people do. but when you think about what that means in a bigger sense, as a.i. is populating more of the information that is being put out and that people in america and beyond are getting, that is actually quite frightening. i think we need to think this could be a. >> 10th of an iceberg, though, that unites america's creator class with its investor class and its security class. there are not many issues that pull those people together. >> they created class. a lot of that creator class, though, is on tiktok, right? and trump has some internal contradictions on his china policy. you said he has been one of the, you know, has changed the politics of china, but also, you know, just last week he was like, well, tiktok is fine. you know, our phones are made there too. isn't that okay? >> every american is going to go through this push pull. but in the end we have to disengage. >> and last night, trump suggested that perhaps microsoft could buy tiktok. i'm old enough to remember when he tried to do that in 2020 and then scrapped the deal. so anyway, we shall see how that ends up playing out. thank you so much to my panel today, brad, kate, isaac and alex. it was so lovely to have all of you here, and thank you for letting me be in for casey. we really appreciate you

joining us today. cnn news central starts right now. >> breaking overnight. >> an unprecedented. >> memo with. huge implications. >> the white house halts. >> all federal grants and. >> loans. >> would that mean trillions. >> of dollars on. >> pause? >> setting off a. constitutional standoff and maybe. a struggle. >> for those in. >> need, right. >> the earthquake. >> in. >> the world of artificial intelligence. why tech stocks imploded, and what's in store for today? with just a short time until the opening bell and new footage out of california showing the moment a single spark could have triggered what would have become the second deadliest wildfire in state history. sara is out. i'm john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. >> so the white house has now.

>> ordered all. >> federal grants and loans be put. >> on hold. >> meaning trillions of dollars of financial. >> assistance is facing an uncertain future at best right now. >> and while. >> we. are standing by this morning to learn the full. >> scope of. >> what this all. >> impacts, a memo. >> sent overnight did explain why they are making this move. the acting director of the white house office of management and budget instructed agencies to temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursements of all federal financial assistance so that they can. here's the quote. determine the best uses of the funding consistent with the law and the president's priorities. this has sparked significant confusion throughout washington and far beyond the leader of the national council of nonprofits who gets a lot. they get a lot of these nonprofits getting a lot of this financial assistance. they called it a potential five alarm fire, saying from pausing research on cures for childhood cancer to halting food assistance, reducing safety from domestic

violence, and shutting down suicide hotlines, the impact of even a short pause in funding could be devastating and cost lives. top democrats raising alarm as well. senator chuck schumer warning that if this continues, the american people will pay an awful price. cnn's alayna treene is live at the white house. she's got much more from it, just from the reaction, the flood of reaction coming in. you know, this is a big deal. and there's going to be big implications and big questions going into today. what is going on here? what's the latest you're hearing from the white house. >> that's right. well, just to break this down even further for. >> you, kate. >> because. >> you're right, this is a massive deal. starting today, trillions. >> of dollars in federal grants and loans to organizations. >> will be. >> halted due to this directive from the white house. now, this internal memo that was sent around yesterday by the acting director of the white house's budget office makes clear that beginning at 5 p.m. on tuesday, that's 5 p.m. today. these different federal grants and

loans will begin to begin to be halted. so the one thing to keep in mind is what this affects. this affects, we're told, um, trillions of dollars in grants and loans to research bodies, charities, universities and community projects. and this is what we have in this internal memo from the acting director, matthew faith. this is what he said. he wrote, quote, the use of federal resources to advance marxist equity, transgenderism and green new deal social engineering policies is to waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day to day lives of those we serve. now, as you mentioned, some of this is really getting into what we saw donald trump do last week with some of those first executive orders that he rolled out, really trying to minimize the type of diversity, equity, inclusion in the government, different roles that he believes are wasteful. and that's where a lot of this gets into. i'm told from some white house officials. now, one thing that this doesn't touch is medicare,

