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seeing coming out of kentucky and the flooding that they saw there, and now this. what are you watching? yeah. this is yeah. >> this is going to be a critical next few days for people who are recovering. >> from the. >> flooding that's ongoing. look, it's cold already across some of the hardest hit areas kentucky, tennessee, parts of southern indiana into virginia, west virginia. but i want to point your attention towards what's coming. look upstream, we call that. that is across the northern plains. that cold arctic air mass is going to descend on those very areas that have been hit hard by the recent flooding. and to complicate matters, there is a snowstorm impending across the region as well. looking at the windchill values across the northern plains, you will get frostbite in ten minutes. if you step outside with those types of values below zero. just incredible. the extreme cold alerts they extend from the border of canada all the way to mexico, and they will shift eastward with time as this cold
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air continues to move eastward. in fact, three out of four americans will experience temperatures below freezing over the next week. and that is a large population of our country that will experience these frigid, frigid temperatures. so here's the other complicating factor the winter storm watches that were in place across kentucky yesterday have now been upgraded to a warning, so it is certain that we will see impactful snowfall from the storm that is moving through the region and also the potential for snowfall across the east coast as well as we monitor the rising flood waters, some rivers still cresting. and then here comes the snow. to complicate matters further, kate. >> it's going to be a tough week for a lot. a lot of people indeed. derek, thank you very much for watching that for us. a new hour of cnn news central starts now. all right. we do have breaking news. brand new video. actually two new videos coming from toronto on the delta flight that flipped on the
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runway. these are amazing vantage points. and again, thankfully, all 80 people survived. a major resignation at the social security administration. a key official quits over the actions of elon musk's team. and plus rescue. after a teenager was trapped in a mineshaft 50ft below the ground. sarah is out today. i'm john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. and the breaking news. we do have brand new video. we just got our hands on it, showing the moment a delta plane crashed and flipped upside down at toronto international airport. this is one of the new vantage point. you can see how hard that plane landed and the sparks. again, 18 people were hurt. incredibly, all 80 on board survived. and that's one of the new videos.
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the other one is this i'm just seeing it for the first time as well. let's watch. >> one. >> two three. >> dale ho. >> oh, oh. >> oh no. >> no no no no. oh, that's. how are you seeing this? airplane is crashing. two, three. oh my god. oh my god. >> what a vantage point that was. you saw the plane come down. we apologize for the profanity, but we just got that video in screening there for the very first time. as these people were watching the plane go down, you could see the smoke and you
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could see the flames there. that delta flight was on the way from minneapolis, and investigation is now underway to determine what caused it. we do know about the weather conditions. it was cold. there had been snow on the ground. there were wind gusts of about 40mph. again, the snow could have affected the visibility there. cnn's jason carroll is in toronto this morning for the very latest. jason, i do have to say these two new videos give us a whole new perspective on what happened. >> in perspective, in terms of when you think of all 80 people who were on board that flight, 76 passengers, four crew members, how lucky they are to be alive when you see that video, when you saw what happened there as delta flight 4819 was on approach just as it landed, hit hard, and then that fireball erupted. and then, of course, we now know and have known for some time now that all on board survived 18 people
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injured. still so many questions, though about what caused this accident. the delta flight was cleared on approach. emergency officials say the runway was dry and that there were no crosswind conditions. passengers that spoke to cnn say all seemed normal upon approach, but once it landed, the plane hit hard. suddenly, they say they were on their side, the plane was on its side, and then the plane was upside down. >> it happened so quickly, right? you hit. there's this like giant, like pop crack. you know, it's this, like, super loud bang kind of thing happens, and then everything just goes literally sideways. and it happens so fast that i just remember, like, kind of pulling myself in and trying not to hit my head against anything. and, uh, luckily our flight attendants and everything were, um, helpful for us.
