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>> breaking news this morning, president trump speaking at the national prayer breakfast and promising to build a new high tech system for air traffic controllers following last week's deadly mid-air collision that took 67 lives. he admitted that in his own private plane, he is using a technical system from a foreign country because ours is, quote, terrible. >> 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, because 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. >> you see him there acknowledging the staffing

issues. and this is the final day that federal workers have to take a buyout and voluntarily resign or be fired. so far, at least 40,000 people have signed up to leave. trump, as you might remember, fired the heads of the transportation security administration and the coast guard and disbanded the aviation security advisory committee. cnn's alayna treene at the white house with more on the president's message this morning. elena. it was a bit of a mixed bag, and there were some very, let's say, interesting comments that he made during this prayer breakfast. >> that's right. and also for the beginning of it, sara, he really stayed on message. you could see that he was reading from his prepared remarks. what was interesting too, is he repeatedly called for unity. it actually reminded me of what he was trying to do at the speech that he gave at the republican national convention over the summer after that assassination attempt on his life, where he tried to talk about wanting to bring both sides together. he

did reference that assassination attempt in his speech, partly because we know and i know this from my conversations with several people close to the president that he feels like he is even more religious now because of that, he said while reflecting on that to the crowd that he believes in god, but he feels, quote, much more strongly about it. while speaking today. i do want you to take a listen, though, to some of the rhetoric he was using about how he believes democrats and republicans need to come together. and then i'll discuss it more with you on the other side. >> 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. 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. >> now. sara, there, as you heard him saying that, you know, democrats and republicans need to be able to have dinner together. they need to be able to meet together. of course, it's, you know, just having covered the president's campaign throughout the last two years, covering him for several years, though this is in opposition to some of the rhetoric we know he uses to kind of be more divisive about democrats and republicans. but this speech really was much more unifying and trying to kind of set the tone. of course, the environment and the atmosphere was the national prayer breakfast something that presidents have done going back to its founding by former president eisenhower. and so this is something that i think, you know, he was trying to set the tone for the mood today, talking about unity and reflecting back on what happened to him in july. sara. >> there was a few of those shocking comments that may not be taken so lightly when he compared the plane crash in dc

to two golf balls hitting each other, and how rare that would be. so i'm sure there's going to be some fallout from some of the things that he said. alayna treene, thank you so much. i appreciate it. kate. >> thanks so much, sara. any moment now, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be arriving to capitol hill. and just last night, the israeli leader made clear that he is backing president trump's proposal to, quote, take over gaza, saying that donald trump's plan was a remarkable idea. cnn's lauren fox is on capitol hill tracking this one for us. there is a lot going on on capitol hill this morning. lauren, what's expected with this one today? >> yeah. >> i mean, we expect that netanyahu is going to meet both with john. >> thune, the republican senate gop leader. >> as well. >> as speaker. >> mike johnson. and, you know, one of the. >> things that i think is really. >> interesting going. >> into this set. >> of meetings. >> is the. >> question around. >> what exactly is. >> trump intending. >> to do in gaza? >> and, you know, i've seen. >> publicly republican. senators and gop leaders.

>> trying to downplay these comments. >> trying to argue. >> that, you know, this is just an. >> idea that. donald trump is. >> floating. >> but privately, we do. know that yesterday, during a closed republican lunch, steve witkoff, who is the envoy to the middle east, did face a lot of questions from republican senators who. wanted to. know answers. i mean, what does this. plan mean for u.s. troops? what does this. plan mean for dealing with palestinians who already live in gaza? what does this plan mean for u.s. taxpayer dollars? you know, following this lunch, john kennedy, a republican from the state of louisiana, said in his natural lifetime, in my natural lifetime, he was never going to be voting to make sure that u.s. taxpayer dollars were going to rebuild gaza. so i think that that is one area where you can expect that there is going to be a lot of questions in these private meetings, but obviously, this is an opportunity for republican lawmakers who now control both the house and the senate to have conversations with benjamin netanyahu, given some of the rocky relationship in the past between the biden

