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storm ravaged state of north carolina and then communities in los angeles that have been devastated by wildfires. after criticizing how his predecessor handled both catastrophes. we're tracking the president's trip. plus, his immigration crackdown. the white house says deportation flights are underway, sharing photos of people lined up in handcuffs and boarding military planes. as one state considers offering $1,000 bounty for information that leads to deporting undocumented migrants. >> and is it time for your dry january to last the full year? more people making a major lifestyle change. saying no to alcohol for good. we're following these major developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news center. >> right now, president donald trump is in the air on his way to tour the wildfire damage in los angeles. and cnn has learned that california governor gavin

newsom will be on the tarmac to greet the president when he arrives. as you might know, trump has repeatedly lashed out at newsom as the state deals with these historic fires. earlier today, the president spent time in western north carolina as residents there have struggled to rebuild after hurricane helene. cnn's jeff zeleny is live from asheville. and jeff, one of the main focuses for trump on this trip has been fema. and he has vowed to remake the federal agency. >> forest. it certainly is not what some of the people here in western north carolina perhaps were expecting, when they were certainly eager to have the president come here and members of congress to see the devastation that is just so very real. you can just see just a small slice behind me here of this once art gallery. now an abandoned building, and it's waiting to repair as so much recovery efforts are underway here. but it was the president and he was met by the democratic

governor here, josh stein on the the tarmac. but then he started going after fema and talking about immediate relief efforts, but talking about the very existence of fema has had its time. >> i'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling fema, or maybe getting rid of fema. i think, frankly, fema is not good. i think when you have a problem like this, i think you want to go. and whether it's a democrat or a republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling fema. >> so, so many questions here with that statement. first of all, state and local agencies actually are the first line of defense in terms of helping citizens. if fema comes in after that fact and fema is still on the ground here, and there's no question there are critics on all sides of how fema has done its work in this broad devastation of hurricane helene, largely with housing vouchers

and the like. but there are also true signs of need here. there was a woman who was holding up a sign as the president's motorcade went by that said, fema helped me. so people clearly are in need of help. and the president himself is, of course, busy at work trying to remake the entire federal government. and that's what this is all about. this was actually discussed in a project 2025, which of course was the manifesto, if you will, from some conservative thinkers. how to remake the federal government. and fema is viewed by some as extraneous. of course, though, boris, disasters happen in red areas and blue areas alike. that's why fema has always been supported. so this is something the president cannot do unilaterally. congress would have to do away with fema. the bigger question in the short term, how will the relief come here? and more importantly, even and more urgently to california? the president lands there in a couple of hours. >> jeff zeleny jeff zeleny, thank you so much for the update from asheville. it does appear that president trump is making good meantime, on his vow of

mass deportations, with federal officials announcing that they've made hundreds of arrests this week. the white house says that military aircraft are now being used to send people back to their countries of origin. sharing these images of dozens of migrants lined up and handcuffed as they're being led onto a military plane. meantime, the trump administration is directing several agencies to arrest people who are in the country illegally, including the fbi, dea, atf, u.s. marshals, and the federal bureau of prisons. >> all of this is happening as we are seeing authorities carry out deportation operations across the country. in newark, new jersey, the city's mayor says officials there arrested undocumented residents and u.s. citizens at a fish market on thursday. cnn has not been able to independently verify his claims. cnn's priscilla alvarez joins us now with more. so we have both some of these rates that we're starting to see, but also these military flights, the pictures that the white house has now put out, seeing a military plane, i think has thrown some people for a loop a

little bit. generally, what we have. >> seen over the. >> course of the week, when you take into totality, is the foreshadowing. of more to come from the trump administration, as they do this crackdown at greater numbers, because, as you mentioned. >> boris, there. >> are hundreds of people who are arrested this week. well, that was also true last week under the biden administration. but it is. >> how it ticks. >> up over time. now on the military aircraft. that's a good example of how things are different now with the use of a military aircraft to repatriate migrants back to their origin country. so yesterday afternoon is when the first flight took off from the el paso area to guatemala. about 80 migrants repatriated. those are recent border crossers. so they were in border patrol custody. and this was part of a plan that had been outlined by the pentagon earlier in the week, which is to say that they were going to send military aircraft, and they did to el paso and to san diego, in addition to more troops. there were already around 2000 troops who were already on the ground there. while they are supplementing that now to help with operational readiness as well as other efforts like

