asking for is any. we're not asking for anything special here. we're asking for the ability to exercise our faith as christians and as jewish people as as islamic people, as whatever faith we hold and do that freely in this country. >> reverend, i know that you were are the youngest top leader of the episcopal church in since the 18th century. and you have talked about an existential existential crisis. and now you've joined this lawsuit because you you truly believe this is something that goes against american principles. thank you so much for coming on and talking us through this. and we will check back in with you to see how things go and kind of what you're hearing from your parishioners as well. reverend sean rowe, thank you. i appreciate your time this morning. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now.

>> all right. breaking just a short time ago. inflation heating up. more than expected. the wrong direction hitting a mark not seen since june. stock futures have been diving. we are pushing this morning to get information about how the u.s. won the release of american teacher mark fogel from russia. so far, officials are being tight lipped on who will be exchanged, and then 150 million mixed breed dogs in the world. nearly half the dogs in the u.s. are mutts, but not one of them able to compete for the title at the westminster dog show. so, given that reduced slanted field, how special is it that a giant schnauzer wins best in show? i'm john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central all right. you are looking at live pictures of stock futures going down. why? because the

breaking news just moments ago, the first inflation report we have seen for 2025. and it's not good heading in the wrong direction. let's get right to cnn's matt egan. i was digging through this. i could find almost nothing good here. >> yeah, john, it's really hard to find anything good here. this was a setback, a significant one and one that we were not expecting. so the big number here is 3%. that's the annual inflation rate for january. that is the highest level since june. that was not expected to happen. the monthly rate also ticked higher. that is not what you want. digging in core, which excludes food and energy. both of those figures also went the wrong direction. so why is this happening? well, there's a number of different drivers here. everything from hotels, airfare went higher, eggs, egg prices were actually a significant part of this as well. we know the bird flu is a massive problem. there's an egg

shortage. so we saw that egg prices went up by 15% month over month. that is the most that we've seen on a monthly basis since june of 2015. and look at that on an annual basis. the last 12 months, 53% increase for egg prices, that is really very significant. and when we look at the trend here for inflation, the problem is that the progress has really stalled out here. right now, the goal is 2% inflation. we are now at 3%. you see there's been a lot of improvement from that inflation crisis of three years ago. we had 9% inflation. we're not there right now. thankfully. but it is ticking higher right. that is the exact wrong direction that you want to see. and that is why we've seen such a negative reaction. i mean, the moment that this number came out, we saw stock futures fall significantly. i think last look around 400 450 point drop for the dow. and we saw bond yields go higher. you could see that

right there s&p futures 1.1% lower 1.2% for the nasdaq. so this was not the number that the market wanted to see. and obviously it is not the number that viewers want to see either. >> yeah. again part of the issue there was this a surprise. i think everyone was a little surprised. it was as bad as it was. and it wasn't just everyone knows egg prices are going up, but you strip that out and things are still not good. look, how is the president responding to this? >> well, you know, it's interesting. about a half hour before this report came out, president trump went on social media and he did put out a post where he was saying that interest rates should be lowered and that this is something that should happen. he said interest rates should be lowered, something which would go hand in hand with upcoming tariffs. let's rock and roll, america. that post did not age well, john, because 32 minutes later we saw interest rates in the market go significantly higher because the market is getting

increasingly concerned about inflation and less confident that the fed is going to be able to start cutting short term fed interest rates anytime soon. so again, when you look at the cost of living, this was number one issue for many voters. this has been a long standing problem. a lot of people were hoping for more progress, and we may get more progress in the coming months. but right now, clearly the year on the inflation front is starting off on a negative. >> and it presents a policy challenge because a lot of the things the president wants to do are inflationary, you know, so it just which he may want to counter with other measures. but it does put that pressure on him politically. it does. all right. matt egan, interesting news this morning. thanks for explaining it so well sarah. >> all right. in an oval office appearance unlike anything we've ever seen before, president trump's billionaire friend elon musk standing over the commander in chief at the resolute desk, promising transparency as doge slashes agencies and reshapes the government. but critics say

