of h5n1 might be here to stay. >> and what does that mean for i mean, i don't. consuming eggs and milk i assume that's safe. yeah, yeah. >> so, you know, there's been a lot of discussion about raw milk lately. i don't know if you've heard much. >> of that. >> discussion. that is that that is not a good idea, especially given what's going on now, because you could get infection in the milk. so if you're drinking pasteurized milk, you should be fine. when it comes to eggs, it's interesting because what typically happens, anderson, is that the chickens will. they'll either get sick or die so quickly that they don't really have an opportunity to lay that many eggs. so despite the fact that you're getting a lot of infection in these animals, the egg supply still seems safe. but i think the advice there is to make sure you're preparing that your eggs as well, cooking them as well. >> all right, sanjay, i really appreciate it. obviously. yeah, it's frightening to even think about this. we'll keep an eye on it. yeah. please. let's. please.

sanjay. thanks. the news continues here on cnn. >> it's friday, february. >> 7th, right now on. >> cnn this morning. >> i've been saying to all the federal. >> employees. >> beware of this offer. >> there's a reckoning coming, and the american people support this pressing pause. >> a judge steps in to extend the. deadline for 2. >> million federal. >> workers to take the trump. musk buyout. >> plus. >> president trump is an outside of the box. >> thinker not. >> backing down president trump still talking. >> about kicking palestinians out of gaza. >> even as his team has tried to tone it down. >> and this is a disaster, not just from a humanitarian standpoint, from the standpoint of all the beneficiaries who may in fact die. >> on edge. >> usaid employees. >> bracing for. >> big cutbacks. >> as the president's plan to get. >> rid of almost.

>> its. >> entire workforce set to roll out tonight. just after. >> 5 a.m. >> here on the east coast, a live look at the washington. >> monument. >> a beautiful shot. washington, d.c. on this friday morning. we made it to friday. the end of is this the third week of the trump administration? the second one i think so. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. a federal judge pausing the trump administration's deferred resignation offer to 2 million federal workers. the deadline extended to monday, when there will be another hearing after several legal challenges. according to the white house, the buyout offer has 65,000 takers so far. it's not clear, though the arrangement is legal. still, the administration remains undeterred 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. >> also developing this morning, cnn has learned that elon musk's top lieutenants at the treasury department, they tried to get the acting secretary to immediately shut off all usaid funding last month, using the department's payment processing system. it is the first evidence that doge attempted to access the treasury's tools to affect to block federal payments we're catching them left and right. >> we're catching them. we're catching them to a point where they don't know what the heck is going on. they can't believe they're getting caught. and i have great respect for the people that are doing it. elon musk is helping us on it, and he's pretty good. he's pretty good. >> all right, let's bring in jackie kucinich. she is washington bureau chief of the boston globe. jackie, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> in another episode of you can't keep up with how fast

things are moving with this new trump administration. um, it's clear here that the that elon musk and doge are moving very fast behind the scenes doing things that are, you know, not being reported necessarily in real time, that they did try to actually use this payment system inside treasury to accomplish their goals. the court system now does seem to be catching up in various ways as lawsuits have been filed. um, but at the same time, it's clear that that that doesn't seem to be an effective tool right now, as democrats try to push back without a lot of tools at their disposal. well. this is. >> by design. >> they're moving. >> at this rate and the speed. >> and in. >> so many different places, in order. for courts to courts to be, you know, always playing catch up and you don't have any resistance from republicans that you thought you might have. i mean, i'm still a little. surprised you haven't. >> seen pushback. >> from appropriators, those lawmakers who are the ones i mean, they really. covet these

roles. they're the ones that help. put funding where they would like it to be. people work their whole careers. to become one of these lawmakers. and on the republican side, you haven't really heard a peep. >> you have not. and, you know, it speaks to the the politics of the thing. i mean, my sort of overarching political question is at what point do people start to turn on? do they start to turn on elon musk in a way that makes, you know, donald trump concerned about that? let's talk for a second about this staffer who was forced to resign. so this is the wall street journal. they say, quote, a key doge staff member. this was their exclusive reporting yesterday who gained access to the treasury department's central payment system, resigned thursday after he was linked to a deleted social media account that advocated racism and eugenics. so i guess there still is a line, uh, you know, that you can't cross here. but this also speaks to the risks of

