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launching an enforcement in immigration enforcement blitz in chicago. borders are tom homan acting attorney general emil bove both on the ground there in chicago as officials work what the administration is calling enhanced targeted operations. >> we have team coverage. >> as this unfolds in front of us. let's start first with rosa flores in chicago. rosa, how are migrants in that area responding to all of this? >> well, you know, jessica, i covered the trump administration while i was based here in chicago the first time that trump was in office. and i can tell you that at the time, there was a lot of fear in the community. i remember interviewing daca recipients and their families. but what's happening right now is another level of fear. i've talked to contacts here in this city who tell me that the way that they describe the fear in the immigrant community is panic is heightened anxiety and fear because of these mass deportations that, according to ice, have already started. so

here's what we know from ice. according to ice, there are ice agents, federal agents here in the city of chicago that are conducting targeted enforcement. according to tom homan, telling abc news earlier today that these are targets. they're targeting individuals who are public safety threats, who are national security threats. homan himself saying that that is a smaller population and that is immigrants who pose national security threats or public safety threats. now, we do know now that ice has been given a quota and that every ice office in this country is to meet 75 arrests per ice office per day. i can tell you that that's going to put a lot of pressure on agents to go beyond those public safety threats and arrest just regular undocumented people who are going to work or going to school. now, one of the things that might complicate the

situation for ice here in chicago, with the enforcement that's going on, is i checked the ice website. ice does not have an ice detention center here in illinois. now, there are ice detention centers in nearby indiana and wisconsin. there are several hours drive, but that, of course, creates a difficulty for ice. where are they going to take these individuals quickly after the arrest has been made? maybe they're going to busses. i've asked ice. we're waiting to hear more about that. but what i can tell you is that all of this has created increased panic in this community. i've talked to many individuals in the immigrant community, jessica, and i can tell you that they are trying to learn the minutia. i wanted to go into all the minutia, but they're trying to learn their rights, what they can and what they can't do. when ice goes to knock on their door. jessica. >> all right. rosa flores with the latest now from chicago. i also want to talk with gloria pazmino, who's joining us now, and gloria, chicago migrant

rights groups are suing the trump administration into in a bid to block this ice enforcement. so what can you tell us about that piece of the story? >> yeah, jessica, advocates are turning the fear that rosa is describing that's being felt in that community. and they're hoping that the courts can be a bit of help in this moment. they have filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the trump administration and ice of violating the first and fourth amendment rights of the residents of chicago, which they say are being targeted because of the city's sanctuary city jurisdiction and their status as a sanctuary city. we have a statement from one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. this is from sheila betti, and she's with community justice clinic, one of the plaintiffs that filed this suit. and she said that the impending raids are a brazen attempt to stomp out the sanctuary city movement and run roughshod over the first amendment. our communities need organizers, vision and advocacy now more than ever. this lawsuit is about prohibiting the trump

administration from using law enforcement to decimate a vital social justice movement. in reading the lawsuit. jessica, they basically say that because chicago is a sanctuary city, trump has focused on them. and evidence of this is the fact that we know ice today is carrying out these operations. they say that that's a violation of the first amendment rights and their fourth amendment rights, which protects them from unreasonable and unjustified search and seizure. and they are hoping that the court will have an emergency hearing in order to stop these raids and these operations. we have not yet heard back from the court, but it's what the advocates are trying to do, at least for now, in order to stop the action. jessica. >> all right. gloria pazmino with the latest on that piece of it. thank you very much. and right now, the united states and colombia have started a trade fight, slapping each other with dueling 25% tariffs. president trump hitting the south american country first after two u.s. military planes carrying

undocumented migrants were turned away. colombia's president then blocked those flights from landing. trump's threatened even higher tariffs than colombia's president hit back. cnn contributor stefano pozzebon is live in bogota, colombia. we're going to start, though, with steve contorno, who's in florida covering the president. steve, let's start first with what president trump is saying about these measures against colombia well, his administration moving really quickly, jessica, to retaliate against colombia and really put on an international show of force for what the trump administration can do to a country that doesn't go along with its immigration plans and clearly, the trump administration was ready for a country to reject these migrant flights because they acted very swiftly. >> trump, posting on social media just hours after this all

unfolded with his threats of retaliation, blaming the president of colombia, saying, quote, this order was given by colombia's socialist president gustavo petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people. petro's denial of these flights has jeopardized the national security and public safety of the united states. and then he went on to list some of the mentioned, a 25% tariff that he said would go up to 50% by next week. and he is also planning a travel ban for members of colombia's government, as well as visa sanctions on certain party members. so donald trump, clearly using tariffs here as an attempt to get what he wants out of international leaders. we have seen this already with his actions to threaten tariffs on canada and mexico, as well as china. and now in this