intelligence analysis of flows and threats. now, what is the situation along the u.s. southern border? well, it is far more quiet than it has been in recent years. i was talking to a source only moments ago who told me it was about about a thousand crossings a day. well, compare that to a few years ago when it was 4000. 6000, even up to 12,000 people. so it is far less than what we have seen before. but they are trying to turn the dial to zero, and they are also trying to do a show of force. so that is what we are seeing along the u.s. southern border. in addition to their focus on the interior, you mentioned, for example, the bringing in other federal agencies to help with that effort. well, that is intentional, because if you talk to trump officials, they talk about force multiplier. what does that mean? adding more agents so that they can do these arrests and they can detain those who are in the united states who are undocumented. so all of this is coming together very quickly. and the reason is because they had time to prepare. this is something top of mind for many of the then incoming officials who are there now, many of whom are also law

enforcement veterans. tom homan, the white house border czar, has been doing this work for a very long time. so you take it all together and you really start to see how they're preparing this operation, not only in the actions we saw today, but also in how they ramp this up in the future. i will add the one caveat to this is always money and resources. and that is going to be the push with congress. >> yeah, we'll see how capitol hill responds to trump's demands for more resources. priscilla alvarez, thank you so much. as deportations take place across the united states, one mississippi lawmaker is proposing a bounty hunter program to find people who are living in the country unlawfully. his plan calls for paying $1,000 to those who provide formatn that helps lead to the successful deportation of undocumented immigrants. with us now is desoto county, mississippi, district attorney matthew barton, who introduced this legislation. sir, thanks so much for being with us. if you could walk us through how you envision this program working out, who

exactly is apprehending these alleged undocumented migrants and who gets the $1,000? yeah. so think. >> of it basically like a. >> crime stoppers program where people can. >> send in tips or information, and. >> that information would need to come in through the department of. >> public safety in mississippi, or local law enforcement. once that information is vetted and corroborated and deemed useful, then it can be, you know, passed along to ice. and if, um, if ice wants to proceed with a deportation process on that individual, then, um, that process would begin. and it could really, uh, be sped along by the use of more people at, at the state and local level. as you were mentioning earlier in the show, there's an effort to multiply the forces here. there's a lack of resources. and so this bill would allow for

the state of mississippi to provide additional resources to just kind of act as a task force, if you will. so anyone who was certified through the program would be able to participate, likely peace officers or licensed bail agents. >> so so help me understand that aspect of it. these are these are registered bounty hunters that sign up for the program. >> so the basic concept is that someone who reached or maintains certain eligibility could basically apply through the department of public safety and then become a certified bounty hunter. as part of this program. and they could work in conjunction with ice and local law enforcement to carry out the mandates. >> and am i reading it correctly and understanding that they could detain people who they

suspect are undocumented? these bounty hunters. >> so yes, you are reading that, but it's important to note that they would not be. detaining random people on a whim. i mean, everything would have to work through law enforcement and be given authority from law enforcement in each particular case. >> in other words, you're not going to have you can confirm that you're not going to have people going across your state pointing to folks that they suspect are undocumented and detaining them without having law enforcement go through the process of confirming whether the person that they suspect of being undocumented actually is undocumented. is that the case? >> yeah, absolutely. we do not. we don't want to create a system where someone has blanket authority to just become the law. all of a sudden. and so everything would have to go through law enforcement like it always does. this just creates

additional people that can aid in the process. it would be very similar to a local deputy at the sheriff's department. being part of an atf task force. it just brings in more people who are qualified to work in conjunction with ice and just make an initial detainment. >> are you concerned that people who have legal status might inadvertently wind up getting apprehended? that you might see situations where folks who have legal status wind up getting targeted? >> i don't think so. and that's because i believe that law enforcement does a great job. and they would, once they receive information, they would they would vet that information, see, if you know that individual actually is here with status or not. and so if someone is here and they have all their documentation, they're doing everything the right way. we encourage that. we love that. that's what makes america. america is the bedrock of who we are. so we want legal immigration. we need to encourage that as much as we

