little love. yeah. get down tonight. >> she is cracking up over it. all right, so, guys, are we ready for the chiefs in the super bowl again i certainly am very excited about my eagles. >> i'm so cheaped out. this is this is. >> like can't they both lose. >> this is this is. yeah yeah yeah. no it's awful. >> but is america cheaped out you guys. >> i'm actually looking forward to rooting against the chiefs. >> so hey you know we got some eagles fans on this side of the table. >> we're eagles fans in our household. my sister in law is actually from south philly. so we are eagles fans all the way okay. >> fly eagles fly. >> yeah matt. >> i'll go with you on this. >> one really reluctantly okay. yeah. reluctantly. >> look at that. look. >> see we can come together. >> we figured it out. >> thank you guys for joining us. thanks to all of you at home for joining us as well. i'm kasie hunt don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now.

>> breaking this morning, president trump's first brush with a trade war averted. but it puts the world and markets on edge this morning. stock futures plummeting for a variety of reasons. >> immigration raids. >> across the country. multiple federal agencies working in major cities like chicago and l.a., with agents now being told to make sure they are wearing their raid jackets to generate attention, and the super bowl matchup is set. the philadelphia eagles and the kansas city chiefs will face off once again. i'm kate. i'm kate bolduan with john berman who has opinions. sara sidner is out. this is cnn news central.

>> all right. breaking overnight the u.s. and colombia back from the brink of a trade war. but it is leaving the region and world markets shaken this morning, just a short time ago, the white house claimed colombia has agreed to quote all of president trump's terms after a tense standoff over deportation flights. colombia had refused entry to u.s. military planes carrying migrants, but now they will be allowed to land. colombia, for its part, says it received a guarantee of dignified treatment for those being returned. this followed a threat from president trump on tariffs of 25% that would rise to 50. this morning, the white house asserts that the events make clear to the world that america is respected again. that will play out as it will. but trading markets this morning, they are spooked with the trade threats playing a part there. let's get right to the white house. cnn's priscilla alvarez with us this morning with the latest on this. priscilla, what are you hearing? >> well, john, this was certainly the first major. international clash over

immigration. as you mentioned, president trump, trump threatening tariffs. >> after colombia abruptly said that they wouldn't take back flights with repatriated colombians. so how did this all unfold? well, over the weekend, the u.s. had planned two military flights to colombia. now they had taken off and according to documents i reviewed, colombia had authorized those flights. but then the colombian president said in a post on x that he would not take those flights. he would block them. and he talked about making sure that migrants are not treated as criminals. now, the context there is that colombia has taken migrants back on civilian aircraft. he seemed to be implying that he was taking issue with this being two military aircraft. now, of course, earlier guatemala had taken back similar flights. now, this public clash resulted in the president slapping an emergency 25% tariffs. and in response to

that, the colombian president also hit back, publicly threatening to impose his own retaliatory measures. now, a last minute deal was cut late last night, and in a statement, the white house press secretary saying that the tariffs on colombian air imports would be, quote, held in reserve. and she went on to say the following, quote, president trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation's sovereignty. and he expects other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the united states. now, of course, john, an economic war would have potentially harmed both sides. but what all of this was telling of is how the president is planning to handle countries who say that they will not receive their own repatriated migrants. this has been an issue for the united states over the years, with multiple different countries. and something that he indicated last night he will handle with these threats of tariffs. john. >> yeah, we will see if there are further complications ahead

and how personalities which are clearly playing a factor continue to play out in the future. priscilla alvarez, thank you very much, kate. >> so immigration raids are being carried out across the u.s. right now, and there's new video of arrests being made in multiple states yesterday. ice officials say that nearly 1000 people were taken into custody. and the white house borders are tom homan. he was actually on hand in chicago to watch as operations began there. illinois's governor saying that they're already going too far. >> let me start by being clear that when we're talking about violent criminals who have been convicted and who are undocumented, we don't want them in our state. we want them out of the country. what they're also doing, though, and it's quite disturbing, is they're going after people who are law abiding, who are holding down jobs, who have families here who may have been here for a decade or two decades. and they're often our neighbors and our friends. >> and there's also new reporting today that that the white house wants to make sure