administration and netanyahu. >> lauren, thank you so much, as always, john. >> with us now is congressman tim burchett, a republican from tennessee. congressman, thank you so much for being with us this morning. how much would you be willing to pay for gaza? >> well, i think what the president is saying is, first of all, you've got bomb disposal that has to be taken care of. america has some of the best bomb disposal privateers in the world. our construction engineers are the best. our electricians are the best. i think we could get in there and rebuild that and maybe offer those folks there, uh, a little better life currently. right now, some of them don't have water. and the reason they don't have water is because the terrorists dig up the they take the pipes and turn them into missiles and shoot them back at israel. that's a known fact. so i think a lot of things need to happen. i think what president trump is saying, it's not going to be an american territory. i believe he's saying let american capitalists get in there and turn that that area around. >> well, he wasn't talking just

about bomb disposal. he was talking about a long term ownership position. those were his exact words two days ago. and this morning, just a short time ago, he said the gaza strip would be turned over to the united states, turned over to the united states by israel at the conclusion of bondi. i'm just asking you, how much of the u.s. budget do you think should be devoted to that? >> again, if y'all want me to talk, i will. but that what he was saying, in my opinion, was that americans possibly have ownership in it, just like the chinese have ownership in farm property in this country and in vital property near our military installations. i don't hear anybody raising cain about that. we ought to have the same opportunity there as the chinese have in this country, and that's plenty. and i believe if capitalism took over over there and maybe democracy, you would see a change. but what we're doing right now is not working. it hasn't worked since biblical times, and we know that. so maybe we could try something a little new and get a different a different answer. >> i hear what you're saying. would you be willing to commit

u.s. taxpayer dollars to ownership of parts of gaza? >> we're in over 30 countries right now, and i dare say most most congressmen couldn't find them. find some of those countries on the globe. i don't want our military over there. i don't want boots on the ground that gets our people killed and gets into another conflict, which we don't need to be in and we can't afford. i think, again, if american entrepreneurs want to invest over there, i think it's a great opportunity and i think it could turn that area around for those folks over there and get rid of some of their worthless leadership, because the leaders of gaza are not in gaza, they're in qatar and other areas. they're billionaires. and those people there are living without just essentials. and they continue to do that. they continue to preach hate. they don't want change, because if you get change, they're out of power. what would the young man go ahead. >> i'm sorry. what would you do with the palestinians who don't want to leave gaza? >> i'd let them stay there and let them. maybe they would

become entrepreneurs. maybe we could. we could offer them opportunities in a in a job market instead of just being cannon fodder for a bunch of old, rich billionaires that continue to stay in power because they continue to be funded. and this gives them an opportunity at something a little better in life. i think. >> donald trump, the president, continues to talk about relocating palestinians in gaza. he mentioned jordan. he mentioned saudi arabia. do you think the united states, would you be willing to accept some palestinians relocated from gaza? >> we already have palestinians in america, and some of them are the finest people that i know. they live in knoxville, tennessee, and they're wonderful americans. if they want to assimilate and become americans. but if they don't, if they want to bring terrorism and hatred and things like that in this country, i don't think we should. but we have a pretty good record with with palestinians, at least in in tennessee. so i, i welcome them. >> so you would add the u.s. to the list along with jordan and egypt, that the president is

talking about in terms of relocation. >> if they had sponsors, if these people were not, if they weren't terrorists, if they weren't, were to do. yeah. the for destruction of our country. yeah. but that's the problem you're going to have. there's a pretty good litmus test that they should follow. and unfortunately we haven't been doing that in the past. i mean, we have 14 million people in our country. we don't know where they are. we have we have members of the taliban. we have chinese communist spies working out of the capital. i mean, you know, we've got these people all over the place. we need to provide a legitimate litmus test for those folks. >> so, congressman, i want to ask about some statements you made in various interviews and help us to understand what you've been saying. you've been you've been talking about, um, extraterrestrial life on planet earth. one of the things you said in an interview, you talked about a conversation you had with a u.s. admiral. they tell me something's moving at hundreds of miles an hour underwater, as large as a football field. underwater. this was a documented case. and i

