toasters. yeah would you encourage that? >> or was that. >> as a parent? >> we didn't discourage it. but. yeah, he. >> i guess there's not much you could do about it because you needed him to put them back together, right? >> yeah. >> when he was in school, one of the teachers in elementary school, one of the teachers was throwing out an electric pencil sharpener, and he took it out of the trash, and he brought it home and repaired it and brought it to her the next day. >> it's like he was born to do this. i mean, this is something that's just incredible to me. you know, so many people do stuff that they don't really love. they don't really like. they're doing it because they need to. you know, everybody needs to make a living. but this was a passion. and he was serving his country. and there's just it just what a what an extraordinary life and contribution he made. so thank you. thank you for talking to us, gary and mary. i really appreciate it. >> thank you.

>> the news continues right here on cnn it's tuesday, february 4th. >> right now on cnn this morning. >> if we don't keep winning and keep doing well, we won't be the pot of gold. and then tariffs won't be so good for us. >> trading tariffs. china announcing they'll retaliate after president trump's tariffs go into effect. >> plus he has. >> offered to. house in. his jails. >> dangerous american. >> criminals. >> an unprecedented offer. >> el salvador says it will take deportees and convicted criminals of any nationality, including american citizens. and then. >> our decisions and the courage of our soldiers have redrawn the map. but i believe that working closely with president trump, we can redraw it even further. >> the israeli prime minister heading to the oval office as israel and hamas prepare to resume ceasefire negotiations.

all right, 5 a.m. here on the east coast. a live look at the washington monument in our nation's capital on this tuesday morning. good morning everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. the trump administration is putting those massive tariffs on mexico and canada on hold after striking last second deals. president trump touting a call with mexico's president after she agreed to move troops to the southern border. >> the call with mexico went very well in the sense that they're very strong now on the border. they're going to put soldiers there. we're going to have a big negotiation with mexico. i'll be involved, too. and president sheinbaum will be involved to see whether or not we can work something out on the tariffs. >> it is worth noting that mexico agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border, the same number they sent when the biden administration requested border assistance back in april of

2021. after two calls with canadian prime minister justin trudeau on monday, the trump white house also announced a 30 day pause on tariffs against canadian goods. in exchange for canada agreeing to put troops on the northern border and to name a fentanyl czar. similar terms to their already announced border plans back in december. the trump white house, now touting both deals as major breakthroughs, quote, canada is bending the knee just like mexico. end quote. the president's press secretary tells cnn. but some canadian lawmakers are disputing that characterization. >> i think with donald, it's so important that he looks like he's won something. so yeah, we'll make concessions on something that, you. >> know, he can write a press release about. but on key areas, canadians would, i think, would hunt our leaders down if they bowed and kissed the ring to the man from mar-a-lago. >> the trump administration also

claiming victory because of this offer from el salvador while meeting with el salvador's president, secretary of state marco rubio, announcing that country would take any migrants of any nationality deported from the u.s., including those convicted of crimes. the agreement comes with this offer for u.s. prisoners. >> he has offered. to house. >> in his. >> jails dangerous american. criminals in. >> custody in our. >> country, including those. >> of u.s. citizenship and legal residence. >> no country has ever. >> made an offer of friendship such as this. >> quite an offer of friendship. el salvador's president confirming that arrangement, saying they are willing to take u.s. convicted criminals into their super prison in exchange for a fee. joining us now to discuss margaret talev, senior contributor at axios. margaret, good morning. and good morning. we did not officially. >> coordinate all. >> we did not. but yeah, great minds. um, each day seems to

bring something new and different from the trump administration. um, let's start with this. el salvador thing, because it is really unlike anything we've seen before. what is the bottom line like? what is going on? >> well, you could call. >> it an act of friendship. >> you could also call it an. >> act of finance. they said. >> for the appropriate fee. >> but the bottom line is legal experts are coming right out of the gates saying the united states does not. it would be unconstitutional to deport an american from america. so. >> um. >> it's not clear that the u.s. wants to take up this offer or is taking any steps to take up this offer. i think you would see a tremendous amount of immediate sort of pushback and like, i don't, but there are also other concerns about it, like there are concerns about human rights, uh, the way these prisoners are treated. but the bottom line is that el salvador understands what you heard the canadian official talking about,