the so-called transparency is nonexistent. musk saying his ultimate goal is to restore democracy. he admitted he has already made some mistakes and even not told the truth. but he says he's fully expected to be scrutinized nonstop, and that scrutiny has been intense, especially now that musk has alleged he found a lot of fraud but offered. so far no evidence to back up those claims. >> we are. we do find it sort of rather odd that, you know, there are quite a few. people in in the bureaucracy who have a ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position. >> all right. cnn's alayna treene is at the white house. tell us more about this messaging from elon musk. it was interesting you've noted this. he was doing a lot of the talking and sort of holding court while the president is

sitting at the desk, just kind of looking at him or looking at his son. and, you know, letting him go wild. >> right? and we never saw we never saw president donald trump stand up at all. he just sat there quiet and really permitted elon musk to take questions for roughly 30 minutes or so. notable, of course, because this was the first time we really heard from musk directly, certainly at length, ever since not only the election, but also since he kind of took on this purview of trying to hunt down waste, fraud and abuse within the government. but look, i think a lot of this, sarah, was about the skepticism and the criticism that all corners of washington are kind of aiming at musk and doge right now from capitol hill to the courts, really challenging the influence. musk has, the power that he has, and some of the actions that they are doing. and i do want to note, you know, people were saying this seemed like it was a spur of the moment thing, that musk was there for this executive order, you know, signing that the president did.

but this wasn't that i was told on monday by a white house official that they were planning to have musk be there to take questions and really try to cut away at some of the, you know, uncertainty and mystique that has been surrounding musk and doge this whole time. but sarah, one of the most interesting parts of this was when he started to talk about. transparency. he said, quote, transparency is what builds trust, and went on to insist that what doge is doing and what and what musk is doing himself is all public that they're putting in on their website. take a listen to how he framed it. >> all of our actions are maximally transparent. in fact, i don't think there's been i don't know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the doge organization now, sarah, as you mentioned, a lot of critics are saying, well, actually, they're not transparent at all. >> and many people who have been working in these different agencies who have been impacted by some of what doge is doing.

one, we're learning the media from them about what's happening, but a lot of them also have questions about, you know, where am i going to get paid? am i being laid off? i know within the white house and among trump administration officials as well, a lot of people don't really know what has been going on with them. so a key question, of course, moving forward is what will this transparency actually look like and what sort of accountability is there going to be for someone like musk, who, again, is an unelected official? >> sarah alayna treene, thank you so much. a lot to report there from that. um, what would the word be called unusual? uh, situation there in the white house? kate. >> the breaking news overnight. american marc fogel is back on u.s. soil, and this morning he is heading to texas to be reunited with his family and also begin the government's re-acclimation program, which we have seen in the past. fogel was, you could tell, clearly overwhelmed and overcome by emotion as he returned home. president trump welcomed him home last night and also to the

white house more than three years after. after more than three years of wrongful detention in russia. >> this super organism of people that came to my. >> support. >> and the love that i was given sustained, sustained. me for three. >> and. >> a half. >> years. >> this morning we are also standing by to learn more about another american. the white house says the president said will be released today, and also learn more about the details of this deal, how they were able to get marc fogel home just moments ago. the white house official, who flew to moscow yesterday to bring fogel home, told us this. >> we had some reach out several days ago. people approached us, me and me, and this case, and said that there might be an opportunity to get marc fogel

out. i talked to the president, his national security advisor, his chief of staff, susie wiles and john ratcliffe, and the president directed me to go over there and completed if we could. >> and joining us right now is u.s. counsel for marc fogel, martin de luca. martin, thank you so much for coming in. a fantastic morning to be waking up as marc fogel for his family and for you, i mean, congratulations and just, um, being able to see this come to fruition. he seemed so overwhelmed last night. how is he doing? is there anything more you can tell us about his reaction and how he's feeling? >> well thank you. thank you for. >> having me. and we are all overjoyed with the return. what i can tell you about him is we saw him late last night, um, after he was with the president. he was in great spirits, but he's always been in high spirits, even throughout the three and a half years of detention. we had the ability to

communicate with him from time to time, and every time he was optimistic, he was, as you know, passed up in in three prisoner swaps in the in the biden administration, um, which is unprecedented and and the last swap that he was passed up on, which was august 1st last year when, um, uh, the russians released the russian dissidents, green card holders and, and some americans, but left, you know, marcos left behind. he was he was pretty devastated. uh, and even after that, which is enduring a lot of psychological pain, he managed to not lose hope. um, so you can imagine that when they came in to the penal colony and pulled him out and drove him to moscow, uh, he didn't know what was happening, but he knew it was a good sign and that we were getting very,

