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elections safe from foreign interference and threats find themselves reassigned. the latest drastic change that has experts wondering about how our national security could be impacted by president trump's new administration, and a look at the immigration crisis at the ground level. cnn's speaking to immigrants working at florida farms legally in critical jobs, about what should be done to keep america's farms running. we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central we are following breaking news. >> a judge has just paused tonight's midnight deadline for federal employees to decide whether to take president trump's so-called buyout. the deal would mean that they quit

their jobs and hope to be paid through september, or risk getting laid off anyway. it's part of the trump administration's aggressive push to shrink the government. and at the center of it all is elon musk. over the past three weeks or so, we have watched the world's richest man threaten massive job cuts across several agencies, from the treasury to the u.s. agency for international development and the cia, just to name a few. next, he could come swinging for the department of education and the environmental protection agency. and we'll have more on that in a moment. first, though, let's turn to cnn's jeff zeleny, who is live for us at the white house. jeff, walk us through the judge's decision. it's a big one. and are you hearing anything from the administration in response? >> well, brianna, we were about ten hours or so away from that midnight deadline where federal employees would have been able to accept this offer to essentially not return to work and be paid through september if they would not like to participate in the return to office program. but that is all now on hold, as you said. a

federal judge in massachusetts putting the deadline on hold pending oral arguments on monday. so for now at least, this is in suspension mode. this is what we've seen from several executive orders. the president has signed. the judge steps in and, excuse me, puts a bit of a pause on this. so far, the white house has not reacted to this ruling. we are expected to hear from the president later. i'm sure he will have words to say on this, but at the heart of this is how some federal workers believe they are actually being respected or not. in the case of this order. the white house press secretary just a short time ago had this to say about this offer. >> we encourage federal workers in this city to accept the very generous offer. if they don't want to show up to the office, if they want to rip the american people off, then they're welcome to take this buyout and we'll find highly competent individuals who want to fill these roles. >> her words there, if they want

to rip the american people off, who she's talking about, there is the federal workforce from the cia to the fbi to the faa. actual people behind these offers. and just because people may be working from home or a remote or off site does not mean, of course, that they're ripping people off. but if you look at some of these, um, factors now that are going into this, an email was sent out overnight giving employees one more chance to sign up for all of this. and they're really trying to make the the case here that it's good for them. but the three federal unions that brought this suit are arguing and have been instructing workers to be very careful about this buyout offer because they say there are no guarantees at all for any of this. so for now at least, brianna, this is on hold until monday, pending oral arguments. again, no immediate comment from the white house. we've checked and they have not gotten back to us, brianna. >> all right. we'll wait to see what they do say. jeff zeleny live for us at the white house. thank you. boris.

>> federal employees at the epa's environmental justice and civil rights office have been told they could be put on leave in the coming days. they were told that an all staff meeting, the change would be part of president trump's order ending all dei initiatives. cnn's rene marsh is going to break this down for us. rene. the trump administration has already closed the epa's dei office. so what is the environmental justice office do and how many workers could be impacted? >> right. so this is an office. it's the environmental justice as well as the external civil rights office. and these are individuals who are making sure that grant's policies are keeping in mind that there are certain communities that could be facing disproportionate impacts from things like climate change and pollution and making sure that federal funding and programs are equitably distributed so that they can prepare themselves to make sustainability plans for their communities, as well as resilience for their communities. so that's at the

heart of the work that they do there. but the trump administration sees work like this as an extension of dei. however, many of the employees i speak to don't view themselves as dei employees. they actually see that this is work that's being done to make sure that all communities have access to the resources to protect themselves from things like pollution and climate change. so back to what we're learning. many of the staffers within this office and division of the epa are literally on pins and needles waiting to hear that they, too, would be put on paid administrative leave. and this comes after that meeting that you mentioned, in which they essentially said that we plan on enforcing the president's directive through his executive order to dismantle programs like this. and so what does that mean? i mean, his executive order very clearly states that. offices focused on environmental justice should be terminated. so employees got that word