social security and, quote, payments to individuals will not be affected. but again, we're still learning more of really the breadth of this directive from the white house. now, as you mentioned, we are hearing a lot of criticism from democrats on capitol hill. also, some republicans. this is what senator, senate minority leader chuck schumer said on the issue. he said, quote, congress approved these investments and they are not optional. they are the law. and this is really getting to this question of, is this legal? now, we did hear from some experts that argue donald trump, the president may have some authority to pause funding like this temporarily, but this is likely something that we will see play out, whether it be in the courts or congress really taking this up, because a lot of people believe that this wasn't a move, that donald trump should be able to authorize. kate. >> how long the pause, what that means for the potential of the five alarm fire that the head of the nonprofit organization was just talking about? there's a lot of questions that need to be sussed out today. thank you so

much, elena. really appreciate it, john. >> all right. happening now. new fallout over president trump's move to fire at least a dozen justice department prosecutors who were involved in the special counsel investigation against him. the officials were told they were fired because they could not be trusted to faithfully execute the president's agenda. let's get right to cnn's katelyn polantz for the latest on this. good morning. caitlin. >> good morning john. >> career prosecutors fired for doing their job. >> if you were one of the people who. >> were assigned at. >> some point to work. >> on the special counsel's investigation. >> under jack smith, those two. cases against donald trump. over the past couple of years. in the justice. >> department and then. >> returned to your home office, the u.s. attorney's office, to work. >> as a line. >> prosecutor on. >> the types of cases. >> that normally are done by the department. you lost your job. >> yesterday because. >> you got a notice from. >> the acting. >> attorney general, james mchenry, saying you can't be trusted. >> so this is. >> so extremely unusual. it is typical for people who are

political appointees to end their careers. >> in an administration. >> whenever there's a changeover from one president to another, especially a difference in party. but this is donald trump remaking the department of justice with his top appointees. this acting attorney general, james mchenry remaking the department of justice layers deep. this affects about a dozen or more people who had remained at the justice department as career prosecutors, people in the d.c. u.s. attorney's office, the maryland u.s. attorney's office, other places, and what the administration wrote to these people is that they believe the biden administration had weaponized the justice department, and thus that was the most obvious thing to trump because of the prosecutions against him. that's the reasoning. and they write, you played a significant role in prosecuting president trump. i do not believe that the

leadership of the department can trust you to assist in implementing the president's agenda faithfully. that is the acting attorney general's memo that went out to these people saying they were removed from federal service. they can appeal it to a board called the merit systems protection board that is outlined in this memo. but they are terminated effective immediately. and john, one more note, this did not happen after other special counsel's investigations, including the mueller investigation. those people worked on those investigations for those offices and then went back home to where they sat in the justice department. this is entirely different than what we have seen before. >> i'm so glad you're pointing out the context here, caitlin. they are career prosecutors. that is such an important distinction. katelyn polantz for us in washington. thank you very much. all right. stocks hoping to recover today after a chinese a.i. company dropped a bomb on silicon valley. new details on the business model that rocked

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deepseek a.i. from a chinese company should be a wake up call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on competing to win. >> competing to win it. it got a lot more competitive just now. cnn's matt egan has much more on this. you've been tracking this. what's the latest here? >> yeah. >> kate, listen, it was a wake up call. it really, really spooked investors. >> and it. >> raises a lot of questions about the state of the a.i. arms race and how president trump is going to respond. now, the fact that deepseek says that it trained its models on fewer chips at a fraction of the cost, that is what really alarmed investors. that's why we saw nvidia lose almost $600 billion, the most that any company has ever lost in a single day. and the entire market overall lost about $1 trillion yesterday. that's according to dow jones because deepseek rise suggests that maybe you don't need as many nvidia chips as we previously thought. and so this is raising some questions about those. >> this was a company that was

