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under way on a sweeping plan to cut down the size of the federal government. but there are legal roadblocks that are beginning to pile up. earlier today, a federal judge blocked elon musk's doge agency for continuing to access the treasury department's central payment system. late on friday, a different judge paused what would have been a deadline today for federal workers to accept a so-called buyout offer and leave their jobs. cnn's betsy klein is joining us now from west palm beach, florida. betsy, how is the white house responding to all of this? >> well, jessica, president trump ran and won in part on eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. and to do that, he has really empowered elon musk and the doge, the so-called department of government efficiency. and we have started to see in recent weeks, members of doge staff deploying to different parts of the federal government, accessing different systems. and we saw in one case, a critical treasury department payment

system. now, new york attorney general letitia james and 18 other attorneys general from states filed a lawsuit saying that musk's associates, who are categorized as special government employees, were unlawfully granted access to that very sensitive system. and a u.s. district judge ruled earlier today to temporarily restrict the doge team from accessing this sensitive treasury payment system. he cited the risk to sensitive and confidential information, as well as vulnerability to hacking. now, musk is speaking out on this himself, saying in a post to x that the basis for seeking this information was to require the outgoing government payments have a category categorization code, which is necessary to pass audits. and right now, a lot of the time those codes were left blank. but for his part, president trump appears to be happy at the work that musk and his team are doing. take a look. >> mr. president, i wonder what you make.

>> of the criticism. >> from democrats. >> that these. >> staff reductions, the cuts that elon musk. >> and doge. >> are doing are an unlawful power grab. and is there anything you've told elon musk he cannot touch? >> well, we haven't discussed that much. i'll tell him to go here. go there. he does it. he's got a very capable group of people. very, very, very, very capable. they know what they're doing. they'll ask questions and they'll see immediately as somebody gets tongue tied that they're either crooked or don't know what they're doing. we have very smart people going in. so i've instructed him, go into education, go into military, go into other things. >> now, we have asked the white house for their reaction to this lawsuit as well. but they are very confident in their ability to fight these lawsuits coming at the federal government. a scheduled hearing will take place on friday, february 14th. jessica. >> all right. betsy klein in west palm beach, thank you so much. and joining us now is republican congressman tim burchett from tennessee. he sits on the oversight, foreign

affairs and transportation committees. congressman, thanks so much for your time on this saturday. we appreciate it. >> thank you ma'am. >> listen, there are concerns from some americans over elon musk's methods in going through these agencies, accessing what is very vulnerable data. why are you confident this is secure? >> i'm confident. secure? just because of the caliber of the people that. they have doing it there. it's odd to me that the democrats. are sniping at these young folks in their 1920, 21 two. year old folks, but you've got seniors in both parties who are inept. of of of. any cognitive skills almost, and are incapable. of of governing. and we've seen that in the past and they've embarrassed us in the national press. we've had them fall down. we've had them stumble and verbally and in press conferences. and so i, you know, i have i have total confidence in this group. i think the the gripes are you're not seeing it from the from the

old school democrats. it's the it's the young liberal marxist types that don't approve of of $2 million. they approve of $2 million in sex change for folks in guatemala, or 6 million for tourism being spent in egypt or lgbtq comic books, um, being given to kids in other nations. those are the things that america is disgusted about. you know, we've had this, uh, hurricane helene just ripped through our country. and the poor people in upper east tennessee and, and and north carolina are basically were living in tents and didn't have electricity or water until president trump came in and we'd already, uh, allocated $100 million for that. where's that money going? i think america is just fed up, ma'am. and they're tired of the overtaxing and over governing. and they're they're seeing the results. >> i hear you. i mean, listen, the president was very clear when he ran on what he wanted to do with the government. and the american people voted him into office. so i get that. what i

want to go back to, though, is that you acknowledge these are 19, 20, 22 year old people who are being designated special government employees who now have access to some of the most sensitive data in this country. and i'm just curious if you would be comfortable if a democratic administration was doing this. we don't know how what any sort of vetting that these people have gone through. and i'm curious why you think that's okay. >> i don't know if you can say it or not, but these guns behind me, these are guns that my dad took off of dead japanese soldiers that he actually killed in combat when he was 19, 20 or 21. that was a generation of young people that saved this world from tyranny. so i have a lot of confidence in and and and young folks and in their knowledge of what's going on. i have complete confidence in elon musk and this group that he's put together. and again, i think the you're seeing it, you're not seeing it from your your old school democrats. it's the young left wing that are concerned about all this. and i don't.