having these unvetted people inside the federal government. >> yeah, and they're being vetted in real time as well. i mean, this reminds me of the first trump administration, when you had a lot of, you know, our colleagues around the city and beyond vetting people for the administration and the fact that, you know, this is someone who could have had access to all sorts of private material and some of the others that, you know, probably haven't been vetted at this point. uh, you think that would raise concern, you know, within both the administration and with congressional leaders? >> one other big piece of this is whether or not musk has conflicts of interest. right. because let's remember, he's the richest man in the world, whether or not because. >> right. >> let's, let's, let's say straight up that there are conflicts of interest that are presenting themselves. so there's been this question of, okay, how are we going to deal with that? right? spacex has interests, especially with the federal government. tesla does to any automaker does is very affected by regulation in many cases, federal, federal money, other things. um, the faa is one

place where this could really come up and maria cantwell, senator cantwell was talking about this on the hill yesterday after we should remind everyone karoline leavitt the the white house press secretary said that musk is going to police his own conflicts of interest, and he's going to just say, oh, i can't get involved in that. i got to, you know, set myself aside, which is what trump said. right? let's watch what cantwell said. >> it's a clear conflict of interest, and secretary duffy should make sure that mr. musk is not part of the faa air transportation system. what we don't welcome is a man who's regulated by this sector and who has had fines for violation of safety, which is launch issues related to protecting the flying public at a time when you need the faa to call the shots and say, don't launch now because there could be a conflict in the airspace, the last thing i want is that guy trying to control the airspace. >> i mean, it's a really

salient point. i mean, there have been times when, you know, planes have had to be grounded because there's debris from one of the rockets coming down. i mean, this has been a worldwide thing as well. international aircraft have been affected. >> right. and but until you start hearing that from republicans with power to affect this change, to go to the president and get him and change his mind. i mean, what what trump said was that, you know, if he gets near anything that they think that it would be a conflict of interest, then, you know, then the administration would wall him off. that hasn't happened yet. but you said three weeks in at the top of the show. >> i think so. right. have i counted the days correctly? >> so we'll have to wait and see. if, you know, senator cantwell ends up with some voices joining her at some point. >> all right, jackie kucinich, happy friday. have a good weekend. see you next week. yep. all right. straight ahead here on cnn this morning, the president's gaza takeover plan. donald trump now says the u.s. will have some help turning a war zone into the, quote,

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>> as far as. >> gaza is concerned, we'll do what is necessary. if it's necessary, we'll do that. >> it's a move that would, if enacted, displace more than a million, almost 2 million palestinians and reshape global politics. early yesterday, president trump took to social media to reframe his argument. he posted this in part, quote, the u.s. working with great development teams from all over the world, would slowly and carefully begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on earth. no soldiers by the u.s. would be needed. exclamation point. the white house press secretary later, echoing those comments, she says this. >> the president has made it clear that he will not be sending boots on the ground. gaza he is not committed to that. he also has made it clear that american taxpayers will not be funding this effort. the president is trying to strike a deal to ensure that gaza can actually be a habitable place

for human beings who want to live in peace with real economic development. and president trump is an outside of the box thinker. >> well, that sounds different. all right. joining us now, national political reporter for the associated press, michelle price. michelle, good morning to you. it's clear here that they i mean, what we heard on tuesday, it basically seemed like they were saying, we're going to have to move 2 million, nearly 2 million palestinians out of the gaza strip to do this. now, the president's not backing off this idea of, you know, trump real estate developer creating something in gaza, but he's talking about the people who live there, staying there. and he's being explicit about not putting u.s. troops in gaza, which, i mean, makes sense to me based on what he said during the campaign and what a lot of his voters believe. but what's your read on how this is all unfolding? >> i mean, the stunning thing is it's been two. >> days of this, and. >> we still. >> don't have a lot of clarity. >> on. some of these. huge questions here. the press secretary yesterday, in some of her appearances, she referred to this as a plan and said that they expect partners in the

region to get on board with this plan. the plan, which details we still don't have. but in another appearance appearance, she said it was an idea that they were starting to discuss and it sounded more like a negotiating starting point. you know, we've heard some of the officials in the administration say it's an out. >> of the. >> box idea. he's a bold thinker. he's he's a great dealmaker. so we don't have a lot of clarity. and it sounds like some of them don't have a lot of clarity about how seriously he is committed to this plan. but there are questions about who is going to pay for it. if it's not u.s. dollars, who are the partners that are going to manage his post yesterday referencing fighting that would occur, that the u.s. would take over after fighting? it's not clear what fighting he has anticipated. so there's just many questions still about what his intention is here, how seriously committed he is to it. but his idea of this long term ownership is something they have not backed away from at this point. >> yeah. michelle, let's let's listen to congressman dan crenshaw, a republican, obviously, military veteran. and