have an admiral telling me this stuff. um, what do you believe exists on earth in terms of extraterrestrial life? and what have you seen? proof of? >> well, there's some things i've seen proof of that i can't discuss. and i've. and i've urged the white house to disclose these things. you know, they spend hundreds of millions of dollars researching something, and now they're. and then you have one group telling us they don't exist. and i have the best pilots in the world telling me, tim, this thing was 14ft from my canopy. and he went and he did this. and i, you know, i've seen things that i wish the public could see. uh, there's just a lot of unknowns. and again, they tell us they don't exist, but then they issue redacted reports and they're still studying, uh, every almost every one of our alphabet agencies has, has that. and we had testimony that said they have a recovery unit. now what are they recovering? i'd like to know. it's our tax dollars. we have a right to know. and when when government thinks that we're we're, uh,

we can't handle what's going on out there. that's when government's gotten a little too big, and we need to cut their wings off. and right now, they're spending. our pentagon has got all this dark money. you have the alphabet agency studying these things. one group will tell you they exist, the other one don't doesn't. i just think it's time that we have total disclosure, and you all in the press ought to be for transparency and disclosure. i don't see a problem with that. >> i look, i'm all for transparency and disclosure. if you know something about extraterrestrial life, i wish you'd tell me. um, representative tim burchett, thank you for being here with us this morning. i the discussion, sarah. >> all right. an unclassified email sent to the white house listing the names of people hired by the cia over the last two years, top democrats calling it a risk to those workers, potentially a risk to their lives and to national security. all right, that story is ahead. also, the noaa provides lifesaving information to americans during severe weather. we're talking hurricanes, tornadoes, you name it. but now

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170,000 jobs were added last month, with the unemployment rate expected to hold at about 4.1%. and while the data might be strong, some people who are looking for work are still struggling to find good jobs. cnn's vanessa yurkovich is joining me now. the job market, as we've seen over time, appears to be fairly solid, right. but you're looking at some things in a particular case that is really stunning because you're hearing from people who are actually experiencing trying to get jobs. and it's not going well. >> no, it's not going well. >> and on your. >> show all the time, we. >> report these. >> robust. >> strong job numbers. >> but we're. >> seeing under. >> the data that there are. >> more people. >> on long term unemployment. it's taking longer for people to find jobs. there are fewer jobs available, especially in the white collar sector. so tech jobs, professional business services, we're not seeing hiring in those sectors. so i spent the day with a job seeker, a woman in brooklyn, who talked about the fact that this is the

worst jobs market she's ever experienced. >> this is what i'm doing now in. >> the middle of the week. >> in the middle of. >> the night. >> working. >> in a catering hall and. >> minimum wage and begging for tips. but this is only temporary, right? it's only temporary. >> on paper, the jobs market appears strong, but it's getting harder for people out of work to find new jobs, especially those looking for high paying, white collar positions. since the end of 2022, the number of people looking for work for more than six months is up by 45%. right now, we're on our way into deep brooklyn to meet with diane evans. she's 59 years old. she's been working in the hr industry for 35 years. but about a year ago, she was laid off from her job, where she was making over $200,000 a year. and since then, she's only been

able to find one job that's working at a catering hall as a bathroom attendant. when you see the headlines, strong numbers, hundreds of thousands of jobs added, what do you think when you see that? >> that's not the. reality that. i see. that's not what i'm living. >> how would you compare this job market to all the other job market cycles that you've been through in your career? >> i've never. >> seen. >> anything like this. >> they call it the white. >> collar recession. so it's like middle management and that kind. >> of level. >> i'm just not getting the traction that i think i. should get based on the amount of work i'm putting in. it's crazy. i've applied to over 1000 jobs in a year, which is crazy. >> and what is your success rate out of those 1000 jobs of getting a callback? >> um. i'm probably being generous here, but maybe one call to 25 applications, maybe more. >> this is a lot. >> a. >> lot of work. >> like how much time are you spending every day?

