work. i'm curious how unusual it might be for a civil case like this to actually go all the way to a jury and be heard in court and not be settled like they often are. well. >> there's a lot of speculation. >> in the. >> legal, in the legal courts of opinion whether or not this case is actually going to go forward. this seems like a battle of text messages, a battle of he said. she said, uh, a battle of the sleuths, the internet sleuths versus the journalists. so it is going to be very interesting to see how much time, how much money each side is willing to spend. and it seems to me that they would want to settle this case and not take this into the court of public opinion any further, because both sides have really suffered in terms of their public reputation. you have team justin and you have team blake and the dueling narratives going back and forth. it's just not serving either of

their purposes in terms of what is going to happen and their likability factor, their q scores. it's just in their best interest to settle. and there are bets, if you will, on whether or not this case will go the entire distance. like i said, i do think it is in both interests and both of their best interests to settle. >> lisa bonner, thank you so much for your analysis this morning. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> and breaking this morning, president trump may have bought some time when it comes to a trade war with mexico and canada. but when it comes to china, it's on. and china is already striking back what that means for american consumers and american companies now. plus, the fbi is on the clock essentially hours from now, the deadline for doj to report all employees and what role they played in investigating january

6th, and then what happens? president trump has got a new plan for tiktok, who he now says could buy the platform. and what that means for the 170 million americans who use it. i'm kate baldwin with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central. >> trump's trade war is on. china is now punching back after trump slapped a 10% tariff on a myriad of chinese imports to the united states. china's retaliatory tariffs of 15% hitting u.s. coal and liquefied natural gas, plus a 10% tariff on u.s. crude oil and large displacement cars and pickup trucks. beijing, also targeting a selection of u.s. companies including google, calvin klein, tommy hilfiger and the reverberations are being felt globally. cnn's alayna treene is following the moves from the trump white house, and mark

stewart is in china learning what that country is doing. as we see this sort of fallout. but first, let's start with alayna treene. what are you learning from the white house? we all watched, you know, over the last couple of days where there was a sort of war with canada and a war with mexico that kind of fell off. at least we have a month reprieve. but this with china seems to be going full steam ahead. >> yes, that's exactly right. we did see those blanket 10% tariffs on china go into effect at 12:01 a.m. today as originally planned. and then, as you mentioned, we are now seeing china kind of come back with a barrage of their own retaliatory measures. now, we also know that china had filed a complaint with the world trade organization. we also know that the president has ordered a broader trade review into china to be conducted on april 1st. but look, one of the key things that was in the fine print of that executive order was a retaliation clause. that means that should the president

believe that other nations are responding in a way that he doesn't like, he could raise tariffs further. and i'd also remind you that we heard donald trump repeatedly on the campaign trail threaten a 60% tariff on china at times, of course, that's much higher than the 10% we saw him implement this morning. but still, something like that could still come. and we did hear the president yesterday essentially call this first round of tariffs on china an opening salvo. listen. >> we'll have some good meetings with china. we have meetings planned and we'll see what happens. but that was just an opening salvo. if we can't make a deal with china then the tariffs will be very, very substantial. >> now, sara, we also know that president donald trump is expected to speak in the coming days with chinese president xi jinping. and of course, as you mentioned, the key question is whether or not they could work out some sort of negotiation that could either put these tariffs on hold like he did with

mexico and canada, or, you know what the fallout from that could be. now, i will say, if we do see some sort of off ramp with these tariffs on china, that could cause some angst and consternation on capitol hill, especially among a lot of republicans who are growing more skeptical of whether the president is as hawkish on china as he previously was. we do know, of course, you know, his rhetoric around tick tock, putting a pause on that ban raised some eyebrows among republicans on capitol hill, as well as inviting the chinese president to the inauguration. so whatever ends up happening with china, if he ends up backing away on some of these tariffs like he did with canada and mexico, we could see some sort of broader reaction from the hill. but again, this is just the beginning. very unclear how this continues to play out and move forward as we continue to see the real impacts of these tariffs. sara. >> yeah, the murdoch owned street journal called it, you know, dumb to to go forward with this with this trade war. and

