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online on the national monuments website. an alarming development for advocates. and today marks seven years since the mass shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. now, the parents of one of the students killed that day are turning their grief into art with a bigger purpose. we're following these developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. hi there. i'm brianna keilar, along with boris sanchez here in washington. and at any moment we are expecting to get some new details about the deadliest u.s. aviation disaster in more than 20 years. the ntsb is set to give an update in the investigation of that midair collision that happened near reagan national airport, just outside of washington, dc, late last month. >> you may recall an army helicopter on a training mission collided with an american airlines plane, killing all 67 people on the two aircraft.

officials previously revealed that radar data suggests the army blackhawk was flying at a higher altitude than it was supposed to be. we're going to monitor this briefing and we'll bring you the latest details as we get them. meantime, this hour, we're watching a potentially pivotal hearing that could determine whether elon musk's doge team can access a critical treasury department payment system. that system contains the confidential and personal financial information of millions of americans. it cuts checks for things like tax refunds, social security benefits and disability payments. keep in mind last week, a judge blocked musk's doge staffers from accessing it after they swept through federal agencies as part of the trump administration's massive government overhaul. cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid joins us now live with more. paula, what are you expecting as this hearing gets underway? >> boris, this is a big deal for many americans because as you just noted, i mean, this system deals with everything from tax returns to federal employee

salaries. the judge had previously restricted musk's team from accessing this system, citing irreparable harm, and ordered that any information that had been downloaded off the system should be destroyed. now, musk's team has defended their access. musk has said that doge and the treasury jointly agreed that they would add certain labels and codes to different payments inside the system, so that the entire system could pass an audit. but this lawsuit alleges that musk's team is staffed with very young people who have access to the sensitive data, and that this system was supposed to be restricted to specific government employees, and that this entire situation presents a serious security risk. now, this lawsuit was brought by new york attorney general letitia james, as well as over a dozen other attorneys general. of course, earlier this week, the trump justice department sued james over immigration enforcement. and she, of course, also oversaw a civil case against trump a few years ago. so they have been in

court across the table from one another for quite some time. but this is significant because it could have ramifications for the trump administration and doge and their efforts to upend the federal workforce. so this hearing is supposed to get underway any minute, and we'll bring you updates. >> paula reid, keep us posted. thank you so much, brianna. >> today the trump administration is expanding its sweeping efforts to drastically downsize the federal government as federal agencies move forward, firing thousands of probationary employees. probationary employees have typically been on the job for less than a year, and the trump administration is targeting those workers because they have fewer job protections, according to recent data, more than 200,000 employees have worked within the federal government for less than that crucial year. randy erwin is the president of the national federation of federal employees. he's with us now to talk about this. and your union is part of this lawsuit that was filed last night challenging the firing of these probationary employees. tell us who you know that's been fired

and what they're telling you. >> um, we don't have that information yet. um, but, um, you know, we do know what the president's done, and he's, you know, uh, had this signed this executive order and is, uh, you know, had this deferred resignation, uh, program that is now kind of all done. uh, but, uh, you know, they've they've indicated, indicated that they want to get rid of 75% of the federal workforce. and how they're doing it is illegal. and that's why we filed this lawsuit. >> so i know you had you told the wall street journal about, i think, 3400 forest service employees, 2000 energy department staffers laid off. can you tell us anything about that? >> yeah. you know, our country is less safe and less efficient because of the actions taken by this administration. um, you know, our forest service does a tremendous job. you saw the fires that happened out west in california. they do a tremendous

job caring for our lands and protecting communities. and when you lay off 3400 folks, even if it's not the people who are actually putting out those fires, all of the support that goes into those efforts, those jobs are every bit as essential. and we're, you know, we're in a more dangerous place today. uh, because of those actions, we need those workers. we don't have in the federal government. the federal government hasn't grown at all in the last 50 years. it has been squeezed and squeezed. if anything, we don't have enough federal employees. we're understaffed. and so we're getting into a dangerous area when we see hundreds, tens, if not hundreds of thousands of federal workers laid off for no good reason. >> according to our rene marsh reporting. it does appear that some of the folks you mentioned, firefighters, maybe not the first line firefighters, but some folks who could potentially be called in reserve should efforts require it. they may have been laid off here. um, why are these folks being targeted, in your opinion, and what kind

of protections do they have, if any? >> sure. well, they they have to. there's a procedure that is spelled out in law. and the president, uh, you know, under article two of the constitution, he has to faithfully execute the laws of this country. and there is a reduction in force procedure spelled out in the law. and he is ignoring that completely. uh, there is no way, based on the wording of his executive order, that agencies could both follow the executive order and comply with that law. and so, you know, he is not faithfully executing the laws of this country. uh, that that's unconstitutional. and people should be really mad about that. and. uh, you know, and ultimately getting in the streets because we got to we got to abide by the constitution in this country. >> uh, all right, randy erwin, thank you so much. with the national federation of federal employees, we do appreciate you being with us today. and still to come this hour, vice president jd vance lashing out at european allies in munich,

