anderson, is that many of them are supporters of president trump. i mean, you heard mr. roth there, and they're also supporters of his take on immigration, his crackdown that we are seeing going forward with these deportations. but as these deportations move forward, they also warn that this is an urgent moment to move forward. and. >> it looks like we lost david culver's fee. david culver reporting. >> we have to continue. >> david, we have you back for about 30 more seconds. sorry. >> yeah. you got me now? yep. no worries out here in palm beach county. i mean, there are aspects of this county that obviously are quite rural, but no, the farmers that we spoke with as they support president trump, they also believe that he has to move forward with this. anderson. they say, really, you look at the food supply in this country and it is reliant on these workers. the visa program, though, has its limitations. they say under the department of labor, it is just really cumbersome, really complicated. and they say it's got to be made cheaper, particularly when you think about those smaller farmers.

>> david culver thanks. the news continues here on cnn. >> it's thursday, february. >> 6th. >> right now on cnn. >> this morning. >> let me just take a step back here, because this is an out of the box idea. >> damage control. the president's team tries to walk back what he said, in his own words about a gaza. >> takeover. plus. >> guys, this is not. >> audi's show yet. i. pamela bondi. >> do solemnly. >> swear. >> day one for a new attorney general, pam bondi. and she's wasting no time getting the doj in line with the president's agenda. >> and we. >> are less. >> safe. >> because hundreds. >> of fbi. >> agents are. >> on the. >> verge of being fired. >> a brewing conflict why a top justice department official accuses fbi leadership of insubordination. all right, it

is 5 a.m. here on the east coast. this is a live. >> look at the capitol dome. on this. what day of the week is it? it's really hard to keep track nowadays. thursday. good morning everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. as the world is now trying to work through president trump's proposal for the u.s. to, quote, take over the gaza strip, his administration now rushing to clarify what he meant by those comments during his joint news conference with israel's prime minister. the president spoke at length about the u.s. going in and rebuilding gaza, calling it a, quote, demolition site. he also didn't rule out the possibility of deploying u.s. troops to the territory. when he was asked by reporters, one white house adviser described themselves as stunned and tell cnn that they had not heard the proposal until the news conference. now, members of his administration are playing catch up with this sudden pivot in u.s. policy. all right. it sounds like we don't

have marco rubio there. so the president made clear, has made it clear is what the press secretary had to say. here's what president trump said about where palestinians are removed from gaza should live throughout the day. on tuesday. >> if we can build something for them in one of the countries, and it could be jordan and it could be egypt, it could be other countries, i hope that we could do something where they wouldn't want to go back. who would want to go back? the only reason the palestinians want to go back to gaza is they have no alternative. i think the entire world, representatives from all over the world will be there. and they'll and they'll live there. palestinians also palestinians will live there. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu seems to be on board with the president's newly unveiled vision for the middle east. >> this is the first good idea. >> that i've heard. >> it's a. >> remarkable idea. >> and i think it should be really pursued, examined. pursued and. >> done because i.

>> think it will create. >> a different future for everyone. >> president trump's words already having an impact in israel, where the defense minister has ordered their military to prepare for the, quote, voluntary departure, end quote, of palestinians from gaza. joining us now to talk about this sofia kai, white house reporter at politico. sofia, good morning to you. good morning. so can you talk a little bit about how much other people around the president knew or didn't know about this proposal ahead of this press conference with netanyahu? >> yeah. i think a select number of people did. >> know because. >> it was written into his remarks, even though there was no written plan. and so, like many things, it gets written to a speech. he speaks it into existence, maybe adds some flourishes and it becomes a thing. but i think, you know, everything is negotiation for trump. this is no different. and he starts with a big opening salvo, and then afterwards he kind of sees how people react. and then we saw yesterday the press secretary had to start tempering that. so saying that

trump had not committed to u.s. boots on the ground and that any relocation would be temporary. >> so it does feel like yesterday presidential aides started to as you as you note, walk back elements of this kind of describe it in a slightly different ways. but the reality is that this, of course, has already started to change the way some people are looking at this. obviously, we touched on what the israelis are doing in terms of quote, unquote, voluntary removal of palestinians from gaza. i want to play a little bit of what some gazans had to say about this plan. these this sound is is translated. the number of these people are not speaking english. but let's hear a little bit from them and we'll talk about it. watch. >> we will not leave gaza whatsoever. >> even though. >> there's great destruction. >> and everything. >> and even the weather. we are staying here in our destroyed homes. we are steadfast in our land and we are not going to give a about trump's statements.

