trump's team. >> who knew milkshakes could bring us together? >> i was i was struck by the president's statement that the straws explode like he had me at the disintegrate thing. but i've never seen an exploding straw. i don't. >> know, i mean, the thing is, it is part of a broader going after any sort of environmental regulation. plastics, et cetera. i mean, from evs to plastic straws, right? i mean, this is this is a central feature of of the second trump term. >> if i could take another tack on it. it also is sort of an appeal to common sense. we have a lot of government regulations that just violate common sense. this is one of them. >> the nanny state wagging its finger and telling you what you can and can't. >> do, though. i mean, i think i don't actually know if there is a national. >> some states. >> the point was to reduce plastic waste. right. and the president is right. you know, the ban on plastic straws, not plastic bottles, of which there are very many and produce a lot more plastic. but i can't imagine there's going to be much progress on that in this term. thanks so much to all of you. we discussed everything from gaza to plastic straws. thanks so

much to you as well for joining us. i'm jim sciutto. cnn news central starts right now. >> so a. >> crucial moment in the president's plan to own gaza a meeting at the white house with the leader of the country that the president wants to force to accept palestinians, even as he now says palestinians will not be allowed to return home. >> and the stage is set for a constitutional crisis. judge after judge blocking the president's moves and he's now going after them. >> and another deadly plane crash. this time, though, on the ground. a small private jet registered to the frontman of motley crue crashed upon arrival at scottsdale airport in arizona, killing one person and injuring several others. i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan, john berman. this is cnn news central.

>> happening now. we are standing by for president trump to host the king of jordan. this is their first meeting since the president said he wanted to convince maybe even force egypt and jordan to accept millions of palestinians from gaza. >> would you withhold aid to these countries if they don't agree to take in the palestinians? >> yeah, maybe. sure. why not? you mean if they don't agree? if they don't agree, i would i would conceivably withhold aid. you. >> so the president has said he wants the u.s. to own gaza after the removal of palestinians from their homes. egypt and jordan have rejected this. a position that could grow even more rigid after the president now says that the palestinians would not have the right to return home. >> beautiful piece of land. >> would the palestinians.? >> no big money return? no, they wouldn't. >> no they wouldn't. let's get

right to cnn's alayna treene at the white house this morning. this is a big meeting for king abdullah of jordan. >> oh, absolutely. >> and first of all, of course, this is the first arab leader that president donald trump is hosting since being sworn into office last month. but of course, this discussion over his his, as in, president donald trump's plans for gaza, this idea of taking ownership over it and then essentially saying that he wants to try and force countries like jordan and egypt to house these displaced gazans, is going to be at the forefront of the conversation. it's also, of course, a proposal. we heard the president first circulate last week when israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was at the white house. but it's one that he's also doubled and tripled down on. you mentioned that president trump said that he would not essentially give gazans the option to return to the gaza strip if he were to actually have the united states go and try to take it over. as the president has said. we saw the white house, essentially,

and early on tried to walk that back, saying he meant temporarily. but then we heard the president in this interview with bret baier and fox news, say that, no, he means permanently. so again, this is going to be definitely at the forefront of that conversation. we know king abdullah of jordan is coming at 1130. he is bringing his son, the crown prince. we're going to have those talks. one key thing, though, is that it will not be open press. we are not going to see this joint kind of press conference that we saw him do with netanyahu last week. so it may be difficult for reporters like us to ask questions, but definitely this is going to be the main topic of conversation between these two today. >> that might come as a relief to the king that there will not be the freewheeling setting that happened last week, given what occurred when that took place. this happens as the peace deal in gaza. the cease fire deal, i should say, seems to be unraveling. elena. >> that's right. the deal, the cease fire and hostage deal with hamas is very fraught. we know that yesterday, hamas said that they may not release the hostages as part of that plan, that they were initially

