reporting ten eagles fans were sent searching for jason kelce in a crowd of look alikes. what was his takeaway? according to people, he said, quote, it went fantastic. the look alikes really looked alike. not that i'm a particularly hard person to look like, he joked. he did mention that like, you have to have the eyebrows, you know, to look like him, which i was entertained by. now that jason kelce is off the field, though, the big question is who is he going to be rooting for on sunday? >> i'm rooting for philadelphia and i'm rooting for travis kelce. that's the reality of it. >> you can see the eyebrows there anyway. the choice not so easy for jason kelce's wife kylie kelce. i have so much respect for this woman. she is a die hard eagles fan. she even refused to wear a chiefs red at last year's super bowl. she did wear red, but it was for the university of cincinnati anyway, there you have it guys. i have to say go birds. thanks to all of you for being here. thanks to

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>> counterintelligence risk. and one putting lives in danger. that is the warning today from one top democrat, as the concern is now growing over the national security risks just triggered by a new move from the white house ordering the cia to send an unclassified email inside that email. the first name, last initial of every cia staffer hired in the last two years. the cia complied. the fear now foreign hackers and the new safety threat for americans in the u.s. and abroad. cnn's zach cohen is with us. he's got much more reporting on this. good morning. zach, what are you learning? >> yeah. kate, this is part of the cia's. broader effort to comply with that executive order from president donald trump to downsize the federal workforce. but look for an agency that prioritizes and places a premium on secrecy. this is really, frankly, a surprising move that the cia sent this list of names to the white house in an unclassified email, and it's obviously raising concerns about

national security risks, about counterintelligence threats that could come from exposing the identities of these individuals. now, the people on this list include all new hires at the agency, people who have worked there for two years or less. it includes people from analysts to those that are in the training program to eventually go undercover and be deployed overseas to dangerous hotspots around the world, as the cia does. but look, because of that, this is the exact kind of information that the cia has really worked hard to protect in the past. you know, for their part, they're saying they're complying with donald trump's order and they're doing what he directed in a statement. they said, quote, we are complying with the executive orders and are providing requested information through the appropriate channels. now, sources telling me and our colleague katie lillis, though, that this option of sending the list of names with just the first name and the first letter of the last name, was sort of a way to maybe try to obscure the identities of these individuals. but it doesn't take a genius to maybe piece some clues together and potentially identify who some of these people are. some people warning sources warning

us that that could even end some of these officers careers before they even get started. folks who the cia deems it's too dangerous to send them overseas into a dangerous situation, given their identities could be out there now. so congressman jim himes, who's the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, raising some of these concerns yesterday after this news broke. take a listen to what he said. >> certainly the ones that are operational, the case officers who are operating in very, very dangerous places around the world, they are living undercover if they are discovered, and especially those that don't have diplomatic immunity. i mentioned them earlier. you know, it can be curtains for them. it's just not that hard to convey classified information from one government department to the other. so we've put a lot of people needlessly at risk here. >> so in addition to the national security concerns that himes is raising there, he also raised concerns about sort of this happening against the backdrop of donald trump's sort of broader efforts to really

downsize these agencies. this is something we're seeing at the cia. they've been similarly offered by the so-called buy outs like we've seen at other agencies. so it remains to be seen. but obviously, this move to send an unclassified email, really raising some concerns this morning. >> we'll see what happens in the next few hours. and this morning it's good to see you, zach. thank you for your reporting john. >> all right. with us now. >> cnn senior. >> law enforcement analyst, former. >> fbi deputy. >> director andrew mccabe. andy, nice to see you. how secure do you think this data transfer is? >> it's not. >> that's why we call it unclassified. >> because it's not secure. look, john, it's not hard to remember a time when we saw opm, which is the agency the information was passed to before going on to the white house was the victim of a devastating hack in 2015 by the chinese government. hackers affiliated with the chinese government, in which the personally identifying records of over 20 million americans who are employees of the federal government were stolen and taken to china. so the idea that this could happen

