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>> president trump, following up on a campaign promise. wasting no time targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs. ordering all their offices and federal programs to be shut down. how employees in those departments will be on paid leave starting today. >> plus, in a new memo, the justice department says state and local officials could be punished for resisting president trump's immigration orders. what the doj is now threatening to do and one of president trump's closest allies bashing his newly announced $500 billion a.i. investment. why elon musk says the project's backers can't make it happen. we're following these major developing stories and more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. >> station. >> it is day three of donald trump's second presidency, and major changes are unfolding in

washington as he moves to quickly reshape the federal government. policies are changing. programs are being gutted, all while the cloud of the january 6th insurrection hangs over his new administration. right now, a major deadline is fast approaching in trump's war against di, all employees who work in diversity, equity and inclusion positions will be placed on leave by 5 p.m. today. >> meantime, we could also be seeing the first cracks in the relationship between trump and elon musk, the tech billionaire bashing his boss's massive a.i. project. and there is more fallout today. on the heels of those pardons from donald trump. for those convicted in the attack on the capitol four years ago. administration officials are apparently considering inviting some of those rioters to the white house. cnn's jeff zeleny, following all of these developments for us on just day three. so, jeff, let's begin with these dei initiatives, or i guess, the push back against any of those initiatives. what does this mean as of 5:00 today?

>> erica? the clock is ticking on this. and just a two hours before that 5:00 deadline for all dei diversity, equity and inclusion employees to effectively go on paid leave. this is just one of the many consequences and fallout and action of those executive orders the president signed in the opening hours of his first return to power here. and it's a little unclear exactly what will happen after next friday, and that, according to this memorandum, is that these employees would no longer have jobs at all. so they will be on paid leave until then. and this, of course, represents the variety of a diversity programs and efforts inside and across the federal government. so some clarity, of course, will have to come. perhaps some lawsuits will come. we shall see. but perhaps even more interesting in that executive order, the president is also urging the private sector to follow this lead. and of course, the private sector can do largely what it wants, except a lot of private sector businesses have a government work and a

contract, so it will remain to be seen how all this unravels here. but this is just one more on day three, a very big example of some of the specific fallout from these executive orders. >> and jeff, one of the moments that caught my attention from inauguration day when donald trump was first returning to the oval office, was him picking up that letter from former president biden? we're looking at video of it now. today, he revealed a bit more about what was actually in that letter. tell us about that. >> it was an extraordinary moment when the president was walking back into the oval office for the first time, taking a seat at the resolute desk there, opening the drawer and showing that letter. as we can see right there on screen, this is a modern day tradition. president after president leaves a letter to his successor. so we are getting our first look of what actually the the contents were of that handwritten letter from president biden. obviously, the 46th president to his

successor, donald trump, the 47th president, and to fox news was first to report this, but we have confirmed the contents of that letter. let's take a look at it. it is something the president called inspirational. it starts out it's written in joe biden's handwriting like this. it says, as i take leave of this sacred office, i wish you and your family all the best in the next four years, the american people and people around the world look to this house for steadiness in the inevitable storms of history. and my prayer is that in the coming years will be a time of of prosperity and peace and grace for our nation. may god bless you as he has blessed us and guide our our beloved country since our founding. and again, that is from president biden to his successor. so we have gotten a look at these these letters over the years. but this is just another indication of the last communication between these two men. of course, they rode in the limousine from here at the white house up to the capitol. we were standing there on the east front of the capitol as

the new president escorted the outgoing president to the helicopter formerly known as marine one. but this is the final words here. but of course, so many actions of the biden administration have already been undone by the new trump administration, as happened four years ago. but just a note for history here on the final words that joe biden left for donald trump. >> really appreciate it, jeff. thank you. well, as we know, another top priority for the trump administration is to immediately crack down on immigration. as part of those efforts, the justice department just issued a memo which threatens to prosecute state and local officials who resist federal immigration orders. >> joining us now with more are cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez and cnn legal analyst elliot williams. evan, first to you, you've actually done the hard work of reading through these memos. walk us through them. >> well. >> so this. >> this one particular memo was issued by. >> emil bove. >> who is the acting deputy attorney general. and it's an instruction not only to the

