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and we begin the hour with sweeping worldwide power plays from the white house, plays that are sending shockwaves throughout the global economy this morning, and having world leaders on edge. now, just since friday, president trump announced 25% tariffs on canada and mexico, 10% on china. the usaid website, it went dark. employees at the washington headquarters have been told to stay home today. and elon musk declared that the agency is responsible for saving. that's responsible for saving millions of lives is a, quote, criminal organization. the trump administration is revoking legal protection for 300,000 venezuelan migrants here under a humanitarian program. and the president's purge is expanding. the doj demanding a list of thousands of fbi agents and others who worked. on january 6th and trump investigations. so let's tackle the first one first. a trade war at midnight tonight. all goods from mexico. most imports from canada will be

slapped with a 25% tariff for chinese imports. that number is 10%. and here's what that means for you. you'll pay more for fruits, vegetables, grains, meats, sugar, just to name a few things. a typical car sold in the u.s. now could cost you $3,000 more. all in all, the average u.s. household will pay more than $800 more this year, and canada, already retaliating with tariffs of its own. and at any moment, the president of mexico is set to speak, and we'll get more details on which u.s. goods her government will target. joining me now for more on this cnn business editor at large richard quest and cnn global economic analyst rana foroohar. richard, i want to start with you. let's look at the markets. what are we seeing here? >> we're seeing common sense, to quote the president. we are seeing exactly what one would expect to see. bring up the numbers right now. if you have just been told that your business is going to have to pay an import tariff going into

canada, or you've been told that the u.s. economy is going to slow down because of a tariff coming into the united states. your profitability is at threat and therefore your share price can no longer be can no longer be taken for granted. that's what you're seeing. the share price is not some magic number that's plucked out of the air. this is investors saying they believe economies are going to slow down. and in the case of canada and mexico, probably go into recession, there will be a. to put it in posh economic ease. there will be a downside to economic activity. and in that scenario, everything falls out of bed. and by the way, just to really complete the trifecta here, and we haven't even seen this isn't pricing in full tariffs against the eu. the issues with south africa starting off with japan, australia, this hasn't factored in anything like the full nature of the whole shebang.

>> yeah, it's an important point. the president has been very clear. this is just the start. this is not by any means kind of the end game, at least at this point in time. >> phil, phil, my point is, this is not the child's tantrum. this is not the markets throwing their toys out the pram. what you're seeing is makes economic and market sense. >> you know, rana, to that point look the president was very clear over the weekend, said that americans will feel, at least in his mind, quote, a little pain as a result of this. this is what he said. take a listen. >> we may have short term, some little pain. and people understand that. but long term, the united states has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world. we have deficits with almost every country, not every country, but almost. and we're going to change it. it's been unfair. that's why we owed $36 trillion. >> you know. rana, look, let's be very clear. president trump has been very clear that this was his plan. this was something that he wanted to do. the cost

benefit here. when it comes to people's wallets, how does it net out? >> oh, boy. i'm feeling that there's going to be more than just a little pain, phil. you know, adding to everything that richard just said, which i agree with. we haven't even started to factor in the effect of the stronger dollar that, you know, it sounds. oh, okay. the dollar is strong. actually. that means inflation is coming. that starts to affect emerging markets, which have been doing well in the global context, but it makes their debt more expensive. that could create a debt spiral that could affect markets in the u.s. this isn't just about how much more you're going to pay for orange juice. it may not even be about how much more you're going to pay for a car longer term, or whether or not the entire auto industry is going to be disrupted. we're talking about moves and countermoves that are the sort of things that, without being alarmist, can spark real financial chaos. prices at a global level. so i'm very worried. and yes, we've been

told by the president that these were some of the actions he was going to take. but we had also been sort of led to believe that tariffs might be a little more strategic than what we're seeing right now. we're seeing tariffs on allies actually. interestingly, bigger tariffs on allies than on adversaries like china. and what is considered success by the trump administration is completely nebulous. so this has all the hallmarks of something that is going to get hotter and worse before it gets better. >> richard rana mentioned kind of the retaliatory piece of this. we've already seen the first tranche of what canada is rolling out a second to come. we are set to hear from mexico's president claudia sheinbaum. any minute now could get a clearer picture of what their actions will be. what do you expect those will look like? >> oh, they'll be for tat. they will be exactly the same. they will hit u.s. exports into those countries and they will be tariffs. you see the problem with the problem challenge issue, whatever you want to say with canada and mexico is that