what his sort of conception of what trump is actually doing here. let's watch. >> look, this is this is pretty. >> typical unorthodox trump policy. >> being thrown out there. >> but it could end up exactly. >> where it should end. >> up, which is the arab world has to take responsibility for this. i think the white house is i'm trying to keep track of the white house statements, just like you are. and from what i understand, they've walked that back pretty significantly. there's not going to be anybody forced to leave. there's not going to be any u.s. troops on the ground. >> so he's talking about the arab world taking responsibility for this. and this is perhaps the big picture question, the way that trump negotiates, trying to set out a different paradigm entirely. that said, it doing it could have unintended consequences. i mean, what have we seen from the arab world in terms of how this is impacting their willingness to to deal with the the continued negotiations for the cease fire between israel and hamas, and also the sort of bigger question around normalization between israel and saudi arabia, some of the bigger projects in the

region. >> it has been pretty unequivocally a nonstarter for the way that the arab world countries have been reacting to this, that this is something that is that is not on the table for them, that that they want palestinian people to remain in that area. and the palestinians themselves have said that, that they they do not want to leave their homeland, that this is where they would like to be, that that, you know, there is a question about there is so much destruction there that what will happen in the aftermath here. but as these cease fire negotiations continue, you know, we're waiting to see how those talks, if they've been upended by this kind of a metaphorical bomb that president trump has thrown out there. the steve witkoff, who's his negotiator for the region, he's meeting with the qataris today. you know, we're waiting to see if this has upended these discussions or if it has kind of set some brash new idea on the table that they're looking at as a negotiating standpoint. maybe they are coming to the table. we just don't know yet. >> we don't. okay. michelle price, thank you very much for being with us this morning. thank you. we appreciate your reporting. all right. let's turn now to this after a marathon

meeting at the white house on thursday, republicans in the house and senate still at odds, it seems, on the best way forward for the president's legislative agenda. the senate majority leader, john thune, and the house speaker, mike johnson, both plotting their own paths for president trump's plans. the senate wants to do it with two bills, but the house wants what the president calls, quote, one big, beautiful bill. speaker johnson talked about what's next after the four hour meeting at the white house our message. >> to. >> our friends and colleagues in the senate is allow the house to do its work. we are moving this as quickly and as expeditiously as possible. very positive developments today. we're really grateful to the president for leaning in. >> setting the senate aside. there is a significant obstacle for house republicans. the smallest house majority in recent memory. right now, republicans have a three seat majority that could last through april, when florida has special elections to fill some of the vacated seats. they have some house republicans who weren't invited to the white house meeting say that they need to

see more before they agree to anything. >> burleson what. is your level of frustration for not being a part of this meeting at the white house today? >> i'm incredibly frustrated. i'm frustrated. >> yes. am i surprised? heck no. >> are you? as a result, it could cost your vote. >> absolutely. >> i mean, not not for ego, just because they're not telling me what's in the dadgum bill. i'd kind of like to know about it if i'm if we're we have a three person majority and, you know, we have a bad case of flu. run through the capitol and we're out of the majority and legal. i mean, literally that's, that's that's how close it is. >> and anyone who has small children right now knows that the flu is actually a very real issue going around. joining us now to discuss max cohen, congressional reporter at punchbowl news. max, good morning. nice to see you. so this is, you know, this one, bill, two bills, lots of procedural fighting. but the bottom line is question is whether or not this this agenda that trump is putting on the table can pass the congress. and for mike johnson already the

discontent is bubbling. there have been several contentious meetings on the hill in the last week. where does that where does it stand? because i think the senate has been watching them do that. and basically they they said, you know what? like, sorry, we're just going to move forward on our side if you can't get it together. >> sure. and the senate, as you just mentioned, they're impatient. they see the house as a dysfunctional body with a slim majority. and they think we can be the adults in the room. right? however, yesterday was a big development, right. mike johnson and other house leaders went to the white house. and that's going to be key for this to move forward. they're going to need president trump to lean in. he is the undisputed leader of the party. and when he makes a declaration on this thing, he can get a lot of house republicans on his side to move forward. mike johnson, other gop leaders are saying now that trump is involved, we can get an agreement, maybe even by early next week. they might release something. even by today, we have no idea. but it seems like there has been a shift just in the past couple of hours. >> max. what are the president's top priorities here? i mean, what did we learn about

