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demanded the fbi leaders report all employees who worked on cases involving president trump and january 6th. so what happens next? plus, beijing strikes back. president trump may have bought some more time when it comes to a trade war with mexico and canada, but china says it's on how this could impact you. and extreme sticker shock. >> waffle house. leaving its customers scrambling. >> after. >> it places a surcharge on every single egg that it sells. why your omelets are costing more. we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. >> we start this afternoon with breaking news. fbi employees have sued acting attorney general james accusing the department of justice of violating the constitution and privacy laws by demanding that agents complete a survey

allegedly designed to purge brielle beyer bureau personnel who were involved in january 6th cases. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez joins us now. evan, what are you hearing about what is going on at fbi now that this deadline has come and gone? >> well, the deadline was noon. so as of an hour ago, our understanding was that the fbi leadership was going to comply with the demand for these names to be provided. and so this lawsuit really is about what happens next, which is that the the the agents are demanding that the justice department not publish their names, because what we've seen before, doris, is that, you know, the publication of the of the names of agents who are involved in any trump related cases results in harassment, in threats to those to their families. they get doxed. and so that's one of the first things that is being addressed here in this lawsuit. obviously, the larger question is whether these agents will be targeted for termination or demotion or any other kinds of

punishment. right. that is partly what is at issue here. you remember on friday, the the justice department was headed towards doing dozens of potential firings and then suddenly seems to everything seemed to come to a pause. right. and the reason for that is that kash patel the nominee to run the fbi on thursday had testified, and he had said at his senate hearing that agents would not be punished for the work that they did on cases that they were assigned. right. and and so that is what really kind of made everything kind of come slow to a halt. and now there's this process that has been put in place. now, emil bove, who is the the acting deputy attorney general says that there's going to be a review of the agents who worked on all these cases. we're talking about thousands and thousands of fbi agents and analysts who did anything related to january 6th. >> who didn't choose to work those cases. those were cases that they were assigned. >> correct. they don't have a choice on which cases to work. and so that's part of the issue here. agents say that they're

being threatened with termination for simply doing their jobs. so we don't know yet what process is going to be in place. there's a couple of things to watch. pamela bondi is the incoming attorney general. we expect that she's going to be confirmed as soon as tomorrow, and we'll see what path she takes on handling this review that has now been set up. >> yeah, something to watch closely there. evan perez, thank you so much, brianna. >> let's talk about this now with former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. andy, do you think that this is going to work this lawsuit? >> well, i think it tips the scales somewhat in the agents favor. >> which is. absolutely necessary. >> it has the advantages of taking. >> this process. >> which seems designed for only one result. right. to put the department and bureau leadership in a position of purging these agents for doing the lawful work that they did. and it now

introduces some degree of judicial review or oversight of that process, some some neutral third party, our courts that can step in and say what you're doing here is denying these agents their due process rights, and you are also putting them at risk by potentially violating their privacy rights under the privacy act. if you release their names to the public. so it's i think it's a great move. i think it's necessary for them to stand up and defend themselves. and this is the proper way to do that at this point in the in the process. >> and so when it comes to all of this, how and this was before this lawsuit was filed, in a note to all employees on friday, acting fbi director brian driscoll said that leaders would follow fbi policy. i mean, what is fbi policy say? how are you reading what he's saying? >> you know, it's really interesting. he's getting a lot of credit for standing up on

behalf of the agent population and defending them against this effort. but he is somewhat limited as well. in his case. if the department of justice simply comes in and says, hey, we want a list of agents who are doing particular work, there's a hard it's hard for him to push back on that, because what they're asking for on its face is not obviously unlawful or unethical. now, we all know what they intend to do with that information, which is why the agents who are the vulnerable, you know, players in this drama, they have to stand up and defend their rights in court as they're doing with this suit. but driscoll is in a very tough spot. and let's remember that the the more he pushes back against doj, the more likely it is we hear tomorrow that that driscoll is gone and has been removed from the fbi in the same way that they pushed out the leaders of the branches. so the executive assistant director is very high ranking people at

headquarters, almost all of whom now have been forced to retire against their will. >> trump's pick for fbi director kash patel promised under oath that rank and file fbi agents would not be retaliated against. what should we make of what he told congress? >> in my opinion, brianna, very little, um, kash patel said so many things in the course of that hearing that were obviously and provably false, that i think folks in the fbi would be ill advised to take his word to put any value in his word and his claims that he's going to stand with fbi agents against donald trump, the person who he has so many times pledged and indicated absolute slavish loyalty to. that is hard, really, to believe that once he gets in charge, if he gets the order to start