we've spent the last three decades doing this, integrating the border now first with nafta, then with usmca. the very goal of trade policy in the last 30 years has been to create a frictionless, borderless trade area between the three countries. now, you're going to do this. essentially. think of it like that. every single item of every little car, whether it's the thrust capacitor, the widget widget, whatever it is, is going to cross the border backwards and forwards and get tariffs and tariff and tariffs. and this is what's happening. you the imagine you've just taken the whole trading relationship and turned it upside down. and as the wall street journal describes it, the dumbest trade war ever because it wasn't necessary. there is a huge gap between what what the president's doing and what he could have done and how you

could have got there, but instead, and. i look, i i've probably got a few years on rana because in terms of doing doing this, um, but we're pretty close. not that that's. >> a compliment. >> yeah, exactly. i don't think either of us have ever seen anything like this before. no one. >> no one. look, i'll be honest. our graphics folks couldn't do any better than what you just demonstrated with your interlocking rotational figures. rana, real quick, because we have to go. but endgame here, the president talks about revenues and the need to raise them. the president talks about rebalancing trade relationships. what is the endgame in your view? >> i think the endgame is that the president thinks he's william mckinley and that we are in a different era, because that's the moves that you're seeing. richard's quite right. we haven't seen anything like this not just in half a century, but since last century. um, we are in uncharted territory. >> it's an important point. richard quest, rana foroohar, thanks so much. and as things escalate, tariffs on lumber,

other key construction supplies could have a dire impact on america's housing crisis. now, about 7% of all materials in new home construction in 2023 were imported. that's according to the national association of home builders. and their president and ceo, jim tobin, joins me now. jim, thanks so much for joining me. just to start, what is your sense right now within your organization of the actual impact of 25% on canada, 25% on mexico, on all imports as it relates to home building? >> there isn't a room in the house that isn't impacted by imported materials. china, canada and mexico are by far our three biggest trading partners when it comes to building materials, so i expect we're going to see prices go up right at the start of the of the spring building season. >> i think the difficulty right now in talking to folks across the business community is, you know, day one in this administration, there is an executive order about trying to address high costs, housing being one of them, specifically a provision in the executive order on on prices. um, this

seems to run counter to that. how does your organization try and figure out the through line here? >> well, president trump ran on immigration. he ran on tariffs, but he also ran on housing. we have affordability, housing affordability, housing affordability crisis in the country. and he talked about building more houses to do that. and we are absolutely at odds when it comes to tariffs. we get we just don't produce enough of the building materials we need in this country. so we have to look over our borders and to hurt primarily our our two biggest trading partners in canada. mexico really sends the wrong message to home builders, but also, i think to home buyers and anybody who's trying to put a product in their house. >> what's the strategy? you know, one of the i think striking things to me is just how different this is from trump trade policy. 1.0. right. um, tariffs were obviously a huge element of his first administration. he has been very clear about his personal views on them, but there are no exemptions in what was just laid out over the course of the weekend. there doesn't seem to be any workarounds. you've got

lawmakers right now kind of in a panic saying, you know, chuck grassley saying we need an exemption for potash. uh, susan collins is saying we need an exemption for things up in maine. how? what are you hearing about kind of what your members can do to try and not get hit here? >> i think there's a couple of things. one, we have to look for other countries where we can import lumber and timber. so whether it's the scandinavian countries or even south america, partners, where we have free trade agreements already are certainly lower tariffs. and now we're going to see that canada itself is going to look for better markets. traditionally, they're going to find it to china, which means they're going to ship all of their timber over to china, which further constricts the supply and raises prices when it comes to lumber in particular. but for us, we're going to work in a coalition with all of our housing friends to make sure that not only our suppliers, but also other other building organizations and other real estate organizations. so that's that's where we're going to. and we're going to continue to petition the trump administration on those exemptions and finding out where is and what is the endgame here, especially since when it comes

to housing, again, we're running counter to what the president wants to do. >> in terms of the endgame. what have you been told? your coalition is a powerful coalition in this town. this administration listens to what business has to say, doesn't necessarily do what they want them to do. but we'll always listen at this point in time. wt do canada and mexico need to do? >> well, we know that it's about fentanyl and about illegal immigration. so but what are the metrics? right. um, so we're waiting to find out what it is too. um, but we just hope it's not a prolonged trade war, but we're going to anticipate that the president, you know, i, i take him at his word. he's going to use tariffs to to drive policy, but also to raise money or also increase the domestic production capacity. but i don't think they can all do all three things very well. and that's the real challenge we have ahead of us. >> on that third point. you know, that's what you hear a lot. fine. our domestic that plausible in the home building industry? >> i don't believe so because i give a great example with lumber. for the last decade, there has been consistently