discourage illegal immigration. but i think that everyone that's coming here legally. >> i just do wonder about the process, though, because getting that verification takes time. and so if you have a bounty hunter who's detained someone and they're waiting to find out whether that person is here legally or not, that person that's being detained has rights. so how do you protect those rights? how do you make sure that their rights aren't being violated? >> yeah, i think your question presupposes that we're doing this out of order. so the detainment would not occur until after law enforcement had already done an investigation. and identified. identify or corroborate that the information they received was correct, that probable cause was there, and that an arrest or detainment would be proper. at that point, someone in the program could receive marching orders from ice or law enforcement to go ahead and get the ball rolling. but there

is there has to be an order to things because the constitution matters. this doesn't usurp the fourth amendment. so certainly no one's going to get detained just because someone pointed at them there. they would have to be a process prior to detainment that would authorize such an action. >> i'm also curious about the tip line. you're setting up immigration status obviously isn't something that is apparent. on what basis do you think people should be submitting these tips? what would you tell people to look out for yeah. >> whenever we have a tip line, we're going to have a mixed bag where some tips are very useful and some just are not. we have the same thing when we receive tips for, you know, wanted murderers. so we're going to get a lot of tips that really are baseless or don't have much value. but if someone does know, hey, this person is here illegally because they have some sort of personal interaction or way of knowing, then they can

share that information. um, but you know, either you know, either you know or you don't. but this isn't going to create a full time job for someone where they can just wake up one morning and say, well, i'm going to join the program and i'm going to start independently searching. it's if you have information, you share it and it's acted upon, then then you would potentially be eligible for a reward. but that's really about it. >> do you have any concern that someone may act inappropriately in trying to obtain that kind of verification, perhaps stalking someone because they suspect that they're here illegally i think there's bad actors and in in any sort of government program where everything gets taken advantage of to some point. >> but i think that's where we lean on law enforcement to, to do the great job that they always do. and speaking of bad actors, i think it's important to know that this is a a crime prevention mechanism where we are trying to limit the amount of crime and hardened violent

criminals that are coming through our system. i represent a small town, mississippi, and we have over a thousand illegal immigrants that came through our county jail in the last four years, which is more than twice the four years prior to that. and these bad actors have to be dealt with. i'm more concerned about that than the maybe, you know, a handful of of people that may try to take advantage of the new government program. we have millions of people in this country that are already taken advantage of every program we have. so i'm not too worried about a handful of people that may get the wrong ideas about this program, because i think that the department of public safety will do a good job of creating mechanisms to vet the information that they receive. >> matthew barton, we have to leave the conversation there. i appreciate you sharing your point of view. we hope you'll come back on to discuss further. if this idea moves forward. >> yeah, thanks for having me. >> still to come, president trump is en route to california to survey areas devastated by

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would have enough without fema. and she told me no. and she went on to say that it would be devastating for individuals, businesses, cities, counties and the state of north carolina, saying she would urge the president not to make any rash decisions about reconstructing fema. would you agree with her that the recovery effort? i know you said you've had a lot of frustration with fema, which you also said earlier this month, but could the recovery effort be handled without fema at all? >> i think that we need some agency. we need some level of of of of a federal employee to help coordinate the efforts to the states. i believe that the better solution would be to support our 10th amendment and recognize that the states are much, much closer to the people and can react in a in a better way. it's obvious not every state, not every local government, will have the

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century the presidency, assassination, and lasting legacy of john f kennedy and tim naftali. also with us is cnn presidential historian and the former director of the nixon presidential library. it's nice to see both of you this afternoon. so i'm also struck by i mean, there's so much that has happened this week. you really need to take a minute to soak it all in. it's like drinking from a fire hose. and, tim, one of the things the president has done too, is really made good on these promises that he has of revenge and retribution. we're talking about the pardons and commutations for january 6th. rioters also stripping doctor fauci, john bolton, mike pompeo of their security coverage. um, it is day five. is there any historical precedent for this um, well, there's no. >> historical precedent. >> for having this many. >> executive orders. as larry well knows, to, um, you know, ronald reagan. who promised revolution in the nature. >> of the relationship. >> between the american people and their government. >> ronald reagan took a few