like unstoppable. >> it was. >> it was something you and i have been talking about. >> going straight up but not anymore. listen, it's still it's still worth a lot of money. >> they lost more than many companies would wish to have. ever. >> that's that's a good point. that's a really good point. and we see futures are sort of mixed a lot calmer right now this morning but not a big rebound after that big loss yesterday. but the question now is what about those export controls that were supposed to prevent something like deepseek from ever happening in the first place? right. because there's all these restrictions imposed by washington that are supposed to limit the cutting edge chips, the a.i. software, the semi equipment, all aimed at slowing china's a.i. progress. and there's some that study this and say, look, these export controls, they backfired. they sort of put maximum incentive on beijing to innovate around these export restrictions. there's others who don't really believe what deepseek is selling here, right. they think that this company either stockpiled the high end chips ahead of the restrictions, or they bought a lot of them on the very active

black market, or maybe both. market veteran art hogan, he told me that, yeah, china says that they've come up with this silver bullet. but he said it could be like the guy in high school who says he has a girlfriend, but she's just at a different school. and if that's the case, kate and we don't know that it is, but if that's the case, then that supports those who believe that these export restrictions actually need to be toughened here, because there are these glaring loopholes that enforcement hasn't been as tough as it could be. and i talked to ed mills over at raymond james and he said, look, if you look at who president trump has surrounded himself with a lot of china hawks, marco rubio and others, that all points to more restrictions that he's going to potentially double down on these export restrictions because of deepseek. and i think when you put it all together, there's obviously a lot at stake here. we knew that the u.s. was locked in this a.i. arms race with china, but deepseek does suggest that that arms race is a little bit closer than we thought. and perhaps perhaps significantly cheaper too. >> and an arms race heating up,

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and the share is even larger. among those that lean republican. cnn's meg tirrell is with us this morning with the details. good morning. mike. >> good morning john. so this. >> is. >> new findings from january. polling from the health research group kff. >> and what. >> they find. >> is that. an overwhelming majority of u.s. parents support vaccinating their kids. >> 82% of. parents say. >> that they normally keep their kids up to date with childhood vaccinations. >> like the. >> mmr shot that's measles, mumps and rubella. but that number is down from about 90% in polling done from 2021 to 2023. and kff finds that there are real partisan differences in how parents approach vaccinations for their kids. for example, among parents who say that they are republican or republican leaning, 26% report that they have vaccine delays for their kids, either skipping doses or delaying doses for their kids. and that is up significantly, up from 12% in 2021. and the polling also finds that this could be driven by misinformation. they find that

parents who report believing false claims about vaccine safety are much more likely to have skipped some routine vaccinations. so, john, as there is all this talk about what's going to happen with vaccine policy under robert f kennedy jr. if he is confirmed as hhs secretary. there's a lot of concern about this. but we should also note that a vast majority of parents in this poll, 83%, say that they do support public schools requiring some vaccines for entry. john. >> interesting numbers. a big shift in just a few years there. meg, you mentioned rfk jr., whose confirmation hearings begin tomorrow. this polls got some information on him to. >> yeah. and of course, that also really splits down by partisan lines as well. so we're going to be watching rfk jr. at the senate finance committee tomorrow and at the health, education, labor and pensions committee on thursday. and as we go into this, this poll tells us that among republicans, there is much bigger trust in individuals like robert f. kennedy jr. and

president trump when it comes to health information compared with government agencies, there's more than 80% support of trust in those individuals versus close to 40% for the cdc and 51% for the nih. among people who report being republicans among democrats, it's pretty much the exact opposite. you see, only 7% have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in president trump or rfk jr. when it comes to health matters versus more than 80% trust in those institutions. and, john, for the republican polls here, they report a similar amount of trust in rfk jr. and president trump in health matters, as in their own doctors. john. >> interesting numbers. meg tirrell. thank you so much for this. again, his confirmation hearings tomorrow at 5 p.m. today, all federal grants and loans will be put on pause in president trump's unprecedented move to shift control for federal spending. and it sets the stage for a constitutional standoff and a standing ovation