>> think that's true, congressman. i mean, we have heard from people not it's not even democrats that i want to focus on. i'm talking about american people that are worried about if they're going to get checks for head start programs or something like that. i mean, we saw chuck schumer, who is about as old school democrat as you can get, but i'm talking about the american people who, again, i acknowledge have given you or given the republicans, rather, and and the president, they want him to do this based on voting for him. that's not at at question here. i think it's about the method and who's handling this information. >> well, i think senator schumer is basically sold out to the far left. he's done. and that's what you're seeing. most of these folks that are in raising up in righteous outrage. they're just going to plead to their the very far left that keeps them in power. they know they've got midterms coming up. they're trying to make it as bad as possible. president trump has stated, we're not cutting off these funds to these groups. you know, they they play in the scare tactics. even in my own

hometown here in knoxville, the wheels on meals people thought they were going to be shut down and nothing further from the truth. nothing further from the truth. and that's just scare tactics the left uses. it's the dirty game of politics, and they ought to be ashamed of themselves, because those people that are that are doing without, have been doing without and without these cuts, i'm afraid they would continue to do without. and what we're going to see is with these cuts, we're going to free up monies that will be available to legitimate charities and legitimate people that are in need, and that this country should be and can take care of. >> and so to that end, you sit on the oversight committee. the name is what it the name. it describes exactly what you all are supposed to be doing, which is oversight, of course. what kind of oversight are you going to have on that? >> well, of course i serve on the doge committee. i was appointed by marjorie taylor greene, and we are going to go over everything with a fine tooth comb. i think you're going to see, um, uh, medicaid, medicare. we're not going to cut it. we're going to get rid of

the fraud. so more money can be available to those folks that are in need. you're going to see the department of education squeal like a pig, because we're going to go after that. and, you know, here we are. we spent trillions of dollars since jimmy carter made it a cabinet level position, and we are now at 20 or 20 second in the world in education. and we were number one when, when that, when that happened. i say we the 10% of the money that that states on average get uh, we send that to the states in the form of block grants. i have legislation to do just that and allow the locals to do that. there's not one federal bureaucrat in washington, d.c., man, that's taught a kid how to teach at west hills elementary school in knoxville, tennessee. and i dare say they've never they've never caught any kids anywhere to read or write or do arithmetic. they're bureaucrats. they're like the mob. they take their cut off the top and we can do a whole lot. >> yeah, i'm from arkansas. that's where i was raised, born and raised. and that's a very

rural state. you know it well. it's your neighbor. but when you're talking about the department of education like that, they do they do submit funding for kids in those rural school districts for for special for special education kids. and i think, right, right. >> it's not one size fits all, ma'am. and you can't. >> no, of course it's not. >> but i think they say go ahead. >> i'm sorry. no, no, please go ahead. >> washington, d.c. is the most heaviest funded school in the nation and has the worst test scores. and because it's not a one size fits all, what works best in washington, d.c., los angeles, north carolina, or new york does not work. it does not work the same in florida or tennessee or arkansas. send that money to the states. let the locals be held accountable. you have too much money that's tied up because of too many special programs. and nobody is talking about cutting off any programs to special needs kids or kids that are doing without. what i'm talking about doing is doing away with the fraud and abuse so that we can free up more money for them. and i think

that's why you'll hear the unions against this. you would think that they would want more money for their teachers and more money for the students, but they don't. they want more money for the union and for the organization. and that's why you'll hear all the fighting and fussing. >> and just lastly, look, i think one thing that has emerged is it's about the way this is being done. it's not, i think, i think almost anyone can agree that that there that cut the wasteful spending. please, you know, make the government run more efficiently. but it's about the way in which it's being done. and just going back to kind of where we started here, just the, the, the way it's being done by elon musk by these very young people who maybe don't, you know, aren't moving at the pace that i think some people are like, please just slow down for a second and and take and don't scare people. i think people are frightened. some people are frightened by how quickly this is moving and the questions that it leaves for

