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munich, where vice president jd vance just wrapped up a contentious speech. frankly, he's reprimanding some european nations in front of those very nations. take a listen. >> the threat that i worry the most about vis a vis europe is not russia. it's not china. it's not any other external actor. and what i worry about is the threat from within. the retreat of europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the united states of america. if you're running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing america can do for you. nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the american people who elected me and elected president trump? and of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, i believe there is nothing

more urgent than mass migration. it's a terrible story, but it's one we've heard way too many times in europe and unfortunately, too many times in the united states as well. an asylum seeker, often a young man in his mid 20s, already known to police, rams a car into a crowd and shatters a community. how many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction? no voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants. trust me, i say this with all humor. if american democracy can survive ten years of greta thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of elon musk. >> joining us now is cnn chief national security correspondent nick paton walsh, cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen and cnn military

analyst and retired u.s. air force colonel cedric leighton. thank you all for being here. nick, to kick it off with you. so vice president vance is making his debut here on the international stage, and his comments sounded, frankly, a lot like what we heard during the u.s. presidential campaign railing against illegal immigration and what vance claims are attacks on free speech and the free will of voters. how do you think his european counterparts viewed this? >> well, to be honest, it sounded like he was talking about russia when he addressed the european allies of the united states, talking about them, jailing opponents, talking about their desire to see elections interfered with a bizarre litany of complaints about culture wars, and very much a reinterpretation of freedom of speech, which has many laws attached to it in the united kingdom and around europe to prevent it turning into hate speech and extremism. but he was railing very much there against some parts of law changes or protections put in across europe

to protect minorities. not even really dog whistling when it came to xenophobia about migration. non-european migration into europe. yes, that has skyrocketed. yes, that has changed the electorate's view on that issue as well. but that's not something that isn't manifesting itself at the polls. and i found it very odd for him to be sowing the doubts in the minds of his audience. i think a large number of whom will just not really understand what he's talking about, but sowing the doubts in the audience that potentially wants to agree with him at the idea that elections somehow in europe, are not free and fair for the most part. they wildly are. and the case he brought up about romania is to do with election being rerun because its own judicial system said the russians had got too involved in feeding misinformation and distorting the playing field. so a very odd speech, i think i would say, and one that shows how far from its european allies this trump administration is culturally and in terms of its policies. >> cedric, to go to you on this. you know, he tried to defend free speech in that in his

speech. um, you know, we were talking about how it's more complicated that given the history there. and he talked about the romanian elections. and you know a lot about that. tell us why you think he didn't really hit the mark on that. >> yeah. pamela, you know, as nick was talking about the romanian election, it occurred to me that one of the key things that the romanians were doing is they were trying to protect the integrity of their election. the reason they stopped the vote count and nullified the latest presidential election in romania was because they knew that the russians were interfering in the election. the romanian intelligence service has reported extensively both the domestic and the foreign intelligence services have reported extensively on russian interference efforts. they used tiktok to go into the romanian electorate. they had false accounts. they did all kinds of things. so russian disinformation was a very real thing for the romanians. and because it was so pervasive, they said, okay, this election clearly was not done under the

rubric of a free and fair election because of that russian interference. and that is why the romanians used their court system and their legal system to stop the results of that election and to basically redo that election in the next few months. >> and what about the free speech aspect of this and the broader scale? >> so the free speech part is very interesting because yes, there is free speech in europe. the problem that you run into, though, is that, as nick was alluding to, you have so many laws in and so many historical issues that countries in europe have to deal with. for example, in germany it is a crime to use nazi speech and to use hate speech. there are also some other more restrictive rules on on speech that we would not have in the united states. but the fact of the matter is, nazi speech is something that actually gets people sent to jail in germany because they don't want to relive the period 1933 to 1945 of the third reich. and that is why they have these

rules that are basically an adjunct to the free speech that is guaranteed by their constitutions. >> to bring you in. fred pleitgen vice president vance is also warning vladimir putin about tools of leverage in negotiations to end the conflict with ukraine. has russia responded? what is the thinking inside the kremlin? >> yeah, they certainly have. and i think one of the things that the russians are essentially saying is that they're getting two different messages right now out of washington. on the one hand, you had, of course, that phone call between president trump and russian president vladimir putin, where the russians essentially heard all of the things they had wanted to heard from a u.s. administration, that they could get back on the international stage. there would be talks with president trump, which, by the way, the russians say they are already preparing for. and then from jd vance, you heard that idea that if there is no peace agreement that the u.s. might even put troops on the ground inside ukraine. and i asked the kremlin spokesman about all this. he texted me actually back just a couple of minutes before we went to air here. and he said, hoping to clear everything up through direct contact, which to me