planning to release. on saturday. the president was asked about this yesterday and said all hell would break loose if they do not move forward with that. take a listen to how he put it well, i would say this and i'm going to let that be because that's israel's decision. >> but as far as i'm concerned, if all of the hostages aren't returned by saturday at 12:00, i think it's an appropriate time. i would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out. >> now, john, this is, of course, the first major setback for this very delicately crafted deal, one that he had actually had his middle east envoy, steve witkoff, carefully negotiate in addition to people in the biden administration. so stay tuned for that. another big, of course question today as the king of jordan comes to the white house, john alayna treene. >> great to have you there. thank you very much, kate. >> this morning, president trump

is going after federal judges. why? well, they're telling him no, at least temporarily. his extraordinary number of executive actions and orders have generated an extraordinary number of legal challenges. and judges are stepping in from his move to try and end birthright citizenship to the elon musk led efforts to freeze federal funding and forcibly shrink the size of the federal workforce. the question now becomes, what will the president do about it? will he simply defy judge's orders? that is more of an open question than ever. this morning, after new interviews he's giving yesterday. cnn's katelyn polantz has much more on all of this, and a lot has happened on this front just this week already. and a reminder to everyone it's only tuesday. >> it's only tuesday. >> kate, there. >> is so. >> much emergency court action already in week four of the trump administration. every single day there are new lawsuits that are popping up.

many, many. and judges are moving very fast to address the complaints that different people, entities and others are having against the trump administration and their policies. so what the judges are doing is largely they're saying temporarily, let's keep the status quo or, hey, don't do that. if you want to do something really extreme, we're going to have more court proceedings later. a lot of things are getting paused. just yesterday, kate, there were five different instances where federal judges stopped the implementation of trump policies. that graphic was just up showing seven different things that have happened in the past couple of days. but the five that happened yesterday, let's walk through them. the federal there is a federal workforce whistleblower chief who was removed from office. he was reinstated temporarily. his name is hampton dellinger. the birthright citizenship executive order. a judge said, yeah, we're going to also block that. it's been blocked by other courts. but a third judge piped up, there were cuts to public health

research funding that the nih was planning to do. a judge overnight said nationally, that's not going to happen. the nih and the department of human health and human services is not going to curtail the research dollars for medical systems and academia across the country. there also was an exit plan for federal workers that they were supposed to take by a deadline last thursday. that deadline keeps getting extended by the courts. and then finally, there are there's money, kate, that is being frozen in different ways by the federal government. and judges keep stepping in and saying, you can't do that. and so all of this is happening on a daily basis. we expect much more court activity today. >> all right, caitlin, we'll stick. we'll stick by stand by and wait for you to bring it to us. thank you so much, sarah. >> all right. ahead, the new york mayor's dream come true. the justice department now telling prosecutors to drop

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>> right? >> a disgraced democrat being given a ride on the trump pardon train. former illinois governor rod blagojevich, convicted of multiple corruption crimes, now pardoned by president trump, who is calling his case a terrible injustice. blagojevich was convicted of corruption in 2011, involving a scheme to try to sell the senate seat left empty by barack obama. when obama became president, trump commuted his 14 year sentence. during his first term. blagojevich, who has become a staunch trump ally and supported his reelection, said he and the president have gone through similar situations. >> it's over. how interesting it is that when someone goes through something like we went through and he's gone through what he's gone through, it creates a certain understanding between people who sort of understand that something isn't right and something is wrong. >> now, just hours after blagojevich got his pardon, the

justice department moving to drop the ongoing federal corruption case against democrat new york city mayor eric adams. cnn's gloria pazmino is joining us now. um, okay. what is next? >> well, look, sarah, for several months, there have been a lot of speculation that eric adams was angling for a pardon. >> or a. >> dismissal of the charges that he was cozying up to trump, declining to criticize him, meeting with him in mar a lago. and now we have this memo from the department of justice. and even though it's only two pages, almost every line has some eyebrow raising information in it, including the fact that the doj agreed with adams that this prosecution was politically driven. that's what the mayor said when he was indicted, that he was being targeted as a result of his criticism of the biden administration for its handling of the migrant crisis here in new york. they go on to say that this prosecution simply comes too close to the june primary, which is only a few months away. and that