justice department for how to handle the what we anticipate to be confrontation with cities and states over their sanctuary, their sanctuary policies. right. which shield information of of immigrants when the federal government wants to try to round up and do these, these. uh, do these, uh, this crackdown on immigration, but it also is a message to the justice department staff. it also says to them, essentially, if you refuse, if you decline to bring some of these cases that we want you to bring, then there could be consequences. you'll be reported back to justice department headquarters, and there could be perhaps even disciplinary action or being fired. right. that's what the purpose of this is. but the big, big message is to cities and counties and states that have these policies in place is that we are going to come into this, we're going to challenge them. and then secondly, if you try to obstruct, we will possibly prosecute you. i'll read you just a part of what it says. it says federal law prohibits

states and local actors from resisting, obstructing and otherwise failing to comply with lawful, immigrant, lawful immigration related commands. now, look where where these memos hit the practicality, the road, right, so to speak, is where this problem will arise. it's not clear to me that the federal government can really force the cities to do anything. it is true that if, for example, a mayor tries to interfere with an ice, you know, enforcement action, trying to round up people who they want to try to detain, obviously anyone who obstructs that would, you know, be subject to arrest? it's not clear that the federal government really has more power than that. and in the case of sanctuary cities, a lot of this is about information that they're not sharing with the federal government. they're not collecting a lot of this information. they don't know who's who's who's a lawful immigrant and who isn't. and so what we'll see here is this is this is this is intended to instill fear in those cities. and it's not clear that there's a lot of practical

effect to this. >> is there any precedent for this, elliott. i mean, have you ever seen an action like this? >> i haven't seen. >> an action like this. >> now. >> the idea. >> of the federal government and. >> state and local governments being at odds over immigration goes back to my time in the obama administration. quite frankly, where mayors and city city councils would fight with ice over this very information. now, this this threat of prosecution is a really interesting one. and like evan had said, it'll be interesting to see how it actually plays out. now, one of the things that they talk about in the memo is charging people with harboring aliens or conspiring to harbor aliens, and i don't know if you get there simply by being the natural push and pull that happens between state and locals in the federal government. so, for instance, if they don't turn somebody over from a jail, is that harboring aliens or is it just being difficult with the government and reaching that bar of charging someone with a crime is quite difficult. >> yeah, there's a wide expanse that's a gray area where it's not clear, as evan put it, where the practicality stands. i do wonder what kind

of powers local and state governments might have to protect some of their officials in this effort, in their work. >> well, i would i would expect lawsuits, quite frankly, from state attorneys general against the federal government, which is which could be seen as encroaching on their ability to carry out the laws of their local jurisdictions. now, look, the constitution says when there's a conflict between state law and federal law, always the constitution wins. it's called the supremacy clause of the constitution. >> they cite. >> in there. and they cite that there. however, they also have an interest in protecting their cities and carrying out their laws. and so how does that work when it when it comes into a court. and we'll just have to wait and see. once the lawsuits start flying. and they will. >> one of the, one of the other things that will, will be a confrontation will be also with the churches. right. there's a lot of catholic churches. there's a lot of evangelical churches that are assisting and helping people who are illegal immigrants around the country. and the question is, does the federal government

go in there and try to force those? and are you going to arrest priests and nuns for simply doing what the bible tells them that they should be doing? >> you read my mind on that one because we've seen it. we've seen that before, right? we know that it's happening. it's going to happen. we've heard a number of clergy speak out, talking about their reaction to just what we've seen in the. first three days of the national prayer breakfast. yes, that's true. >> that's right. >> and it's also worth mentioning that that the trump administration just modified this sensitive areas policy, this policy that has existed across administrations, that ice where i used to work will not go into places like churches, schools, courthouses, hospitals. um, now the question is, can they i mean, they certainly can now, but but to your point, would they necessarily start prosecuting priests or nuns or doctors? hard, hard to know. >> yeah, a lot of questions yet to be answered. elliot williams, evan perez, thank you both so much. still to come, the ceo of the world's largest bank has a message to anyone worried about trump's proposed

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tariff on chinese goods imported into the u.s., though he's floated the idea of having it go up as high as 60%. remember, he's also promised 25% tariffs on imports from canada and mexico, coming just in about ten days on february 1st. diamond spoke to cnbc from the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. check out some of what he said. >> i look at tariffs. >> they are an economic tool. >> that's it. >> they're an. >> economic weapon, you know, depending on how you use it and why you use it and stuff like that. and you know people argue is it inflationary and non-inflationary? i would put it in perspective. if it's a little inflationary, but it's good for national security, so be it. i mean, get over it. >> cnn anchor and editor at large richard quest is at davos in switzerland for us. and richard, we spoke yesterday a little bit about this, how trump's promise of tariffs was being received among the folks that are attending the conference. what did you make of diamond's comments?

