something where this is a negotiating position in many respects. i think that's a great point on the rare earths. this is something where i think you're going to see him bluster and look, whether it's ukraine, i think, or this, it's about getting in a room, cutting a deal and selling it as a win. we've seen that over the last month, over and over and over again. i think that's a great through line with that, stephen points. >> out meghan, though the canadian prime minister is taking this seriously. danish officials are taking the threat to annex greenland seriously. do you take it seriously? >> as much as you can take donald trump seriously, which is not very much at all. i just don't think this is a real thing. it's a negotiating tactic or a negotiating tactic. i don't know that this is anything that's going to do anything but make us all talk about it. it's not a serious thing. we are not going to take another country. we're not going to take panama. we're not going to take greenland. this is just not realistic for the president to do. i think it's just a lot of talk and it gives him something to talk about, and it makes him being talked about on the news, which we're all doing, which he loves.

>> we'll see if he follows through. thanks so much to all of you. appreciate you joining me so many times this morning. thanks to you as well for joining. i'm jim sciutto, cnn news central starts right now. >> a penny band is a penny earned. the president orders them stopped pennies as we are standing by for an announcement on sweeping new tariffs. >> the president is also moving a big step closer to eliminating another government agency. staff at the nation's consumer watchdog ordered to stay home just after elon musk tweets cfpb rip. >> and a super bowl blowout, the eagles soared to become champions. no. three peat for the kansas city chiefs, who barely got past the 50 yard line for most of the game. i'm sarah snyder with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news

central. >> a penny for your thoughts? maybe not ever again. the president just ordered the mint to stop making them. and yes, there are questions on whether he has the authority to do that. he definitely has the authority to impose tariffs. new ones this morning on steel and aluminum to everybody. >> steel, including canada and mexico. >> any steel coming into the united states is going to have a 25% tariff. >> what about aluminum? >> aluminum to. >> so this will hit canada and mexico hard. two of the largest steel exporters to the united states. this is the week after the president retreated on other tariffs against them. he also says he will launch new reciprocal tariffs to match what other countries have on u.s. goods, dollar for dollar. let's get to cnn's alayna treene at the white house for this new tariff monday. elena. >> that's exactly right. i

mean, this is just the latest escalation, john, in donald trump's escalating, you know, threat of tariffs and bringing the united states closer to a trade war with many of its trading partners. now, as you said, and as you heard the president say there on air force one yesterday when he was flying to new orleans for the super bowl, he said that he planned on monday to announce 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum goods going into the united states. and as you mentioned as well, this is really going to hit our trading partners very hard, especially the ones, of course, that are involved in giving steel to united states. the largest sources of u.s. steel in imports are canada, brazil, mexico, followed by south korea and vietnam. but by, you know, there's no question that as for aluminum, canada is actually the biggest trading partner with the united states on that. so as you mentioned, going to be hitting both our neighbors north and south very hard. just after the president had walked away and kind of said he was going to put a one month hold on the other

sweeping tariffs that he had initially posed on those countries. i also just want to talk about what he tried to do during his first term, because we know that the president, when he was in office, in his first administration, he put 25% tariffs on steel and 10% on aluminum. but then we also learned that he later had some exemptions and exemptions for certain countries, um, canada, mexico, brazil, all of them had some, you know, duty free exemptions during that policy. so i think the key question to look for today is what exactly are the details in this policy? and could there be exceptions, or is he going to move forward with kind of the blanket rhetoric around tariffs that we know he's been using so far during this term? one other thing to keep in mind as well is this all comes after he's talked about wanting to have some big investment with nippon steel last week. that was after he had met with u.s. steel at the white house. we know that nippon steel had originally had this deal. you know, multi-billion deal to try and buy u.s. steel, something that president biden

actually blocked. the president last week said. he said there's going to be a big investment in u.s. steel from nippon. still waiting on those details as well, john. >> so a lot of us went to sleep late last night after the super bowl and woke up early to the news of this new war on pennies. what's going on with that? elena? >> that. that's right. we saw the president post overnight about this, saying he was going to be directing the treasury department to stop minting pennies. i want to read for you what he wrote. he said, quote, for far too long, the united states has minted pennies, which literally cost us more than $0.02. this is so wasteful, he said. in that post, he went on to say, i have instructed my secretary of the united states treasury to stop producing new pennies. now, the move is really the latest in what we've seen has been a rapid fire effort by the trump administration to try and find areas to cut funding, to cut money. and this is one that the president now says, he argues is one that he wants to target. now, this was not i wouldn't i want to note not something that the president