again is absolutely out there. there's no reason. you know, i'm sure opm has improved some things in the years that follow, but this is a very juicy target for any nation state to go after. so this is just an incredibly reckless way to transfer. very important information. >> what about the fact the names are it's only the first name and the last initial of the last name. so you and i would be cleverly disguised as john b and andy m. >> so while that might stop you and i, john, it will not stop a determined state sponsored adversary, particularly one like let's stay with the china example. china has stolen so much information, so many. so such a vast volume of information on americans from places like health care records or dmv records and things of that nature. the reason they have that sort of massive data lake is because they can use those different data sets to cross-correlate them to pursue

issues exactly like this. once you've got enough data points, when you line them up correctly, you can pretty easily penetrate a first name and a last initial with address and everything else you can associate with that target to understand their exact identity. >> so what impact do you think this will have? andy, on intelligence work that is being done around the world right now? >> well, it clearly puts these individuals at risk. and any of them who were slated for undercover work or maybe are engaged in that work already are at risk, not just themselves physically and legally, particularly in the far off overseas locations where they work, but the people they are working with. let's remember that one of the core responsibilities of case officers is to recruit people from foreign countries, be they politicians, military leaders, political leaders, people in the private sector to provide information to the united states government. those people are at great risk if it becomes known

that they are associating with someone who is connected to the cia. so you have degrees of danger here, not just for the cia people, but for the people they're trying to recruit. and i should say that communicating in the way that we are right now, the fact that the cia is not even going very far to protect the names of their own people, sends a very chilling message to those recruitment targets who might be thinking, hey, i shouldn't work with these people because they certainly won't protect me. >> they can see this, they can read the papers. andrew mccabe, nice to see you this morning. thank you very much, sarah. >> all right. ahead, a judge attempts to limit exactly how much elon musk and his associates can do as they get access to more and more sensitive information across a host of government agencies. plus, barnstorming her way into the doj, the new attorney general, pam bondi, ordering a review of state cases against trump, eliminating d of the justice department and dissolving an fbi team that

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or risk being fired as the trump administration looks to shrink the federal workforce. and breaking overnight, elon musk's department of government efficiency agreeing in court to limited access to the treasury's payments systems. cnn's alayna treene is at the white house for us. what can you, first of all, tell us about this ruling? a lot of people concerned about how much power elon musk and this group of associates have when it comes to the treasury department that's right. >> sarah. >> over the last two weeks. >> really. >> we saw. >> musk and his associates or representatives at the department of government efficiency really crack down. they're moving to gut thousands, hundreds of thousands, i should say federal workers clean out what they argue is red tape bogging down the federal bureaucracy. but also we've seen them gain access to some of these highly sensitive systems now. and all of that, of course, is raising questions over whether this is legal. and we saw one of those court battles play out

yesterday. there were emergency court proceedings regarding two different associates of elon musk and at doge, who gained access to the treasury department's highly sensitive payment system. now, the ruling that they came to is that these two people, only these two people with doge, are going to be able to have access to this, but limited access, they will only be able to have read, only access, according to these emergency court proceedings to the system, and they cannot share it with others. working with doge. that is according to this new court filing. now, one key thing as well, though, sara, is it's not just the treasury department and there's not just concerns over the access to the treasury department. we've also learned that some of the representatives at doge have kind of landed at the center for medicare services, and are also seeking access to those as they continue to hunt for what musk calls waste, fraud and abuse. now, we actually saw musk post on x yesterday about this kind of confirming that this is a goal of his. he wrote quote, yeah, this is where the big

money fraud is happening. in response to someone who was sharing the wall street journal article on their access to the center for medicaid services, which the wall street journal, i should say, broke this story. now, according to the wall street journal as well, doj's representatives have been granted access to the payment and contracting systems, but they have not yet received access to the databases containing identifiable, identifiable health information about medicare and medicaid employees. so, again, this is all evolving as we're learning more of the access that these different people are having. one key thing though, as well, is it's not just legal concerns. there's also concerns about conflict of interest, particularly when it comes to elon musk, who, of course, not only has all these different business interests, but he has contracts with the government as well. a reporter asked white house press secretary karoline leavitt about this yesterday. take a listen to how she answered. >> the two of them with a great team around them, were going to look at the receipts of this federal government and ensure