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voices that they disagree with. he even compared them, some of them, to cold war tyrants. cnn's alex marquardt is covering these developments for us in munich. how to win friends and influence people. alex, how is it playing? >> well, brianna, this was a real dressing down, a real scolding by the vice president towards some of the u.s .'s closest allies great britain, germany, sweden and others. there was some expectation that he would talk about european politics in this speech. but given where we are at this security conference, you would have thought he might have talked about national security, about adversaries russia and china, about the war in ukraine. but he barely touched on any of those subjects. instead, he criticized europeans for cracking down on free speech, on social media, freedom of worship. and he said that the biggest threat to europe is not external. it's actually internal, it's migration. he pointed to an attack that took place right here in munich yesterday, carried out by an afghan migrant. here's a little bit of what he had to say.

>> 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. >> tom brady. >> so, brianna, this broadside against european democracies did not go down very well. i spoke with one european official who said that to him, it felt like intervention. the the german defense minister said that it was unacceptable. i think it's fair to say that this will go down as one of the most memorable, if not the most memorable, speech by an american president or vice president at the security conference in munich. brianna. >> and, alex, some lawmakers are criticizing defense secretary pete hegseth for a speech that he made in europe, seemingly

closing the door on the possibility of ukraine joining nato, with one senator calling it a rookie mistake. tell us more about the reaction there. >> well, pete hegseth put down several what he would consider realities about what's going to happen in ukraine just a couple of days ago. that has gotten a lot of criticism from democrats, from even senator roger wicker, the republican from mississippi, from lots of europeans here, essentially those in some quarters accusing hegseth of what he's saying of concessions to the russians before the negotiations even began, saying that ukraine is not going to be part of nato, that u.s. troops won't go to ukraine as a peacekeeping force, saying that the guarantees for ukraine's safety will fall on the europeans and not the americans. so a lot of people saying, why give that up before these negotiations have actually even begun. senate vice president jd vance tried to soften that a little bit, saying there are economic and military tools that can be used against russia to bring them to the table. his main message here, brianna, at this meeting with with president

zelenskyy is essentially all options are still on the table. he said he wants to keep the optionality for president trump to make these decisions. but president trump himself is also saying that ukraine will not be a member of nato. he's also saying that russia should be welcomed back, back into the g-8. so for his part, president zelenskyy saying he still welcomes and needs the support of the united states, but what he really needs are guarantees. military and security guarantees from the u.s. and others. so that is going to be the biggest part of this conversation going forward. trump's russia ukraine envoy keith kellogg is heading to ukraine next week for more discussions. brianna. >> all right. alex marquardt live for us in germany. thank you for the report for us. >> let's dig deeper on these developments with steven pifer. he is the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. he's also with the center for international security and cooperation at stanford university. ambassador, thanks so much for being with us. what do you make of hegseth softening some of his comments,

as president trump put it? do you agree with senator wicker that they were a mistake? >> i think the last three days have probably flabbergasted both our european allies and our ukrainian partners. uh, the secretary of defense on wednesday said ukraine cannot be in nato. uh, that's reversal of nato policy in american policy. and he did that without talking to any of the european allies first. and then that was walked back or maybe not walked back. he also then made the point about ukraine having to lose territory. so right off the bat, he's given concessions to two major russian positions. president trump then speaks with president putin before he talks to president zelenskyy, and then says he plans to meet several times with president putin. that goes against a de facto policy of the last three years among major western leaders that you do not meet with putin. uh, and then the vice president today at a speech where i think everybody is looking for him to kind of

