health crisis or health challenge for the pope. >> you know, as fate would have it, you had an audience with the pope just last week. how did he seem to you? >> well, that's right, i saw him just before he was hospitalized. and it was clear then that he was really having difficulty speaking because of the breathing difficulties. he didn't seem to have the lung capacity to talk for long periods of time. he did, however, seem very mentally alert. and i think that's what the vatican is trying to communicate through its statements that the pope is still alert mentally, but it's physically where the problems arise. for francis. >> all right. well, we will wait to hear more information from the vatican. christopher lam, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> all right. the news continues. the source with kaitlan collins starts now. >> good morning. it's tuesday, february 18th. right now on cnn

this morning. >> ukraine perceives any negotiations about ukraine without ukraine as those with no results. >> left out. right now, ukraine and europe sidelined as president trump's foreign policy team is at the negotiating table with russia in saudi arabia to hash out an end to the war. >> and it was mass chaos. i was upside down. the lady next to me was upside down. it's amazing that we're still here. >> evading tragedy. all passengers escaped from a burning aircraft after a delta airliner crash lands and flips upside down on a snowy runway. how did this happen? plus, they suspect. >> that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving fraudulent social security payments. >> defying doge, the head of social security steps down after refusing to hand over sensitive

information to elon musk's team. 5 a.m. here on the east coast, here's a live look at capitol hill in washington, dc. good morning everyone. i'm kayla tausche in for kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. breaking overnight and overseas, u.s. secretary of state marco rubio, along with other high ranking u.s. officials meeting with russia's delegation in saudi arabia. it's the first round of in-person conversations about ending the war in ukraine. earlier this week, president donald trump said negotiations to end russia's war in ukraine would start immediately after speaking with russian president vladimir putin on the phone. notably, ukraine is not part of these conversations, and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said ukraine would not accept a peace deal if they weren't at the negotiating table.

>> ukraine perceives any negotiations about ukraine without ukraine as those with no results. we cannot recognize anything or any agreements about us without us. >> cnn's clare sebastian is in london with all the latest. clare. this all comes as european leaders are sitting down to figure out what their role in these talks and the future of the conflict is. >> yeah, absolutely. kayla. i think the key for europe right now is one to stay relevant. there is a significant sense of concern that they are going to be left to front the security guarantees to foot the bill for ukraine, while at the same time not getting a real say in how this war eventually ends if and when it does. so that's why we've seen these sort of emergency meetings with european leaders. there was one that happened on monday in paris. now we see top european leaders, ursula von der leyen, the head of european commission and the head of the eu council meeting with general kellogg, trumps russia ukraine envoy. i think look, they're trying to stay

relevant. they're also trying to preserve a u.s. role in the future of european security. there's an element of realism here, right? the u.s. says europe needs to take more responsibility. europe is aware that in the short term, it simply cannot pick up all of the slack from the u.s. so they're trying to preserve this. we heard the nato secretary general on monday saying that any european security guarantees for ukraine need to come with a u.s. backstop. the head of the european commission this morning also saying that she wants to continue to work with the u.s. on security. so how that pans out, i think, will be critical. and meanwhile, of course, are those talks happening in saudi arabia as we speak? and we've heard from the kremlin this morning, which i think presents more evidence that it's at this point unlikely that the kremlin is willing to go for any compromises. yet on ukraine. dmitry peskov, the kremlin spokesman, saying that a comprehensive long term settlement is impossible without a comprehensive consideration of security issues on the continent. that i read very clearly as nato expansion, which is something that, uh, that

russia has been against for as long as i've been covering them. and then they also said that putin is willing to negotiate with zelenskyy, but once again questioned his legitimacy as president, something that russia has been doing now for a while. so no evidence that russia is willing to make any compromises. but they are certainly banking the pr coup of having this all kick off in this bilateral framework. kayla. >> and meanwhile, president zelenskyy trying to up the ante, raise some of the urgency for the european continent, suggesting in an interview with nbc's meet the press over the weekend that he possesses intelligence suggesting that putin has designs on invading other nato allies if and when such a security deal is reached. how is that being received overseas? >> so look, this is something that zelenskyy has been warning about almost since the start of the full scale invasion. and now we're just a week out from the three year anniversary, is that ukraine is the front line of

what could be much bigger ambitions for russia, which is why, of course, he feels that europe should support them. europe is sort of in, on paper, very much behind continuing to support ukraine. we've heard a lot of sort of positive noises, a lot of willingness from european countries. i think whether or not that translates into action and how that translates into action is still a big question. we're seeing a division in europe over which countries are willing to potentially deploy peacekeeping troops on the ground in the event of a ceasefire, and those who aren't. the chancellor of germany, olaf scholz, even saying that he was irritated that the debate was even happening on that before. we know the outcome of peace talks. and of course, as i said, europe is still trying to preserve the role of the u.s., suggesting that it isn't ready yet to go it alone on security. so zelenskyy, i think, is going to keep this urgency up. he is holding his own diplomatic meetings in various countries this week, expecting to meet towards the end of the week with general kellogg, and is still saying he wants that to lead to a potential meeting with president trump. kayla.

