>> when i saw the plane was kind of excitement, but also like, should i be nervous now? and like. the realization of trump's words are no longer just words now they have become the reality. >> tony joins us now. so did you find some people who wanted us? >> no, nobody we met. there's 57,000 people, but we met. we met a few of them. nobody we met actually wants to fully join the united states. however they are. i mean, the idea of a closer relationship with the u.s. isn't all that crazy. denmark has quite a dark colonial history there, so folks do want to be independent, but they have realistic expectation, which. >> is the concerns about defense for them. >> exactly. and tom downs, the american you saw in that piece, he would argue that in practice, really, america is already providing a lot of security for the island.

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that's a live look at my hometown, new york city. good morning everyone. i'm jim sciutto in for kasie hunt. wonderful to have you with us. in just a few hours, president trump hosts jordan's king abdullah at the white house at a critical moment in the history of the middle east. the president is threatening to withhold funding from jordan and egypt, u.s. allies, if they do not agree to accept millions of palestinians from gaza. both countries have rejected the idea. trump wants the u.s. to take control, take ownership of gaza. he's making it clear he does not believe the palestinian people have a right to return to their home. but what about. >> the palestinians who just won't leave? we've spoken. our team has spoken to many in gaza. they say it's their home. >> when they have a place that's a better alternative. when they have a nice place that's safe, they're all going to leave. it's a hellhole right now. >> but how are you so sure? would the u.s. force them. >> to leave? >> you're going to see that they're all going to want to

leave. >> it's not clear that's true. president trump is also threatening hamas after leaders of the group threatened to postpone the next hostage exchange with israel this weekend. the president gave hamas until saturday at noon to comply with that deal. >> i would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out. >> let's bring in joel rubin. he's a former deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in the obama administration. joel. good morning. >> good morning jim. >> let's state quite clearly this is not normal for a u.s. president to demand that 2 million people leave their homeland and to then threaten u.s. allies by withholding aid if they don't accept that forced removal of people, and at the same time saying the u.s. is going to take ownership of this. a basic question, because so often with this president, you will hear it's just a negotiating tactic. and yet he's repeated this quite publicly, and apparently he's going to tell king abdullah of jordan, if you don't accept this, i'm going to pull your

aid. >> yeah, jim, it's. >> a highly. >> destabilizing effort right. now underway that the president is engaged in. it's dangerous. it's risky to american interests. it's risky to our allies. and we have allies for a reason. because they support our goals. they are people. they are countries. >> they are. >> leaders like king abdullah, who have been standing with the united states for a number of years in the fight against i.s.i.s. last year and shooting down missiles coming from iran, headed towards israel and syria, a highly destabilized country where they've taken in refugees, where they are providing us with intelligence in the fight against i.s.i.s. so it's a really dangerous risk without any appreciable upside. and that's what's so shocking about this. >> and it's a risk to their stability, is it not? you look at jordan, it already has 2 million palestinian refugees and the jordanian people and the egyptian people would certainly not be happy if their leaders accepted u.s. pressure to participate in the forcible removal of a population. >> the gentle way of putting it, i think there would be riots in

the street. look, jordan is a majority palestinian country ethnically, in terms of the population. king abdullah is family is from the hashemite tribe. they are and have been leaders for decades. but if you if you were to watch the street protests now, you would see the anger, the seething anger, the concept of palestinians being forcibly driven from gaza into jordan is so unthinkable. and then for the united states to do it. you know, look, this region is always unstable. it's always burning, it's always hot. and now, to have the president of the united states put gasoline on those smoldering embers could turn into a raging fire. we know what that looks like in the middle east. we don't need to create hostility again against the united states. we have a stable ally undermining that completely. that is backwards for our interests. >> do do jordanian and egyptian leaders have the wherewithal to say no to trump? because it

