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to reinforce the u.s. mexico border. we're joined now by cnn's matt egan, who has more. matt markets, at least earlier in the day, had not been responding favorably to all of this. >> that's right. boris. i mean, there are days where markets move in mysterious ways, and it's not really clear what's driving stocks up or down. today is not one of those days. it is totally clear the dow fell almost 700 points this morning as investors were bracing for president trump to put tariffs on all three of america's biggest trading partners. but the market turned around completely. you see, the dow is actually up by a few points right now. and that's because, yes, trump has said that those tariffs on mexico, they haven't been canceled, but they've been delayed by a month. so the message from the market seems clear here. right. tariffs are not great for business. and we've heard the same message from business groups right. homebuilders are warning of higher home prices because there's going to be tariffs on

building materials. farmers are worried about retaliatory tariffs. and the footwear industry is also alarmed about higher prices. i talked to the ceo of the trade group who represents crocs, nike and other footwear companies, and he told me, if you want to make a list of ways to drive up prices, this tariffs would be at the top of the list. it's totally counterproductive. and he went on to reject the president's argument that tariffs are paid by foreigners. he said, look, we're paying these tariffs. consumers are paying these tariffs as well. and to that point, there's some new numbers out from the peterson institute that finds that the typical household is going to have to pay an extra $600 per year because of the tariffs on canada and on china that were just hours away from that figures, actually goes up to $1,200 per year. if you include the planned tariffs on mexico as well. so look, at the end of the day, clearly tariff man, as president

trump has called himself a tariff man is back. and that doesn't just mean mean a return of all of the tariffs themselves. right. it's also a return of the chaos, the uncertainty. right. tariffs are threatened. they are increased. they're dialed back. retaliatory tariffs are threatened as well. and meanwhile everyone is just trying to make sense of it all. and consumers of course are bracing for the potential of higher costs. >> boris and bracing for tariffs to potentially go into effect tonight. right. what do you think investors will do if they do what happens tomorrow? >> well. >> i don't think that we're going to see a dramatic reaction from the market. if those tariffs on canada and on china go into place, because i think at this point it's probably largely priced in. but i do think the reaction from the market is telling, right. there is some concern about tariffs now. right. we're just in a very different environment from back

in 2018 and 2019. during trump's first term, investors, central bankers, consumers, everyone's a lot more sensitive to higher prices right now. and there's obviously just concern about interest rates, right? i mean, if tariffs go into place, if they stay in place for a long time, it could prevent the federal reserve from lowering interest rates, which of course would mean higher borrowing costs, higher mortgage rates for everyone. so there's so much at play right now. and we're going to find out in just the next few hours whether or not these tariffs do, in fact, take effect. boris. >> we may get some indication of what's going to happen based on the readout from this call. so we'll be watching for that. matt egan live for us in new york. thanks so much, brianna. >> president trump again saying that he'd like our northern neighbor to join the united states what i'd like to see canada become our 51st state. >> we give them protection. military protection. we we don't need them to build our cars. i'd rather see detroit or south carolina or any one of our

tennessee, any one of our states build the cars. they could do it very easily. we don't need them for the cars. we don't need them for lumber. we don't need them for anything. >> canada not on board with that idea, to say the least. but trump's objective for waging a trade war with canada is not actually clear. he's mentioned canada becoming a state. he's also mentioned wanting more american banks in canada. canada's car exports, their immigration and drugs. and just this afternoon, trump's trade adviser, peter navarro, said it was that last one, drugs that is motivating the tariffs on canada. >> we're in a drug war and mexico understands that. they've been very cooperative. president trump has been fully engaged with the mexican president. canada seems to think we're in a trade war, and not only seems to think we're in a trade war, they're dramatically provoking the trade war. >> you can't blame canada. even

