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following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. >> a critical hearing set to take place in federal court as a judge hears arguments on whether to extend his pause on president trump's so-called buyout program for nearly 2 million federal workers. judge george o'toole, a clinton appointee, temporarily halted the deadline for workers to accept the offer on thursday. cnn's paula reid is with us now on this story. so, paula, how is the hearing going so far? >> well, you shouldn't bring my phone to our conversations on live tv, but it appears that this hearing has just wrapped up. we are waiting for the judge to come back. we don't have an order or a decision, and our colleague is inside. the court says that so far throughout this hearing, this federal, a clinton appointed judge has not really tipped his hand at all. first, he heard from lawyers representing the federal employees union, who called this

offer right, this offer to resign now and allegedly get paid through september. confusing, stunningly arbitrary. they accused the government of not considering the kinds of roles that are needed for the government to work properly. they also said that their employees don't really even understand what it is they're accepting now, in addition to pressing the judge to continue to delay the deadline to accept this offer, they're also trying to press for the government to give them assurances that it actually has the authority to enforce something like this. so after he heard from the unions, the judge also, of course, heard from the government. they described this offer as, quote, a humane off ramp for people who built their lives around remote work. they say that doing what the unions are asking right now, further delaying this deadline, would be disruptive to their efforts. the government said. this is a policy about the federal government managing its workforce. now, again, i just want to look at our colleague, see if we've gotten an update. we haven't. the judge has left the bench and they are waiting

for him to come back with an answer on whether he will extend this deadline and if he seeks any assurances from the government about whether they have this authority. >> so that could happen really any moment, right. okay, paula, we know that you'll be tracking that and we'll bring that to our viewers as soon as we know what happens. boris. >> meantime, president trump is again expanding his trade war. today, he's vowing to announce more tariffs, focusing this time on steel and aluminum imports. a 25% hike that will hit canada and mexico hard. as you can see there, some of the biggest steel and aluminum exporters to the united states. this comes on the same day that china's retaliatory taxes on billions in u.s. exports go into effect. and this latest round of trump import taxes could be just the beginning. keep in mind, trump says that this week he will announce reciprocal tariffs, which could match other countries tariffs on u.s. goods, dollar for dollar. we're joined now by cnn's richard quest. richard, help us understand these new tariffs, what they

mean. and the intended goal from president trump. >> the intended. >> goal from the president is straightforward. he believes that the united states has been treated very unfairly in numerous trade negotiations, and that u.s. has tariffs on their exports going into other countries when the u.s. is a much more open market in its own right. and so the president is basically doing a for tat. he is saying not only you charge us this, we're going to charge you that. he's going one stage further. he's actually ratcheting it up. he is using tariffs as a way to rebalance the terms of trade. if you would put it in the in the posh language of economics. and he hopes to do so. so for instance, the immediate ones, this 25% on steel and aluminum or aluminum as i said. but aluminum i'll give you that one that's going to hit canada and mexico, which

are all part of the usmca anyway. so that's arguably illegal, but it's also going to hit brazil. it's going to hit japan, it'll hit the european union. now you go on and on and on. what's worrying the markets and what's worrying? those who look at trade is that, yeah, the u.s. has a vast trade deficit on goods and services on goods, but it has a massive surplus on services, insurance, banking and things like that. so it's not all a one way street. >> richard. we may install a tax on pronouncing aluminum that way. it's aluminum, not aluminum. nevertheless, reciprocal tariffs. what could that mean. walk us through the implications of that. >> right. >> okay. reciprocal tariffs absolutely will mean higher prices in the united states. this is where for whatever reason, another country is already charging the u.s.