>> it's classic. >> jamie dimon. >> it is a statement. of reality and pragmatism. >> he's squaring the circle. >> jamie dimon knows full well the. >> long term. >> economic impact. >> of tariffs. >> what he is saying is they're coming. we'll get used to them. manage it, get don't don't make it a big deal. and he's right insofar as because look here at davos i've been talking to other. i was talking to gary cohn former administration official in the last trump administration. and gary cohn national economic adviser. he was saying look tariffs are going to come. we'll see what they're going to do. we all know what they the risks are. we'll manage it when it happens. and that's the basic view of those people at the top. the gary cohn's the jamie diamond's. but what they also say is don't try and tell us black is white. don't try and tell us up is down. we know there will be an inflationary impact as a

result of which which that will have to be managed. but this is classic jamie dimon. >> as you pointed out, they are at the top for a lot of folks that are not at the top, that cost of tariffs gets passed down to consumers. so there will be some pain. i wonder how other business leaders might have received what diamond was saying at the conference. >> all right, i don't know. the business leaders will have just said yep, yep, i signed. i think it's worth boris if we've just got one second to explain this idea. so the u.s. government, the trump administration tariffs my coat. for example, assuming i was buying a coat, the importer of this coat will pay the tariff to the u.s. government that will go into this fund. the external revenue service that donald trump is talking about. so that's the plus side, if

you will, of the equation as seen from the u.s. government, they've got revenue from the importer or the exporter. and it's coming in. but that coach has now cost more money. so either the importer eats it on the margin or they pass it on to the ultimate consumer. that's you, by the way, boris. that's you and me and everybody watching. and that's why we say tariffs push up prices and are inflationary. because somebody pays the tariff. yep. the tariff goes to the u.s. government. but ultimately the recouping of that in the cost. that's you boris. >> it is a fine coat i should point out though i'm not sure how much i would pay for it. richard quest live for us from davos. thank you so much, richard. erica. >> well, president trump's tariff threat is a headache for a number of countries, including chinese businesses that have tried to get around the existing u.s. tariffs by setting up shop in mexico. cnn's david culver takes us inside mexico's so-called

industrial chinatown to see how they're now preparing. >> this is where. >> we assemble. >> everything. >> we're getting. >> a firsthand look at. >> what some are calling. >> an industrial chinatown. >> everything we make, we produce here is going to end up. in a major furnishing store in the u.s. >> we're in mexico. this is an hour outside. >> monterrey, mexico, about 160 miles from the u.s. southern border. this region. >> mexico's so-called. industrial capital, ideal for companies like china's kuka home furnishing, looking to reach u.s. customers. >> for us. >> we as american. >> consumers want everything immediately. so. >> okay, let's. >> let's open up. >> shop in. >> mexico. >> while kuka home says their move was motivated by shorter supply chains, a surge of other chinese companies flooded mexico to dodge hefty tariffs president trump levied during his first term. >> well.

>> actually, that helped us because when they put a tariff there in china, then those companies came to to us. >> and are they still here? >> yeah, of course they're growing. >> the question is going to be what happens. if tariffs are applied to mexico? that's something president trump has suggested he might do, threatening to hit the u.s .'s southern neighbor and largest trading partner with a 25% tariff on exports to the u.s. >> i mean, the 25% tariff on on mexico puts me out of business. simply put, it puts me out of business. >> and that, in turn would leave many here out of work. if you look around me, you can see at this factory in particular, the vast majority of people who work here are from mexico nuestras familias. creo en todos pensamos. for now, he's comfortable staying here in mexico because he has a job. he has opportunity. you don't have that, he said. you have to look for other ways to sustain your family. and he goes. for some, that means migrating to places like the u.s. the uncertainty

of the trump tariff threat has cuca home, pausing expansion plans here and leaves other chinese companies questioning their next move. this is your your your spanish language books. yes. chinese to spanish. zhang jingchu is in mexico. scouting future opportunities for his chinese employer with a 25% tariff. is it feasible? >> i think most chinese companies. >> they are waiting. >> they are watching. and then. >> they will make the final decision. >> some chinese companies, though, are full steam ahead with expanding their footprint to be within reach of their u.s. customers. >> this is called the office and industrial park. >> inside san. >> basically, hundred percent of. >> the companies are chinese. >> companies here. >> some 40 companies making home appliances, auto parts, light bulbs, medical supplies, you name it all destined for the u.s. here, the lines between what's mexican and what's chinese quickly become blurred. you have street