though south park, the movie might suggest you should for thinking they're in a trade war and not a drug war with the u.s., because less than 1% of the fentanyl street supply in the u.s. comes from canada. most drugs come through ports of entry, not between. and in 2024, only about 43 pounds of fentanyl was seized at the northern border, compared to more than 21,000 on the southern border. and that's not sitting well with canadian officials, including the outspoken canadian mp charlie angus well, i think the issue is, is that donald trump has claimed that canada is a narco state. >> the man's a liar. so would we put some more money on the border? sure. i'd love to put more money on the border to keep american guns from shooting our people on the streets. we would do that to avoid a trade war. we're reasonable as canadians. >> and a big meeting scheduled right now with justin trudeau and donald trump. we'll see where that goes. in the meantime, global markets are seeing some uncertainty from the

threat of terror tariffs. and cnn's richard quest is here with a look at that side of this equation. so, richard, is there worry that trump could expand this use of tariffs i don't think he's. >> worried that he could. there's worry that he will and i we are in such unchartered territory here that i'm aware that anything i say not only could be nonsense and meaningless by tea, but look, let's just take this. the speed with which he has settled with, um, mexico suggests he always intended to. that this was a deal waiting to be done. the mexican president offered 10,000 troops. she probably knew that was the price he would accept. done. deal. sorted. excited canada's different. listen to the rhetoric that you've just been hearing about. it's as if the administration wants this fight with canada because of the

territorial ambitions regarding whether it's greenland or canada or whatever. donald trump is looking at this in a different way because there's no logic. there is no logic on the drugs issue. there is no logic on the immigration issue. the the guns go north, not south. same around. so if we we have to start looking at where does he want to have a fight. he wants to have a fight. i think with canada nothing else could explain the way it's been put together. and the eu. he loathes the eu. have a listen. >> we have massive deficits with the european union, massive like $350 billion, if you can believe it. they don't take our farm product. they don't take our cars, they don't take almost anything. i asked a couple of the leaders, i don't want to use names, but how many chevrolets or fords do you see in the middle of munich? and the answer is none, because they don't take any cars, they don't take

anything. so the european has abused the united states for years and they can't do that and they want to make a deal. let me tell you, in all cases, they all want to make deals. >> he's conveniently forgetting that for all those number of years, the reason they didn't take all the cars from the u.s. is that u.s. car manufacturers ford, general motors, chrysler had large operations. volkswagen. so vauxhall had large operations in europe. so that's why it was. but my point also let's look at let's look at the uk. he's also not one. he's also suggesting he could do a deal with the uk. brianna this is about politics. it's what he wants and who he wants to have a fight with. >> yeah. and sometimes it's just about appearances as well. richard quest, thank you so much for that boris. >> let's expand the conversation now with larry summers. he's a former treasury secretary under president clinton. larry, thanks

so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. i do wonder what you make of trump and some of his administration officials saying that canada is inciting this trade war through their actions. do you see it that way at all? >> it's absurd. >> canada is. >> our friend. canada is not an. >> important source of illegal immigrants. canada is not an important source of illegal drugs. kennedy is an important market for american products. canada is a crucial co-producer with american automobile companies that enable north america to compete with asia and europe. this whole policy is of the stop or i'll shoot myself in the foot kind. it represents a self-inflicted supply shock, a wound on the american economy. it is very dangerous. the major

winner will be xi jinping. >> why do you say that? >> because we are with our tariffs on china, giving him an excuse for their poor economic performance and ability to blame it on us, because by alienating all our traditional allies and creating uncertainty about whether we can be relied on, we're driving people into china's arms. >> and when it comes to the impact on u.s. consumers, if these tariffs wind up going into effect one minute after midnight, how soon do you think americans are going to feel an impact? >> i think it will be within a week, within a small number of weeks, because people will know that when they deplete their inventory, the marginal new goods in their inventory is going to be more expensive because of the 25% tariff, and

therefore they'll price that in. they'll want to be able to blame their price increases, not on themselves, but on some policy from outside. and so they'll want to associate the price increase as much as possible with the tariff. and that will mean doing it, uh, very quickly. so i think this will be felt, uh, very rapidly in the economy. and there's never a good reason to raise prices, reduce people's, uh, purchasing power in order to make yourself, uh, less competitive. >> what do you make of the argument that on some level, beyond just economics, as trump said, it's about your ability to have a pain threshold to endure pain. he's essentially saying that it's part of a negotiating tactic, that as american consumers suffer that