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marquardt has much more and is tracking this developing story for us. good morning. alex. >> morning, kate. this could. >> have a major. >> impact on all kinds of projects around the world that are so reliant on u.s. aid money. we were told that on monday afternoon. the senior. >> leadership of usaid. >> the leading. >> u.s. aid agency, they were told. >> to go home. >> they were. >> being put on leave. these are. >> officials who. >> are not political. they were not put in place by joe biden, for example. >> these are career. >> officials who are nonpolitical and who are. dedicated to helping people around. >> the world. kate, we. >> saw the email from the acting administrator. >> to these. >> officials telling them to to go on leave. >> this is what jason gray wrote. to his senior workforce. we have identified. >> several actions within. >> usaid that appear. >> designed to circumvent the president's. >> executive orders. >> and the mandate. >> from the. >> american people. now, kate, one. >> of those executive orders was a 90 day. >> pause on. all

foreign. aid around. >> the world. >> with some. >> exceptions. and much. >> of. >> that foreign aid, the white. >> house said, is not aligned with. >> american interests. we heard from the new state department spokesperson, who said that the u.s. is no longer going to be. >> doling out money. >> with no return for. the american people in this foreign aid. pause. kate, there are some exceptions. israel and egypt, for example, will continue to receive military aid. but ukraine is not an exception. and of course, they are hugely reliant not just on american military aid, but on humanitarian aid to keep the lights on, to keep the electricity and infrastructure running, to keep their schools running to, to get food, for example. another example is pepfar, the very well known, very effective aids program that was started by george w. bush that has saved some 25 million people around the world. their aid will also be paused. so there could be some major consequences for this. kate. >> alex marquardt, great to see you. alex, thank you so much. john. >> all right. today, house

republicans are meeting at a trump golf course near miami to try to figure out how to enact the president's agenda while also slashing spending. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is there with the latest. >> it now comes the. >> hard part, actually getting the details. >> of. >> donald trump's sweeping. >> agenda put it into a. >> piece of. >> legislation and then trying to get the votes. the beginning part of negotiating what goes in that bill begins today. jd vance, the vice president of the united states, will meet with house republicans this afternoon to try to begin that process, to move ahead. but then there will be also specific meetings that are happening among house republicans to try to put up with the policy details. yes, they agree on the broad principles, but the actual details of negotiating are going to be so complex in order to keep their party unified and not really lose more than one republican in the narrowly divided house and the senate also, 5347. it will be difficult to maintain mostly most republicans in the senate side on board behind this proposal. now, what we're looking at

energy issues, immigration issues, border security, a complex tax overhaul and deep spending cuts and the spending cuts in particular are going to be very complicated to agree upon, not to mention overhauling the tax code. but mike johnson wants to move ahead very quickly as soon as next week, beginning that first process in this long process that could take months to implement. and one of the big questions is how to sequence this, whether to do it in one bill or two bills. that's a debate that's happening between house and senate republicans. and when donald trump spoke last night in doral, florida, to his two house republicans as they're debating how to proceed, he did not give much clarity. >> we just want, uh, whether it's one bill, two bills, i don't care. let these guys, they're going to work it out. >> now, senate republicans are concerned by putting everything into one big bill. it could essentially collapse under its own weight. they believe strike now fast on issues of immigration and the energy and energy issues. get that off the table and then punt on taxes

until much later. but the question ultimately is going to be what can they actually get through the house? and that's one thing they have to begin to figure out. starting in these breakout sessions today as they move to washington next week, to try to move ahead with this early part of the proposal. can they get it done? that's going to be a major question and a huge complication in the months ahead. >> all right. our thanks to manu. let's get back to the big story breaking overnight, the trump administration announced it is freezing all federal grants and loans, suspending possibly trillions of dollars in payments to numerous programs. while the white house reviews each one. with us now, democratic strategist julie roginsky and pete seat, former spokesman in the george w bush white house. and julie, there's a two page memo here. and i'm going to talk about this with lawyers because there are some legal questions. i mean, big legal questions about how much power the president has to do this. but the tone is set by the explanation, sort of, for why they're doing this. and this memo written by the trump administration official here.

federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation and disbursement of all federal financial assistance and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders, including financial, foreign aid, non-government organizations, die woke gender ideology, and the green new deal. the green new deal. >> doesn't exist. >> doesn't exist. so what does this tell you? >> it tells me that we. >> don't. >> live in a monarchy. no matter how much donald trump wants that to be the case. he is not a medieval monarch. he can't just seize money that's been appropriated. >> by congress. >> and i'm sure lawyers. >> will tell. >> you the same. >> but the reality is. >> that. >> this is money. >> that congress has appropriated, and it is for the executive branch to disperse that money. that's how it works in a in a system where you have a separation of powers, he cannot just come in and by executive order, i.e. by fiat, decide that he is going to govern without the advice and consent of a co-equal branch. >> of government. >> which has allocated this money. and by the way, this is. money that impacts people's

lives. this is money that ensures that people get the health. >> care they need. >> it ensures. that they get the relief funding they need in places like california, which is facing wildfires right now, it is money that people rely on every single day to get through their lives. and so the people who voted for donald trump need to understand this is not just him coming after woke, quote, unquote ideology. he's coming after them. people in west virginia, people in mississippi, people in kentucky who rely on federal funding more than anybody else, certainly more than california does for the amount of money that they give to the federal government. they have to understand that this is their livelihoods, this is their lives that he's coming after, not just some woke people living in san francisco. however, he wants to term it. >> you know, pete, i mentioned you worked in the george w bush administration. one of the programs impacted, at least for now, is pepfar, which is financing for aids drugs in africa. that that saved 25 million lives. it's projected since 2003, when this was first

enacted. that's a lot of lives. and there's there's one study that finds that if you were to get rid of pepfar, that some 600,000 people would die in south africa alone over the next ten years. i mean, this is the kind of thing that has a huge impact. >> pepfar is an. >> incredible bipartisan program. >> it is one of. >> the hallmarks. >> of the george. >> w bush legacy. i hear about it whenever i. >> travel overseas. >> it's top of mind for people. when you mention that you once worked for george w bush. i'm a big believer in supporter in foreign aid. i think the american people just don't know the full scope of how important. >> those dollars. >> are and how they bring people together, and how. >> it's a way that. >> we. >> can leverage america's status. >> as a superpower. but there. >> are dollars. >> that are being spent to. advance a political ideology. >> an ideology. >> that. was rejected. at the. >> ballot box in november.

>> pausing temporarily. >> that's the important word, temporarily pausing. >> to review. >> what these. >> dollars are, where they're going. what they're doing. >> i think, is a responsible thing. americans voted to reject that ideology. and we should take a look. >> at it. it may. >> end up in the courts. a lot of these decisions may end up in the courts. donald trump is testing the boundaries and it will end up being adjudicated as it likely should be, probably by the supreme court at some point in the near future. >> julie, what about that? >> but but, pete, you know, while we're sitting here temporarily pausing, you talked about foreign policy. you talked about foreign aid. there are people in ukraine right now, our allies, who are going to be starving and who will not have energy or heat because of these decisions in the coldest parts of the ukrainian winter, even as they're being assaulted and their energy grid is being assaulted by russian invaders. if you really care about foreign policy, if you really care about

those people in south africa that you talked about, they need life saving medicine today, and that money has been allocated by duly elected members of congress. it's not just donald trump who was elected. so were those people. and those people allocated that money. it is for this administration to disburse that money. they will have an opportunity to introduce a budget. congress will pass it. congress will tinker with it. and then you can go from there. but the money that's already been allocated legally needs to be spent. and by the way, there are people who cannot wait, both here domestically and abroad, for donald trump or doge or elon musk or whoever is going to get to the quote, unquote bottom of this to take their sweet time, because this literally means life and death for them. and i don't for the life of me understand how that's not clear to anybody with any shred of empathy, which i know you have in their body. >> you know, it is interesting, pete, because, yes, you know, everyone says elections have consequences. and this memo, that's the whole justification for this memo. the memo says the american people