>> and we will see what results from those talks in riyadh for now. clare sebastian. thank you. straight ahead on cnn this morning, pope francis asking for prayers as he remains in the hospital. we'll bring you the latest on the 88 year old pontiff's condition. plus, the doge fight. another top official stepping down over elon musk's push to access sensitive taxpayer information. and 18 injured in toronto after a delta plane crashes and finds itself flying the wrong side up on the runway. what went wrong? >> we kind of let ourselves go and fell to hit the ceiling, which is surreal feeling. um, and then everybody was just like, get out, get out, get out. we could smell like jet fuel. um, even now, i smell like jet fuel. >> cooked books, corporate fat cats, swindling socialites, doped up cyclists. then yes, more crooked politicians. i have a feeling we won't be running

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plagued by a string of lung related struggles in recent years, said he was touched by the thousands of messages he's received. cnn's barbie nadeau joins us live from rome. barbie, what is the latest that we have on the pope's condition this morning? >> well. >> we're waiting actually to get the the latest update here any minute now. but we did get one communique from the vatican that said that he will be canceling an audience for the jubilee year this coming sunday. now, that, of course, is something that would have come as a great disappointment to him, obviously, because the jubilee is such an important event and there are these masses, people coming from all over the world. we do know that he is not going to be attending that this sunday. we know little else than that though. this complex clinical situation that he has obviously has to do with his age, 88 years old and with his mobility issues. you know, this is a man largely confined to a wheelchair. and he's got he was missing part of a lung from a previous infection when he was a young man. so he has that sort

of, you know, compromised situation. but we don't have an update yet. this morning on how his night went and if the new medication that he's taking has come into effect yet, if it's helped him at all, this will be the third time yesterday. we understand that they've changed course for him. he was on a medical treatment before he entered the hospital. then he was on antibiotic treatment from last friday. yesterday they said that they changed the treatment once again because presumably he wasn't responding well to it. so we're hoping that we have good news this morning that this new treatment is working for him. and that will will have some kind of update. and we don't have any idea, of course, how long he'll be in the hospital. and, and if and when we'll see an image of him in his hospital situation. >> barbie, you mentioned the changes to his official schedule, canceling some of those events. how is how how is the church actually making contingency plans and does someone step in for him? how do they go about the coming weeks and months, and what does that

look like? >> yeah. you know, i mean, the vatican is a finely oiled machine. you know, they've got backup plan after backup plan and then another plan. so there's always someone at the ready to take over for him. and you know, we saw this a couple of weeks ago when he was giving a mass in the square, and he couldn't catch his breath and he couldn't speak. he was able to just hand his prepared remarks to a cleric who was able to read it on his behalf. so, you know, there's always a contingency plan, especially when you know the pope is of this age. of course, you know, there are always going to be issues with elderly people in general. and this is the fourth time that this pope has been hospitalized. two years ago, in june, he had was hospitalized here for a little over ten days. he had surgery a couple of years ago as well for for colon issues. and so, you know, his his compromised health is always going to be a concern. but the vatican, you know, is ready in any eventuality, obviously for what could happen. and of course, you know, he's hoping to pick up his pace again if he

gets out of the hospital. he's got a trip in the works, or at least in the planning stages, was supposed to be going to turkey at some time in the spring. so of course we have no idea what the next couple of days hold, but we're expecting to have some new information here in the coming hour. >> and barbie nadeau, we will come back to you for that information as we have it. we appreciate your reporting. barbie nadeau from rome. more now on the fiery crash of a delta airlines passenger jet that landed upside down at toronto's pearson international airport. >> drop it. come on. don't take your baby away. >> 80 people were on board that flight. all of them got out alive. although there were at least 18 injuries and plenty of rattled nerves. >> we could smell like jet fuel even now. i smell like jet fuel. a lot of stress. um. it's