>> at the end, trump comes and. >> tells us this. >> we would rather eat this rubble and not be displaced from gaza. we are steadfast here, not him or anyone can get us or uproot us from gaza. this is our land and we are the honest and true owners of the land. i won't be. displaced. >> so i think that gives you a sense of kind of the depth of emotion here, and the kind of reaction that that would unfold where the president tried to actually execute something like this. >> yeah. i mean, this is their home. i think that depth of emotion that you mentioned, i'm not sure that the president grasped that because, you know, he's a businessman and his focus is on rebuilding. he sent his middle east envoy, steve witkoff last week to gaza. and, you know, he was relayed that the rebuilding might take 10 to 15 years. and so i think, you know, trump's approach is that he wants to get as many countries involved. and by, you

know, stating that we might own it, it allows somebody like national security adviser mike waltz to come in and say, well, if you don't like trump's plan, then pitch it. >> sophia, what do we expect today from the white house on this? and and how do you think that this is going to unfold in the in the days and weeks ahead? >> i actually i'm not sure if we might get any more details than we did yesterday. the president, you know, did not answer questions in the oval about this issue. and i think, you know, we may continue to hear from his aides kind of cleaning things up on the corner in terms of what he actually means. >> all right, sophia, kai, thanks very much for starting us off this morning. appreciate your time. all right. coming up here on cnn this morning, pam bondi officially sworn in as the nation's top law enforcement officer. how she is taking on dei programs in her first days in office. plus, the cia sends the white house, an unclassified

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both the justice department and within the private sector. according to a new memo, the justice department will, quote, investigate, eliminate and penalize illegal dei programs focusing on private companies and educational institutions that receive federal money. another memo said the department will take a look at its own diversity policies, including whether any organizations were awarded federal doj grants to promote dei. bondi was sworn into her new role at the white house yesterday. she says that she won't target people because of their political affiliation. >> 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. >> all right. joining us now, cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson. joey, good morning. always wonderful to see you. i just straight off the top. what's

your evaluation of the new attorney general's first initial hours in this role and what she's focused on? >> yeah. >> casey. >> good. >> morning to you. >> there are many concerns. the first, of course, is that elections have consequences. i don't know that anyone could be surprised that she would. effectuate the trump agenda. having said that, the biggest issue is that i'm concerned about whether the justice department is going to work for the american people, as it has historically been doing, and as has been the focus or whether or not it's going to be just an arm. and a loyalist of the president. moreover, moving from that, i'm concerned about whether or not we're going to be looking backwards in terms of retribution and grievances and settling scores, or whether we're going to be looking forward in terms of being the biggest law enforcement entity in the country. i'm concerned about its independence. i'm concerned about the institution itself. i'm concerned about measures of trust. and so i'm not at all surprised that she

would be effectuating the trump agenda. i certainly would just hope again, that the loyalty is to the constitution, and that the 10,000 lawyers are put to that purpose and not any purpose that is political in nature. >> joey, can we talk a little bit about the fbi? because of course, we just passed a deadline for fbi agents to turn over information in a questionnaire. there have been all of these questions about what that means. and, um, i want to show you a little bit of what andrew mccabe said on our air about the agents in the building and what this may mean ultimately for the agency. let's watch and then we'll talk about it. >> the idea that the fbi contains some group of rank and file agents who are radical, left leaning partizans, who are out there ignoring the directions given to them by their supervisors in order to