appears that trump and this is this is a consistent piece of his foreign policy so far, which is to say, i will withdraw, i will crush you economically if you don't listen to me. i mean, you could look at, say, denmark with greenland or even this putative döpfner putative offer of statehood to canada, which no canadians are interested in. can jordan and egyptian egypt resist this pressure? >> ultimately, there are major aid packages that we provide to these countries. jordan is the number three aid recipient in the world from the united states. egypt, also a top recipient. but, you know, if they look at us and say, you are going to destabilize my country, that is a higher cost to us than these funds, these funds, it's a lot of money in the billions of dollars. but it is nothing compared to what we spent in iraq, in a country that was totally destabilized. we spent $1 trillion and didn't leave it more stable. so it's a it's an investment. they can withstand

the pressure to a certain point, but they are also going to have to look at the new geopolitical landscape. president trump is using aid and has withheld aid to try to enforce his policies. and they're going to have to look at the united states and make a decision. do they want to continue to stick with us, or will they look for other benefactors, like china in particular? >> is it possible that saudi arabia could be a stopgap here? in other words, i mean, trump apparently. at least he says he wants this normalization deal with with israel between saudi arabia and israel. he wants to expand the abraham accords or or not sink the abraham accords. right. because you have a scenario where participants in that agreement say we're out. if you're forcing the palestinian people away. could could he get a phone call from mbs saying, this is not going to work, old friend? >> well, i'm glad you brought that up because the context and as in earlier segments, the cease fire underway, the dialog about israel and saudi arabia, will they become partners? will there be an agreement between

them? all of that will get rocked by this kind of plan. and if the saudis do call, and i'm sure they're speaking all the time, their message will be clear. we need a solution on the palestinian issue that is related to keeping them there and trying to find a way where they have governance in gaza, in the west bank. prime minister netanyahu the other day said something very stark. he said that maybe in saudi arabia we could have the palestinian state, which drew quick rebuke from the saudis. this is the kind of destabilizing talk that we don't need right now in the middle east. it doesn't serve our interests. >> public talk of moving an entire people, quite public talk. joel rubin, appreciate it. i'm sure it's not the last time we talk about. >> this. >> coming up on cnn this morning. no exceptions, no exceptions. president trump escalating his trade war with the blanket new tariff on all steel and aluminum imports, plus dropping the case. new york's

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mexico. china is the world's largest producer of steel and chinese steel oftentimes makes its way into the u.s. secondhand. >> it's 25% without exceptions or exemptions. and that's all countries, no matter where it comes from. all countries, if made in the united states, however, the united states of america, there is no tariff zero. so if it's made in the united states, there is no tariff. all you have to do is make it. in the united states, we don't need it from another country. as an example, canada, if we make it in the united states, we don't need it to be made in canada. we'll have the jobs. that's why canada should be our 51st state. >> well, canada is in fact an independent country showing no interest in becoming the 51st state. president. trump placed tariffs on steel and aluminum during his first administration, but many customers found they still needed to import the products from lower priced manufacturers abroad. and that move ultimately sparked a trade

war, which did raise prices on other items for american consumers. joining me now is cnn's beijing bureau chief, steven jiang and stephen, china had to be preparing for this because trump was quite public about his intent to raise tariffs, not just on steel, aluminum, et cetera., but on china specifically. is this better or worse than they expected? >> well, jim, interestingly, so far the chinese have not said much about these latest steel tariffs, but this will likely cause pain for their steel sector because one of the long standing complaints from washington is chinese steel makers have been flooding the global markets with cheap products and sometimes at below cost prices. because of this country's industrial overcapacity. now beijing, of course, has always denied that. but very interestingly, on monday, their cabinet held a meeting and without mentioning this term, industrial overcapacity. afterwards, they said they would try to optimize

the country's industrial layouts and market supervision and phase out outdated production in certain sectors. so there seems to be this tacit acknowledgment of this issue and their attempt to address it. but whether or not they're going to launch any specific countermeasures against these steel tariffs, that remains to be seen. jim. >> we've been here before because, of course, trump imposed tariffs in 2018 during his first term. walk us through how those played out. >> indeed, there's quite a bit of deja vu here back then. of course, we have also seen these tariffs and counter tariffs on billions of dollars worth of goods from both sides. the two biggest economies in the world. but eventually the two sides actually reached a trade deal with beijing agreeing to huge purchasing commitments on american goods and services, including a lot of agricultural products. but the problem is that trade agreement was never fully implemented. so i think for a lot of people in dc, that