exporter. so for example, automobiles that go to europe, pharmaceuticals in many cases soft lumber going to canada. these are examples where the other country is charging a tariff on the u.s. the u.s. is basically saying, right, we are now going to do for tat or otherwise known as in the posh language of economics, reciprocal tariffs. but here's one point to bear in mind. if you look overall, overall, the average tariff going into the u.s. is about 1.6%. the average tariff going into the eu not that much difference. it is when you get to countries like germany, brazil and others that it gets much higher. >> always appreciate the posh language of richard quest coming to us live from dubai. we should note richard and joy, thanks so much. so we're just three weeks into president trump's second term, and in that short time, the administration has launched

this avalanche of executive orders and efforts to dismantle government agencies. one person in trump's inner circle is playing a major role in all of that. there's this new cnn reporting by our colleagues shining a light on stephen miller, trump's deputy chief of staff for policy and a key behind the scenes architect of this aggressive strategy. >> and the reporting says, in part from a small west wing office down the hall from the oval office. miller is is a leading force behind a relentless flood. the zone strategy inside the white house, helping guide the president through the opening weeks of his second term. it's a playbook miller has spent years thinking about. we're joined now by our mark preston and jeff zeleny and jeff, starting with you here, you're one of the reporters on the byline here. walk us through what you're learning about miller's role. >> well, look, brianna, there's not really anything that has happened over the first three weeks of this administration that stephen miller has not had his hand on. he is guiding the force here. one of the the

essential people guiding the force here behind this flood. the zone strategy. stephen miller has been a long time adviser to the president of of course, he worked on capitol hill before that. he's long been obsessed with immigration. his portfolio now, we're told, is much, much broader than that. he has a large hand in rolling out and deciding which executive orders will be signed, the speed in which has been really sort of hard to keep up with. and that, indeed is the point. and now the legal fights are coming as well. that also is indeed the point. of course, the the whole beginning of this presidency has been an an exercise into attest the the power of the executive branch. and that's something that stephen miller is front and center in. so he's not that the white house chief of staff. he's a deputy chief of staff, but he's much more visible than virtually anyone else inside

this west wing. >> yeah, quite a bit of an understated title for his influence. mark it. speed and volume are critical to trump's strategy here in terms of flooding the zone, so to speak. but a lot of this is getting held up in court politically. does that matter for trump in the sense that his supporters seem to feel that he's doing what he promised he would do? >> well. >> if i. >> may, first of all, jeff's story that he's written with a couple of our colleagues go to cnn.com and read. it because it. goes deeper than just, hey, this is stephen miller. and like he has a lot of control. it it is a fascinating story. politically. this doesn't hurt president trump. we can no longer look at the measurements that we used five years ago, ten years ago. heck, even like five months ago. okay, we measure people by their success differently now, and i think people need to come to that conclusion. donald trump right now could go in and have all of these losses. he's already had losses. as we've noted, there are three judges now who have put a preliminary

injunction stopping the birthright citizenship idea. you know, there are three migrants who are don't have to go to guantanamo right now because there's an injunction against something that he's done, you know, as he's trying to put migrants there. the bottom line is, though, democrats need to get a message in right now. they do not if they're just going to rely on the courts, they're in trouble. >> jeff, to that point, it's clear over the last few days that trump and his allies have zeroed in on the judiciary. you not only have jd vance openly questioning whether the judiciary is effectively subservient to the executive's legitimate power, as he calls it. but then you have elon musk also talking about firing the worst 1% of appointed judges, something that he says would be determined by an elected body. does the administration fully understand the fight that it's taking up against the judiciary? >> i think without a question,

yes. i mean, the vice president, of course, a graduate of yale law school, knew exactly the message she was sending and believes the fact that they believe the executive branch is all powerful. well, that is one thing that we are going to see. a see under away here. the judge that paula was just talking about the ruling, when that comes down in massachusetts, there are many more cases as well. once the administration begins to ignore some rulings, if they do, that will be a different level of this sort of engagement here between the branches of government. some call it a constitutional crisis. so we shall sort of see about that. but this is something the administration is very keen on doing. the judges are really the only speed bump that this administration has. so we shall see if they're followed. but the history will show the administrations and the states have not always followed the rulings of judges. but in modern