>> i start. >> my. >> day probably, um, 730 ish in the morning. the first thing i do is go on linkedin. over 100 people have already clicked apply and they just posted it. >> yesterday. >> people would say to me, why don't you get any job? >> you know. >> you're such a snob. >> you have to. >> be a vp. i applied to lowes, home depot, target, all kinds of stuff around. >> here that. >> rejection letters. i got a rejection letter from macy's. being a spritzer person, i worked in macy's when i was in college. like, are you kidding. >> me? >> my older son, his friend, got me a job as, um, a ladies room attendant. at a catering hall, a very high end catering hall. but the first week or so was rough. i looked in the mirror and i cried. >> how much are you making? like an hour there at this job. 1650 1650. >> compared to the. >> 100 i used. >> to make. >> did you figure. >> out my salary?

>> it was a little bit over $100 an. >> hour. >> one. >> was macy's. >> oh, this is a macy's you used to work at. >> yeah. >> the one that rejected. >> me. >> i you know, i did think that i was going to be able to make a decent living to be able to save and, you know, have money for retirement. and my job's gone. my money's gone. and starting all over from scratch is scary, right? >> now. here we are. >> oh, this is charming. >> this isn't. >> exactly the life i envisioned, but i'm trying to make lemon drop martinis out of lemons. >> and so i spoke to so many more individuals like diane. she is not the only one. we just profiled diane to kind of show what was going on. but it's interesting because this is the jobs market that many of the federal workers who are taking buyouts or are going to be laid off are moving into right now. we also don't know what the jobs market is going to look like in the coming months, because there are so many

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the hardware. right. so people who protect this infrastructure, let's say the radars that we look at that cause and help with that life saving information. what about the weather balloons that actually create the data that goes into the weather forecast models that we as meteorologists look to? so if we start cutting that, the potential there exists to lose that time sensitive component to these forecasts that we rely so heavily on. remember the national weather service in los angeles were the first group of meteorologists to warn the public of the strong santa ana wind event and subsequent fire event in los angeles a couple of weeks ago. now we look forward to the upcoming tornado season this spring and into the hurricane season in the summer and fall. if we don't have those meteorologists, what do we do? >> john and derek, there is some looking at a map here. there is some severe weather in the northeast, actually, from the midwest to the northeast. this morning. >> yeah, that's right john. and this is so critical because it's those meteorologists whose jobs are on the line that are

actually issuing the current warnings that are in place right now. we have a tornado watch that's in place across portions of kentucky. several severe thunderstorm warnings issued by human meteorologists. and also these flash flood warnings and flash flood emergencies that were in place across charleston, west virginia, earlier today. this is all part of a larger winter storm that's bringing ice to the mid-atlantic and snow to the upper portions of the northeast. but again, if we start cutting the meteorologists, the personnel and the staff, john, it's going to make it more difficult to communicate those hazards to the public. >> yet harder to stay safe. derek van dam, thanks so much for the work that you do appreciate it, my friend sarah. >> all right. breaking overnight, elon musk's department of government efficiency agreeing in court to limited access in the treasury's payment system. it comes after a private concern sparked a lawsuit from unions representing federal workers. florida congressman jared moskowitz is joining us now. jared, thank you so much. i know this has been an extremely, maybe excruciatingly busy time.

as you see all of the things coming down the pike. i want to start with this, though, is trump's demand for names from the cia that the cia has now turned over in an unclassified email. the first name and last initial of the agents, a threat to the agents security and a threat to national security. in your mind. >> yeah, thanks. >> thanks for having me this morning. yeah, obviously. look, there's. >> dramatic concern. >> about how this information is being passed and how it's happening so fast. and so the answer to that is possibly if it's not being done in a sensitive manner, then yes. obviously we could have agents. >> exposed. >> and, you know, look, that's what's going on in general. this stuff is happening so quickly without transparency. look, i. agree with the mission. >> of doge. >> it's why i joined. the caucus. i think americans want to see government spend less money and become more efficient. i think that's a bipartisan. a bipartisan issue. but i think how. >> they're doing it is. >> the problem. and you.

