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>> meantime, we may be seeing the first. >> signs of a divide. >> between trump and elon. >> musk. is the tech billionaire bashes his boss's massive a.i. project. there's also more fallout from trump's pardons of those convicted. >> in the. january 6th insurrection. >> we are. >> now hearing. administration officials are discussing whether to. >> invite some of them to the white house. cnn's jeff. zeleny is at the white house. >> for us following. >> all of these developments. >> so, first. >> of all, jeff, let's start with. >> this. war against di. >> what specifically. >> is the intended message. >> here? >> well. >> erica, by the. >> close of business. >> today, the president. >> has directed all diversity. equity and inclusion programs. >> to be. >> dismantled effectively scuttled or shattered and shuttered. whichever word you would like to use. >> look, this. >> is what is just one more. example of those executive orders that were signed on monday. now they are taking effect. the government is now becoming the government of this president. and this should be no surprise. he talked about it on the campaign trail as well. so what they are doing is placing all of these dei

workers on administrative leave starting at 5 p.m. and after next week, some of. >> them. >> may be dismissed. of course, many of these employees have the protections of the federal government. this is not the end of this. this is. >> just. >> the beginning of this process. but erica, perhaps even more interesting, the president, with this executive order, also. >> sending the. >> message to the private sector, encouraging them to do the same. >> of course. >> the bigger picture to all of this, republicans and the president have been railing against the dei efforts. they say they've been essentially have gone overboard. so now he is taking this steps. but certainly many questions about what the effect this actually will have on individual people, policies and employees of this government. >> yeah, absolutely. i also. >> want to ask you about this sort of shift. >> i guess. >> public shift that we're seeing from elon musk these comments about this a.i. initiative and these billions that were pledged. >> is it a rift, erica? >> this is incredibly interesting. >> yesterday. >> just a bit of the back story here. yesterday. the president

standing with the three ceos who were pledging $100 billion, up to 500 billion, potentially to build investment infrastructure for a.i. data centers. it was the high point of the president's agenda yesterday. he called it tremendous. he called it monumental. well, a short time after that, elon musk, who, of course, is an advisor to this president, he's been at his side for days and really for the last couple of months, he effectively belittled it. he said, these companies don't have the money for this. they can't do this. of course, the back story to all of this is elon musk has been at a war with sam altman, an openai back and forth. so just another example here of the conflicts that come when these titans of business come together here, but very unusual for elon. musk to be criticizing the president's big initiative. yesterday, the white house has not had a comment on elon musk's comments. >> yeah, that is also interesting in and of itself. the no comment there.

>> on donald trump has been facing backlash, of course, since he announced. >> these pardons and. >> commutations for a number of the january 6th defendants. but now. >> there is a discussion. >> as i understand it, that. >> some of them may actually be visiting the. >> white house and. potentially meeting. >> donald trump. >> we are told that that is a discussion that's underway. of course, this has been one of the biggest decisions the president has made since taking office. issuing that mass pardon on monday evening here, we saw it happening live. he was in the the the oval office. and now, of course, he may be inviting some of those defendants, the convicted defendants here. it's unclear who. unclear how many. but this is something that has also been controversial within some ranks of the president's own party. and it's not that that some pardons were not warranted in the eyes of some, but it was that that to no distinction was made between the violence that was done versus the others. but in any case, there could be some of those defendants, those convicted defendants coming here to have a conversation at some point. the president has

been in touch with with many of these defendants over several months. they often were the subject of campaign rallies. he called them hostages. of course they were not. so it would not be at all surprising that there would be a meeting of some kind at some point here at the white house. >> jeff zeleny with the very latest. >> for us. thanks, jeff. >> boris. >> right now we're seeing president trump's immigration crackdown ramping up. cnn has learned that the u.s. military is ordering thousands more active duty troops to the southern border. thousands are already there. and in a new memo, the justice department is laying out plans to potentially prosecute state and local officials who resist enforcing trump's immigration policies. the threat comes as federal authorities get the green light to make arrests in schools and churches, places that were previously considered protected areas. meantime, roughly 10,000 refugees who were set to travel to the united states have just had their flights canceled, according to a state department memo. cnn's priscilla alvarez joins us now with the latest.