talked about throughout his time on the campaign trail. but we do know that elon musk, who's running, you know, the department of government efficiency, they had actually brought this up last month in a post on x highlighting the cost to produce pennies. so all of this kind of tied to that broader effort of them trying to find waste, abuse and fraud in the government. and now the president is saying this is one area that he wants to move forward with. john. >> all right. alayna treene, i did not know that pennies cost more than $0.03 to make, but likewise, i didn't know that nickels cost more than $0.13 to make. so if you're going after an inefficient coin, man, the nickel. sarah. >> good old $0.05. all right, it's deadline day again. the trump administration has given federal workers until the end of today to decide if they'll accept a so-called buyout offer. a federal judge, though, paused the program last week. in just hours, the same judge will hold a hearing on whether the program is even legal. the court's decision could have a serious implications for the

president's plan to gut and reshape the government plans, led by billionaire elon musk and his government efficiency team. cnn's rene marsh is joining us now. this court hearing is going to happen today. what are we expecting? >> so, sarah, we're talking about 2 million federal workers who received this offer so far. we know that 65,000 roughly have accepted. so that's around 3% of the federal workforce. the trump administration's buyout offer is a part of, as you mentioned, the president and the department of government efficiencies plan to thin out the workforce. and today, this federal judge in boston could rule if the program is even legal. now, this hearing comes again after this same judge in boston put this program on hold. it was just hours before the deadline for these federal workers to accept the deal last week. and the judge paused it because he wanted to take more time to review the details of the program and determine if it is legal. it is worth noting that congress has not appropriated funds beyond march

14th, and this buyout offer promises federal workers that they would be paid through the end of september if they agree to resign now. so that is one of the many problems with this deal that the labor unions and several democratic attorneys general have pointed out. i do want to point out that vice president jd vance is already pushing back on this federal judge, saying in a tweet, if a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal if a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power, so they see that this judge has no place in making a determination on the president's buyout plan. but again, these labor unions saying that this plan is the legality of it is questionable. sara. >> yeah. and jd vance comments.

there have a lot of people wondering whether or not they're going to follow what the court actually rules. ultimately, that a big controversy as well this morning. thank you so much, rene marsh for that. great reporting, kate. >> coming up for us, elon musk has turned his focus to the nation's top consumer watchdog. why the consumer protection? the consumer financial protection bureau is shutting down essentially this week. plus new cases of bird flu forcing new york to take action. the new concerns and message today from the state's top health official and the world's largest coffee chain, offering you a free cup today. what this promotion has to do with what starbucks hopes is a big reboot. >> have i got news for you is back for another season. roy wood jr. amber ruffin and michael ian black are finding the funny in the week's biggest stories. >> we're going to give you all four years of something to talk about. >> if we alive.

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weekend to stay home. cnn's vanessa yurkovich has much more on this. a lot of questions about exactly what they're being told to do and why. but what is the latest on this? >> well, essentially. >> the consumer. >> finance protection bureau. >> does exactly what its name entails. it protects everyday americans against fraud, against junk fees, against trying to prevent another subprime mortgage crisis from happening. but just yesterday, employees got an email saying, stay home this week, do not show up to the office. it's going to be closed. this is on the heels of an email that came saturday saying, essentially, stop doing all work. so employees are left wondering what is going on. do i have a job? is this just temporary? but this is really part of elon musk and doge at the direction of president trump's efforts to dismantle what they're saying are organizations and government bureaus that do not run effectively in their mind. but what it does is it takes the big consumer watchdog player out of