that what the u.s. president wants in his early weeks back in office is to show, to be able to show his american constituents a series of wins or other countries reacting to him in a way. and this certainly does show that it's it's el salvador seeming to say, how can we help you? how can we help solve your problems? and maybe that buys el salvador some insurance, uh, against the idea that that migration out of so many central american countries is a part of what's caused trump's taken aggressive stance. >> yeah. let's kind of expand out and talk about what we saw in terms of the tariffs, which obviously we all woke up on monday morning. trump's trade war in full force market futures are down 25%. tariffs on canada and mexico deadline of a day. >> and then it's over. >> and then it's done right. i mean it's like these headlines are now the opposite. trump delays imposing tariffs on

mexico canada at the 11th hour. i mean, we were sitting down here to the opposite headlines yesterday. obviously this is a continuation of the way donald trump uses tariffs as threats. right. like art of the deal. et cetera. is there a point where it starts to look like the boy who cried wolf, though? >> i don't know, i think we're like, literally a couple of days into this trump. >> we keep forgetting that it's been a long two weeks. >> it's a long, long two minutes. voters have heard already the idea that tariffs, if imposed to their fullest threatened extent and if lasting over a period of time, would have a significant impact on the price of goods coming to the united states, and on the ability of u.s. makers of goods to export to the countries that will do retaliatory tariffs. and now you've seen china immediately do the retaliatory tariffs to the u.s. tariffs on china were a couple hours in. this could all change by noon. >> i was. >> going to say, right. >> we already dated this conversation.

>> but but if they are, if they last 24 hours or 36 hours and they come with a promise in that period of time, a commitment to push assets up to the border, whether that's a substantive, real change in policy or whether it's kind of window dressing that allows the u.s. president a pr win. either way, if it staves off the escalation of those tariffs, then then it doesn't mean that the price of goods for anyone is going to skyrocket. like i think about this in many different ways, though, you're seeing in europe a real concern that that tariffs could impact, you know, the auto sector or the luxury goods sector. a lot of americans who can afford it, like german cars or louis vuitton bags or what have you. and so ultimately that would affect the american consumer as well. and then on the other end, with when it comes to china, um, in addition to seeing some

impact on u.s. companies that have business in the international space, like google is now going to be under investigation by china in retaliation for the u.s. tariffs increases on china. but in addition to that, like, why is america flooded with cheap chinese goods? because americans like cheap stuff. and if you look in your closet or your drawers and you start looking at where everything you have was made, you may or may not be surprised to see how much of it was made in china. um, it's because americans want the cheap goods. so if the cheap goods were no longer available, americans would be upset for president trump. he really needs to balance these things. he hates the idea of trade deficits or looking weak. he wants to be able to use the threat of these things to force some concessions around key messaging on things like immigration or fentanyl or what have you. but at the same time, like for him to be able to continue to do the kind of stuff he's doing that everyone is freaking out about with elon musk, with the justice

department, with usaid, he needs to be able to hold enough american confidence that he's going to reduce their price of goods and improve the way they perceive the economy, and that is a really delicate balance with tariffs. and so i think everyone can understand what could happen, but we don't know what will happen yet. >> right. trump does a lot of things. i don't know if delicate is one of the things. >> scalpel like precision. >> margaret talev, thanks very much for starting us off this morning. i really appreciate it. all right. coming up here on cnn this morning, president trump welcoming the first foreign leader to the white house today, israel's prime minister visiting amid growing uncertainty about the next stage of the fragile ceasefire with hamas. plus, a grim recovery mission, crews begin pulling the wreckage of the american airlines jet from the potomac river. and a special government employee. how much power does elon musk really have inside the white house? >> elon can't do and won't do anything without our approval, and we'll give him the approval

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>> members of his coalition. also pushing. back on the opposition. >> but while. >> it's all smiles. >> up front. >> there are a lot of serious issues that the two men are going to have to discuss. and the. >> cease. >> fire is sort of the the front page issue, but they both have other things in mind. netanyahu is always focused on iran. president trump is looking at saudi arabia. he wants his nobel prize. he wants to see if there's a big deal out there. and so those are going to be the hard issues they're discussing behind the scenes. while cease fire dominates the headlines. >> and when you talk about saudi arabia, you're talking about normalization. that's right. between saudi arabia and israel. can you dig in a little bit more there? i mean, we know that president trump obviously prides himself on the art of the deal. you've seen him out there threatening mexico, canada and quickly walking back the threats after he got some concessions. how does the way he plays this kind of thing play out in the relationship with israel and netanyahu? >> so for president trump, his favorite success from his first term was the abraham accords, which expanded israel's peace with multiple arab countries. saudi arabia was always the sort

