displacement of about 2 million palestinians. plus, the man whose little catchphrase was you're fired, passes the torch to elon musk, seemingly letting the unelected billionaire decide who stays and who goes within the federal government. and then later, a new drug that promises the same pain relief as opioids without the risk of addiction. could it be a game changer for an american crisis? hello everyone. i'm pamela brown in washington, and you're in the cnn newsroom. and we begin this hour with uncertainty and fear inside the federal government. a lot of people wondering what is going on here. workers are bracing for widespread layoffs by the trump administration, many unsure how much longer they'll be employed. and it's all part of the president and elon musk's plan to shrink the government workforce. our breaking news this hour. the cia has just become the first major national security agency to

offer buyouts to all of its staff, with a few exceptions. that comes after white house officials announced that those workers who don't accept an offer to resign could lose their jobs. usaid is being hit especially hard. a new directive states that all of the agency's staff around the world will be placed on administrative leave in just a couple of days. we are covering it all for you this hour. and i'm joined now by cnn's alayna treene and alex marquardt. alana, i want to kick it off with you. what are you learning about this buyout for cia employees? >> well, this is really the first we're hearing of any sort of national security agency to be offered to opt into this program. and i remind you, pamela, that this was actually offered to 2 million federal workers last week. it was part of a mass email that went out from the office of personnel management under the white house, essentially saying that people could put themselves voluntarily on paid administrative leave except pay and benefits, until the end of september. but again, this was

not at first offered to national security agencies. kind of acknowledging the fact of their, you know, critical function to the security of the united states government. now, we do know that the deadline originally for the people who were given this offer for the deferred resignation program is tomorrow on february 6th, i am told, according to two trump administration officials, that even those who don't opt into this, they are going to be widespread layoffs after that. so anyone who did not accept this program really could be at be threatened and to lose their job. it's very you know, it was made very clear to me, i should say, that these layoffs are going to be widespread. they are going to be sweeping now. again, i want to go back to the cia. part of this. um, since this was not originally offered to cia employees, we are told, one, that it's still unclear if everyone within the agency would be able to opt in to this program, to this offer, to accept the buyout, but also that cia director john ratcliffe personally decided he wanted his

agency employees to be involved in this. so of course, we are still learning exactly what the impact could be. how many people at the cia would take it? it also seems like a new development, and that's according to reporting from katie michael ellis, who was told essentially that as of last week, people were still questioning at the cia whether or not they would actually be able to accept this if they could be included in this program. so this all seems like a very much a new development. and as you mentioned, it comes really the big picture here, of course, is that president trump and also elon musk at the helm of doge have been working very hard to massively reduce the size of the federal workforce and really reshape it in the president's image and what he views the workforce to be. and so we are expecting widespread layoffs. and now we know that cia employees are also able to opt into this program. >> all right. thanks. elena. back to you, alex. she was just talking about usaid, which appears to be on the verge of collapse. what more do we know about this and the impact that this could have? worldwide?

>> massive. >> it's impossible to overstate the impact. and i've been fielding calls from usaid officials both here in d.c. and all around the world who are angry. they are scared. i just spoke to one who said that they are all emotionally distraught. elena. they're just touched on doge. doge is believed to be also behind. what we are seeing is this rapid dismantlement of an independent agency, which, by the way, many in congress, democrats almost entirely, are saying is illegal because the status of usaid is changing and is being absorbed by the state department. and that is against the law, many say, because it was created by an act of congress. uh, pam, we have seen over the course of the past week this steady drumbeat of top career officials being put on leave. of contractors all around the world being fired and furloughed. and now we have this blanket statement from the acting deputy administrator of usaid, peter marocco, saying

that everybody around the world who is direct hires or direct employees of the u.s. government will be put on leave as of friday night. and what that means, essentially, is they're not losing their jobs immediately. they get to go home, um, and keep their pay. but you have thousands of people all around the world who are being shut out of their systems, their email systems, the security systems are being ordered home. these are people around the world who have families. they have kids in school. many of them are working in very dangerous situations. they would be abandoning projects that are keeping people alive, and they need to figure out now how to come home, where they would live, what they're going to do for work, and then add on top of that, you have all these different layers of thousands of contractors who really hold up usaid and keep it functioning, who had already been kicked out of the system, who have no idea what their future is going to be. and so many of these people can't do their jobs. they can't figure