voted for this. well, elections have consequences, but the constitution has consequences, too, right? i mean, does the spending clause of the constitution not have consequences? pete? >> again, the courts will have to decide this. donald trump was elected because americans enough americans to give him the electoral college and the popular vote, were sick and tired of the status quo, not just the status quo of the biden-harris administration, but the status quo of the entire system writ large. so i don't appreciate the the implication that i don't care about foreign policy or what's happening overseas, because i don't see a problem with a temporary pause. again, i'm not a legal scholar. i'm not a lawyer. i don't make decisions on that. politically speaking, americans made their voices clear about how they feel regarding the ideology that was

advanced by the previous administration, and they don't want to see that ideology advanced any further. >> we will see, i think, in the coming days and weeks, depending on how long these temporary spending freezes are and how many people are impacted, how they do feel about it, it will be something to see, and i do expect parts of this will end up in the courts soon. pete, great to see you. julie roginsky, our thanks to you as well. kate. >> try this on for size. women have the strength of ten men, no doubt about it. i agree, and i'm not biased at all. that is from one college coach, basketball coach to another, praising the university of tennessee's women's basketball. women's basketball coach, kim caldwell. after she returned to the court just days after giving birth to her first son. cnn's coy wire. joining me now with another amazing sports tale. what a week this coach had. >> what an inspiration this coach is. kim caldwell was such a good coach as the head woman there at marshall that after just one season there, tennessee swoops her up and now here she is, her first season leading the

18th ranked team in the nation. one week ago, she delivered her first son, 6 pound, ten ounce connor scott, while she had the flu. four days later, she was at practice and last night there she was walking out onto the court for a huge showdown against the defending national champs. number two south carolina. more than 12,000 fans there in knoxville, giving her a big ole ovation, while tennessee ended up falling short on the scoreboard there. caldwell told reporters afterwards she was surprised with the response she received from vols nation. listen. >> i definitely wasn't expecting it. i tried to sneak in. that's why i sneak in the back. um, i always try to go unnoticed, but it made it worth it. it made coming back worth it. >> women have the strength of ten men, no doubt about it. i think she's very passionate about. >> her team. >> and coaching here. >> you want to talk about tough women? maybe. kim caldwell is channeling one of her predecessors, the late, great lady vols head coach pat

summitt, who for years held the record for most wins in ncaa hoops. in 1990, coach summitt was two weeks away from her due date, but she was determined to go on a recruiting trip to visit the top high school recruit in the nation up in allentown, pennsylvania, summitt's water broke on the plane when she landed, she called her doctor who said, hey, first babies take a little longer. that's all coach needed to hear. crippling back spasms and all. she made probably the fastest recruiting pitch ever. kate made the two hour flight home and a healthy baby. tyler was born. that recruit was michelle marciniak. she went on to become an all-american, played in the pros, and she was at the game last night, you know, coach caldwell said of the late, great pat summitt. she said she changed the game. i'll never be pat summitt. nobody can. but i will strive every day to be somebody she would be proud of. man. i think she'd be quite proud of her determination, her dedication to be there with her other kids. right. those ladies on the court there for the lady vols, and she now has a healthy baby boy at home to go home and

and be a good momma for him to. >> an amazing friggin example of just being a boss. i mean, that is like getting it done. rock star status for sure. and you know why she didn't expect what was coming? she's too busy. she's got a coach and she's got her. she's too busy, okay? she's too busy to be looking for any accolades. my friend. >> and exactly. there's a great quote from pat summitt in the book about her where she said, i always feel like i have one more thing to do. she's always living in the moment, thinking about what's next and what's next, and never thinking about anything other than being the best she can be right here, right now. kim caldwell, setting a great example for all of us around the world with that inspiring story. >> yeah, kim caldwell, way too busy this morning to be watching us that i can be sure of with with a baby at home with a one week old at home. but we applaud you and we are here for you to support you nonetheless. it's good to see you. thank you for shining a light on that one coming up for us. he had just been pardoned by donald trump