then you're also sort of seeing what potentially could be the fallout. but you heard from donald trump there that this is just the opening salvo. so let's go to to mark who is in beijing when these words are used like this is the opening salvo, this could get much, much worse. what are you expecting to see as a reaction from beijing? and with the things that are already in motion, how quickly could those be pulled back? if there is some sort of, i don't know, coming together of the minds? >> look, sara, china really had no choice but to respond. it needs to come across not only to the rest of the world, but to chinese citizens that it's a strong nation. and that's why we are seeing these retaliatory tariffs. and it falls very much in the chinese playbook. you do something to hurt us. we're going to do something to hurt you back. in fact, we were on the streets talking to people here in china. and they really praised this quick response by

the chinese government. but here's the thing. these sanctions may not necessarily have a lot of teeth, a lot of weight. there are sanctions on energy sources like the liquid natural gas and some of the other heating sources. but if you look at where china gets its energy, it's from many other places than the united states. and on a much larger scale. so you could argue that is very symbolic. also on the list, american pickup trucks. as someone who lives here in china, i can tell you that pickup trucks are not a vehicle of choice by chinese consumers. but again, makes a broader statement that the world's second largest economy is a force. i think what everyone is waiting for next is this phone call between xi jinping and president biden. it's our president trump, rather, it's already 10:00 at night here in china, 9 a.m. in washington. so it may or may not happen. but that phone call will

determine the direction of these conversations. is the u.s. going to fight back with more tariffs, or are we at a more reasonable starting spot for a bigger discussion on trade between these two nations? sarah. >> yeah, there's certainly a lot of businesses that china could have gone after. apple, tesla, which would have potentially made a much bigger impact. we will see what happens going forward as we are in the middle of of a trade war officially. marc stewart, thank you so much. i appreciate it. john. >> all right. happening now. we're standing by for a deadline to expire at the fbi that has many fearing a mass layoff could be coming by noon today, a senior fbi, senior fbi officials were told by the justice department to hand over the names of employees who worked on january 6th riot cases. more than a dozen justice department officials were fired last week for working on cases like this. with us now is attorney mark zaid, who just wrote a letter to the acting deputy attorney general, emil bove. mark, what did that letter

say? >> well, it basically. >> gave warning. >> to the. acting deputy. >> as well as. the acting director of the fbi not to do two things. one, do not summarily fire all of these fbi personnel without any due process, procedural or substantive. but more importantly, do not release their names. if in fact you do fire them, do not put out a public list to say, essentially, these are the enemies which would just target not only the employees, but potentially often also their families with doxxing, with swatting, we've already seen threats essentially come from former j6, you know, criminal defendants who are calling for effectively the heads of all of these, you know, traitors, as they call them, who work within the fbi, who put them in jail. >> what was the response from the doj to this letter? >> oh, it was exactly what we expected it to be. we haven't

heard a thing. >> how unusual of a request is it from the department of justice to fbi employees to fill out questionnaires like this? did you work on the january 6th case? >> i mean, it's it's incredibly unusual for for one thing. of course, they have this information anyway. it's within what's called the sentinel system inside the fbi. they were given this request a whole litany of you had to indicate. were you a witness in a trial? did you work on surveillance? whatever role you did, as little as it was, even if it was just purely administrative and they had a deadline internally of 3:00 yesterday. and as you mentioned, the noon deadline today is for the fbi to give that information to the department of justice, which we understand will then turn it over to the white house. >> what are you advising? i don't know if you have rank and file clients in the fbi, but if you do, or if there are just

people out there who are listening to you, what would you advise them to do? >> well, we certainly did advise them to respond properly. they are still employees. they have to administratively follow the orders of their superiors to provide this information. we certainly didn't want anyone to be insubordinate. i represent a number of agents and analysts and technicians that are within the fbi, and right now we're we're really in a wait and see mode, almost a race against the clock as we prepare litigation. myself and the state democracy defenders fund your own and our own. norm eisen, who i'm working with to try and make sure that there is nothing done that would harm these dedicated and patriotic americans. >> mark, last time you were on, you were talking to us about the fact you had advised a small number of clients to to take a vacation for the inauguration