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>> and really, john, the flight attendants, the crew there should be commended for getting everyone there on board that flight off safely and to safety. investigators clearly now have a few factors that are weighing in their favor. the plane is intact, so they're going to have easy access to the flight data recorder. the cockpit cockpit voice recorder. they'll be able to interview the pilot and the copilot. so the easy access to the crew as well. but even with all that, it's still going to be some time before we have an exact cause of this crash. john. >> all right. jason carroll for us in toronto. again, we're we're seeing these two different angles of this crash for the first time. it is remarkable. even more remarkable. all 80 people survived. thank you for your reporting, jason. kate. all right, let's go overseas right now, because moments ago, the u.s. delegation, including secretary of state marco rubio, president's national security advisor mike waltz, and the middle east special envoy steve witkoff, they wrapped up their
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meeting with their russian counterparts, discussions to potentiay work towards an end to the war in ukraine and spoke to reporters. listen to this. >> we're joined now by the u.s. delegation that just wrapped up their. >> meetings with the russians. >> are you. >> walking away with this? with any. >> agreements for. >> any follow. >> on. >> conversations? >> well, i. >> would start by saying we've agreed on. >> four principles that i think are important. the first is that we are going. >> to work. we're going to appoint our teams, respectively, to. >> work. very quickly. to reestablish. >> the functionality of our respective missions in washington and in moscow. >> for us to be able to continue. >> to move down. >> this. >> road, we need. >> to have diplomatic. facilities that are. >> operating and functioning normally. the second point is that we're going to appoint a high level team from our end to help negotiate and work through the end of the conflict in ukraine in a way that's enduring and acceptable to all the parties engaged. the third point is to begin to work at a high level as well, to begin to discuss and think about and
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examine both the geopolitical and economic cooperation that could result from an end to the conflict in ukraine. obviously, we'd have to see that conflict come to a successful and enduring end in order for that to be possible. and the last thing we we agreed to is that while our teams are going to be working on all of this, the four of us who are here today, the five of us that were here today, are going to remain engaged in this process to make sure that it's moving along in a productive way. >> what does an enduring and. >> successful end look like? did you present any. proposals to the russians. >> today? >> well, there are. >> some some. >> underlying principles. >> this needs to be a permanent end to the war. uh, and not, uh, a a temporary end, as we've seen in the past. we know just the practical reality is that there is going to be some discussion of territory, uh, and there's going to be discussion of security guarantees. those are
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just, you know, fundamental basics that will that will undergird and underlie any type of discussion. um, but i think the, the most important part is the president has stated his desire, his determination to end this war, to end the killing that is going on, the death and destruction that is happening as this war. uh, you know, goes on and on. uh, month after month after month. and the killing fields of eastern and southern ukraine is unacceptable. it is not in the interest of either country. it's not in the interest of the world, and certainly not in the interest of the united states and europe. uh, so all of those things will drive, uh, the negotiations going forward. and as you can see, uh, the president, president trump is determined to move very quickly. we just had a head of state phone call, the first in years. uh, and here we are less than a week later, uh, at the highest level of the u.s. and russian government. and we expect to continue to drive that
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pace. uh, to, to not only end the war, but then to unlock, uh, what could be very productive and stabilizing relationships going forward. >> you mentioned territories. is it acceptable to the u.s. for russia to retain any territory that is annexed since the beginning of the war in february 2022? >> well, i think those are things that, uh, those those are to be discussed, uh, and those are things that will start and do the tough work ahead. but the important thing is that we've started that process. uh, and what the president did not find acceptable was an endless war in europe. uh, and that was literally turning into has turned into a meat grinder, uh, of people on, on both sides. so that if you just think about just in a few months, president trump has shifted the entire global conversation from not if the war is going to end, but just how it's going to end. and
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only president trump can do that. and in the oval office, less than a week ago, both president putin and president zelenskyy both said to him, only you, president trump, could drive this war to a conclusion. >> do you expect? >> well, again, we're not going to negotiate in or an end to this conflict. these are the kinds of things that have to happen through hard and difficult diplomacy and closed rooms over a period of time. what's important to understand is two things. the first is the only leader in the world who can make this happen, who can even bring people together to begin to talk about it in a serious way is president trump. he's the only one in the world that can do that right now. the second thing i would say is that in order for a conflict to end, everyone involved in that conflict has to be okay with it has to be it has to be acceptable to them. but we have to understand that it's been three and a half years since there's been any sort of regularized contact between the united states and russia and in some cases between any of the participants in this conflict and russia. so the goal of