of the big. >> the big. >> one, the white. >> whale. >> the white whale. it continued to be so for president biden, who tried to get there as well. but saudi arabia has an ask, which is if we want peace between israel and saudi arabia, there needs to be a pathway for peace between israel and the palestinians, including a two state solution. that is a major ask. so it's going to come to a head at some point for president trump. this is how he gets his nobel peace prize. if he negotiates that for prime minister netanyahu, going that route may collapse his coalition. although, of course, if president trump is supporting it and this is the angle that's intriguing, that may very well give him political backing inside of israel for moving forward, but he's going to have to. >> move forward with a two state solution. >> to move forward on some kind of saudi normalization. and that meaning, yes, towards peace with the palestinians. but again, for the israelis, until the cease fire is done. and this is also and this has been the issue throughout the past year and a half until the cease fire is completed, we're not going to get there. so all of these come

together. and i think that the prime minister will probably have some asks on iran to of president trump. >> and of course, we're going to see the two leaders later on today at a joint press conference. so get ready for that show. joel rubin, thank you very much for being here this morning, i appreciate it. all right. ahead here on cnn this morning, an escalating trade war between the u.s. and china. but is president trump signaling he is ready to make a deal? plus the nfl all in on die. >> when migraine strikes. do you question the. >> trade. >> offs of treating. >> ubrelvy is another option. >> it works fast. >> and most have migraine pain relief within two hours. you can treat it any time, anywhere. tell your doctor all medicines you take don't take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. get help right away for allergic reactions like trouble breathing or face, tongue or throat swelling, which may occur hours to days after use. common side

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casey. >> none of this is a surprise to china. this tariff threat is something that had been looming throughout the campaign and in recent weeks. and in recent years, china has been expanding where it exports well beyond the united states. but as far as where china stands, i think it is safe to say that it does have room for diplomacy because very early on in this administration, we have seen china reach out to president trump and talk about themes of mutual benefit, about win win opportunities for both nations. it knew this was coming. trade has been this long contentious issue between these two nations. so it will act accordingly. hence these tariffs. it's interesting if you look at the list of tariffs, you mentioned these fuel sources, for example, pickup trucks are also on the list, something that are not very popular here in china. these are very symbolic. fuel comes from so many other

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official familiar with the matter. yesterday, president trump confirmed that musk has access to a critical treasury department payment system that delivers the majority of the federal government's payments. >> he's got access only to letting people go that he thinks are no good. if we agree with him, and it's only if we agree with them. he's a very talented guy. from the standpoint of management and costs, elon can't do and won't do anything without our approval, and we'll give him the approval where appropriate. we're not appropriate. we won't. >> late sunday night, musk also announced plans to shut down. usaid. democrats say trump cannot unilaterally shutter a federal agency. he has to ask congress to do that. >> i'm sorry that you have to put up with this offensive coming out of this white house. >> this is a constitutional.

>> crisis that. >> we are in. >> that is how dictators. >> are made. >> in the. >> last ten days, donald. >> trump has. >> done more to. >> destabilize things. >> across the. >> planet. >> than perhaps. >> any other president in recent memory. >> we don't have a fourth branch of government. called elon. >> musk. >> joining us now, cnn's senior political analyst, ron brownstein. ron, good morning. always good to see you. i want to dig into your your piece on cnn.com in just a second, but i want to start with the elon of it all, because there are all of these you know we've seen and heard the reports. it's going to shut down usaid. there's reporting this morning from the wall street journal and the washington post about emerging plans to shutter the department of education, or at least try to. he's got young aides who are moving sofa beds onto, you know, management floors in government offices. um, what is the upshot of all of this?

>> yeah. you know, certainly no. >> one would deny that. >> you know, the federal. >> government, its information. >> systems, its. >> bureaucratic structures, all of that can benefit from a fresh look and an attempt to apply kind of modern management and information management techniques. but that clearly is not what's happening here, or certainly not all that's happening here. and what's basically happening is that under the guise of efficiency, uh, trump and musk are using this, this effort to kind of go after ideological targets, long ideological targets of the right. foreign aid, as you say, usaid. uh, the education department. i mean, truly extraordinary idea to kind of hollow it out. not to mention the purges we are seeing. you know, at the same time that people january 6th, rioters who violently attacked police officers are being let out of jail. prosecutors and potentially fbi investigators who worked on holding them accountable are being dismissed. what's really, i think, most