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>> reporter. while russia says its forces are making steady progress on the battlefield in ukraine, the costs are high. the ukrainians publishing this video, allegedly showing a russian warplane crashing during battle in the same area. the russians won't confirm or deny whether president trump and the russian leader have already spoken directly. and russia's deputy foreign minister making clear that peace talks with moscow will be tough. when i asked him at a press event. there is no hidden agenda or purpose in our position, he says. there's no element of grandstanding. our position is derived from a full understanding of internally felt and deeply experienced tragedy and seriousness of what is happening to the national interests of our country. music to the ears of those attending the veterans event in moscow, vowing to fight on as long as the kremlin says tonight, the

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caused and continues to cause irreparable harm to a vast portion of this country. the president claims it's the judges who are overreaching. >> it's a shame what's happening, mark. it's really a shame. but judges should be ruling. they shouldn't be dictating what you're supposed to be doing. >> well, but judges were ruling. trump's latest comment. piles, piles on to criticisms we're already hearing from other top officials, as well as elon musk, his vice president, jd vance, who writes judges are not allowed to control the executive's legitimate power. elon musk now says, quote, is being destroyed by a judicial coup. a federal judge in boston gets ready to issue a ruling on whether or not the administration's buyout for government employees is legal. republican leaders of congress are stopping short of pushing back against attacks on the judiciary. senate majority leader john thune told cnn's manu raju, quote, i mean, the

courts obviously are the sort of the branch of our government that calls balls and strikes and referees, and i think they've got an important role to play. not quite strong words there. house speaker mike johnson added this. >> i wish the courts would allow the executive. >> and the legislative. >> branches to work, but we'll see how all that. >> develops. >> joining us now, joey jackson, cnn legal analyst i mean, those words from john thune, kind of sorta they have a role, maybe. i mean, we have a constitution. there are co-equal branches of government. the judiciary has the right to review actions by other branches of government here. i just wonder, as you watch this, is this administration laying the groundwork to just straight up defy court rulings? it doesn't like? >> yeah. >> they certainly. could be. >> jim. >> good morning. >> to you. i think. >> we're an important. >> moment in our history. and that important moment. is going to be telling as to how that

very high court, which, you know, has a really conservative. foolproof majority, right, how we're going to live. and when i say that every branch of government has. >> a role. >> i don't need to give a history lesson, but perhaps the white house needs one. you have an executive and absolutely he's elected, and that needs to be respected. at the same time, you have congress that has the authority to pass legislation and the executive enforces it, but the courts make an assessment as to constitutionality. we have a constitution that has to be followed. and you're allowed, if you're the president, to have priorities. what you're not allowed to do is to take unilateral actions which are an overreach. if you have funds that are passed by congress. jim, you as the executive right, are supposed to administer that, and you take an oath of office to do it. so we're at an important inflection point in history as to whether, when it gets to the high court, they're going to play politics or they're going to honor the rule of law. that remains to be seen. the executive simply can't just do what it wants to do. >> it's a good point, because the point you're raising there

is, right, that it's actually two branches here because congress, with the power of the purse, passed this funding prior. and now the judges are saying, in effect, you have to spend that money that was appropriated by congress. trump is saying, in effect, no to both of you. you mentioned the supreme court and the chief justice, john roberts. he has not commented on the current words from the administration. he did say this in his end of the year 2024 report just a few months ago. and i'm quoting within the past few years, elected officials from across the political spectrum have raised the specter of open disregard for federal court rulings. these dangerous suggestions, however sporadic, must be soundly rejected. i mean, they're no longer sporadic, right, because we're hearing these from trump, his vice president, musk, who has become his mouthpiece for some of these positions. how would this work its way through? at what point might this rise to the supreme court, and it might

