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fight it. >> jason carroll thanks. the news continues right here on cnn. >> it's wednesday. >> february 12th. >> right now on cnn. >> this. >> morning. >> i feel like the luckiest man on earth right now. >> back on american soil. marc fogel a man held. >> prisoner in. >> russia, released one of his first stops. >> the white house, to meet with the president. plus this. >> i always abide by the courts. always abide by them, and will appeal. >> complying with the courts. president trump promising there to abide by the judge's rulings but vowing to appeal any that don't go his way. that's how the constitution works. and later. >> if you get gazans. >> out of gaza and what's next? what about the west. >> bank? >> proposal pushed back? the jordanians, clearly not on board with president trump's plan to displace millions of gazans from their homes. the president, though, remains insistent it

will happen. 5 a.m. here on the east coast. here's a live look at capitol hill on this cold and snowy morning in washington. good morning everyone. i'm jim sciutto in for kasie hunt. thanks so much for joining us this morning. a u.s. teacher wrongfully detained in russia for more than three years is now safely back home on american soil this morning. and another american could be released later today. president trump is not saying from which country. however, last night, mark fogel, appearing at the white house draped you'll see there in an american flag greeted by the president and expressing an outpouring of gratitude to those who helped get him home. >> i feel like the luckiest. i am not a hero in this at all. and president trump is a hero. these men that came from the

diplomatic service are heroes. thank you all. and i love our country and i'm so happy to be back here. and. i wish i could articulate it better. >> fogel release was negotiated by the president, his special envoy for the middle east, steve witkoff and other presidential advisers. >> he's got a great mother. and when i saw the mother at a rally, she said, would you, if you win, will you get my son out? and i promise she's 95 years old. and i said, we'll get him out. and we got him out pretty quickly. >> the white house says fogel was released as part of a, quote, exchange. it did not give any details about what the u.s. gave in return. instead, president trump said the move could, in his view, help end the war in ukraine. >> i think there's goodwill in terms of the war. it could be a big, important part of getting

the war over with ukraine. >> joining me now, senior white house reporter for bloomberg, josh wingrove. and josh, do we know what the u.s. gave in return here? says it's an exchange often that has been the requirement from russia's perspective that the u.s. release a russian when americans are released from russia. >> yeah, that was certainly the requirement, jim, when we had exchanges or negotiations towards exchanges in the previous administration and that administration and this one, i should note, both have been sometimes less than clear, you know, for security reasons or operational reasons as to why they don't detail these things. but we have no information on this one, at least as of, you know, this morning as we sit here. so it's tbd right now. of course, they also had some announcements yesterday about sending secretary besson to ukraine to perhaps negotiate some sort of an end to the hostilities. trump has made clear that he would, you know, favor any kind of deal that

codified russian land gains that will, of course, fuel speculation of a potential link between those two sort of buckets. but right now, we just simply don't know what the exchange was for, other than mr. fogel is back and trump and the country sort of welcoming him back warmly, it seems he's in good condition. >> do we know, josh, anything more about a second person who might be released today it's a big open question right now. >> and we just the short answer is we don't. but that's just kind of how things have been operating so far in the administration. for instance, we heard on the weekend that trump was going to announce a massive reciprocal tariff plan yesterday or today. as i sit here this morning on that, we don't know that either. so right now we're just sort of like waiting on the balls of our feet to try to figure out what comes next. but the short answer is no. we don't know who the other one is. trump and biden do have a lot of overlap on this question of sort of bringing americans home. experts in this field, of course, you know, what you give up is an important question, because the issue hanging over

this is the potential for retaliation. people nabbing americans as bargaining chips. >> yeah. hostage diplomacy. when president biden managed to get prisoner exchanges to free americans, trump was always highly critical. he complained that biden paid a king's ransom, in his words, to get the wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich home. he blasted the deal that brought home the wnba star brittney griner. uh, any evidence that there's a deliberate effort by this white house to just simply not reveal what they gave up to russia? >> i mean, as of now, there deliberately have not revealed, i mean, what their motivation for that is, but all i can do is speak to the facts that we just don't know. and as i say, that it will, i think will fuel speculation or questions about a connection. you know, is is trump engaging and pushing for an end to the hostilities in ukraine in a way that russia is good with? and if so, are they willing to play ball in hostage diplomacy? if so, some in

