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

serious about his gaza proposal, even as his staff tries to walk it back. and health officials are sounding alarm over a diddy watch list, saying it's racist and plainly trying to threaten, intimidate and scare. and a wild boat rescue after a driver collapses. how rescuers jumped to action as the boat spun out of control to get the man some help. i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central all right. >> happening now you're looking at live pictures from capitol hill. we are standing by to see president trump deliver remarks at the national prayer breakfast. we will take that to you live. the minute he begins. also, it is a strange and maybe pivotal day in washington. it is the final day for federal workers to decide if they will take a buyout or offer to resign, or risk getting laid

off. and breaking overnight. there are new developments in the battle over whether elon musk's team should have access to sensitive data inside the treasury department. let's get to cnn's alayna treene at the white house with that. what data? who's got access? what's limited? what's not? >> yeah, there are a lot of questions about this, particularly some of the legality of what elon musk and his representatives at doge have been doing. and one of the questions was that some of his representatives, some of those representatives, had gotten access to highly sensitive, sensitive systems, payment systems at the treasury department. and then yesterday we saw there were emergency court proceedings to really look at the privacy concerns and issues around this. now, what this new court filing and this court decided is that essentially two treasury department employees affiliated with doge are able to have access, but only limited access to the systems. and the trump

administration agreed to this. they've agreed to the limitation that these two treasury employees can have, quote, read, only access to the system. they also have agreed to not share it with others. working with doge. but look, just to take a quick step back here to explain what's happening with this over the past two weeks. john, we know that musk's team has, you know, really tried to dismantle a lot of u.s. agencies. they've moved to gut hundreds of thousands of workers in the government and also try to, you know, cut the red tape. what they argue is federal bureaucracy bogging down the government. they're trying to kind of clean that out. and part of that is them going to these different agencies and gaining access to these highly sensitive systems to look for what they argue is waste, fraud and abuse. and it's not just happening at the treasury department. we've also learned that some people working with doge have gained access to the centers for medicaid and medicaid services. what we've learned is that these different representatives have been

granted access to payment and contracting systems, but they have not yet received access to databases containing identifiable health information about medicare and medicaid employees. now, of course, we know that cms, the center for medicare and medicaid services, they have access and kind of oversee the health care coverage of more than 150 million people. so, again, very important data that they are gaining access to. now, we did see elon musk himself respond to some of this reporting. he weighed in on x. he said quote, yeah, this is where the big money fraud is happening. when one person shared the article from the wall street journal on this story, all to say there are so many questions about the influence that musk and also doge are having. we know that they are permeating all of government, and they also are, you know, very integral with what we are seeing with some of those buyouts and layoffs as well. so as this all of this is happening, questions over the

legality, questions over conflict of interest, all of that really rising to the surface. john. >> it keeps on rising as well. alayna treene at the white house this morning. great to have you there, sarah. >> all right. let's continue the conversation. joining me now, cnn political commentator and democratic strategist maria cardona. and mark gillespie, founder and principal of blue stock strategies and former press advisor to then house speaker john boehner. i'm going to start with you, mara. we just heard from alayna treene some of the reporting about what is happening with doge, in particular, what's happening with elon musk. maura, when you talk to republicans, are they concerned at all about the power that musk is being given here? >> yes. >> i mean, you. >> know, federal. >> work is not necessarily always so glamorous, but there are concerns about how much we spend on federal, you know, federal funding and federal spending. and there's. >> going to be. >> abuses that happen. >> you know, we know stories. >> from the. >> government accountability office talking. >> about how. >> federal employees, you know. >> took advantage. >> and abuses. of the federal health plans. but by and large.