then have to weigh in yeah, jim, i think it's going to rise and go pretty quickly. >> you mentioned elon musk. he's not elected, but he's talking about, hey, judges are corrupt. you can't call a judge corrupt simply because they don't do what you think they should do. there's a place for judges that is to interpret the law, right? we look the radical left judges. i mean, it's not about radical left. it's about what it is that judges have a role to do. you you talk about vance also, jim, the vice president, where he notes that, hey, it's not within the court's function to engage in illegitimate activities or to thwart the will of the president. it's not, but it is to check the president. and so i think it ends up at the supreme court. and when i talk about let's go full circle, an important inflection point in history, are the courts going to hold now from what you read, what you just read about the actual chief justice that's showing that, listen, this is an important role that the that the

government has, the supreme court has, and that role is to really enforce the constitutional authority that we have. and so it's going to be interesting to me, jim. we're in bizarre times. and it shouldn't matter that look, i have a d on my chest that i have an r on my chest, meaning republican. i have an i, i'm an independent. it's about justice. and what does justice look like? and justice is not about electing a king to decide what's going to happen. it's about congress, the will of the people, and whether the president has the constitutional really obligation to follow that will and just not take unilateral action. because you know what? i don't like that funding, not the way it works. that's in the province of congress. >> well, listen, i remember in the last administration, justice roberts also pushed back against this idea of republican judges, democratic judges. there are judges to to get away from this sense that, you know, you're either with me or against me, in effect, which seems to be the trump approach to so many things. joey jackson, thanks so much for joining this morning.

>> thanks, jim. >> now turning to this, president donald trump sat down with fox news and gave his honest, quite direct thoughts about president jd vance's future in republican politics. >> do you view. >> vice president jd vance as your successor? the republican nominee in 2028? >> no, but he's very capable. i mean, i don't think that it you know, i think you have a lot of very capable people so far. i think he's doing a fantastic job. it's too early. we're just starting. >> might not be what vance was hoping trump would say. it's also not the first time trump has downplayed vance's role as vice president. here was trump on the campaign trail, just two weeks after announcing vance as his running mate. >> historically, the vice president in terms of the election does not have any impact. i mean, virtually no impact. >> joining me now notice political reporter reese gorman. reese, good to have you this

morning. if it's not vance, who is it? i mean, is trump laying the groundwork for one of his children or perhaps for a third trump term? if he could get that past the courts? >> yeah. i mean, i believe also i mean, he might just not be willing to kind of back jd at this point so early on. i know there's definitely a lot of lawmakers on capitol hill that do view jd vance as a successor. i'm sure jd vance views himself as a successor to trump. but, i mean, i think trump i mean, like we saw i mean, trump doesn't like to lose at all. so he might be looking at this being like, we don't know what it's going to look like come 2028. and so he's kind of trying to keep his powder dry kind of back it up, just being like, let's wait and see how this whole field plays out. as, as we know, like a lot of people are probably going to get in a run, especially the first kind of election without trump going to be on the ballot. >> trump has said more than once, well, maybe, maybe, possibly i might run again. he certainly hasn't eliminated that. is that serious talk? once again, i think there's a tendency in this town to at first dismiss comments like that as bluster until trump sticks

with it, before you know it, it becomes reality. >> yeah. >> i don't really believe that. i mean, because there's going to have to be a change in the constitution, which is going to take i mean, that's going to take a whole lot of stuff that is going to democrats have to get on board democratic states in order to change the constitution. so that's going to be really difficult. i mean, there are lawmakers. i mean, andy ogles has a bill out that could allow trump to serve a third term. but again, i mean, the constitution is very clear on this about what happened. so i don't necessarily think that it's a realistic possibility that he could actually serve a third term. >> right. well, unless the trump attempts to ignore a judge's ruling on what the constitution says, or at least the amendment says, i want to take ask you to take a listen to one prediction as to how trump might be thinking about a successor. have a listen. >> donald trump jr., i think. >> wants to build a dynasty on the back of his father and is going to be looking for opportunities of nepotism to establish himself as the heir apparent. >> the trump. >> family views politics as a family business, and one in