between 10% and 20% tariffs on canadian lumber that comes in consistently. and we have not seen meaningful increases in capacity or production from the u.s. producers, while they've had that tariff protection. so right now is about 15% tariff on canadian lumber. now we're going to put another 25% on top. that 40%. and we may even see that increase over the summer. so i don't think the u.s. domestic supply has really rebound or has really responded to those, those tariffs. so i don't have much faith in it. >> there's been and we've seen in the markets that there has long been this view that the there's the threat and then there will be a moderation or maybe a phased approach. he'll listen to the econ advisors, not necessarily the trade protectionists that are in his his team. were you surprised that this was actually launched this weekend? exactly how trump said it would be? >> no, i think i think we've seen again for the last two weeks now into week three of the administration, he's doing exactly what he said he was going to do. we're trying to take this holistically, right. the president president said it.

there's going to be short term pain. we get it. but we're also waiting to see what happens with further executive orders. are we going to roll roll back regulations or we have a tax bill that's coming. so there's a lot more to go here. but i think this one seems like it's going to hurt in the short term. no doubt about it. >> yeah. there's a there's a fulsome plan right. and a holistic plan. but this was definitely the pain at the front end of said plan. >> this is going to hurt. it's just ill timed. especially with our building season coming up. so um, you know we're we're fully expecting products to cost more. >> we'll keep us posted as we appreciate it. well, still to come, uncertainty about the future of usaid workers at its d.c. headquarters. they were told unexpectedly to stay home today. that's next welcome back. >> have i got news for you returns february 15th on cnn. >> safelite repair safelite replace. >> nobody likes a cracked windshield, but at least you can go to safelite. com and schedule a fix in minutes. go to

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international aid agency, or usaid. in a surprise overnight email, employees at the headquarters in washington were told to stay home today. the main office is now closed. elon musk says the president agrees with him that the agency needs to be permanently shut down. >> what we have here is, is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have actually just a ball of worms. if you've got an apple, it's got a worm, and it may even take the worm out. but if you've got actually just a ball of worms, it's hopeless. and usaid is a bowl of worms. there is no apple. and when there is no apple, this. you've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. >> now, this is a medium sized agency that manages about $40 billion a year. it is the largest distributor of humanitarian aid in the world. but it also goes well beyond that, giving out money for everything from education to promoting free markets and democracy around the world. cnn's alex marquardt has been

doing the reporting on this and joins us now. alex, this agency exists in statute is it closed? for all intents and purposes right now? >> it to say the very least, its fate is very much in question, if not sealed altogether. my colleagues and i have been speaking with usaid officials for the past few days. there's a tremendous amount of fear. one word that i keep hearing over and over is the word purge. i spoke with someone this morning who said that this feels like the apocalypse for usaid. they were told in this overnight email that to not come to the headquarters today, it's called the ronald reagan building to told to to stay home and work remotely. and so much of this is being driven by elon musk, who, of course, very much has the president's ear. after some of our reporting over the weekend, he posted on x the platform he owns, that usaid is a criminal organization that needs to die. the president himself appears to agree. he said that it is being run by lunatics. so what would this look like? we've already

seen the websites and x page for usaid. shut down. there is a new page on the state department website, which leads us to believe that what we're going to see is the absorption of usaid into state. but you just laid it out very well. usaid is an operational agency that does so much around the world. and the people that i've been talking to, aid professionals, former and current officials, say that the state department is not equipped to do what usaid does, which is going to some of the most difficult and dangerous places around the world. they don't have the capability to to to do this kind of thing. and so those services would be severely hampered. and of course, there's the legal question. you can't do away with an agency like this by executive order. it has to be done by congress. so it is its fate is very much in the balance right now. >> i want to ask you, there's a there's a piece in your story which i think is applicable across several agencies right now. i know we've been reporting it out on the treasury department side as well, where there are doge personnel that