it's accountable to american taxpayers. that's all that is happening here. if elon musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that doge is overseeing, then elon will excuse himself from those contracts. and he has again abided by all applicable laws. >> sara, there you have her saying that he's abiding by all applicable laws and that he will remove himself from any sort of situation where he could be approaching a conflict of interest, but just given, again how widespread. elon musk influence is and how widespread we're really seeing these different people working for doge are. i mean, we are bound to see this continuing to be something that causes a lot of concern, particularly with the legal system. sara. >> yep. and we know that there are still more lawsuits that are showing up out there as well. so we will wait to see what happens in court. alayna treene, thank you so much for your reporting. ahead. a second judge has blocked president trump's attempt to end birthright

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ordering a review of criminal and civil investigations into president trump. while, perhaps ironically, declaring to fight the weaponization of the justice department. let's get right to cnn's evan perez for the range of these new actions. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning john. >> now, look, this was a very, very busy first day. >> for the. >> new attorney general. >> and as you. >> pointed out, one of the things she was tackling on is this idea of weaponization at the justice department during the previous administration. and so she established this weaponization task force that's going to look at not only the two federal cases that was that were led by jack smith, the special counsel, but also looking at the cases that were started in new york by alvin bragg, the manhattan district attorney, and the hush, i'm sorry, the the fraud case that was brought by letitia james, the attorney general there in new york. and then she went beyond that. obviously she did. she rescinded a number of biden era memos, including one looking at school threats and school

board threats. she started a new task force on the october 7th hamas attack in israel, as well as pausing funding to sanctuary cities. a lot of work being done by the new attorney general. she got sworn in at the oval in the oval office, with president trump looking on. here's what he says he expects from her. >> 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. >> so that's the president saying, i'm supposed to say that she is. so we'll see how what what the new attorney general carries out those duties. john. >> and, evan, i understand that overnight there's this question of insubordination in the fbi over the january 6th inquiry into the inquiry. what's going on here? >> yeah, exactly. look, i mean,

the the the acting deputy attorney general. emil bove, he issued a new memo, this time directly to fbi employees trying to clarify that not all of them should be worried about getting fired, or at least not more than 5000 of them. but in some ways, the memo perhaps created new problems for this relationship between the justice department and the fbi. he says that he was asking for a smaller group of of of employees to be identified who were working on these january 6th cases, and that he was denied that information by fbi leaders. he called that insubordination. but let me also read you just a part of the memo where he's trying to clarify about what they're what they can expect. he says, let me be clear. no fbi employees who simply followed orders and carried out their duties in an ethical manner with respect to the january 6th investigations, is at risk of termination or other penalties. the only individuals who should be

concerned are those who acted with corrupt or partisan intent, and who blatantly defied orders from department leadership or who exercised discretion in weaponizing the fbi. it's that word, john, that that keeps coming up, the word weaponized, weaponizing, which of course, something that donald trump used on the on the campaign trail. and the question for for fbi employees is, you know, what does that mean? what does that define? keep in mind, john, fbi employees, staff, not only this investigation, these investigations, investigations related to trump and his and his supporters, but also the investigations of hunter biden and joe biden. and they haven't been threatened with any with any weaponization accusations because of those investigations. >> yeah. the question here is who is weaponizing whom? in other words, evan perez in washington, thank you very much, sara. >> all right. to further discuss some of this, joining me now is cnn senior legal analyst and former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. elie honig back again. we

