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government employee, elon musk, plow forward with plans to purge the federal workforce and the coming hours. musk's ax will swing at usaid, dramatically slashing its global workforce. we'll have more on that in just a moment. meantime, we are learning concerning new details about operatives linked to musk's department of government efficiency. that's the team that has been seeking widespread access to sensitive information within multiple federal agencies, including the treasury, usaid, the centers for medicare and medicaid services, noaa, the faa, and the department of energy. cnn's rene marsh is live with more on this. renee. what are you hearing about staffers at these agencies? >> right. >> so we're. >> hearing from multiple career employees who have. >> had interactions. >> with these members of doge or have seen them coming and going, and they are. described as a slate of young, 20 something year old engineers who have gained access to many of these

agencies. i.t. systems, in some cases doing, in some cases doing keyword searches for things like dye to identify potential employees or work on policies in that agency, as well as contracts that need to be canceled because they deem anything related to die as wasteful. spending. here are some names of some of these individuals who. cnn has learned, are members of the doge team. 23 year old recent grad from uc berkeley. there's also a member of the doge team who just recently graduated from high school. so you see the youth there. many of these individuals have zero experience when it comes to the federal government and understanding how the federal government works. they have been quite accomplished in the tech world. but that is the concern that many of these agency employees have, that they don't have the the knowledge of the federal government, how it operates and how the

technological tinkering that is happening could impact millions of americans. boris. >> renee, we're hearing that trump is now demanding the names of federal workers who are considered less than fully successful as part of the administration's push to clean house within the u.s. government. tell us more about that. >> right. so we learned that the opm sent that memo out to to agency leaders. and just another layer of how this trump administration is looking to thin out the ranks this time, looking at people who had poor performances on their on their employment reviews. just one of many criteria that the opm and the trump administration is calling on these agency leaders to look at in making this determination as to who can go and who needs to be fired. >> boris rene marsh, thank you so much for that update. brianna. >> as of midnight tonight, fewer than 300 usaid staffers will be left on the job that is out of a workforce of approximately

10,000 around the world. this gaetz, life saving programs, including critical clean water projects and environmental engineering professor, tells cnn that without those programs, animals die, people die. people are displaced because they will move if they don't have water, which will increase migration pressure. globally. food distribution is another usaid life saving initiative. shutting down that work in famine stricken regions like ethiopia, somalia, sudan means that thousands of children could starve. usaid malaria elimination efforts are critical, and not just in africa. a former contractor says cases like the one in florida last year will be increasingly common in the u.s. without overseas projects. the humanitarian agency also helps combat oppression. its work with 145,000 vulnerable afghan women is one example, providing them safe houses, health care and vocational training. and all of that is now frozen amid an increasingly repressive and brutal taliban regime. and usaid

has been key in addressing the underlying drivers of migration from central america. along with combating drug and human trafficking, and the list goes on. cnn chief national security analyst jim sciutto is here with us. i think some of the issues that a lot of people have when they look at usaid is they say, great, look at all that stuff being done overseas. they don't always know how it can be connected to them, but it can be. >> the theory of the case is and by the way, this this for decades has been a republican and democratic view of usaid and funding. it's been quite popular with those in government. and even marco rubio was one of the biggest proponents of this. prior to his current role as u.s. secretary of state under trump. the theory of the case is that by giving aid in these places where there's instability caused by, say, disease outbreaks or earthquake in haiti, et cetera. is that if you help stabilize, conflict is less likely to follow, right. and so that u.s.

troops say, aren't brought in to help stabilize or to do peacekeeping. beyond that, i mean, think of this. it's about refugee flows as well. i mean, one reason you have so many folks coming from south america, north, or so many people coming from africa towards europe is because of instability, disease, food shortages. et cetera. i spoke with senator chris murphy last night, and he made the point that it's often defense department folks, pentagon folks who say do this kind of aid because it makes our work less necessary. here's how he put it to me last night. what the department of defense routinely says is that if you get rid of usaid, you have to buy us twice as many bullets because usaid tries to combat instability around the world, tries to prevent civil conflict that would draw the united states into war. so when usaid disappears, it puts our military members at risk. now, that doesn't matter to donald trump and his mar-a-lago crowd, because their kids aren't going to serve in these conflicts.