the game, essentially. and just you saw this forecasted by elon musk on friday. he tweeted a little bit of an r.i.p. to this consumer. you see it right there. consumer finance protection bureau signaling that this was coming. how does this affect everyday americans? well by the numbers. there are nearly 200 million people and their accounts that can be protected by this bureau, $363 million has been recovered for veterans. people that were taken advantage of under the military lending act. and about $6.1 billion. that's how much americans are saving every year, because this bureau has stopped overdraft fees for everyday americans. now, lawsuits have been filed by employees against russell voigt, who is the director now of this excuse me, of this bureau. and sometimes these cases move pretty quickly so we could see as soon as the next couple of days that this dismantling of this organization is actually

going to be put on pause. but for the people who work there, a lot of questions for the american consumer, a lot of questions. who is protecting me at the end of the day? >> also, this the cfpb has been a target for criticism by republican lawmakers, really, since its inception in the aftermath of the housing crisis. they the efforts to dismantle the agency previously have not worked. this time, though, it seems that they i mean, this this seems to be exactly what they're going to be doing. >> this is what they're trying to do. and we know that there are democratic lawmakers who have written a letter saying we cannot do this. so clearly they're sensing that this could potentially happen. this could work this time. but the big question is, when will this all happen? is this happening this week? is it not happening this week? where does this go? but for consumers it's a big question mark. how are they being protected if this organization does not exist anymore? >> we say with every single one of these moves, let's see what happens today. vanessa, thank you so much john.

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seekers. at capetus, we finance small businesses. >> welcome back. >> have i got news for you? saturday at nine on cnn so this morning the score was 40 to 22. >> but that makes it seem closer than it was. boy, that music's loud. this was a blowout beat down. at one point, my wife asked me if the chiefs were even trying. the philadelphia eagles are the super bowl champs. there will be no three peat. cnn's coy wire is in new orleans, where, i have to say, except for one blown call by the refs right

at the beginning, this was almost never in doubt. >> yeah. >> and the eagles were darn near perfect. as you mentioned. we thought we were going to see that chiefs pete first team ever to win three straight super bowls. instead we got a dominant. performance by the eagles. and especially that eagles defense. >> the stars. >> the celebs were out in new orleans and so was the president. president donald trump, the first sitting president ever to attend a super bowl. taylor swift, of course, in the house cheering for her boyfriend travis kelce. but kelce, mahomes and the entire chiefs offense, they ran into a buzz saw. that is the eagles defense. mahomes was sacked six times on the night. there. you can see the video. we got a rock in president trump first sitting u.s. president to attend. and there is miss taylor swift. but yes, they absolutely got dominated by this eagles defense. mahomes was sacked six times john running for his life all night. and he threw two interceptions. and in the second quarter it was rookie cooper

dejean on his birthday picking off the patrick mahomes taking it 38 yards for a touchdown, streaking to the end zone in his birthday suit in the super bowl. and then it was zack baun getting the pick. he played four seasons in new orleans in that stadium, and last year he was a backup there. said he would cry at times thinking, maybe i just don't have it anymore. but there he was. his first season in philly, came an all pro. now, a short while later, after this, eagles quarterback jalen hurts, he continued his takeover touchdown. the a.j. brown made it 24 to nothing. hurts threw two tds, led the team in rushing, scored another touchdown on the ground. his 72 yards rushing in this super bowl was a record for a quarterback. the eagles absolutely slaying the chiefs 40 to 22. hurts is your super bowl mvp. here's the guys after the game. it's been. >> a journey of. >> ups and downs and highs and lows. and i've always stayed true to it in the end. and having this vision of just being the best that i can be and that

evolving over time into this desire and this flame inside to win. >> it's crazy. world champs, best birthday ever. best birthday ever. i think everybody in my family would agree too. i'm just happy they're going to be here to be a part of it. defense played their off. they played how they played all year. you know, and i truly believe our offense wins the game. but defense wins championships. >> and that defense certainly won it for him last night. the chiefs only had 23 yards of offense in the first half, while the eagles they had 24 points. mahomes now falls to three and two in super bowls. it was just a struggle for that. chiefs offense from the start. mahomes, obviously upset of his performance and the teams. here's what he had to say after that tough loss. >> credit to the eagles, man. they played better than us from start to finish. um, we didn't start how we wanted to. obviously the turnovers hurt. and i mean i just got to i take all the blame for that. i mean just those early turnovers swing the momentum of the game and