which they want to reward each other, their spouses, their friends. i mean, jd vance got into the position he's in because he befriended donald trump's sons. >> congressman jake auchincloss there. is it possible that trump sees this as a family affair in terms of his successor? >> it's 100% possible. i mean, you've seen i mean, the trump family is very involved in trump's kind of political, especially in the first term. they're kind of less so this time. but, i mean, they're still a senior adviser. i mean, even if not officially a senior adviser. trump trusts donald trump jr. and eric trump a lot when it comes to a lot of this stuff. i mean, jared kushner is one of his top advisers for the first term. and so he does trust them and he trusts their judgment when it comes to policy, politics and what to do about the campaign. don jr. was someone that trump would look to regularly, and even some of donald john jr.'s top advisers also are really close to the president. so is this something that. i mean, would it be surprising that he does see this as a family affair of kind of laying the pathway for one of his sons to to serve down the road.? >> and don jr. was was essential in picking jd vance as his vice

presidential running running mate. >> exactly how jd got on the map for trump. >> i want to i want to turn to something that president trump is facing right now, and that is the rising cost of eggs. grocery stores such as costco, trader joe's limiting purchases, waffle house adding a surcharge to eggs now. thieves. i mean, it's more than once, right? thieves are actually stealing eggs. of course, the president campaigned on lower prices. he promised to lower prices on day one. that's not happening. is there significant concern inside the white house, the administration, that this will eventually hurt the president? >> i know definitely on capitol hill, there is definitely concern on this. i mean, republicans, especially going into the midterms. i mean, what you saw happen last time trump was in office in the midterms. the republicans got wiped out in the 2018 midterms. and this is something that, i mean, a lot of some republicans on the hill do feel like he's not really paying attention to some of the most pressing issues of the time being cost of groceries, which is what they feel like they won the election on that border security and other things. but specifically, i mean, the price

of groceries. i mean, trump at his bedminster held a press conference just surrounded by groceries and was talking about the price. and obviously mean prices aren't going down. and there's so many campaign to kind of lower price on day one. and then he's come in and be like, oh, like lowering price is actually a lot more difficult. so it's definitely a concern from republicans on the hill. who's going to have to answer? i mean, trump's not going to have to answer for his rising cost of groceries for probably ever. i mean, whoever runs for president will have to win next time, but republicans are going to have to answer for it in two years. and so this is something that they're concerned about. >> yeah, it's a good point that the political costs of continuing inflation would not be borne by trump himself, but by republican lawmakers. >> exactly. so they're the ones that are going to take on this burden of having to answer for all the things that trump has done or hasn't done. and they're ultimately the ones who are going to pay the consequence for it. come 2020, whatever year it is, 2026. >> we'll see. and it comes it always. those midterms always come quicker than you imagine, right? gorman, thanks so much. >> for having me on. >> still coming up after this break, an inside look at trump's immigration crackdown

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>> our. >> democracy is that we observe court rulings. it's in the constitution court, storm the president's blitz to overhaul the federal government roadblocked by federal judges as trump's top allies are now suggesting he could defy the courts. plus. >> they're all going to leave. it's a hellhole right now. >> turning up the pressure. president trump says he may cut aid to u.s. allies jordan and egypt if they refuse his plans to, in effect, expel 2 million palestinians from gaza and a bidding war. elon musk leads a nearly $100 billion charge to acquire control of openai. y. his competitor is saying no thanks. >> then the indictment is very old. it goes back a long time. well, i had the same thing, so i wish him well. >> case dismissed. the