but, you know, the folks who live with me in the south end of hartford, it's their kids who sign up for military service. they'll be sent overseas to fight the wars that will be caused by the growing instability. the question is, why are they doing this? because, as you said, jim, it used to be that there was no controversy over usaid. it was just smart for us to spend money around the world to try to combat terrorists in china and russia. i think some of this agenda is pretty simple. the biggest beneficiary of usaid disappearing is china, because china now doesn't have anybody contesting their nonmilitary influence around the world. elon musk has huge business interests in china. he sells more cars in china than any country except for the united states. he makes half his cars in china. he's got big issues that are open with the chinese government. and that last point is a point you'll hear from proponents of usaid is who fills that space. right. and of course, they say china. and this does not come from nowhere, because the u.s. and china are in the midst of a hard power competition, but also a soft

power competition. china is very active in the global south, in africa and south america, and they want to present themselves as the stabilizing force, as the friend of these nations who comes to help them when they're in need. and if the u.s. withdraws from that space, one can reasonably expect that china will move into occupy. >> and china has the resources to do it. so too does the u.s. they're pulling them back. so so what happens now? >> well, that is a big question. one is that, yes, china probably does attempt to. it doesn't mean they do it perfectly. i mean china. china has its own problems delivering aid. a lot of those countries often feel that that china strong arms them. right. and doesn't give this sort of aid freely. but on the other hand, right now, the u.s. is in the midst of what appears to be a massive rethinking of its dealings with the world, and not just with adversaries like china, but its friends. right. when you look at tariffs and when you look at attempts to say, take land in greenland from denmark, who is a who's an ally? so one thing is

china may move in. the other thing is those relationships are impacted, right? i mean, people remember they have memories. countries remember. and, you know, they remember the stuff you give them. and they also remember the things you take away. >> they remember who they can count on. yes. >> just like people do. >> jim sciutto, thank you so much for us. >> just minutes from now, president trump is expected to hold a joint press conference with the japanese prime minister. live from the white house. that's where we find cnn's jeff zeleny, who's tracking all of this, jeff. the president undoubtedly will face some tough questions, specifically some of them about his buddy elon musk. >> boris, that certainly is not only the topic of the day, really the topic of the first three weeks of the trump administration. elon musk has been sharing the spotlight, as we know, as his department of government efficiency has been working its way through the bureaucracy, through firings and the dismantling of government. and also, there was a time magazine cover this morning that showed elon musk sitting behind

the resolute desk. of course, we know that the president, a longtime fan of time magazine, he was time man of the year just a couple of months ago, after winning reelection last year. he was asked about that just a short time ago in the oval office. and he sort of diminished the idea that elon musk was running the government. he said, elon is doing a great job. he's finding tremendous fraud as he's going here. but look, there's no doubt that that is a central question and story line here. as the japanese prime minister is having a meeting with the president. look, we've seen a rush of world leaders trying to set up meetings with the new u.s. president. of course, the israeli prime minister earlier this week and now the japanese prime minister next week, the king of jordan, as well as the prime minister of india and others in just a few moments ago in the oval office. the president said he would like to speak perhaps next week, with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy about the war there. so look, a lot of foreign policy

agenda items being discussed. but one note on gaza, the president also just said he said he's in no rush to make a move on gaza. of course, that ends the week in a far different posture than it started when he said the u.s. will own the gaza strip. boris. >> yeah, somewhat confoundingly saying that that would happen without u.s. troops on the ground and without any taxpayer money from folks in the united states spent there. jeff zeleny, live at the white house. thanks so much for watching that for us. we will, of course, bring you that press conference as it happens, live. meantime, immigration enforcement officials have made more than 8000 immigration arrests since president trump took office. but we're learning that behind the scenes, officials believe i.c.e. is, quote, way behind. and some trump officials want the agency to step it up. plus, some members of elon musk's doge team will keep limited access to a highly sensitive government payment system, as the doj admits it can't say with complete certainty if americans

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say with complete certainty if americans privacy has been breached. a judge has now prohibited the two doge workers from sharing data with anyone outside of the agency and limited them to read only access. and one of those two workers has already resigned. 25 year old marko elez reportedly quit after the wall street journal reported that he was linked to a social media account that pushed racism and eugenics. boris. >> let's dig deeper on this story with doreen greenwald. she's president of the national treasury employees union. doreen, thanks so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. at least 65,000 federal workers have chosen to take this resignation offer so far. do you have any idea how many of them are from the department of treasury? >> i do not, and i don't even know if those are accurate numbers. from what we're hearing on the ground is sometimes people have put in a request and then also have requested to pull