out what comes next, because the email system, the communication systems, they have been cut out of that. and that's before we even get to the freezing of all of this foreign aid. the trump administration has said that they have given a waiver to to food and humanitarian aid around the world that that can keep flowing, but it can't if there's no one implementing it and it can't if the money flows aren't continuing and it can't if if people can't communicate. so all of this work, all of these systems and all of these people really coming to a standstill, there is a lot of distress and despair in the aid community today. pam. >> yeah. and we heard from someone who just retired from the agency, who was on the last hour, who conveyed that and was concerned that that all this food is just rotting because it's sitting in the ports and it's not going to to people who need it. and just the widespread implications of this, and we're still trying to wrap our heads around it, right? as are the employees of the agency. they don't know what's going on here. i want to go back to you at the white house to switch gears for

a moment, because we are just learning that the president is going to sign an executive order which would ban transgender athletes from women's sports. and worth noting, this is a national girls and women in sports day. what exactly would this order enforce? >> yeah, well, there are a couple of things. one, i think i just want to make very clear how this was a long held campaign promise of the president, and one that actually received a lot of attention and garnered a lot of support for him throughout his time on the campaign trail. but i'm going to break down just exactly what is in this. so essentially, as you mentioned, it is going to ban transgender female athletes from participating in women's sports. the order is going to be titled keeping men out of women's sports. a white house official told us. and essentially it's two pronged now it's going to lean on compliance with title nine, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities that receive funding from the federal government, as well as the federal engagement with the private sector. now,

one key thing that they are going to try to do is really try to take the opposite position from the biden administration and their guidance on how to implement title nine. we are told by this white house official. essentially, the biden administration established a rule that schools are vitally violating title nine when they ban transgender students from participating in women's sports. now, what's also clear is that they don't want to just keep it to this executive action. the president and other top officials within the trump administration are saying that they really think that they can play a role in the governing bodies on this issue. this is what we heard from secretary of state marco rubio. he said that rubio will be or excuse me, this is an official saying this of rubio. they said that rubio will be using bodies like the united nations to promote the administration's stance through reports on gender issues. so, again, this is something we know that the president had promised he's been wanting to do, and we are really going to see him try to put that into action today at the white house with this signing ceremony. and as you

noted, it's a it's a big day for women's sports. so obviously the timing not lost here at the white house. pamela. >> of course. alayna treene. alex mark rutte, thank you so much. and breaking news, house oversight democrats tried to move to subpoena elon musk to be a witness and testify about his doge effort, but were blocked by republicans in an ongoing committee hearing. let's bring in our next guest, democratic congressman robert garcia of california. you sit on oversight. what happened here? >> yeah. i mean, look, we were pretty clear. i mean, democrats want to ensure that elon musk, who essentially is now a co-president in this administration and has incredible powers given to him by donald trump, much of what he's doing, by the way, is illegal and unconstitutional. and so democrats wanted to be very clear. we want elon musk in front of the oversight committee to testify. and so we introduced a motion to subpoena him. and, of course, republicans who have no real interest in oversight blocked that vote. but it's really important for folks to

know that this entire time, elon musk has only gotten richer. and so as his wealth has increased by hundreds of millions of dollars since the election, he continues to try to raid the government, give himself big tax cuts, and is now too afraid to come in front of the oversight committee. >> so i interviewed in the last hour your colleague on the oversight committee on the other side of the aisle, mike turner, he tried to argue that essentially, you know, what musk is doing here is within the bounds and that there's reviews going on in congress. he tried to say, no laws are being broken. i know that the democrats majority of democrats say, yes, this is illegal and unconstitutional. as you say, there are lawsuits ongoing right now. here's what speaker mike johnson just said about musk's role. >> chad. >> you know me. i'm a fierce advocate and defender of article one. i mean, look, we are the legislative branch. there's a reason the founding fathers put the congress, the legislative branch, as the first article in