trump's orbit might be perfectly happy with that deal, but they have not made that link. no one has proven that link. i think there'll just be questions about the concurrent timing. >> and of course, the big question is to end the war in ukraine. what is this president willing to give up? what would russia demand? what would ukraine be willing to to give up? i want to turn now to to this moment in the oval office. elon musk appearing with president trump there yesterday. and listen to this exchange. >> the white house says that you will identify and excuse yourself from any conflicts of interest that you may have. does that mean that you are, in effect, policing yourself? >> well. we actually are trying to be as transparent as possible. well, all of our actions are are fully public. transparency is what builds trust, not simply somebody asserting trust. >> i mean, listen, this country has a whole host of regulations and laws to avoid conflicts of interest. he's basically saying they're he's going to be transparent, and that should be enough to build trust. is there

any other evidence that this white house has imposed any guardrails to avoid those conflicts of interest? >> it's very little. and, you know, mr. musk and the president in court last night, that was in many ways the most information we've had since inauguration about this effort. mr. musk pointed to the twitter account of doge, for instance. but what they're doing is just simply not fully public. they're not briefing the press. and and of course, mr. musk is an avowed critic of the legacy media of mainstream media. they're not, you know, detailing some of these things. they're instead cherry picking, saying, we found this contract or, you know, this other thing. uh, things typically that are, in fairness, democrats aren't pushing back against. they are finding things that seem, you know, to be on solid footing for cuts, at least in, in conjunction with trump's mandate. one other thing that's important here, i think, on this one, is that there were critics that said, well, musk himself is an unelected bureaucrat who is sort of marauding through the government. and he alluded to this yesterday, saying that the

bureaucracy is sort of this, you know, fourth branch of government that shouldn't be there. it should respond to the will of the people. no one would disagree with that. but democrats are saying they can't get information on what is happening. and therefore the doge effort itself, in their mind, is not responding to the congress at least, and being transparent through congress to the american people. >> yeah, the unelected bureaucrat criticism is one you hear from republicans often. they do not refer to the fact that elon musk, of course, unelected. josh wingrove, thanks so much. coming up on cnn this morning, standing steadfast, jordan publicly rebuffing president trump's proposal to simply take over gaza and expel the 2 million palestinians who call it their home. plus, the plane crash caught on video. the pilot walked away, however completely unscathed and why one democratic senator believes kash patel is playing a role in firings at the fbi before he's even been confirmed as director this is the.

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the 2 million people who currently live there with jordan's king abdullah at his side, the president repeated his view that those palestinians should be moved out of gaza to quote parcels of land in countries including jordan, jordan, the king appeared deeply uncomfortable with the plan. he did not publicly object in that moment. later, however, his foreign minister made jordan's position quite clear. >> listen to you. >> we can rebuild gaza in in in relatively a short period, three years or so, and that can be done without gazans leaving. because if you get gazans out of gaza and and what's next? what about the west bank? >> cnn's salma abdel aziz joins us now from london. i've spoken to diplomats in the middle east who are extremely opposed to this idea. and you saw some of that come out, certainly from the jordanian foreign minister, not from the king, as he was sitting there next to the

president. um, later, though, he did tweet king abdullah that the that jordan is resistant to this. how are they managing expressing that while i imagine not trying to get on the wrong side of this president. >> i mean. >> what an. >> awkward press conference. >> that was. >> to just see that play out. look behind closed doors. jordan, of course, expressed that not only are they opposed to president trump's plan, they see it as destabilizing the region. they also emphasized that jordan already hosts some 35% of its population is refugees. half of the population of jordan is made up of palestinian descendants. so essentially the king saying, look, we're at breaking point from hosting the world's refugees as it is, but i think the king of jordan and the arab world knows that president trump won't simply take no for an answer. so they're working on a counter plan. take a listen. >> we have to. >> keep in mind that there. >> is a plan from egypt.

