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president donald trump is firing another shot in his expanding trade war. today, he is set to announce more tariffs, this time focusing on steel and aluminum imports. notably, this 25% is going to hit canada and mexico especially hard. they are two of the largest steel exporters to the united states, and this comes on the same day that china's retaliatory taxes on nearly $14 billion in u.s. exports will go into effect. this could be just another round of many in this trade fight. keep in mind, the president says he is going to announce reciprocal tariffs later this week, aiming to match other countries tariffs on u.s. goods. dollar for dollar. let's take you now to the white house with cnn's alayna treene to walk us through this new round of tariffs. >> right. well, i'll start with the 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, boris. really just the latest escalation of the

president and his administration's overhaul of u.s. trade policy. and you're exactly right. these tariffs are expected to hit canada and mexico hardest in addition to some other countries. i just want to walk you through it. the biggest source of u.s. exporters of steel and imports into the united states are canada, brazil and mexico, followed by south korea and vietnam. that's according to government data and data from the american iron and steel institute. but the other thing to keep in mind as well is that canada, by and large, is the biggest exporter of aluminum to the united states. i mentioned that because, of course, we know that this comes just after the president hit pause on implementing 25% tariffs on both canada and mexico while they try to work out some sort of agreement. now they're going to be seeing this different round of tariffs targeting steel and aluminum now. i also want to hit what you mentioned about the reciprocal tariffs. we know that the president said this weekend that he is planning on implementing any sort of tariffs on other

countries, what they have on us. he wants to implement back kind of like an eye for an eye. i want you to listen to how he said it when he was talking to reporters on air force one. >> i'll be announcing probably tuesday or wednesday at a news conference. reciprocal tariffs. and very simply, it's if they charge us, we charge them. >> that's all. when is it going to affect you, sir? >> almost immediately. they are charging us 130% and we're charging them nothing. it's not going to stay that. >> way. >> constitution. >> now, boris, as always, the devil is in the details. i think a lot of questions are, of course, what exactly this will look like in practice and on paper. we're still waiting to learn more details from the white house, but what i can say is the president did argue, without naming names, that he may be open to some exemptions on the reciprocal tariffs. if he's happy with the trade agreements that the united states has with those trading partners. and then the other thing, of course, is would there be the big question is will there be any sort of exemptions

or exceptions when it comes to the steel and aluminum tariffs? i would remind you that during his first administration, the president donald trump had implemented a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminum. however, then he did have an exemption for canada. so really a lot of questions over whether any sort of countries can work out some sort of deal, just like we saw canada and mexico do with those blanket tariffs earlier this month. >> boris alayna treene live for us at the white house. thank you so much for the update. we want to dig deeper now on these tariffs and their impact with roben farzad. he's a business journalist and host of npr's full disclosure. roben, thanks so much for being with us this afternoon on these 25% tariffs. why do you think trump is specifically targeting steel and aluminum? and how are consumers going to feel the impact of this? >> i think. >> for starters, this is about. punching china in the nose. the great big panda. if you look at what china has done over the

past 30 or 40 years in terms of ramping up steel production, where the united states was dominant in the middle of the 20th century, and big steel and pittsburgh and all the various things that came out of that, including detroit and the various industries that could take that for granted. that industry has been in kind of an inexorable decline for a long time. china, meanwhile, has been able to bring on all sorts of steel mills, all sorts of more modern steel mills that could take inputs. it can recycle scrap, and it is now a behemoth. and it's become problematic because china has a difficult economy right now, and it cannot afford to stop those steel mills. so you see, dumping all across the global trade balance. and that's ending up in the united states and irritating domestic manufacturers. >> so in a the point of view of consumers, what does this mean for like new construction projects for automobiles? are things going to get more expensive for folks? >> yes, yes. look, the market for steel, which again used to be dominated by pittsburgh. it's no longer that, as your

correspondent said, it's very fluid and fungible. we have the koreans, the mexicans, the canadians, the vietnamese all along the value chain passing this stuff along. and if there's any shiver in the system, any idea that, wow, a big price hike is going through already car prices are at a record high. they saw significant inflation coming out of the supply chain. shock of the pandemic. and it stands to reason that you could see 1 or $2000 of those car prices go up even more. this is something that you really don't want in an inflationary environment. having said that, the goal is to get foreign players to build steel mills here in the united states, to co-locate here, and that could be a stretch. but again, with trump, we don't know if it's bark or bite in this case. if this is an opening negotiating tactic or it's, you know, you can't negotiate. >> it, sometimes it is hard to tell, robin about these reciprocal tariffs, these dollar for dollar tariffs. how do you see that playing out. >> it's very good pungent politically right. i mean his numbers are great right now. and it's saying if you hit us we're going to hit you back. but this