that back. and i have no idea where those numbers are coming from. >> you've argued that despite doj's name, that this effort to shrink the federal government is not actually about efficiency. what do you think the motives are, then? >> well, i can tell you that federal employees come to work every day to serve the american people. they take an oath to the constitution, and they are committed to the mission of their agency. and serving those people that they represent. the letters that were sent out to employees, encouraging them to resign. and that's what this is. this was a push to get. were sent to the entire workforce. so there was no effort to look at the type of work that's being done or to determine if that work is unnecessary. i would argue all of the work done by federal employees is absolutely necessary and critical to the success of the country. and so,

you know, while i think earlier it was said that this is a buyout offer, there's not even really any guarantees in this program for employees. and that's why we've encouraged them not to take it. the agreements that have been sent to employees gives all the power to the government, and none to the employee, and so that was my concern as somebody had asked to take this and back out of it. there seems to be no guidance as to how they do that. >> doj's efforts at treasury, as we indicated earlier, ended up in court this week over access to this highly sensitive payment system. secretary bessent has said that nothing has been actually altered. i wonder what you and your members think. >> our members are concerned. this is unprecedented. times. our members get training every year about how to protect sensitive data and information from the public. only limited people have access to these

things to further those protections. they go through background investigations and are held to high levels of integrity. i have no idea who has access to these systems or what their purposes are, or what they're doing with that information. so our members remain very concerned about that. >> so you just spoke a moment ago about how dedicated federal employees are to their work. and i go back to what you think the intentions are from doge. if it isn't to make the government run more efficiently and to enable the american people to receive the benefits of the work being done by federal workers, what do you think elon musk is after? >> well, i think, you know, personally, i don't know what he personally is after. i think they've been very clear that the intent is to gut the federal government and to cut massive amounts of federal employees. but there's been no answer or no information as to what the

intended purpose is of that. there is no cutting of the work or the duties. the result will be a cut of services to the american people. and so it's unclear to me what their goal is ultimately, other than to remove federal employees from their positions. >> i wonder what you make of how democrats have approached this. we saw some of them protesting outside treasury earlier this week. what do you think of their response to doj's and trump's efforts? >> i think the american people are starting to understand what's happening here, and i think they're reaching out to all members of congress to tell them that they're very concerned. obviously, what you just talked about, having people who were not elected, people who are not federal employees, having access to private information. they don't understand what's going on in. they're concerned. 85% of federal employees work outside

of d.c., so all congressmen and senators should be concerned about what's happening to the federal workforce and the services that their constituents rely on. and so as more information gets out, i think there's going to be more and more people standing up and asking questions about what is actually going on here. >> do you foresee any kind of situation where there might be congressional intervention? is there anything outside of something that's figured out in court proceedings that could either delay this buyout or essentially make it go away and dissolve it altogether? >> i can't speak for the courts. i mean, obviously there's a delay right now so a court can look at it. ultimately, i think congress needs to act and take a look at what's going on. the civil service is key to the success of this nation. it is intentionally nonpolitical. it's services. the

american people. as i said earlier, federal employees take an oath to the constitution. they are apolitical. they work from for a democrat or a republican or an independent president, whoever it would be in charge of the administration. their work does not matter about the politics. their job is to serve the american people. and so it's critical that those services continue. if we want to talk about efficiencies gained, everybody supports that. federal employees pay taxes, too. we can see from a federal employee perspective, if someone who is doing the job, they're the ones who can tell you best where to cut and find efficiencies. but right now, we're not seeing that effort. what we're seeing is a blatant attack on federal employees. these letters that they've been sent, encouraging them to resign regardless of where they are in their career. we've seen the federal workforce plummet over years with tax cuts and budget cuts.

we've seen a difficulty for the federal government to bring in new hires and to retain them. and something of this nature just damages that going forward. >> doreen greenwald, we appreciate you coming on and sharing your point of view. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> right now it's a race against time in alaska after a plane carrying ten people just vanishes. there's a search going on for survivors right now. we'll talk about what may have happened next. >> hey, there. no need to adjust your tv. or more likely, your phone. you're watching a recycled commercial. see, at mint mobile, we're always looking for innovative ways to save our money so we can save you money. so instead of paying for a new commercial, we're reusing this old one. and that means we can afford to keep offering you premium wireless for just $15 a month. we only made one change. you probably