very close. and then you could see yesterday, when he was with the president, how amazing his spirit, his personality, his character is, um, and how strong he was mentally to get through all of that. >> um, the big question is, what are the terms of the deal that was able to bring mark home? the kremlin says that a russian citizen is being released as part of the terms of the deal to secure mark's release, to bring him home. do you know who it is? >> i'm not really at liberty to to discuss that. that's, i think, something for the white house to talk about. um, what i can tell you is that we advocated really, um, really, really hard during the transition. um, what we understood from the dialog that was going on behind the scenes, and we worked with the russian lawyers on this at ibm and

dmitri afanasyev was. incredible at helping to maintain a channel of communication, uh, during a period of time when, you know, us-russia relations were were really difficult. but throughout that time, what we were seeing was that the u.s. government was not necessarily prioritizing mark's release. um, for a variety of reasons. and, and that had to change. um, so what's amazing about this is that for, for three years, over three years, mark, despite bipartisan support in congress, had not been designated wrongfully detained. the biden administration had produced a number of excuses for why that couldn't happen. he didn't meet the criteria. we're relying on classified information. bla bla bla bla bla uh, the facts are that the day after the election, the family received the official

notification that mark had been designated wrongfully detained. and that's when we realize the next two months of transition, not much is going to happen with this administration. and so we started advocating really strongly and pushing the idea that mark had been left behind in three swaps. uh, inexplicably, honestly, um, that the tone was going to change. the conversation was going to change with president trump, and that, you know, this was an opportunity probably once in a hundred years that to improve us-russia relations and bring it back from the brink. and so, uh, this would be a good reason to get the relationship started in a different way. um, and you know, that somehow and through various ways, it seems like the message was well received and, and the governments got talking to each other right, in a

constructive way. and the result, uh, the first result of that, i think, is yesterday. >> martin deluca, thank you for your time. congratulations on being able to get mark fogel home. it's great to see an american brought back. thank you very much, john. >> all right. new this morning, the nominee for fbi director kash patel accused of lying under oath. why? one top senate democrat is now demanding an investigation. and after eight months stranded in space, a new plan could finally bring home two nasa astronauts. >> so what are you thinking? >> i'm thinking. >> about our honeymoon. >> what about africa? safari? >> hot air balloon ride. swim with elephants. >> wait. >> can we. >> afford a safari? >> great question. like everything takes a little planning. >> or put the. >> money towards. >> a down. >> payment on a ranch. >> in montana. >> with horses. >> let's take a look at those scenarios. >> jp morgan wealth management has. advisors in chase branches. >> and tools like wealth.

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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. >> all right. with us now is republican congressman pete sessions of texas. he is the co-chair of the department of government efficiency caucus, which is bipartisan, a little less so as democrats are starting to leave it. congressman, nice to see you today. you told cnn that you were going to be meeting with federal workers, and your message to them would be, quote, i might have done it differently when it comes to what elon musk's and his teams have been doing, what would you do differently? >> well. >> thank you. >> very much. and good morning. >> the the things. >> which are. >> you the. >> american people. >> are seeing played out is data. >> and information. >> that are actually. material to the facts of the case, which. by and large, congress has. not been a part. of. >> even the government at treasury. >> the the.

>> computer people were shocked at. >> how quickly and that. >> the information. >> became available as it was. >> my point to the. >> government workers is that we are going to see that there are a series of changes that have been made, and they were publicly highlighted. those include five specific areas that the president indicated that the american people would see changes in. and those changes have now been dealt with or are being being dealt with. some in the courts and some straight up. and that i told them that i believe that the essential services that they provide are important to the american people, and that i believe that these workers that are back in texas will find themselves working for an organization that would find itself at work, would be still face to face with the american people, and that i believe that they will be value added to working with the american people. and important

to this government. >> you're an at&t guy, which you often talk about an old guy, old corporation that likes, you know, plans and whatnot. so what i'm still trying to figure out is when you are going to them, to tell them that you would do things differently than elon musk. what is it that you would do differently? >> well, we tend i tend to want to be able to give people information ahead of time instead of them seeing it on social media. i tend to want to be able to say to people, which i think that that the doge the president did do. here are the specific areas in which we will have conflict. but he. i'm not sure that we laid out in specificity where those might be and where they may be headed. so what happened is that the data and information that was gleaned from treasury drove decision making. now, why the decision making necessarily quickly?