priscilla, let's start with what you're learning about more troops heading to the u.s. border. >> well. >> the key there is. >> the. more so the pentagon. >> has. >> assisted along the u.s. >> southern border for years. >> but now we're expecting them to step up their presence on the heels of president trump's executive order. >> earlier this week. >> so what does that look like? well, sources tell me that they can assist in multiple ways. they can help with readiness, operational readiness. >> assisting border patrol. >> with that so that they can also. be on the front lines, which is where they and. >> the president. >> have said he wants them to be relinquishing immigration and customs enforcement, which has been helping a lot on the u.s. southern border, and letting them go back to the interior and focus on arrests, then to helping with intelligence. so the watching flows and threats and also air support. so augmenting those air operations. so a lot of this is just putting more of the pentagon resources to help with the with the border patrol agents on the u.s. southern border. the question that we still have, though, is how much money is the department of homeland security going to be

able to take from them? that is really a big part of a national emergency declaration that is still unanswered. but certainly this is an attempt by the administration to just shore up more resources on the border. >> tell us about this new reporting on the refugees who were slated to travel to the u.s. after waiting for years. they now have had their flights canceled. >> they have. i mean, this was happening over the course of just hours. last night, i obtained a memo from the state department to its resettlement partners saying if you had previously scheduled flights, those are now canceled. there will be no new travel bookings. and the cases that are being processed, they're not going to be processed anymore. that is suspended for the time being. what does that mean? well, this program is essentially shuttered now. 10,000 people who have gone through a years long and very cumbersome process to come to the united states will no longer be able to until that is turned back on again. but this has been quite stunning for a lot of resettlement partners who actually expected that the executive order was going to take effect on january 27th. that's what it said in the text. but they got this message

last night saying if anyone had flights, they're out of luck. >> wow. priscilla alvarez, thanks so much for the update. joining us right now is the former acting deputy secretary of homeland security under donald trump, ken cuccinelli. ken, thank you so much for being with us. i first want to ask you about this new memo from the justice department laying out these plans to potentially prosecute state and local officials who don't help the administration's. deportation efforts. what kind of penalties might people be looking at? >> so this. >> i think, is a doj. follow on to the tom homan comments. during the transition, when you had people like governor pritchen and the mayor of denver saying, we're going to stand in the way. and of course, that violates the harboring illegal aliens federal statute. so i think that's what this is directed to. it does take an affirmative act to violate the federal law in terms of impeding the

federal government from removing illegal aliens. so, you know, all their big talk is not illegal. but if they take affirmative actions to actually stop the federal government or slow it down, that could in fact, violate federal law. that's what i believe this memo is directed to. and i think it's to make it very clear to state and local officials across the country that even if you're not going to cooperate, if you actually get in the way, you will subject yourself to criminal prosecution. i also want to ask you about the revised policy that would allow ice agents and essentially deportation forces to enter schools and churches. this morning, i actually heard from some concerned parents who had gotten letters from their children's school outlining how administrators would respond if ice agents showed up inquiring about students or staff. i'm just curious, what would you say to the parents who fear their kids might see a

friend or a teacher deported right in front of them? yeah, you know, this obviously signals a tougher approach than in the first trump administration. of course, president trump talked about this tougher approach during the campaign. and this is just one of the many ways that it is going to unfold. and i don't think you're going to see huge numbers of pickups at any of these. what used to be called sensitive locations. nonetheless, i think the president is signaling that no place is off limits and that we're going to be as efficient and fast and effective as possible in deporting as many people as we can. and the reality is that places or occurrences like crimes more commonly discussed, where people may present themselves and it may be already known that they're

not here legally, is an efficient way to identify folks and to deport them. and i realize that people can be uncomfortable with that. but this president has promised to deport more people than any president in history, and that's going to take an awful lot of new undertakings that we haven't seen in our adult lifetimes in terms of deportation practices. i'm also curious about a question of how some of these efforts are going to be funded. are reporting indicates that ice is underfunded and that more complex operations like larger sweeps, raids, so to speak. they might have to wait until there are additional resources. and if that has to come from congress, i wonder what you think republicans should offer democrats in blue areas, even sanctuary cities, to secure that kind of funding? well, we're near the earliest part of the fiscal year, so i have if i