that you see it all. sources telling cnn that agents have been instructed to wear their raid jackets in order to generate media attention. cnn's rosa flores is live in chicago, where a lot of this action was over the weekend. rosa, what's the latest from there? >> well, kate, you probably remember i was based here in chicago during trump's first term. and i can tell you firsthand from interviewing people at the time that there was a lot of fear here in chicago. i interviewed daca recipients, their parents. there was fear, but nothing to this level. i'm talking to sources and advocacy organizations, attorneys here in the city, and they tell me that there is panic in this community because of the ice enforcements that are happening. we are learning today some of the stories of the individuals who were picked up yesterday by immigration authorities. the first story that we're learning from is cnn affiliate wls. this is a northern in a northern suburb. a woman says that her

father was picked up by ice after ice knocked on his door and then arrested him. this is a man who's 44 years old. he's a grandfather, and he arrived here from mexico 30 years ago. here's what his daughter said. take a listen. >> they will open the door because they thought maybe one of us were in trouble or something. or something happened to us. he never did anything. they would have been nice. i'm already heartbroken myself, and i can't really imagine little kids whose families are breaking apart because of this. >> and you can feel the emotion in that woman's voice. now, ice says that they are targeting individuals with criminal backgrounds. we don't know anything about this woman's father, but we've asked ice for more information about why this man was arrested yesterday. now, the city of chicago has a long history of social justice. i've talked to many individuals here

in the city from various organizations who say that there is a citywide effort to try to help migrants and kind of taper some of the fears in the community. there is a hotline where people can call. another organization has filed a lawsuit to try to stop these immigration enforcements from happening here in the city of chicago. there's also an organization that i'm talking to is dropping off groceries to families because they're cooped up in their homes. they're too afraid to go outside. their children are not going to school, and those migrants are not going to work because they're afraid that they might be caught up in these mass deportations. kate. >> rosa flores, thank you john. >> all right. a flood watch is in effect this morning in areas of california hardest hit by wildfires to bring the rain, i should say, bringing new threats of flowing debris and mudslides. this morning, pete hegseth will report to the pentagon for the first time as defense secretary. we have new reporting on the

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sneak. did he make it to that white line. sure looks like he did. but officials said no replays didn't provide a definitive view. so the ruling stands. and five plays later patrick mahomes scrambles in for one of his two rushing touchdowns after the turnover on downs, putting the chiefs up. bills respond 70 yards down the field and allen hit curtis samuel for a touchdown, tied it up at 29. here we go buffalo. the chiefs would kick a field goal to take the lead. josh allen has plenty of time. left right. two minutes to go. but on another fourth down dalton kincaid just cannot hang on. so the chiefs quest for an unprecedented three peat continues after a 3229 win, their fifth super bowl appearance in the last six seasons. i'm just so proud of my teammates, man, how they responded. that was a great football team and i'm just i'm. >> just lost for words. i'm excited for new orleans. >> never satisfied baby. when you play in front of arrowhead

stadium like this, every single afc championship. you kidding me? kansas city? >> yes taylor swift back in the super bowl to face the eagles for a rematch with the chiefs from two seasons ago. philly has the best offensive line, best running back in the league. and it showed. saquon barkley 60 yards to the house on the eagles first drive. he had three rushing touchdowns. quarterback jalen hurts he had three rushing touchdowns to push curts and barkley are the first duo in playoff history to each have three rushing tds in a game. philly dominates 55 to 23. and with that kate, the super bowl logo conspiracy rears its ugly head again. the colors of the logo red and green. that makes three of the last four super bowl logos matching the teams playing in it, including the one for these two teams two seasons ago. some believe the seasons are scripted, predetermined outcomes. unfortunately for me, there is no blue and red spent