the constitution, and we're going to vigorously defend that. but what's happening right now, i think there's a gross overreaction in the media to what is happening. the executive branch of government in our system has the right to evaluate how executive branch agencies are operating and to ensure that not only the intent of congress in funding mechanisms, but also the stewardship of precious american taxpayer dollars is being handled well. that's what they're doing by putting a pause on some of these agencies and by evaluating them, by doing these internal audits. that is a long overdue, much welcome development. that's what the american people demand and deserve, and that's what's happening. so we don't see this as a threat to article. >> so what do you say to that? he said it's a welcome development. >> i mean that's laughable. i'm not sure what the speaker is talking about. you're talking about the richest man on the planet. more wealth than anyone else. and what he's trying to do right now is to raid government agencies, destroy programs like the department of education,

programs at the department of labor, at usaid, at the state department, and to ensure that he can collect as much savings as possible to then give himself and his companies the largest tax break that he can find with all of the wealth that's hard, been hard earned by the american public. and by the way, this is someone who he and his team have not gone through a national security process to check their credentials. we have a group of folks that are unelected people that are essentially unelected engineers and folks that work for elon musk running around all of our agencies, shutting programs down. the american public should be incredibly concerned as we are, and fight and push back on this. this is highly illegal. we're taking this to the courts, and we're trying to ensure that elon musk comes in front of our committee and actually answers some of these questions. >> so just to be clear for our viewers, look, those are the concerns of conflict of interest. we don't have any evidence as of right now that the actions elon musk has taken is personally benefiting him and his companies. but there are those concerns because he does

have billions of dollars of contracts before the federal government, and we don't really know exactly what's happening. and he is a special government employee. this is really unprecedented, right. um, what else should your committee be doing and holding him accountable and holding the actions of doge overall accountable with those checks and balances? >> look, i think what's really concerning is you have republicans out there right now talking about reforming social security benefits or eliminating certain types of medicare benefits. these are the kinds of things that should be very concerning. tht education, doge is looking at the one department in this children with disabilities and giving them an actual opportunity to an education than anyone else for food programs for the working poor and poor families. these are programs that are critical in places like the department of ed and other agencies across the government. and you have a group of essentially young kids and elon musk running around. we have no

idea what they're doing. and i think what the public and your viewers should know is that we have zero clue as to what personal information of yours, of the american public. they know now have access to our personal information, tax information, our social security benefits, the information your kids have as students in our public schools. and and they're completely have complete access to these documents and information. so what we want our answers. and yet donald trump and elon musk are refusing to give us any. and that's why we're concerned and that's why we're pushing on oversight. >> you say they're refusing to give you any what exactly have you done to try to get answers? i know i mentioned the subpoena, but but just help us. bring us in to what you all are doing. democrats on the oversight committee to get those answers. >> well, look, i mean, we've asked a variety of questions. we've sent numerous requests to the administration for answers. none have come back. we're asking elon musk, who is the

head of doge, to come in front of our committee and answer questions that is being rebuffed by the republicans. we've reached out to the white house and asked, what the hell are you doing with trying to eliminate some of these departments? no response. and so no one actually knows, including the media, including experts. what elon musk and his group of of doge folks are actually doing in our departments. what we do know is they have no government experience. they're not have not passed major national security clearances, and they have been given complete access to the american public's personal information and our financial information. and so that deserves answers. and that's what we're doing today in the committee. we're calling out what we think are unconstitutional actions and making sure that everyone knows what elon musk is doing. he is doing on behalf of himself, and in my opinion, so that he can redirect the american public's wealth into huge tax cuts for himself and his billionaire friends. >> and again, i know that's what you believe he is doing. we don't have evidence to support

that. that is actually happening right now. but there are questions and concerns about that. again, um, just to follow up with you, katie miller, the a spokesperson for doge, has said that no one has received or viewed classified information on the doge team if they haven't had security clearances. but that aside, you know, there are some serious questions here about the legislative branch. you heard mike johnson talk about it. you know, look, we have article one in the constitution, the legislative branch. he supports this effort, though. do you think that the legislative branch right now is just sort of ceding power to the executive branch? i mean, are is it still two co-equal branches of government right now? because a lot of people are asking that question and wondering that right now. >> i mean, not not in donald trump's world. i mean, donald trump has essentially elevated the richest man in the world as co-president has given him unfettered access to programs and agencies that he has no authority over. we know that