pain, there will be a greater good that comes of it. whether it means reduced fentanyl or reduced immigration to the united states, or access to, for example, financial products that the united states can sell in canada, could there be any kind of greater good that comes from consumers paying higher prices belief that the united states is suffering in a major way from. >> canadian exports that the united states is suffering from a major way from its cooperation, uh, with, uh, our traditionally most reliable ally that is, uh, canada. why it would make any possible sense to raise the price of cars and foodstuffs and foodstuffs and gasoline by hundreds of dollars

a year for consumers in order to let some american bank sell some kind of investment certificate in canada. i can't imagine why that would be a good trade off for american people. and the effect of all of this is just going to be that every other country in the world, if we were prepared to do this with canada, is going to view us with much more suspicion. they're certainly not going to do anything voluntarily generous for us if they expect to be extorted in the near future. uh, in this way. so it's pretty rare, actually, to be able to formulate a policy that's loose for american consumers, lose for american producers, lose for american influence in the world. and only is benefiting our

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the analysts, the operations specialists, the those who are supporting the agents because it's not just agents who are being scrutinized here, it's fbi employees to do that with a broad brush, i think is is irrational. if you're going to look. at executive management, that's one thing. you know, to but they need also to have a fair investigation into what happened. if something was illegal, if something was improperly conducted. absolutely. i believe those individuals, whether they be agents, executives on the streets, if something was illegally conducted, if somebody's civil rights were violated, they should be punished appropriately. but just to blanket punishment and blanket dismiss, which is the rumors. and again, this is all rumors. if that is the way this is to be conducted, i think it's a very dangerous precedent. and what could happen to the bureau as a whole in the future? >> john, what do you think? >> i certainly.

>> agree with that analysis. we know that some of the. >> people at. >> the higher ranks have been. told to pack up, either retire or pack up and leave, and i understand that a number of them are contemplating lawsuits, which i think are excellent. first of all, there are procedures and they must be followed. there is due process, they're entitled to it, and i think they'll keep their jobs because all they were doing is were their jobs. and i don't think these are people who were cutting corners doing anything improper, but rather pursuing a criminal investigation of a man who ended up becoming reelected as president. so the the output of the the lawsuits. it's ironic is the very information that donald trump didn't want to ever have become public, could very likely become public in civil lawsuits. so that would be one thing. uh, that's my my take on it, denim. >> i'm curious what you make of

donald trump earlier today saying that only kash patel could restore the reputation of the fbi, not just restore it, but take it to places it had never been before. what did you make of that? >> well, i don't quite agree with that. and president trump has made a lot of moves, which i agree with. and in restructuring and, you know, bringing new blood into the into the government, but bringing kash patel. that's one move. i don't agree with it. i think there are other there were other candidates who were better suited, former agents who become who worked for president trump. and there were also some attorneys who would very be very well qualified for the position. uh, mr. patel was before the before the senate. um, you know, i don't quite agree with a lot of the things he said. i do agree with some things he said. but that's the question is whether he makes when he makes good with the statements that he made in front of the senate and follows through with those. that's the question i really am concerned. when senator booker asked him if there were going to

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these are controlled by statute. they create the agency and the position and give the president the right with the with the advice and consent of the senate to make the selections. there are about four or about 400 political appointees in the department of justice and the fbi combined. it's not a lot when you figure there are about 100,000 employees there, but there is no question there is the right of the president to have management. uh, what is not contemplated, though, is such extraordinary changes in the thrust of the agency. richard nixon, the president for whom i worked, tried to politicize the fbi. uh, j edgar hoover had been running it almost since its inception, or if not from its inception until he died when he died in may of 1972, nixon put in a political crony, a fellow

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elizabeth, this hearing comes after weeks of public back and forth between lively and baldoni. >> that's right. >> brianna. so this has now escalated from the court of public opinion to an actual court of law. today, the first hearing in this incredibly public celebrity feud. and i can't tell you how rare it is, brianna, for two costars to go head to head like this. we typically see settlements in celebrity cases because they don't want their dirty laundry to air. they want to avoid this all for the exact reason that we have seen this play out in the public and across tiktok. but today, the judge telling both sides, yes, you can speak to the media, but you can't make prejudicial statements. and if you do, i am going to move this trial up. so, brianna, right now, this trial is set for march of 2026. so it is a ways away.