>> don't have to listen to. >> me, listen. >> to the data. >> these guys. >> are. >> data guys, right? >> the economist in november said that republicans, these are all. >> just republicans, 47%. >> of them. >> wanted elon musk very involved. >> with the government. that number today, that same poll by the economist is now 26. >> just with republicans. >> so you don't have to. >> listen. >> to democrats like me. listen to republicans. >> republicans by 20. points want elon musk less involved with the trump administration. so it's how they're doing it. article one of the constitution. >> preserves all this stuff for congress. >> again, another data point. i want to. >> find all of these things. >> we can audit all of these departments. >> we can find. >> wasteful spending, but only congress is going to solve this problem. and i'll prove it. >> go to the. >> debt clock right now. has the debt clock reversed? you know what? ask me in two weeks. >> has the debt clock. >> reversed based on what they're doing in. >> the executive? >> ask me in two months, has the debt clock reversed. >> based on. >> what. >> they're doing in the executive? >> and the answer. >> is. >> going to be. >> no. >> on all of those times, only

congress can solve this. >> so until the. >> administration reaches. >> out to congress and democrats. because they can't do anything in the house without. >> democratic votes, we're actually. >> not going. to solve. >> these problems. >> but listen, i. >> agree with the. >> mission of doge. >> we should try to. >> find. >> wasteful spending wherever we can. >> i do want to ask you about donald trump and him demanding the names of the thousands of fbi agents and leadership who worked on the the thousand plus january 6th rioter cases. deputy attorney general emil bove said fbi agents who simply followed orders and carried out their duties in an ethical manner do not face the risk of being fired. do you believe him? >> well. >> look, obviously. >> we don't want to. >> see revenge. >> in these departments, but. >> also. >> let's be a little honest. is this a surprise? >> i mean, donald trump told us. >> he was. >> going. >> to do this. >> he said that. >> he said. >> right, i'm going to go and get. >> rid of. >> the people. >> at the fbi that weaponized the fbi. and so i would say that issue was on the ballot. >> he told. >> the american people he. >> was going to do it. they're now doing it. that doesn't mean that i support. it doesn't mean that i like it.

>> but he. >> said. >> he was. >> going to do. congressman, do you see this as revenge and vengeance and retribution as donald trump promised he would net out? >> well. >> look. >> obviously. >> if they get rid of the people that only worked on the cases that went after donald and obviously, you know, connect the dots where you will. >> but he told the american. >> people he. >> was going to. >> do this right. >> the eo he signed on the department. >> of education. >> which again, he can't get rid of without congress. >> but the. >> eo, he signed on the department of education. >> he told. >> the american. >> people. >> he was going to. >> do that. >> i know that we've. >> been outraged over, you know. 50 things. >> which. >> is their point flood the zone, overload us. but on. >> a lot of. >> those, he told the american people he. >> was going. >> to do it. so i just don't know why. >> we're we're surprised. >> here's something he did not tell the american people he was going to do, and he said that he was going to own gaza go in with the military, send out the palestinians to other countries. do you think that's a good idea? >> well. >> let me. >> make two points on this.