immigration space as well, jessica. >> all right. steve contorno there in florida for us. thank you so much. stefano, let's go to you now in colombia. what is the reaction there? and also, i think a lot of americans are wondering what kind of products this might impact. >> yes, jessica. >> well, the reaction. >> here is. >> colombian has. >> been frankly, mesmerizing. >> colombia has. >> been a staunch. >> ally of the united states. >> for at least. >> the last 50 years. >> it's one of. >> washington's strongest allies. >> in the region. well, now it's no longer the case with the two presidents, gustavo petro and donald trump, going after each other on social media. >> of course. >> the the te in this. >> trade war. >> might be, of course, coffee. if you think of colombia, you normally think of one of the best coffees in the world, but also flowers. colombia is the second largest exporter of flowers to the united states. i've done that story a million times since moving here. we do a lot of flowers sending up for

mother's day or valentine's day, so maybe by february you might see your bouquet of flowers might cost a little bit more. but i think for the colombian people, the most impactful measure is the restriction of visa. we're just outside the u.s. embassy here in bogota, just behind my back. of course, it's a sunday, so we're not going to see many people lining up here. but normally in this building is where hundreds and hundreds of visa applications are processed every single day, because there is a lot of people going back and forth between bogota and the rest of colombia and the united states, there is a huge colombian community up there in america, and you can see that this is what many people are worried about. we've just been here for about half an hour. no more than that. and in the last 30 minutes, at least two people approached us. they saw our camera. they realized that we are foreigners here in colombia. and they asked us if we knew anything further, if we could confirm whether this visa will be removed or revoked, what could happen with their possibility of traveling to the united states? not to migrate,

but maybe just to visit their friends and relatives up there in new york or miami? where else? in the in america. so you can see that this is really cutting through the everyday lives of colombian families. jessica. >> yeah, and it's just it's just hours that this has been going on so far. stephanie joseph aoun there in colombia for us. thank you so much for that reporting. and larry sabato joins us now. he's the director of the center for politics at the university of virginia and editor of a return to normalcy. the 2020 election that almost broke america. larry, nice to see you on this sunday. as we are seeing these real world impacts of trump's immigration promises happening before our eyes today, americans voted for him knowing this is what he wanted to do. here we are seeing it play out. what are your thoughts? >> well. >> first of all, you have. >> to give them credit for. >> organization and. >> planning because this. >> first week of the trump administration, part. >> two has been. >> as organized as. >> the first. >> trump administration. was

disorganized. and he paid a. >> big. >> price for that. in this. >> case. >> they have it planned out, i assume., almost hour by hour. >> and he's. >> not just doing things. he's sending signals. >> to foreign. >> leaders and even to average immigrants about what his policies are and what he's likely to do. so that helps him a lot. it gets him off to a good start. now, one week does not a presidency make. and remember, joe biden was very popular for about the first five months of his administration. he never saw 50% again. >> and i'm thinking about these tariffs, which we have talked about so much that trump has talked about so much. and now for the first time, we are seeing trump putting these, you know, saying that he's going to put these in place since he's been in office in a very specific way. um, what do you think about that? because it does look, it seems as if they were waiting for that moment. they knew it would come. and to your point, they were ready. >> yes. and some of the countries that we've been talking about were convinced

that this was just a bluff by trump. and maybe it is for larger countries. but he used this opportunity to prove that, in fact, he's more than willing to do it. so now i think they have to recalculate their own response to to trump's threats. now, maybe they'll change, maybe they won't. but this image of strength that trump is projecting will help him, both domestically and in foreign affairs. >> and i want to go to washington now, as that continues to play out. another big priority of this is, of course, getting these cabinet picks confirmed. they made some good progress with pete hegseth and with kristi noem over the weekend. um, we did see those three republican senators break with their party with trump on pete hegseth susan collins. um, murkowski and mitch mcconnell. what i kind of want to zoom in on is, is the mcconnell of it all because he's no longer leader of the senate republicans. and it is going to be interesting to see how he wants to play this moving

forward, because this week we have confirmation hearings for kash patel tulsi gabbard and robert kennedy jr.. >> i think we're all waiting to see what mitch mcconnell does about tulsi gabbard in particular, maybe rfk jr., because of the polio controversy. uh, who knows? i don't know what he's got in mind, but he clearly sent a shot across the bow and let the trump people know he was no longer a guaranteed vote because he's no longer in leadership. collins and murkowski are not surprising, and especially in collins case, she represents a blue state, and she's coming up in two years. uh, remember, there was almost a fourth one who would have killed the hegseth nomination, and that was thom tillis from north carolina. but he's also up in 2026. and trump is particularly strong in republican primaries in north carolina. so tillis has to be very careful. or he could lose the primary. so all in all, i think almost all maybe all of his key appointees will be