six years playing in buffalo. six of the best years of my life. i just knew this was the season we finally get over that. patrick mahomes and chiefs hump, but we did not again. >> i will say there was so much talk of the tush push that like on air in the commentary that my daughters were even like, what is this? and how do we get in on this? they were like, this is the best idea ever. they thought it was the most hysterical thing. we there was a lot of push, push commentary in my household last night. i will just say it was so funny and saquon barkley. i know that i have no room having any commentary on football. he always looks like he is in fast forward. i do not understand that man. >> yeah, i described earlier, it's like a 230 pound bowling ball covered in baby oil. you cannot stop that or even slow that down. this might be the eagles year to beat the chiefs. >> we'll see. >> we will see. love you buddy. thank you so much. all right. oh

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and concerns about a new rival a.i. company. let's take a quick look at the market. we're seeing dow futures down 400 points a little less than 1% more significant losses, the s&p 502%. but look at this 4% drop for nasdaq. we have not seen the nasdaq composite close by 4% or more since late 2022. so this is a significant drop. and one of the biggest losers this morning is nvidia. nvidia. the a.i. superstar down almost 12% in premarket trading john that translates to a loss of $400 billion in market value. now here's the crazy thing. this is all being driven by a chinese startup that few people had ever heard of before a few days ago. so we're talking about deep sea. this is a chinese a.i. startup that is really raising some eyebrows in silicon valley on wall street. and i would imagine in washington, because it's rolled out this new model that is surprisingly competitive with the best stuff on the market. now, it's not just that deep

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companies. and there was always the risk that something was going to come along and challenge that. and we are seeing that play out in real time this morning. >> questions the foundations of these assumptions that people have been making about a.i. right now, down a little bit less than 4%. we'll watch that throughout the morning. matt, please keep us posted. we will. all right. kate. >> thanks, john. >> we're looking at some heavy rains in california, also bringing with it threats of landslides to areas that have already been ravaged by fires. it's the good and the bad that are coming hand in hand here. cnn's meteorologist derek van dam is keeping an eye on all of this for us. and, derek, what do you what are you seeing? >> yeah, right. >> you're talking. >> about how. >> volatile this ground is. the recently burned area. so any additional rain. >> that falls on top of this scorched landscape is going to slide. it's a mudslide. it's a debris flow. and there are other insidious risks that go along with it, which i'll explain in just a moment. here's the recent radar. there is a sigh, a collective sigh of relief that we do have rain falling from the sky. but of course, when it falls over the areas that have

recently burned, that causes that risk of mudslides and debris flows. the good news is the heaviest rain is coming to an end. so we've actually had the flood warnings that were in place just about an hour ago. they've expired. there's still a flood watch into northern sections of western l.a. county. now here's a look at the two burn areas. eaton fire the palisades fire. notice the rain over this region starting to dissipate to the north, though, where the watch is still in place, the hughes fire still getting pummeled by rain and high elevation snowfall. so that's where the current greatest risk for flood, flooding and debris flows currently is. there's the future. you can see how the precipitation slowly comes to an end. i talked about this insidious risk that is kind of this after effect of this, the rain that is falling over these burned areas. there are a lot of contaminants that it's picking up. so there's actually a advisory for the l.a. county beaches not to go near the water. so keep that in mind kate. >> it's like the snowballing effect from one disaster to the next to the next to the next. derek, thank you so much for keeping a close eye on it for us