saying, you know, uh, um, separating out people who were participants in the january 6th cases for retribution and punishment. reassignments, uh, you know, real career ending sort of personnel actions. it is very hard for me to believe that kash patel is going to stand up for those people. >> you know, if there were not other things going on in washington, what we're seeing happening at doj would be the top story. but there are just so many things that are happening. we're seeing this dismantling of the federal workforce, um, with some of these other stories, stealing some of the oxygen. do you think that americans understand what is at risk at the department of justice? >> i really don't i don't think they understand. and this is a these two entities, the department of justice and the

fbi, are. are institutions that have come in close and impactful contact with americans every single day, hundreds, maybe thousands of times a day across the country. and what is happening here? first of all, it's horrendous what they're doing to this population of people who did nothing other than the work they were assigned, the lawful, appropriate, consistent with policy work they were assigned on the january 6th cases. but let's think for a minute of what this looks like after that group of people are fired, the agents who are left are confronting a situation that fbi agents haven't even imagined since. since in the post hoover era. and that is what do i do when i'm asked to do something unlawful or unethical? but but then, am i putting myself in a position where i might be fired for angering the wrong, politically connected person? that is not a calculation that's ever that's ever gone on in the fbi. and it will have

been introduced by the fear of having watched the termination of their innocent colleagues. so this is an act that will destabilize and really shake the foundations of the fbi and its ability to protect americans for generations. >> all right. andrew mccabe, thank you so much. we do appreciate your perspective. boris. >> just hours after president trump hit the pause button on imposing tariffs on canada and mexico, his promised tariffs on china have kicked in. and today it's beijing punching back with taxes on u.s. goods. 15% tariffs on u.s. coal and liquefied natural gas, plus a 10% tariff on u.s. crude oil and large cars and pickup trucks. those tariffs are set to go into effect on monday. beijing also is taking action against the selection of u.s. companies, including google and the company that owns calvin klein and tommy hilfiger. cnn's matt egan joins us now. matt, first walk us through exactly

what's being targeted with these new tariffs and why. well, boris, this is. >> a swift. >> response from china. >> wasting no. >> time here. >> but it also looks like. >> a carefully. >> calibrated response. one that seems designed to keep things from getting out of control. so as you mentioned, 15% tariffs set to go into effect on monday from china on coal, on liquefied natural gas, 10% on crude oil, farm machinery and some vehicles. there's also some non-tariff actions here that you mentioned. there's some new export controls on metals. there's this two new firms that have been added to the sanctions list. and this. anti-monopoly investigation into google, which we should note has pretty limited operations in china. i think what's telling here is what beijing didn't do, right. they didn't put tariffs on everything they get from the united states. this is just a small slice of what they import from the u.s. they didn't go

after apple or mcdonald's here or american farmers either. so reading between the lines, this retaliation does seem like it's aimed at trying to prevent temperatures from getting out of control here. right? because anytime you have a trade war, the risk is that there's this cycle of escalation where each country lobs higher and higher tariffs and there's no off ramp. so it is a relief to see a measured response from china. still though boris, this does feel like very early days in the us-china battle here on trade. one analyst at td cohn, chris krueger, he told clients today. he said increased tariffs remain a question of when, not if. >> yeah. remember trump vowed a 60% tariff on chinese goods. this is just 10%. so that may be as far as he's willing to go. matt where exactly will consumers feel the sting of

these chinese tariffs on what goods? >> yeah, well, the obvious places to look are where the u.s. imports the most amount of stuff from china. so think about electronics, televisions. smartphones, computers. a third of u.s. imports in that category comes from china. also, we import a significant amount of clothes, chemicals, electrical equipment and machinery from china. now, the fact this is only a 10% increase should limit the damage here. but remember, these are import taxes. they're paid by u.s. companies when they bring stuff in from china. and then they can choose to pass along some of the costs to consumers or to eat the cost. but that would hurt their profit. i just talked to the president of a company that makes appliances, and they bring those appliances in from china, and he told me that, you know what? they're going to try to eat some of the costs, but they're also going to have to pass along some of the cost of

the tariffs to consumers in the form of higher prices. and he told me, what's killing him is the uncertainty right now. he said, being in the dark is very frustrating. we feel like we've been stabbed in the back by these tariffs because they're just going to hurt the company. and remember, when you think about higher prices for consumers from these tariffs, it's really going to hit the people who can afford it the least. the peterson institute looked at how much each consumer is going to get hit here in terms of income bracket. and they found that the people on the low end of the income spectrum, they're going to be the ones who are going to feel it the most. you see that right there? almost 3% of the income of the bottom 20% of earners. that's what the cost is from the tariffs on both canada and mexico. the ones that are due a month and the tariffs that were just imposed on china. and so that's another thing we have to look at here. because obviously people are feeling the pain from higher prices. boris. >> matt egan, thank you so much for that update. still ahead this hour on cnn news central.