essentially it's been tainted as a result of all the publicity. we have not yet heard directly from the mayor. today. he is expected to address new yorkers during a noon address today, but also just sort of surprisingly, in this memo, there is an acknowledgment that the doj is issuing this order without having reviewed the evidence or the legal theory. i want to read a key line from the memo. it says the pending prosecution has unduly restricted mayor adams ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration on vile and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior administration. what are they saying? they're saying that because the mayor is being prosecuted, he's not able to help the trump immigration, immigration crackdown and its agenda that this is preventing him from doing that job. another another shocking line of this memo, something that's got democrats here in new york very concerned that there was some

sort of trade done here. the memo also does include a footnote that says, just to be clear, this is not a quid pro quo. we're not getting any sort of immigration help in exchange for this. we did hear from the mayor's attorney, alex spiro, last night. i should mention alex spiro also represents elon musk. he said that he, um, uh, had said from the outset, the mayor is innocent and he would prevail. today. he has. he also told our kaitlan collins last night that he believes the mayor would have been acquitted in 45 minutes. lastly, how did we get here? the mayor had been accused of receiving, um, travel perks, requesting and receiving illegal donations from foreign nationals, and using his influence as mayor to influence city agencies on behalf of those donors. >> trump administration calling it political that he was gone after. it sounds very political what they are doing as well, since they haven't reviewed any of the case in its entirety.

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first time that jerome powell will be put in this position where he's got to answer direct questions about the trump economic agenda. yeah, john, he's. >> got almost. >> an impossible job here. right. he's got to talk. about the. state of the economy and the risks ahead without getting bogged down in politics. and that's so hard to do because so much about the outlook today is driven by the policies that have been put forth by the white house. right. exhibit a, the emerging trade war that president trump has launched. just yesterday, these 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the u.s. goldman sachs is telling clients that these tariffs are going to be largely passed through to u.s. prices. what does jerome powell say about that and the other tariff proposals out there. what does he say about inflation expectations. because there's new surveys out in recent days that show americans are bracing for higher and higher prices, in part because of the trump tariffs. the jobs report this is his first chance to weigh in on that kind of mixed january jobs report. what does he say about that? and then there's a lot on deregulation,

specifically the recent efforts to dismantle the consumer financial protection bureau. is powell in favor of these efforts to essentially pull the cop on the street, off the street here when it comes to trying to fight financial crime? and then i think the elephant in the room. right. it's the fact that two of the most powerful people in the world, jerome powell and donald trump at times have not gotten along. you remember after the fed kept interest rates steady at the last minute, at the last meeting in january, trump came out and he essentially attacked powell and the fed over inflation. but then he backtracked a little bit, and he actually said that powell made the right move there. so we're going to hear powell try to defend the importance of fed independence from from politicians. >> good luck with that. look, even a simple question. are tariffs inflationary which you can bet a senator will ask will put him in a bind. >> oh it will, john. it will. and look there's just a 7% chance of an interest rate cut the next meeting in march. very low chance of the meeting after that. after may. i don't think there's much about today's hearing that's really going to

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to be doing. >> joining me right now is cnn senior legal analyst, the former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district. elie honig ali, thanks for jumping on. when donald trump says they should be ruling and not dictating do do you think that he and the white house are actually setting up to defy some of these judges orders? >> well, they. >> haven't actually done that so far, kate. they actually haven't actually defied a judge yet, but he's definitely laying the groundwork here. and if you take that comment, judges shouldn't be ruling. they should be dictated and they shouldn't be dictating. they should be ruling. in addition to jd vance's statement the other day in which he basically said, well, if a judge tells the executive branch what to do, that's illegal, they certainly seem to be setting the foundation and hinting at defying. they haven't done that yet. but if they do, then we are in unknown constitutional territory. >> i mean, good morning ali. you can turn your alarm off now. but