because of fears of retribution or revenge for the trump. administration. did they? and what are you advising those same clients now? >> some did. some went on vacation overseas, some went on vacation domestically just to get out of the hustle and bustle of of the district of columbia and its region. everybody came back. no. nobody fled. i guess the only one maybe is ellen, who went overseas. i don't know if that was because of of this, but look, we haven't changed our tactics and and the concerns are still real, right? all the concerns, many of at least that i was indicating of retribution, of retaliation, of going after political enemies started to come true the very day he was inaugurated. so i'm not sure why people are still sort of hesitant to think that he's not going. he. president trump not going to fulfill his promises. he has. i mean, i've had numerous clients who were subject to the executive orders

that he submitted and signed the very evening and have now are being attacked online. so he's doing exactly what he said he would do fulfilled promises. unfortunately, they're promises that are hurting many americans rather than helping. >> and you will take him to court on these. >> absolutely. everything's being prepared as we speak. and we'll certainly get things filed as soon as we can. and as you're seeing with many organizations, there is a very active sort of resistance in a legal way to make sure the rule of law is followed by this administration as as we do with every administration. >> mark zaid, appreciate your time today. thanks so much for coming in. kate. >> a critical day ahead on capitol hill for two of president trump's cabinet picks. important votes are about to happen for rfk jr. and tulsi gabbard, and the mounting pressure now coming at one republican senator in particular

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>> today is a big day for donald trump's cabinet. two of his nominees, robert f. kennedy jr. and tulsi gabbard, both are facing critical votes on capitol hill. and given how controversial both of these nominees are, president trump has reportedly been making calls to lawmakers to try and get them over the finish line. cnn's lauren fox has the very latest for us from capitol hill right now. and what are you hearing about these nominees and these votes? >> yeah, i mean. these are really two critical votes and some of the more. >> controversial nominees. >> from donald trump. first. >> today at. >> 10 a.m. >> we. >> are going. >> to see a. >> vote on. >> whether or not. >> the senate finance committee. >> will move forward. >> with the. >> nomination of. >> rfk jr.. >> there is. >> a huge. >> question mark right now surrounding. senator bill cassidy. >> he's a republican. >> from the state of louisiana. he is someone who cares deeply about vaccines. he's a former physician. he is also someone

who has made his life's work on capitol hill, really looking at changes to the medicaid program, something that when he asked rfk jr. about in the finance hearing last week, rfk jr. seemed to really struggle with that series of questions. so there's a huge question mark right now surrounding that nomination. if cassidy votes no, that could be enough to kill this nomination in committee. then later this afternoon, the senate intelligence committee is going to decide whether or not to confirm tulsi gabbard to be the director of national intelligence. now, we have heard from most of the republicans on that committee, including senator susan collins and james lankford, who announced last night that they would vote yes on this nomination after yet another rocky hearing from gabbard last week. but there's still a huge question mark surrounding todd young. he's a republican who serves on this committee, who was mum last night when reporters repeatedly were pressing him on what he would do. he said he would make an announcement today that hearing and vote is going to take place later today. so two really critical moments for

trump's nominees on capitol hill happening in just under an hour. >> all right. to definitely to be watched very closely this morning. thank you so much lauren sara. >> all right. thanks, kate. right now the recovery operation continues for the deadly mid-air collision in the potomac river. investigators are still lifting pieces of the wreckage from the river. and you're looking at a live view of that going on right now. today, the ntsb is expected to release new data from the black hawk helicopter. the agency has been analyzing the army helicopters black box. cnn's gabe cohen is in alexandria, virginia. for us. gabe, the last of the black boxes have been recovered. what can you tell us about where the investigation stands now? >> well, sara, we're hoping for an update from investigators later today. and if they do have a clean flight data and voice recordings from the helicopter, that could be really helpful in

