pushed back after a delay in noem's fbi background check. that's according to a congressional aide. we've got a full team of people standing by to talk about this. lauren fox,

priscilla alvarez. senior political analyst mark preston. but let's start on capitol hill with the aforementioned lauren fox for the comings and goings and what we're about to see. >> yeah, i mean, there's a huge line that has developed as people are waiting to get into this hearing in just a couple of minutes, it will get under way. >> and like you noted, this was supposed to happen earlier this week. this is a rare friday confirmation hearing here in the united states senate. she is going to be coming before because she, of course, is donald trump's selection to lead the department of homeland security. you can expect that she's going to get a lot of questions about immigration, even though that is not going to be something that is going to be a huge focus for her, given the fact that trump did select tom homan to lead that role, but it is also going to be a huge opportunity for democrats to really begin to stake out what exactly trump's policies are going to be in this second term. you can expect a lot of really pointed

questions from democrats today. she is not an unknown commodity on capitol hill. she was a member of the house of representatives. she's a two term governor from the state of south dakota. and i just talked to senator kevin cramer. he's a republican from the state of north dakota. he's going in to introduce her. he said that he thinks that she's going to be able to answer a lot of these questions. she is not a stranger to capitol hill. and she's going to know exactly how this process works. we're, of course, going to be waiting to see whether or not there's the kinds of exchanges that you sometimes see in these confirmation hearings, those fireworks on capitol hill. >> all right. thank you to you, lauren. let's go to priscilla alvarez, who is joining us as well. of course, noem is going to play a role if confirmed, in implementing some of donald trump's policies. but you've got some new reporting on some of what donald trump's plans are. just hours after he's being sworn in. what can you tell us? >> yeah, certainly the interesting dynamic in this incoming administration will be that in addition to the

homeland security secretary, there is also the border czar, tom homan, who president-elect donald trump had selected, who's going to be at the white house and will largely be leading on immigration. but the department of homeland security, of course, is charged with implementing a lot of this immigration agenda with which sources have described to me will include three different buckets. for example, interior enforcement that is going to start pretty quickly after trump is sworn in. that could be ice sweeps in metropolitan areas like denver and chicago. and sources tell me the plan is still to target criminals. but of course, if there are other undocumented immigrants who are encountered, they too can be arrested and detained. now, another part of this, too, is the border executive actions, like the national emergency declaration. that might sound familiar because it's something they did the first time around, but this is a way for them to get more pentagon resources to the u.s. southern border. then the third is legal immigration.