continue with me on this vein. i mean, we've got so many moves that it's almost head spinning for people to even keep track of. i think by some, some counts, it was like 30 lawsuits already filed. i think i'm probably short. some katelyn polantz is saying more action could be coming today. so stand by for that. what? and all of these moves, at least most of these moves seem like they are all judges saying, let's hit the pause button so i can actually consider the legal question here. what does that and what does that mean in terms of what could be a long, drawn out fight here with some of these moves? >> yeah. so it's important to understand we are really only at the first step of what will be a long legal process. no judge has actually overturned anything that donald trump has done just yet. what they've done thus far and many judges have done this is put a pause, put an injunction, put a hold on these actions, because the way the law works, it says if some new action gets announced and a party challenges it, what that party has to do is show some

likelihood of success, some likelihood that they'll ultimately win, but they don't ultimately have to show that they certainly will win. and so all of these holds are temporary now. and it's really important to remember what donald trump and the administration have been doing and will have the ability to do is to appeal those rulings, is to bring them, in some cases, back to the trial court, in some cases to bring them up to the next level court of appeals, and in some cases to bring them up to the u.s. supreme court. so we really are very early in all of these challenges, but they are going to play out, i think, pretty quickly over the next several weeks and months. >> yeah. and as it plays out, though, you do need to listen to the judge and what the judge's order is, which is kind of the big question in some of this. and then there is this memo coming from the from doj, the acting deputy attorney general, to the acting u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york, your former shop directing that they drop the case against new york city's mayor, eric adams. and what's so amazing about this memo is it clearly states that this directive has

nothing to do with the actual corruption case against adams. they write, the justice department has reached this conclusion without reassessing, without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories of which the case is based. but they do suggest in this memo that it may have everything, or at least something to do with adams. i don't know, helping with donald trump's agenda because they claim in this thing that the case unduly restricted mayor adams's ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior administration. how unusual is this, ellie? >> this is a bizarre and extraordinary memo. i've really never seen anything like it in all my years of being at the justice department. and since then, what the memo says, essentially, this is the bosses at doj ordering the southern district of new york to dismiss their indictment of eric adams. and as you note, kate, the memo itself said, this has nothing to do with the merits of the case, with the quality of the evidence, with anything. eric adams is alleged to have done.

instead, they couch it. first of all, in these sort of broad political terms, they say, well, the prior u.s. attorney had bad motives when he indicted eric adams. they argue that it had something to do with trying to influence the election while providing zero support, zero evidence for that. and then the second excuse that doj gives is also the mayor has to do his job as mayor. he has to focus on his job as mayor. he shouldn't be sort of sidetracked with such trifling matters as a federal indictment, but by that logic, no public official should ever be indicted for anything because they all have jobs to do from a member of a city council all the way up to governors in the u.s. senate. you can make the exact same argument. so this is a flagrantly political move. i think it's poorly disguised, and i think it's absolutely out of the ordinary. i think it's a worrisome harbinger about what's to

>> and don't take my word for it either or ellie's even the washington post and political reported there's no strategy sign yet to outright disregard the courts old enough to remember. >> and you make a good point there. when joe biden tweeted out that he was flouting the supreme court on student loans, or about a month ago when he started issuing constitution era ratifications via tweet. so

look, look, look, i there's nothing, nothing that he's done to disregard the courts. he can disagree with it. that's perfectly fine. jd, elon, president trump all of them disagreed, but nothing right now to your point has disregarded a court order. >> so, karen, both matt and i have established we are old and we remember. but what do you think? what is it that you think the trump administration is doing here? is there a strategy, especially when you have, you know, jd vance and elon musk out there floating the notion that maybe it's okay to go beyond the court order? >> so i'm old enough to remember all the times that donald trump somewhat disregarded the courts over the last couple of years. i mean, we've we know how he tends to react. remember that? how many times did the judges have to give him a gag order or say, you can't continue to disparage people, and he would ignore it. and we've also known for

decades his m.o. has been to sue and tie things up in the courts while he continues. so that's happening over here while he continues to do what he wants to do over here. and that's why we should be concerned, particularly given the scope of what we're talking about here. like, let's not forget, we're literally talking about people's lives, their well, our health, our economy. i mean, think about this. the the government purge we're talking about, for example, 30,000 employee government employees, public servants in kansas city alone that will devastate kansas city if all of those employees are suddenly without jobs. and these are individuals who don't know what they're supposed to do, right? they're being on the one hand, they've gotten this fork in the road, and then they're seeing what the judges are saying. or if you're a cancer patient who thought you were about to start a cancer trial, you're waiting for these things to play out in the court. so they're very real life

