>> aha. okay, brian steinberg, thank you so much. we'll all be watching. it looks like a lot of fun. thank you. all right. and thanks everyone for joining me today. i'm fredricka whitfield. the cnn newsroom continues with jessica dean right now you're in the. >> cnn newsroom. i'm jessica. >> dean in washington. >> as president trump. >> settles into the big. >> easy for. tonight's super bowl, federal. >> workers have never been more unsettled. >> about their careers. a judge. >> temporarily delaying.

>> trump's deadline. >> for so-called buyouts. >> a hearing. >> on that is scheduled. >> for tomorrow. >> afternoon. meantime, vice president jd vance weighed in on the legal roadblocks, posting on x today. quote, judges aren't allowed to control. >> the executive's. >> legitimate. >> power. >> end quote. >> but the constitution set up the three branches of. >> government to act as checks and balances to one another. also tonight, the administration has informed employees. of another. agency that they will not be in the office this week. workers at the consumer financial protection bureau have been told its dc headquarters. >> will be closed this week. that agency is tasked with looking. >> out for american consumers. when it comes. >> to interest rates. >> and fees from. >> big. >> banks and other lenders. >> for more on. all of this, cnn's. >> betsy klein is joining us from. >> west palm beach. and betsy. >> the president. >> just spoke on his way to the super bowl. >> he made some news. >> what more can you tell us about. >> that? >> well, jessica, that's right. president trump spoke with reporters for about 30 minutes aboard air force one on the way

from palm beach over to new orleans, where he will attend the super bowl later today. and he made a little bit of news on tariffs. he announced that he would be unveiling reciprocal tariffs at a press conference either this tuesday or wednesday. and that that would be posed almost immediately and would apply to every country that tariffs the u.s. this was a major campaign promise for president trump back in 2024. he also announced that tomorrow, monday, he will be unveiling steel tariffs on u.s. steel imports at a rate of 25%. now, if the theme of the first few days of the trump administration was flood the zone and the theme of next week is tariffs, the theme of the past few days has been revenge and retribution. jessica. i mean, over the past few weeks, we have seen president trump dramatically reimagine and reshape the use of executive authority, and we have seen him use that presidential authority to take aim at his perceived enemies. so over the past few days, he has really

expanded on those themes of revenge. we saw him announce that he would be clearing former president joe biden of his security clearance. he announced that he would be stripping the security details of more officials, including former defense secretary mark esper, who of course, remains subject to threats from iran for the actions he took under the first trump administration. he announced plans to gut the board of the kennedy center and install himself as the chairman of that board, and he also dismissed the national archivist. now, in addition to that, as you mentioned, trump has empowered elon musk and his so-called doge department of government efficiency to go into different parts of the u.s. government and take stock. we're also seeing efforts to target those who may be perceived to be as disloyal, but we are also just now, jessica, getting some of that sound on the tariffs. take a listen to what president trump told reporters just moments ago.

>> announcing probably tuesday or wednesday at a news conference reciprocal tariffs. and very simply, if they charge us, we charge them. >> that's all. when is it going to effect? >> almost immediately. but i'll be announcing the details of it. highly detailed, and it will be great for everybody, including the other countries. but if they are charging us 130% and we're charging them nothing, it's not going to stay that way. >> this is on every country. >> every country will be reciprocal. that's right. every. >> country. >> won't affect everybody because there are some where we have similar tariffs. but the ones that are taking advantage of the united states, we're going to have a reciprocity reciprocal. >> so there we are seeing president trump announced his plans to make good on that 2024 campaign promise on reciprocal tariffs. of course, this comes just days after he announced his plans to back off at least for 30 days. his intentions to tax mexico and canada at a very high rate. trump previously told reporters that he would still be

reevaluating those tariff plans and asking canada and mexico to take additional actions. jessica. >> all right. >> betsy klein in west palm. >> beach, florida. >> tracking president. >> trump, who has been in. >> the. >> spotlight really since the second. >> he took office and continues with his trip to the super bowl tonight. betsy, thank. >> you so much for that. >> and for. >> more on how the president's latest moves. >> are affecting americans financially, we're joined now by cnn economics and political commentator catherine rampell. >> catherine, thanks so much for being. here with us. we're just getting this breaking news. >> from president trump aboard. >> air force. >> one about these. >> reciprocal tariffs. >> and then also the tariffs on steel and aluminum. so i just want to start first. >> with these reciprocal. >> tariffs. >> as betsy noted. he says he's. >> going to. >> announce them tuesday. >> or wednesday. >> they would. >> go into effect. >> he says. >> pretty much. >> immediately walk people through what that might look like, how. >> it might impact people. >> the last time trump waged these trade wars, which were very similar, if more limited in