were in the administration, i would be gambling that my republican allies in congress can deliver more money later in the year. and i would be front loading those budgets to commence the acceleration of these efforts. now, um, if if all you had was the budget in place now, i agree with your statement, they'd have to pace themselves out. but i think they're going to be pressing ahead. and i think they're going to front load their current budgets so that they can conduct more operations now and get started sooner and faster, because it's going to take a long time to ramp up to meaningful efficiencies in the deportation space in particular, not so much on the border, but in the deportation space. sure, it'll be interesting to see how that is handled by congress. i do want to ask about something that you, i know have spent a long time working on, and that is

this effort to do away with birthright citizenship, this executive order that president trump signed, essentially rewriting or reinterpreting the 14th amendment. it states that the 14th amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone in the united states, but it has repeatedly, in 1898. and 1982. do you expect that this eo is actually going to hold up in court? well, no. i mean, your your premise is incorrect. the supreme court has addressed this subject once. it was the 1898 case. you're referring to, and the parents there were the equivalent of green card holders. they were legally present in the united states. this has not been decided in a situation where the child born in the united states did not have parents, either of whom were legally present in the united states. and so the president is acting on the second half of that portion of

the 14th amendment that says that people born here have to be subject to the jurisdiction of the united states. well, that was understood at the time when that when the 14th amendment was passed same year, by the way, as the 1866 civil rights act, which addressed the subject with similar language not subject to other authority, meaning that they weren't a citizen of another country. well, these people obviously are. and so this will be the beginning of a legal contest by those who think the president's interpretation is correct. obviously, the administration and those who wish to contest it. and now it will be decided by courts, but it never has been before. that's why it is open to his executive action. well, then help me understand how that fits into the context of plyler versus doe. back in 1982, the majority ruled that people in the country illegally confirmed that the 14th amendment's

protection extended to anyone, citizen or stranger, who is subject to the laws of a state. it essentially suggests that people who are in the country, who are born in this country, have citizenship regardless of who their parents are, does it not no, that that is not what was decided in plyer v doe. the application of the 14th amendment's protections doesn't mean that upon birth, someone is a citizen. that's not the protections that were at issue in plyer v doe. so we're going to have this decided during this trump administration. and each of us may have a different view of how this is likely to come out. but you do acknowledge, though, that this is going to be settled for the rest of american history. you do acknowledge that this is an uncommon reading of the 14th amendment. no.

it wasn't an uncommon reading in 1866. it has become uncommon over the years because of nothing more than conventional wisdom. but will. the law is the law, and in theory, it's not supposed to have changed since it was implemented. and if that's the case, the president is going to win this case. it is a unique reading of the law. i do wonder if you think that the administration is hoping that a more conservative supreme court, who has gone against precedent before, might not see the conventional wisdom as you describe it. is this an attempt to get the court to do away with precedent? well, there is no precedent to do away with. so no. however, this is the most originalist court we've ever had. and if they view it in terms it was intended in 1866, then i think the president is going to win this case. ken

cuccinelli, we have to leave the conversation there. appreciate you sharing your perspective. good to be with you. we have some breaking news into cnn. nashville police say that at least two students have been shot at antioch high school. officials say a student shot them in the school cafeteria before turning the weapon on themselves. they say the shooter is no longer a threat. we're, of course, tracking this story out of tennessee. we're going to get you more information as we get it. we understand that agents with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and explosives say they are also responding to the scene. again, the breaking news. two people shot at a school in nashville. the shooter, though no longer a threat. also still to come on cnn news central as january 6th. defendants are pardoned and released from custody or probation. not every defendant is on board. we're actually going to speak to one who refused to accept a pardon from president trump. plus, trump's pick for defense secretary is defending himself