suggests that the russians are saying, look, in all of this, we are going to listen to what president trump says. the kremlin believes that some sort of meeting, direct, face to face meeting between president trump and the russian president, vladimir putin could happen within a matter of weeks. so they are definitely wanting to prepare this very quickly. they do see a lot of benefits for themselves, and they also believe that with president trump in office, they could not only get a deal favorable for themselves to end the war in ukraine, essentially keeping a lot of that territory, making sure ukraine does not get into nato, but at the same time also really get back into the on the international stage with sanctions relief. but then also president trump, for instance, saying that russia could get back into the g-7, which the russians say they don't want to get into. but it certainly shows that as an international actor for the trump administration, russia seems very important, pamela. >> absolutely. and as you pointed out, there's been some mixed messages. colonel layton, you know, when vice president says there are, quote, military tools of leverage. what are

those options? what could that look like? >> well, if you take away for a second what president trump said, as far as not having troops there and what pete hegseth, the secretary of defense has said, that could include actually putting troops in some kind of a position where they could potentially serve as a buffer between russian forces and ukrainian forces. now, i'm not saying that's going to happen, but that's a potential option. other options would be to include providing logistical support to the ukrainians, basically a continuation of what we see now, ramping up training for things like the f-16, which the ukrainians now have possession of, doing things perhaps in the air defense sector, in addition to the f-16, the germans have just sent more iris-t missiles to ukraine. same thing with patriots. so it could very well mean a more of a use of weapons and moving those weapons forward. more use of american weapons, more use of

european weapons. a combined european u.s. effort, kind of along the lines of what we're actually seeing already, but something that doesn't stop. whereas if the russians get their way, they would want that kind of logistical support to stop. and of course, the other part of it would be intelligence support as well, that the americans would provide to the ukrainians or continue to provide to the ukrainians. >> and we should note that vice president vance, secretary of state rubio, are going to be meeting with president zelenskyy of ukraine shortly. how do you expect that to go? nick? >> yeah. i mean, look, that is already a tough lift, frankly. we saw zelenskyy meet the u.s. treasury secretary just a matter of days ago and seemingly was presented with some kind of deal that he didn't sign. but it seems from reading between the lines and hearing what president trump said to be a manifestation of his ukraine and russia envoy, keith kellogg idea that aid should now become loans to ukraine so that the u.s. can quote, i'm quoting trump here, get some of that money back. he may seem to want rare earth mineral guarantees as part of

that. so a sea change in how the money is going to be coming? certainly, if indeed it continues to flow. zelenskyy hasn't signed that deal and we've just heard vance berating, frankly, ukraine's european allies for being essentially close to totalitarianism, jailing their opponents. exactly the things that in reality russia is doing. but we heard no criticism of russia in that speech. so i think, yes, we're going to be seeing zelenskyy dealing with that sense of a split screen from what the trump administration is saying about the reality in europe, what he's dealing with, and the trump administration clearly having a peace process predominantly with putin, into which he's trying to insert himself. >> nick paton walsh fred pleitgen colonel cedric leighton, thank you for your analysis on this. your reporting. well, this morning i have new reporting that elon musk, department of government efficiency team is moving closer to scrutinizing the irs. a source tells me at least one of musk's top aides visited the tax collecting agency on thursday, asking a series of questions about its operations. now, it's

unclear whether the doge employee accessed any irs systems containing sensitive taxpayer data, but sources i spoke with said employees there at the irs. they are on edge right now. here with me to discuss is cnn's caitlin poland. so caitlin, clearly doge is going from agency to agency. right. um, we don't know. again. and i just want to further emphasize this. whether this doge employee accessed any sensitive systems, there's lots of checks and balances for the irs system. um, but this clearly is following a pattern. >> it is. and, man, pam, word traveled really fast on this yesterday. there were a number of people that got very worried about this person from doge who was then at the irs asking questions like, what is the irs up to? what do they have planned in the coming days? there is a big question is there sensitive access or access to sensitive information that's legally very protected by the law at the irs? the doge wants to have access