amazing that we're still here. >> just feeling lucky and happy. i got to give the person i didn't know sitting next to me a big hug, that we were okay. >> we have more details now on the crash and how everyone managed to survive. from cnn's paula newton. >> the investigation. >> is already underway. >> in what was an. >> absolutely stunning. >> crash with an equally. startling outcome. >> everyone survived. >> that is, 76. >> passengers. four crew, all. >> evacuated. >> there are injuries, but none are life threatening at this point in time. the officials at toronto airport saying that they really commend their first responders and of course, the crew and passengers. i do want you to listen now to one of those passengers describing exactly what it was like. listen. >> when we hit, it was just a super hard, like hit the ground and the plane went sideways. and i believe we skidded, like on

our side and then flipped over on our back. where we ended up, there was like a big fireball out this left side of the plane. and when we got finished, it was i was upside down. >> now, survivors did explain that they thought there was a lot of snow and ice on the runway. that will certainly be something that's looked into in this investigation. and obviously the wind speeds as well. i was at the toronto airport just an hour before this incident, and it was more snow than i had seen in the airport in many years of going through that location. crews were working very hard to try and clear the runways of snow. all of this to be sorted out by the canadian transportation safety board. they are leading this investigation, but working closely, certainly with u.s. officials who are already in toronto, beginning to try and unravel exactly what happened here. paula newton, cnn, new york.

>> our thanks to paula newton. more tumult, meanwhile, and turnover at federal agencies as president donald trump and the so-called department of government efficiency continue attempting sweeping changes to the government. the latest career official caught up in their efforts. the social security administration's acting commissioner, michelle king. sources telling the associated press that king stepped down from her role over the weekend after refusing to provide doge staffers with access to social security recipient information. king is one of several high ranking officials who has expressed concern about doge staffers having access to sensitive government databases. the group also accessed a critical treasury payment system and has attempted to get access to the internal revenue systems taxpayer data. one of trump's top aides is attempting to assuage any concerns about that. >> can you. >> give assurances. >> to people who faithfully pay their taxes in this country? the doge isn't just going to go

randomly sifting through the records and maybe come across the personal private records of a lot of americans. >> i can give absolute 100% insurance. i give you complete and total assurance on that point. >> joining me now, national political reporter for the hill. julia manchester. julia. good morning. thank you for being here. um, looking at what has happened in just the last month since the inauguration and the different agencies and parts of the federal workforce that doge has targeted. originally, it was thought to be very specific, very surgically targeted, but now it's become a very sweeping operation. i'm wondering, what do you see and what do your sources see as the strategy here? >> well, look, that's. >> a big concern. >> i think. >> obviously among democrats. >> but even some. >> republicans about the strategy itself. look for republicans and just. generally. people. >> who. >> want to cut down on what they say is maybe fat or bloat in the federal government. you know,

they think. >> that. >> you know, maybe you target that stuff and then leave it alone, essentially. but there is this feeling that this is way too sweeping. there isn't, you know, that pinpointed of a strategy. it is essentially going in there and kind of, um, you know, getting rid of a ton of people without much of a strategy, not, you know, not much thinking about it, if you will. so there's a lot of concern that there isn't really a ton of pinpointing there when it comes to doge that they are sort of doing this blindly. there's also a concern that maybe someone like elon musk, the private sector, doesn't understand where you know how to do this, how to approach the federal government without much experience in that realm. >> you know, you mentioned the qualms that some lawmakers have. i've heard from some gop lawmakers who have said that their offices have been flooded with calls from constituents with a number of concerns, but one of them that they hear repeatedly now is why does elon musk have my social security number? why does elon musk have my taxpayer i.d.? you heard stephen miller, a deputy chief

of staff to the president, trying to give some assurances on this front, but how much is this actually unsettling? republicans in trump's own party? >> it's unsettling because, like you said, these republicans are getting calls from their constituents because they turn on the news, they read newspapers and they hear, you know, things like social security, i.d. number, irs. they are concerned that someone you know, who democrats are painting as someone who doesn't necessarily have experience in this realm, has access to their social security information, their very personal information. there's also concerns about who is doge, who is working in doge, who are these staffers that are going in and conducting, you know, research and, you know, essentially doing doj's bidding? i think there's a lot of unknowns there. and that's what's concerning. on top of that, a lot of these lawmakers, and it's not just here in washington, d.c. and the greater washington, d.c. area. a lot of these lawmakers have constituents who work in the federal government and their concerns about concerned about their own livelihoods, their own