painting a clear picture of exactly what was going on on that black hawk inside of it. in the moments before the crash, because there are still a lot of questions about the flight path that that helicopter was on. remember some of the early black box data from the jet indicates that the crash happened at an altitude of about 325ft. that is well above the 200 foot limit for helicopters along that route. investigators are going to want to know why the helicopter was flying at that height. we also know that on air traffic audio from the night of the crash, you could hear the pilots on the black hawk give a verbal confirmation that they could see the american airlines flight and were planning to pass behind it. and yet, seemingly no evasive action was taken. and so it begs the question were they looking at a different aircraft? what exactly was the confusion? the hope is that the information from that black box, black box on the helicopter is going to offer some answers on that. we also know that investigators are looking at the logbooks from the

pilots that were on both aircraft, trying to put together a detailed history of not just their training, but any flights that they have made in recent days and weeks to see if it gives them any clues that could help them in this investigation. and you also, sara mentioned the salvage operation happening behind me in the potomac river. we know they are going to be back out today. they removed one of the jet's engines yesterday, as well as a large portion of the fuselage today. they are hoping to pull out the plane's cockpit and most of the wreckage from that american airlines flight. and the hope is that that is going to help them find, recover and identify those additional 12 victims who they have not yet pulled from the potomac river, that those 12 of the 67 total who died in the crash. sara. >> yeah, it is just horrific what happened there. and there are so many questions that you

alluded to, such as were they wearing night goggles on the on the helicopter or whether or not there is something that went wrong with equipment on that, on that black hawk? there's just a lot of things that that we don't know that the black boxes usually can tell us if they are intact. gabe cohen, thank you so much for your reporting throughout the morning. appreciate it. now, among the 67 lives that were taken were 28 athletes, coaches, friends and family associated with u.s. figure skating, an unthinkable loss that includes 12 year old brielle beyer and her mother, christina, their husband and father, andy beyer spoke with my colleague kaitlan collins. >> they deserve to be remembered. >> they deserve to have their story known. >> to the world. >> i mean. everyone dies, right? >> and they live on. >> in our memories. and i want people to have a memory. >> of them. >> so that they live on. >> so that's why.

>> i wanted to share their story. >> um. >> thank you. >> thank you for doing. >> so, andi. >> and. >> um. >> i think everyone. >> will be really touched. >> to hear from you. so thank you. >> thank you. >> for coming on. >> to. talk about. >> them. >> thank you for. >> for. >> sharing their. >> story. um, i could talk to you all. >> day about them. >> and i know we haven't talked about my wife, but. >> she was the most wonderful mother. >> she wanted to make every moment special for the kids. and she did. she gave him those. those magic memories, you know, braille, too. and we thought those would sustain her into adulthood. she'd be able to draw from them. so it's really sad that she doesn't. >> get to do. >> that because. >> she deserved. >> that. >> um. >> but, you know, she she was

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bell. trading begins in two one zero seconds now, and we have our eye on the stock markets this morning because this for tat trade war between the united states and china went into effect at midnight yesterday. just wild swings on wall street with the back and forth between the u.s. and canada and mexico. the united states ultimately backed off those terrorist threats. but it's on with china. so what does that mean for the markets today? cnn's matt egan is here watching alongside me. >> well, john, what a difference 24 hours makes. look at this. the market. yes down a little bit. but this is so much chiller than what we saw yesterday when the dow was down almost 700 points in the morning. we saw the nasdaq was down yesterday at one point around 2%. you see it's trading a little bit higher. of course that sell off yesterday morning was before president trump hit the pause button on the tariffs on both canada and on mexico. so i think the message from the market is

simple here right. hitting china with tariffs that's one thing. but doing china, canada and mexico all at the same time that's risky. that's a whole 'nother ballgame. so i think that's why we're seeing the market react much calmer here. so thankfully we got the tensions in north america cooling off. but they're heating up with china right. so we have these new trump tariffs on china. let's talk about where that's going to hit consumers. because we do get a lot of stuff from china, including computers, smartphones, other electronics. almost a third of that category comes from china. in terms of u.s. imports. also clothes, chemicals, electronics, electrical equipment and machinery. now remember, these tariffs are paid by u.s. importers. and those importers can choose to pass along some of the costs to consumers. so when you think about possible price impacts that's where we could see it. and as you mentioned, china just retaliated right there announcing retaliatory tariffs on stuff that's coming from the u.s., including a 15% tariff on coal, liquefied