but the judge today, you know, warning them and giving a stern warning that do not make prejudicial statements on either side or else there could be consequences. >> and what what is next? i mean, that's a ways off. is there anything else before march? >> well, look, i think the big question is, are we actually going to see these stars on trial? right. the trial date again has been set, but are we going to see blake lively and her husband, ryan reynolds and justin baldoni take the stand and actually go through with this? and as of today, brianna, the answer is yes. both attorneys for both blake lively and for justin baldoni, they have said they are ready to move full steam ahead. today, outside of court, our colleague nikki brown, who was covering for us, she caught brian friedman. and this is what he said. he said, quote, my clients are devastated financially and emotionally. and he is saying that is the reason why they want to move quickly

with this. now, i have received a statement from attorneys for blake lively. here is what they tell me. quote, the court granted our request that all attorneys in the matter actually follow the rule of law and not make any statements that could prejudice a jury. this case deals with serious allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation. we will hold the defendants accountable, and we are confident that once all the evidence is submitted in this matter, miss lively will prevail. now, her attorneys also telling me they are ready for discovery. so both sides, brianna, ready to go, ready to go to trial. >> all right. elizabeth wagmeister, thank you so much for that. still to come. we're awaiting an update on salvage operations on the potomac river. teams are now raising pieces of the american airlines jet that collided with an army helicopter last week. we'll have the latest. >> welcome back. >> have i got news for you returns february 15th on cnn. >> look out, cause here i come.

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is cnn aviation analyst peter goelz, a former managing director of the ntsb. peter, thank you for being with us. there's been a discrepancy on just how high the aircraft were when this crash happened, right. the plane's data recorder showed 325ft roughly, but air traffic controllers said they never had an indication that the helicopter went above 200ft. and the head of the ntsb says investigators pulled data to help understand the discrepancy. what could it be? >> well, first. >> it's preliminary data. >> and there this is all accident. investigations are complicated. >> and they take some time to make sure that every piece of data that you get from the recorder, from. >> the flight. >> controllers. >> is accurate. and most. >> importantly. >> synced up second by second.

if the helicopter could very well have been. at 200ft sometime before the accident, but we won't know until probably later this week or early next week when they get the synchronization done and they examine all of the available information that they've got, which includes the data recorder from both aircraft and the and the information from the control tower. >> talk to us, peter, about the data recorder. maybe the voice recorder from the army helicopter. we're not exactly sure what it is going to show. what are the possibilities? and is it are we necessarily going to learn something incredibly helpful or not? >> well, i don't think it's going to be incredibly helpful. i think everyone has a pretty good idea that for some reason, the helicopter was out of its

flight control pattern was above 200ft. the data recorder should show us precisely how high it was, but we know we will know from the psa recorder at what altitude they were, and that will be incredibly precise. and that will tell us, because the impact took place, that will tell. tell us what the altitude of the black hawk was. so i'm not sure, you know, that, that the information from the black hawk will be all that revealing. what it will show also is how the flight had been progressing. had they been, uh, you know, following the appropriate flight plans, had they been following the appropriate checklists? >> peter, i do wonder, as we've watched pieces of the plane get removed from the potomac today, if you've noted anything, if you've had any thoughts or questions about what you've seen, parts of fuselage coming

out of the water, there. >> no, it's just it is. i've been involved in a number of open water recoveries and and this kind of recovery in a in a river, even though the depth of the river is relatively shallow, shallow, 8 or 9ft, it has real challenges. the visibility is virtually zero. it has this silt laden bottom, which means that it gets stirred up and the, visibility goes to absolutely zero. and it's cold and there's a current and there is a tremendous amount of dangerous torn wreckage to deal with. i mean, i don't i admire the divers enormously who are taking part in this recovery. it's going to take some time, but there's nothing i've seen from the lift so far that breaks with

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