yesterday. fast forward to today. i've not received any messages from anyone saying that they've been placed on leave, but they said that they are expecting that this will happen in the coming days. and of course, boris, this is just one of many agencies in which we have seen this. >> yeah, apparently doge looking at every single agency across the u.s. government. rene marsh, thank you so much for the update, brianna. >> and with us now is democratic congresswoman melanie stansbury. she is the top democrat on the overnight oversight committees. doge subcommittee, which is a mouthful. congresswoman, thank you so much for being with us. and you and a number of other democrats showed up at treasury a couple of days ago after we had learned that elon musk's doge effort had gained access to their payment machine, which was a big deal. was it, though, just a show of opposition? were you able to achieve something? >> well, i think first of all, we have to observe that even a federal court judge today agreed that elon musk is breaking the

law. whether that's trying to fire federal officials, they're freezing federal funds. they're stealing our data at treasury. and so over two dozen members of congress and both the house and the senate showed up. we requested access to meet with the secretary of the treasury and to discuss what's going on, and to find out from both political and senior officials what data they have access to. when we got there, we met with the secret service, who was guarding the area and basically they we were told that the politicals had been informed we were there and they left us standing outside. and so there were probably thousands of people in the streets. the american people are marching in every major city right now, demanding that elon musk be held accountable. and so our responsibility as members of congress is to show up, to conduct oversight. we were there to perform oversight over the secretary and the doge team, and we were denied access. so that's why we were there. >> and so you don't have this

lever, really, of lawsuits because democrats are not in control of congress, but there are outside lawsuits. and as you as you mentioned, and we just covered you're now seeing stuff move through the courts. it is a slower process, certainly, than the swift process that we see. elon musk and his doge associates sweeping through the government with. so do you have confidence that the court system can respond in the manner and with the speed that it needs to in order to address concerns that you have? >> i mean, right now, it's the tool that we have to stop them in their tracks. if you look at what happened last week illegally, the white house froze funds for literally thousands of entities across the country. they tried to lock states out of the medicaid system, and within 24 hours, we went to the courts. the state attorney generals went to the courts, and two different federal judges said, this is illegal. we're going to put a pause on this. we now have this with the federal employees. we now have this with the treasury

department. the courts is the tool right now because republicans control not only the house and the senate, but the white house as well. and so and, you know, if you watch the oversight committee yesterday, they've completely abdicated any oversight on the republican side of the aisle. in fact, when we tried to invite elon musk to come appear in front of the committee, they denied our request. and then we tried to subpoena him yesterday. and when we tried to hold them to account, all hell broke out in the committee because they have zero interest in performing oversight. >> well, part of the reason it didn't work out because there was a surprise move, right, to subpoena elon musk. but there were actually a couple of democrats who were critical to the effort, who didn't show up. they missed the vote, insisting that they wanted to be there, but it was something that was organized pretty quickly. you told this to kristen welker in december. i want to listen to this. >> and i just think that as we're facing the trump administration, we have to have well oiled committee machines,

well-oiled leadership machines, and that we have to know how to serve the american people in an effective manner. >> looking at yesterday, and i know it was an effort to kind of throw something together, but it didn't work out. that wasn't well oiled. how do you, going forward, try to change that? >> well, i think it's important to understand how the committee process actually plays out. republicans are in the majority and at any given time, you know, it's very unlikely that the republicans are not going to stall the proceedings so that they can get enough members in the room. now, if the chairman had actually held the vote at the moment the motion was made, we would have destroyed them in the vote. but what happened was there were only like four members on the republican side, even in the room, because people are doing lots of different things during the day. and so if you notice in the tape, i mean, they had to hold the vote open for, you know, 15 minutes until they could get enough republicans in the room. so, i

mean, we're not in the majority, but that doesn't mean that, as you know, the resistance inside of our agency or inside of the congress, that we can't use that platform to show that we're fighting for the american people. but procedurally, we're going to lose because we're not in the majority. >> how important is it to at least appear unified and organized in that effort? >> it's crucial. it is absolutely crucial. but i think yesterday was a bit of an anomaly because it was a busy day and people were doing various things around the campus. so but of course, it played out on a gigantic stage. >> so i do want to ask you, because oversight dems and i know that there are limited things. you're in the minority. we do need to stress this, but you do have the chance certainly to message, and you do have the chance to inform yourselves and reach out to people in that regard. have you talked to david lebryk, the former acting