natural gas, 10% tariff on the way for crude oil, machinery and some vehicles. and that's not all. they also have some non tariff retaliatory moves. they have new export controls on some metals. some u.s. companies were added to an entity's sanctions list. and they've also got this anti-monopoly investigation into google. i would say though john, that this retaliation from china, it seems pretty measured. right. they didn't go after apple. they didn't go after mcdonald's u.s. crops. it seems like china doesn't want this to get out of hand. of course. now the question is how is president trump going to respond to this retaliation. >> and mild trade war, as it were, at least for now. for now. all right. matt egan, thank you very much, kate. >> and as of this morning, the trade war with canada has been put on pause for now. president trump and the canadian prime minister announcing a 30 day reprieve. and here is how we got here. donald trump demanded that canada do more to fight illegal immigration and keep fentanyl from coming across the border.

that is, even though data shows less than 1% of the fentanyl entering the u.s. comes from canada. and that's even though only 1.5% of border patrol encounters with migrants take place at the border with canada. still, here is what the canadian prime minister said about that 25% tariff that president trump had ordered. >> this trade action by the americans and. >> our. >> response is going to have real consequences for. >> people. >> for workers. >> on both. >> sides of our border. >> we don't want to be here. we didn't ask for. >> this. >> but we will not back down. >> cue the flurry of phone calls and meetings that eventually led to where we are now. a 30 day pause on any tariffs and consequences. trudeau announcing that the two countries had come to a deal essentially that would

include canada naming a fentanyl czar and also implementing an existing plan to boost border security and also classifying drug cartels as terrorist entities, to name a few. joining us right now is canada's minister of public safety, david mcguinty. he's in charge of border and policing by agencies in the country. minister, thank you for your time. how would you describe what canada has agreed to in terms of concessions in order to bring about this pause on tariffs? >> kate, our first. objective is. >> to not have any. tariffs applied on canada. >> or. >> the united states. we've had. 150 years of successful commercial relationships. on longest. >> undefended border. >> in the. >> world. >> probably the strongest bilateral relationship that exists even today in the world. that's our objective. not having any any tariffs whatsoever. so we've been working hard. the president has pointed out some concerns. we

take those seriously. we've been negotiating with american authorities. i was in washington just last friday meeting with white house officials, and we've had other delegations down. we've seen we've found a good, i think, accommodation here, and we're going to be showing progress over the next 30 days. >> when you talk about accommodation, what is new here, though? that wasn't already what canada was working on. >> well, this new fentanyl czar position is one that will transcend any one part of the government will pull together a full canadian national response between our provinces, our police of local jurisdiction, and work with our american authorities. this fentanyl crisis is a north american crisis. our families have been rocked by it. american families have been rocked by it. we've got to come to ground on this together. we understand how joint it is, which is why we've, for example, announced that we're going to be listing cartels as terrorist organizations under our criminal code. why? we're going to strike a new joint task force

between canada and the united states. and our officials at the operational level to work on this jointly together, because it's so interconnected. there are a series of measures here that we think will help us wrestle this to the ground, because too much is at stake. >> when canada's responsible for less than 1% of the fentanyl that's entering the united states, how much of this is canada's problem? how much more of that? less than 1%. do you expect to actually stop? >> well, as much as we possibly can, and we're going to be working together with our american counterparts, for example, on the cartel issue, which is an issue that is expanding in canada. it's expanded in the united states. so it's a it's a joint problem. we have to wrestle to the ground. we're going to have more intelligence sharing. we're going to be working more closely together in our borders. you know, there are maybe 6 or 7, maybe even eight border crossings where we have our border officials and american border officials sharing the same buildings. so that's the