history they generally have. so we shall see what the next steps are here. but that certainly is something the vice president is very much openly throwing out there, as this week begins, so many legal cases about the first few weeks of the administration. >> yeah. so they know the fight. the trump administration knows what the fight is. they know the odds. they know that they may very well not succeed here. but as democrats are struggling to find their footing sort of in the political sphere, to be some kind of check on them, at least politically, um, you know, even if trump isn't that successful in court, does it does it matter when it comes to messaging and politics? >> right. it doesn't, because as long as he gets a lot done, let's just take a step back and think about what the american people think about washington, dc. they think very little about washington, d.c., right? so when they see president trump going in there and you see elon musk going in there and saying, i've just cut $17 million, which he's now, he just said he cut a

$17 million grant to teach, i don't know, tax advice in liberia. okay. well guess what. the person out in kansas certainly doesn't care about that. what's going on in liberia right now? so as far as the the the everyday american, whether it's elon musk who's cutting the money here or the bureaucrats who have been here for all these years doing it, it's all the same to them. and that's how trump is trying to frame it. the problem is, though, democrats, as you said, they have failed the messaging. i they need to get it together. when cory booker was on with dana bash yesterday on state of the union, he he gave a multi-pronged approach about how he was, how democrats were going to take on trump. the number one idea was the legal strategy, okay, that's not a that's a yes, that should happen, but that should just happen. number two, legislative and oversight. they don't have any oversight because republicans control congress. you know. and then he wanted to put some on the media. and it is incumbent upon us to explain what is happening in the

grander scope, not just boom, boom, boom, this just happened. this just happened. this just happened. take a step back. >> some democrats are calling for a government shutdown. we'll see. >> we'll see. >> where that goes. >> to do that, how can you call for a government shutdown when you're arguing about government being cut? i don't understand that. i mean, it makes no sense politically to me anyway. but what do i know? >> mark preston, you know, a lot. >> we appreciate. >> we appreciate the analysis. jeff zeleny at the white house as well. thank you both. still to come, hamas says the next hostage release won't happen saturday as planned, saying that israel is allegedly breaking their ceasefire terms. we'll tell you how israel is reacting. >> plus, the newest government target in president trump's crosshairs, the consumer financial protection bureau employees at the watchdog agency now ordered just to stop all work. and later, a dramatic escalation in surveillance activity. the u.s. deploying spy planes near the southern border with mexico to gather intel on

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have cnn's jeremy diamond live for us from tel aviv with the latest. jeremy hamas has just released a new statement about why they're doing this. it sounds like israeli leaders are trying to figure out if what hamas is alleging here is really what this is all about. how is that complicating matters? >> yeah, without a doubt. i mean, there is so much happening in the background in addition to this specific statement. i mean, you have president trump throwing out this idea of permanently displacing gazans from the gaza strip and the united states taking ownership of it. you have the images over the weekend of those three emaciated israeli hostages, which have become seared into the public conscience here and are certainly driving more urgency for freeing the remaining hostages who remain in captivity in gaza. and then on top of that, now you inject this threat by hamas, which, as you can see in these images in tel aviv, is already driving more protests here in israel. hamas

says that it is making this threat because israel has violated the cease fire in several manners. they point specifically to israel's targeting of palestinians in gaza, which israeli forces have killed several palestinians since the start of the cease fire. they say that israel has blocked the entry of shelter equipment such as tents. and these prefabricated houses, which have yet to enter the gaza strip. and they also point to the delay of the entry of medicines. now, israel hasn't responded to some of these specific allegations by hamas yet, but what they are saying is that they are putting their troops on high level of alertness for any possible scenario. that's from the israeli defense minister, israel katz. now, it is important to note that hamas, after saying earlier that this hostage release would be delayed this coming saturday, is now making very clear that this is a threat and that this is while it is a serious threat, it is a threat that its implementation can be averted. if israel and the mediators take steps to address these alleged violations that hamas is pointing out, hamas is