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today's meeting was to follow up on the phone call the president had a week ago and begin to establish those lines of communication. the work remains today as the first step of a long and difficult journey, but an important one. and president trump is committed to bringing an end to this conflict. and as he said when he campaigned for president, and he wants it to be and in a way that's fair, he wants it to end in a way that's sustainable and enduring. not that leads to another conflict. in 2 to 3 years. that's not going to be easy to achieve. but he's the only one in the world that can begin that process. donald trump is the only leader in the world that could initiate that process. and today was the first step in in that process. >> is sanctions relief going to be involved in any of this normalizing or trying to more level set the relationship between the u.s. and russia to the russians, bring up sanctions relief in the meeting today. >> well, sanctions are all the result of this conflict. there are sanctions that were imposed as a result of this conflict. and so i would say to you that, um, in order to bring an end to any conflict, there has to be concessions made by all sides. we're not going to predetermine what those are. we're not
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certainly not going to negotiate this today or in a press conference, for that matter. but and there are other parties that have sanctions. the european union is going to have to be at the table at some point, because they have sanctions as well that have been imposed. so, um, but i guess the point here is the goal is and we agreed on what the goal is. the goal is to bring an end to this conflict in a way that's fair, enduring, sustainable and acceptable to all parties involved. what that looks like, well, that's what the what the ongoing engagement is going to be all about. >> the ukrainians and the europeans have suggested they feel very sidelined about how the process has played out so far. how do you intend to address their concerns, and will they be incorporated in future meetings in a multilateral way? >> well, the comment i would have on that is that for three and a half years, while this conflict has raged, or three years while it's raged, no one else has been able to bring something together like what we saw today, because donald trump is the only leader in the world that can. so no one is being sidelined here. but president trump is in a position that he
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campaigned on to initiate a process that could bring about an end to this conflict. and from that could emerge some very positive things for the united states, for europe, for ukraine, for the world. but first, it begins by the end of this conflict. and so the only thing president trump trying to do is bring about peace. it's what he campaigned on. it's something the world should be thanking president trump for doing. he was able he's been able to achieve what for three, two and a half, three years no one else has been able to achieve, which is to bring to begin this process a serious process. obviously, a lot of work remains before we have a result. president trump is the only one that can do it. >> look, it's it's common sense. if you're going to bring both sides together, you have to talk to both sides. um, and we'll continue to remind everyone, literally within minutes of president trump hanging up with president putin, he called and spoke with president zelenskyy. so shuttle diplomacy has happened throughout history. it's happened all over the world. we are absolutely talking to both sides. the secretary of state
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just met with president zelenskyy days ago, along with the vice president. seven cabinet members in europe at the same time really showing the importance of of engaging our allies. president trump spoke with president macron just yesterday. prime minister starmer is coming to washington next week. so i think the facts will continue to push back on this notion that our allies have not been consulted. they're being and they are being consulted literally almost on a daily basis, and will continue to do so. >> did you set a date for the two presidents to meet at this meeting? >> all right. we've been listening right here. and it continues listening to secretary of state marco rubio and the other top, top u.s. officials that were in the room at the table with their russian counterparts today. the first real meeting in in the discussion to potentially end russia's war on ukraine, as was just noted right there by our jennifer hansler that ukraine has been left out, not involved
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in this meeting at all. but as they say, they are going they are being consulted. what mike waltz just said. let's talk about what we have learned from this very important first meeting that's been happening in riyadh, saudi arabia. joining us right now is the democratic senator from maryland, chris van hollen. he sits on the foreign relations committee. senator, thank you so much for being here. i mean, rubio making clear he's not going to he's not going to really tip his hand or negotiate in public. um, saying today was about beginning to establish lines of communication once again with russia and called it a first step in a long and difficult journey. what do you take from what we just heard from the secretary of state, your former colleague, coming out of this very high stakes meeting with his russian counterparts. >> well, kate, it's great. >> to be. >> with you. >> and i. >> think everybody. >> would like to see a negotiated. sustained peace to the war in ukraine. >> no one more. >> than the ukrainian people. >> i met with president. >> zelenskyy at the munich