them, that they are worried that there is disinformation floating around. >> sure. and they're worried because they're going to have to go back to work. these people are. >> talking about no, no, no, but i'm not talking about the employees. i'm talking about americans who rely on some of this funding or the farmers. like, i was just talking with an expert on usaid who who make who farm the wheat that goes, you know, around the globe. people like that. >> yes, ma'am. and and usaid has been a complete rip off of the american taxpayer. shut it down. and regroup the the system so that if the farmers are doing legitimate work, then they should get legitimate pay. but american taxpayers should not be in charge of policing or feeding the world. we need to take care of our own first. we're in the money that we send to usaid. remember that every dollar is borrowed, every dollar is borrowed, that we are giving away, that that model does not work. it is a recipe for destruction. and the people that promote these things, these far

left organizations depleting our funds. that's that's where it's that that is is the end result right there. and you will see the complete destruction of our system. and i think that a lot of people that are in charge of this and they're pushing this, that is exactly what they want to do. they're marxist. they do not like this country. they hate our flag. they hate everything about it. and they will do everything they can to wreck it because they're spending this money recklessly, and they've just got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. and that's why they're squealing. >> yeah. well, okay, i do think that there are a lot of government employees who do love this country a lot, but but congressman tim burchett, thank you so much. we do appreciate your time. we really do. thank you. >> thank you ma'am. >> straight ahead. we're getting brand new information tonight from the ntsb after a deadly plane crash that killed ten people. that crash, one of several putting the spotlight on air travel in recent weeks. next, we're talking with a former d.o.t. inspector general about whether everyone can still feel safe about traveling as air

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flying in the u.s. let's bring in mary schiavo, cnn transportation analyst and former inspector general for the department of transportation. mary, always good to see you. these these crashes certainly have, especially the one in washington, d.c., have really rattled people. is it is it any less safe to fly than it was years ago? should people be worried? >> well, it depends. >> how many years ago we're talking. >> if we're. >> talking the last 20 years. yes. >> any major accident. dramatically affects the. >> safety statistics. and just one accident of 67 people. would probably. >> you. >> know. increase the accident. >> rates by, you know, 4 to. >> 10. >> ten times. >> because we have gone. >> so long without a major. accident that any one accident. >> really skews. >> the statistics. >> so statistically. >> yes. >> we are less safe. >> but of course. >> what can happen. >> is the. >> investigation and the. >> recommendations. what to do to turn this around can make all the difference. >> in the world.

>> so yes. >> we are a statistically. >> in a lull right. >> now for us. >> aviation safety. >> but the ntsb. >> and the faa. >> if. >> they adopt the. >> the measures. >> that the ntsb. >> will propose, we can dramatically increase safety. >> all over again, as. >> can doge. >> there's a way that they can help, too. >> and talk us through that about how doge could be helpful. >> here. >> well. >> it's kind of a silver. >> lining playbook, but then i'm always looking for that. as a pilot, you always. want to find the silver. >> lining to the cloud. >> so when i was inspector general, i. >> was. >> tasked by both congress and the president to. find out what was wrong with the faa's air traffic control modernization program. >> and they had. >> wasted something. >> like $7.5 billion. >> and that was, you know, decades ago. the cost now would probably be 50 billion. i mean, it's such an important program. but remember, air traffic control is a giant information technology project. satellites, computerization. and what we found when we investigated it, besides a lot of fraud, waste and abuse is that the faa could not manage these huge contracts.