then they capitalized on them and they scored. i mean they scored on the one. and then they got a touchdown immediately after. so that's 14 points that i kind of gave them. and it's hard to come back from that. and in the super bowl. and so um, just didn't play to my standard. and i have to be better the next time. >> i can imagine the streets of philadelphia, john, are probably rocking still, and they might not stop for quite some time until whenever that parade may be. incredible performance for jalen hurts. saquon barkley's birthday yesterday as well. his first birthday, his first super bowl on his birthday. great story lines all around and an incredible job by new orleans hosting this super bowl lix. it was an awesome time here with the cajun creole cuisine. the music and a huge win for philly. >> i think it was a win for coy wire. i don't think anyone won more the last week than you did in new orleans. coy, thank you for being there. get home safely, sarah. >> i think i see tired eyes in

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in los angeles. there is some action that is expected this month. and so they are taking preemptive action, saying that they are being targeted because of this status. specifically, they cite the 10th amendment, the separation between state and the federal government. and they say that they are being illegally targeted. the chief attorney for the lawsuit here, the san francisco city attorney, said that this is the federal government illegally asserting a right. it does not have, telling cities how to use their resources and commandeering local law enforcement. this is the federal government coercing local officials to bend to their will or face defunding or prosecution. that is illegal and authoritarian. now we know that trump signed an executive order when he took office, directing the federal government to cut off federal funding grants to cities that do not comply or cooperate with this. immigration enforcement. places like new york and los angeles and chicago, where local law enforcement are typically not in

the business of helping federal law enforcement enforce immigration law, which is a civil matter. so they are taking this action. we've been here before, john. we saw similar lawsuits in 2017 during the last trump administration. they blocked the order from taking effect. and they say that things are a bit different. now they're threatening prosecution and investigation at the federal levels. and this is their way of responding. before that happens. >> we'll see what happens in the courts. gloria pazmino, nice to see you. thank you very much. kate. sara. >> all right. with president trump set to impose new tariffs on steel and aluminum coming into the u.s., other countries like france are watching closely to see just how far trump's for tat will go. last month, trump threatened to levy tariffs against the european union. cnn business editor at large richard quest is joining me now. you sat down, you had an exclusive chat with the french president. trump has hinted at that europe could be next on his tariff list.

what's macron saying about this? >> oh, i think you're being diplomatic, sara. he's done more than hint. he's basically said that europe's tariffs are coming their way. and whilst maybe steel and aluminum are not the number one, certainly europe is bracing itself for a raft of tariffs in one description or another. and when i met president macron at the elysee palace late last week, i asked him, okay, so president trump imposes new tariffs, but will europe retaliate? >> i already did so and i will did it again. and i think we should be ready to obviously be in the room and react. but i think more than that, the european union has to be ready to deliver what we want and what we need for ourselves. >> can i suggest to you that the european union is not fit for purpose when it comes to dealing

with something like president trump, who's threatening tariffs and basically saying my way or the highway? >> i think it could be the opposite. when you have direct contact and you are clear. i think the european union should not be the one to wait for the initiative of the others and just react. what we have to do is to act for ourselves and to tell our people this is our project, this is what we want. this is why, for me, the top priority of europe is competitiveness. agenda is defense and security. agenda is high ambition. and let's go fast for ourselves. if in the meanwhile we have tariff issue, we will discuss them and we will fix it. >> there are two big issues here. the first is retaliation. in a sense, you do this, we'll do that. but in europe it's a wake up call because they're terrified that europe will no longer be seen as the crucial partner of the united states.

>> let me just quickly ask you, richard. you know, when you see all this and you're talking to macron and there's all this, this talk of of terrorists, he said something that was quite interesting there where he said, we're going to start doing what we need to do to protect ourselves. does that mean that other countries will start looking to places like, for example, china, who has a huge population to try and start making deals elsewhere, potentially with enemies of the united states? >> the reality is exactly that everybody is going to be looking at other trading partners. where can they do a deal that is different? so you're going to have south south trade. you're going to have north south trade. you're going to have east west. essentially, if the u.s. continues that this way, then yes, there will be many countries that will be forced into the arms of other trading partners. that might not be