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entering a holding pattern while waiting. for a runway to clear. we know that there is one pilot and nine passengers on this flight. and you see this this path that it was taking. >> it was about. >> 12 miles. >> off the coast of nome when it did disappear. that's when local officials learned around 4 p.m. about this missing aircraft. the weather at the time was about 14 degrees. there was some light snow. however. the weather conditions deteriorated as they began their search. looking for this aircraft that obviously hurt. looking for it from the sky. it also hurt ground searching. they're back at it again this morning. the weather conditions improving this morning, but still they haven't had any luck so far. we've already heard from some of the searching parties that they've already turned around. another coast guard flight, heading out there to try to see if they could find this aircraft. we do know that the coast guard is involved. the air force is involved, and now the fbi is involved as well because they're trying to geolocate some of the phones on that plane, working to help on any angles there. other than that, they've set up a

place for families and loved ones to gather so that they can await word while they try to find what happened to this aircraft. yesterday afternoon. brianna. >> all right. stephanie elam, we know you'll continue to follow this story. thank you. boris. >> the first jobs report of 2025 is out. and the numbers for january not quite what economists had expected. the labor market added only 143,000 jobs, though the unemployment rate dropped to 4%, which is historically low. cnn's matt egan is here to crunch the numbers for us. matt, how do you read them? well. >> boris, january. >> has a. >> long history. >> of being. >> a messy month. when it comes to jobs reports. and this one definitely lived up to that reputation. there's a lot of conflicting signals here, a lot. >> of. >> moving parts. let me go through the numbers 143,000 jobs. >> added in january. >> that is worse than expected. and as you. >> can see on that. >> chart, this was a big slowdown from the gangbusters growth at the end of last year.

december was revised upwardly to 307,000. so this is less than half of that pace. digging into why. >> this happened. >> economists had been bracing for a slowdown, in part because of the los angeles wildfires and the extremely cold. temperatures throughout much of the country. what's interesting is the bls said in this report that there was no discernible effect from the cold temperatures or the wildfires. but a number of economists that i've talked to today say they do think that was a factor. it was just hard to measure. now, the better news here is the unemployment rate that ticked down unexpectedly from 4.1% down to 4%. that is historically low. just to give you some context, there was only one month in all of the 1970s. the 1980s and the 1990s where the unemployment rate was lower than it is right now. and that was back in 1970. of course, the

unemployment rate did go below 4% before covid and after covid, but still, clearly this is historically strong. this is good news, of course, for workers. more good news for workers on the wage front, because this report showed that paychecks went up by more than 4% year over year. that is a solid number. and it is well ahead of the most recent inflation rate, which is 2.7%. so that means this is real wage growth. paychecks are going further. and this is a trend that has been going on for a bit. and the longer it goes on, the more that people are going to feel like they can catch up to the higher level of prices at the grocery store and everywhere else. so when you put all of it together, there's some head fakes in this report. but still, this does look like overall a good place for the jobs market. moody's economist mark zandi, he told me he said soak it in. this is a brief, shining moment where the labor market is exactly

where you want it to be. boris. >> matt, to your point about wage growth helping to alleviate some of the concern caused by inflation, there's this new survey from michigan university, from the university of michigan. i should say, that shows that americans are a lot more concerned about inflation going into 2025. >> that's right. and there's a number of reasons why that could be. what's interesting is the university of michigan really pins this on one thing and that is tariffs and concerns that tariffs are going to increase prices. so the big number from this report is 4.3%. that's how much consumers on average expect the prices will increase over the next 12 months. that is a very big increase from what people were expecting just a month ago. in fact, the university of michigan said that this is one of the biggest increases month to month that they've ever seen for this metric. and they said that a lot of consumers are worried that

it's almost too late to get ahead of tariffs that are on the way from the trump administration. we should point out, though, that this survey was concluded on tuesday, and it was really only tuesday morning that many people woke up to find out that the tariffs that were being threatened on mexico and on canada were going to be delayed for at least a month. so you wonder how that factors in here. but the other big takeaway from this survey is the fact that they found that consumer sentiment went down. it went down to the lowest level in seven months. and they really said this was across the board. the survey said that the decrease was pervasive with republicans, independents and democrats all posting sentiment declines from january, along with consumers across age and wealth groups. so this is something we obviously need to pay very close attention to because this economy still is driven by consumer spending, by

american shopping. and if people decide to spend less, that could obviously factor into the health of the overall economy. and again, a lot of this does go back to concerns around tariffs, boris. >> matt egan, thanks so much for the update, brianna. >> now to some of the other headlines that we're watching this hour. the former interpreter for baseball star shohei ohtani has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison. mizuhara was sentenced in federal court thursday after pleading guilty last year to stealing nearly $17 million from the los angeles dodgers players bank account. he was also ordered to pay $18 million in restitution, with nearly $17 million going to ohtani and the remainder to the irs. he has to begin serving his sentence by march 24th. also, a state of emergency declared in santorini amid that earthquake swarm, as hundreds of tremors continue to shake the greek island every few minutes after the 5.2 magnitude quake that hit wednesday night.