budgets and the financial resources of the american public and its investments, and our agencies are something that is controlled and overseen by the congress, the senate and the house, not by an unelected billionaire that is out there running around with the team that we know nothing about. and so we are concerned. and unfortunately, the republican majority has decided to to cede their authority and their oversight over to elon musk and the executive branch. and so this should be very concerning. and this i think it's a joke to have a spokesperson from the administration or from doge say that we should just trust them. we should trust that they don't have access to sensitive information, even though they're unwilling to testify or answer questions or actually pass. any sort of clearance, i think is unconscionable. and we should strongly oppose that. and the american public needs to be very aware of what's happening. >> congressman robert garcia, thank you so much for your time. thank you. and still ahead this hour, just as israel and hamas are set to enter phase two of their ceasefire deal, the president elect makes a brazen

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president of the palestinian authority said, quote, we will not allow the rights of our people, for which we have struggled for decades and made great sacrifices to achieve, to be infringed upon. cnn's jeff zeleny is at the white house. so what are you hearing there this morning, jeff? >> well. >> pamela. >> a day after the president. >> made that. >> really stunning. statement in the east room of the white house, his administration is scrambling to essentially explain and keep up with what he said. we just heard speaker johnson on the house call this a bold move. there's no doubt it's that. but there are more questions about this than anything else. how would something like this go? what effect would it have on the second phase oceasfi, which, of course was the entire heart of the discussion yesterday when president trump welcomed benjamin netanyahu here to the white house. but the administration, as we saw in the previous trump administration, is scrambling to essentially find a policy to fit his statement from yesterday. we

have been told that this is something that's been on his mind for quite some time. he sort of built up to it yesterday throughout the day, not necessarily calling for the the forced removal of the palestinians from gaza. some 1.8 million people, but saying that it is a permanent resettlement, that of course, simply will not fly. but his advisers are defending this as a a bold outside the box type of a proposal. they say that nothing has worked in the middle east before, so why not use this as a discussion point? but the of course it flies in the face of longstanding u.s. foreign policy. so, pamela, we shall see how much the president actually sticks with this. we know he moves from one topic to another to another, but this certainly is is causing shockwaves across the globe today. pamela. >> it certainly is. jeff zeleny, thank you so much. and joining us now is democratic congressman of new york, gregory meeks. he's a ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee and senior member of the house financial services committee.

congressman, thank you for your time. what is your reaction to this proposal to seize control of gaza and displace nearly 2 million palestinians? >> well, it's just ridiculous. you know, it doesn't make any sense. it's again, the president just going off on his own. look, to say that you're going to send american troops into gaza and you're going to you know. >> he didn't rule. >> that out. >> you know, he did not rule that out, that you're just going to systematically remove people. he didn't talk about them coming back, taking away their homeland. you're talking about the billions or trillions of dollars that would be there. you're talking about going against all international norms where there's no one in the world, whether it be those immediately there jordan, egypt, saudi arabia, or even our european allies or anyone that would agree to anything of this nature. it just makes no sense. it's a violation of law, and it

is inhumane. of people. so it just i think that again, president trump trying to flood the market, trying to cause chaos, trying to get people's minds away from what he's not doing, he's not reducing the cost of food. he's not making life better for the american people. he's not making homes, you know, more affordable for people, reducing the cost of rent. he's not doing any of those things that are affecting the average everyday lives of americans. none of those things that he's doing, he's making a lot of noise to take away from those issues, because there's no policy that he's being put forward now that actually helps the american people and make them their way of life and living easier and or better. >> i want to follow up with you on on gaza. trump's son in law, jared kushner, sparked outrage last year after similar comments on developing gaza. i want to listen to this. >> in gaza's waterfront