their first preference. but when push comes to shove, you do the deal, as the president would say, that needs to be done. >> richard quest, it's always a pleasure. thank you so much for joining us. appreciate you. kate. >> joining us right now to talk much more about this is marc short. marc served as the white house legislative affairs director during the first trump administration has held, well, a million different jobs in and around washington and the white house. also, the chairman of the board for advancing american freedom, conservative advocacy group. it's good to see you again, marc. thanks for coming in. i saw it. when it comes to tariffs, i saw that you wrote that you think the trump approach to tariffs this time is the biggest difference that you see from the last trump administration to this one? explain. >> well, kate, let's. >> start by. acknowledging that tariffs are a tax on american consumers. the american importer pays that fee to customs and border patrol is the is the product comes into our country. and so i think that in the first administration, there was a lot of guidance to the president

that said, look, if we're trying to isolate china, tariffs can be an effective tool in doing that. but it also could drive our allies and other nations to actually trade more with china if we end up assessing tariffs on them. this administration, the president, has a set of advisers who just are far more committed to the economic theory that tariffs work, not just the national security theory, but also the economic theory that believe that this will generate revenue. again, it's important to remember it's the american importer that pays that fee. and so it's actually a tax on americans. and it raises consumer prices when targeted as it was toward china in the first administration. it can be an effective tool to get them to the negotiating table. but this administration believes that they want to impose tariffs pretty much globally. and so i think that markets assume that a lot of this is bluster and that actually trump will recede from that. but i don't think so. i think he's pretty committed to moving forward with with tariffs beyond china pretty much globally. >> well and he's seeming to announce, you know, starting to announce that, you know, if they

charge us we charge them is the statement from yesterday. but the point you're making is what i've heard from almost every industry who's going to need to deal with importing anything. the one person i'm not hearing this from is the administration. i've had trump's top trade and economic adviser on in the past week, both of them trying to argue that the american people are not going to pay the price for these tariffs, trying to argue that prices are not going to go up despite what conventional wisdom is when it comes to broad, broad stroke, tariffs, how does what does the trump team going to do, and how are they going to be able to explain that if when prices do go up, given the polling that americans don't think that they're doing enough to bring down prices? >> well, i mean, kate, if we if we strike a big enough global trade war, you actually could be recessionary, which i think is is perhaps even a worst case scenario for the economy. i do think, again, that the team that he has assembled, peter navarro

and others in that team, have always argued. i mean, keep in mind, peter came up as a labor union democrat. peter believes that you should have tariffs because it protects american workers from foreign competition. but the necessary as you evolve that policy further, it's going to raise prices on american consumers, and it's going to force our trading partners to look elsewhere, which i think has national security implications. but i think it also could generate, i think, significant rattling to the stock market that is so far, i think, been very excited about trump's presidency because of the deregulatory and tax perspectives. >> yeah, i mean, so far, you know, the polling has been positive in his favor. but let me fold two more things. and i want your perspective on last week it was usaid getting shut down effectively. this week. they're talking about the consumer watchdog cfpb being shut down. what this whole effort to shrink the size of the federal government to kind of take over the role of what traditionally is congress's job appropriating and saying where

money should go and to whom creating agencies, dismantling agencies? um, is it your sense that the white house just doesn't care, even if they're being challenged in court? and what's congress to do about it? >> well, kate, i actually think that for a lot of americans, they elected donald trump to secure the border and to take on the bloated federal bureaucracy. so i think a lot of americans are actually excited about this fight. and i think that the executive branch does have the ability to stop many of these absurd grants, and it forces democrats in a position of actually trying to defend, you know, grants for lgbt theater in guatemala or grants to tourism in lebanon, which i think is a good political position. but ultimately the executive branch has the ability to stop those grants. they can't really shut down the departments. that has to be legislated. and so it actually be a good initiative for the administration to partner with congress to say, we actually want to shut down these these various departments we think have gone rogue, but ultimately their ability is to stop the grants. they would need