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>> this morning, lawmakers from both parties want answers. after president trump fired inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies, paving the way for him to put in his own people. now, this appears to be a blatant disregard for the law, which requires the white house to give congress 30 days notice and provide, quote, substantive rationale for terminating any inspector general. they didn't. cnn white house reporter alayna treene joins us now with the latest on this. what's the white house saying about the law, elena? >> well, right now they're. >> kind of. >> sidestepping questions. >> on that. but i do just want to walk you through how this all happened. so one trump administration official told me that essentially on friday evening, agency inspectors general received an email from sergio gor. he is the head of the white house presidential personnel office. effectively telling these different independent watchdogs that due to, quote, changing priorities, their positions had been terminated effective immediately. now, we know as

well that this has impacted different watchdogs at a number of agencies, including at the state department, energy department, interior department, et cetera. so this was a wide spread firing from donald trump. now, we did hear from president trump directly about this over the weekend when he was speaking with reporters on air force one, confirming this. take a listen to what he said. >> it's a very. common thing to do. some people thought that some were unfair or some were not doing the job, but it's a very standard thing to do. >> do you. >> plan to bring your own people in those positions, mr. president? >> well, then i might be. i don't know anybody that would do that, but we'll put people in there that will be very good. >> now, john, a few things to point out. one, there is no evidence to support the president's claims that these independent or these independent inspectors general were not doing their job well or fairly. but look, we know that during donald trump's first term, he did a similar thing. he gutted a lot of these independent watchdogs across the

administration. and that led in part to congress changing some of the guidelines on how these people could be removed from their position. and we heard a lot of critics from capitol hill, including several republicans, kind of ring the alarm about this, including, as you mentioned, john, that they weren't given the proper 30 day notice before terminating these people's employment. now, we did hear from one person, senator chuck grassley. he is someone who has long been kind of viewed as a champion for these different inspectors general and watchdogs. this is what he said in a statement over the weekend. he said, quote, there may be good reason the ig's were fired. we need to know that. if so. he went on to say, i'd like further explanation from president trump regardless. the 30 day detailed notice of removal that the law demands was not provided to congress. so this is something we're hearing a lot of people again on capitol hill say they want answers to. we'll see how the white house responds. >> all right. alayna treene for us at the white house. thank you very much. with us now, mark gillespie, founder and principal

of bluestack strategies, and christine quinn, executive committee chair of the new york state democratic committee. and i have the law, like, right here in my hands. this is we're talking about title five, section 403 of the u.s. code. federal law. an inspector general may be removed by the president, but if an inspector general is removed from the office or transferred to another position, the president shall communicate in writing the substantive rationale. et cetera. et cetera. not later than 30 days before the removal or transfer. that's the law. >> pretty black and white. >> and chuck grassley, the republican chair there, is saying you didn't follow the law. >> right. >> and regardless. >> of whether you think, as was said, these folks were doing a good job or a bad job, the law is the law, and it's prescribed that way because these individuals are supposed to be independent. they're not supposed to be pure political appointees. and, you know, you have to think if you're not afraid of watchdogs finding something out, if you're not afraid you wouldn't fire them. you would keep that infrastructure in place. so the american people know that there

is su their tax dollars are being spent correctly by all these federal agencies. >> well, the truth is, the law does provide more for a president to fire inspectors general if he or she follows the law. but what does it tell you that president trump in general wants this sweeping change to all the almost all the inspector general? >> right. and i think that's the biggest question here. and the cause for concern. >> is what. >> is the reasoning. >> um, and. hopefully we'll. >> find out what his reasoning was. for making that decision. but again. you pointed out he violated the law. and i think the bigger question that it causes for us all and for. republicans is what is. the role of congress if he's constantly circumventing it? and without mike johnson, the speaker, mike johnson, stepping up and being more forceful. >> and. >> you know, positioning himself as the speaker of the whole house, not just, uh. >> you know. >> the republican party leader.