>> and the arab countries. >> i think. >> let's wait until the egyptians can come. >> and present. >> to the president. >> and not get ahead of ourselves. >> again, this is something that. we as arabs will be. >> coming to. >> to the united. states with something that we're going to talk about. >> later. >> now, president sisi of egypt is also expected to arrive at the white house later this month. it is egypt that is leading this proposal, this plan. but alongside, of course, other arab countries. unclear what they're considering at this time. and if president trump would even accept it. but all of this, of course, puts a huge question mark over the peace process as a whole. you have to remember phase one of that cease fire agreement expires on march 1st, and at this time, there is no sign of those negotiations continuing. >> the president's words about the ceasefire in gaza were quite strong. he said that if hamas does not stick to the next hostage release, in his words, all hell will break out there.

the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, seemed to echo that. have a listen. i want to get your thoughts on the other side. >> if hamas does not return. >> our hostages. >> by saturday. >> noon, the. >> ceasefire will end and the idf will return to intense fighting until hamas is completely defeated. >> is the feeling now that the cease fire is going to fall apart, or that that they will find agreement before saturday? >> i think overwhelmingly there is the sense that the ceasefire will fall apart. it's just a question of when it will fall apart. so you have this micro inside this macro picture. of course, the debate, the trump proposal of moving all gazans out of gaza. you have this micro debate, this micro spat, where hamas has said, we're not going to go ahead on saturday with this exchange because we believe israel is violating the cease fire agreement. now, diplomats will tell you maybe this can be resolved, maybe this can be, you

know, we can find a solution in terms of getting more aid to gaza that would allow that to happen on saturday. but you again, have that deadline on march 1st. east prime minister netanyahu, this is the big question. is prime minister netanyahu actually committed to that peace and ceasefire deal, or is he seeing the path forward through washington, d.c., and not through the arab capitals? >> the question you have to expect that the people currently in gaza would dread the resumption of that war. salma abdelaziz, thanks so much. straight ahead on cnn this morning. a messy day for a lot of people. snow and ice for some. heavy rain for others. forecast coming up next. plus musk versus altman. the very public feud between the billionaire tech rivals heating up over openai at morgan.

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>> cnn news central today at 7:00 eastern. >> multiple storms are bringing rain, snow and ice to millions of people in the u.s. new overnight drone footage shows houses and streets in maryland covered in snow. this is north of dc. i can tell you, d.c. itself, we got a lot of snow, too. and there's more to to come. meteorologist derek van dam walks us through the forecast. >> this parade. >> of winter storms. >> is. >> being driven by the upper level winds known as the jet stream. notice how they enter the. west coast and then quickly traverse the country to the east coast. so we're lining up one storm after another after another. we're calling it a parade of storms, and the initial storm. storm number one this week just about to exit off the east coast, but not before the damage has already been done. we've had some significant icing across western portions of virginia. snowfall across the mid-atlantic and heavy rainfall to the south. we get a brief lull in the precipitation for, let's say, about a 6 to 8 hour period

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>> public health would put every single american in danger. kennedy is not a doctor. he's not a scientist. he's not a public health expert. the only thing he's an expert in is peddling conspiracies and profiting off his own lies. >> strong words. joining me now to discuss all things capitol hill. congressional reporter for the hill, michael chanel. michael, thanks so much for coming in. >> hey. >> good morning. so there was a time where even republicans told me they were doubtful gabbard and kennedy would get through, but now it looks like the way has been smoothed. i mean, are they are they locks? later today. >> i would never. >> say you're. >> a lock when you're talking about. capitol hill. and things can change on a dime, but they're certainly looking like they're in very good shape. tulsi gabbard particularly, she advanced on the senate floor earlier this week. party line 52 to 46 vote a good sign for her. there are still some wild cards. mitch mcconnell did vote to advance her nomination, but as we saw with henk smith, he voted to advance, but then voted against henk smith. also, john curtis is still unclear if he's going to vote to support, but