have missed you, and we expect to see more of you. so that is my threat. i'm always here for you. okay. let us talk about pam bondi. she's expected to order a review as well. of cases brought against donald trump. state cases? we're talking criminal and civil cases that a jury has decided where he lost. what can she actually do? >> so part. >> of what pam bondi. >> did yesterday is totally normal. >> when she sent out a memo. >> saying. >> here's our new. >> enforcement priorities, we're going to. emphasize immigration. we're going to emphasize human trafficking. >> that's what you would. expect to see from any a.g. >> what you're talking about here, this new group that's going. >> to examine all. >> the trump prosecutions, that is. >> highly abnormal. and i think that is corrosive. >> to what doj is about. now, when it. >> comes to the two. >> federal cases, the jack smith. >> prosecutions of donald. >> trump. >> doj can look at whatever. >> they want. >> that's their stuff that's in-house, that's their files. it's going to get dicier if they if and when they try to delve into the state cases. the alvin bragg hush money case, the letitia. >> james lawsuit.

>> because doj, i believe in the next several months will say we need your files. and i think alvin bragg is going to say, no way. and we could end up in a showdown in court over this. but look, this is politicization. i mean, there's no reason to reopen these cases. i've been critical of these cases. you know, i think that there there have been prosecutorial missteps. but to go into this and to try to declare that these were politically driven, i think is in itself political, political. >> and there's this question of what happened to states rights. i mean, you know, donald trump and the republicans have always been talking about states rights. and in this case, i don't know if that's something that's going to come up. but i do want to ask you about bondi, who is threatening sanctuary cities and sanctuary cities. you know, for people that understand what they're doing, they basically give more protections to undocumented. migrants and tell their local authorities not to to help out federal immigration authorities. so she's talking about rescinding money, taking money away from these cities or states that are doing this. how would that work? does she have the power to do that? >> well, it's clear that this

doj is going to take a much harsher approach to sanctuary cities. one of the first things that was done even before pam bondi arrived was a memo went out that essentially said, we expect cooperation and even threatened potential prosecution of people who do not cooperate. now, you cannot force locals. the feds cannot force the locals to cooperate with them however they can. there are a lot of programs that are depending on federal funding, and that is a potent threat, i think, to say that if you don't work with us, or especially if you interfere or obstruct what we're doing, we have the ability we're going to at least make an effort to pull back federal funds. that's a really powerful incentive, and it may help doj get what it wants here. >> all right. let me ask you about another case that is bubbling up. you've got a case that's supposed to come up today that has to do with birthright citizenship. donald trump trying to revoke that. the supreme court has spoken on this and has said it's constitutional or unconstitutional to take away these birthright citizenship. what do you see happening going forward? because there are more lawsuits on the way? >> yeah. so birthright

citizenship is actually forget about i mean, the supreme court weighed in, but let's start with the. >> constitution itself. >> the 14th amendment essentially says that any person who is born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is automatically a citizen of the united states. and that was 1868. 30 some years later, the supreme court said, yes, it means what it says, which is if you're born here, even to immigrant parents, you're automatically a citizen. now, donald trump, first day in office, issued an executive order trying to withdraw that. and immediately there was a spate of lawsuits. and there's at least five out there now. so far, every federal judge who has looked at donald trump's action has rejected it. and there was one judge. and there's a hearing again today, federal judge in washington that really excoriated, he said to the poor doj attorney who got sent in there to argue this, something like this is the most unconstitutional argument that you're making that i've ever seen. now, you might think one might say, well, that must be some trump hating biden or obama appointee. no, it's a ronald reagan appointee who said that. so they will be back in front of that judge today. i do think this is ultimately destined for

the supreme court. i do think donald trump's effort to undo birthright citizenship will be rejected. >> all right. we will wait and see. but this is all bubbling up as we are speaking. this is going to start today. elie honig thank you so much. thanks, i appreciate it. all right, kate. >> in the wake of president trump's pause on slapping the 25% tariff on all goods coming from canada and mexico, the canadian prime minister has announced what he is calling a landmark event. tomorrow, canada will be hosting a canada-u.s. economic summit focusing on business relationships between the two countries. the subtext here the clock is ticking on that 30 day reprieve, and the threat those tariffs will come roaring back from president trump very much still out there. the canadian prime minister has threatened to retaliate against tariffs if it happens. the premier of ontario has also promised to counter punch the premier, doug ford, saying this now we have temporarily averted tariffs that would have severely damaged our economy, giving time for more negotiation and time for cooler heads to prevail.