first point is. >> is that, look, this is a. >> sad state of affairs for the palestinian people. and here's what i mean by that. their leadership has failed them now for. 50 plus years. yasser arafat turning down. >> peace deals. >> that could have given them a state, could have given them. a way to the future. you have hamas. now basically destroying gaza because they launched a war on october 7th. the leadership of the. palestinian people have put them in this terrible position. that being said, there's not. >> going to be. >> boots on the ground in gaza. that's not going to happen. i do think donald. >> trump is trying to shake the system. >> we know. >> how he likes to negotiate. >> it is unorthodox. >> and i think. >> what he's trying to do. is he's. >> trying to get. >> the arab neighbors to. >> step up and take more responsibility. >> in. >> rebuilding gaza, in. >> the security of of gaza. and he's saying, look, if you. don't want to do it, then. >> we're going to do it. >> and we already know that. >> jordan and egypt and and some of the other countries out there don't want to do some of those things. >> and so i think this is a shock to. >> the system and a real proposal. but let me say. one more point. >> this is this is. >> i think, really. >> critical, right? this is.

>> also part of the strategy, the brilliance of donald trump. what he does to through the media and. >> up here on capitol hill, he treats us all like adhd. >> kids, right. >> that like squirrel. oh, we're going to buy greenland. >> over here. >> oh we're going to take gaza over here. >> oh we're going. >> to buy. tiktok over here. oh, canada is going to be the 51st state over here. >> right. >> and while all of that's going. >> on, there's real. >> stuff that's. >> actually happening that they can accomplish. and so. >> you know this is not going to happen. >> congressman. >> go ahead. >> it sounds like you have tacit sort of approval of him making these bold statements about owning gaza. is that what i heard? >> no. >> what i'm saying is it's not going. >> to happen, right? i mean, we're not going to own gaza. so the more we spend time on. >> his. >> statement of we're going to own gaza. the the. >> less time. >> we can spend on the real things that are happening. what i am saying is, i. >> do think this is a negotiating tactic of his trying to get. >> the arab world to do more. >> on the future of gaza, just like what he did with nato in the last administration. i didn't like it, but he did get those countries. >> to put more. money into nato. >> and so, look, if he's able to

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transgender minors. is that right? >> that's right. >> two young adults. >> and five. >> families, including their adolescent children. >> what is driving the lawsuits? omar, what do these families say? that donald trump's executive orders are doing? >> well, i think we need to focus on the harms that are being placed on these families. this is pulling the rug out from under them. this is care that is well-established, safe and effective. and not only that, every person should have their health care needs met here. this order has caused some hospitals to prematurely cut off their services. abandoning these patients and really cause harm, endangering their health and well-being of these adolescents and young adults who have been waiting to be able to get the care that they need. >> because specifically, we're talking about one of the legal challenges you're involved, that you guys are involved with is prohibiting federal funding from covering transition related medical care, which includes puberty blockers, hormone

therapy, surgery for children under 19. and you talk about the harm that this that this is causing to families. is it already happening? >> absolutely. it's already happening. but i do want to clarify, because it's so important to confront the misinformation out there when we're talking about minors, we're really talking about medications. we're talking about the access to puberty blockers or hormones that will help them develop in a way that is consistent with who they are. surgery is incredibly rare, and usually top surgery at most for a minor. when we're talking to adults, we may be talking surgery, and this order does affect some adults, people who are 19, who are of legal age to vote, to join our military, to serve our country, but yet they're not provided they're not given the ability to consent to the medical care that they need. >> you're fighting this in court right now. at the same time, you look at across the country, more than half of the states across the united states already have enacted some laws or policies restricting gender affirming

care for minors. how does that fit into your overall effort? >> well, this is an attempt to blackmail coerce institutions across this country to abandon this patient population. most of this care, as recommended by the guidelines, wants to be has to be multidisciplinary, has to occur in settings that allow for collaboration between all kinds of health care professionals. that's why it happens in many hospitals. and now they're being coerced of being pulled all federal funding funding that may not relate in any way to gender affirming care, to not provide this care for this patient population. >> the latest executive order, the one where he's moving to ban transgender athletes from playing in women's sports, that really that issue in particular, really became a rallying cry for republicans in the election. do you see that particular issue as different from the transgender issues that you're that you're suing the administration over? >> certainly it is part of a campaign, an unrelenting, horrible campaign by this administration to systematically prevent transgender people from

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