days. >> to. >> get his to sign his first executive order. >> um, so. >> donald trump, in using the executive order, the way he executive orders, the way he has, is really put his imprint on this government and assumed power in a way he promised to do during the campaign in terms of the retaliation. no, there is absolutely no precedent to the way in which donald trump has made absolutely clear from the moment he became president that he wants to not only reverse the conversation about january 6th, but he wants to penalize those who sought to make clear january 6th was an insurrection and should be punished and to punish and to make sure that those who were punished by our judicial system be pardoned or have their sentences commuted. so we've never seen anything like this. and the only comparable moment was after the civil war. and the president then was andrew johnson. and of course, we saw what happened in the south when he used his pardon power to help confederates come back into

public office. >> larry, you've argued that the economy was the principal reason that trump won the election. are you seeing anything from his first week on the job that shows he has a plan to bring prices down, or to boost wages? >> no. >> and actually, i was in the grocery store yesterday, and i took a look at the price of a dozen eggs and it was actually up. but of course, it's the first week. so we'll we'll see what happens. uh, on tim tams discussion there, i would also say nixon would be one who would. match trump, at least to a certain degree, in the revenge category, but not this early in his term. you know, the enemies list evolved, uh, over, over a long period of time. and the the funny business with the internal revenue service checking his enemies and so on. this is really unprecedented. but then trump had four years to sit down and think about who he wanted to get revenge on, and also what he

wanted to do in this second term that he didn't do in his first, which he wasn't prepared for. i think partly because he didn't think he was going to win either. uh, but this time he is prepared and he's doing things from a conservative direction that the republican party likes, but he's also doing things that the public generally does not like, especially those pardons. that's the biggest error of his first week. it's going to hurt him. it's going to continue to hurt him because it's so outrageous. and people have every right to judge him on that basis. but there's something every day just to add one final point, i've been watching the coverage today of the what he said in d.c. and then said down in north carolina, and what he said about his california trip up, coming here today. and it's it's shocking. it's absolutely shocking. we have never had a president who equated support for a state during a natural

disaster on the basis of support or support for him, or made it so partisan, you know, normally when a president comes into a state during a disaster, he gathers all the public officials together of both parties and says nice things about everybody because it's an opportunity for unity that isn't happening, is it? it certainly is not. >> tim, do you do you see any sign that there could be a shift? we were told ahead of his inaugural speech it didn't exactly measure up, but we were told that it would be about unity. right? that that was going to be the message of the day. um, you know, to larry's point, we are seeing more partisanship. um, it's only five days in. things could change. do you see signs that that is a possibility? tim. >> um, at the moment i don't i am very worried about the establishment of schedule f in the federal government, which is going to make more and more positions. um, politically political

appointees in our government. and one of the arguments that the maga world makes is that, um, expertise is partisan, that there is no such thing as nonpartisan, objective expertise. well, i don't agree with that. and in fact, we are a weaker nation if we don't believe that experts can do their business in a nonpartisan, nonpolitical way. so at the moment, it seems to me that president trump has been very successful at changing the the cultural norms of of our nation. certainly, the majority view has shifted. and that's not going to lead to more unity, that's going to lead to more division. i'm afraid. >> tim naftali larry sabato, i think we have to leave it there, but it will not be the last time we have one of these discussions that we can guarantee. thank you both. >> thank you, thank you. >> just ahead here, as we roll into the final week of what

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>> we have been just tracking this all day. it's a day of pandemonium, with two brand new pandas making their debut at the smithsonian national zoo in d.c. bowling and kung bao, both three years old. they've been in quarantine since arriving in the u.s. from china in october. the wait, though, as you can see, is finally over. >> thank goodness zoo officials say that more than 14,000 passes have been reserved so far to see these little cuties over the weekend. their debut kicked off this morning with kindergartners reciting the poem giant panda friendship rhyme. they also performed a song i like this. this is adorable. it's not just the pandas who are cute people. the kids are cute too. for behind the scenes look at just what went into the pandas big debut. you know where you can find that right here on cnn sunday night. the whole story of operation panda airs sunday at 8 p.m. >> yeah, david culver went all out. he wore a panda outfit and

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