signs. you can see the chinese flag there. >> yes. >> it's a restaurant. >> it's a very nice. >> chinese restaurant. >> chinese restaurant. chinese restaurant? yes. >> and. >> as i look at the name. your name is mixed into this. >> yeah. it's a holy fulton and santos. >> these two shareholders. >> are chinese. >> whole foods is expanding rapidly, with plans to eventually cover some 2000 acres. but that's not been enough for the demand. >> this area is just next to monterrey. it's called juarez. >> developer ramiro gonzalez is now building another so-called industrial chinatown. you've got your name in spanish and then chinese. >> yeah. yes. i'm really happy because the chinese people call me talon. talon means big dragon. >> basically, this is a multi-tenant building. >> but if trump's proposed tariffs on mexico make the u.s. market too expensive, some chinese companies are confident that they've still got other

options. >> we can sell to europe. we can sell to latin america, even mexico. mexico is a big market, too. >> yet despite the potential loss, trump's tariffs might cause him, cesar santos believes widening cartel violence is a bigger threat to business here in mexico, so much so that he's given up prime real estate to have a police presence nearby in the fuerza civil first. >> yeah, that's fuad shukr civil is you know, we dominate that area. yes. in the property. >> it's a big part of why he actually supports the man behind the tariffs. >> he's strong. >> president trump. >> actually, i like him for all the the the issues we have in terms of all the criminal gangs and everything like that, the drugs. so we need the help of people like him to stop that. >> and it was that last point there that we actually made note of while we were traveling through that region. and that is despite the potential negative impact on the economy down there in monterrey, mexico. many of the folks we came across are actually

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entitled to the rights and privileges of being an american citizen. this is plain and simple. the president of the united states has broad powers, but he is not a king. he cannot rewrite the constitution with a stroke of a pen. and when we talk about the rule of law and standing up for the rule of law, that is exactly what we mean. >> so i was speaking to ken cuccinelli. he was trump's deputy homeland security secretary during his first term. earlier in the afternoon. and he essentially argued that the basis for these arguments against the executive order are flawed because they rely on these two supreme court cases. you pointed to the one, uh, or rather, you suggested that the 14th amendment, written after the civil war, was reaffirmed right through these supreme court cases. it's been the law of the land. you're arguing for 150 years. he's essentially saying that these cases have been misinterpreted, that they don't establish birthright citizenship. i wonder what you

would say to him that the precedent, he argues doesn't apply. >> well, that's an interesting interpretation of 125 years of supreme court precedent that has said the exact opposite of what he said. but look, the courts are going to decide this, and i'm confident that we're going to prevail. but this is a legal question. but this is also a question about who we are as a nation. are we a nation that says if something is plain as day in the constitution, that a president on his first day in office can issue an executive order? not even an act of congress with a stroke of a pen rewrite in 157 year old provision in the constitution, no president has taken that view since the civil war, and i'm confident that both the courts and the american people are going to agree with us. >> i want you to expand on that, because cuccinelli seems to believe that the supreme court, as it's laid out right now, he called it the most originalist court in u.s. history. might buck precedent

and interpret it the way that he's interpreting it. what do you think about that? >> well, originalism, as i understand it, starts with the text and the text of the constitution i people born on american soil are subject or citizens of this country and receive the rights and privileges of being citizens of this country. and again, it was always understood for that to be the case until just a couple of years before the civil war, one of the worst decisions the supreme court has ever issued. the dred scott decision. and after the civil war, after we fought an incredibly bloody civil war, the american people came together and said, both for descendants of slaves, but for all people born here, we're not again, going to have the debate as to whether or not they are citizens of this country. the supreme court, as you noted, reaffirmed that proposition multiple times over the past century and a half. and i'm confident that the courts are

going to see it the same way. >> states that are party to this lawsuit are estimating that about 150,000 kids would be denied citizenship over the course of a full year. do you know what kind of immediate consequences that might mean for children born in new jersey? >> well, it is thousands of children in new jersey alone. and, you know, what the order does is it just says that these children are not citizens. it doesn't say what they are. it doesn't say what rights, if any, they're entitled to. so, for instance, for providing them health care or education, you'd have massive questions about who's paying for that and what they're entitled to. and so states would be directly harmed as we lay out in our lawsuit on top of the harms imposed upon the people who are born here, who are not sure whether they're a resident or a citizen of this country, of some other country, or none of the above. and that is a status that has never existed in american history. and it is a