to. there's other questions about that at treasury and in many other agencies. access the. >> treasury system. right. and then the judge put a block on that. >> there's there's a lot going on with that. yeah, there is a lot of everybody take a beat. let's make sure doge doesn't get into any protected personal information. there's actually three court hearings about this just lined up for today about access the doge has at treasury, at the department of education, the labor department, the health and human services department. all of that is playing out. but about this reporting that you have of this particular person from doge at treasury. treasury. what is he doing? what does musk want to do there? um, at the irs, it's a big question because just 11 days ago, this particular person, according to another lawsuit, um, who's at the irs, he was the one that sent the email apparently out to all of the usaid staff saying, stay home from work. the building headquarters at usaid is going to be closed, which has come into play and is now

something that is also being looked at by court. so what each of these people that's working with musk and doge, what they're doing individually at each of these agencies is a huge question, not just for court, but for every employee of the federal government. >> yeah, all the employees are trying to talk to each other. they're on signal. they're trying to figure out what's happening here. and of course, we're asking doge for more transparency on what's going on. you know, because a lot of what we're finding out is through sources talking to reporters. >> like days later. >> exactly. many days later. katelyn polantz, thank you so much. well, still ahead, new firings in the federal government. thousands now impacted. i'll ask democratic congressman jake clos about the fears from his constituents and what democrats are doing to push back about how these firings and cuts to funding, especially at the national institutes of health, will affect them next. >> an msc cruise isn't just a vacation, it's a holiday full of

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>> new this morning, thousands of probationary employees of the federal government are waking up without a job. they are people who typically have been employed less than a year or two and have fewer job protections than other federal employees. cnn's alayna treene is at the white house. alina, tell us more about these latest casualties of the trump administration's priority to slash the federal workforce. >> well, we did have a sense that this was coming. we knew that once they had closed that so-called buyout program or what they refer to as the deferred resignation program, that layoffs were expected. but now we're really seeing it touch all different parts of the federal government, several different agencies. i want to just walk you through some of the numbers that we've learned from our sources throughout the federal government. we've learned that 3400 forest service employees have been laid off. 2000 at the department of energy, 1000 at the department of veterans affairs, dozens of term employees at the consumer financial protection bureau, and dozens of probation probationary

employees at the office of personnel management. now, one thing that's actually interesting is there had been some conflicting guidance. we've heard that was going out from the office of personnel management. it's an agency underneath the white house. they had told agencies initially that they didn't have to fire all of those probationary workers. as you mentioned, people who have been in the government for less than a year, maybe less than two years. we're told that around 200,000 federal government employees have been or are in the government who have been here for less than a year. that's according to opm data. but essentially, guidance that they were giving was that they didn't have to fire all of them. but now we're hearing that that's actually being changed, and that's why we're seeing a lot of these people being laid off. one person, an opm spokesperson, told cnn that these agencies were taking independent action in light of the recent hiring freeze to support the president's broader efforts to restructure. but look, again, this is all part of the president and also elon musk under the doge umbrella, their goal to really significantly reduce the size of the federal

workforce. and what's interesting as well is we're told how these hirings at these agencies were happening. we're told some of them were even told in a group a mass microsoft teams meeting, for example. and so we're really getting to hear now the impact of a lot of this, pamela. >> all right. alayna treene, thanks so much. let's continue the conversation about the impact. joining us now is democratic congressman jake, class of massachusetts. congressman, thanks for joining us. so first off, i want to get your reaction to this newest round of job cuts. what are you hearing from your constituents about all of this right now? >> good morning. thanks for having me on. i represent massachusetts, we do health care. and in the last week alone, i've spoken to a physician at the veterans affairs agency in boston, where they are facing drastic cuts that will affect care for veterans, psychological and physical. i've spoken to a pediatric oncologist who is scrambling with telehealth issues for her patients who are children. i've spoken to medicaid experts here in the state who are deeply concerned