that's only two people. and as we know, with all democrats voting no, it's going to take at least four. that's a high bar to clear. so even if there are some defections, it doesn't look like it's going to be enough to sink tulsi. >> what made the difference here was it. was it a charm offensive or a threat offensive by this administration to threaten? we saw a lot of that quite publicly, to threaten republican senators who voted against. >> the answer to that would probably depend on who you ask. we did see that tulsi gabbard particularly engaged in a lot of back and forth with some of these senators, for example, todd young was somebody who was on the fence really till the 11th hour. somebody who sits on the intelligence committee, which is why he was such a key vote. he said that he had some final conversations with tulsi gabbard that ultimately convinced him to support her. so i think that this just underscores that this is donald trump's senate, and we know that there are still some detractors in the senate who aren't trump's biggest fans mcconnell, todd young, thom tillis. but with donald trump in the white house, that is a really strong force. and we're seeing republican senators find it a hard time to go against him.

>> and a lot of folks offering up their money to primary folks who vote against this president on these picks. another one who, again, early on kash patel for the fbi, seen as a long shot. senator dick durbin is alleging that he is already personally directing the purge of fbi employees before he's been confirmed. have a listen to how the senator put it. >> follow the dots. >> it goes from the white house with stephen miller, the deputy to the president, to the acting attorney general. beauvais, and the messages kash patel kp the initials wants you to move faster in purging the ranks of the fbi like they've done already in doj. this is the day or two days before patel testifies under oath and on that committee that he's had nothing to do with this. so clearly he's misleading us or worse. >> durbin says if that's true, he perjured himself at his confirmation hearing. uh, is

anyone particularly on the republican side, taking this seriously at this point? >> not particularly. no. we heard from chuck grassley yesterday who was the top republican on the senate judiciary committee, who didn't seem concerned by this, said that this was more of an attempt to attack kash patel and prevent his confirmation. so i don't think that this is going to change the situation very much. move the needle very much. dick durbin did say that he hopes that republicans can reconsider their vote in light of this new information. senate judiciary committee is set to vote on his nomination on thursday. so we are sort of in the last minute moments right now. but again, this gets back to what i was saying before that a this is donald trump's senate. and b, elections really matter because when we're talking about democrats trying to join with a few republicans to down a trump cabinet nominee, they need at least four republicans to join them. that's a very high bar to clear. if there were just a few different, you know, a few different outcomes of some of those senate races. for example, in pennsylvania, bob casey lost by just 15,000 votes, 0.22%.

that could have been a whole different ballgame. so i think this also underscores that, you know, elections really matter in the breakdown in the house and senate can be the entire story. >> yeah. i mean, henk smith right. it would have. >> been exactly. >> that would have been enough for to to sink his nomination. michael schnell, thanks so much. thanks. the feud between billionaire tech rivals elon musk and the openai ceo sam altman, is heating up and getting more personal as well. this after altman fired back and told a group of investors backed by musk that his company is not for sale. cnn's brian todd has more. >> reporter yes. >> as elon musk. >> tries to build his empire to an even greater degree, he gets rebuffed by one of his biggest personal rivals. >> it's like another. >> one of his, you. >> know, tactics. >> to try. >> to. >> like, mess with us. >> sam altman, the 39 year old ceo of openai, has rejected an unsolicited offer from musk to buy openai for $97.4 billion. altman says his company is not for sale, and told bloomberg tv

he thinks he knows why musk made that offer. >> i think he's probably. >> just. >> trying to. >> slow us down. >> i think what you're seeing here is that elon musk, who has such tension with sam altman, could try to buy the company to squash it. or integrate it into his own company. zae. >> zae is musk's own artificial intelligence company, founded less than two years ago. it's seen as smaller, not as advanced as altman's openai, a leading company in the innovation and marketing of artificial intelligence that wowed the public with its sophisticated, groundbreaking tool, chatgpt. altman didn't just reject musk's bid. he got harshly personal in describing the world's richest man. >> probably his whole life is from a position. >> of insecurity. i feel for the guy. >> do you. >> feel. >> for him? >> i do actually. i don't think he's like a happy person. i do feel for him. >> a far cry from a decade ago when altman and musk co-founded openai as a charity. >> sam altman has said. >> that he. >> really looked. >> up to elon. >> musk at the time. >> when they launched openai. >> together.