target republicans is fantasy. it is a fever dream. >> and joey, i mean, we've also often discussed on this program that in many cases in the past rank and file fbi agents have actually tended to be more conservative, perhaps as a group. but again, the imperative to investigate everybody fairly. >> yeah. so this supposed to work in one specific, clearly defined way. and that is that you have fbi agents who are carrying out the agenda again, of the department of justice without fear, without favor, without prejudice, that they're doing their job every day and they are taking the facts to where they lead them. i think certainly there is a distrust and has been by this particular president based upon his personal experiences in terms of what the fbi has been up to, whether they've been weaponized against him, whether they've been overly partisan. we see that the new attorney general has called for an investigation in that regard. but at the end of the day, i think you have to

understand. we have to understand that institutions need to be independent. they need to be able to fulfill their mission. they need to be able to conduct investigations without worrying about, hey, if i follow my directives right from my superiors, am i now going to be fired? am i now going to be looked at? am i now going to be tossed out of a job? similarly, you have the department of justice, casey, their career prosecutors, they're not. they're wearing a d on their chest every day or an r on their chest saying, ha ha, we're going to go out here and wreak havoc upon our enemies. they're there to do justice. and again, i just think, and i believe and i hope that they need to stick to that mission in order to gain the confidence of the american people and to do the job successfully. >> joey, can i ask you broadly about what the role of the courts is going to be as we continue to see these efforts unfold from the trump administration? i mean, there are a number of examples of elon

musk and his doge outfit going in and directly contradicting laws that congress has written, shutting down the department of, you know, the usaid is kind of perhaps the most obvious example of that, but you have seen a number of other areas that the federal spending freeze, of course, was blocked by a judge, but this seems to be setting up to be an enormous series of lawsuits. here is the system prepared to handle it. and what what is your sense of how the, the, the courts are going to react to this? you know, landslide, avalanche. >> yeah. casey, it's important to note that we are in unprecedented times. i think we're going to see a president who really lives on the margins and who really pushes the envelope every day. i think you're going to have record number of lawsuits. i think that in terms of the legal business, it's going to be an incredible busy four years. briefly, remember how it's supposed to

work, right? you have a president who's checked by congress. the first thing i'll say is will there be that check? or will his party simply acquiesce to whatever his priorities? >> i mean, as a long time congressional reporter, i can i can tell you at this point right now, we're looking at acquiescing, but continue your continue your point. yes. >> but that's the problem, casey, because you're supposed to be there in congress to investigate, to serve, certainly as a pushback. and i don't know that that's happening. i think this simple acquiescence. so that's the first thing that we have to be concerned about. next. now you have the legal challenges, and we know that very high court is packed by people that mr. trump has appointed during his last go around. and so the issue that i'm getting to is whether or not right, this whole balance of power will really be balanced, or whether it'll be really executive heavy. and if it's executive heavy, will that that ultimate court really serve as a check? very briefly, casey, you know that this is the first rung of court. everyone has their trial the lowest level. and then you have your appeals. will

those appeals courts hold? will they be true to the law or will they have really a political tinge? ultimately, if it gets to the supreme court, will the supreme court evaluate cases predicated upon the facts and the law or political agenda? that's the concern that i have. ultimately, courts are not supposed to be about, again, going back to the r on my chest or the d on my chest. they're supposed to be about the j on my chest justice. and so the concern is whether they will do justice to a record influx of lawsuits that we're going to see moving forward on executive orders. and i'm sure legislation that will be passed, et cetera.. it's going to be a head spinning time. >> it's the phrase phrase of the week head spinning. joey jackson, thanks very much for your time this morning, sir. i appreciate it. >> appreciate it. all right. >> thanks. >> coming up now on cnn, next on cnn this morning, the kamala harris interview that led to a lawsuit, why the fcc is now showing everyone the full transcript. and you've probably

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hunt, it's wonderful to have you with us. the trump administration's federal deferred resignation offer expires today. the white house says more than 40,000 federal workers have already taken the deal of eight months pay, with benefits to resign, although it's still not clear if the arrangement is even legal. also murky whether the deadline applies to the cia. sources say the agency just sent the white house an unclassified email with a list of all new hires from the past two years, in order to comply with an executive order to downsize the federal workforce. the list has first names and last initials. still, there are concerns that that is plenty enough to expose the identities of those officers to foreign government hackers. here's democratic senator elissa slotkin of michigan, who, remember, served as a cia analyst in iraq.