property. it could be very valuable. >> to if people would focus on kind of building. >> up. >> you know, livelihoods. you think about all the money that's gone into this tunnel. >> network and into all the munitions. >> if that would. >> have gone into. >> education or. >> innovation, what could have been done? and so i think that it's a little bit of an unfortunate situation there. but i think from israel's perspective, i would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up. >> so he said that last year. and now you see president trump sort of taking that and even going further with those remarks, as you well know, the biden administration spent a lot of time and effort in trying to figure out what to do with gaza once this war ends and how to rebuild it and develop it. i mean, so what can be done in terms of that actually making it, you know, inhabitable? is that the right word? again, inhabitable. there you go. inhabitable. >> let me just say this first, what we should have been talking about, if we were talking about

serious this whole meeting with the president of the united states and the prime minister of israel should be talking about making sure that the cease fire holds, that all of the hostages are released. we've got a second phase that needs to be worked on. still, the prime minister has talked about he may pull out of that. we've got to make sure that we are focused on the current scenario and situation that's on the ground to try to continue to save lives. that's what we should be serious and working and focused on. number one. number two, to talk about, you know, and i was concerned because it did seem that the president was reading something yesterday. so maybe it is what jared had said some back then, but it just does not make sense. and it is not it's not something that we are as a people or as americans that we look at. it does not make us safer. the fact of the matter is, when you start using that kind of talk, it probably makes us less safe. it,

you know, raises and has other individuals who, you know, would love to continue to terrorize around the world and, you know, call us all kinds of names in that regard. and you add that on top of what the president is currently doing, for example, with the removal of the 93 missions of usaid all around the world, that makes us less safe as a as a country, because now no one is there. and what happens when we leave those missions and those places, places like, you know, russia and china, they move in. so all of this is relative and working, you know, in conjunction with one another, whether you're talking about the ridiculous statement that he's made, that the united states is going to take over gaza, whether you talk about him not funding ukraine against russia, whether you talk about him trying to make deals with some of the dictators around the world, it does not make americans safe as well as

it does not make america living that you know better their quality of life, their cost of living, their their rent, their food, their gas. it does not help that in any shape, form or fashion. it's a distraction. and i want to make sure that we are focused back in on what the american people really want, what they need, and how we also contain can continue to contain who we are and what our values as human beings are, and how we do respect others other than just ourselves. >> and certainly on this show, we have been focusing on what matters to americans, what's happening here in the country, that is for sure. and there are serious questions about what is trump doing with his pledge on the campaign trail to lower prices for americans, particularly at a time when egg prices are shooting up? um, what is your view of the ceasefire deal and whether it will hold and whether phase two will

actually happen, given these remarks? >> well, i'm concerned. i'm very concerned. and that's what i think that the focus should be. that's what the conversation between the prime minister and the president should be about. we've heard the prime minister hint that he may not go through with phase two. i'm concerned about that. i'm pleased that phase one has been successful. i'm pleased the fact that we see that hostages are being returned. i'm pleased with the fact that we see that there's dialog and conversation that's going on with all of our gulf state allies, and we're talking about working collectively together so that when you're talking about, you know, really doing something in regards to gaza, it should include saudi arabia, it should include, uh, qatar, it should include jordan and egypt and working collectively together to make sure that hamas is not there. but the palestinians have a place that they can call home living in a peaceful state alongside israel and working

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crackdown on immigration. the first military flight arrived there yesterday from el paso, carrying ten migrants with criminal records, according to dhs officials. but questions remain about how legal these unprecedented steps are. and i want to note the plane used to fly them was a c-17 globemaster right here, which the trump administration has signaled would be used for deportations. these planes have a payload of more than 170,000 pounds, and can hold more than 100 troops. they are used to transport equipment as big as tanks, and it's costing an estimated $28,000 an hour to operate them. in this case, you know, they brought ten people to guantanamo bay. for more on this, priscilla alvarez joins us. so what do we know about this facility and the legality of any of this? >> well, the legality was something that was assessed by the department of homeland security attorneys and pentagon attorneys. that's what i have been told, because what they're doing is unprecedented. the reason is because they are taking people from the united