clarify things, he ignores the elephant in the room. he doesn't talk about the russian ukraine war and instead talks about democratic values, which did not get a very good reception. >> how did you read those comments from jd vance, ambassador? because he is comparing some european leaders to these cold war autocrats, while at the same time demanding that europeans step up their efforts to ensure ukrainian security. >> yeah, i think it plays badly because of course, the vice president himself will not say that joe biden won the 2020 presidential election. and so i think that doesn't make him the strongest person. democracy. but this is also, i think, another point where i hope that the vice president is correcting it now in munich. but it doesn't look like president trump talked to any senior europeans before he announced his conversation with putin. uh, and again, the trump

administration wants the europeans to do a lot. it wants the europeans, for example, to provide either a peacekeeping force or a security force for ukraine. uh, so you've got to be talking to the europeans now and include them at the beginning if we're going to want the europeans to play the kind of role that the trump administration envisages. >> uh, on that question of of the security force that would oversee, uh, ukraine's borders, i wonder what you make of ukrainians, president warning that russia is preparing to attack a nato country next year, saying that russia will renew its offensive on ukraine if the country doesn't receive sufficient security guarantees. i wonder if you believe him, if you have any reason to doubt him. >> well, of course i you know, i'm not sure russia is going to attack a nato country next year. but here's the worry. if russia wins the war against ukraine, either on the battlefield or

because of a poorly brokered negotiating settlement, russia is going to pose a much greater threat to europe. and vladimir putin will be emboldened. and after he has a couple of years to rebuild his and regenerate his military, would he attack a nato country? most experts now would say, no, that would be crazy. but in 2018 or 2019, if you ask most experts, would putin have launched the kind of assault on ukraine that he launched in 2022? they would have said, no, that would be crazy. we underestimate vladimir putin's ambitions at our peril. and we also need to bear in mind putin is capable of enormous miscalculations, such as the one that he went made three years ago when he sent his army into ukraine expecting to win in a matter of weeks. >> yeah. ambassador steven pifer, appreciate you sharing your point of view. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> coming up, this is a move that's raising eyebrows. the words transgender and queer have been removed from the stonewall

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queer people were scrubbed from the national park service website, the park service has also shortened the phrase lgbtq plus to simply. lgb on the stonewall webpage. >> the stonewall monument honors the start of the modern lgbtq plus rights movement, which began after police raided the stonewall inn, a greenwich village gay bar, back in 1969. the raid sparked days of protests, cementing stonewall, a symbol of resistance for those within the gay, lesbian and transgender community. stacy lentz is the co-owner of the stonewall inn and the ceo of the stonewall inn gives back initiative. and she joins us now live. stacey, thanks so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. i wonder what you make of the removal of transgender and queer from this website. what's the significance? >> yeah, i mean, i would like to say i'm i'm really, really shocked, but i'm not. we've seen this current administration, not only just

campaign on attacking trans and nonbinary folks, but then also in addition to really going after them and trying to erase them from public life. but it was still very painful. at the birthplace of the lgbtq rights movement, to see them try to erase trans folks from queer history. we would not be sitting where we are today at the stonewall inn if it wasn't for trans people in 1969 who stood up with the rest of the community. so it's outlandish that they think they can erase an entire part of our community from lgbtq history, which is american history. >> you say you're going to fight this. how do you plan to fight this? >> yeah. so right now we've organized a massive protest today, in addition to we will continue to protest, speak up and speak out and really call on democratic leaders to really not be silent on this issue. we really want to see our democratic leaders step up and

fight for us. we cannot allow an entire group of our population to be completely erased, not just from public life, but from history. but they're really going after them on all levels. so we've got to make sure that everybody, including allies and everybody fighting for trans and non-binary folks right now. >> when you talk about these folks being targeted at all levels, are there any other programs or monuments that you think could be affected? >> yeah, well, we're seeing them honestly being, you know, erased from every kind of government program, right? i mean, we've seen that with, um, birth certificates not having gender markers on passports and things of that nature. so they really have been scrubbed from all government websites. um, and again, once we saw president trump come out during the inauguration and say there's only two genders, we can't really be surprised. um, but to

say it's appalling, um, is certainly an understatement. and so we will organize as the lgbtq+ community and ask all our allies to organize with us, um, as we stand up and fight back against the erasure of american people. >> what's the mood right now? um, it's not good, obviously, but what are what are you hearing? what are the concerns in the community? >> yeah, yeah, i think the concerns are that people are upset. um, people are devastated. um, i think that this takes a very personal note because it is it is stonewall. stonewall is such a global symbol to our community, um, that, you know, it's outrageous that a government entity could come in to what we consider our home, um, and try to erase a group of people that have been existing for thousands of years. trans people exist. they've always existed. um, and so for the government to come in to stonewall of all places and try to scrub them, not just from the website, but from existing, um,