legislation to actually cut down the programs. but i think where this is leading, kate, is march 14th. the government reaches another impasse on government funding, and i think democrats will probably step in and say, if you want our support in passing a government funding bill, they're going to want to legislate to continue support for these programs. and that's going to be a big problem for for both sides, because republicans will not have the votes to carry government funding on their own. they're going to need democrat votes. so that's the showdown that's coming probably about a month from now. >> that's a very interesting thing that we'll have to continue to follow. the unintended, unintended kind of fallout and consequences and implications of these doge efforts on what is donald trump's big push, which is to get his agenda all the way through with congress. it could be getting right in the way of it. it's good to see you, mark. thanks so much for coming in. >> thanks a lot, kate. >> sarah. >> all right. this morning we're learning that bird flu is mutating in a way that makes it easier to spread to mammals, including humans. dozens of live poultry markets in new york are

shut down this morning after inspectors found seven cases in poultry over the past week. they have to be disinfected and 15 birds at new york city zoos died after potential contact with the virus. cnn health reporter jacqueline howard is following the developments on this. scientists are worried about this newer strain of the virus that has been found in cattle, particularly in nevada. why is it so concerning that cattle now are showing up with this disease or this virus? >> what's concerning. >> about this, sarah, this. >> newer variant that we're talking about here is. >> called d1 one. and what researchers have found is that this variant shows signs of an adaptation that could help it to copy itself more easily in the cells of mammals. including humans. the reason why this is concerning is because if we see this virus copy itself more and more, there is the risk that it could mutate in a way to become

more contagious and possibly to spread from human to human. so far in this outbreak, we've only seen transmission from animals to humans. we have not seen evidence of human to human spread quite yet. but that's why researchers are watching this closely, watching to see how this virus behaves and how it may evolve. and the d11 variant itself has previously been associated with severe infections in human cases, including one death. so that's why scientists are watching this and are concerned. but sarah, i will say for the general public out there, we should not panic. we should not be overly worried about this because the cdc says the risk to the general public still remains low. again, we have not seen evidence yet of human to human spread. the people who are at risk are those who do come in close contact with potentially infected animals. so farm workers, people who work closely with wild birds, poultry or dairy cattle, those are the people considered

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to freeze still have not received their money, even though a court has blocked trump's attempt to stop the funding. some of the head start programs, which provide early childhood education to low income children, still can't access all of the money. head start helps students with more than just education. it helps with food, clothes and housing. joining me now is tommy sheridan. he is the deputy director of the national head start association. thank you so much for being here. why do you think that some of the head start programs cannot access the money the federal government normally gives them? >> yeah, well, thank you for having me, sarah. and it's complicated, is the short answer. >> i mean, when. >> we really look into it, we have we've not been hearing directly from the administration on this, but we have heard from capitol hill who's been in touch with the administration, that they're saying that these issues actually stem from about two weeks ago when that omb office of management and budget memo came out that did have that that talked about the funding

freeze. shortly afterwards, there was another memo that came out that did describe head start among the programs that were not to be impacted. the challenge, though, is is much more bureaucratic. it has to do with the system called the payment management services, the pms. and that system. apparently. basically there's there's almost a run on it. there was too many programs. and this is all of hhs, not just within head start, but that there are so many programs reaching out, trying to pull down funds. and it crashed the whole system. however, here we are almost two weeks later, and several of these programs, as you noted earlier, about 2029 grant recipients in 16 states plus the district of columbia and puerto rico are still struggling to access critical funds. >> can i ask you what this is doing to the families, the children who are in head start because they do receive things like food to help them learn, as well as education. and sometimes you help with housing. what are they experiencing because of

this? >> well, luckily it hasn't been. it hasn't meant that we've had to shut down programs too much. there has been a little bit of that, and that is something that we are really working with the administration, with congress, to try to curtail. head start since its inception and really back in the 1960s. it's our 60th anniversary this year. we have we have always prioritized those services that you mentioned to children and families. the number one priority has to be making sure that children, especially at this stage in life, and especially the families that head start serves, that they're really that they're really are afforded the stability and the care that head start provides. so during all of this challenge, most agencies have found ways leveraging community resources, working with, with, with local banking partners for for no cost loans, these types of things trying to find ways to keep their doors open, doing everything they can before they have to shut down. unfortunately, there have been a couple of programs that have exhausted all of those options and were forced to close down for a matter of days. but the good news is that it does appear, as of at least friday