states who are on u.s. soil and taking them to guantanamo bay. now to remind viewers there is what is known as a migrant operation center that already exists there, but it has been used for those interdicted at sea. therefore, they have never touched u.s. soil. they are taken there and then repatriated to their origin country. this is a whole new step by plucking people out of the united states and taking them there before they are repatriated, which has raised a lot of questions among legal experts as to how exactly this could work within the confines of immigration law. but all the same, as you just mentioned, they did exactly this yesterday, using a military plane to send them to guantanamo. it is certainly part of the plans moving forward. of course, all of this stemming from the president's announcement last week that he wanted to expand the facility there for 30,000 people. sources telling me that there are tents that are already going up adjacent to this migrant operation center to hold tens of thousands of migrants with a lot of questions unanswered. are there going to be legal service providers that have access to the population there? how long will they. will they be held there? the homeland security

secretary saying that they will not be held there indefinitely, but sometimes countries take a while to take back those who are repatriated or they say no. so there are a lot of logistical questions, but the planning is very is very much underway. and what we saw yesterday with the arrival last night, but also with the picking up and taking them there on a military. plane that is expected to continue to happen moving forward. >> and we're also learning about unprecedented military deportation flights to india. right. what do we know about that? >> so the key here is the mode of transportation. because we have done and we the united states has done deportation flights to india before, but they are using a military aircraft to do that. we have already seen them do this with ecuador. we saw it with guatemala. but this is an additional step. now. taking it even further to india. so this is the longest military aircraft deportation flight that we have seen so far. all of this part of the broader strategy by the trump administration to use pentagon assets, use them often to carry out these deportations

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the most successful attorney generals that this country has ever had. i really believe that. i know, i know her well. a lot of people in florida, if you're in florida, you know her well, and it was all good. there was never a problem, no problem. as a prosecutor, she locked up drug dealers and gang members and human traffickers and was waging war all the time on the pill mills they called them. that fueled the deadly opioid crisis. and she did better than anybody else. there was nobody like her in the country. she also won over $50 billion in lawsuits for the victims of financial fraud and devastating deepwater horizon oil spill, which was brutal. and she was the leader of that whole deal, getting that people taken care of as attorney general of the united states, pam has a historic and urgently needed task ahead of her. and probably there's never been a time, clarence, that's more important than right now. we went through four years of not such good, not such good work in many ways. not just not just

with the president at other levels, also with the president. obviously, she's going to restore fair, equal and impartial justice and restore the constitutional rule of law in america. she will lead the democrats, you know, where they're going to. she's going to lead them right down. but i think she's going to be as impartial as you can possibly be. i know i'm supposed to say she's going to be totally impartial with respect to democrats, and i think she will be as impartial as a person can be. i'm not sure if there's a possibility of totally, but she's going to be as total as you can get. johnny. right. but she's going to be fair. and she'll lead the department of justice in crushing violent crime, demolishing the gangs which are all over the place. if you look at new york, if you look at chicago, if you look at los angeles, which is half burned down, unfortunately, because they didn't have the water and they didn't have what they were supposed to have, destroying the terrorist cartels is going to be a very big

priority for pam. and that leads to crime, and it leads to a lot of drugs. so she's going to take care of it and she'll stop the invasion of our country and get fentanyl off our streets. and we're going to be working with her very closely. kristi noem and tom homan and all of the people are going to be working very closely with pam. she's going to end the weaponization of federal law enforcement and restore honesty and integrity at the doj and the fbi. and she's going to be working with kash, and she's going to be working with a lot of other people that you've been reading about, writing about over the last few weeks. the role of attorney general comes with immense responsibility, but i have absolute confidence that pam will fulfill her duties with honor and courage and strength and fairness. she's going to be fair. it's going to be very fair. and now i'd like to invite justice thomas to administer the oath of office. and thank you all for being here. it's a great it's a very important day. i believe, in our country's history. thank you very much. >> thank you jason dale pam

bondi being sworn in. >> you heard remarks there by president trump. let's go to cnn's jeff zeleny at the white house and cnn chief legal affairs correspondent, paula reid. jeff, first to you. >> well, pamela, this is certainly extraordinary a move here because pam bondi, as the new attorney general, will be one of the most important people in this government. of course, she was confirmed yesterday by just a 54 to a 46 vote. just one democrat, democratic senator john fetterman of pennsylvania, supported her. the rest of the vote was a party line, and there is no doubt hearing the president right there saying she will be as impartial as a person can be. of course, she pledged her impartiality, and she said that politics would not sort of affect her role at the justice department. but that is her biggest challenge because there is no one who got in the president's crosshairs more in his first administration than jeff sessions, the former alabama senator who recused