because we are up in washington trying to make a determination about march the 14th, what we're going to fund for the coming year, it would be inconceivable to me. and i did tell them this, for us to wait and let these matters to go on for another year before we fixed it. so they began vetting that process of what might be right or what might be wrong. and i think that congress is is appropriately now finding things that had not previously necessarily been disclosed to the general members of congress. so while we want to be supportive. we're for continuing this process, including mr. musk's role in the government, the decision making that he contains and the need for them to continue to gain this information, and why the government did not want to provide that to him, which forced him, in my opinion, to

come and gain these people who could literally, as was called, break into the computers. no, they they didn't break in. they did it under official authority, under people who were elected officials. and that's what they're doing. but it is a little. a little it's not following necessarily the same prescriptive viewpoint that i might do or have become accustomed to from a corporate perspective. >> congressman, can you hang on one second and stand by? because we are getting a little breaking news, and i do want your take on it. it comes from defense secretary pete hegseth, who has now made some statements meeting with, i believe, nato leaders about what he believes nato and the u.s. role should be in ukraine. natasha bertrand is there. natasha, tell us what he said. >> well, john secretary hegseth, he did just give remarks before a meeting of the ukraine defense contact group here at nato headquarters in brussels. and he categorically said that the u.s.

does not believe that nato membership for ukraine is a realistic outcome as part of any kind of negotiated settlement with russia. now, these are extremely stark comments that stand really in direct contrast with the policy, of course, of the biden administration. but take a listen to what he said just moments ago. >> we want. like you. >> a sovereign. >> and prosperous ukraine. >> but we must start by recognizing. >> that returning to ukraine's. >> pre 2014. >> borders is an unrealistic. >> objective. >> the united. >> states does. >> not believe that nato membership. >> for ukraine. >> is a realistic outcome. >> of a negotiated settlement. >> instead, any. security guarantee. >> must be backed by capable european and. non-european troops. >> so hegseth is essentially

completely washing the united states hands here of the conflict in ukraine, he emphasized repeatedly throughout his remarks that the u.s. president trump believes that europe has to take on the bulk of the burden here, not only in helping ukraine in terms of defeating the russians or pushing them back, but also being their own primary guarantor of their own security. the u.s. cannot lead on that anymore, he said, because the u.s. is facing its own internal threats coming from the southern border, and also has to shift more of its focus and its priorities towards deterring a war with china. so all of this to say, he did reiterate that the u.s. remains committed to nato, remains committed to the european union, and that partnership, but that the alliance itself has to step up, has to spend more, has to do more, and that they can no longer rely on the united states to play that leading role, that it really was playing and was a

cornerstone of the previous administration's foreign policy. that is not going to fly anymore, he said. >> all right. natasha bertrand, for us in brussels. natasha, thank you so much for that report. congressman sessions, if you are still with us, the shift, one of the major shifts in policy here from the biden administration and previous administrations had been this this open ended attitude to the idea of nato membership for ukraine. secretary hegseth seemed to close the door on that. what's your view? >> well, in fact, i did hear him say that. but i also would say to you that during the remaining year, the last year of the biden administration, the israelis and the ukrainians received, despite what i thought was support from congress, a mixed signal from the united states. so obviously, there are some things, not just within donald trump's mind, but within the relationships that we're having, that there is

some bit of, okay, you're going to need to learn to stand on your own. you're going to need to see this as a european issue. you're going to need to be able to see that others are going to have to stand up around you. and this is a change. this is a change from where america did without question, stand behind what we consider to be a direction we wanted to go. why? because the long term implications of policy and the the putting together of the teams, the europeans have always counted on. and so this is a new way to look at it. i'll be very pleased to learn more about this, but that's the way i view it today. >> all right. the europeans have already played a huge role, obviously, in ukraine to this point. we will see what this shift, what it means for ukrainian. >> states. >> yes, absolutely. absolutely. >> with the united states once again standing in that corner, it now seems like we're going to expect europe to to determine