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education. we know dozens of employees at the agency are already on administrative leave. cnn's rene marsh is with us now on this story. we're standing by as the president is set to sign some new executive orders here in the next hour. in the meantime, what are you learning about his plan when it comes to the department of education? >> right. so we have. >> this reporting that this executive order would come in two parts. the first. >> part would. >> be directing. the education secretary. to devise a plan to diminish this agency through executive order. and the second phase of his plan would push for congress to pass legislation to end the department of education. this is something that he's talked about a lot on the campaign trail, wanting to get rid of the department of education. clearly, from this executive order, he understands he cannot do that unilaterally. so, again, pushing for congress to pass that legislation. >> and there are, as i mentioned, dozens of department of ed employees who are on leave. can you tell us a little bit about that? what's the agency saying? why are they on

leave? >> yeah, and i've spent a lot of time talking to a lot of these employees and these are, you know, civil servants who top of the top thing that they've said to me is they love their jobs. many of them said they were willing to work with this administration because that's what civil servants do. but now they find themselves unclear of what their financial future will be, and their employment future will be. so we're talking about at least 75 of employees at the department of education placed on paid administrative leave, but that's a low ball number because this is from the union president, and she only has visibility on her union members with the agency who have been impacted. many of them learned about this via email. and then their work accounts were suspended. they have been told that they're going to be placed on paid administrative leave indefinitely. but the union is saying a lot of these positions are people who actually did not work on dei when they talked amongst themselves. the common denominator that they found was that many of them had attended a

two day dei training in 2019, which was under the first trump administration, and they did a refresher course under the biden administration. so they believe that's why they got targeted. but they say their day to day job duties have nothing to do with dei. >> that is very interesting. rene marsh, thank you. boris. >> meantime, federal workers are facing a thursday deadline to resign if they want to accept a buyout offer from the trump administration. if they accept, they would receive severance through september 30th. this move has been criticized by federal workers unions, who are cautioning members that the offer does not guarantee they would actually receive those benefits. and now, attorneys general from 12 states are urging workers to stay on the job. california attorney general rob bonta writing that the trump administration's so-called buyout offer is appointed attack aimed at dismantling our federal workforce and sowing chaos for americans that rely on a

functioning government. joining us now is one of those attorneys general who issued a similar warning. the ag of connecticut, william tong. sir, thanks so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. your office says there are more than 5000 federal workers living in connecticut. how many of them do you expect will take this buyout? >> yeah. >> thanks for having. >> me, boris. >> i'm not clear yet, although. >> i'm hearing as. >> many as 20,000. >> employees are. >> readying to take this buyout. and to me, it feels like something like a scam. it has all the hallmarks of a scam. when i when i try to help people in connecticut and how to protect themselves from scams, i say watch out for offers that have little detail, scant details, and watch out for scams that have time pressure, right? you have to take it now or you lose it. and that's why we're telling people across connecticut, if you're a federal employee, be careful, because there's as far as we can tell, no authority for this action, no

guarantee that you'll get paid through september 30th, no guarantee that this is real. >> i want to get your response to a spokesperson at the office of personnel management, who's argued that these group of attorneys general warning workers not to take the buyout, which you are part of, is spreading misinformation and using workers as pawns. they argue that this is a generous opportunity. i see you shaking your head. what do you say in response? >> yeah, this is an attack on not just the federal workforce, but on connecticut. look, we rely on people in the social security administration. we just had a segment before on cnn about the department of education. what about special education? what about student loans? what about clean air, clean water? and the epa? connecticut relies on these workers, not just the 5000 in connecticut, but we rely on these workers to keep us safe, to keep our children safe and educated, to keep the lights on, to keep the heat going. i know

that that national security and law enforcement officials are excepted from this buyout program. but what about the 6000 people that kash patel wants to treat immediately? this is very dangerous for connecticut and for states across the country. >> i do wonder if their argument is that they want to eliminate waste and make the federal government more efficient. whether you believe that is just a front. is it disingenuous? do you think that they have ulterior motives? >> yeah. not only is it disingenuous, but vivek ramaswamy before he was ejected from this effort, said that they wanted to be compassionate and be there for workers. but listen to russell vought, who's the president's nominee for the office of management and budget. he said that they want to traumatize workers, make it so unpleasant, make it so traumatic that they don't want to go to

work. and so there's a much more dark and nefarious enterprise going on here, where they want to push people out of federal service by traumatizing them and scaring them. >> do you plan to file a lawsuit on behalf of these workers? >> we're considering all of our options right now. state attorneys general are very concerned about their effect. this effect, the effect of these potential, not just buyouts, but, you know, there's no guarantee that these workers won't get laid off. and the way that it impacts services here in connecticut and prejudices connecticut families in our states. >> as you're considering it, what would lead you to going ahead and filing? what would be the tipping point? >> so, of course, we're focused now on collecting information, and there's not a lot of information about this program. we're collecting information about how these buyouts might