>> to make. >> such swift. >> changes from someone who is not an elected official and who has. >> now gained. >> access. i think that republicans, if roles were reversed. >> would be screaming. >> from the rooftops. >> what a breach. >> of, you know, this is and a breach of security and safety and a violation of what congress does. >> there's a. >> separation of powers for a reason. congress has the power of the purse, and they're letting someone who is really paid his way in to. >> take. advantage of that. and i think that there should. >> be some real concerns. >> and there. >> probably are. >> behind the scenes. but i think in a lot of ways. >> republicans are. >> trying to let. >> the president. >> take the. >> lead here. >> and hope that he will step. >> up at some point. >> look, maria, the president won, you know, the election. and during his campaigning, he said there was going to be retribution. he also said he was going to fix the economy. he has certainly started and and is making his promise come true about retribution first. i mean, what are democrats to do here? they are not in power in the house or the senate. what is the messaging or what do they need

to do to try and rein some of this power in if they can? >> so democrats are. really starting. >> to. >> underscore that. >> that exact. >> same message, sarah. >> look, we saw that donald. trump got the trust of voters when he told them that he would fix the economy. he would continue to bring down inflation and he would decrease the price of gasoline, rent and groceries. he has done everything but that. yes. he talked about retribution. yes, he talked about mass deportations. but for the most part, we see from polls that the voters who are not maga trusted him to focus on the economy first. and so democrats are going to talk about how everything that he has done thus far has been a huge betrayal of the american people, because he has not kept that promise. and we all know that the economy was number one issue for most voters. now, in addition to that, we're also going to focus. and you've already seen

democrats talking about this. you had senators at treasury yesterday. you had members of congress, at usaid really focusing on the massive overreach of unelected, unconfirmed, unqualified. unaccountable people like elon musk and his stepford minions that are going in and literally stealing privacy private information from americans. and i've heard that a lot of offices, including republicans, are starting to get very concerned phone calls from their voters, as they should. so that's what a lot of democrats are going to start talking about. they're going to start being very loud about this. you have democratic ags that have also gone to court. that's why you see a lot of the restraining orders on things like birthright citizenship, on things like having access to all this privacy data. so there is so much coming at us, sarah, but democrats are going to start getting very loud and very

focused on the massive betrayal of the american people by this president. >> maura, i do want to ask you about the fbi forced to hand over thousands of names of agents whose job it was to to work on the january 6th cases, but just quickly, this is president trump. he was expected a bit earlier, but he is now entering to go to the prayer breakfast, and we will take his comments in just a bit here after there has been so much controversy here about about some of the things he has said. there are a lot of people listening and watching to see what he says today. i do want to quickly talk about it and we will have breaking in once he starts speaking. but one of the one of the things that we are seeing here is fbi agents having, you know, to sort of fight for their jobs. and the cia putting out the list that was demanded by donald trump of new hires at the cia. it was not in a classified document. i mean, why should another country

work with us when they see that the u.s. might be willing to expose their own people and put them potentially in danger? >> you know, i. >> think the. >> question is more about. >> you know, what. >> should we as americans be thinking if our government is willing to put our own people at risk like this? you know, separate that from our allies and what. >> their concern should be. >> but i think as american. >> voters, we. >> should be concerned about. >> what. >> this means for us and our safety and for anyone who's looking to enter. public service. again. >> it's. >> not as though people are banging down the doors to be part of the. >> government. >> to be part of a. >> civil service. >> like i said before, it's not necessarily the most glamorous job in. >> the world. >> but unfortunately we have a shortage. we see that with capitol police. >> we see that. >> with across the board. and so, you know, i. >> worry about what. >> this says and why would anyone want to then entice themselves to take. >> a position if they know that their safety. >> and security would be at risk if their names are being exposed and and their families could be at risk? it's a concern. just i

think for again, for for republicans at large, who who voted. >> for. >> donald trump, you know, yes. you want accountability. yes. you want transparency. but you one of the number one. things that people voted for in addition to the economy was safety and security. this isn't that. >> maria, i do want to ask you about project 2025. there was a lot of distancing himself from project 2025, donald trump, and now we're hearing him say he wants to close the department of education, which was one of the huge tenants of project 2025. isn't he using it as a playbook now? >> no question about that, sarah. and that is something that democrats tried to scream from the rooftops that the second trump administration has a playbook, and it was called project 2025. and what we are seeing now is he is going down the list of what project 2025 laid out, and he is checking the boxes methodically. we are seeing it every single day with every executive order. and i think what americans need to understand. and again, going back to the democratic message, this is something that democrats are going to underscore. this is