what he wants to see in this package? >> what he really wants is his campaign promises, right? no tax on tips, no tax on social security, some salt relief for people in coastal areas where these high tax states. right. he wants those things. he's not as detail oriented in the cuts. that's more of a house gop conservative proposal. but again trump has details that he wants. but they're the campaign proposals. the nitty gritty here is the freedom caucus, the far right of the republican conference says we want up to $2 trillion in cuts, the leadership said. we kind of want more like 1 trillion. that's where the discrepancy is here. trump needs to lean in and just say, hey, here's the plan, and i think we're getting closer to that, right? >> because the cuts are always where the rubber meets the road. that's the hard part, right? it's a lot easier to go home and say to your constituents, hey, like, i've, i've spent this money for you. and trying to figure out that balance has historically been the thing that really holds this up. max, i also want to talk to you about a little bit about what we were just talking about with, with gaza, because you have some new reporting out this morning about this meeting that steve witkoff

the mideast envoy had with members of congress and with republican senators. you write this quote we heard from other republican senators. wittkopf sent mixed signals on whether u.s. personnel would be involved in any operations in gaza, some of whitcomb's assertion assertions received pushback from senators in the room. we're told one gop senator in the meeting told us wittkopf was not very well received at all. it seems like this open question of u.s. boots on the ground in gaza. the president seems to be trying to answer it kind of overnight here, because it doesn't sound like it's been well received. >> totally correct. what republican senators heard earlier this week from wittkopf was confusing. they told us and what many told us is, look, wittkopf doesn't know the plan because it doesn't seem like the president knows the plan himself. it seems. >> like there's actually a. >> plan at all. right. we're seeing this. >> concept of a plan. >> is that the phrase? exactly. we're seeing this evolve over the past couple of days, right. things are shifting. i think what most republican senators

think and what most members of congress think is this is just an initial negotiating ploy for trump to get something happening in gaza. and most republicans say, look, we want this to change. we want this area to be habitable. we want peace in the region. but what they heard from wittkopf was someone who is trying his best to interpret what president trump wants, and no one quite knows exactly the details. >> steve witkoff and the rest of america, and probably the rest of the world in this case, max cohen, thank you very much for your reporting this morning. i appreciate it. all right. still ahead here on cnn this morning, with usaid being thrown into what elon musk calls the wood chipper, how those cuts ripple across the world. a former official with the humanitarian agency joins us live to discuss the cuts. plus, super bowl weekend. finally here, one player on my birds on the philly eagles has a chance to make history. >> lockerbie, february. >> 16th.

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disruptive to people's personal lives. we're not. this is we're not trying we're not being punitive here. but this is the only way we've been able to get cooperation from usaid. we are going to do foreign aid. the united states will be providing foreign aid, but it is going to be foreign aid that makes sense and is aligned with our national interests. >> secretary of state marco rubio was named the agency's acting director. usaid has employees around the world just bringing all of them back to the u.s. could cost taxpayers millions of dollars, employees and experts say such severe cuts could cause the u.s. irreparable damage on the world stage. former usaid administrator samantha power had this to say in the new york times, quote, unless these cruel and immensely counterproductive actions are reversed by the administration or republicans in congress join democrats in an effort to roll them back, future generations will will marvel that it wasn't china's actions that eroded u.s. standing and global security, paving the way for beijing to become the partner of choice around the world. instead, it was an american president and the billionaire he

unleashed to shoot first and aim later, eliminating an institution that is a cost effective example of what once distinguished the united states from our adversaries. joining me now is bhama athreya. she's former deputy assistant administrator for the usaid. bhama, thank you very much for being here. i appreciate it. this obviously going to be an incredibly difficult day for so many people that you were working with as recently as a few weeks ago, until president biden left office and the political appointees obviously left the agency. tell us a little bit about what you're hearing from people on the inside about today and the coming days. >> it will be. >> tragic, both. >> for people who have devoted. >> their lives into public service for the. u.s. people. and it will also be devastating for people around the. >> world who have. >> relied on life saving assistance. >> just talking about what we were hearing as of last night from people this ordered departure, this recall of. all