is becoming confusing. there's so much that has come out a rapid fire kind of staccato succession of news and tariffs and inputs. and maybe we'll carve out things. if you saw how it played out the first time around in practice, there were carve outs in practice, for example, u.s. farmers were hurt. but the administration, the first trump administration, came back and tried to make them whole. i think at the very outset, as you're seeing with dc, this is shock and awe. this is about a shot across the bow to china, which again, china, for the first time since its ascension to the world trade organization in the early 90s, it is suffering a deep economic malaise, and it doesn't have the choice to kind of shut these plants down and negotiate with the united states. so it is hitting them where it's going to hurt them. >> roben farzad, very much appreciate the analysis. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, brianna. >> here in the next hour, a critical hearing on president trump's buyout plan for nearly 2 million federal employees. a federal judge george o'toole the clinton appointee who paused

last thursday's deadline for workers to accept the. resignation package, will be deciding whether to keep the freeze on trump's so-called fork in the road buyouts. the white house says at least 65,000 employees have taken them so far. the administration emailed the federal workforce after thursday's deadline was halted, telling employees that the cut off date to accept the buyout would be extended to the end of the day today. with us now is new jersey attorney general matthew platkin. he's one of 21 democratic attorneys general challenging this trump buyout plan. ag thanks for being with us. you say it's unlawfully pressuring employees to resign. people are familiar with buyouts being used in private industry. we've seen them used and certainly supporters of trump's plan will reference president bill clinton's buyout program from the early 90s. how do you see this one differently? how do you make the legal case for that? well, look, there are. >> legal protections for civil servants that this

administration has clearly not paid any attention to. and yes, you see, buyouts in a lot of industries. >> but there are rules. >> and contracts in place for how those will be enforced. these people were essentially harassed in order to give up their jobs. and the american public should understand that this will mean if a natural disaster hits fewer people to respond with fema. if you're a veteran, fewer people at the veterans organization to make sure that we can provide health care and other services to people who serve this country. and by the way, i'm in a state with atlantic city. if people think that this administration will honor the deal. i got some businessmen and contractors in atlantic city who would like to talk about their experience with the president. >> the the buyouts, of course, the clinton era buyouts were approved by congress. how significant is that detail? >> well, it's very significant because this administration has essentially thumbed its nose at any form of legal process they haven't even tried, despite having a majority in congress to do anything over the first few weeks through proper legal

channels. and this is bigger than just this one case. take the funding case where they froze $3 billion in federal spending without even attempting to go through the proper legal process for doing so. just because the president woke up one day and decided that people didn't need health care or educational services, or that law enforcement could be fired on a whim, that's not the way the rule of law works. that's not the way the constitution works. and we're going to stand up for it. >> so while this is being figured out, what happens to and the white house says it's like 65,000 people at this point who have opted in to

>> i just remind them both elon and president trump don't have a great track record here of following through on deals that people especially when they haven't even bothered to do things through the proper legal process. >> as you noted, they did previously. >> would those workers have more recourse considering this is not this is the government. whether you think trump or musk are doing this illegally, they're doing this on behalf of the federal government. >> well, people have rights in this country. those rights didn't change on january 20th. and i assume, as they have been, they'll continue to press their rights and ensure that the law is followed. and as attorneys general, we took an oath to protect the residents of our state. for me, 9.5 million people and to uphold the constitution. and that's what we've been doing. and i urge this administration. you saw what j.d. vance said yesterday. they're going to pick and choose, apparently, what court orders they want to follow.

maybe they should go back, relearn the basics and start following the law, and they'll stop having courts telling them so frequently that they're they're in violation. >> so let me ask you about that, because he said judges are not allowed to control the executive's legitimate power. you clearly have taken that as a sign that they are not. i mean, you tell me, are you taking that as a sign that they're not going to respect what they see as illegitimate control over executive power? how do you see what he said? >> well, you have to take it, given the way he said it and the fact that there's now been a day of questions and he hasn't bothered to clarify. jd vance and i went to school at about the same time. i think i'm the only one of us who paid any attention in law school, because it's very clear that the courts under our constitution get to decide what the law is. and the administration cannot unilaterally disregard valid court orders. there's a process