striking to me about this is the passivity and the acceptance of republican congressional leaders. i mean, i'm just trying to imagine everett dirksen or bob dole in a circumstance of an administration asserting the unilateral authority to shutter an agency that congress has authorized. and it just really underscores to me that you are not really going to see meaningful pushback from republicans in congress on a broad range of issues. i mean, susan collins saying she's going to vote for tulsi gabbard probably tells you all you need to know and that the real question. i mean, the real arbiter, the fulcrum of what america looks like after four years of this trump presidency with musk at his side, is going to be the federal courts and in particular, those six republican appointed justices on the u.s. supreme court. they're going to decide what our constitutional structure looks like with a trump administration. very clearly determined to push against all the traditional boundaries on the arbitrary exercise of presidential power. >> and, of course, you know, the

sort of overarching question here, ron, i think for me and this this speaks to what you're writing about on our website is the tension, the inherent tension between a billionaire running all of these government systems, potentially to his own interests and the interests of millions of americans, especially lower income americans, who benefit from a lot of these programs, many of whom are donald trump supporters. i mean, one of the big, you know, themes that came out of the results of the election was, of course, that the republican party has evolved into one that that is a working class coalition. and that is, of course, very different from what we saw in the 1990s, where it was bill clinton as president who stood in the way of republicans trying to pair tax cuts and spending cuts, which is, of course, what republicans in congress are going to try to do. i want to play a little bit of what clinton said, and he ultimately kind of came out on top in this fight. but let's

let's watch what he said at the time. and then we'll talk about your piece. >> they are about to. >> pass about. >> $148 billion in taxes and fees on working families and elderly people and low income. americans. and their budget slashes education and technology. it undercuts the environment. in other. >> words. >> it balances the budget. but it still mortgages our. >> future. >> that's the. wrong way to. >> go. >> so can you talk a little bit about the lessons learned there and how they may apply now? and i do keep coming back to i don't think we've actually spent enough time talking about the ill fated government spending freeze that they tried to roll out early on here, because what that would have done had it remained in effect, and they're still trying to do some of it was was deeply hurt. many of these, you know, people on the wick program, right. the program that gives formula to,

you know, millions of babies in the united states. >> yeah. as we've just been talking about, there is an incredible amount of deeply consequential stuff going on in the first days of the trump administration that is going to have long term ramifications for the u.s. constitutional system, and that is likely going to produce epic legal battles going all the way to the supreme court. but if you're looking for the development, that will, i think, have the biggest political impact in shaping the environment in 2026 and 2028, i think it is going to be this battle that's coming over taxes and spending that is being put on track by the demands for republicans, by conservatives in the house, in particular for large spending cuts to be attached to the bill. the reconciliation bill that will extend the trump tax cuts from his first term. and that is a stark departure from the strategy republicans used in the 2001 2003 bush tax cuts and the

2017 trump tax cuts. all of those focus only on sugar. no spinach. they did the tax cuts and they did not really connect them to large cuts in programs. what the republicans are being pushed toward by their conservative members in the house is a reprise of that 9596 fight, when republicans explicitly tied spending cuts to tax cuts in the same reconciliation bill in the fall of 1995. and ultimately, as you saw in that clip, that you played, bill clinton vetoed it on the argument that republicans were taxing, were cutting programs that benefited the middle and working class to fund tax cuts for the rich. it was an extremely powerful argument for him. it turned around his presidency. he went from under 50% in approval to over 50% in approval during that fight, and really never looked back. and that i think in many ways, democrats are banking above all on a fight over priorities. and the question of whether the

trump, you know, making the argument that trump ran on solving your problems, but he is really focused on enriching his rich buddies and the tax and spending fight, obviously will be kind of the cornerstone of that. but a lot of what's happening with musk in the federal government could also be kind of a supporting case. part of that case. >> for sure. all right. ron brownstein, thank you so much for spending some time with us this morning. always love having you. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. coming up next here on cnn this morning, president trump's trade wars, how they will impact. elon musk tesla and the future of electric vehicles. plus super bowl week kicking off in new orleans. >> kansas city. we're back in the super bowl, baby. >> patients who have sensitive teeth but also want whiter teeth. they have to make a.