of our worldwide staff has not been handled with clarity. and what i mean by that is, even as of last night, people did not know what they were expected to do. we, as you said, we've got over 10,000 people worldwide, virtually all of them asked to return to the united states, but without clarity about whether they can get their documentation, their travel in order, how much time they will have to wrap up their affairs, move themselves back to the united states. none of that, because the only thing they received was an unsigned, uncleared email telling them that they had to come home within 30 days. now, secretary rubio is aware of this. and, you know, frankly, he could change that situation with the press of a button and a clear email that clearly had his authority, that provided people with the time they need to responsibly. and i stress that word responsibly, wrap up their work and relocate their families. and that might be as little as three months.

but it is a far cry from 90 days. now, when i say responsibly, i really think every american taxpayer should take heed of this as well. i'm here to tell you, this workforce around the world is our insurance against waste, fraud and mismanagement. $40 billion is a lot of money. and for our current 13,000 strong workforce that comes to $3 million that, you know, for each and every individual to have responsibility to manage. if you just averaged it out. think about that. think about having a small business and having one person to run it for a $3 million business. that is the workforce. they're now trying to downsize. and what that means is that all the checks and balances that are in place right now, all the different people who have eyes on each dollar to make sure it is responsibly spent. the budget analyst, the financial analysts, the program specialists are all gone. so who is going to be there to be sure that money is spent responsibly? it took me a month of training

before they would let me push the buttons to even, you know, file a quarterly financial report. i think secretary rubio might do well to give our people the time to hand those functions over responsibly to state department, if indeed state department is going to take care of those functions in future. >> can i ask you what your understanding is of why it is that elon musk, in particular, is so focused on usaid, to the point where he called it a ball of worms? >> it's a mystery to all of us what we can see. and, you know, so i don't want to speculate what goes on in anyone's head, what we're seeing in practice is a very shallow understanding of the nature of international development. we are seeing a small handful of very young men being deployed, and as far as we can tell, authorized to make decisions about life saving assistance, which gets to the second part of my concerns this morning, making decisions about assistance that is keeping

people from dying, that is keeping them from being the victims of dangerous attacks. and i think doing that in a room, you know, in your bedroom, on your computer, on your laptop is probably not the best way for those young people to be making those decisions. what they all need to do, including mr. musk, is get out there around the world and see what that impacts of those actions are. come with me. come with my colleagues. come see what is happening right now in jordan or syria, in bangladesh or in myanmar, and decide on the basis of what you're seeing, what responsible action to review and to alter those programs might look like. >> i want to talk briefly about the usaid, obviously, and you've touched on this. does all of this work to help so many people around the world. it was originally conceived as a tool, a cold war tool of soft power to help people around the world feel like america was a place that was supporting them in this

sort of great struggle. liz cheney. uh, retweeted something that elon musk put up and she says, quote, i'm proud of what america did to win the cold war, defeat soviet communism and defend democracy. our nation stood for freedom. you may be unfamiliar with that part of our history. since you weren't yet an american citizen. now she's taking a dig at elon musk there. but this piece of it, i mean, talk a little bit about what china is doing in this way and whether this means that the u.s. is ceding ground to china in this kind of a back and forth. >> it's that history is so interesting. when i grew up, you know, in the 1980s, and so it was the reagan era and still the cold war. and so there still was this sense that we needed to have friends in the world because we were in a global contest with the soviet union. now, you might think moving into the 1990s, you know, 2000 and then, you know, coming all the way up to 2025 that the world has changed. do we really need

those friends in the world anymore? but the fact is, we still do have a number of threats that we face, not only from the people's republic of china, but iran. other, you know, and certainly still russia that are in fact cultivating that influence worldwide. they are spending the money, they are spending the money in these other countries, and they may be spending it in other ways than we choose to do. but i think we need to decide if we want to still have those friends and those alliances in the world. and that is largely what usaid is set up to do. >> all right. thanks very much for spending some time with us this morning. we really appreciate it. >> thanks for the opportunity. >> all right. time now for sports. say hello to super bowl weekend. the kansas city chiefs seeking that unprecedented three peat. the eagles my eagles are looking for redemption. all of it will unfold with a special guest in attendance. andy schultz has more from new orleans.

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