it's going to be important for, uh, members of congress to do that and for the senate to do that, and for senator, you know, leader john thune to do that, because the president trump is the president. there's a reason for we have a separation of powers. and i worry about what that says. if he's continuing to violate the law, but also then tell congress what they should be doing. >> i want to talk about prices, if we can. my wife went out with one of my sons this weekend to a diner for breakfast, and they had an egg surcharge. if you ordered anything with eggs, they actually tried to get a diner, which the only thing you can order is eggs, but they put on extra prices there. this is what vice president vance said yesterday when he was asked about what the administration is doing so far to address inflation, which was really the primary focus of their campaign. >> we have done a lot and there have been a number of executive orders that have caused already jobs to start coming back into our country, which is a core part of lowering prices. prices are going to come down, but it's going to take a little bit

of time the point margaret was asking was a lot of the executive orders had been about immigration or die or other things not directly focused on prices. >> my question, christine, is as things move forward and presidents have some impact on prices and sometimes they don't. but how much will this hang over the administration? when will this start to be a factor for them? >> i think if they say things like, we've already done a lot to bring jobs in, which couldn't have happened in one week, regardless of who the president was, if they keep making statements like that, they're going to have it hang over their head more closely, more quickly. now, look, this was, to their credit, the economy, the price of eggs, the defining issue. and they defined it well. and we democrats didn't respond well. you get held to what you said. they made promises. and if they see president trump spending all of his time on issues that aren't

pocketbook issues, the public is going to get angry and i think get angry quickly because people are going to the supermarket. there's no eggs. the ones there are are incredibly expensive. and they said they could control it. >> one of the risks of promoting an all powerful presidency is if things don't go well, you really have no one else to blame. >> in theory, yes. but as. >> we have learned. >> donald trump tends to evade any. stinging criticism from the people who support him. the far right maga supporters. none of it matters to them. >> as far. >> as the, you know, obvious that you're being a rational person and you're looking at this and thinking, right, there's no way they could have done something in a week. so to say that they increased jobs and that they've already lowered prices, that's a talking point that isn't isn't based in any truth. and so i think then, you know, maga supporters hear that and they're not complaining about the grocery prices. you're hearing about it all through the election cycle. they're not complaining about it because they got what they wanted. they got trump back in the white

house. so everything else in their minds will shake out. but i think, again, as a rational human being, as somebody here who is looking at it from both sides, you're using talking points that the democrats are using largely during the campaign, trying to tell us that everything was fine and that things were going better than they were. and so i think that for voters, we need to take a step back and actually look at the facts here of what's happening, not just what's being spoken to us by a vice president vance or donald trump, or whether it was the democrats and kamala harris and joe biden. >> all right. mark gillespie, christine quinn, great to see both of you. thanks very much. kate. >> happening this morning, the new defense secretary, pete hegseth, taking charge at the pentagon today. already, the pentagon says that he has been on the phone with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as one of his first acts in office. that call coming as president trump suggests moving palestinians out of gaza. much more to come. let's see. cnn's natasha bertrand is at the pentagon on this. jeremy diamond is in tel aviv. natasha, let me ask you, what are you hearing about pete hegseth? we'll call it his first official day at the pentagon.

>> yeah. kate. so we do expect him to be arriving here around 9 a.m. following that extremely narrow confirmation vote last week, he was in the building a little bit over the weekend. he did, as you mentioned, speak to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and that actually followed the trump administration's decision to lift a ban imposed by biden on the shipment of 200 0 pound bombs to israel. and so hegseth clearly wanted to get the ball rolling on developing a relationship directly with netanyahu, one of the most important relationships, of course, that the pentagon can have with an ally. and so we do expect him to continue a lot of the work this week that was actually begun last week before he was even confirmed. and that was done under the acting defense secretary, including a lot of work on immigration. of course, sending additional u.s. troops down to the border, conducting military airlifts and repatriation flights of migrants