treasury secretary, who had resisted some of these doge attempts, who just resigned after musks doge associates threatened him if he didn't comply with those demands? >> well, we are actively actually reaching out to him right now for that very reason, but also because elon musk refuses to come testify in front of the committee. and so we would like to invite him to come and testify if he's willing to, because i think that it's crucial that people actually understand what these sensitive data systems are, that they're accessing what their plans are, what they're trying to do, and to get the real story. because obviously, the trump administration is not disclosing what's actually going on. >> and so what is within your abilities to do with, with, say, david lebryk if he agrees to speak to you, to cooperate, to speak publicly. >> we will put him in front of the committee and provide the opportunity for him to tell his story and to explain to the american people what's going on, you know, as the democrats in the minority, we use our

platforms, we show up to do oversight. we inform the public of their rights. we can help support these lawsuits. but the most important thing we can do right now is to show the ways in which the republicans are not only abdicating their responsibilities constitutionally, but failing to, and also enabling the trump administration to do things that are blatantly illegal. and, you know, the clip that was just shown of their white house's comment about federal employees, these are veterans, active duty military who are fighting overseas for american lives. these are the people that are making sure your water is clean so that you don't die of a disease. these are people in our federal government that have dedicated their lives to public service. and the trump administration administration is acting like the millions of americans who are gainfully employed by the federal government to make sure that you're safe, that i'm safe, that we have national security, are somehow enemies of the state. like, this is the kind of

authoritarianism that we warn the public about during the campaign and the twisted infiltration that the white house and this billionaire bro are conducting on our government right now are, i think, chilling. >> i don't think they're lumping in active duty military into the federal workforce when they're talking about it. but to your point, i think the veteran piece is very lost on this. a huge chunk of the federal workforce is veterans and also military spouses as well. >> yeah, i mean, i think it's important to know that, like, for example, when they canceled d-i programs, there is a huge portion of the military that was actually impacted by that. programs were frozen. there are civilians that work for the military who basically were told their services were no longer desired. >> certainly. >> and these are folks that keep our military functioning. this is an actual threat to our national security. and meanwhile, they're also doing purges of the fbi, the cia and

our national law enforcement. so, i mean, this is an actual compromise of national security, certainly. >> and these eo's, to be clear, very much do affect the military. i didn't mean to i didn't mean to say anything about that when it comes to these buyouts and stuff. obviously, they're offering that to folks in the civilian workforce. but thank you so much and we would love to have you back. thank you so much for coming in. we really appreciate it. congresswoman melanie stansbury, thank you. still to come, one of pam bondi first directives as attorney general to shutter an fbi team in charge of combating foreign interference in u.s. elections. plus, in an effort to comply with an executive order, the cia sent the white house a list of all new hires. why the move could expose identities of those officers to foreign government hackers, and then later, lawmakers briefed on the investigation of the deadly mid-air collision between a passenger jet and an army helicopter over the potomac river. we'll have that and much more coming up on cnn news central.

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prosecutorial discretion. the foreign influence task force shall be disbanded. it was established back in 2017 by former fbi director christopher wray, in response to a wave of foreign threats, including russia's efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. cnn's senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe joins us now. andrew, thanks so much for joining us. what could be the impact of disbanding this specific team of specialists? >> well, let's for for a minute, boris, let's talk about what this task force actually did. and i think it sheds a little light on why this might be misunderstood by people and maybe even by the attorney general. this task force didn't have anything to do with all of the allegations. we typically hear about the weaponization of the fbi and interference in, you know, election interference and the way that that those words were tossed around in the election. these were a group of trained special agents from from

different disciplines within the fbi, from the counterintelligence division, the cyber division, the criminal division, and others who were focused on uncovering whether or not foreign governments were trying to interfere in u.s. elections. as we know that is against the law in this country. if you are a foreign government or a foreign person or a foreign corporation, you are not allowed to contribute or support to elections in the united states. so this is really you can think about it as a counterintelligence effort. we're trying to understand how foreign spies are trying to influence and change the outcome of our u.s. elections. and i guess we're not doing that anymore. >> well, i wonder how you square that with the reasoning. i mean, you alluded to the attorney general perhaps not knowing exactly what this task force is doing, but she specifically cites freeing up resources and stymieing weaponization and abuses of prosecutorial discretion. there no actual mention of foreign meddling in