saying that this by making this threat five days before this release, that this should give the mediators, quote, sufficient time to pressure israel and that it, quote, leaves the door open for the exchange to proceed as planned. so certainly a serious threat to this cease fire agreement at a very, very fragile time, by no means a guarantee that this cease fire will collapse or that that hostage release on saturday won't go ahead as planned. brianna. >> all right. jeremy diamond, live for us from tel aviv. thank you for the report. boris. >> turning now to russia's war in ukraine, president trump says he's spoken with russian president vladimir putin about the war and claims that putin, quote, wants to see people stop dying. in a new interview, ukraine's president says he is ready to negotiate with putin if the united states and europe provide security guarantees. and just a short time ago, he announced that, quote, some serious people from trump's team are visiting ukraine this week. cnn chief national security

correspondent nick paton walsh has covered the war extensively. and nick, you write that very much could go wrong as trump pushes for an end to this conflict. >> yeah. look, i mean, the choreography of how this is coming together is fascinating and abnormal. i think it's fair to say we've known that at the munich security conference this friday and saturday, the envoy for ukraine for president donald trump, keith kellogg, is likely to present to allies parts of his plan here. but then suddenly we have this flurry of activity involving trump himself, who on friday suggested that he might indeed meet ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. this week. and then zelenskyy's team appear to have moved quite fast to try and get that to happen. and instead they've got this team of, quote, serious people coming to ukraine ahead of the munich security conference. we don't know who they are. i would suggest if they were very serious, he probably would have given us the names, but a lot moving in private here at this point, conversations clearly

like that trump had with putin. the kremlin simply haven't even confirmed happened. and so there's clearly a bid to try and get something moving. but the real issue here is quite where ukraine has a place in all these negotiations for the whole biden administration, for the whole three years of the war, they've been front and center of every part of western policy. and now the noises we're hearing from zelenskyy and his team are to remind people in media interviews how important it is to have ukraine at the table. if anything is indeed decided. trump has talked about putin. he's talked to putin. he thinks putin wants a deal. remember his relationship with zelenskyy in his first term? not ideal, you might say. and now it is essentially trump, who is envoy kellogg says is going to be the one to present a peace plan. a lot could go wrong here. russia's winning on the battlefield day by day, slowly but surely. and i think the ultimate issue here is whether the kremlin actually wants a deal. >> boris and nick, one of the fascinating aspects to any potential deal is that trump has said he wants to secure access

to ukraine's supply of rare earth minerals in exchange for continued u.s. assistance. how might that shape a potential deal, and how does it potentially alter the relationship between the u.s. and ukraine? >> yeah, i mean, it's worth pausing and just thinking about that as a rationale for ending in nato in europe's favor. the biggest war we've seen in europe since the 1940s, to get a good deal of access to rare earth minerals. now, ukraine is not renowned for that. there are some suggestions. it has a few, but it's not a key industry like it is. for example, in some south american countries. and so i think this is perhaps part of individuals trying to give a business rationale to the white house as to why ukraine would be good to be on their side in the future. one quick reminder, boris, exactly the same argument was made to trump and by trump in 2017 about afghanistan, and he signed a deal with the taliban pretty quickly afterwards, which essentially gave the country back to them. although it happened under president joe biden. so some warning signs there, perhaps.

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>> turmoil today for america's chief financial watchdog. the acting director of the consumer financial protection bureau, russell vought, has told workers to, quote, stand down from performing any work task. big picture. there's currently no federal regulators safeguarding americans money from unfair banking practices. and right now, it's unclear when the agency's work will resume and if it will resume. officials said sunday that the headquarters here in washington are closed this week. joining us now is the former director of the cfpb, rohit chopra. he was removed from his post by president trump earlier this month. rohit, thank you so much for being with us. as you watch what the trump administration is doing here, why do you think they're doing it? >> well. >> i. >> don't know. i mean, we need to protect people from some of the biggest powerful corporations in america. and over the past few years, we took action so they would forfeit billions of dollars from people that they cheated. companies like wells fargo, goldman sachs