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>> so we need to increase. >> the arrests. >> of illegal aliens, especially those with criminal convictions. so we're. >> going. >> to continue. so three times higher is good. i'm the numbers are good for me. not good enough. we got to get more. >> now a coalition of cities led by san francisco is suing the trump administration, saying they are being unlawfully targeted as sanctuary cities. joining us right now is david chew, city attorney of san francisco, who is helping to lead this lawsuit. thank you so much for coming in. tom homan also said that sanctuary cities are going to see more agents and arrests in their communities. what's your response to that? >> well, unfortunately, this is not. >> a. >> surprise. >> since his first term. >> donald. >> trump has tried. >> different ways to coerce cities to do the federal. >> government's job in carrying out federal immigration enforcement. my city and others. >> we. >> had to sue. >> when trump tried. >> to withhold federal funding from sanctuary. >> cities like. >> ours.

>> and we. >> won federal district courts, appellate courts ruled in our favor, found conditions that the administration was placing on us unconstitutional, found that our local sanctuary policies complied with the law, and unfortunately, since inauguration day, they've just doubled down. as you've just heard, they're trying to commandeer our local law enforcement as ice agents. they're threatening to investigate and prosecute public officials and go after sanctuary cities and states. this isn't an idle threat. last week, they went after with a lawsuit chicago and its law officials making their prosecutions a reality. >> and so you are, as i mentioned, you're leading this effort with several other cities and suing this trump administration. what what specifically is there something specific that's triggering the lawsuit now? is it the threat of enforcement coming in? have you already seen special targeting of your. jurisdiction? >> it's certainly the threat.

>> last wednesday. >> trump's new. >> attorney general sent out a memo. with very explicit descriptions of what they're going to do. >> with sanctuary jurisdictions. >> last thursday, they sued chicago. and what we are trying to do is ensure that our sanctuary policies are actually about protecting public. >> safety by. >> building trust. >> the trump administration will say that you are getting in the way of the federal government's ability to do its job. how do you respond? >> so let me just take. a moment. >> and explain what sanctuary. >> policies are about. when communities trust law enforcement, victims and witnesses of crime come. >> forward. >> arrests are made, criminals are taken off the streets when the opposite happens, trust is eroded. people are fearful to report we are all less safe. and this is why hundreds of cities and many states across our country have adopted sanctuary policies. this is why hundreds of police chiefs law enforcement officials. i can say, as a former criminal prosecutor, why we support this. studies have

consistently shown that immigrants commit less crimes, that sanctuary jurisdictions have seen no increase or lower crime rates. now, unfortunately, the trump administration has spread lies about the suggestion that our cities are harboring criminals. that is false. the federal government knows the inmates. every inmate in our jails, we send them fingerprints if they have legal reason to arrest, they can simply send a criminal warrant or a court order. but the purpose of our laws is not to interfere with lawful federal immigration enforcement, but immigration enforcement is the responsibility of the federal government, not state or local governments. we need to prioritize scarce law enforcement resources at the local level to actually fight crimes. that's what sanctuary policies are about. >> david chu, thank you so much for coming in. i really appreciate your time. let's see where this lawsuit goes. sara. >> all right. breaking news. we're looking at the markets just opening and the dow not

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professor at new york law school and the author of storming the court. all right. so i guess there's so many questions here, but what are the consequences if the trump administration ignores court orders? well. >> it's. >> great to be. >> with you, sarah. >> under the constitution. >> it's the courts, not the president and his officials who say what the law is. >> what it requires. >> and this is further spelled out in marbury versus madison. the principle of separation of powers. and the point is that when a court says. this is the law. >> then all. >> of us, including the executive branch, are bound by it. but how is it enforced? if a federal court orders a private citizen or a company or a state entity to do something and they fail to do it, a contempt order is issued. in extreme cases, federal marshals, people with guns. will come out. they will show up to enforce the order. if the judge authorizes. >> it, they can. >> even put people in prison in.