back to their country, something that has proven pretty controversial with those countries, including, of course, colombia, which we saw play out over the weekend. and of course, those anti die efforts, those anti diversity, equity and inclusion efforts throughout the military to try to essentially limit or ban altogether the kinds of programs that are focused on dei throughout the military and pete hegseth. he actually said in a tweet over the weekend, kind of, you know, underscoring his priorities here, that these offices within the military, they are not going to be permitted moving forward. he wrote it by hand there. and then he tweeted it out. dod does not equal dei. and one other thing that we should note here, hegseth is expected here today. we're not sure whether we're going to actually hear him speak, but we do expect, according to my colleagues over at the white house, trump to sign several executive orders that are going to impact the military directly, including a potential ban on transgender

service members, a ban on throughout the entire military dei programs, as well as a new executive order reinstating service members who were discharged over not getting the covid vaccine back in 2020 and 2021. now, we should note that that ban was actually repealed in 2023 under the biden administration, and service members were allowed to rejoin the military who refused to get the covid vaccine. but this, it seems, will go a step further and actually give those service members back pay. so expect to see a flurry of activity here today impacting the pentagon and more broadly, of course, the whole department of defense. >> yeah, sounds like it. we'll be tracking it right along with you, natasha. thanks for that, jeremy. let's talk about what we're hearing from president trump. his kind of new take on the cease fire between israel and hamas, or specifically what's happening in gaza. and he was talking to reporters over the weekend. and i want to play for everyone. what the president said about his suggestion now for gaza.

>> and we just clean out that whole thing. you know, it's over the centuries that said, many, many conflicts that right. and i don't know, it's something has to happen. but it's literally a demolition site right now, almost everything is demolished what what is donald trump suggesting here, jeremy? >> and how is the region reacting to it? >> well, kate, in addition to saying that he wants to clean out gaza. >> he. >> also suggested that both egypt and jordan should take in hundreds of thousands of palestinians who are currently living in gaza. and what he's really talking about here is the mass displacement of gaza's population of about 2 million people. ideas that have been floated here in israel by the far right wing, who have talked about the voluntary emigration, voluntary displacement of palestinians out of gaza to

neighboring countries. and it's important to recognize what that means for palestinians when they hear terms like displacement, when they hear terms like voluntary emigration, that takes them back to to a history of mass displacement of palestinians over decades in israel and in the palestinian territories over the course of the last 70, 80 years. and you contrast that, of course, with the images that we are seeing in gaza today as tens of thousands of people began returning to northern gaza after months of being displaced from that area, they know that what they are returning to in northern gaza is is enormous. enormous amounts of destruction. many of their homes have likely been destroyed. we know that across the gaza strip, about 90% of residential units have been damaged or destroyed. and in northern gaza, that is particularly acute. but when asked about trump's comments, multiple gazans who were preparing to make this journey back to the north made very clear that despite the war, despite the misery that they

have experienced, they want to remain on their land and their connection to their land is is stronger than any promises of living somewhere else. in more guaranteed safety. and in addition, it's important to note that both the egyptians and the jordanians are effectively rejecting this notion of displacing palestinians. ayman safadi, the foreign minister of jordan, for example, saying that our refusal of displacement is a steadfast position that will not stand. he said jordan is for jordanians and palestine is for palestinians. so this is an idea that has been floated by right wing members in israel and now is being floated by president trump, but really has very little traction here in the region from the mainstream players who are in charge. kate. >> jeremy, thank you for that. natasha, thanks so much to the pentagon as well. john. >> all right. overnight, a group of thieves stole four ancient artifacts, including a 2500 year old gold helmet. that's an old gold helmet. and that's after