putting americans lives and livelihoods at risk. literally, people are going to die if they haven't started dying already, not just around the globe, but even in this country, when you hollow out agencies, planes will fall out of the sky. people will not get their payment. people who are at risk, who are low income are not going to get the food they need, are not going to get the medicines they need around the world. we are pushing our allies into the arms of china and russia, china and russia are salivating at every single move that this president is making. tamara's point this is not just not focusing on the economy, betraying what he told the american people, but this is putting our lives and livelihoods at risk and in danger. >> maria cardona and maura gillespie, thank you so much for coming on this morning. appreciate it, kate. >> thanks. >> this morning, officials from the faa and the ntsb are headed

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>> this morning we are standing by to learn new details into the investigation about that tragic mid-air collision between the passenger jet and the military helicopter in washington, dc. ntsb and faa investigators are set to be briefing lawmakers on capitol hill. we're showing you a live look of the potomac river right now where, as we know and have watched day in and day out crews continue their work, expected to remove the final large pieces of the american eagle jet from the potomac river. cnn's gabe cohen is joining us right now. he's got much more on this. gabe, you have been giving us updates day by day on how the recovery effort is going in the potomac and identification of all of the victims. so what are we expecting to hear when investigators head to capitol hill today? >> well, kate, we expect. >> it's going to be a significant day on the hill. >> as well as at. >> the wreckage site. we know those officials from the. >> ntsb and.

>> faa are going. >> to be there to brief that bipartisan. group of lawmakers. >> about everything. >> they've learned. >> from all. >> of the flight data, the black. >> boxes. >> even their. >> early analysis of the wreckage. >> what we don't. >> know at this point. >> is what. >> answers they're. >> actually going to have. >> those officials. >> for lawmakers. >> just eight days after the crash. >> remember all of those. >> pieces of wreckage. >> from the american. airlines jet that we have watched. >> get pulled out of the potomac? they have just made their. >> way to a hangar. >> where investigators are starting. >> to lay them out and get a closer examination. they're going to be looking. for several things. they're going to be looking. >> for witness. >> marks, visible. >> signs of damage that may explain how this crash unfolded. >> they're going to be looking at. >> the. >> general airworthiness. >> of the plane. >> plus they're going to. >> be looking at data from the cockpit. >> they want to understand what exactly. >> were the pilots on that jet looking at just before the crash. all of that, as they continue to. >> recover some of the. >> final pieces of.

>> the jet from the water. >> as for the helicopter, kate, and this is a really significant. >> update. >> we are getting. >> i. >> am hearing. >> i'm so sorry i have to jump in. president trump is now speaking on capitol hill at the national prayer breakfast. let's jump. >> in a little faster than people thought. thank you especially to senator marshall for the beautiful introduction. appreciate it very much. thank you. great. senator, you are. i also want to thank a friend and a man of profound faith and tremendous patriotism who has also become a great friend. you become much friendlier when you have a majority of two or 3 or 4 could even be five pretty soon. but for a little while it was one. and that's mike johnson. speaker. thank you very much, mike. very much. and thanks as well to somebody who's doing a fantastic job. senator thune,

thank you very much, senator. it's not easy. it's not easy. it's really great. and the leader, scalise, steve, wherever you may be, i know i think you're here someplace. there he is, a brave guy, too, a brave guy. i always say it. and senator chuck schumer, chuck, thank you very much. thank you. uh, senator hassan, thank you very much. thank you. very nice to see you, congressman jeffries thank you. and many other very distinguished leaders in the room. it's great, great group of people. if we if we could ever come together, be unbelievable. it may not happen, but it should. and maybe it will. from the earliest days of our republic, faith in god has always been the ultimate source

of the strength that beats in the hearts of our nation. we have to bring religion back. we have to bring it back much stronger. it's one of the biggest problems that we've had over the last fairly long period of time. we have to bring it back. thomas jefferson himself once attended sunday services held in the old house chamber on the very ground where i stand today, so there could be nothing more beautiful than for us to gather in this majestic place. it is majestic and reaffirmed that america is and will always be, one nation under god at every stage of the american story. our country has drawn hope and courage and inspiration from our trust in the almighty. deep in the soul of every patriot is the knowledge that god has a special plan and a glorious mission for america.