>> they were. considered on top. >> of silicon. >> valley, and they. >> were. >> doing it as a whole. >> but in 2018, musk left openai. >> openai perspective. >> is that elon musk wanted to take over openai. >> he wanted to merge. >> it with tesla, in fact, and that when sam altman refused to do that and in fact took over the company himself, that's when their relationship really started to break down. >> musk has since filed multiple lawsuits against openai, accusing the company of betraying its nonprofit mission by looking to make a profit with its a.i. tools, an accusation altman denies. their feud spilled out in public again last month when president trump hosted altman and two other ceos at the white house to launch a $500 billion a.i. infrastructure investment. musk tried to undermine the announcement, posting, quote, they don't actually have the money. trump himself commented on musk's disdain for altman. >> he hates one of the people in the deal. >> now. >> this. >> relationship has soured so. >> much to the fact that they're, you know, trading. public barbs. it really speaks. >> to how much. >> the trump. >> relationship has really come

between the two of them. >> sam altman also said he's not concerned that elon musk has a new and powerful position in donald trump's white house, but he acknowledged he probably should be concerned about that. spokespeople for musk and for x did not respond to cnn's request for comment on altman's latest remarks about musk. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> coming up, the race to contain bird flu and the precautions that some farmers are taking to protect their farms and their livestock. plus, the sun's kevin durant reaches a major milestone, joining a very small group of elite players. >> honey. >> but the gains are pumping. >> dad is mommy. a finance pro? >> she switched careers to make money for your weddings. >> oh, the. >> asian market is blowing up. >> hey. >> who. >> wants shots, huh? >> shots of milk. >> the right money moves aren't as aggressive as you think

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york farmers about their concerns and what they're doing to protect their chickens and their livelihood. >> so these are our two year old birds that are out here in a winter house, and they're venturing outside today. >> farmers like tom warren have been keeping a more watchful eye on their chickens these days. >> we'll just have to see what happens. it's kind of what we're going to do and hope for the best. >> warren owns stone and thistle farm, a small farm located in the foothills of the catskill mountains. more than a three hour drive from new york city. but with the threat of avian flu, the city seems closer than ever. new york's governor temporarily shut down live poultry markets in new york city, long island, and westchester county as a precautionary measure. after several cases of bird flu were recently discovered. >> over the. >> last week. >> inspectors have detected seven cases of bird flu in poultry. >> cases of bird flu were also

found at the queens zoo, and possible cases are under investigation at the bronx zoo. last month, a commercial duck farm in long island was forced to euthanize more than 100,000 ducks after a bird flu outbreak hit the facility. to prevent further spread. wild birds are the likely source of the avian flu on farms. it's a big concern for small farmers such as warren, whose livestock and poultry are partially raised outside where they have free range to roam. >> we just hope, i mean, for us it's mostly, uh, we can do a few things to prevent or reduce the risk hazard. >> what can you do? >> well, we like i said, we keep our feeders indoors, so that deters wild birds from coming down into the place. >> you're very pragmatic about the whole thing. >> getting agitated about it isn't going to benefit me or the chickens or the farm business. so we take as many precautions as we can. >> precautions such as no one permitted on the farm if they've been to another farm, own a

bird, or have had contact with birds is why we did. daniel bryan's interview over zoom. >> you can't see it, smell it, or, you know, you have no idea where the bird flu is until it's too late. yes, i am worried. >> bryan is a third generation poultry farmer who has dodged avian flu outbreaks in 2014 and 2022. he says an outbreak could be financially devastating for small farms like his and warren's. >> it's like a death sentence. you know, you lose your cut, you lose. you don't have any eggs for 3 to 4 months at least. it's it's a nightmare, but it basically puts you out of business. a smaller farm. >> is that. something that you could survive if you had to shut down for that? >> um, yeah. i'm going to survive. it's the chickens that aren't going to survive. but, um. no, but it would be difficult. it would hurt our business astronomically. >> his message to consumers during all this. poultry and eggs remain safe when prepared properly. >> would you like to hold her?