with the u.s. pausing tariffs, ontario will also pause our retaliatory measures. joining us right now is the premier of ontario, doug ford. thank you so much for being here. where do things stand in your view right now, at this moment with talks to avoid these tariffs from setting in and i guess now less than 30 days, do you think you can avoid it? >> well. >> let's hope for the sake of both countries kate. this would. devastate the canadian. economy and it would devastate the u.s. economy. we're the number. >> one customer to 28. states across canada. ontario alone. number one customer to 17 states, number 2 to 11. i've always proposed let's build an american fortress. let's make us the strongest, the safest, the most prosperous, richest two countries in the world. we have critical minerals that the u.s. needs. we have the energy that the u.s. needs and the potash and the uranium and the list goes on and on and on. this is a

partnership that's been going on since 1867. and all of a sudden this comes along, it just really disrupts the two greatest countries in the world. >> make an important point that i wanted to ask about, which is you say canada has what the united states needs. president trump made very clear on monday that he does not think the united states needs canada for anything. let me play this. >> look what i'd like to see canada become our 51st state. we give them protection, military protection. we we don't need them to build our cars. i'd rather see detroit or south carolina or any one of our tennessee, any one of our states build the cars. they could do it very easily. we don't need them for the cars. we don't need them for lumber. we don't need them for anything. >> these days. >> and what do you say to that? >> well, i respectfully disagree. we buy as many cars as as we sell into the into the u.s. the auto sector is so

integrated, parts can go back and forth eight times the energy, 4.3 million barrels every day. that's 1.2 billion barrels a year. electricity ontario keeps lights on in new york to 1.5 million homes and businesses in new york and michigan and minnesota. that's just ontario not mentioning quebec supporting the u.s. with energy. but the point is, we want to send more oil, more uranium, more potash, more high grade nickel that keeps your economy going and more electricity. it doesn't make sense to get in a fight with your closest ally in the entire world. your closest friend that has fought shoulder to shoulder in wars with each other. and you know, this just does not make sense whatsoever. we're we're doing $1.3 trillion, two way trade and it benefits americans and canadians. just ontario alone. 9 million americans wake

up every morning to produce products for ontario alone, we do $500 billion of two way trade. let's build on that. rather than just try to destroy it. it does not make sense. >> you you have threatened if the tariffs set in, you will also be putting in place retaliatory measures. you'd promise to rip up a multi multi-million dollar contract with elon musk's starlink internet service that i believe is just inked, signed a couple months ago, musk responded to the news when you said you were going to tear up the contract. he responded with literally saying, oh well, on social media, are you concerned that your threat there will backfire? >> no, not not at all. you know, i can't support someone hell bent on destroying our province, taking food off people's tables, destroying the economy. i just can't, you know, can't roll over. i don't want to retaliate. canada does not want

to retaliate. that's the last thing we want to do. kate. we never started this. we were two great neighbors. and make no mistake about it, canadians still love americans. and i know americans love canadians. i spent 20 years of my life down in our chicago, new jersey facility, have a tremendous amount of friends. i think there's probably 8 or 900,000 people from both sides of the border living in canada versus, you know, living in the u.s. they're so integrated. we share the same values. >> there's an important part of this of a question of what's going to happen in less than 30 days now, which is what's going to be the measure. is it clear to you what metric president trump is using to measure? if you all have done enough to satisfy him to not impose the 25% tariff? >> well, let's hope for both sides of the country like the market we saw the other day, it

will react. inflation will hit, interest rates will go up. uh, this is just a tax on goods as far as i'm concerned, on both sides of the border. and it doesn't have to be. >> that way. what's his measure? has president trump laid out or anyone in his team laid out to you because you'd think they'd want to clue in ontario on this? one of what you need to meet or what needs to be done to avoid this from happening in 30 days? >> well, kate, what i understand it's the border. i've agreed we have to tighten up the border on both sides. by the way, you know, we talk about fentanyl per capita. we have as many deaths as fentanyl as the u.s. but compared to our friends south of the border, mexico, we it's 0.001%. and my point is that's too much. but we just, uh, have something called operation deterrent. uh, along our border, our state police, if you want to call them, it's a provincial police. uh, just busted 600,000 pounds of cocaine, uh, coming