for that. they don't like what a judge does. they can appeal it. they brag about how they've remade the federal judiciary. and i'd urge them to stop saber rattling and pretending that they have more power than they do in order to try to get the american public to accept blatant harms and injuries to them. because that's what this is about. they want to do illegal things to the american people, and they don't want to bother with legal process that they have to follow. >> you said they can't disregard the courts. do you think they will? >> i hope not. look, we just minutes ago got an order in the federal funding case where a judge said that that they have to follow his order and was not satisfied with their degree of compliance. again, putting trillions of dollars, health care spending, education spending, law enforcement at risk because the president, on a whim decided he didn't like it. so what the vice president said yesterday, he knows is not right. he knows it. he learned it in the first day of law school, and i'd encourage him to

stop pretending that this administration doesn't have to do what every administration before it and every administration, every administration that's going to come after it has to do, which is follow the law. they want to put forth a policy agenda. god bless them. duly elected. i've never challenged that. what they cannot do is violate the law, violate the constitution and hurt our residents. and when the people responsible for holding an administration in check, the courts say that what you've done is illegal, they don't get to just wave their hand and say, oh, well, we're not going to follow that because we don't like it. >> new jersey attorney general matthew platkin, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it thanks for having me. so we're also following some breaking news. hamas says it is delaying its next release of israeli hostages. why? the group claims israel broke the terms of the cease fire agreement. how israel is responding. we're live from tel aviv. stay with us for that.

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fire and get all of the hostages back. and now into that mix, hamas is injecting this threat to delay the release of the next three israeli hostages, which was scheduled for this coming saturday. hamas saying that they are doing so because they accuse israel of violating terms of the cease fire agreement by previously delaying the return of palestinians to northern gaza, and also accusing israel of not allowing in certain relief supplies. in particular, we know they've accused israel of not allowing in enough tents and prefabricated mobile homes, which they say was supposed to be part of this agreement. israel hasn't responded to that specific claim. but we do know, of course, that israel has previously accused hamas of violating the agreement themselves. and now the israeli prime minister is currently in a security consultation about this very issue, but also, of course, about the cease fire agreement at large and is moving up a planned security cabinet meeting that was scheduled for tomorrow evening to tomorrow morning, showing the seriousness with

which they are taking this statement from hamas. in addition to that, the israeli defense minister, israel katz, has ordered the israeli military to be at, quote, the highest level of alert for any possible scenario in gaza. he says that hamas's claim that they will delay the release of these hostages would be a, quote, complete violation of the cease fire agreement. meanwhile, we're also hearing from the hostages and missing families forum, which says that it is urgently requesting the assistance of the mediating countries involved in this. in particular, that would be qatar and egypt, and also making clear that time is of the essence that all of the hostages must be urgently released from gaza. so a very delicate moment in this cease fire agreement. the question is whether hamas will follow through on that threat on saturday. it's important to note that we are just monday right now. there are several days for discussions to happen with the mediators with israel, to see if this can be resolved before then. but as of now, hamas is saying that they

will not release three hostages on saturday. they will delay that indefinitely until israel remedies the violations of the cease fire agreement that hamas is claiming. brianna. >> all right. jeremy diamond, live from tel aviv. thank you. boris. >> at any moment, president donald trump could slap a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum entering the united states. the president vowed to officially announce it today. and this is a move that would have a major impact on canada, which accounts for nearly a quarter of the steel imported by american businesses. canada is also the leading supplier of aluminum to the united states. let's discuss with jagmeet singh. he's a member of the canadian parliament and is currently running for prime minister. sir, thanks so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. i want to start with this argument from president trump that without the united states, canada is not a viable country. what's your response? >> that's just not true. >> it's not true at all. and if you think about it, what we just what you just listed out in

terms of facts. the united states relies significantly on aluminum. the aluminum that we supply is not something that can be made in the united states. and so putting tariffs on steel and aluminum doesn't just hurt canadians and canadian jobs. it also hurts americans because those businesses that buy that steel and aluminum from america, from canada, will have to pay more for it. but they're not going to just eat that cost. they're going to pass that on to the consumer. and donald trump promised to lower prices. his policies are going to increase prices. it's going to hurt americans. it's going to hurt canadians. >> one of trump's gripes with canada seems to be on defense spending. he says that canadians incorrectly assume that the united states will intervene and protect them militarily. if you are attacked, how do you read that? do you think that canada needs to take steps to secure its own defense? >> well, independent of donald trump, we absolutely do need to make some more investments in

our armed forces, and i'm prepared to do that. i think we need to better equip our men and women that serve. we need to make sure they've got adequate housing. we need to invest more in the equipment. and so there's going to be some investments that we need to make. but let us be clear, donald trump has told people what this is all about. he wants canada's resources. he wants canada's natural essential minerals. he wants canada's water. and he's not going to be able to get that. we are going to fight back and defend our country. >> he has touted the benefits for canadians of joining the united states, as he sees it, including lower taxes. do you see any benefits to canada becoming the 51st state? and i wonder what you've heard from constituents. >> no, not at all. and i want to put it in this term, if you're in canada and you have to get heart surgery, the only thing you have to pay for maybe is parking at the hospital. you don't go bankrupt with illnesses. in canada. we believe in taking care of one another.