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posted these screenshots of justice department calls and emails that he's received since president donald trump granted mass clemency to the january 6th criminals. now we're hearing from one of the most serious offenders of that day. enrique tarrio of the proud boys. let's go to cnn's katelyn polantz with the details. she's outside the dc jail where the defendants are being released. caitlin, tell us about this interview that tarrio gave to alex jones. >> well, boris. >> enrique tarrio serving a sentence of 22 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy. now the recipient of a full pardon, and all of the people who. >> were. >> still doing time in federal prisons across the country because of january 6th capitol riot crimes, they have been released. they're out. whether their sentence was commuted or like the vast majority, like a thousand people or more, including tarrio. they have been released from prison here at the dc jail. people are

being let out because they. >> are here. >> very likely. because they are. >> still awaiting. >> proceedings in their cases. so they are not pardoned recipients. they are people that donald trump wants to have his justice department dismiss their cases. those people are coming out very sporadically. >> and so. >> there still are people being held in the d.c. jail who are either facing charges related to january 6th or were awaiting sentencing, having been convicted by a jury or pled guilty. we are waiting to see what the judges do there, but enrique tarrio was a little different than the people who come out of this jail and are received with open arms, hugs, prayers, songs of their supporters. enrique tarrio had something much different to say. here's him with alex jones yesterday after his release. >> the people who. >> did this. >> they need to. feel the heat. they need to be. >> put behind. >> bars and they need to be prosecuted. we need people like pam bondi. kash patel and the rest of trump's cabinet to to. >> right all these wrongs.

>> that said, this is not just up to the executive branch. there are judges overseeing the pending cases, more than 300 that donald trump and his justice department want to have dismissed against capitol rioters. and one judge there this afternoon is essentially pushing back on the part of the judiciary. one of the first people to speak out from the federal bench in dc that handled the 1500 or so of these cases in the system for the past several years, judge kollar-kotelly calling kollar-kotelly a senior judge, she wrote in an order dismissing a case, saying, i'm going to do what the executive branch wants me to do here, dismiss this case. but first i want to record for posterity these facts dismissal of charges, pardons after convictions, and commutations of sentences will not change the truth of what happened on january 6th, 2021. what occurred that day is preserved for the future through

thousands of contemporaneous videos, transcripts of trials, jury verdicts, and judicial opinions, analyzing and recounting the evidence through a neutral lens. those records are immutable and represent the truth. no matter how the events of january 6th are described by those charged or their allies. what role law enforcement played that day, and the heroism of each officer who responded cannot be altered or ignored. judge kollar-kotelly ends her writing about january 6th, saying the bear spray standing with bear spray streaming down their faces. the police officers carried out their duty to protect. on january 6th, boris. >> katelyn polantz outside the jail in the nation's capital. thank you so much, erica. >> well, our next guest refused to accept president trump's pardon for her actions on january 6th. >> he served two months. >> in federal prison after pleading guilty to trespassing, picketing and parading inside the capitol on that day. as i noted, you rejected this offer of a pardon from president

trump. what's been the reaction to your decision? >> you mean. >> from the. >> from other people? >> just from other people, yeah. >> what have you heard? >> reaction. >> we. >> well, a lot of people have been telling me. to take the pardon. >> and then others are very happy that i'm not. but this this has to do with part of my amends. otherwise you're going along with the. they're trying to rewrite history. that january 6th was not an insurrection. and i don't want to be a part of that. it was. it was an insurrection. it was a riot. it would be a slap in the face to the capitol police and to the rule of law. no, i don't want any part of no pardon. and we're looking into how to get that. you know who i talked to? i've talked to my attorney, and i've let my probation officer know that i will not be accepting this. pardon? it's only going to help with their gaslighting, their

propaganda that the doj was weaponized against them. it's going to make it worse. and trump and it's not true. the doj was not weaponized against me. in fact, i had a wonderful judge lambert, and i'm lucky i didn't get more time. but i don't want any part of no pardon. >> we've also just learned earlier today that the white house is now in discussions to potentially host some of the people who were pardoned by president trump. what do you think that message sends a white house visit? >> that they're trying to rewrite history, that what we saw with their own eyes did not really happen the way that media is saying it happened. and it i mean, the the far right, their narrative look at i've got a letter written to congress. i hope they bring me in and let me read my letter of what happened that day. um, it's it's just so shameful.

it's so disgusting to even think that they would be invited to the white house. i'm. i just heard that, too. and it disgusts me. those are criminals. but what do we have? trump is a criminal. of course he's going to invite the criminals. >> you. you noted you wrote that letter. um. you want it? you would like to come speak with congress. speaker johnson actually just spoke with my colleague manu raju, and addressed specifically these pardons. i think you'll find this part of his response interesting. take a listen. >> i think what the what was made clear all along is that peaceful protests and people who engage in that should never be punished. there was a weaponization of the justice department. >> it was, as we know, as you know, not a peaceful protest. you were just mentioning the whitewashing of this day, the gaslighting of this day. you said you do not believe that the doj was weaponized in this case. why do you think that narrative has been picked up so successfully?