>> americans don't know half of what goes on to. >> protect them from threats. >> they have. >> no idea what goes. >> on in. >> the dark of night. >> and these are the. >> people doing it. and i. >> think it's just like taking a. >> machete to the. >> federal government. >> without without. >> a concern. >> for how it implies it. >> impacts our. >> national security. >> there's also turmoil at the fbi. deputy acting acting deputy attorney general emil bove accusing bureau leadership of insubordination for refusing to identify a core team of employees who worked on january 6th investigations. he is now trying to reassure rank and file agents who, quote, simply followed orders that they will not be fired unless they, quote, acted with corrupt or partisan intent. >> they don't want an. >> fbi that's. >> going to examine anything they're doing. we are less safe because hundreds of fbi agents are on the verge of being fired for not being sufficiently loyal to donald trump.

>> is the criteria to be an fbi agent in the future, one who swears allegiance to donald trump, or one who upholds the constitution. >> all right, former fbi special agent ken gray joins us now. ken, good morning. thank you very much for being with us. let's start with the fbi. and i also want to talk about that email from the cia. but what are you hearing from former colleagues in the bureau about how they're reacting? >> good morning. casey. the bureau is in turmoil right now. you have this this hanging over your head. if you are an agent that worked either the january sixth. uh, uh, uh, problem or if you were in mar-a-lago, uh, the bureau sent out a survey to all employees, uh, requesting whether or not you worked on either one of those cases. and then those surveys are being used to identify people who were

on a target list, who were placed on a target list. that information was turned over to doj and doj's insistence and, uh, this has employees concerned that they may be fired for doing their job. if you're an agent, you're given a direction to go out and conduct a search or to go out and conduct an arrest. you are following up on a lawful order. and then to be placed on notice that you may be fired because of that. and that is very distressing for the bureau right now. >> ken, let's talk a little bit about the cia piece of this, this buyout offer expires today. it's not clear the cia buyout. we learned about earlier this week those names that were on the list. what are the implications if, in fact, someone was able to intercept a foreign adversary, was able to intercept this unclassified

email? >> yeah, that's a real problem in that it may reveal the identities of uh, case officers who are posted all over the world and place them at jeopardy! really make it impossible for them to do their job. if you're identified, if you are working, say, out of an embassy or consulate, and you've been identified as being an agency, you can no longer stay in that country. you can. and it's very difficult for you to continue doing your job in that capacity. so this, this very well could render those case agents, uh, case officers, into a position where they can't carry out their duty. >> all right. ken gray, very grateful to have your perspective on the show today, sir. thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> all right. coming up next here on cnn this morning, president trump's allies try to clarify his proposal for what should happen to gaza, the

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pursuit of american interests. we do not seek nation building. we're going to end the era of nation building. a disastrous concept, a disastrous era. why are we nation building over there? we want a nation built over here. >> when president donald trump first entered politics nearly a decade ago, he did so with promises of putting an end to nation building and removing the u.s. from foreign entanglements in the middle east. but now he's, of course, said that he has a new plan to redevelop the gaza strip or, as his secretary of state, marco rubio, put it, quote, make gaza beautiful again. rubio, clarifying some of the details of the president's proposal yesterday. >> the only thing president trump has done very generously, in my view, is offer the united states willingness to step in and clear the debris, clean the place up. >> as the israel's defense