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parkland high school in florida. police have charged the teen, who is currently in custody, with conspiracy to commit murder and two terrorism related charges. cnn's whitney wild joins us now with the details. what are you learning about the investigation? whitney? >> boris 18 year-old trinity. shockley is in custody without bond. there is a lot to unpack here. this all started february 11th, when police say a tipster called in a tip to the fbi's sandy hook tip line, and the tipster told police that they were concerned about their friend. concerned that shockley uh, had, uh, a real obsession with the shooter who carried out that parkland shooting, killing 17 and wounding 17 others on valentine's day seven years ago. uh, had access to an ar-15 and had just purchased a bulletproof vest. that information quickly went to the mooresville police department. they conducted an investigation in boris. in just a couple of days, they were able to execute a search warrant and bring.

trinity shockley into custody. here's more from the police chief in mooresville, indiana. >> nothing ever happens in mooresville. it's a small town. but to think that somebody was plotting to hurt a lot of individuals, kids, i mean, future leaders of this country or whoever is pretty disturbing. the pictures in her room were they look like family photographs, like you would put of your kids, but they were all of people that had committed mass shootings. >> boris, this is a really good example of the importance of see something, say something, because what is clear is that, uh, according to police, this plot was very real. what is not clear is in what way? shockley might have had access to a firearm. when police conducted the search warrant, they didn't actually find the firearm. but what they did find were multiple magazines. and as you heard the police chief say, it was basically a collage on her bedroom wall of other mass

shooters. again, trinity shockley is in custody without bond. boris, uh, the question here is why? and what the affidavit makes clear is that shockley was grieving the death of their mother. as you heard, the police chief use the she her pronouns. trinity shockley is transgender. it is not clear what pronouns trinity shockley used, but they were grieving the death of their mother. they had been bullied at school after being hit by a drunk driver, and then further. boris, you know this, uh, trinity shockley, this teenager felt immense guilt after learning that the driver who had hit them later committed suicide. so a lot of factors here. much more to learn. but the big takeaway for anybody watching is the real significance. if there is a concern, bring it to police immediately. boris. >> whitney wild, thank you so much for the reporting, brianna. >> seven years ago today, a gunman killed 17 people at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. for seven years, the parents of joaquin oliver have channeled

their grief into advocacy, creating viral moments that keep the focus on their son and other victims of gun violence. the latest backdrop for their efforts the stage of a theater between the capitol and the white house. >> before i'm like, super hyper. i wear my headphones and then i'm just listening to music with joaquin, and then i leave everything on stage. when you lose a son, what do you do. >> on this seventh anniversary of the parkland, florida shooting, you'll find manny oliver here at the wooly mammoth theater in washington, dc, starring in a one man play about his son, joaquin oliver. go back to his friends forever. 17 years old. we know how joaquin died. manny wants the world to know how he loved a boy who loved laughing. pepperoni pizza,

bacon. the godfather. his mother, patricia, who called him pooh and playing air guitar with his dad. >> we are really good at playing the air guitar. we're the best. >> a life size cutout of joaquin is on stage for almost the entire show. manny painting a mural around his son throughout the 100 minute performance, manny takes the audience through valentine's day 2018, dropping his son off at marjory stoneman douglas high school in the morning, joaquin, proudly carrying sunflowers for his girlfriend tori. >> and i decided. >> to pull down the window and shouted at him, hey! hey, call me! call me when you give those flowers to tori. i want to know the whole story behind it. what? an active shooter situation in joaquin's school. so i call him again and again and again and

again. where the is my son? where the is my son? where are the mae sot? i was hoping that he'd drop his phone. then. i was hoping that he was on the other side of the school. i was even hoping that he was injured. but not bad. and now i'm hoping. that was fast. >> but was. applies. >> a35. my beautiful son, joaquin was shot four times with an ar-15. >> this is the artistic disruption that has been manny and patricia's defining approach to advocating for gun violence prevention. >> you can try something and it's not working for decades. maybe you should try something different and give it a chance.