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you better you bet radio show. nick, thank you so much for being with us. some 38 sports have legalized sports betting. rather, states have legalized sports betting. it's estimated to become a $45 billion a year industry. once the market matures. i wonder why you think it's growing so fast in popularity. >> i well, first. >> off, boris. >> really appreciate. >> you. >> having me. and they named the show after the who song. so yeah, it is. it's a little ridiculous. so i understand betting on sports is it's fun and obviously obviously i would say for everybody like please bet responsibly. >> especially coming. >> up on super bowl sunday. but everyone i know is a sports fan. i surround myself with sports fans growing up as a huge sports fan, and everyone has an opinion on what's. going to happen in the game, and i think that's what's fun about sports betting is, you know, it's one thing to say, well, i think the chiefs. >> are going to. >> win because patrick mahomes is going to win the game at the end. right, which we've seen happen. >> in a. >> number of super bowls

recently. well, now you can put your money on it and you can actually bet on it happening. and when it happens, you feel like you are the smartest person in the world. and conversely, if and when the eagles win, you probably won't feel as good. but it's really taking that knowledge that we all have as sports fans and saying, you know what? can i win money based off my opinions? and i think that's really like the biggest draw for me, at least when i started betting on sports. that's the thing that i love the most. >> there is obviously a personal investment in what happens in the game when you bet. i do wonder to your point about gaming responsibly. the one time executive director of the national council for problem gambling estimates that the risk of gambling went up some 30% since sports gambling became legal. i wonder what you make about those numbers. >> yeah, i would say like like anything that can cause alcohol, et cetera. and i'm not trying to make an apples to apples corollary here, but i would say, yeah, like it definitely can be troubling if and when someone falls into a gambling addiction. we say on our show every single day, you better, you bet. weekdays 3 to 7 p.m. eastern. the final hour. nbc sports now

on peacock. we always say multiple times throughout the show to please bet responsibly. kind of. everything comes with that warning at the end of it. and look, and i'll say this to your audience, boris, on cnn right now. right. the super bowl is the most bet event every single year. i will have personally more bets on this game than i will have on any game throughout the year. but i go into it saying, okay, if i lose, let's say i lose all my bets and i lose x amount of dollars, will i be able to sleep at night? like, will i be okay when i go to bed at night and and you set a limit for yourself. so i think as long as people are betting responsibly and people like me with a microphone and a platform are urging that message again, which we do multiple times per show, i really think that's all we can do, and i think we do a pretty good job of that. >> so, nick, you talked about some of the bets you might have on the game. i wonder what you're looking forward to most on sunday and what color the gatorade is going to be that gets dumped on the winning coach.

>> well, if i had to bet, if i were a betting man, boris, i would take a look at lime green yellow as the color for the gatorade. that would be the color that i would look at. the thing that i am that i am looking at most forward to with this game is kansas city winning? um, boris, i, i tell people all the time, and i'm sure a lot of your audience will agree with this. this country is faced with a virus, an affliction, a disease, and it's gripping so many of us. and it's unfortunate, boris, that disease, i call it cds chiefs derangement syndrome. everyone hates the chiefs. everyone thinks, well, it's funny, right? because they win all the time. no, they're not actually good. and i'm from new york. i'm not a chiefs fan. everyone hates the chiefs. everyone thinks the refs help them and they get lucky. but here they are winning game after game, super bowl after super bowl. so my advice to everybody don't let chiefs derangement syndrome ruin your super bowl sunday. because when

patrick mahomes gets the ball at the end of the game, he's probably going to do what he always does win the game. nothing's a lock. please bet responsibly. give me the chiefs. >> we will be watching very closely on sunday. nick kostos, thanks so much for your analysis. appreciate it. >> boris. >> still to come on cnn news central, we're waiting on president trump, expected to speak to reporters with the japanese prime minister at any moment. you see officials there setting up the podium. we'll be right back on cnn news central. >> kick off in. >> new. orleans is brought to you by. >> clearchoice dental implant centers. visit clearchoice. com today. >> doctor box, there were many failed attempts to fix my teeth. i retouched all my wedding photos and it was even affecting my health. i trusted you because you specialize in dental implants. you created a permanent solution and customized my teeth. so it still felt like me. my new teeth have

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