level of interconnectedness that we've got here that we need to build on. we win, america wins. we lose. america loses. we're wondering why this has to go this way. and we're actually we're we're feeling good about the fact we've got 30 days now to make progress here in canada. and the further our relationship with american authorities and folks on the front lines, so we can continue to protect our peoples. >> talk about the interconnectedness that leads to something that the president trump did say before the afternoon call that brought about this 30 day pause. president trump was asked specifically what canada, what the prime minister could do to change donald trump's mind on tariffs. i want to play for you what his direct answer was to that. >> look, 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. >> and how do you respond to that, minister? >> well, the first thing i would say is that president trump was duly elected by the american people, and he made promises to the american people. and i think he's trying to keep those promises. we understand that in canada. but let's also be serious. canada is a sovereign state. we continue to build our economy. we've had a wonderful commercial relationship with the united states and beyond for a long, long time. i think we're going to continue to make progress. we just keep moving forward. our customers know it. our clients know it. the folks that we work with across the border know it. so i think right now we're going to see eventually a change. but we're trying to satisfy the president's concern right now when it comes to this question of fentanyl. and i think we'll be able to do that. >> when the president's press secretary told cnn yesterday

that canada is bending the knee just like mexico. what do you say to that i say that we're going to continue to manage our relationship well with the united states, and we understand the level of interconnectedness. >> i think. >> know that this precious relationship we have between our countries is worth protecting and investing in. so we simply move forward. we keep moving forward to find the way to keep this important relationship alive. and having it thrive. >> david mcguinty. minister, thank you very much for your time. sarah. >> you know how canadians are known for being nice. it was an interesting response. very diplomatic to your question, kate. all right. billions of gallons of water unleashed on donald trump's orders in california to help with the fires and help southern california. there's only one

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he is a king county supervisor who lives downstream of the tulare county dams, where the water was released. thank you so much, sir, for for joining us. and to help inform those folks who are not familiar with the issues with water across california. first, i just wanted to ask you, is that 2 billion gallons of water that was released helping in any way to fight the fires, which are still burning but have now been contained? >> well. >> i'm not. >> sure where all of the the. >> 2 billion gallons. >> of water is coming from. i don't think it necessarily came from the lakes that are above our area. so so i'm really not able to speak to that matter. um, as as for the water that that has been released, um, you know, as long as it doesn't flow out into the ocean, um, our, our local farmers know what to do with that water. and they put it in their recharge basins and send it back into the ground so they can pump it at later dates. >> so there is a long standing

issue with water in southern, central and northern california. you just alluded to the fact that farmers really, you know, constantly say, look, we need more water to deal with the crops for our livelihood and to to feed the nation. um, and then, of course, you have angelenos who are further down the line further south who need the water for drinking and other purposes. and there are also always environmental issues that we hear about. so, in essence, the release of this water, i mean, where is it going exactly? because we've talked to some folks who say, look, it's just going to evaporate. it may not be able to be used very efficiently. >> no. >> i mean, not necessarily the, the you know, it did come as a surprise to, to us locally that, that, that, that they were releasing water from coy wire lake. um, you know, and a big portion of that flows through

our county. um, right now, i was i was notified last night that the water has arrived in the lakeside irrigation district complex. that's down here in the central san joaquin valley of california. and, um, and those people that that run, those irrigation districts are putting it in recharge basins, um, kind of as you would. it's like a savings account, i guess, for water is a better way to put it. and they sink it into the ground, um, and pump it later when we have crops that need that water and they can send it through their own, um, canal system to other growers throughout the central san joaquin valley. >> so it sounds like some of this, at least in your area where the dams were, were open for a bit, may end up helping farmers, but it's not necessarily getting to the issue of giving the water to los angeles county, which has been dealing with these with these fires. i am curious whether you think that climate change has played a role in all this. there has been a lot of blame to go

around, a lot of people having to answer questions. donald trump has really gone after some of the local officials and the governor. but to you, is climate change also one of the factors here, something that we don't hear really from the president? >> i mean, i don't i don't know in that sense. i mean, if you're talking about the fires down there and the weather and the weather patterns, um, if that's the stamp they want to put on that, um, i guess i understand that, you know, to that complex, but but really, it's a, it's a, it's a government. it's a legislator. uh, issue in the state because there's, there's, there's plenty of water that impacts california in one sense or another. um, but i think that's that's kind of what the president is alluding to, that when we're sending fresh water into the into the pacific ocean, rather than sending it into people's faucets or to farmers. um, it's it's an issue. and so, you know, whether this is, is was meant to be for the

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