into our country. and, you know, guns. 95% of the illegal guns are coming in from the u.s., and heinous crimes are being committed. my point is, let's work together. we've had a meeting with the dea, uh, the u.s. border patrol, canadian border patrol. we have 10,000 people along the border securing our border. i'm in agreement. let's let's tighten it up. but it has to be tightened up on both sides of the border. but what drives everything is. >> the key is together. yeah. what i'm hearing you is let's do it together. not against each other. let us see. premier, thank you very much for coming in. premier doug ford, thank you so much, john. >> all right. breaking just moments ago president trump backtracking and also doubling down and also attacking chuck schumer all in one social media post as he tries to explain his plan to take over gaza a day after his aides tried to explain his plan to take over gaza. and this morning, multiple dairy cows have tested positive for a strain of bird flu associated

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sources say 40,000 workers have opted to take the deal, agreeing to enter what they are calling the deferred resignation program. cnn's alayna treene tracking this one back with us. what is expected to happen today with all of this? what are you hearing from the white house? >> well, there's i mean, look, this was a very swift deadline for these federal workers to decide whether or not they want to opt into this program. some people have referred to them as buyouts, but really, it's allowing them to voluntarily place themselves on paid administrative leave through september. it means they will get paid and they will continue to receive benefits, even while not working. at least that is how this offer has been framed to them. and as you mentioned, kate, i've learned now from two administration officials that at least 40,000 federal workers have opted in to this deferred resignation program. one of the officials tells me that they expect the number to grow significantly before tonight's. tonight's 11:59 p.m. deadline. now, we also know that the government has really said their goal is to have around 100,000

people accept this offer. all to say, though, there's a couple concerns around this. one is that unions are questioning the legality of this. they're also questioning whether or not this is actually something the trump administration and the white house can promise people, especially when you consider, of course, that we haven't funded the government beyond the end of march. so questions there about whether or not these people will actually get paid. i've talked to some federal workers who are concerned about that as well. and then the other thing is that we know as well that after that deadline tonight, they are expected the trump administration to begin widespread sweeping layoffs. for those who haven't accepted this. so people who do not opt in to this program, it doesn't mean that their jobs are necessarily safe. kate. >> yeah. elena. thank you very much. a lot of uncertainty throughout this morning. john. >> all right. breaking just a short time ago, president trump seemed to backtrack, but also to double down on his plan to take over gaza. this is what he posted on social media. i want to read you the whole thing. the

gaza strip would be turned over to the united states by israel at the conclusion of fighting the palestinians. people like chuck schumer, and i don't know what he means. there would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes in the region. they would actually have a chance to be happy, safe and free. the u.s., working with great development teams from all over the world, would slowly and carefully begin the reconstruction that would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on earth. no soldiers by the u.s. would be needed. stability for the region would reign. all right. with us now is joel rubin, former deputy assistant secretary of state under the obama administration. and, joel, just to explain exactly what a backtrack there are, two days ago, president trump did not rule out using u.s. troops. yesterday, the white house staff seemed to try to clean that up. apparently not enough. so president trump again today says a reversal from two days ago. no u.s. troops, but does still say the u.s. will own

gaza. how much clarity does this provide to you? you know, john. >> i'm sorry, i'd rather go. >> to. >> get a ticket. >> to disney world in this case. >> because it sounds like that's what he's designing right now. i mean. >> this is ridiculous. >> it's it's. >> it's radical and reckless. it clearly is incoherent. >> there is. >> no plan. there is no thought process. the president is untethered from reality right now. and the worst part about this is that there actually real world implications for this. there is a cease fire right now in place between hamas and israel that is working, that is getting israelis out of gaza, the hostages out. that's getting aid into gaza. and he's not talking about that. he's not talking about organizing the next phase. he's not talking about ending the war with the allies on board in the process for the next phase. this is this is really self-destructive. >> well, allies of the president say this is just a brilliant