confirmed. and actually, jessica, that's the norm. that's what normally happens for new presidents as they come in. >> all right. larry sabato, always good to see you. thanks so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you jessica. >> still ahead, president trump says he may consider now rejoining the world health organization organization after cutting ties. this week we are joined by the former secretary of health and human services under the obama administration, kathleen sebelius, to talk about what could happen to global health if the u.s. isn't at the table here in the cnn newsroom. >> i lay on my back frozen, thinking the. darkest thoughts. >> and then everything changed. dana said, you're still. >> you, and i love you. >> super man. the christopher reeve story next sunday at eight on cnn. >> we are living with afib., and. >> over half a million of us have left blood. >> thinners behind for life. >> we've cut our stroke risk and said goodbye to our bleeding worry with the watchman implant

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million. they said, we'll let you back in at 39, so we're going to reduce it from 500 to 39. i turned them down because it became so popular, i didn't know if it would be well received. even at 39. but maybe we would consider doing it again, i don't know. maybe we would. they have to clean it up a little. >> bit. >> it's unclear exactly what the president will ultimately do, but what is clear is the impact withdrawing the u.s. from the world health organization would not just have on global health initiatives, but on our country's own national security. the world health organization was founded right after world war ii by members of the united nations to protect the world's health, warning that having separate health systems throughout the world would put all nations in danger. joining us now, the former secretary of health and human services under the obama administration, kathleen sebelius. thanks so much for being here. i want to talk about this op ed that you wrote in the new york times where you said withdrawing from the world health organization would be disastrous, but you believe the president still has time to, as you said, come to his senses and

reverse course, which it sounds like he may at this point. what do you think he might do? >> well, jessica. >> i've long ago stopped. >> trying to predict. >> what donald. >> trump may or may not do. >> but here's. >> what i know. >> the process of. >> withdrawing from the. world health organization. >> takes a year. so we are not. >> out of the world health organization. >> if i understand that. >> the executive. >> order puts w.h.o. on notice that the united states intends to withdraw. that's step one. i am delighted. to know. that he. >> may. >> within two days of having issued the executive order, may now be reconsidering. this isn't a discussion of how much we are or are not willing to pay, and what other countries pay. >> it is. essential to the. >> health of americans that we understand what's happening across the globe. we understand what's breaking out in remote countries. we have the

opportunity to work with health ministers and health leaders to monitor disease, to contain, control and hopefully wipe out outbreaks before they reach our borders. we we live in a global country. we cannot stop disease from coming into the states. and jessica, we already saw what happens when the united states backs out of global health discussions. donald trump in his first term, withdrew our cdc employees who worked in china, worked closely with the chinese health minister, pulled them back, said that's really not where u.s. people should be. and by the time covid was identified, it was already in our country. so it really put us steps back from where we could have been, should have been. and i'm really hopeful that he will rethink what lots of people consider to be the best diplomacy we have, which is health, collaboration and cooperation across the

globe. >> it is interesting because the w.h.o., like other organizations, like other agencies i'm thinking about fema, has been now politicized in a way. and you saw at the rally people really cheering the president on. and and i wonder about making that connection between how he's explaining it, which is i think his argument is, i saved america. i'm saving america a lot of money there. we're paying so much money. other countries are paying less. so there's that. and then what you're saying, and i think what what a lot of people are also worried about, which is, look, this is this isn't about that. this is about engaging in health around the world and protecting americans. >> that's absolutely right. it isn't really a tariff or a cost. the united states, since the end of world war two, has participated in discussions about health monitoring, health training, epidemiologists containing

and controlling disease outbreak, trying to share vaccines. every country in the world is a member of w.h.o. now, i'm not going to tell you it is a brilliantly operating organization. like many organizations that have existed since the end of world war ii. it needs to be updated. it needs to be upgraded. we need other countries to fully participate. but withdrawing from this vital network of information monitoring would only jeopardize american citizens. we've seen it happen before. we know it's dangerous. we basically have helped eradicate polio. for instance, in most of the parts of the world, except some very remote corners of nigeria and pakistan. we now have outbreaks of polio potential in the united states, with people being vaccine skeptics. so we may be going dramatically backwards in our public health approach, in