about cuts to at home care. should the medicaid cuts go through congress. the federal government. it's not twitter, right? you can't move fast and break things and all that ends up getting scrambled as software code. this is real people's lives. this is veterans. this is children who are sick. this is our senior citizens who need at home care. and the approach that elon musk is taking is cruel. and it's counterproductive because had they tried to work with democrats, we also want to root out waste, fraud and abuse. i can give him a list of priorities at the department of defense, for example, and elsewhere, that we could have sat down in good faith and hammered through. but but this approach challenges the constitutional separation of powers, and it makes people's lives more expensive and less healthy. >> so you say you could also give a list of priorities to cut. what would that be? >> well, let's, let's let's look at two for example. one is the department of defense. the department of defense is, uh,

riven through with procurement practices that grossly inflate the cost of goods because they use a cost plus contracting method if they would subscribe to far part ten and other elements of the u.s. code that require that they pay for performance, not pay for time and cost plus contracting, they could purchase, uh, equipment and they could train personnel much more efficiently. and actually, elon musk probably has good ideas about that. he's a good engineer. he's a good entrepreneur. he would have had bipartisan support. instead, he goes into people's taxpayer refund information, their social security checks, their medicare bills. he has violated the american people's trust. and democrats are going to insist that he gets out of people's personal information, out of their pocketbooks before we're willing to do business with this administration. >> what specific information do you have that he's actually accessed? social security and private data. do you know that firsthand, or are you just looking at what's happening and

making a guess? >> the bureau of fiscal service, which is within the department of treasury outlays, $200 billion every single day. and within that apparatus is people's home addresses. it's their social security numbers. it's their dates of birth. he has access to that, and his programmers have access to that. they've moved over to hhs and requested similar access at the centers for medicare and medicaid. they're moving over to dod and requesting similar access that is highly sensitive payment and information apparatus that someone with as many conflicts of interest that elon musk has should not have access to. >> and i want to follow up on like what democrats are doing, but just on the cuts, for example, you know, the cuts that have been made. i'm curious if you agree with any of the cuts that have been made or that are being proposed. republicans site funded programs like gender affirming health care in guatemala and teaching people in kazakhstan how to fight back against internet trolls. are these really in the best interest of americans? should u.s. taxpayers foot the bill for

something like that? do you agree with those cuts? >> it's easy to go through usaid and cherry pick examples that sound outlandish, but the core of what the u.s. agency for international development does is health and human services for the world's most vulnerable people. it's hiv treatments. it is domestic violence and sexual violence. survivor care. it is helping strengthen the sinews of local journalism and democracy, building in countries that are war torn. and when we stop doing that work, china comes in and backfills it and we erode our global influence. the usaid is less than 1%. let me. >> just follow up. and that is true. and that is true. they are less than 1% of the federal budget. but just on the specific question on those specific programs i mentioned, do you think they should be cut? i mean, put aside, you know, that's a separate question about getting rid of the entire agency and the mission and so forth. but those like those ones i cited that republicans are talking about, i mean, do you are you willing to consider their point of view on why they should be cut? >> of course. and this is the

trump this is trump's typical tactic. and i said this months ago when he was announcing doge is i'm happy to work with doge if they are going to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse and try to make the government more efficient. we have a $1.5 trillion deficit annually. that's not acceptable. that's a tax on the next generation. i want to make the government work more efficiently. but what this administration constantly does is it takes this kernel of legitimate policy and it inflates it into a cruel and counterproductive series of measures that everyone in good conscience needs to reject. am i going to sit there and say that every single usaid program was high roi? of course not. and i think every american can understand that there are elements of the federal bureaucracy that have to belt tighten, but that's very different than just deleting entire elements of the civil service elements that help sick kids, elements that take care of veterans, elements that provide at home care for senior citizens here and abroad. that is just something that ends up being self-defeating. and what we need to do is one insist that the trump administration respect the

constitution and article one and article three prerogatives and two, that if they actually want to get something done, come work with us. >> so you lay out, you know, what you view as a very direct impact on people's lives, what's happening in a negative way from how you see it, some fellow democrats say democrats like you should be doing more right now, and that what they've been doing, what you've been doing, hasn't been working. here's what nyu professor scott galloway said to my colleague dana bash. >> because it looked more like a seniors home when they canceled jell-o night. it just wasn't optically a good moment for us. >> well, there was more to that sound. but he talked about how, you know, some of the the democrats went and protested outside of government agencies and they were, you know, out there and that it really wasn't moving the needle and it wasn't having an impact. and it does raise the question, do you think there's a leadership vacuum in the democratic party right now? should you be doing more?