and that plan is going to happen. it's going to happen. i hope it happens sooner rather than later. it's going to happen. and it's his hand that guides us every single step of the way. and all of you and the things we have to do is to see the defining role that faith and prayer have played in the life of our nation. and you just have to look at this building, and you can look at each other. you can really look at each other. it's defined almost everyone in this room. i think faith has been very strong with the people in this room just steps away from here in the hall of columns is the statue of john winthrop, who famously proclaimed that america would stand as a city upon a hill, a light to all nations, with the eyes of all people upon us. today, almost

400 years after that famous sermon, we see that with the lord's help, the city stands taller and shines brighter than ever before. or at least it soon will. in that same hall we also find the statue of the great roger williams, who founded the state of rhode island, named its capital city providence, and built the first baptist church in america. it's williams that we have to thank for making religious liberty part of the bedrock of american life. and today we must protect the fundamental freedom with absolute devotion. we must stand strong, just like generations of americans have done on the battlefields all around the world, feet away from the magnificent rotunda, another statue watches over visitors to

the capitol. george washington, the founder of our country, often called for americans to join together in prayer. very often and more than two centuries later, this morning, we heed president washington's wisdom and follow in his mighty footsteps. he was a strong man and of great. religious strength. the stories of legends like washington, winthrop, and williams remind us that without faith in god, there would be no american story. every citizen should be proud of this exceptional heritage. we have an unbelievable heritage and we have to use that and make life better for everyone. that's why as we approach the 25th times, ten anniversary, think of that 250, 250 years we'll be celebrating next year of our

country's founding. i have signed an executive order to resume the process of creating a new national park full of statues of the greatest americans who ever lived. we're going to be honoring our heroes, honoring the greatest people from our country. we're not going to be tearing down. we're going to be building up. it would be called the national garden of american heroes. some of you will be on that soon to be hallowed ground, some of you. let's see, i can pick a few of you right now by looking, because there's a couple of you right now. i can see it's. let's see it's the president's sole opinion and i've given myself a 25 year period. and then somebody else,

by that time, it'll be very, very built up no, it's it will be something very special. and i hope that congress will fully fund this wonderfully unifying project at the first possible opportunity. it's not going to be a lot of money. it's going to be very important. however, so that more of our people can be inspired by the faith and courage of patriots like those who we honor in these halls. one of the incredible americans whose memory my order will celebrate is also recognized with a statue in the capitol representing the great state of north carolina. and that's a man known who everybody loved. reverend billy graham. he was something my father used to take me to watch the crusades. he would take me to yankee stadium. i remember it so well. i remember it more than i remember any yankee game. and i've seen a lot of yankee games. can you

believe it? and billy didn't have a bat, so, you know, he was pretty good. it was amazing. you'd have 60 or 70,000 people. and they loved him. they loved him. i saw him with franklin. i don't know if franklin's here. i just don't know. but i've gotten to know franklin. he's done a great job with helping on tragedies, on problems like in north carolina, california. he's always the first one there. work he does is his father is very proud of him. i can tell you that. but, uh, billy graham was very special. one floor below us, reverend graham's statue stands with an open bible. the page turned to a letter from the apostle paul which reads, let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not give up, never give up, never, ever give up. you can't. how about me? if i would have given up, i would not be here right now. who the hell knows where

i'd be? it might not be a good place. if it was up to the democrats. it would not be a good place at all. never, ever give up. there could be no better message for the leaders gathered here. and you are real leaders, and we must never give up. and we must never grow tired. we must never grow weary, and we always must practice good as you know, last week, only a few miles from here, our nation witnessed a terrible tragedy when 67 people were killed in a horrible accident near reagan airport. as one nation, we take solace in the knowledge that their journey that night did not end in the icy waters of the potomac, but in the warm embrace of a very loving god. none of us knows exactly when our time on earth will be over. you never know a truth. i confronted a few