negotiating position. he's trying to shake things up in the region. and i'm sure they'll say this statement today, which backs off some of the things he said, is even more brilliant. but in terms of a negotiating position to try to build a future in the region, what does this do well, you know, john, the american president, part of his power is his word. >> and what you can't have is an american president whose word can't be trusted, can't even be understood. threats like, for example, against canada and mexico that were then rescinded in exchange for items that these governments had already agreed to do months prior. and now we see the president talking about ideas that are out of out of left field. and so i think for foreign governments to try to figure out how to sign up, how to work with the united states, how to engage, they're going to be scratching their heads saying, we don't really know what he's going to say from one day to the next. and oh, by the

way, he's eliminating his foreign assistance arm, usaid, which will likely be the entity tasked with doing much of this rebuilding. so it's completely incoherent from what he's doing right now here to the foreign policy of the united states. >> what do you see israel doing with these statements in the days and weeks ahead? i mean, president prime minister netanyahu overnight said it's, you know, one of the the great ideas, new ideas he's heard there are israeli military officials saying they need to make plans for how to voluntarily resettle palestinians. but what are the real world implications for israel now? >> well, john, you know, i think for the israelis, this is certainly a gift to prime minister netanyahu, the most extreme members of his coalition are cheering about this idea because it basically takes off all pressure from israel to be worried about exiting gaza and to be worried about having some plan where potentially they could turn over gaza to

palestinian governance. and that's the that's the sort of discussion that needs to be had here, which is how to ensure that there is a safe, secure gaza that does not threaten israel, that is governed by the palestinians in a way that the rest of the arab world comes on board and builds peace with israel. that's the discussion that needs to be had. and right now, what trump has done is push that discussion off the table. >> joel rubin, thanks for coming in thimorning. appreciate talking to you, sara. >> all right. thank you, john. this morning, the bird flu outbreak hitting a new phase. dairy cows in nevada have now tested positive for a second strain of the h5n1 virus. this is the same strain that has been associated with severe infections in several human beings. cnn medical correspondent meg tirrell is joining us now. this is very concerning. what does this mean for the effort to try to contain the spread of bird flu? >> yeah, sarah. >> i mean, it potentially. >> makes that. >> harder because before this point. >> we had only seen a strain

known as. b 3.13 circulating in dairy cattle. and that was thought to have been introduced one time from birds and then spread among cows. now we are seeing a second strain that's been introduced from birds to cows. this d 1.1 strain. and so it means that they are getting infected from birds more than we thought. you know this is the second known instance. we don't know if there potentially have been more. so that's concerning. but also this particular strain is the one that has been seen in the few more severe cases of bird flu that we've seen in humans. of course, there have been cases of d 1.1 that people have caught from birds that have been mild, but typically the b 313 strain we've seen in cows when we've seen that go into humans, that has been mild. and so there are concerns about this on multiple fronts. now this was picked up through the usda national milk testing program. so they're bringing more states on board to just routinely test milk before it goes out. so in the last 30 days we've really seen these concentrated in nevada and in california. so nevada is where this strain was detected in cows. in terms of

people, we know that there have been 67 cases confirmed by the cdc. most of those have been from workers with dairy cattle. the next most have been from workers with poultry. and then, of course, there have been some that where we don't know the source of exposure. and there has been one death of somebody who was infected after having exposure to backyard flocks. and that person, an elderly person in louisiana, having the d 1.1 strain died. so, sarah, there's a lot of concern now. we're seeing this sort of new front of this new infection in cows. sarah. >> just hearing it sort of gives shivers down your spine that this is not completely contained and that it's sort of morphing and changing. meg tirrell thank you so much. i really appreciate it. the new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> trump set to speak just minutes from now on capitol hill, but he's already talking this morning on social media, making sure everyone knows he is