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security. conference just this weekend. >> and his point was that. ukraine needs to be at the table. so the big missing party at that. meeting in riyadh was ukraine. and what we saw in munich was a series of. >> trump administration. >> officials essentially trying to to bully ukraine. >> into giving. >> up lots. >> of its natural. >> resources in exchange for. >> continued u.s. support. not even that, just to pay back the support. >> that we provided, which we provided. >> because of putin's assault on ukraine. and as you know, secretary rubio can say he doesn't want to negotiate at this point in time. but they began this process with major unilateral concessions to putin and russia. that is not how you start a negotiation. that's why president zelenskyy and our european allies are so, so worried at this moment. >> you did hear the national
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security advisor say, we you know, the goals here. how do you make it enduring successful? what does that look like, a peace agreement here. he says what will need to be part of it is the practical reality of some discussion of territory, which obviously you can read that as what land that russia has annexed either since the beginning of this war or since 2014, and also some discussion of security guarantees, which, of course, that would be on the side of ukraine. um, do you what do you what would you like to see be the next step? marco rubio has said over the weekend and also his his spokesperson said that they're making clear that ukraine will be involved. this is not going to be negotiations negotiated without ukraine's involvement. what kind of involvement do you think ukraine needs to have, or do you think is going to have in this? >> well, i think ukraine needs to be at the table when these negotiations are going on. after
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all, putin attacked ukraine. ukraine has lost thousands and thousands of its people. and so to even begin a process without including ukraine is perceived by ukraine and many around the world as just throwing them under the bus. and can i ask you real. >> quick. >> just on. secretary rubio. >> what mike waltz seemed to mike waltz seemed to his his physicality in that interview was kind of dismissive in saying, in responding to a question that ukraine has felt left out. he said something to the effect of this talk of that we haven't been consulted. they have been consulted from the very beginning. it seems to be maybe a different view or trying to downplay that ukraine is being left out, seem to have a different viewpoint on what being at the table looks like from their view. >> well, i'm just repeating what i understood president zelenskyy to say. i think he's
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in a better position to explain the position of the people of ukraine than mike walsh. and at the munich conference, the ministration the trump administration came in having already made unilateral concessions on issues like security guarantees. in other words, they said that ukraine cannot be part of nato ever, and that the united states will not back up with its own forces. security guarantees made by others. that is a big concession. right off the bat. putin is smiling about that. they also made concessions. the trump team on the territorial piece right from the beginning, so they can say all they want right now. but what they did in munich with president zelenskyy was primarily to bully them, right. the secretary of treasury handed him a piece of paper that essentially required ukraine to hand over about 50% of its mineral reserves to the united states simply in payment of the
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support that we've already given, which we've given because they were a democratic country attacked by putin and the russian forces. i mean, can you imagine fdr in the middle of world war two saying to to churchill, you know, you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves. that's not how you behave when you want to support a a friend who is under attack by an authoritarian like putin. >> senator, i really appreciate you coming on, listening to this, this interview as it was coming in with us. let us see what comes from this. now, senator, thank you so much for your time, john. all right. breaking this morning, a top official of the social security administration has quit after refusing to give. elon musk and his team access to sensitive information and, quote, they deserve a long prison sentence. the new threat by elon musk to
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country, especially as we head into the heavy summer season. here's how the mayor of springdale, utah, home of zion national park, is reacting to these firings and cuts. >> if it's the employees. >> that are gone. >> i'm not sure how the park could stay open. >> it would be chaos. >> in there. >> the park needed more. >> funding anyway. it was. there's a lot of deferred maintenance that hasn't been done. >> it's the. >> second most visited park in the country. and if that's not worth preserving and and throwing some money out, i'm not sure what is. >> joining us right now is kristin. she's a senior vice president of government affairs for the national parks conservation association, the leading independent, nonpartisan membership organization devoted exclusively to advocacy on behalf of the national park system. kristin, thanks for coming in. what what are you hearing right now from public lands and parks workers? who's impacted by these cuts? what are they saying? >> they're distressed.