minister readies its military for the, quote, voluntary departure, end quote, of palestinians from gaza, want this clear? president trump and his plan have the full support of his israeli counterpart, prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> this is the first good idea. >> that i've heard. >> it's a remarkable idea, and i think it should be really pursued, examined, pursued and done because i think it will create a different future. >> for everyone. >> he's the greatest friend that israel has ever had in the white house. >> all right. joining us now, former chief of staff to benjamin netanyahu, george birnbaum. sir. good morning. thank you very much for spending some time with us today. >> good morning. casey. >> uh, i'd like to start with the meeting itself and especially the look on the prime minister's face there, as well as some reporting that he was as surprised by this as almost anyone. uh, the new york times wrote this quote. it wasn't only the americans who were

scrambling after the press conference. the announcement came just as much of a surprise to mr. trump's israeli visitors. soon before they walked out for their joint news conference on tuesday, mr. trump surprised prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel by telling him he planned to announce the gaza ownership idea, according to two people briefed on their interactions. you've obviously worked closely with netanyahu. what did you read into his reaction and how surprised was he? >> um, well, i would say this netanyahu is a very astute follower of political chess. and we saw a few announcements prior to the prime minister's arrival that were a little strange. one was the announcement that the king of jordan would be coming to visit the white house in a couple of weeks. and while with all respect to the king of jordan, i can think of two dozen world leaders that the president would invite to the white house prior to the king of jordan. we also saw the announcement of a very unique arms sale to egypt just a day prior to the prime minister arriving. of course, egypt and jordan being two key players in president trump's

plan. um, so the prime minister may have been surprised that the announcement came so quickly, but i believe that he probably was reading the tea leaves a little bit, and that president trump did have something in mind by having these two very strange events occur so early into his presidency regarding the invitation of the king of jordan, as well as the arms sale to egypt. >> let's talk a little bit about the bigger picture of the relationship between these two men, between donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, because we saw netanyahu spoke with reporters as he was boarding his plane to to fly here to washington, and he referred to trump as a good friend, an old friend. but it hasn't always been so, um, back in 2021, of course, after donald trump had lost to joe biden, um, barak ravid, who now is with axios but longtime chronicler of the israeli government and of benjamin netanyahu, he quoted trump as saying this, quote, i haven't spoken to him since,

trump said of the former israeli prime minister. f him. the first person to congratulate biden was bibi, and not only did he congratulate him, he did it on tape. so what has netanyahu done to try to rebuild his relationship with donald trump? and what are the pitfalls for netanyahu? >> yeah, i don't think there's any need to rebuild the relationship. i think donald trump, at the end of the last election to biden, um, was frustrated with the i think that was a reflection of of of of of that the prime minister of israel, regardless of who it is, is always one of the first to congratulate a newly elected president of united states due to the unique relationship between the two countries. so i wouldn't read too much into that. it is clear that donald trump has changed the paradigm regarding the middle east and israel. we were told for many decades, ever since 1948, that israel could not have peace with its arab neighbors until we made a peace and found a solution with the palestinians. yet donald trump,

under the abraham accords, completely changed that paradigm. we now have peace with the united arab emirates, with bahrain, with other arab nations probably heading towards the abraham accords, too. so the relationship is very strong. donald trump did move the american embassy to jerusalem. i don't see any any strain in that relationship going back to the previous administration, donald trump, including the current one as well. >> so i'm glad you brought up that sort of idea that israel can normalize relationships across the region, because of course, the big one is saudi arabia, and that was on the table before the october 7th attacks, obviously got set aside in the wake of that. i want to show you a little bit of what was said on tuesday by trump and netanyahu about saudi arabia specifically, and then we'll talk about it. take a look. >> so saudi arabia is going to be very helpful. and they have been very helpful. they want peace in the middle east. it's very simple. >> i think peace between israel and saudi arabia is not only feasible, i think it's going to