consequences. and part of the reason we're here is because, you know, donald trump basically has unchecked power. the republican party has laid down in the road. they're playing dead. and there's, you know, the democrats have very little power to stop them. and so the courts are really the only other branch of government in our constitutional system that is able to hold them accountable and say, slow down, let's do this the right way. >> i'm going to change subjects quickly here to jd vance, the vice president of the united states, and whether or not this is a call your office moment. this is what the president said. >> do you view vice president jd vance as your successor, the republican nominee in 2028? >> no, but he's very capable. >> i don't know. i mean, so so what did you hear there, karen? >> welcome to the family. i

mean, you know, i mean, again, jd vance, i hope, has been paying attention to how many times donald trump has thrown people under the bus when when he needed to. so, yeah, that's about what i would have expected trump to say. >> i mean, i don't think there was any expectation for him to say, yup, he's the heir apparent. i endorse him right now, matt. but but man, he he leaned into that know a little bit more than maybe he had to. >> i, you know, look, i wasn't surprised. i don't expect trump to endorse his successor four weeks in. i mean, i think he saw what happened last july when that whole machination happened. you start endorsing people before its time. but look, look, no matter what trump said, let's just be honest, right? vance is today the odds on favorite to be the nominee? it's just political gravity. he's a sitting vice president. we all know that, right? it's not a slam dunk. nothing's ever guaranteed. and if trump is reasonably popular among the party, vance will benefit from that. if he's not for some reason, i don't necessarily anticipate that vance could suffer. but right now, if you're

a betting man and pitchers and catchers report today, john, put your money down on jd for a nominee. >> look, jd vance is the favorite to be the nominee. the way that the chiefs and the eagles are the odds on favorites today to be in the super bowl next year. i mean it i mean it that that's that's that's the way that odds and betting work. it just does. even though it won't be them in all likelihood next year. it's just that right now that's the safest bet. i get what you are saying. all right. karen finney, matt gorman, nice to see you both. it's nice to see smiles this morning. i appreciate all of that. sarah. >> it's all because it's you, john berman. all right. an fda plan to ban hair products with possible links to cancer may be in limbo this morning under the biden administration. the fda proposed banning the potentially cancer causing hair straightening products used and marketed largely to black women. but under the trump administration, there are now questions as to whether the fda will move ahead with the proposal to ban those products. cnn's health reporter jacqueline howard has the story for us.

>> we know that scientists and advocacy groups have long warned about the potential cancer risks linked to the use of formaldehyde and formaldehyde releasing chemicals in hair straightening products. those are products like hair relaxers and certain keratin treatments, and these products have been disproportionately advertised to black women. a previous study from 2022 found that among women who have not used hair straightening chemical products in the past 12 months, 1.6% developed uterine cancer by age 70. but in comparison, a much higher share. about 4% of women who frequently use these products developed uterine cancer by that same age. so based on data like that, the fda under the biden administration previously considered proposing a ban on these chemicals as ingredients in hair straightening products. the proposed rule at the time had a

possible action date of april 2024. that was then pushed back to july 2024, then september 2024. official action was never taken, so now the new possible action date is next month, march 2025. if this rule is formally proposed, it will be up for public comment and then the fda could decide whether any further action is needed before a final rule possibly could be put in place. banning these ingredients in hair straightening products. but there's a lot of uncertainty around the fate of this possible proposed rule under a trump white house. will it move forward? will it be withdrawn? we really have to wait to see what may happen next. >> all right. our thanks to jacqueline for that this morning. at least one person is dead and several others injured after a private jet owned by mötley crüe frontman vince neil collided with a parked