the sense that he waged tariffs on other countries, they had reciprocal tariffs. then we raised our tariffs, et cetera. it was sort of a situation where an eye for an eye left everybody blind. most of the cost of trump's own tariffs were borne by americans, whether american consumers or american businesses, that bought the products from abroad. and then a lot of american companies were also hurt by the retaliatory tariffs from abroad. right. you have canada, for example, now threatening as retaliation tariffs on american orange juice, peanut butter. et cetera. those were the kinds of products that we saw last time around that are being targeted again. so this escalation is not going to be helpful. then. we're talking about the steel tariffs. again. you can look back to what happened during trump's first term. trump and his first term also imposed 25% tariffs on global steel and aluminum. again, that was very damaging to

american companies because something like 70 jobs excuse me, 70 jobs in downstream steel consuming companies exist for every one job that is in a steel producing company in the united states. so think people who work at auto manufacturing plants, people who work at appliance manufacturing plants, all of those jobs are affected and harmed when trump makes the cost of those inputs steel and aluminum more expensive for their employers. that's what we saw last time. that's what we are likely to see again this time. and by the way, last time there was very little evidence that trump's steel tariffs did really anything to improve the long term health of u.s. steel companies. as viewers may recall, u.s. steel is currently the company, known as u.s. steel, is currently struggling and has put itself up for sale because, despite many rounds of protectionist measures under

both democratic and republican presidents, by the way, it still is struggling to compete with companies from abroad. >> and the. >> president continues. >> to to make. >> this argument that that by by putting these tariffs into place, whether it's these new. >> ones. >> that we're talking about, the ones on canada and. >> mexico. >> which we know are temporarily paused while they are working all of that out, or the one on the additional tariffs on chinese. >> goods that that that is good for the. >> for america. for the. >> american economy. but i hear. >> you and. >> a number of economists say that just the math doesn't math. >> yes, that's a good way to put it. there were lots and lots of studies that looked at the consequences of the first rounds of trump tariffs in his in his first administration. and again, all of them either found that all or most of the cost of the tariffs were ultimately borne by americans. either the additional

tax that importers paid because a tariff is a tax got passed along down the supply chain to consumers in the form of higher prices. good example of this might be, for example, um, washing machines. so we saw washing machine prices shoot way up as soon as trump put tariffs on global production or global imports of of washing machines. uh same deal with steel. so steel is an input, right. consumers aren't buying raw steel per se, but they're buying a lot of products made of steel, autos, uh, washing machines. another good example, refrigerators, et cetera.. and so the american companies that made those products were then having to pay higher prices for the steel that they purchased, and either absorbing some of that cost themselves, which doesn't help those companies and the workers who they employ or, and, or i should say, passing along some of those additional costs to their ultimate customers, regular

consumers. so again, lots of evidence done, lots of evidence, lots of research done. looking at what we saw first time around. plenty of trade wars have happened elsewhere in the world. and you see generally similar effects. i mean it depends a little bit on the product market of course, but that's what we would expect to see here. trump thinks that these tariffs are being borne entirely by foreign companies, but they're just not that foreign government, foreign companies are definitely hurting because it means that there's less demand for their products when the price goes up because of these taxes. but so are the customers of those companies, which are americans, american businesses and american consumers. >> mhm. and so. >> again, the news here that we are. >> expecting trump. >> he says 25%. >> tariffs on steel and aluminum being announced tomorrow. >> and then reciprocal. >> tariffs on other. nations being announced sometime on tuesday or wednesday. >> so we'll continue to see what more we can learn about that. before i do want to let you go, catherine. i you know,

all of this goes back to the central reason why a lot of americans said they voted for. president trump. they want the cost. >> of living down. >> they want. >> to be able to make. >> their dollar. go further. and they don't feel like they can do that. i do want to ask. >> you one, one. >> example that gets tossed around a lot. egg prices and they are jumping. >> the latest consumer. >> sentiment survey found americans are also betting. >> that a lot of other prices. >> could rise. >> you know. >> this is it takes a lot of work and a lot of effort, and it's going to be hard to bring these costs down for people. >> yes, i will say a few things about this broader issue. one is that presidents have very few tools to bring prices down, period. if we're talking about eggs in particular, the egg price increases are largely caused by bird flu. that was the case under biden. that's the case now, of course, trump and jd vance, when they were on the campaign trail last year, blamed biden and harris for egg prices. now they're saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, prices are going up. but that's that's something out of