the elon musk group that was created by an executive order on the first day of the presidency, they were trying to get access or getting access to the security system and personnel files. is that how did this work? >> so on saturday, a team from doge showed up at usaid demanding entrance, and they were initially blocked from getting in. we're told that they threatened the people at the at the headquarters to saying that they would get the u.s. marshals over to, to basically force their way in to barge into the building. they wanted access to security systems, even classified areas, and eventually they did get into the building. and as a result, the top two security officials for usaid were put on leave, joining many other top usaid career officials who have been put on leave. amid these fears that the agency is being gutted. >> just real quick, because i know we have to go. do we know who these people are? >> not exactly the people who are actually showing up under the doge umbrella. we don't know who they are, but but it's an excellent question and something we're trying to figure out. >> they ostensibly work for the

government, or at least are detailed on some level. we have no idea who they are, what their backgrounds are, what their clearances are. they're just showing up. >> demanding access to classified areas with extremely sensitive information. >> and the executive order says unclassified is what they're allowed to have access to, not classified. great reporting as always, alex. thanks so much. now to panama, where president trump is reiterating his threat to, quote, take back the panama canal, warning something very powerful will happen because of china's presence around one of the most critical waterways in the world. secretary of state marco rubio was in panama over the weekend and met with panamanian president raul mulino. cnn's patrick oppmann joins us now. patrick panama has already made efforts to demonstrate concessions over china issues. i think the big question right now is, is that going to be enough? >> apparently not. and the panamanians that i've been speaking with over the last couple of days were hopeful the diplomacy would prevail, that there would be a lessening of tensions, which has really worried this key u.s. ally,

which is just not used to being threatened by the u.s. so one of the key concessions made over the weekend by josé raúl mulino, panama's president, is that panama will no longer take part in the chinese belt and road initiative, and panamanian officials as well, showed how their assistance on immigration closing down the darien gap has led to a steep drop in the number of migrants coming north through panama and eventually to the united states. all the same, you heard from marco rubio, a message from the trump administration that they feel that there continues to be too much of a chinese presence and the panama canal and these unfounded accusations from donald trump that the chinese military has actually taken over the panama canal, that somehow these ports that are run by a hong kong company are actually kind of a front for chinese military outposts, something there's just not any proof to back up. but for panamanian officials, they are essentially under the gun. and certainly the

visit went well. marco rubio visited the canal, something that shouldn't be possible, one would assume, if the chinese actually controlled the canal. so, panamanians, i've spoken with, within and outside of the government felt at least they were able to sit down and talk. but certainly it did not lead to any significant lessening of tensions, and that they are seeing very clearly now, as others are in the region, that just because a country has been a longtime u.s. ally, that does not mean they're exempt from u.s. threats. >> yeah. i was down there a couple weeks ago. we talked before the trip. you were very helpful. a lot of confusion as to what they actually want here. it doesn't seem like they've gotten any clear answers. patrick oppmann as always, thanks so much. well, coming up, it has been two years since norfolk southern, a norfolk norfolk southern train derailed in east palestine, ohio. now, a new lawsuit alleges for the first time that people died because of the disastrous and toxic derailment. details ahead.

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community still has not recovered economically, and environmental concerns remain to this day. one mental health study of those affected by the crash found a third of participants suffer from ptsd. in an ironic twist, before the crash, netflix actually shot a film about a train crash that was filmed in parts of ohio. >> life is good, jack. i hope it lasts forever. >> can't just sit on the fence. >> something that could actually. >> let's watch a sitcom or something. >> no. >> and my next guest was an extra in that movie. before living the real life nightmare in east palestine. ben ratner joins us now. ben, thank you so much for your time. i want to start with, what do you want to hear from vice president vance today? >> uh, i think it would be key for the new presidency to hold

norfolk southern accountable and keep the promises that they put in place in the previous year. uh, keep keep those going. there's already a few things that have come off the plate or off the table, so to speak, that, uh, we were looking forward to and helping to move, move the town forward with a new emergency emergency center that's now not no longer in place. so things like that, uh, correcting that and making sure that, you know, holding them accountable in the long, long term would be important. >> you know, ben, the crash was never labeled a federal emergency, something residents had made very clear they wanted during trump's campaign, which had a very prominent stop in east palestine. he promised more help. a fellow east palestine resident, misty allison, wrote in time magazine that, quote, they, trump and vance gave us hope that even in times of partisan, division leaders could come together to support those in need, and now they can, quote, address the critiques they lobbed at the previous administration and direct directly make good on their promises. what's your especially