short months ago when there was an incident that wasn't. it was not fun. it was not a good thing. but god was watching me. the chances of me being here. my sons are shooters. they're really good shooters. don and eric. and they said the chances of missing from that range with that gun are don equated it to a one foot putt. that's pretty bad. two feet. i can see missing, but one foot you can't miss. it was the equivalent of a one foot putt, is what he told me, he said. in fact, he gained some religion. he gained he went up 25%. and, uh, and if you know him, that's a lot. but he said there had to be somebody that saved you. and i think i know who it is. and he looked up and i said, whoa, don, that's come. you've come a long way. he's a

good guy. but my two sons just really couldn't believe it. had i not turned that right turn just at that time. and the audience, 55,000 people standing this way, there was just a few people in the back on the bleachers. there was nobody over there except for my all time favorite chart in history, a chart on immigration. immigration saved my life. see? so we're going to be good for immigration. okay. but had i not made that turn, boom. and quickly, it was almost as though a deer bolted. you know, they say the only way you miss when you're a good shot is if it bolts. i bolted, i turned to the right to look at the chart and i said, wow, what was that? what was that? so you never know. but god did that. i mean, it had to be the chances of turning. there's no reason to turn to the right. you know, the chart is rarely brought down. i brought it down maybe 20% and

20% of the time. and it's never on my right. it's always on my left, and it's always at the end of the speech, never the beginning of the speech. and if i was a little more than that 90 degree angle, it would be no good. and if i was a little less, it would be no good. it had to be perfect. thing went right along the edge. it didn't affect my hair. can you believe that? robert isom? might have touched it, but not where it counts. not. not the skin part, but it's. no, honestly, it's a miracle it changed. it changed something in me. i feel. i feel even stronger. i believed in god, but i feel. i feel much more strongly about it. something happened. so thank you thank you. but that event, like the tragedy last week, should remind us all that we have to make the most out of every single day that we have. who

would think that you're in space? and two things collide. the odds of that happening are so small. even without proper control, we should have had the proper control. we should have had better equipment. we don't. we have obsolete equipment. they were understaffed. for whatever reason. i guess the helicopter was high. and we'll find out exactly what happened. but the odds, even if you had nothing, if you had nobody, the odds of that happening are extremely small. it's like, did you ever see you go to a driving range in golf and you're hitting balls, hundreds of balls, thousands of hours. i never see a ball hit another ball. balls going up all over the place. you never see them hit. and it was amazing that that could happen. it was a lot of mistakes made and it should have never happened. but regardless of that, it's amazing that it happened. and i think that's going to be used for

good. i think what is going to happen is we're all going to sit down and do a great, uh, computerized system for our control towers, brand new, not pieced together, obsolete, like it is land based, trying to hook up a land based system to a satellite system. and the first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can't hook up land to satellites, and you can't hook up satellites to land. it doesn't work. and we spent billions and billions of dollars trying to renovate an old broken system. instead of just saying cut it loose and let's spend less money and build a great system done by 2 or 3 companies. very good companies, specialists. that's all it is. they used 39 companies. that means that 39 different hookups have to happen. and i don't know how many people have are of you are good in terms of all of the kind of things necessary for that. and it's very complex stuff. but

when you have 39 different companies working on hooking up different cities at different people, you need one company with one set of equipment. and there are some, some countries that have. unbelievable air controller systems. and they would have bells would have gone off when that helicopter literally even hit the same height because it traveled a long distance before it hit. it was just like just wouldn't stop. it was you follow the line, but bells and whistles would have gone off. they have them where actually actually can virtually turn the thing around. it would have just never happened if we had the right equipment. and one of the things that's going to be, i'm going to be speaking to john and to mike and to chuck and to everybody. we have to get together. and just as a single bill just pass where we get the the best control system. when i land in my plane privately, i

use a system from another country because my captain tells me i'm landing in new york and i'm using a system. i won't tell you what country, but i use a system from another country because the captain says, this thing is so bad, it's so obsolete, and we can't have that. so we're going to have the best system. and, uh, a lot of money, but it's not that much money. and it'll happen fast, and it'll be done by total professionals. and when it's done, you're not going to have accidents. it's just not they're not they're virtually not possible to have. each of us is blessed with a precious chance to help lead america to renew, to renew our pledges of faith and everything else and bring us to new heights and create a future of promise for our people and for ourselves. you know, we have the most important people in the country in a true sense here, because you're the ones that are going to make the decision. you're you're the ones that are leading us into so many different things, whether it's the right air control system or