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the base has been used before, it has been used to interdict or rather to have and hold those who are interdicted at sea. so they never actually touch u.s. soil. so this is something that is completely unprecedented. and it is what the attorneys have been reviewing. but, brianna, in the last couple of minutes, i did learn more details about this flight. a homeland security official telling me it's about 9 to 10 people. they describe them as having criminal records who will be transported today to guantanamo bay. again, all of this is part of this broader effort by the trump administration to ramp up their detention space, because that is a hurdle that they're already facing as they arrest migrants in the interior of the united states and the idea and the planning is to set up various tent facilities again near the migrant operations center to house people before they're repatriated. there are still so many questions here as to whether they have any legal services that they could reach while they're there. how long can they be held there, and can they be held there at all, particularly after they have been put on u.s. soil? and

immigration law applies to those within the united states. so there's still a lot that needs to be worked out here. but sources i've been talking to say the planning is well underway. the tents are going up, and as the flight shows today, this is very much something that they are putting in motion. >> and you also have secretary of state rubio championing a deal that he struck with el salvador. tell us about this. >> this has been an agreement that has been in the works for some time now. the trump administration and the officials i've spoken with say el salvador is one of their closest allies in latin america. they plan to lean on them a lot, not only for agreements like this, but also to broaden out in latin america to strike even more agreements. and this in particular would be sending criminals from other countries that are in the united states and deporting them to el salvador. they see this as a deterrent. the big question, however, is that the el salvadoran president also said that u.s. citizens could be part of this. you can't deport a u.s. citizen. so there's still questions. a lot of questions that are concerning legal experts on that front. but certainly this type of agreement of sending other nationalities,

this is something trump officials came into office wanting to strike. it appears that they have done so, and they want to continue to do so in latin america. >> priscilla alvarez, thank you so much for the report. boris. >> one of president trump's most controversial cabinet picks is now one step closer to being confirmed. today, the senate finance committee voted along party lines 14 to 13, advancing robert f. kennedy jr.. s nomination to lead the department of health and human services. another critical vote is just minutes away. tulsi gabbard, trump's pick for director of national intelligence, is also trying to clear a senate committee hurdle. cnn's lauren fox is standing by for us on capitol hill. and lauren, just last week, republican senator bill cassidy, a physician, said that he was struggling with kennedy's nomination over his stance on vaccines. obviously, something changed his mind. >> yeah. i mean, he had a lot of conversations, and he made clear in his statement earlier today, as well as a long speech on the floor of the united states

senate, just how he got to. yes, he really credits vice president j.d. vance with helping him get to. yes. he also says he was able to get several promises from the administration. serious commitments. he said, about what exactly was going to transpire at hhs in the months ahead, including getting quarterly hearings if he wanted them from rfk jr.. as the chairman of the health committee. he also said that there were assurances he was getting that the cdc's website would not take down any information guiding parents that there was no link between autism and vaccines. but this was what he said on the floor, trying to explain just how he got to. yes. >> this is the context that informed me when considering rfk as the nominee to be secretary of the department of health and human services. it was a decision i studied exhaustively. i took very seriously. and as i said i would, i spoke with mr. kennedy not once, but multiple

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there on the floating crane off in the distance in the potomac river today. today, they recovered a very large section of fuselage from american airlines flight 5342. you can clearly see the passenger cabin windows, a reminder of the human toll of this crash. 67 people in total dead. we know that goal today from salvage crews was to recover the cockpit of american 5342. and that will hold some really key clues, especially as they take those pieces to a hangar here at reagan national airport. and the ntsb essentially begins lining up those parts to see if the structure of the plane and the helicopter itself may have contributed to this crash and may have built in a few blind spots. here. we were expecting a bit of an update from the ntsb about what is in the data and voice recorder of combined function onboard the black hawk helicopter. now that is still a mystery. and the ntsb says in a tweet that it needs additional

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closed. we know from american airlines. and a memo sent out to all of its employees yesterday that it is welcome news, according to american, that the helicopter corridor that was in use here is at least temporarily closed by the federal aviation administration. american also said in that memo that it will work with the new administration and leaders in congress to make sure that aviation is safer. we've also learned from the ntsb they've recovered the logbooks of the pilots of both aircraft. they're going to essentially look at the records of their flights and their training and create a more detailed look at what the pilots were doing in the days leading up to this crash. a lot of key clues here, brianna, but the bottom line is way too soon to pin this on any one particular cause. >> and so often it's a complex set of causes. pete muntean thank you for the latest from reagan national airport. we do appreciate it for us. >> now to some of the other

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