>> because it starts with trump and his lie that the election was stolen and they grabbed on to it. they want to stay a victim. they do not want to take responsibility for what they did that day. and all the officers that they injured. we know they're gaslighting us and we know this narrative has to be continually pushed out there with facts that the capitol police did not open the doors that day. the capitol police did not start that riot that day. they gave them a warning. now, anybody that's having smoke bombs thrown at them, isn't that a message to leave? they had a choice, period. it's that simple. they are not victims. they are volunteers. they some of them planned it like the proud boys and the oath keepers. this is a nightmare and a slap in the face to the nation that they're what they're putting out there. and i've been trying for a year and a half to let people know that it's propaganda. it's a lie. um, every time i hear something

like that, especially from johnson, it upsets me when you know the facts and that they would push this narrative out there. >> do you do you fear at all just real quickly, the ex-wife speaking of the the oath keepers, the ex-wife of stewart rhodes, told my colleague jim acosta a short time ago she's worried about his release from jail. she's worried about his followers. are you worried about your safety? >> oh, yeah. i've had a smear campaign going on for a year and a half, and i'm sure it's getting well. it's getting worse right now. uh, but you know what? i don't like bullies. and i'm going to keep speaking about the facts of january 6th. their narrative is not going to last forever because we got the facts. we got the its propaganda. everything they've said can be debunked with court records research, but they don't want to do that. you know, they just keep putting out trump's lies, you know, to stay the victim.

and it's really frurating because i'm trying to get people to do your own research. you know, when you're in the maga cult, you lose your critical thinking. and since i've gotten away, i've read a lot of books i've done. i researched the researchers. now i want to make sure i've got the facts, whether i like them or not. it doesn't matter. i want to know the truth of january 6th. they have ruined that title because their truth is not truth. >> pam hemphill, really appreciate you joining us today. thank you boris. >> thank you. >> we want. >> to turn. >> back to our breaking news. now, nashville police say that at least two students have been shot at antioch high school. let's get the latest from cnn's brynn gingras. brynn, what are you hearing about what happened? >> yeah, boris. and we don't quite know the condition of those two students just yet. what we're learning from officials that this happened inside the cafeteria of that high school, antioch high school, which is in the metro area of nashville, and two people at least, were shot.

again, not clear their condition before the gunman turned that gun on themselves. authorities right now are saying that there is no longer a threat from that gunman, but it's quite unclear right now exactly who that person was, who these victims were at this point. what we know is that that school right now is in lockdown, and we also know that officials inside the school are bringing the students now into the gymnasium to sort of congregate before they can get to sort of the place of reunification with their parents. we know that they will be bused. that's likely why you're seeing all those busses outside the front of that high school. they could be bused to the area where they can actually, you know, reunite with their parents. we know that a number of agencies boards are going to that school as part of this investigation. of course, metro police there in nashville, we know that the atf is also responding. but again, this is just happening. we're learning that this happened probably about 11:00 or so in the morning local time. there again, inside the cafeteria of that high school,

still working to get more details of exactly what went down there at that hour. >> boris and brynn, just to confirm, it, sounds as though the shooter is no longer a threat because they turned the gun on themselves, right? >> that is what we are understanding, correct? it no longer a threat. the school is still in lockdown. actually, authorities are telling parents don't go to the school. we are going to bring your children to you safely. so at this point it's probably a little bit chaotic inside. inside that high school as they work on that. in addition to investigating what exactly went down here inside that cafeteria. >> brynn gingras, thank you so much for the update. we know you'll keep monitoring this story for us. stay with cnn. we're going to take a quick break. we'll be back in a few minutes. >> did you know some liquid laundry detergents are designed to leave chemical residue on your clothes? try earth breeze laundry detergent sheets. unlike some liquid laundry detergents, earth breeze delivers a powerful clean with less chemical residue and no

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