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capitol riot, was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy in a traffic stop. indiana state police say the deputy stopped matthew huddle in his vehicle. huddle resisted arrest. they say, according to police, an altercation took place between the suspect and the officer, which resulted in the officer firing his weapon and fatally wounding him. police say a firearm was found on huddle. google says it will rename the gulf of mexico as the gulf of america on its google maps. in the u.s., that's following the executive order from president trump. it will also rename mount denali as mount mckinley, in line with the president's executive order. google says the changes will appear once federal maps make the switch. and apple watch to the rescue. three people backcountry skiing near the cascade mountains in washington state. they were stranded after one of them fell approximately 1000ft and injured his leg. the king county sheriff's office say they received an sos alert from an apple watch, and a helicopter

with infrared equipment was dispatched to the scene. aerial footage shows the skiers waving to the crew. now, the person fell 1000ft is said to be doing okay. i think maybe the person, like, tumbled 2000ft down the hill. i don't know that you hurt your leg. falling. like you drop 1000ft. i'm not even sure. an apple watch can save you. >> i was like, i have, so i agree on all fronts. and i'm also now having heart palpitations because my husband is about to go off on one of his many ski trips. and this is why for every holiday i give my husband like avalanche kits and all sorts of things john berman because this is terrifying. >> also, i think the infrared footage there showed bigfoot. as an aside. >> my cue to move on. i love you. get out! it's. here's another quote for you. as many as we can arrest and deport. that is what president trump's border czar is saying, that he envisions. or the goal may be over

this coming year. tom homan denying that there have been arrest quotas that have been set and given to ice officers. but sources do tell cnn and cnn reporting is that law enforcement teams across the country have been given various numbers for arrests that they should be hitting each month. homan spoke with our colleague kaitlan collins about the ongoing deportation operations and the trump administration's changing long standing policy that had prevented federal immigration officers from entering sensitive sites like schools and churches to make arrests. that has now changed. >> your big priority right now is. deporting public safety threats and national security threats. how does changing the ice policy that allows agents to conduct arrests and enforcement at churches and schools help with that? >> there's no safe haven for public safety. threats to national security threats. people say, well, what are you really going through a high school? well, people need to look at the miss 13 members and tren de aragua members who entered this country, a majority

in between the ages of 15 and 17. many are attending our schools and they're in there and they're selling drugs in the schools in their in there, and they're doing strong armed robberies of other students. so we did not go into schools or hospitals as a matter of practice. but if it's a if it's a significant public safety threat or significant homeland security threat, there is no safe haven. we'll go where we need to go to take them off the street. >> but you obviously are someone you've been working on the border for years, sir. i mean, you got an award from president obama for people who don't know watching. and you also, you know, have worked through these administrations. this was the policy that's been in place, i believe, since 2011. and it wasn't changed before. i mean, do you have any reason to believe that that elementary schools or churches are harboring, you know, these violent immigrants who are here illegally? >> well, like i said, when the circumstances arise, we got a national security threat, significant public safety threat. we're going to go. we got to go. whether it's a school, a church or a hospital, the national security is important. and look, name

another law enforcement agency. does the fbi have those requirements? no. does dea have those requirements? no. so i shouldn't have those requirements either. we have a national security responsibility. we're going to take those people off the street. if it's out of a school, that's what we're going to do. again, it takes a lot to get approval to go into school or a church. but if there's a national security threat, we're going. >> a new lawsuit against southern california edison claims the company's equipment is responsible for the fire that burned down the plaintiff's home. her lawyers released video from a gas station security camera that they say shows sparking at a transmission tower in the area. cnn's veronica miracle has the details a flash on. >> this gas. >> station surveillance. >> camera is at first hard to see, but a new. lawsuit alleges this is the start of the deadly fire that tore through altadena. >> video obtained. >> by law firm edelson pc allegedly. shows sparking electrical power lines, they say eventually erupted into the fire