our control. which which it is, frankly. but there are a few things that they are doing that this administration is doing that may exacerbate some of the grocery price inflation that we've seen on bird flu, in particular, the administration has been withholding research that the cdc planned on releasing a few weeks ago about, uh, about various forms of bird flu transmission. so those kinds of things, at least on the margin, are not helpful. then we were talking about tariffs. so if trump actually imposes those tariffs on mexico and on canada, they're not going to affect eggs per se. but they will affect a lot of the other things you buy at the grocery store. most avocados that americans buy that they will be enjoying today during the super bowl, those come from mexico. most of the fresh tomatoes that americans buy also from mexico and most of the the potash that american farmers purchase. potash is a basically a form of fertilizer

that american farmers use to grow their crops. most of that comes from canada. so if all of these things, whether we're talking about the fruits and veggies themselves or the inputs that american farmers need to grow those fruits and veggies, those are going to get more expensive. not to mention the fact that trump is continuing to threaten to deport roughly half of the labor force that is employed at u.s. farms to pick those crops. so not only does trump have very little power to actually reduce prices, some of the things that are on the table, at least would potentially increase the costs of your regular trip to the grocery store. >> all right. catherine rampell, as always, thank you very much. >> we appreciate you being here. >> thank you. >> we are about 90 minutes. >> away now from the biggest. >> sporting and television event. >> of the year. right now, tens of thousands of fans. >> making their. >> way into the new orleans superdome, where security. is extra tight. >> president trump planning to attend that game after meeting victims, family members. >> and. first responders. of that terrorist attack.

>> on the city on. >> new year's. >> cnn's senior national correspondent, ryan young, is. >> joining us now. >> and, ryan, i. >> know you've been tracking these preparations now for days. security is high. >> right now. >> ultra tight. but at the same time, people are having a good time. i mean, these fans have come from all over the country to be here for their teams. that celebration ongoing on the street, you can see them having a good time. look at this happening right now. these fans have come from all over to show their support for the team, but every block has security going down the way. there are drones above. they have sniper officers all around to keep these fans safe as they get ready for the super bowl. now let's show you the video, because the president just landed in the last half hour or so. so you can see that video of president trump landing here will be the first president to actually watch a game live. so you understand that. on top of that, the white house released a statement talking about the victims of that attack. 14 killed, 35 injured. that happened just down the way

over there. you can see the blockade that is still in the process with all the extra officers that served in this area. but jessica, as a reporter, you know how this is. the energy is unmatched when it comes to how excited these fans are for this game. and these folks are still just cheering a half hour before the game, big television event. and obviously a lot of emotions tied to a game like this one. >> yeah. >> no doubt about it. they're going to hear that eagles chant time and time again. >> ryan young there in new orleans. thanks so much. we appreciate it. >> still to come this hour, we'll have much more. >> coverage of super bowl sunday, including the many novelty bets happening right now. like which song will kendrick lamar play first? also ahead. >> we are nearly three weeks. >> into president trump's second term. we've got new polling on. >> his. >> approval ratings, and. >> we are following rising concern about. >> the bird flu after. >> a new variant. >> found in nevada showed. signs of adapting to mammals. >> in the cnn. >> newsroom.

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poultry? eggs, beef. should they be worried about something like that? >> yeah. so first of all, i mean, part of the reason we heard this in the previous segment, that egg prices are so high is because of avian flu, because we are seeing a lot of hen, you know, a lot of egg laying hens get infected and and being called this is not about to turn around anytime soon. we've got to deal with this in terms of food safety. look, as long as you're cooking your eggs, you should never eat raw eggs. as long as you're cooking your chicken again, you should never eat raw chicken. um, i think there's every reason to believe that these things are very safe. we continue. i continue to consume it. my family does. i'm not worried about that. as long as you're cooking those things properly. >> yeah. i also want to ask you about some news we're getting. >> from the. >> national institutes of health. they say that they're slashing the indirect cost rate. that's that research institutions can charge the government. so that covers things. i know you know this, but i had to kind of do a little digging. it covers overhead, things like lab space maintenance, researchers

supplies, and the typical nih grant amounts about earmarks, about 30% for those costs. the trump administration is planning to lock. >> that in at a maximum. >> of 15%. and the nih is saying that that's going to save billions in tax dollars. there are scientists, though, that are saying this could really impact, even devastate, medical research in the u.s., help us untangle all of that sure. >> so nih has a funny way that it pays universities, agencies direct costs, the direct costs of the of the researcher and the supplies. but then it also pays indirect costs. all of the overhead, but not just overhead, all the supplies, all this other material that's really critical for the research by capping it at 15%, it's going to make research a huge loss for every institution in the country. and what we're going to see is most institutions, most universities, most hospitals get out of the research business. what does this mean? it means that biomedical research, which i would argue has been one of the shining stars of america, it's responsible for development of