our approach to understanding that prevention is much, much more effective and better for the americans than trying to, you know, clear up diseases once they're here and ravaging the country. we saw what covid does. covid took down our economy. this disease that spread rapidly really made a huge dent in the way americans conduct business with one another and killed millions of americans. so this is not hypothetical. it's not something could happen, might happen. something did happen. and the further we get away from knowing what's happening in what corners of the globe, how we can provide expertise to, as i say, contain and control, identify, help it not come to our borders, the better and more secure americans will be. >> yeah. and you mentioned like one of the things we would lose access to the global network

that sets the flu vaccines composition every year. one thing i do want to ask you more about is what you just brought up, which is that it's not a perfect organization. you're not saying it's perfect. what do you think could be done from the inside to make it a more effective organization? >> well, i think as i understand it and i'm not in government anymore, i haven't been in government since mid 2014, but i understand there is a really deep dive because we've had a recent devastating pandemic, covid, and it gives everyone an opportunity within health and human services in the united states, but certainly within the world health organization, health ministries everywhere to look at what went right and what went wrong, what kind of communication could have been better shared. how could we have better responded? what practices worked? what didn't? that's underway right now in very appropriate. they need to be updated. we can probably use, you know, artificial

intelligence to share information more dramatically. we can use detection systems that aren't in place yet. jessica, what exists now and has since 2014 under the obama administration is what's called a global health security effort, which is a number of the w.h.o. countries joining together and actually training one another. people are adopting countries in remote parts of the world so that we have the ability to find disease outbreaks, that we can share that information very quickly, that we have trained personnel. that effort is relatively new, but now includes, i think, 50 countries across the globe and is really effective trying to make sure that we are now not hobbled by epidemics, breaking out by pandemics that sweep the globe. so those are new, updated efforts. and again, the united states withdrawing financial

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that was enacted after mr. trump carried out a similar purge at the beginning of his first term, requires the white house to provide a rationale for firing any inspector general and give 30 days notice. but neither of those things happened here, and a number of republicans like lisa murkowski, susan collins, chuck grassley have all expressed concerns, questions over how this played out. lucy lang is the inspector general for the state of new york. she is joining us now. lucy, thanks so much for being here with us. this is the work you do. you know what it's like to be an inspector general, what role that person has to play. what do these moves say to you? >> thank you so much for having. >> me. >> on, jessica, to talk about this critically. important issue. inspectors general are. >> the. >> nonpartisan, independent. >> government watchdogs who. >> do the important. >> work of. >> investigating corruption. >> fraud, waste and abuse. across government. and this move. >> not only. >> violates the law, but really

flouts democratic norms in a way that is likely to continue to undermine public trust at a time when it is at record lows. >> and i want to play a clip from republican senator lindsey graham. he said this earlier today here on cnn. this is his response when when he was asked if it bothered him that the president had broken this law that requires notice to congress. let's listen. >> yeah. >> i think, you know, yeah, he should have done that. but the question is, is it okay for him to put people in place that he thinks can carry out his agenda? yeah, he won the election. what do you expect him to do? just leave everybody in place in washington before he got elected. this makes perfect sense to me. get new people. he feels like the government hasn't worked very well for the american people. these watchdog folks did a pretty lousy job. and he wants some new eyes on washington. and that makes sense to me. >> just what is your response? first of all. >> of course, most political appointees do turn over in a new. >> administration.

>> but inspectors. >> general are different, and they have to be because their job is to consistently make sure that government is operating properly. and that has to be done in a nonpartisan way. in fact, contrary to what the senator said, they should not be enacting anyone's agenda. inspectors general job is to make sure that government is free from corruption and fraud, and by putting in people who are tasked with executing some sort of agenda, that core function of igs is undermined. >> and just to underscore for everybody out there, this is these igs people like yourself and that you work independent of everybody else. >> that's right. there are 74 federal igs, but there are also myriad igs who work for states, municipalities. even something like the mta has its own inspector general, and there are various kinds of protections to make sure that those igs are able to do their job independently. for example,

while i'm a court appointed by the governor of new york state, she's not able to fire me. i serve for the duration of her term because i have to be free to investigate the executive branch with which i'm charged of overseeing. >> yeah. and i think, too, when you're when we're listening to to senator graham there, look, there is a law in place, as we said at the top of this interview, for this exact situation that the senate did put into place after trump's first term. and it's not that he can't do this, it's just that there are steps that should be taken. >> that's right. it has to be given to congress with 30 days notice. and there have to be there has to be a substantive rationale, including detailed and case specific examples. it has, in fact happened in the past. the last administration did fire an ig on the grounds that there had been an investigation, that that ig was creating a toxic workplace, and 30 days notice was given. the

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