>> we have to use a series of measures when we're in the minority in washington, across all three branches. one, we've got to use legislation. we've introduced the taxpayer data protection act, which would kick elon musk out of people's personal information. we've got to use litigation. we got 20 plus pending lawsuits, many of them initially successful. we got to use oversight. for example, we've got rfk who's going to try to ransack our vaccine injury compensation program and take measles vaccines off the market. i'm going to try to work with republicans to try to prevent him from doing that. we've got to use federalism. i mean, yes, they have the trifecta in washington, but democrats have levers of governance in the states, and we need to be demonstrating not just a resistance to trump, but an alternative to trump. how are we going to make housing and health care more affordable throughout the country? in contrast to what he is doing, which is going to raise the cost of housing, raise the cost of health care, raise the cost of insurance through his tariffs and deportations and inflationary measures. >> so do you think there's a leadership vacuum then? sounds like you do.

>> i think for the first time in 20 years, going into not just 26, but actually the 2028 presidential primary, that we have a totally open field. i don't view that as a leadership vacuum. i view that actually as an opportunity. i think that's exciting. we're going to have a forest of ambition, and there'll be lots of of presidential timber there. and i think it's actually an opportunity for the party to reorient and reengage with the american public. the focus right now, over the next year is to one, protect the constitution against someone who has demonstrated zero respect for it, and two, to make clear to the american people that he has no plan to lower their cost of living, their insurance bills, their housing bills. and we do. >> congressman, jake, thank you so much for coming on the show. >> good morning. >> well, coming up with the future of the department of education up in the air. what does this mean for student loans? a lot of people are having questions about that. and we're going to be answering your questions about it all. up next.

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you. where do things stand right now with the department's fate? >> so, you. >> know. >> we have talked about. >> the layoffs. >> and we know that there have been several career employees at the department of education who have been fired under this probationary firing. but aside from that, you heard the president. he's been saying that he wants to get rid of this department. we do have reporting that he has this executive order, which would essentially direct the secretary of education to come up with a plan for how they could diminish this agency by executive order. and then the second half of that executive order would be to urge congress to dismantle the department of education. it remains unclear if republican members in congress truly have the appetite to to do such a thing. in the past, they have not. but that's where things stand there. and, of course, uh, the trump's pick for department of education secretary was on capitol hill this week for her senate confirmation hearing, linda mcmahon. and she was

actually asked about this by democratic lawmakers, one even saying this feels like a very elegant gaslighting that we are talking to you about running an agency that this administration wants to get rid of. um, so lots of questions about the programs that operate out of the department of education. of course, we know that they are in charge of dispersing federal funds to school districts, as well as funding for students looking to go to college. so, of course, lots of people wondering what will that mean? >> so, adam, to bring you in, because a lot of our viewers are wondering about this, they sent in some of their questions on social media about the impact. i want to read some of them and have you weigh in. first one says i need to start repayments and just consolidate it. do i even start payments? >> yeah. i mean, one of the myths that's circulating around social media right now is that if the trump administration does away with the department of education, student loans or student loan programs just cease to exist, and that's not correct. what would happen, as a

practical matter, is the office of federal student aid, which administers the federal student loan system, would simply likely be moved to a different department. the likeliest candidate would be the u.s. department of treasury. but borrowers obligations on their student loans don't change, and access to existing programs shouldn't change. there might be disruptions, um, but borrowers still have to pay their student loans regardless of what happens to the department of education. >> this might be a little redundant then this question, but i'll ask you anyway. um, what more do we know about, you know, the structure of the loans and how they will change and who will be in charge of it? um, i think there's been a lot i've seen renee on social media, people saying, oh, we can file suit because this is impacting us. they're, they're they're seeing our data. and so does this make it moot? there's all kinds of questions about that. >> yeah, there there are. and adam said it correctly. i mean, these critical functions of department of education, there is no indication right now that they would go away. and somehow all of a sudden, you wouldn't have access to your loans or