heart disease and cancer treatments. much of that is going to go away, and this is going to be a huge boon to china. china has been trying to poach some of our best scientists and have them come to china. well, this is going to make that a whole lot easier. this would be an absolutely terrible move. so i hope that the administration reconsiders. uh, i don't exactly understand the legal basis by which they think they can do this, given that congress usually is very involved in this. but this would be a devastating blow for research across america. >> and just quickly, the trump administration says they think that the colleges and universities can essentially pick up the costs through endowment. these big endowments, they have their budgets. does it not work that way? >> it doesn't work that way. so first of all, much of the big research institutions are public institutions. university of michigan, university of california. they don't have huge endowments. um, so that sort of point number one. point number two, there's a lot of other really good smaller universities that that are doing research. they're not going to be able to pick it up. and the

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look where he was in 2017 in his first term at this point he was at minus five points. so he's doing nearly ten points better on the average. and more than that as i mentioned, it's not just the cbs news poll. it's the ipsos poll. it's the gallup poll, it's the pew poll. all of these polls have him in better shape than those respective polls had him at this point back in 2017. so the bottom line is, no matter where you look, donald trump is more popular than he was eight years ago. at this point in his first term. and he's on the positive side of the ledger versus the negative side of the zero point line as he was back in 2017. >> and how rare is it that trump's in this positive territory when it comes to his approval rating? >> yeah. you know, i remember donald trump's first term and it just seemed every single day donald trump was in the negative territory. and it turns out it was pretty much every single day of his first term positive net approval rating for donald trump, again using the aggregate of the polls. look at this in his entire first term, just 11 days. just 11 days. was he on the positive side of the ledger? compare that so far. every single day, all 20 days. so far, he has been on the positive side

of the ledger, so he is nearly doubled up the number of days in which he has a positive net approval rating from his first term. and we're only 20 days in every single day. donald trump has been in positive territory compared to just 11 days during his first term. the bottom line is, no matter which poll you look at, no matter what way you look at it, simply put, americans like the job. the job that donald trump is doing significantly more this time around than they did in his first term when he just had 11 days in which he had a negative, a positive net approval rating compared to already nearly three weeks so far. jessica. >> that is that is pretty incredible to compare those two. so break this down then. why do you have any idea why more americans are approving of his job, the way he's doing his job this time around? >> yeah. you know, of course, donald trump won the 2016 election. he won the 2024 election. but when you went into his first term, there were a lot of folks who simply did not think that donald trump was doing what he promised. back in april of 2017, it was just 46%.

compare that to 70%. so far. so a big reason why donald trump is significantly more popular now than he was at this point in his first term is because, simply put, the american people believe he is fulfilling his campaign promises in a way that they did not believe he was doing, believe he was getting off on the wrong track back in 2017. they believe he's following his campaign promises this time around, and that is, i believe, a big reason why so many more americans are approving of the job that he's doing compared to his first term at this point. >> and the president is there in new orleans. he's going to attend the super bowl tonight, the first sitting president to do so. obviously, americans have very strong preferences on who they want to win the super bowl. >> what did you find. >> on that? >> yeah, i love looking at this poll data. you know, sometimes, you know, we do the politics stuff. but i really love the sports stuff. the fun stuff, dare i say. although i find politics to be fun as well, the team america prefers to win. well, remember the kansas city chiefs were involved in the super bowl two years ago, and of course the american people

preferred the chiefs to win last year. the american people wanted the chiefs to win, but this year, the american people do not want the chiefs to win. they want the philadelphia eagles to win, which i think may be a sign of a little fatigue when it comes to patrick mahomes and the kansas city chiefs. >> yeah. and so tell us more about that. did you find any data. >> on that? >> yeah okay. you know, a lot of folks ask me who do i want to win the super bowl? and you know what the honest to god truth is i like to quote stephen a smith here. we don't care. i don't care. who the heck cares? don't care who wins the super bowl in 2023, it was 43%. it jumped up to 47% last year, and this year, the majority of americans, simply put, don't care who wins the super bowl. i am one of them. we don't care, jessica. we don't care. >> but you know what i think you might care about is this puppy bowl that you were apparently a part of. >> today. >> up there. >> i am. >> oh. >> there's cody, there's cody, my childhood dog who stole my twitter avatar. my heart is