and it's that principle of taking care of one another that builds up our health care system. we've got to improve it, but it's not something you have to worry about in terms of cost. you don't go bankrupt. you get sick in canada. >> and as far as your view that trump is wrong in his assessment that there are canadians that want to join the united states, have you heard from any constituents saying that? >> no. the the loud, loud. response is, is anger. we believe in being good neighbors. and so for folks out there and for donald trump specifically, you know, we are known as for being polite. we're proud of being polite. but don't take our kindness for weakness. we are proud of the country that we've built. canadians have reacted in anger. they feel insulted that our good neighbor would take shots and attack us. we've been great neighbors together and so no, we do not want any part of the 51st state. hell no. we want to defend our country, build what we have, be good neighbors.

but if we have an unreliable partner, then we're prepared to diversify our economy. there's lots of countries we can work with. we would have loved to continue to have a strong relationship, but we can't be vulnerable to the whims of a president who wants to attack one of his closest allies. >> as i noted a moment ago, you were in the running for prime minister as justin trudeau announced that he plans to soon step down. what do you think of the relationship that he's maintained, that he's kept with donald trump? and how would you approach it differently? >> well, sadly, as i mentioned, i believe in being. one of the third largest political parties in canada, and i'll be running for prime minister. i believe that we wanted to i believe in being good neighbors and having good relationships, but i believe very firmly donald trump only understands force. he's acted as a bully in many circumstances, and now he's acting as an economic bully. the only language that bullies understand is the language of strength. so we have to show that we're ready to fight back. we might be smaller. we might be

up against a larger opponent, but it's going to hurt both of us. it's a bad thing to do. it's going to hurt americans. it's going to hurt canadians. we need to show that it's the wrong thing to do, and also show that we're ready to fight back and defend what we have. >> what does that fighting entail? how do you see that that fighting moving forward? is it reciprocal tariffs yeah. >> the first step is going to be dollar for dollar. retaliatory tariffs impose a tariff on us will impose a tariff back on you. again. no one wins in these trade wars. but this is not a fight that we wanted to pick. we were happy to continue to have a strong relationship. donald trump has picked this fight. so we're going to fight back. we just announced today what i would do is put in place a 100% tariff on tesla, directly targeting elon musk is elon musk is proudly touting this idea of the 51st state. so let's hit back at elon musk. i've also said we should shut down the supply of critical minerals. another move that directly targets elon musk and his tesla company. the batteries that he needs require these critical

minerals. we've got tools and we should be ready to use them. it's not something that we wanted to do, but if donald trump wants to bring this fight, know that we are ready. i'm putting donald, donald, donald trump on notice. >> canadian mp jagmeet singh, appreciate you joining us and sharing your perspective. >> thank you so much. >> sir. sure. coming up, slashing spending. but at what cost? today, employees at the nation's top consumer watchdog were ordered to stop working altogether. does that mean a mean that americans are more susceptible to fraud? plus, top doctors are sounding the alarm after the u.s. national institutes of health cut payments affecting research. stay with cnn news central. we're back after a quick break. >> i've got good news and i've got bad news. what do you want? first? the bad. the news is newsy even more than ever. >> what's the good news? >> we're doing another season of have i got news for you. >> have i got news for you? >> returns saturday at nine on

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future looks like at this critical consumer protection bureau that oversees protecting americans finances. and this is really stemming from something we saw on friday, a tweet by elon musk that said. cfpb, r.i.p. so that was on friday, and that was essentially foreshadowing that the cfpb was going to be the next agency that elon musk doge at the direction of donald trump, was going to be looking at and potentially unraveling in this with employees that have filed lawsuits over this, and we know that judges can move pretty quickly sometimes putting pauses on these different executive actions that the president has taken. we saw that with usaid. we'll see if this happens with cfbp, whether or n these folks truly are out of a job. for how long? unclear, but the judge could move quickly on this.