and more. and the truth is, people are really worried about high credit card interest rates, how they're going to pay their mortgage. we don't want to see their pocket picked. and by telling people the investigations are over, no more oversight. it just feels like a free pass to some of these big corporations to do whatever they please. >> there are partisan differences historically in cfpb is pretty new, but there are differences of what cfpb's role should be. opinions on the agency. why is this different than just that? >> well, you know, i would say that there isn't so much partisan difference when you look at the actual work. medical bills, junk fees, protecting our personal data, it really enjoys broad support. the only place it's controversial is in washington, and especially with the lobbyists representing wall street and these big companies. so, you know, here's what's

different. this is in some ways a defund the police movement that they're pushing when it comes to big corporations. the cfpb is one of the only agencies that is overseeing these very large financial institutions. and increasingly, big tech giants are wanting to control the flow of money and payments. and they, too, have been potentially wanting to interfere with the agency's operations as well. >> so as an example, let's talk about elon musk. he tweeted rip cfpb, complete with a tombstone emoji, before the doge team took control of the cfpb account, deleted it before russell vought even took over at the bureau. what what are his conflicts specifically here? how could he personally profit from this? >> well, a lot of people are talking about how some of these big tech ceos and others, if they have the ability to spy and snoop on other competitors trade

secrets to know new products that are coming out, if they're looking to gather more and more data on us, that could really pose a big conflict. a lot of these tech companies, facebook wanted to create its own currency. google actually sued the cfpb to stop us from looking at their google pay business. so there clearly is a lot at stake here. and these big tech companies seem to not want the cfpb to be looking under the hood. >> as you see this, is this legal. the way they're doing this. >> i don't really know what is going on over there. and i don't understand what is motivating it. the cfpb is one of those agencies that is doing exactly what people want. it was formed to help stop a repeat of the mortgage crisis that we saw in 2008. so i hope that people will see this is an agency that is really about serving people

without a political agenda. >> we were talking about some of the real life examples of work that the cfpb does that affects people, whether it's junk fees. we were talking about this in the break beforehand. when it comes to military families or veterans, you've targeted porn lenders, auto lenders with predatory practices. those looking for personal data that that they should not be getting, um, talk about some of the real world implications for just general consumers out there for this. >> well, we saw how there were active duty military families and so many others who lost their home to an illegal foreclosure. there's been companies that have illegally repossessed service members cars while they were at basic training. so we're really proud of all the work to prosecute those crimes. and what's really worrisome is more and more

companies want to feast on the data about all of us. we know that foreign adversaries of ours are trying to mine data about military families and those involved in intelligence services. the cfpb has been aggressive on trying to make sure that data brokers and other companies who assemble data about us, that there's some accountability and they need that accountability and oversight. otherwise, it's open season on our most sensitive data. >> rohit chopra, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it. boris. >> pretty soon pennies could be harder to come by. president trump says he is ordering the u.s. mint to stop production. he says it will help save costs and he may be right. right now, it takes more than $0.03 to produce a single penny. but there's a catch here. there might be a hiccup to his plan without the penny. more nickels may have to go into circulation, and they're actually more expensive than

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drug cartels. cnn's katie lillis is here with details on this. katie, what are you learning about this increased surveillance at the border? >> yeah, brianna, let's let's talk about the scope of of this plus up here. in the past, the u.s. military might fly maybe one surveillance flight along the southwestern border, maybe one a month. what we have seen is at least 18 flights that we know of in just a ten day period, starting at the end of january, all across the southwest united states in u.s. airspace and then in international airspace, looping around the baja peninsula. and as you mentioned, these are planes that are usually used by pentagon leaders to do things like hunt russian and chinese submarines or to check out what's going on in the war in ukraine. these are finite resources that the defense department has. and so this this plus up really gives you a sense of the degree to which the trump administration is willing to shift finite national security resources away from overseas

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