evening and over the weekend. we've continued to hear these reports that that most programs are open will continue to be open. and again, we're hopeful that this bureaucratic challenge can be addressed, that the administration can get ahead of this. we'll figure out whatever system we have to jump through or whatever thing we have to do. at the end of the day, this is about children. this is about their families, and we need to make sure to protect them against all costs. >> when you look at this on the whole, i mean, if this goes on for much longer, how long can they sustain themselves without federal funding? >> yeah, it really depends on the agency. so head start is is funded a little bit different than a lot of federal programs where it goes from the federal government directly into communities. so some communities have access to other types of resources or some are large grant grant recipients or large programs like school districts, city government, county government. some are single purpose nonprofits. and i think in a lot of a lot of communities, especially in really rural communities and and those where they have the much smaller programs, that's where we're really concerned about,

again, we're hopeful. and it does appear as if the administration is working through this backlog, and we're very hopeful that this will get addressed today, tomorrow. and we don't have to have these types of conversations any further. at the end of the day, again, this is head start provides such critical services to so many children and families across this country. and it's something that democrats and republicans have long supported. and we're looking forward to making sure that we can get back to that type of stability that we need so we can provide that type of stability, stability to children and families. >> the omb memo sending everything into a tizzy. we will see what happens over over time. and check back with you to see if those funds have come in. thank you, tommy sheridan, really appreciate your time this morning. kate. >> our headlines are tracking this morning. the bodies of all ten people who were killed in a plane crash in western alaska have now been recovered. and identified. the pilot. nine passengers were on board that small cessna plane that went missing when it disappeared from radar as it was flying to nome, alaska, on thursday. the wreckage was found a day later.

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coffeehouse vibes. the promotion is tied to other series of sweeping changes, including cutting back the starbucks menu by 30%. >> john free stuff tastes better. all right. this morning, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says he is ready to negotiate with the russian leader, vladimir putin, but only if the u.s. and europe provide security guarantees for ukraine. president trump told reporters he has spoken with putin about trying to negotiate an end to the war in ukraine. let's get right to senior international correspondent fred pleitgen, who is in moscow. so what's the latest on this kind of dancing around the idea of talks yeah. >> dancing around the idea of whether or not or what sort. of phone calls may have happened between president trump and. >> russian president vladimir. >> putin, the russians, john, really. >> being quite coy. >> about all of this. first of all, the kremlin told cnn. >> that they. >> cannot confirm or deny. >> whether or not any direct phone conversations. >> between president trump and.

>> russian leader vladimir putin had actually taken place. >> and it was quite interesting. >> because i actually just got out of a press conference with the deputy foreign minister of russia. >> sergei ryabkov, and. >> he was saying that he. cannot confirm that there's anything in the works. >> right now for a. >> top level meeting. >> between russia. >> and the united states, meaning obviously, a meeting. >> a meeting between president. >> trump and russian leader vladimir putin. so whether or not these phone calls actually took place, very difficult to ascertain. but the russians are not saying that they did not take place at the same time. of course, the russians do acknowledge that there is a push going on for possible talks in the future. and i was asking the russians what their red lines would be in all of this. and they kept saying, look, you have to acknowledge the realities on the battlefield that the russians have taken a considerable amount of territory from the ukrainians. they're also sort of casting a shadow over whether or not they actually want to negotiate with volodymyr zelenskyy, while the russians do say that they are willing to speak with the ukrainians. >> so it. >> seems as though all sides agree that talks need to be need to take place. it's unclear,

however, in which format they could take place and in which time frame they could take place as well. the russians, certainly at this point in time, saying, look, they are the ones who are making gains on the battlefield and therefore for them, they believe it's the u.s. and the ukrainians need to come to them with proposals. at the same time, you do feel here in moscow, john, that the russians also themselves believe that it is time for talks and possibly for this war to come to an end in the not too distant future. john. >> critical time, to be sure. frederik pleitgen, it is great to have you in moscow for this. thank you very much. a lot of news. a brand new hour of cnn news central starts now. >> a new day and new tariffs. president trump now preparing to hit all steel and aluminum imports into the u.s. and that could impact everything from home prices to airplane parts. a disastrously bad idea. that's what scientists are calling a plan to slash payments for

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