elections. >> yeah, there's you know, reallocating resources is kind of a general thing that you can do anytime you close out one activity and you shift people to another one. so i can't speak to that, but there's no weaponization here. this is just the fbi doing what the fbi does, keeping an eye on national security threats, foreign actors, people outside the united states who are meddling illegally in our elections. there's never been an allegation that this task force engaged in weaponization, whatever that means. it's not like fbi agents going after republicans or democrats to try to change the outcome of elections. i don't agree that that's ever happened, but it certainly wasn't happening with these people who were looking outside our borders at adversaries we know have tried this in the past. and i will point out, boris, that under the trump administration, they were very proactive in drawing americans attention to the fact that at that time they found evidence of chinese and iranians

trying to interfere in the 2020 election. they very proactively and i think, responsibly called it out. that's the sort of work that this task force did. for some reason, that's now fallen out of favor with the new attorney general. >> andy, i want to ask you about these accusations from the acting attorney general. emil bove, aimed at fbi leadership, accusing them of insubordination because they refused to identify this core team of employees who worked on j. six cases. was that an act of insubordination? >> no, no, not in my judgment, boris. it was an act of trying to protect fbi employees from being maliciously attacked online. if, in fact, this very sensitive information with their personally identifying data was shared online, let's remember where this came from. the acting deputy attorney general sent a message last friday to the fbi

demanding this data. the subject matter and the message line was termination. he's now trying to back up from that a little bit and try to make it seem as if everyone whose information is coming over to the justice department won't actually be terminated, but he does go on in his message yesterday to make it clear that people who indicated undue partisan influence or refuse the orders of the department of justice would be treated that way. so i think the the leadership of the fbi did the right thing trying to protect these employees, trying to do something to ensure that they are subjected to the normal policy and processes that we have in place to to address significant allegations of misconduct. and mind you, there has not been a single allegation of misconduct even made yet in the context of this, of this issue. and so it will be interesting to see where that goes. >> andrew mccabe, thanks so much for the analysis. appreciate you thanks. brianna.

>> democratic lawmakers are slamming a move by the cia to comply with trump administration orders to reduce its workforce. the agency sent the white house an email listing all new hires that have been with the cia for two years or less. but what has angered some lawmakers is the realization that the email was sent as unclassified and included agents first names and last initials. and now there are real fears that this could put employees safety at risk. let's get more. now about this list from cnn national security reporter zachary cohen. zach, tell us what you're learning. >> yeah, brianna, the cia, clearly under pressure from the white house to comply with donald trump's executive order to, you know, reduce the size of the federal workforce. but, look, the move, the unorthodox, unorthodox move to send this list of employee names in an unclassified email is raising some legitimate counterintellige nce concerns. and as officials are warning that it could expose the names of these cia employees to foreign adversaries, we know

foreign adversaries like china and russia have consistently tried to hack into and exploit vulnerabilities in these unclassified government email systems. we know chinese linked hackers have successfully done so in the past. but look, this is all speaks to just how sensitive this identifying information related to cia employees is across the board. on this list, you had agents and officers ranging from analysts to people that were training to go undercover and be part of covert operations. you know, oftentimes even internally at the cia, people don't even know their colleagues own last names. that just shows you a little bit how closely guarded this identifying information is. you know, on the other side, there's this question, too, of how many of the people on this list were maybe cia officers who were dedicated to other agencies as part of their official cover that could pose additional counterintelligence risks, as well as those people often are part of those covert operations overseas. so really, this move, unprecedented move by the cia to

send this information, even if somewhat obscures the identities of these individuals, really is raising some legitimate concerns from lawmakers and people inside the agency itself. >> so, zach, how did this happen? because you'd think the white house, especially as it's emphasizing wanting to do some more covert work instead of doing some of the analysis at the cia that they would actually be more protective of this kind of information. >> to your point, brianna, a cia director, john ratcliffe, during his confirmation hearing, said exactly that, that he wants the cia to get back to its core mission, which includes covert operations and intelligence collection, human intelligence collection. but that does require protecting the people that you have, you know, carrying out that work, including the people who are working under, you know, need their identities protected in order to do so safely. so, look, this does sort of run counter to the stated mission. but again, donald trump has made clear that