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after president trump ordered the department of agriculture to freeze spending for grants and loans promised under the biden administration. the trump administration, though, rescinded the pause less than two days later. but the farmers who need that money still feeling the impact. marilyn flour farmer laura beth resnick is joining us now. first of all, just explain what effect did this freeze and then the reversal of the freeze have on you? are you still dealing with the consequences of this? >> yes we are. we signed our contract with the government about a year ago to put solar panels on our barn, and about a year later the project was complete and we were supposed to get our funding. the week that the funding freeze was announced. and we still haven't seen the money. and when we asked the government representative where it was and what we should do, they informed us that our funding request had been rejected due to the funding freeze. >> okay. so your funding had been approved and then the

freeze happened. it was rescinded. and now they're telling you it's been rejected. do you have any understanding of why that is? >> i don't they haven't been in touch with us since they told us that. and they told us just to wait and that there's a lot of moving parts and that no one is really sure what's going on. so it's a very stressful time. >> do you think this is part of the design of all of this is that they're saying, look, the freeze is no longer in place, but in fact, it is still in place, just more quietly. >> i don't know. i mean, i'm just a farmer trying to do my work. i have no idea how these things work, you know? i mean, we have relied on government grants before to build our farm. and, you know, i started farming right out of college. i was 23 years old, didn't have a whole lot of money of my own farming. you don't make a whole lot. so, you know, the profit margins are so slim. these government programs are just so important for helping new farmers and farmers who don't have, you know, independent wealth to get

going. so in the past, there's been no problem with these government grants and loans. but this is the first time i've ever had anything like this. >> what does, you know, not getting the other half of that $73,000, which is nothing to sneeze at, mean to your business. >> it's hard to even think about. we already have loans for building our farm. we bought our own farm after a decade of leasing land just a couple of years ago. so we already have a farm service agency loan that allowed us to build heated greenhouses to grow our flowers during those winter holidays, like valentine's day and easter. so it's hard to imagine taking on more debt. you know, we're sort of scraping by just paying back the loan that we already have as it is. >> have you thought about sort of applying for new grants? i mean, what would that be? and do you just expect that they're going to get rejected as well? >> it would it would feel strange to apply for more grants, given that i don't feel

like i can trust that they will be issued this grant. this particular grant was the kind of thing where you put the money up first, and then you get reimbursed. so, you know, we're waiting and we're hoping. but if a future grant opportunity from the government comes up, i'll definitely pause before accepting because i would be afraid this might happen again. >> is this happening to your fellow farmers? are you hearing this from anyone else in your world? >> yes, absolutely. everyone is really scared. people have reached out to me all over the country sharing similar stories. there's other two other farms in maryland who were in the middle of receiving their grant contracts for their solar panels as well. so there's at least two other people who are in the exact same position as me. and then there's also other government grants, not even this one, but ones for building high tunnels and putting a well on your property and putting up fencing for livestock. and all of those are frozen. so everyone is kind of in limbo and just

feeling very nervous. >> laura beth resnick, thank you so much for for talking us through this and giving us the real world impact of some of the things that the administration is doing. and by the way, the flowers that we saw from your from your farm are gorgeous. i might be calling you a little bit later. those are beautiful. so appreciate you coming on this morning. all right john. >> all right. this morning the ntsb is investigating an accident at scottsdale airport in arizona. one person was killed and three others injured when a lear jet owned by mötley crüe frontman vince neil. you can see it right there. collided with another plane into another plane. airport officials say the jet's left main gear failed we had a. >> mid-size business jet. upon arrival, collide with another mid-size business jet that was parked on private property. >> representative for vince neil says he was not on board the jet

at the time. so secretary of defense pete hegseth has changed the name of fort liberty back to fort bragg. the base had been named fort bragg after confederate general braxton bragg, a slave owner and by all accounts, a pretty lousy military commander. it was changed in 2023, in an effort to remove the names that honor confederate leaders. now, secretary hegseth says, instead of braxton bragg, the name honors private first class roland bragg, who earned the silver star and purple heart for his bravery during the battle of the bulge. the bulge in world war two. this morning, u.s. google users who searched gulf of mexico will now see gulf of america show up instead. the company made the update after president trump's executive order to change the name. google says users in mexico will still see gulf of mexico, while everyone else in the world will see both names. kate. >> so which is it? here we go. this week on capitol hill, the senate is focusing in on