the right size military or what to do and what not to do, most important people and uh, many of you are very religious. i know so many of you are very religious, and i just think that our country has been so badly hurt. we're very hurt by what covid did to religion. it really hurt it badly. people couldn't go to church for a long period of time. um, even going outside, they were given a hard time. and i'm not blaming anybody for that. but but it was very hard to gather. so they started using computers. if that. and when they come back, it's just, you know, a whole new experience they have to get used to. but it is starting to come back. we had a fantastic thing happened yesterday. the army had the best recruitment recruitment numbers that they've had in more than 15 years. they think it could be 25 years actually. they're going

to probably put that out. but more than 15 years. just now. and we were worried about it. we were talking about it numerous times that, you know, we don't have people joining our military services. we don't have people joining our police force. we have to cherish our police. it's so dangerous. you open a car and somebody starts shooting. they have blackened windows. you don't even have any idea who who's in the car. oftentimes they have the dark windows, which are not, in theory supposed to have, but they have them. the door opens and a gun is pointed at your face and you can't do a thing about it. it's just nothing you're going to do about it. your friends will take them out. and it's happened so many times, but you just it's so it's such a dangerous thing. we have to cherish these people. so today we join our hearts and prayers and. recommitting to

putting our country first. we have to put our country first, making america stronger and greater and more exceptional than ever before. and we have to make religion a much more important factor. now. we have to make it an important factor. and if we do that, it's going to be our job is just going to be much easier. it unifies people, it brings people together. democrats are going to be able to have lunch again and dinner with republicans. and i remember just as growing up, i'd see, you know, i revered senators and congressmen or something very special, but they were out to dinner all the time. we had an old congressman, maybe some of sy halpern from queens, and he was a friend of my father, but he'd have dinner with he was a democrat. would he'd have dinner with republicans and he'd be out. it wouldn't even make a difference today. it's like, uh, it's like shocking. and it shouldn't be. you have to get together. we really have to get together. we all know

what's right and what's wrong. and it's going to be compromise on both sides. but we have to just do the right thing and we have to get together. you did. you did it with marco rubio and you got everybody who was 99 votes. and the only vote was our vp who, who maybe we should have been there just to make it 100. but i think i would have been angered if it was 100. that might be a step too far, right? but no, it was great to see a vote. pam bondi had support from democrats and some of the others had some pretty good support. so, you know, it's it's doable. uh, we had a recent bill having to do with a very beautiful young lady who was killed from georgia and, uh, that bill was very bipartisan. it was a very beautiful thing to watch, actually. and so i think we just have to, if possible, we have to unify. uh, there's big division. i mean, some people want an open

border and some people want a closed border. we want it closed and they want it open. and that's a big difference. how do you solve that problem? it's a big difference. some people want men and women's sports and some people don't. and i was with somebody yesterday who was so upset that the bill was signed where men cannot participate in women's sports. and i said, he's a very smart guy. went to a great school. he was a great student, and he actually feels, you know, that that should happen. men should be able to play, meaning transition into women's sports. and you talk to him and it's just, you know, i don't understand it. i think it i don't understand how the problem ever got started in the first place. it just seems so simple. but he's a good person and just believes it and just believes it. it's not going to be easy to convince him

otherwise. so where is a middle ground? it's hard to have a middle ground. there's two ways. i mean, you can either do it or you can't, but i think a lot of good things are going to happen. you know, a lot of people might be surprised to hear me say that of all people, but i think a lot of good things are going to happen because our country's got some big headaches. but we have tremendous spirit right now. the spirit is as high as it's been. it was up 49 points this morning, 49 points. that's a that's it's never been it's the biggest increase in the history of whatever the poll was. so the spirit is there. that's a big factor. that's probably the hardest thing to get back to be honest. the rest is easy. the rest is easy. so i want to just thank you all. i want to congratulate a lot of the new members. i see so many of you that ran great races. david. that was a that was a great race, but so many that ran great races and on both sides you ran some incredible races. so it's good to be with you and