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>> i think the united states can actually you absolutely can be competitive as a manufacturer in the united states. >> and more american. >> jobs is a very. >> welcome thing. >> i should. >> point out that people seem to have lost sight of the fact that the united states is still the biggest manufacturer in the world. people don't seem to realize this. i'm like, always amazed that people think that everything is made in china. it's not. >> what's important for you personally to build this car that you know, you conceptualize quite a long time ago in the united states? >> yeah, it is it doesn't sound not a lot of conviction there with that last answer, but that was nearly 15 years ago when tesla ceo elon musk was first taking his company public. >> now, musk's electric vehicle company may get caught up in president donald trump's tariff war, which has sparked fear across the auto industry. tesla shares dropping about 5% yesterday after trump announced tariffs over the weekend on mexico, canada and china, where

the company produced parts. one canadian politician even telling the canadian press that the country should specifically target tesla in the tariff fight, saying, quote, we need to look through and say, who's supporting trump and how can we make them pay a price for a tariff attack on canada? musk's proximity to the president also prompting broader questions about how trump will approach evs. in his second administration. >> and i'm for electric cars. i have to be, you know, because elon endorsed me very strongly. elon. so i have no choice. >> all right. joining us now, wall street journal reporter mike kelly. he's also the author of the new book inevitable inside the messy, unstoppable transition to electric vehicles. mike, good morning. thanks so much for being on the show. >> thanks for having. >> me on. >> so let's all of this ties together, right? the questions about tariffs, the kind of evolution, the bumpy evolution of the american auto industry toward electric vehicles. what,

in your view, is going to be the ultimate impact of donald trump's presidency on the american transition to evs? >> well, the u.s. >> has already had. >> it's already a laggard right now. >> i mean. >> there's other parts of the world that. >> this transition is happening a lot faster. >> i think. >> the the trump presidency and the hostility. >> toward evs, despite. >> what he said in that clip. >> um, you know, it's. >> going to. >> slow things down. >> i don't think. >> it's going to derail it. i think we are going to see a rollback in epa regulations, which will allow companies to sell more gas and diesel engines, engine cars. and they could then they could now under. >> the rules. >> which were really. ratcheted up, those rules would require, um, basically you'd have to in order to hit those requirements, you'd have to sell roughly half of of your sales to be ev by early next decade. no one really thinks that's going to happen. so the industry was already thinking there needed to be a rollback. it will be interesting to see how much how far he goes with that. the other big part of it is, you know, there's a lot of federal money that's going

into evs right now, a $7,500 tax credit for many people who buy evs. um, that's all got to go through congress. and i think, you know, there's certainly probably some gop lawmakers who are, you know, ready to dunk on evs and take away that credit. i think it could be a casualty here. there's also a great big pot of money for battery production in the u.s., automakers who are building these huge battery factories in, frankly, red states like tennessee and kentucky. they can qualify for a lot of money under this federal program. and i think lawmakers in those states are going to be hard pressed to vote for something when it's bringing vote against something, when it's bringing tens of thousands of jobs into their districts. right? >> yeah. for sure. mike, can you we're obviously seeing elon musk just get his hands into the federal government in a way that's it's been very fast. it's potentially very dramatic. one of the things that has raised questions for some of his critics are his ties to china,

and how that may or may not influence what he is trying to do with our government here in the u.s. can you help us understand what are elon musk's business ties to china, and how or do they pose a conflict of interest well, yeah, i mean, we at the wall street journal has had some reporting about how, um, you know, uh, musk was really able to get into china and sort of convince, um, some bending of the rules to, to establish, establish the company there. >> it's a strong competitor there now. but the chinese automakers, um, even tesla has its hands full now. i mean, that market has flipped so fast in terms of the competition from the domestic players. i think on the tariff front, i think tesla's actually probably in pretty good shape relative to the rest of the industry right now. they they tend to make cars where they sell them, for example, they're not shipping anything in from mexico. um, you

know, he was thinking about putting a plant there and has held off in the last few years. so i but yeah, i mean, china, china is very central to tesla's, um, to tesla's future, not only for selling electric cars, but a lot of the technology and self-driving cars, um, that elon musk sees as that company's future. >> all right. michael ellis very grateful to have you on the show. i hope you'll come back. this is a topic of personal fascination to me, although i admit i do. i do have a very gas guzzling corvette. it'll get like 20 miles to the gallon in sixth. it was the first corvette that had a sixth gear on the stick shift, but it's more like nine when you're down, when you're actually driving it. >> hey. >> there's a there's a there's a hybrid. there's a hybrid out there in an electric coming. so you're, you're you're in good shape. >> i've heard that i remain skeptical. but you know what? i'm happy to try it out. see there it is. it's from 1989, you know, old school. anyway, remember to get your copy of inevitable. mike's book is out

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