really dramatic instances. for example, in the 1950s in arkansas, federal troops were sent in to enforce court orders. but if it's the president, the problem is the federal marshals are part of the department of justice. they answer to pam bondi and federal troops and the national guard, if federalized, answer to the president, commander in chief. >> so the. >> executive branch. amazingly enough, is ultimately in charge of enforcing court orders. and it's everybody's favorite founder, alexander hamilton. >> who wrote. >> about this in federalist no. 78 if pam bondi won't order the marshals to enforce the order, then the judge is nothing but a person in a robe with a book and a gavel. the bottom line is this a court can't make the president or lower executive officials suffer any real consequences if they disobey an order. what we have to do is trust that they will comply. and for the vast majority of our history, they have done so. but

there are exceptions, including andrew jackson, who the president, by the way, as you know, praises he defied the supreme court. what was the result? what happened then? well, it's. very rare. that this happens, but yes, and historians usually mention two episodes from the 1800s. in 1832, president andrew jackson refused to enforce a supreme court order in worcester versus georgia, a case about the sovereignty of the cherokee nation. and this is when he famously. supposedly said, the chief justice has made his decision. now let him enforce it. most historians agree he never actually said that, but he did ignore the order. the other case dates back to the civil war. chief justice roger taney ruled that president lincoln had violated the constitution by suspending the writ of habeas corpus. the right to challenge your detention. but that was during wartime, and congress later authorized what he was

doing. and it was all 160 years ago. right. so this is this is new in modern history. i guess the biggest question that's left on the table is, are we already in a constitutional crisis? those two words. right. constitutional crisis. lawyers tend to be very cautious with their words. and they talk about the possibility of a crisis. but maybe maybe we already are in one. if the executive can ignore a court order with no real fallout, and this happens repeatedly, we're faced with a prospect of a very different system of government than the one we have, one in which the president is nearly a monarch. here's the truth the rule of law does not magically spring from the constitution. it's a social concept, a social consensus, and a very delicate one. it's an unwritten agreement among everyone in this country. generation after

generation. that we and our government officials are all bound by what the courts say. even president nixon understood this when he obeyed a supreme court decision and turned over the tapes. in that case 40, 50 years ago. now, president trump, i will say in his comments yesterday, did seem to walk back the idea of not complying with a court order. he said, i always abide by the courts, but i will add to that he didn't call out vice president vance or speaker johnson for saying that it was within the executive's purview not to comply with a court order. look, thank you for for sort of walking us through that, brandt, because there are so many questions that a lot of us have about how this is going to work. and you say this is a social contract, construct a social contract, really between the courts and the country. the difference is the president has a lot more power than the average person who would get arrested if they decided to defy a criminal court, for example.

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the latest on what we're going to see now. derek. >> i try to pull a fast one on my wife the other day with my latest snowboard trip. called it powder. >> research. >> just like those virginia. >> tech students. >> it didn't work out too well. >> look. >> i'm glad they got to enjoy the snow while it lasted. dc, you got a fresh. >> coating of snow. >> on the. >> national mall. >> in fact, you have had with this latest half a foot of snow that fell from the sky. the most snow that you've experienced in any winter season. to date over the past five years at least, in fact, you combined the past two seasons to date and we've seen more snow just this year. so that's saying something. it's all being driven by this series of storms. we'll call it a parade of storms moving from the. >> west coast to. >> the east coast, driven by the jet stream. so this storm that's moving through across the plains and the midwest as well as the. >> great lakes, this. >> will. bring a significant amount of snow to places like chicago. >> it is your. >> time because you've. had more snow in new orleans than you have in the windy city. so that's saying something. and guess what? on the south side of

this, john, we've got severe weather that we're also tracking too, so we have to keep that in mind across parts of alabama and mississippi. john. >> all right. derek van dam, you're going to be busy. thank you sir. >> kate. >> canned tuna sold by major u.s. grocers. grocers is being recalled due to a concern over botulism. certain canned tuna sold at costco, kroger, trader joe's, walmart, and other stores as well. being pulled over this risk. it involves products sold in dozens of states. tri union seafoods describes the recall issue this way. the easy open pull tab on the lid encountered a manufacturing defect that may compromise the integrity of the seal or cause it to leak, or worse, be contaminated. contaminated with botulism bacteria a potentially fatal form of food poisoning. yikes. the products are sold under the day novo van camp's heb and trader joe's brand names. no illnesses, thankfully, have so far been reported. nasa astronauts butch wilmore and suni williams could be coming home sooner than expected. i

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