boris. >> vanessa. what does the cfpb actually do and how could this work stoppage impact americans? >> yeah, the cfpb is exactly sort of what its name says. it's the consumer finance protection bureau and it's to protect americans against banking institutions. those who have been able to take advantage of americans. this was started at the end of the financial crash in 2007, 2008, to have some supervisory authority over credit card companies, banking institutions, loan services and other different organizations that everyday americans use. also, just by the numbers, about 200 million people are covered under the cfpb because they can receive funding and relief from this organization. you have about $6.1 billion in annual savings on overdraft fees and about 22 million people have are estimated to have medical debt

collection removed from their credit report. so these are actual tangible things that this organization does. we know at least till the end of the week, boris, folks are not going to the office, but after that, who knows? we'll have to wait and see how this all works out. boris. >> vanessa yurkovich, thank you so much for that update, brianna. >> this just in 22 states are now suing over a new policy from the national institutes of health that cuts funding on what is known as indirect costs for researchers. those are funds that cover things like equipment, support staff, facility maintenance and other overhead expenses. but some researchers are warning the cuts could kneecap america's status as a global health leader. cnn's meg tirrell is with us now. meg, tell us what is going on here. >> yeah. so this lawsuit. >> that just came out is from 22 democratic. >> state attorneys. >> general challenging this order that came out from the nih on friday night. and the amount of shock and panic that is running through the research

community in the united states right now is higher than anything we've seen so far. and there have been a lot of things that have been coming to change things at the nih. so just to break down exactly what this is, because it really sounds wonky, but it's tremendously impactful. this is something called indirect costs. and the nih in 2023 said it awarded about $35 billion in external research funding. of that, the majority were direct research costs going to specific researchers for specific projects. for example, $26 billion went to those direct research costs. they say 9 billion were allocated to indirect costs. these are things that the research community refers to as facilities and administrative costs of research. so these are things that help fund research labs and equipment that's shared among researchers and isn't dedicated to just one project at a time. it's things like high speed data processing. the support personnel who help make this work possible. so the trump administration's nih on friday put out this new policy that would cut the funding rate for those indirect costs to 15%.

they say that's down from an average of about 27% or higher. but there are some organizations, they say, like harvard, whose rate is more than 65%. altogether, they say this would reduce costs by $4 billion a year. from the researcher perspective, that's $4 billion a year that suddenly because that's supposed to take effect today, they have to find somewhere else. and people are warning this will have a huge impact. >> all right meg tirrell, thank you so much for that. troops on the ground and in the sky. how the u.s. is ramping up its hunt for intel on mexican drug cartels with surveillance missions using sophisticated spy planes. next.

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eeds. >> if you're turning 65. >> sources tell cnn the u.s. is ramping up spy plane surveillance of mexican drug cartels. the aircraft are typically used to gather intel in places like ukraine, or they're on the hunt for chinese subs, but they're now flying with increasing frequency near the u.s. border with mexico, as reflected by the purple lines in the map that mark flight paths. >> sources and public data show at least 18 flights of american spy planes over the south. tracking this story for us. so what does this tell us about perhaps a shifting priority for the pentagon? yeah. >> brandon, let's. >> let's talk about the scope of the ramp up here. 18 flights in just a ten day period, starting. >> in the starting. >> at the end of january. before this, the. >> pentagon might. >> fly maybe one of these surveillance flights along the border in a month. so important, really, to. remember here that flight hours in this. kind of surveillance plane, that's a

finite resource for the u.s. military. and up until now, pentagon leaders have really prioritized using this kind of aircraft to do things like gather intelligence on what's going on, on the ground in the war in ukraine, look for russian or chinese submarines. so really what this escalation underscores is the degree to which the trump administration is really willing to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to wanting to use the military to go after cartels. specifically, they are willing to shift finite national security resources away from overseas threats and towards the u.s. southern border, where trump has declared a national emergency. >> what are these planes capable of seeing? >> yeah, so there's three kinds of military planes that are in use here, and they all do slightly different things, but taken together, they are able to do everything from collect imagery intelligence that might enable them to, for example, identify a cartel logistics hub on the mexican side of the border, for example, or to collect signals intelligence to sort of hoover up digital communications that are taking

place on the ground. they're all flying in u.s. airspace or in international airspace around the baja peninsula, but they can all see sideways effectively. so they can still collect intelligence deep inside of mexico. so the big question really is, what does the trump administration intend to do with the information that it's gathering here? right. is this about acquiring a body of information to make a foreign terrorist designation on a cartel member? or at the far end of the spectrum, is this about identifying a potential target for the u.s. military to strike directly inside mexico, something, obviously, that president trump has publicly expressed an interest in doing? >> yeah. is that designation potentially a precursor to some kind of action? katie polglase, thank you so much. thank you. still to come on cnn news central tech titans around the globe are racing to deliver powerful artificial intelligence tools. but are we ready for a.i.? world leaders are grappling with major questions right now in paris. the story

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