jobs, what that looks like, how maybe their own communities economy are impacted by this. so i think it goes much broader than this, you know, concern about, you know, personal information, but also, you know, how their livelihoods are impacted outside of that. >> i also want to ask you about the nuclear weapons stuff that the trump administration fired, but then quickly tried to rehire. listen to what democratic senator amy klobuchar had to say about that. >> i mean, over the weekend, hundreds of people who guard our nuclear stockpiles were let go and fired. and then they realized, oops, that might be really dangerous. and brought them back. i mean, this is what's going on when you do things like this, instead of simply saying, okay, we want to make some budget cuts, we want to make things more efficient. let's work to do this. let's have some goals. >> so she's raising concerns about some of these energy department employees who were let go. they had oversight of the nuclear weapons stockpile,

very specialized skills and information. this idea that that elon musk and these private sector employees that he has come in with the mantra of move fast and break things. what happens when they need to put it back together? >> well, that's the concern that there isn't really a targeted, pinpointed strategy in place that they are doing this almost blindly, just looking to sort of check things off of a list that they aren't thinking about the repercussions going forward. and, you know, we obviously heard from amy klobuchar and democrats. but like i said, there are some republicans who may agree with doge and doge mission. in theory, of course, you know, republicans, even some democrats want to cut down on the size of the federal government. but i think there's a question of how it's done. you know, the speed at which it's done and the caution in which it's employed. >> you've now seen defections, voluntary defections by some of these officials in acting roles who have a lot of heartburn about the way that doge is going about this. we mentioned the acting commissioner of the social security administration.

there were senior officials at the treasury department who had very acute agita over, um, the attempt to get access to those systems. you have department of justice officials, hhs officials. at what point do you think the alarm would have been properly sounded? because at this point, it seems that, um, broadly, republicans and the trump administration have said those are career officials. we don't mind if they leave. >> right. and i mean, the problem is, if there are career officials leaving, they understand how these departments work. they understand the understand the ins and outs. they're not just political appointees. they've been there for years, sometimes decades. so them leaving creates a massive vacuum or could create a massive vacuum in knowledge. and how these departments are run. so a lot of concern as to what happens, because without that presence, without that knowledge, you know, where do these departments go from there? i mean, if they're cutting down

on the size of these departments, the size of staffing, you know, i'm assuming that in many cases, a lot of these officials aren't going to be replaced. so how do these how are these departments run going forward? >> the ramifications we will be learning about for some time to come. julia manchester from the hill. julia, thank you so much. straight ahead on cnn this morning. peace talks underway in saudi arabia, russia and the u.s. trying to bring an end to the war in ukraine without ukraine at the table. plus, the u.s. and canada set to face off in the four nations final. >> look at this one under eye bag. it's gone. >> there's this side. and this side. >> have you seen these videos all over social media and said to yourself, how is that real? it's called plexaderm. and plexaderm is clinically studied to help reduce the appearance of

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while russian foreign minister sergey lavrov says the meeting aims to end what he called an abnormal period between two, quote, great powers. but key players are not even at the table, including nato and ukraine's leader. instead, president volodymyr zelenskyy meets with the turkish president in the coming hours. cnn's matthew chance spoke with one of the russian diplomats in riyadh earlier, who says he already met with members of trump's team ahead of these talks. >> what has that team promised you here? have you have they given you an indication about what they're going to give you? >> no, i. >> think it's the promise is let's. >> have dialog. let's figure. >> out the best solution for our countries, for other countries, for the global community. >> let's go now to cnn's fred pleitgen, live in moscow. fred, u.s. and russian delegations have now been in discussions for more than 2.5 hours. what do you believe that russia is willing to concede in those talks?

>> you're absolutely right, kayla. it's 2.5 hours. they took a short break and apparently now they're back to negotiating is the latest that we have from there from from saudi arabia. but i was able to ask the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov, yesterday before he departed for saudi arabia at a press conference. what exactly the russians would be willing to give in terms of negotiations, especially when it comes to territory in ukraine? and the answer i got from him was not very much. he launched into a tirade about the ukrainians, about all the crimes they had allegedly committed, and essentially was saying that the russians are not willing to give back any of the territory that they currently occupy on the ukrainian side of the border. and of course, that's something that could make negotiations fairly difficult. and one of the things that we've been hearing here over the past couple of days in moscow, as these talks have been drawing closer, is that the russians do say that there are a lot of things that they consider red lines for themselves. there is, for instance, the territory that ukraine still holds on the russian side of the border in the kursk region, where the russians also say they don't want that to be a bargaining