even like pell grants. i know the linda mcmahon was asked about that. the other important message that i think for students who are watching this and are very confused by it and rightfully so, is that if you are in the position right now to fill out the fafsa application, regardless of the uncertainties, you should still be filling this out because, as adam said, i mean, those sort of loan programs, there's no sense that they're going away. most likely they would just be moving to another agency. i think that's the takeaway. if you're listening, you should continue to fill out the forms as necessary. if this is you and if you're headed to college. >> so another person asks adam, the biden-harris administration waived my student loans in 2023. will this hold in the trump administration? >> that's a great question. it's a question that i often get, you know, obviously, you know, no one knows what the trump administration is going to try to do. uh, however, there's

general agreement, i think, among most legal experts that clawing back loan forgiveness that has already been granted would be problematic for a host of reasons. uh, we even saw in a current legal challenge involving the biden administration's save plan that the court declined to claw back loan forgiveness that had already been granted under that plan, even while they blocked it, uh, for, for for borrowers going forward, uh, because there would be a host of legal and policy complications, uh, if they were to, to, you know, bring back someone's balance after it had been forgiven. >> and what do you say to to those who wonder, well, can i bring suit against this, against this administration? because my, you know, data could have been accessed and therefore it could put my loan. i don't have to pay my loans. >> yeah. i mean, so that's another myth that's circulating online. there is a law called ferpa, which is a federal law that protects data from being exposed if it has sensitive personal identifying information

like social security numbers, dates of birth, which the department of education does house in its database. you know, for anyone who completes a fafsa form or is a student loan borrower. um, that being said, ferpa has no private right of action. what that means is it doesn't confer on individuals the ability to file a lawsuit for a violation. you're only recourse is to file a complaint with the department of education to conduct an investigation. but they're the ones that allowed access to this data in the first place. now, there is a separate lawsuit that has been brought by, i believe, a california student association in federal court under other statutes for the possible exposure of that data. um, and that lawsuit is ongoing, but there has been a freeze, at least for a few days, in allowing doge to to access that data. >> adam minsky rene marsh, thanks for enlightening us about all of this going on and all these questions. answering these questions. thanks so much. and coming up, stunning resignations all tied to the now dropped corruption case against new york

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doj? >> i think the question. >> pam. >> is, are. >> the resignations over or will there be more to come because the acting u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, danielle sassoon, resigned after she said she couldn't follow through with the directives set by the acting deputy attorney general, who ordered her to dismiss the corruption case against adams, not based on the merits of the case, but because they said it related to the politicalization of the prosecution. and also they said it was distracting adams from carrying out president donald trump's agenda in new york on immigration enforcement. so sassoon resigned and in a very pointed eight page letter, she said it amounted to a quid pro quo. now, both the justice department and adams team have denied that there is a quid pro quo, but that caused her to resign. she also informed the attorney general's office that the line prosecutors were working on the case in new york would not sign this motion to dismiss. they were put on administrative leave. then the case was transferred to

washington, d.c., and there they were also met with a wall of resistance. that's when those five career prosecutors in the department of justice refused to sign this motion to dismiss. they all resigned from their positions. here is eric adams reaction after all of this took place yesterday. >> they articulated. exactly weaponization. when you looked at leg room turning into bribery because i asked for a governmental entity to do a building inspection. we need to be clear on the root of all of this and of the main. >> turkish embassy. >> exactly. the, you know, main justice. i learned so much through this whole process. they review cases to determine moving forward or not. as my attorney articulated, articulated. >> so, pam, now the question is will emil bove sign this motion to dismiss and submit it with the court? or does another prosecutor do that? and then ultimately, what will the judge do? will the judge sign off on this? will he bring everyone into court for a hearing to

really dig into some of these issues and raise questions about the reasons and the rationale for wanting to dismiss these charges? all of that remains to get played out, pam. >> all right. kara scannell, thank you so much. and just ahead, the nba's biggest stars are getting ready to show off their skills in san francisco this weekend. cnn's coy wire is here. the action tips off today. >> coy what's up? >> pamela, we've got the celebrity all star. >> game, the three point contest, the dunk contest. but they're already having fun, including all seven foot one of shaquille o'neal in a dance off with a firefighter. that and more coming up. >> lockerbie premieres. >> sunday at. >> nine on cnn. >> i have type two diabetes, but i manage it well. it's a little

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