that killed 17 people and damaged or destroyed more than 10,000 structures. the video is a centerpiece in a lawsuit filed against utility company southern california edison on behalf of an altadena woman who lost her home. at this point, are you confident that sce is responsible for the eaton fire? >> absolutely. we filed a lawsuit against them. we believe they are responsible. >> socal edison has repeatedly denied claims that their equipment started the catastrophic blaze. monday morning, the company filed an update to the california public utilities commission saying they found a fault on a transmission line five miles away from where the fire allegedly started. even though there was an issue five miles away from the alleged starting point, could that have impacted that area and cause arcing and sparking in that area and caused the fire? >> so this is an ongoing. >> investigation, and we will continue to inspect and review. our equipment. >> while the cause of the fire is still under investigation, more videos of the alleged origin of the blaze are emerging

all around. the same time. this new surveillance video is time stamped at 2:10 a.m. coordinated universal time or 6:10 p.m. pacific time. pedro rojas took this video just a few minutes later at 6:24 p.m. it shows flames exploding at the base of an electrical transmission tower. jennifer and marcus errico captured pictures from a similar vantage point at 6:15 p.m. >> i can't say. definitively that it was the power lines that caused it, but i can. canyon is right on the edge of. altadena and pasadena. that's where the fire began. it was under that tower. it began as a small little blaze underneath, and within ten minutes, the whole hillside was engulfed in the fire. >> in court monday, southern california edison agreed to keep this transmission tower and nearby equipment de-energized to preserve evidence. it gives edison's lawyers 21 days to have their own experts inspect these lines. >> what we learned today was that there could be potentially

physical evidence five miles away in this other line that they reported experiencing the fault at the same time as the fire. >> how is that possible if it's five miles away? >> all these lines are interconnected. these these transmission lines, they all feed together. and so when one experiences an issue miles down the line, this is traveling at the speed of light. it has implications. it impacts lines down the way. >> our hearts. >> are with. >> everyone who has been. >> impacted by the wildfires in southern california. and right now, this is an ongoing investigation, and we're at the beginning of it. and we are committed to working with local investigators and finding out, you know, what what happened here. >> the judge in today's case says there are at least 19 other lawsuits against southern california edison. and when we spoke to the plaintiff's lawyer, he said that he's also representing hundreds of other people. he expects to file more lawsuits. he also expects all of these cases to get folded into one big case, so that a bunch of

different judges aren't making a bunch of different decisions. and just for reference, that video that you saw at the beginning of this story, this is the arco gas station, where that surveillance video came from. the transmission tower in question is over a mile from here. obviously, that spark would have had to have been very large and very big for it to be picked up on this camera. veronica miracle, cnn, altadena, california. >> breaking this morning. cleaning house at the justice department. president trump firing more than a dozen career federal prosecutors, all involved with the special counsel's counsel's cases against him. and wait. there is more. also, this oklahoma schools potentially promoting the president's immigration agenda. the public schools they're about to vote on whether they'll require parents to report their immigration status when enrolling their children in school. and now the pushback that they are facing, and for the first time since

amazon bought whole foods workers at a whole foods in philadelphia have just voted to unionize. i'm kate bolduan with john berman. sara sidner is out today. this is cnn news central okay. we are following breaking news continuing this morning about another major move by the white house, a move described by the politico playbook this morning as trump's massive power grab. at stake, potentially trillions in federal grants and loans and aid as the clock now winds down on it all being halted. this could impact millions of americans and millions of people overseas, from disaster aid to small business assistance, to support for charities and food assistance programs. bottom line a lot remains unclear at this hour about just how sweeping the impacts could be, how far this could reach and how