and it's not because they're bad people. it's because they did not have the professionals who could understand it, who could work in this language, who could do this terminology. they just didn't have rocket scientists, for lack of a better word. and so literally back in those days, they were actually talking about privatizing air traffic control, that perhaps it would be better if just private corporations took it over. but the faa did not do a good job of managing those. you know, if doge wants to rework the faa, which i've heard that's coming, the way to do it is not to fire the air traffic controllers. we need those. the statistics have shown and studies have shown that if you have eyes on the runway, eyes on the on the taxiways, it is a huge margin of additional safety. but what we have to do is have a coordinated u.s. system where all airports and all aircraft can fly seamlessly in the system, and we have the technology available right now to make mid-air and runway incursions literally historic, a thing of the past, you know, jurassic, if you will. we can eliminate them, but you

have to have the discipline and the willingness to to put the systems in place, not do it piecemeal, not dole it out politically, and then make everyone fly in that system fully equipped. it's a lot of money, but it's doable. we literally could do it now. >> oh, and so do you think that there will be the political will to do that? >> so what what? you know, back when i was inspector general, what we found is we'd make lots of recommendations. you need to do this. you need to do that. but members of congress and senators would come forward and say, well, my constituents don't want this, and my constituents don't want that. i actually gave them a name. i called them the fly by the seat of your pants lobby because every safety improvement was, you know, met with a well that cost too much. yes, safety is expensive, but if congress and it takes congress to do this too. so every time a constituent complains and we used to refer to certain members of congress as the the senator or the representative from, you know, certain places where airlines are headquartered. but if you have the political will to do

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>> he went on to win the. >> grand prize. >> in. >> a global competition. >> a 22. >> year old. >> undergrad at. >> the time. >> my friends were there and i was cheering, jumping. >> up. >> and down, you know, screaming, crying, all the stuff. >> i run, most of the things. >> from my laptop. >> it's just a normal. >> macbook, don't worry. but then i've just got like five. >> surplus computers in here. um, this is what i do. most of my work from. >> what he. >> does now. >> is work for. >> doge. >> the department of government. >> efficiency, headed. >> up by elon musk. who's brought in a group of gifted. >> young engineers. some in their early. >> 20s, with no prior government experience. >> their current. >> job. assignments are unclear, but it is. >> clear they're part of the trump administration's plan to slash government agencies. >> democratic senators. >> sent a letter to. >> the white house. >> describing how doge staff has. seemingly unfettered access. >> to classified materials and americans. personal information in. federal court. government lawyers said marko elez had read only access to a highly

sensitive payment system at the treasury department ignition. >> liftoff. >> elez, who previously. >> worked at spacex, has. >> been the center. >> of attention. his doge position was terminated after the wall street journal uncovered racist and eugenic posts on an account linked to him. but then elon musk, the vice president, and. trump himself weighed in. >> on. >> the doge engineers, was fired for. >> some inappropriate posts. the vice president says bring him back. what do. >> you say? >> well, i don't know about the particular thing, but if the vice president said that, did you say that? i'm with the vice president. >> the injection of unconventional outsiders is alarming. some federal employees. this man who spoke at a virginia congressman's town hall this week didn't identify himself out of fear of retaliation. >> elon musk in a building and after he visited the building, called for a. 50% cut of the entire. >> agency. >> my colleagues. >> are getting 15 minute, one on one.

>> uh. >> check ins with 19, 20. >> and. 21 year old college graduates asking. >> to justify their existence. >> most of the hires are connected to elon musk's companies like ethan shaotran. >> this is a. >> really exciting. time for young. >> folks. >> for old. >> folks. >> for for everyone. >> he was a runner up in a hackathon contest put on by x.ai, an artificial intelligence company musk founded. xiao tran spoke in 2023 about how a.i. will change the future. >> really. >> for the first. >> time in modern history, it's not the. physical laborers, the farmers. >> the factory. >> workers who. >> are being displaced. >> but it's the white collar workers, the knowledge workers, the engineers, lawyers. >> doctors, teachers. >> and for a lot of the folks in this. >> room. >> that's really scary. that's really concerning. >> now, xiao tran is a special government employee, a source tells cnn. gavin kliger on linkedin lists his job as