>> on the fourth anniversary of joaquin's death, manny unfurled a sign on a crane near the white house and was arrested for it. but he succeeded in getting then president biden's attention and an invitation to the oval office. >> more than that. >> a few months later, manny interrupted biden's rose garden event, honoring the passage of gun legislation that was, for manny, not ambitious enough. in 2023, manny was arrested at the capitol after he and patricia interrupted a republican led gun hearing. >> you took my son away from me, and i'm not going anywhere. this has to be very important because you need to know him before knowing everything else was 100%. >> at the theater, patricia walks through an exhibit of viral advertising campaigns. the couple has helped produce through their nonprofit called change the ref. putting a bulletproof vest on the famous statue of the fearless girl on wall street. not long after the shooting, asking on social media, how can she be fearless

if she's afraid to go to school? patricia, accepting joaquin's diploma in a shirt reading this should be my son in 2021, duping a former head of the nra into giving a graduation speech to empty chairs, symbolizing the estimated 3044 victims of gun violence who are not alive to graduate that year. >> so my advice to you is simple enough follow your dream and make it a reality. >> and last year, making an a.i. deepfake message of joaquin's voice and those of other gun violence victims, including from the uvalde shooting to send to members of congress. >> i was murdered at school by a shooter with an ar-15 assault rifle. my voice has been recreated using powerful a.i. technology. >> this is called the final exam. >> they marketed a video game showing what it's like to try to escape a school shooting, and thoughts and prayers. toilet paper. manny says they're just

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unfettered access. i'd like to bring in cnn chief media analyst brian stelter with us. so, brian, um, i mean, talk a little bit about how this ban is going to interfere with the ap's ability to do their job. they're normally such a focal point of briefings and coverage at the white house. >> that's right. it's a dramatic change by the trump white house. it's going to have a chilling effect. it's causing concern at other news outlets as well. and it's probably going to cause a legal challenge from the ap. right. one of the themes this week has been trump being challenged in court over changes at federal agencies. well, this is probably also going to prompt a lawsuit. however, there's been no immediate comment from the ap this afternoon. the newswire is trying to figure out what to do next. this all started on tuesday, when the ap reporter was blocked for the first time from entering the oval office during a photo op. then it happened again on wednesday, again yesterday. and now today. the ap is not being allowed on board air force one as the president heads to mar-a-lago for the weekend. here's why that's a big deal. the ap is not just another ordinary news organization. the ap is a part of the white house

press pool every single day. in fact, the ap helped create the pool more than 100 years ago. whenever the president travels, there are reporters with him at all times. i was at the super bowl on sunday, for example, and the press pool was there, making sure the president was, uh, you know, watching his every move as much as possible. so that's how it works. it's a small team of reporters that travel with the president, and the ap is always in the pool. so the fact that the white house is singling out the ap and banning them, that's an impact not just for the ap but for other news outlets as well that rely on the ap's information, the press pool, in other words, is being targeted by this. and that's why i expect there will be legal action. >> brian, how has the ap reacted? have they said that they're planning some kind of legal action? >> right. they've called this a violation of the first amendment. they say this is viewpoint discrimination. they're using terms. they're using legal language that foreshadow a lawsuit. however, no action has been taken yet. and my impression, speaking with

sources, is that ap reporters and editors were waiting to find out what would happen today. would trump actually kick the ap off the plane off air force one? now that that has happened just in the past hour, that might cause a domino effect. we've already seen journalists from other news outlets speaking out on the ap's behalf. what we have not seen is a boycott or any other public show of solidarity. i'm told by editors at other outlets that there are behind the scenes conversations, but there's also a desire not to try to play into the trump white house's hands here, not to take the proverbial bait. if the trump white house wants the journalists to seem like the enemy, to seem like the opposition, it's important to show that we're just trying to be observers. after all, the ap didn't go looking for this fight. they're just trying to report the news. and the news right now is that trump has renamed the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america in the united states, but mexico doesn't recognize that. other countries don't recognize that. so because the ap is a global news outlet, it needs to report the news fully. and that's why it is including in its stories, the gulf of mexico name, as well

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more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. this just in to cnn as the trump administration plows forward with mass layoffs in its effort to gut the federal government. we're learning thousands of health care workers across multiple agencies are expecting to be fired today. meantime, the newly minted agriculture secretary is warning that terminations are forthcoming at the usda. this latest round of termination has targeted probationary workers, those who have been on the job for less than a year or two and have fewer protections than other federal employees. cnn's rene marsh is joining us now with more on this story. rene, talk to us about these new developments. >> so i. >> will say. >> that this. let's take a step back. >> so these. >> firings started happening earlier this week. but now fast forward to friday and things have certainly ramped up. each day we hear about a new agency and we'reng