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>> february 16th on cnn. >> just moments ago, officials from the faa and the ntsb wrapped up a closed door briefing before the senate transportation committee on that deadly collision between an american airlines jet and an army helicopter. prior to that briefing, president trump announced he plans to meet with leaders from both parties in congress to get a standalone bill passed that would improve technology at u.s. airports. cnn's pete muntean joins us now. and, pete, are we getting any more details on that closed door briefing? >> this was. >> pretty significant. >> i was. >> standing right outside this closed. >> door briefing to. >> the senate. commerce committee, which essentially. >> functions as the board of directors for the federal. >> aviation administration. we got some new pieces of information also. >> on this investigation. >> first, that the army blackhawk helicopter was not broadcasting what is called automatic dependent surveillance broadcast ads-b. it's a special piece of equipment that gives more granular position data than what's on radar. still too soon to say if it would have been a factor here, but i want you to listen now to senator ted cruz. he is the chair of that

committee. >> listen. >> in this instance. >> this was a training mission, so there was no compelling national security reason for ads-b to be turned off so a lot of new questions here. >> investigators briefed senators for about two hours today. a closed door briefing. so we were only really able to rely on what they told us after the briefing. we did not hear from ntsb chair jennifer homendy, although she briefed the committee, along with key officials from the faa. the faa did make a little bit of news today ahead of this, saying that they were going to reduce the rate of aircraft arrivals at national airport. right now, it's set at 28 per hour. remember, very congested airspace. they're going to reduce that to 26 per hour. the flip side of that is that it will make delays a little bit worse. the average delay now about 40 minutes. it goes up by about 10 minutes to 50 minutes. the other thing here that you have to set this against the backdrop of is that the trump administration has really used this for an opening to start the discussion about air traffic control and changing air traffic control. and we know that elon

musk last night tweeted that he wanted to essentially have doge plug in to the air traffic control system, and said he wanted to make rapid upgrades to the air traffic control system. the faa doesn't do things fast very well, and so that sort of has really kicked off this whole new conversation about what doge could do and really didn't have much of a place to play in this investigation. and in this incident, it is really, really too soon to draw any huge major conclusions here. we know that the national transportation safety board has completed the interviews with the air traffic controllers involved in this. >> yeah. interesting to see doge spread its tentacles and now get its fingerprints seemingly all over the federal government. we'll see what comes of this. pete muntean, thank you so much. up next, you're going to meet the legal migrants who keep america's farms running. and why some farmers say the program that helps them work the fields is simply too costly and complicated. >> nobody local wants to work in agriculture, harvesting crop.

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it, it's a good solution to be able to make money and yet at the same time, be here legally. but with that visa comes grueling work. >> nobody local wants to work in agriculture, harvesting crops, nobody. these are hard working, able bodied men. and that's what they're doing. they're doing manual labor. >> and they're doing it in a place that might surprise you. >> that's east. yeah. >> if i go far enough, i'll hit mar-a-lago. >> yeah. you will. >> you need only travel about 40 miles from here, as roth farms sits just on the western edge of palm beach county, florida. it certainly doesn't feel like the beaches of palm beach. >> but it has the weather. >> which can be brutally hot and humid for those working these fields. yet, despite his need for a reliable and cost efficient workforce, roth says he supports president trump's stance on immigration. is it going to get more difficult to get workers, you think under president trump and the

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>> costs. >> i pay all the transportation costs. we put them up in housing, we pay all the housing costs. the only thing we're allowed to charge them for is the cost of the food. when we feed them. >> so what is it like for these workers? so here it is, about 5:00 in the evening. and these workers have just finished their shift at roth farms. they're arriving back at their housing complex. juan manuel and the others invite us to meet them after their work day is over. yeah. what do you do this time of the day? yeah. when you get here from work. >> llegamos a comer. >> dinner is at 630. we can go with him. he's inviting us up. muchas cosas aqui. no, they've been working ten hours today. they work six, sometimes seven days a week. they have just a few things that they need. a few changes of clothes, some snacks and not much privacy. juan manuel shows us his setup. now.

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