himself in the early days of that russia investigation and certainly led to his downfall. so pam bondi, of course, is well supported by this president, there's no doubt. but she faces many, many challenges staying in his good graces and also upholding that pledge that she made to the senate. >> yeah, it is no doubt one of the most challenging jobs in any administration, particularly a trump administration. given that history, as you pointed out. and she has a lot before her on day one, paula reid. >> yeah. >> no doubt she's walking into a firestorm at the justice department over the recent firings of agents and prosecutors who worked on cases related to president trump and the january 6th capitol riot. one of her first tasks, if she wants to, is to try to fix the morale issue that they are facing right now, and the messaging about whether they do indeed intend to fire thousands of additional workers at the justice department. i am told that is not the plan. but again, you have top acting officials over there sending out memos

asking for information about those who worked on those investigations with the subject line, quote terminations. now, in addition to that firestorm, she also has the day to day challenge of implementing president trump's agenda, defending his executive orders in court, which so far they have not been successful. they have lost every challenge that they have tried to defend. tomorrow is a big hearing on birthright citizenship. as you heard, president trump there also say she is going to have a big role in enforcing immigration laws. and that's in addition to the day to day work that the justice department handles around violent crime and terrorism. so this is one of the most difficult jobs in government. she comes to it with decades of experience in law enforcement, but nothing can truly prepare you for this. >> certainly. paula reid jeff zeleny. thank you. we'll be right back.

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>> you know, post-operative. pain a broken bone. >> that sort. >> of pain. that's where it seems to to provide the most benefit. and that's where it seems to be potentially a good alternative to opioids. connie, i think in that question also mentioned taking medications like antidepressants, for example. this could potentially provide relief for those sorts of pains. chronic pain is still a little bit of an open question. they did this this trial where they actually looked at the use of this medication called shou zi chew for sciatica. that's back pain with pain that's radiating down the leg. and they found that it did improve pain scores about two points. so if you had a pain level of six, for example, it may have gone to four. so not a home run at least so far when it comes to chronic pain. but the company says it's going to continue to study that. so connie stay tuned. >> all right. let's go to stephanie from minnesota asking, how is this new drug any different from other prescription pain medication? >> yeah it is. it is a very different sort of class of drugs. i mean, when you think about pain medications, first of all, you typically think of

anti-inflammatories. you think of opioids. you may think of antidepressants like we were just talking about when it comes to opioids, the way that opioids really work is by really affecting the brain more than anything else. the brain is the place where all pain is processed. if the brain doesn't think it's pain, then it's not pain. but it can also be sedating or it can cause euphoria, and that can lead to addiction from opioids with this medication. pamela, it's really about targeting the site of the pain and preventing some of those pain signals from actually getting to the brain. so you don't get the euphoria, you don't get sort of the sedation that you might get with opioids. that could be one of the big benefits here. >> yeah. and one of the reasons why it's not addictive, right? i love when you bring out the brain prop sanjay. >> so let's. >> go. let's go to ali from california, who is asking, will it make you loopy like the other meds? i can't take any pain meds because i feel like i'm on another planet. and it turns out a lot of you wanted to know more

about the side effects of the drug. >> yeah, i got to tell you, i totally know what ali is talking about. having taken opioids in the past, after an operation, you feel loopy, you feel like you're on another planet. and i think that's part of the appeal, potentially, of these new medications. there are side effects. i mean, any any medication has side effects, but they're more itching, muscle spasms, rash, side effects like that. again, for the reasons we just mentioned, because it's working in a very different way. you should not get sort of brain side effects from this. it's not sort of sedating the brain or sort of numbing you to the pain as much as it is sort of targeting those specific areas that are responsible for transmitting pain. so, you know, we'll see. these are trial results. it's pretty exciting as more and more people start to take these medications around the world, we may see what else emerges in terms of concerns. but right now, pamela, it seems like a good alternative to opioids in particular. >> very promising. doctor sanjay gupta, thank you.

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