happen. >> so here's what saudi arabia said. this is the wall street journal, which has under the headline mideast powers reject donald trump's gaza proposal. saudi arabia, which the u.s. hopes to lead into a deal to normalize ties with israel, said wednesday it rejected any efforts to displace palestinians from their lands and reaffirmed support for a palestinian state. it called its position non-negotiable and said it would not establish diplomatic relations with israel unless that goal was met. what's the way around or through this, in your view? >> so, casey, one thing i learned in the middle east is that you've got 4000 years of a history of negotiation, and so everything is negotiable, regardless of what may have been said. and let's, let's, you know, remember that the problem of of the palestinians, the problem of gaza was not a jewish or israeli created problem. it was actually an arab created problem. going back to the refusal of the arab league to

accept the un partition plan in 1947, which would have created two states with jerusalem and bethlehem being independent and an economic trade zone between the arab and israeli state. so the arabs actually created the problem of the palestinians, i believe, and i know saudi arabia as well as the neighbors in the middle east, also see it as they're going to have to be a part of that solution as well. they create the problem. i'm sure that donald trump and prime minister netanyahu, working with their arab colleagues, will find a solution to this. that has to be different than what we've tried since 1967. >> all right. george birnbaum, very grateful to have you on the show today, sir. thanks very much for being here. >> thank you. casey, have a good day. >> you, too. all right. in just three days, a super bowl that's going to make history one way or the other. the philadelphia eagles take on the kansas city chiefs. my eagles. donald trump is going to be there becoming the first sitting u.s. president to attend a super bowl. however, he may need to brush up on his football trivia ahead of time. this is what he said yesterday.

>> and tommy tuberville, a great coach. you know, his quarterback was named mahomes. he was a great college coach. and i said, how good was he? he said, you don't want to know how good. he made me into a great coach. he's a pretty good quarterback, right? yeah, he was very good. >> so senator tommy tuberville of alabama did coach college football at texas tech at one point. but no, he did not coach chiefs quarterback patrick mahomes. whoopsie. another opportunity, of course, to make history on the line this sunday. the eagles the last obstacle standing between the chiefs and a three peat are coy wire is in new orleans for super bowl week. and he caught up with the legendary running back marshall faulk to get his thoughts on the big game. >> you played in this. >> big game. >> you know all. >> about the pressures. >> that come with it from all.

>> these superstars. >> patrick mahomes, travis kelce, jalen. >> hurts. >> saquon barkley, all of them. >> they're human. yeah. >> what are the what are the distractions the added pressures that come with this. >> big stage. >> first of all when you. >> get here and you you. >> then find yourself. >> out of your. >> element. >> which is you're. >> staying in. >> a hotel for a week and then. >> you got to. >> play a game. um, what i like. >> is that. >> the teams we traveled., and we. know that the eagles. >> went to brazil. so they have some experience on on what this is. but the chiefs, they've been here a bunch of times. so i think both teams can handle that. but then it's taking care of your family, making sure that everybody is settled, making sure all of that stuff is taken care of, and then getting back into your routine, let's say thursday, you understand there's a road trip, but then thursday you start doing. you're trying to create some normalcy and then making sure that this game and everybody wants to say it or play it like it's a regular game. no, no you don't. you play it like it's your last game and that is the most important game. and you go out there and hope that you can perform and rise to the occasion. yeah, because this might be. >> the last time. >> any of these guys make it back to this stage. you never know. >> how about.

>> your thoughts for the big game? the outcome. looking forward to it man. like obviously the spirits one and a half i think by saturday by friday will be down to one. this game is so close. it is it is so close. um, you know when you think about what a jalen carter can do, what a chris jones could do, these quarterbacks and what they mean to the running and the passing game and mahomes it's i call it the mahomes magic. like the dude has something man that elusive. it's he has something. and i'm just excited to see the game. and i'm like i can't like i want to see i want to see a team win three in a row. but then i want to see saquon and i want to see saquon, like just just have one of those epic games like he's been having in the playoffs. but i don't know if i can have both. yes. >> all right. our thanks to coy wire for that. all right. coming up here next on cnn this morning, president trump's new attorney general vowing to end the, quote, weaponization of the justice department as her doj pushes for information on fbi employees who worked on january 6th investigations. plus, deadline day for thousands of federal workers and the

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