>> uh, no. >> no. >> warren says his eggs and chickens are selling. and his well-trained dogs help keep the wild birds at bay. for now. >> it's probably unlikely that we would contract it, but it's still a crapshoot. i mean, we there's a limit to what we can do to control it. >> what do you think your odds are? >> i'm not much of a betting man, so. okay. i have no idea what our odds are. i mean, we've managed to get through a couple of years with, uh, avian influenza around without any problems, and we can just hope that we'll make it through a couple more years, and then i'm going to retire. >> jason carroll, cnn, east meredith, new york. >> all right. time now for a little break. sports. and the phoenix suns superstar kevin durant officially has etched his name among basketball's all time greats. coy wire has this morning's cnn sports update. i mean, this is this is quite a mark. 30,000 points. >> kd.

>> 30 k what's up jim? >> kevin durant, the newest member. >> of the nba's. 30,000 point club. >> 15 time all star reaching the mark. >> with a free throw in the. >> third quarter. >> against the grizzlies. >> last night. >> and there. >> it is. k.d. joining the. >> likes of. >> wilt jordan, kobe, kareem and lebron, who. >> is the league's all time leading. >> scorer. >> now, durant finished. >> the game. >> with 34 points. >> in the 119. >> 112 loss to the grizzlies. but immediately after that final buzzer sounded, grizzlies star john morant made sure k.d. got that game ball, giving it to him as a sign of respect. >> durant true honor to be in the same. category as those players. who've helped shape the game and push the game forward. and that's always been my goal, is to get the most out of myself. >> every day. >> and the most out of my career. and so to be mentioned with those guys means i'm doing something right. >> all right. >> joel embiid in the 70. sixers

hosting the raptors. phillies down two with under 15 seconds to go. embiid was wide open. but instead of taking the shot he turns the ball over. and the boo birds. they came out in philly. raptors win 106 103. set to make 50 million plus this season alone. the former league mvp has missed 37 of his team's 53 games this season. now there will be plenty of brotherly love in philly as well this friday, valentine's day. the city throwing its super bowl parade and ceremony for the eagles. more than a million people expected to line the streets from broad street all the way to the rocky steps at the museum of art. philly public schools and courts will be closed. all right. instead of an all star weekend, the nhl is hitting pause on the regular season to host the four nations face-off tournament, featuring the world's top hockey powers canada, finland, sweden and the u.s. boston bruins teammates brad marchand and charlie mcavoy have developed a tightly knit friendship over their careers, but now they'll be playing against each other and may very

well meet in the championship game, which would be in boston a week from tomorrow. it really. >> is special. we're really looking forward. to it. >> i can't. >> wait to take a run at this guy finally. and yeah, it should be fun. >> i enjoy being able to compete with him and against him in practice, but it'll be it'll be really cool to to, you know, face off against him and and and be able to to to share that experience. >> you can catch marchand and team canada take on sweden tonight at eight eastern on our sister channels tnt, trutv and streaming on max. finally, the calendar may say it's only february, but the boys of summer are getting warmed up. red sox pitchers and catchers have their first workouts today at fenway south in fort myers, florida. spring training gym those games start next friday. opening day is set for march 27th. that's when everyone will be chasing those dodgers who are looking to pull off the repeat, and they have completely reloaded. all right. >> dodgers, dodgers mets fan here. i think we got a pretty good team. i cannot wait for the

start of the season. >> yes, you got soto. i know you're happy about that. >> yep. i'll be watching. coy wire. thanks so much. in our next hour on cnn this morning, elon musk holding court in the oval office with president donald trump sitting right by his side. democratic congressman greg landsman is here to discuss that powerful duo at the helm. plus, a u.s. teacher held prisoner in russia is now back home. president trump said another american is expected to be freed soon as well. >> what were the terms of this deal, mr. president? >> very fair, very, very fair, very reasonable. not like deals you've seen over the years. >> struggling with the highs and lows of bipolar one. ask about vraylar because you are greater than your bipolar one, and you can help take control of your symptoms with vraylar. some medicines only treat the lows or highs. vraylar treats depressive, acute, manic and

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