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three-peat super bowl champion? now listen, patrick mahomes is their star quarterback. he leads the way. he recently had his third child, his baby daughter golden. she'll be here her first football game seeing dad in action. so he has added motivation and inspiration. his head coach, andy reid, says that of all the stars that he has coached, none other is like patrick mahomes. listen. >> i've tried not to compare him. i mean, i've been blessed to have been around some great ones and listen, you can take a little piece out of every guy and say, he's kind of like this guy. he's kind of like that guy, but he's really rewriting it for himself. and it's really what makes him makes him unique is that he does so many things so well. >> if mahomes can pull off this win today, it would be four super bowl titles in his seventh season as a starter. it's incredible. now, if the eagles are going to get it done, yes, it will be because of jalen hurts and their defense. but also saquon barkley. the all world running back had one of the best seasons we've ever seen from a running back in the nfl.

and the teammates that i talked to, they love him because as big of a star as he is, he still remains humble and hungry. listen to saquon. >> you don't rush for 2000 yards by accident and you don't do it by yourself. that's why i love this sport. it's the ultimate team sport and i have the best offensive line in the league. and you could make an argument. one of the best offensive lines ever. and i argue with you all day because i firmly believe that i stand on that. and, you know, that's why i go to the guys every single game and let them know that you guys are the best in the world. so whenever we call you guys, just do your job and i'll go out there and try to make the best plays i can. >> all right. as if saquon barkley needed any added motivation to get his first ever super bowl title. today is his birthday, so we'll see him streaking down that field today. not because he's in his birthday suit, just running all over the place trying to get a super bowl win for philly and a rematch revenge game here against these chiefs. >> all right coy wire thank you so much. from the winning score to the color of kendrick lamar's shoes during the

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saquon barkley is the most bet handle right now. i mean you have patrick mahomes over five and a half rushing attempts. uh saquon barkley again over 112 rushing yards. like i said millions of of dollars are being spent and bet on this game tonight. there's a lot of tickets going out there. but yes, a lot of the people out there the public are loving saquon barkley tonight. >> okay. and then look i you can get pretty niche in terms of the bets. what are some of the crazier ones. >> i mean we talk about the numbers betting tonight and knowing you can bet on absolutely anything for the super bowl. i mean, the sheer volume of markets you said it is absolutely ridiculous. you can bet on the coin toss. you can bet on the national anthem. halftime show picks like what color kendrick lamar's bandana will be, what type of shoes he'll wear. you can even bet on the color of gatorade being poured on the winning coach. and you said it again, travis kelce to propose to taylor swift after the game. heck, you can even bet on whether or not donna kelce, travis's mom, will show

cleavage tonight. so it's just insane. the player props are out there, the novelty props are out there, and it's nothing short of spectacular. >> it's insane. indeed. that is. yeah, it's quite, quite a list they got going. okay, what about live betting? how many people are you expecting to participate on that? and what's what's the appeal to that over betting in advance? >> yeah, live betting is crazy. because if the eagles go down and score really fast, you know you can get. and if you love the chiefs you can get the chiefs at some great value. the live betting numbers for the super bowl are supposed to be 15 to 20% of the entire super bowl handle. so we'll have a ton of live bets this year. that's up from around 5% last year. that's thanks in large part to a lot of recreational bettors. so like i said, over an estimated $1.39 billion are going to be exchanged on just this one game. and live betting numbers are a big part of that. >> and i think we have to ask, who do you who are you betting on to win? >> oh my god, i'm going to go with the chiefs. i mean i

absolutely love the chiefs. they've made me and a lot of bettors some good chunk of change this year. andy reid is just a true magician out there. i mean he's 17 and three in the playoffs with mahomes steve spagnuolo, he's one of the best defensive coordinators in the game. um him versus jalen hurts is going to be a lot of fun to watch tonight. the chiefs are no strangers to one score games either. they're 12. and oh in those situations with mahomes leading the charge. and on the other side vic fangio. he's the eagles defensive coordinator. his defense is against mahomes. they've played each other eight times. he's zero and eight against mahomes tonight two and six against the spread. so the intangibles are with the chiefs tonight. so i'm going to have to ride with them on the money line. go chiefs. >> all right dustin thanks so much. have fun tonight. >> thank you thank you. you as well have a good one. >> thank you. as elon musk's doge upends federal agencies, employees at the consumer financial protection bureau received an email saying its d.c. headquarters will be closed this week. and what this could. mean for all americans. we're

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