chip. they don't want that to be any part of any negotiations that they might have with kyiv. they want to take that back militarily. so that obviously complicates things as well. and then finally, they also say that they don't want ukraine to become a member of nato. they don't want that to be on the table either. so those talks certainly will be quite difficult. but if we look at what is going on today, it was quite interesting because kirill dmitriev, that gentleman that matthew interviewed yesterday, he earlier today said, look, all of these talks right now are exploratory. the u.s. and russia have not spoken to each other for an extended period of time. right now, they're sort of trying to feel each other out, see what's going on, see to what extent they're willing to go and which direction they're willing to go. and you sort of see that the u.s. and the russians seem to have different emphasis. points of emphasis, if you will. the trump administration, of course, has been speaking about the fact that the president wants to end the war in ukraine as fast as possible for the russians, though, it does seem as though everything is a little bit broader than that. yesterday,

one of the main negotiators, yury ushakov when he landed in saudi arabia, he was asked what the goals of these negotiations are, and he said that it was clearly a normalization of the relations between russia and the united states. now, of course, that could take a while, but that for the russians, indicates that the ukraine war is part of it. of course, a meeting between donald trump, between the president and the president of russia, vladimir putin, also very important for them. but they also want sanctions relief, and they also want a normalization of diplomatic and economic relations between the u.s. and russia. kayla. >> we will see whether the needle moved on any of those items during their multiple hours of negotiations in riyadh. fred pleitgen in moscow. fred, thank you. it is time now for sports. it will be team usa versus team canada in the championship game of hockey's four nations face-off. carolyn manno has this morning's cnn sports update. good morning carolyn. good morning kayla. >> so round one of the usa canada. >> rivalry was. electric this past saturday.

>> if you saw. >> it, the teams. >> got into three. >> fights in the first nine. >> seconds. >> of play, and fans are. >> going to be treated. >> to round two on thursday thanks to canada's win over finland yesterday, canada went into the game needing a win in regulation to advance to that final and they came out firing connor mcdavid and nathan mackinnon scoring 46 seconds apart in the opening five minutes of the game, and it looked like it was going to be a blowout until esa lindell got finland on the board with under six minutes left in the third, and then back to back goals by mikael granlund with under two minutes left, cut the game to 4 to 3. so it was canada's captain, sidney crosby, in the end, putting the comeback attempt on ice with an empty net goal, securing the five three win and a rematch with the americans for the title. >> the americans we you know, we'd love to play them again. um, you know, we feel like we can beat those guys. and, um, you know, we plan on playing a little better thursday. >> i'm really looking forward to. >> the game. >> this is why we came here. and

regardless of. >> other people out. >> there, say. >> uh. >> you know. >> we're the underdogs. >> i mean, everybody in that room thinks we have a really, really good chance to win. >> as you heard, team usa had already clinched a spot in the championship game before the puck drop for last night's game against sweden. chris kreider gave the americans the lead just 35 seconds into the game, and the game featured a pretty scary moment, too, when brady tkachuk crashed into the goalpost, he didn't take another shift in the game for precautionary reasons, sweden's gus nyquist tying it up later in the first, and then jesper bratt after that, would put the swedes in the lead with a goal about six minutes later, so that would end up being the game winner. after the two one loss, usa head coach mike sullivan, looking ahead to facing canada with the title on the line. >> after winning. >> there's a lot of pride at stake. >> um. and it will. >> be a hard fought battle. >> that's what i would anticipate. so. >> uh, i think it's a great celebration. >> of hockey. >> it really is. i mean. >> it's it's there's some of the generational. talents on both

sides. it's it's so awesome. from my standpoint. you know, i feel like i get the best seat in the house being behind the bench. >> a showdown of epic proportions for hockey fans usa canada rematch set for thursday night at eight eastern in boston. lastly, this morning, the man potentially the top pick in this year's upcoming nfl draft, has a warning for teams who might be thinking about passing on him in april after winning the davey o'brien award on monday, which is given to the nation's top quarterback. miami's cam ward was answering questions about his decision to skip the second half of his team's bowl game against iowa state, and he told the associated press, quote, you're either going to draft me or you're not. if you don't draft me, that's your fault. you've got to remember you're the same team that's got to play me for the rest of my career, and i'll remember that. so there's nothing really on the line for miami in the pop tart bowl. caleb. back in december, he said that decision not to risk injury in the second half was determined by the coaching staff ahead of time. but tennessee, with the top pick in the draft, they need a quarterback and they might regret it if they don't take ward. kayla, back to you.

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