greenland. a senate committee holding a hearing to, quote, examine the strategic significance of greenland to the american economy and national security. despite donald trump's continued push to purchase greenland. greenland has made it clear it is not for sale. cnn's donie o'sullivan went there to find out what greenlanders think about this whole thing. watch this. >> all right i really want this statue gone. >> why? >> because why should he be up there? why isn't it a greenlander up there? trump wants to buy my country greenland. >> this is cooper. olsen. >> today, meeko and i are having whale skin. >> she's known as greenland's biggest influencer, and she's running in the island's upcoming elections. she's a native greenlander. and for her, this statue of an 18th century missionary is a daily reminder of denmark's control of her country. so you would like to be independent of denmark? yes. but that doesn't mean you want to be part of the usa.

>> no, i don't. i don't want to become a part of the usa. i definitely. >> don't want to be an american. >> no. >> why not? >> why should i? why should we just be taken by another colonizer? >> native greenlanders or inuits make up almost 90% of greenland's population. is all this interest in greenland because of trump? is it a good thing, or is it a bad thing? >> in my opinion, it's a good thing because it's speeding up our independence process. so i see it as a good thing. >> when the nazis took over denmark during world war two, the united states stepped in to protect greenland. now, the u.s. military has had a presence here on greenland for decades. but in the capital, one of the very few signs of the united states is this the u.s. consulate, which was reopened by president trump in his first term in 2020. >> americans died for this country. in my own family, my my grandfather watched his his

shipmates die. >> another sign of the u.s. here is tom dennis, who was appointed to the u.s. arctic research commission during trump's first presidency. when trump first brought up greenland, people treated it like it was a joke. people thought, that's crazy. but you're saying it's not so crazy? >> it's not crazy at all. greenland, due to its geographic positioning, is the kind of the front door for north america. >> the u.s. is jostling with russia and others for arctic dominance. military bases here are prime real estate for satellite and missile detection systems. so this is danish navy. >> the danish navy. yeah. >> greenland currently relies on denmark for security and financial support. you think greenland can survive without. without this? without this. >> we will definitely need an agreement with another country. either with or still continue the agreement with denmark, with military or. go with us or

canada. >> climate change is opening up new shipping routes in the arctic that the u.s. want to control. the greenlanders you've spoken to are excited about a closer relationship with the u.s. >> absolutely. absolutely. you know, i'm i'm talking with businessmen, investors, entrepreneurs. tremendous things are happening. >> and another appeal of greenland for trump is its many natural resources. >> fishing, tourism, mining, security, investments, logistics. the hard thing is deciding where to start first. >> tom danes does not have a role in the current administration, but he did campaign for trump in the last election. along with greenlander jorgen boesen. >> he's been known as trump's son. here. >> samsung. papa. papa. papa. >> i mean, maybe you could be. yeah. >> jorgen has made multiple trips to the u.s. in recent months, even campaigning for trump in pennsylvania. do you

want greenland to be part of the united states? >> not. not a 51 state, but the best and closest ally with everything, with defense, mining, oil exploration and trade and everything? >> okay, we are here in greenland with don jr.. >> in january. another sign of the united states here. donald trump jr. arriving on the plane dubbed trump force one. it's all a sign here for some that there's a lot more to come. >> the feeling 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. >> thank you.

>> one judge says the white house is blatantly defying his orders. new questions of a constitutional crisis. is the trump administration operating above or beyond the law? an investigation underway this morning after a young sports reporter sent to cover the super bowl was found dead before kickoff. end quote. it is like a tsunami. flu cases surging into the millions as this season is on track to be the most severe we have seen in more than a decade. i'm john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. >> are we headed for a constitutional crisis? president trump slamming rulings by federal judges and his top allies are suggesting he should defy the courts, all because the judges keep blocking trump's plans to overhaul the federal government. everything from