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there were concerns up until, like, literally a few minutes ago, meg, of a supply shortage here. correct? >> yeah. john. >> so this all stems. >> from the communications. >> pause that. was put in. >> place by the department. >> of health and human. services broadly last week. we learned on friday that this had been interpreted to include purchasing orders for external research supplies. so essentially having to communicate with the outside world in order to purchase supplies for internal research going on at the nih. and this included things like test tubes that they need for maybe clinical trials or treating patients in the clinical center there at the nih hospital. food for animals, lab animals, supplies for studies, things like that. and so if these things were running out and we did talk with a few sources who warned that they were going to run out this week, that their research would have been interrupted, and that could have really ruined entire studies. and so we have learned just this

morning that there has been a communication, really trying to clarify that and to say there could be a continuation of communication with existing vendors. but the exception, john, is if those vendors do any external communications on behalf of the department of health and human services. so still really trying to keep in place that pause on communications, but trying to clarify that this internal work and the purchasing can keep going at the nih. and we know that that pause in communications has been said to be in place until february 1st. and so right now, people are really just trying to figure out what does this mean beyond this week, john? >> so still uncertainty, though, about funding external research. what's going on there? >> yeah, this has been one of the big sort of shock waves that's been sent out as a result of this that in addition to the pause on communications, that also ended up abruptly canceling these things called study sessions, which are essentially gatherings of outside scientists who work with the nih to review applications for grant funding. and the nih is a $48 billion organization.

it's the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world. and so these study sessions are important parts of the process to award funds to scientists doing all kinds of work across, you know, the entire country. and right now, we don't know, you know, does this stop february 1st or does this go on longer? and that's what's really worrying the entire academic infrastructure right now, john. >> it's just an unsettling period of uncertainty for a lot of people involved in some very important research. all right. meg tirrell, thank you for this reporting. keep us posted kate. >> looking overseas right now, russian president vladimir putin praising president donald trump in an interview that aired on russian state television. putin called donald trump in this interview a smart and pragmatic person, while also claiming that, as he called it, the crisis in ukraine, the war, the invasion of ukraine, he said, might not have happened, might have been prevented if donald trump was in power three years ago. and that is something that donald trump himself has boasted over and over again. this comes

just as the u.s. state department just issued a sweeping and sudden order to freeze nearly all foreign assistance and aid worldwide. the state department putting out a statement saying in part, quote, president trump stated clearly that the united states is no longer going to blindly dole out money with no return for the american people. so what does this mean for ukraine? joining me right now is a former president of ukraine, petro poroshenko. president, thank you for coming in. ukraine's president zelenskyy said this weekend that despite that new u.s. directive that the united states has not stopped military aid to ukraine. i'm wondering what you are hearing about that, and how has the dynamic of the war changed, if at all, with donald trump now in office? >> first of all. >> thank you very much indeed for the invitation situation on the front line and on the ground is really, really difficult. i every single week on the front

line, together with our troops delivering there, the maximum we can for supporting ukraine and we definitely connected the very strong hopes with the president. trump, the from my point of view, we want to declare you that just today it was an opinion poll and more than 50% of ukrainians are ready for certain compromise to finish the war. and you cannot find out any other people in the world who wants peace more than we ukrainians. and we are really have a hope that, first of all, united states do not suspend, do not stop military aid because this is the question for ukrainian survival. and we are fighting here not only for our land, but also for the freedom and democracy in the world. and at the same time, our soldiers are

giving their lives for the freedom and democracy, including protecting united states, 50% for compromise. but we have a five non compromise, non compromise on the ukrainian sovereignty, national identity. we never be again. the colony of russia. non-compromise number two, this is the territorial. identity. we never territorial, we never accept the russian occupation of the territory. non-compromise number three. on sanction. putin should cut the ability to finance the war. the non compromise on the financial and military assistance. this is extremely important for us and. non compromise for the nato and european union membership. this is the extremely important

things to for us to to work. that is the case. and i know how to finish the war within 24 hours. and. allison chinchar. >> that's going to give it one second to see if we can get president poroshenko back up. but it looks like our connection has been lost. president poroshenko, thank you very much for your time. work on getting that reconnected, to have him on again. new hour of cnn news central starts now. >> nearly 1000 arrests made in immigration raids across some of america's largest cities. this as certain migrant deportations cause a near trade war. heavy rains hitting california, bringing with them potential fire relief. but an entirely new threat of mudslides. and this morning, new allegations a