god bless everybody. we want to come together and the happiest the person, the the, the element, the everything that's going to be happy. people of religion are going to be happy again. and i really believe you can't be happy without religion, without that belief. i really believe it. i just don't see how you can be. so let's bring religion back. let's bring god back into our lives. thank you all very much. thank you very much. great honor. thank you. >> all right. that was president donald trump at the prayer breakfast. he touched on many different things, ending with saying that people of religion are going to be happy again. he also talked about some bipartisan agreement. perhaps the headline of this is that he says there's going to be compromise on both sides, something that you have not

heard him say in the past. he talked about some of the nominees having bipartisanship agreement for his cabinet, the laken riley bill. then he said some things that were perhaps concerning comparing the plane crash that we all just saw happen with the 67 lives taken in washington, dc to playing golf and how it is very unusual for golf balls to hit each other. comparing that to the planes having a mid-air crash. he also talked about covid, saying that religion was hurt by covid, failing to mention the 1.1 million americans plus who were killed by covid. a lot of things he sort of touched on, he talked about himself and how he was nearly assassinated and went into great detail about how he was able to dodge the bullet, comparing himself to a deer. so there were some some interesting comments made there at the

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think about that? one man has the answer. cnn senior data reporter harry enten. so this idea of the u.s. taking over gaza or getting involved in gaza, what have voters said about that in the past? >> yeah, they don't like it. they don't like it. so a lead role for the u.s. rebuilding gaza. now, this was a poll taken last year. obviously we don't have new polling because it just happened a few days ago, but just 37% of americans supported this idea. look at this. >> the vast. >> majority, 57% opposed. and what i should note is only 24% of republicans actually supported the idea of the u.s. taking a lead role in rebuilding gaza. so simply put, this is an unpopular proposal. >> i couldn't. >> believe we actually had a poll on this idea, though, given that this trump statement almost seemed to come out. >> of nowhere. i will say this is actually a much more mild position along a role for rebuilding isn't even as extreme as a long term ownership position. correct in gaza. so it might be that the opposition could be. >> could be. >> even higher and greater. what do people in gaza think about

this for palestinians? >> yeah. >> so you know. >> look, again, we don't have any fresh polling on this, but the idea that they're going to trust donald trump in my mind is absolutely. >> insane. >> because gazans on trump's first term leadership, if you take an average of the polling back when trump was in his first. >> term. >> just 10% of gazans approved of trump's leadership, compared to 81% who disapprove. you know, we can talk all about americans, right? but at the end of the day, this is gazans who would have to move out. this is gazans who would have to move out. and they simply don't trust donald trump. they don't like donald trump. now, mr. berman, there is one thing that we've noted is this idea that trump is going just trying to negotiate, putting himself in a better negotiating position. is he just bluffing? a lot of his supporters would argue that he is. and this is interesting. google searches for trump combined with bluff up 600% versus a year ago that was the highest level was on tuesday. so maybe there's some idea that trump's just trying to put the u.s. in a better negotiating position. there are some americans who believe that because donald trump better hope so, because the bottom line is there's very little support, at least in the prior polling, for

the idea that the u.s. is going to take a lead role in rebuilding. >> gaza. just put out this new post. seems like he's serious. >> i guess. i mean, maybe who really knows what donald trump sometimes he says a and he's really hoping for. >> b harry enten thank you very much. thank you kate. >> let's talk more about this right now. joining us is democratic senator chris senator from delaware. senator, thank you for coming in. i want to ask about what donald trump posted this morning, because he is digging in and maybe somewhat backing away from some parts of his plan now saying that gaza will be turned over to the united states by israel at the conclusion of fighting, he says by then, palestinians will already be resettled in the region and also says that no troops will be needed in this tuesday night, you were speechless when you first learned of how he described his plan. originally. and today, senator, you are what? when it comes to this gaza proposal. >> this is a dangerous. >> distraction, kate. donald trump. >> is doing now what he's done often in his time in leadership, which is to distract us from.