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>> they think the national parks. >> aren't going. >> to function well this summer and spring break. and the people that we're losing are. critical staff with expertise. these are folks that do search and rescue. these are water treatment operators. these are people who welcome staff at the visitor centers. so a loss of these folks will mean that the parks will not be well staffed this summer and spring break. >> what is it going to mean for the national parks? how is the impact going to be felt? how are people going to see this, especially when we start heading into that peak summer season for the parks? >> so most. >> of us, when we go to our national parks, whether it's yellowstone or yosemite or the everglades, we we start off our trip at the visitor center and we, uh, use the bathroom there. we ask a park ranger about the trip. we figure out where we're going to go for the day. this cut could mean that visitor
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centers have to close more often. the bathroom bathrooms won't be accessible. that, uh, visitors won't have enough rangers to speak to about their trip. and this this sort of, um. puts visitors in a tight spot. it, um, makes it a little bit less friendly and welcoming when you go to the national parks. and one of the things that we're really worried about are if people don't have everything they need when they're in the park, uh, there won't be enough search and rescue folks to help them if they are in need. >> and, kristen, what can be done? i've seen that some other organizations are speaking with with employees if they want to bring litigation. um, what are you all considering doing about these findings or these firings? how do you fight it? well. >> we want congress to step in. we want congress to say this is unacceptable. congress, these
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are their constituents as well. 325 million people visit our national parks every year. it's time for congress to step in and make sure parks are well staffed and really ask the administration and compel the administration to reinstate these positions. we did that with seasonals. it's time to do it with the full time staff people as well. but this is everyone's problem. going into the spring break and summer season, and we want congress to take some responsibility for this as well. and and call on the administration to, um, to reinstate these folks and get them back to their jobs. >> the president, his supporters, have backed the firings as the way they talk about it is the way to cut what they see as excessive spending, a bloated federal government. a spokesperson for the epa, which also saw cuts, put it this way to the new york times. president trump was elected with a mandate to create more effective and efficient federal government, federal government that serves all americans. and we are doing just that. that's a
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spokesperson for the epa. after the agency announced layoffs. if that same statement was applied to the cuts for the national park service, what do you say? what do you say to that and to the sentiment that the national parks can can do enough with less? >> they can't. and they've already been doing a lot with less. since 2010, the park service has been understaffed by 20%. and let me give you another statistic. 1/15 of 1% of the federal budget is how much the park service costs. it's peanuts. it's not very much money, and it contributes the entire park system. contributes $55 billion to the economy. so. an understaffed, um, unwelcoming park system this summer could really harm our economy and local communities. and we call the communities right outside of parks, gateway communities. all of these places could feel the ripple effect of having an understaffed park. so we don't
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think there's any efficiency here. we think it's a terrible economic decision. and we think since parks have already been understaffed for the last 15 years, this is really not going to help this situation. it's just going to make it worse. >> mhm. kristen bell, thank you so much for coming in. coming up for us, a case of mistaken identity takes a horrible turn when a man opens fire on two innocent tourists. he now faces attempted murder charges. one group calling it a hate crime. >> aveeno introduces. >> new daily. moisturizing cream. >> it's clinically proven to moisturize dry skin for 48 hours and instantly strengthens skin's barrier for softer, smoother skin. aveeno. the power of oat for sensitive skin. >> at humana. we believe your. >> health care should evolve. >> with you. >> and part of that evolution means choosing the right medicare plan for you. humana can help. hi, my name. >> is sam. >> davis, and i'm going to tell