status that i am confident the courts are going to say does not apply to these residents. >> new jersey attorney general matthew platkin, we have to leave the conversation there. thanks so much for sharing your perspective. >> thank you for having me, boris. >> so we're getting new details about first lady melania trump's plans for her second stint in the white house. this time, sources tell cnn that she's preparing to take on a more prominent role than during her husband's first term. >> cnn senior white house reporter betsy klein joins us now with her new reporting. so a little different take for melania 2.0, and we may be seeing more of her as well. >> that's exactly right, erica. >> i mean, if you. just take a step back the role of first lady. it is unelected. it comes with no manual. and of course, an enormous amount of public scrutiny. and melania trump has privately acknowledged that it had a whirlwind of responsibilities of which she was largely unaware the first time around. she says this time will be different, and she's taking on a more public posture. you know, trump and his team have learned that there are different levers of the federal government that they can use to enact their

agenda. we are seeing similarly that she is learning from her first term and approaching this a little bit differently. so she has been preparing intensely. sources tell us over the past few months to return to this role. she has been studying foreign affairs, preparing on her own, joining her husband at mar-a-lago for some of those dinners with vips. and i think she implicitly recognizes that there is a certain level of curiosity about her and her life, and that leaning into that could prove strategic and also, frankly, lucrative. so we saw her autobiography, instant bestseller. we saw that she inked that multimillion dollar deal with amazon to produce a documentary about her life. and this transition. she's appeared on fox news multiple times. and then on the eve of the inauguration, she released this unofficial meme nft. but inauguration day really a visual preview for the next four years. we saw that double breasted coat. we saw her hat, the infamous hat. and i think, you know, back in 2018, she told us that she wanted us to focus on what she says and not what she wears, but she

understands the power of fashion to send a message. and the message she is sending is she is getting down to business. she is back. >> i do wonder, betsy, how ivanka trump not being there during this second trump term might impact melania's time as first lady? >> i mean, that's exactly right. she had a west wing office. ivanka trump, and she also had a senior advisor title. and there was a lot of ambiguity vis a vis her role with the east wing and melania trump's team and at times, some tension. so ivanka trump has said she is leaving politics. she is not coming back to washington, making that very clear. this may empower melania trump to be the female figurehead for the trump administration going forward. >> we will be watching and you'll be filling us in on all of it. betsy. thank you. when we return, fortunately, nationals indicted, accused of targeting multi-million dollar homes in a string of burglaries, and officials say they could actually be tied to the break-in at the home of cincinnati bengals quarterback joe burrow. that's next. >> i'm katelyn polantz outside

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>> ball cap. >> while burrow's. >> name isn't mentioned. >> explicitly. >> authorities there in clark county, ohio, saying officers. >> found lsu. >> and bengals gear in the suspect's. >> car when. >> they. >> were pulled over for. >> a traffic violation. this was. back on. january the 10th. and now burrow. played at lsu. >> in college. >> according to the affidavit. officers also finding two center. punches there. tools typically. used in burglaries. the men all facing charges including patterns of corruption and gang activity. police also say all four are in the united states illegally, which could tie into the larger picture. investigators saying they've arrested members of at least six south american burglary organizations, five of which are based in chile. burrow is one of at least nine athletes whose homes have been targeted in recent months, even prompting the fbi to send a message to teams and players warning them about the break ins. cnn has reached out to the defendant's attorney for comment. erica. >> and as we're waiting to hear, hear back from the defendant's attorney, what about, as you mentioned, a number of professional athletes

have been targeted recently. have we heard anything from the nfl, the nba, in terms of what we're seeing here? >> well, cnn has reached out again to the league. the bengals and burrow's representatives, for comment. all we can say is that late last year, back in november, in fact, erica, the nfl as well as the nba and the nhl warning teams that organized and skilled groups are targeting the homes of athletes for break ins, including while the players are actually away on duty at games, doing their jobs. basically, the kansas city area homes of chiefs stars patrick mahomes and travis kelce were burglarized in october, according to multiple local news outlets, citing authorities. we will stay across all the very latest. we're tracking it closely. erica morris, back to you, patrick. >> appreciate the update. thank you. and stay tuned. we'll be right back. >> the lead with jake tapper next on cnn. >> just because it's wet

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