special advisor to the u.s. office of personnel management, a 2020 berkeley graduate, kliger worked in silicon valley for twitter and then for a data intelligence company. he spoke about that work at a conference in 2023. >> additionally, any system with a human. >> in the loop is not going to scale. >> well in blog posts last year, kliger wrote about two of donald trump's then nominees and showed himself as fiercely loyal to the now president. kliger recently removed a substack post where he charged $1,000 to subscribe and read why doge why i gave up a seven figure salary to save america. we didn't pay, and we did try to reach all of the hires we were able to identify. in addition to reaching out to their family, their friends and classmates. we didn't hear back from anyone. kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. >> kyung. thank you. and in the 20 days since trump's inauguration, elon musk and his team have blazed a path through the federal government, shutting down diversity efforts, offering

buyouts to 2 million federal workers. here's a very long list ousting civil servants and access to sensitive information at several government agencies, among many other things. this has raised serious privacy and national security concerns. there's also been lawsuits over this. joining us now, senior correspondent for time, simon schuster, who is. we're so glad that you're here with us to talk about this. in a recent article about elon musk, you wrote to many the idea of one of the world's most accomplished entrepreneurs attacking a sprawling, sclerotic federal bureaucracy with the same velocity and determination he brought to his car startup or rocket company, is cause for celebration, not alarm. but the stakes are different. does does musk realize this? do you think? >> i think he's. >> now starting to realize that the system is not so easy to hijack and take over, as maybe

he assumed. he tried to rush in and take control of really, really critical government systems within a matter of days. you know, really, the the arteries and veins and circulatory system of the government, if you will, the computer systems, the data. but it hasn't worked so well. the courts have the courts have pretty successfully begun to block what he's doing. but i do think, you know, in that passage that you you just cited from the story, it's important to to note that a lot of people who voted for donald trump do see what doge is doing, do see what elon musk is doing as keeping trump's campaign promises. >> absolutely, absolutely they do. one former senior employee at twitter told cnn this week, quote, i remember him directly saying, if you're not adding things back in afterward, then you weren't cutting hard enough to start with. and that actually does really dovetail into what we're seeing with the federal government. we're seeing a lot of people who are raising the flag and saying, look, you can

do this, but could you just slow down and actually methodically go through this versus just cutting everything all at once? what do you what do you think about that approach? >> i mean, i think it's a little bit, um, a misunderstanding to think that they're going in with, with a kind of bulldozer and slashing and burning. i mean, they're really installing their operatives in the circulatory system of the government. this was something they had been planning for for years. um, you know, not only elon musk, but russell vought and many of his allies in the trump administration, some of the authors of project 2025 that voters were well informed about before the elections. you know, all of the things that we're seeing now were pretty well spelled out, um, in project 2025, in some of the speeches and statements and op eds, um, that musk and a lot of his allies were writing. so none of this should, should come as a surprise, really. we should look back at some of those statements

as a blueprint of what musk is going to do in the coming days and weeks, and it's more of the same, essentially, unless the courts continue blocking him. >> yeah. and so to that end, where do you see this going next? >> it's hard to say. i mean, it was interesting when we were reporting the article for time magazine, just in the days that we were working on it, there was a real groundswell of anger among democrats in congress and also among a lot of the government workers, one of which you had in your previous segment, who were really frustrated with what's going on, to put it mildly. a lot of these government workers that are affected now, or fear being affected by what musk is doing, they may have voted for donald trump, and now they might have some buyer's remorse. now that they see that these cuts and the slashing of spending in the government maybe sounded good in the abstract during the campaign, but now it affects real human lives. and i think that starts to feel quite different, both for the people

affected and for the people watching at home and seeing these people kicked out of their jobs. and really traumatized by by what's what doge is doing. >> yeah, that's a great point. and i do wonder, just based on your reporting and what you, what you know so far, do you think that does begin to have an effect? just the real world impacts that now kind of potentially boomeranging back and putting some pressure on the situation? or will musk and his team, does that factor into what they're doing, or are they just very focused in full steam ahead? >> i think it has to. yeah. i mean, not not so much with the response so far from the democrats in congress. i haven't seen that yet materialize into something really substantive or strong enough to challenge what musk is doing. the courts, first and foremost right now are blocking a lot of his actions. but as we see more of this kind of groundswell of anger growing among the population, i think that could have an effect on trump's ratings, his popularity ratings as people, you know,

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