in the community after what the community has been through your faith that politicians that a government can make good on promises here. >> i speak very highly or think very highly of, uh, missy. and she was able to put that a lot more eloquently than, than than i could. um, i feel like, uh, that is, that is the the the point. this needs to be an above partisan. uh. situation. uh, this company is owned by, you know, multi companies that are, you know, controlling large portions of this nation's economy. and they need to be held accountable. and sometimes i feel like our politicians are too scared to step to the table and do that. >> there have been settlements. have you or do you know people in the community who have actually seen some of that money yet? >> i personally have not, um, for about a year or so. i just kind of put my head down and focus on my friends and family and things that i can control

locally and really try not to pay a lot of attention to, uh, the chatter and just. that that was one of the things was, you know, doing the paperwork for the the lawsuit. but i'm not dependent upon anything like that. i know these things are, you know, uh, a mirage. mirage in some ways, uh, we'll see if anything actually comes of it. >> why do you think they're a mirage? >> uh, just again, the size of these kinds of companies and who they're owned by. and norfolk southern's, a conglomerate of, you know, hedge funds and, um, you know, one of the companies itself is valued at, uh, $1 billion. and this company or $1 trillion, and norfolk southern is valued at five. 5 billion on its own. uh, it's a lot of economy and a lot of business that goes into keeping this company and companies like it going. and there's too much,

uh, like it's a david and goliath situation where a town of 5000 people and just hopefully, uh, you know, we're not not forgotten about in the long, long term. >> what has it help people understand what it's been like to deal with insurance companies and state agencies, with the federal government? kind of the byzantine nature of the system that exists here. >> yeah, i think a lot of people don't necessarily until it touches them personally in their lives. they don't really understand the way things are connected, the way that, um, money and politics affect their day to day. it's just something in some ways that has become entertainment for a lot of people. uh, the tie in with social media and the way people are just kind of, uh, addicted in a way to new new stories and new information, and there's money to be made in ads so that people are constantly clicking. and the divisiveness that came from this, um, is, is in some ways worse than the the health

fallout. environmentally, i think it's more how people are impacted. uh, the community has been impacted and fractured in a lot of ways that i hope that the next year or so we can work to repair. >> can i just quickly, before i let you go tell people about the community, what should people know about east palestine outside of this accident and tragedy? >> yeah, the community has a proud history of manufacturing and is a really tight knit place to live. i've lived there since 2007 and owned a house there since then, and i feel like, you know, after the first year of recovery, we're now looking for ways to rebound. the people that have decided to stay. and i think a good call for people to band together would be to turn this environmental disaster into something that could be an environmental positive. you know, if we can work to bring down our, uh, you know, carbon footprint in some ways, if we

could, uh, band together and have better, better business community or better economics for the town than we had before by using this negative for positive and trying to get east palestine on the map as, uh, you know, a place that is unifying people and, um, hopefully, hopefully that can happen in the next in the coming years. >> certainly. share that hope. and ratner, thanks so much for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> yeah. thank you. appreciate it. have a good day. >> well, crews have begun to remove large sections of the american airlines jet and army helicopter that collided over the potomac river last week. what the ntsb is revealing about its ongoing investigation. that's next. >> okay, everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. >> ensure with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. >> and ensure complete with 30g of protein.

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patient and her mother. investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder as they try and figure out what happened. in washington, the ntsb says it will release black box information later today from another crash from the army helicopter that collided with an american airlines flight last week over the potomac river. one specific focus will be the helicopters altitude at the moment of impact. investigators are also studying the voice and data recorders from the american airlines flight. also today, american army corps of engineers started recovering the plane wreckage from the potomac river. this was moments ago during. as recovery continues, you can see parts of the plane being pulled from the potomac. now, crews have recovered and identified the remains of at least 55 victims. i want to bring in chad kendall. he's a former airline pilot and faa chief instructor in the department of aviation and aerospace science at

metropolitan state university of denver. chad, thanks so much for joining us. the release of the black box data that we're expecting today. is it a surprise that the ntsb would be releasing that at this point? >> no. >> as the ntsb continues their investigation and. >> a very. >> active process here with both recovery and investigation occurring at the same time, and the ntsb is going to share information as they receive it. um, you know, so that way, as they're continuing, as they're going through the investigation, uh, they're trying to put together what caused this accident to occur, but not surprisingly, the ntsb is providing information as they as they receive it. >> as you've kind of followed the investigation, what you've seen over the course of the last several days, what question would you most like answered at this point in the investigation? >> i think as we're seeing information come in specifically about altitude and altitude for the jet aircraft, the altitude for the helicopter altitude that the air traffic controllers were seeing on their radar scope. you know, that's something that's part of this investigation. and certainly communications from

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