>> something else. >> that he's doing. >> and here it's pretty. >> obvious he is. >> actively shutting down u.s. foreign aid. so the folks all around the world who've worked for the. >> united states for decades. >> helping people. who are homeless, who are hungry, who lack clean water and medicine, are all being forced to return to washington. and the programs of our foreign aid bureau, the usaid department, are being shut down. and so rather than confront the anger and the disappointment by many who believe that this is important for our safety and our security and for our values to be spread around the world. he's distracting with a completely unserious proposal to forcibly relocate nearly 2 million people. he's backing away today and saying u.s. troops wouldn't do it. the israelis would somehow magically move 2 million people when there's no other country in the region that would welcome them. and the gazans

don't want to move. but, kate, let's just think about this for one second. if he were. serious, exactly. the people in the u.s. government who understand best how to deal with the humanitarian crisis, with refugees, with a lack of public health and clean water, with a lack of shelter, those are the people who are being fired, laid off and put on administrative leave. and those are the programs being shut down. democrats held the floor of the senate all night last night to protest the nomination of a guy named russell vought for an entity called omb, which most folks have never heard of. but he's the guy who believes it's legal for the president of the united states to take money we've already appropriated, and we're already spending like money on foreign aid and take it back. this is what he's distracting us from. and the idea that we would actually seriously take over gaza, i don't think is a credible or realistic proposal at all.

>> one thing i want to ask you about usaid, and that elon musk led effort. but on what trump is talking about here and on the gaza proposal, witkoff steve witkoff said that he trump doesn't want to put troops on the ground, and he doesn't want to spend any u.s. dollars at all. when you were talking, made me think of it when you were talking about usaid being the people that would need to be helping in that effort. could is that you're laughing because that's just not even possible. if donald trump is serious and would want to do this. >> where would the tens of billions of dollars and the expertise come from? if every arab and muslim country in the region forcefully opposes the idea of relocating palestinians and would not support this, and they've publicly said so, where would all this money to rebuild gaza come from and who would do it? it is not a serious proposal. it's a distraction. so we're not paying attention to the fact that they've

burrowed in these doge folks under elon musk's direction. they've borrowed into the private information of every american, something that we should all be alarmed about and should be blocked in federal courts. >> on, especially usaid, because you've been very you've spoken out very you've been very outspoken in your criticism of what they're trying to do with usaid and are doing is it the is it the hatchet approach that you think is so wrong, or do you think no review and no reform at all is warranted at an agency like usaid? >> i absolutely expected and agree that we should be looking closely at every federal agency from the department of defense to usaid, for where they can be more efficient, more effective. i've introduced two bipartisan pieces of legislation to make usaid more effective. in the last congress, when biden was

president, absolutely. i fully thought that this year we would begin a fairly searching review of aid and its partners to make sure that it's effective. but this is a chainsaw approach, laying off all the people who understand best how to fix it, how to improve it, folks who've worked there for years, folks who run it. it has long enjoyed deep bipartisan support. it was president bush who launched a program called pepfar that has saved 20 million lives. and the folks who are actually implementing aid programs like world vision, catholic relief services, care, save the children are nonprofits that are supported by millions of americans. americans didn't wake up and suddenly decide, we don't want to push back on china's influence. we don't want to be safe from pandemics. we don't want to help people in the world who are struggling with disasters. but the chainsaw approach that elon musk and donald trump are taking to

foreign aid will have that consequence. china is cheering folks who are human traffickers, who are drug cartels, who are terrorists. they will advance as we abruptly shut down and abandon these important and life saving programs that help keep americans safe. >> one thing we do know is someone always fills the void. someone always fills the vacuum when it is left. absolutely for sure. senator, thank you for coming in. i really appreciate your time, sarah. >> all right. ahead. if you've been hired by the cia in the last two years, your name has just been sent to the white house, and it's not classified. the growing controversy behind the massive national security concerns that experts say this brings. that story and more next. >> honey. >> wait, what. >> with covid 19 and my heart disease? i'm not going. >> to wait. >> if it's. >> covid. paxlovid. >> paxlovid is an oral treatment for adults with mild to moderate covid 19 and a high risk factor

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