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president trump has said he will meet with the russian president, vladimir putin soon, raising the question how do americans feel about the russian leader? cnn's harry enten has more. he's here with me now to run the numbers yesterday, for context, we talked about how americans feel about support for ukraine and how that has softened. what's the view now of russia? >> yeah. >> americans may have softened on ukraine, but when it comes to russia, americans don't trust russia as far as they can throw them. i mean, my goodness gracious favorable view of russia. you go back to 2020, it was 28%. 2022 dropped to 15% in 2024. just 8% of americans hold a favorable view of russia. to put this in context, about as many americans believe that we fake the moon landing as have a favorable view of russia. the vast majority of americans, 61%, actually think of russia as an enemy. just 4%. just 4% think. think of them as a partner. so the bottom line is views on russia very, very, very negative. >> that's the view of russia.
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what about putin specifically? >> what about putin specifically? i mean, once again, i mean, how americans view putin confident he'll do the right thing when it comes to world affairs. just 8% favorable view of him, of vladimir putin, just 9%. i mean, my goodness gracious about as many americans believe, that the earth is flat as have a favorable view of vladimir putin. so when it comes to russia, it comes to and it comes to vladimir putin. americans, simply put, do not trust him or the country itself. >> okay, now to the view. another aspect of the view of the russia's war on ukraine. how do americans feel about ukraine using u.s. weapons against russia? >> yeah. you know, so we spoke about yesterday about how americans views of ukraine have softened the favorable views. and here we're talking about negative views of russia. i think this kind of puts in a context about how americans feel about russia when matched up against ukraine. ukraine using u.s. weapons in russia. take a look here. 52% of americans support that idea, compared to just 43% who oppose. even
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republicans are split on this question, basically 5050. 49% to 49%. so i guess the whole big takeaway here is, yes, views of ukraine have softened, but americans really don't trust or like russia. >> understandably so, given its track record. thanks, harry. thank you john. all right. this morning we are getting a new look at president trump and elon musk side by side with musk talking about the reaction to him and his white house leadership. >> i mean, i used to be adored by the left. >> you know? >> not anymore. less so these days. that. huh? i mean. >> i really. >> didn't i. >> mean, this. >> this whole. >> sort of. >> like. >> you know. >> it's they call it like trump. >> derangement syndrome. >> and. >> you know, you. >> don't realize how real this. >> is until. >> like, it's you can't reason with people. so, like, i was at a friend's. birthday party in l.a., just a birthday dinner. and there was, like, a nice, quiet dinner and everything was everyone was behaving normally. and then i happened to mention this before the election, like a
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month or two before. i have to mention the president's name. and it was like they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained, like methamphetamine and rabies. okay? and they're like, wow. >> and i'm like, what is. >> wrong with guys like you can't have like a normal conversation. and it's like, it's it's like that become completely irrational. >> all right. with us now is rahm emanuel, former ambassador to japan, former mayor of chicago, former white house chief of staff, former congressman. but most importantly, now cnn's senior political and global affairs commentator, ambassador, thank you so much for being with us. what do you think of the democratic reaction so far to elon musk and how effective it has been? well. >> to me, that's not the focus. the focus. >> is on. >> what president trump is doing. and that should be where the concentration is. >> i mean, there. >> is a focus in the sense of an unelected official having full access to private records, having been one of my first bills in congress was about privacy and medical and financial records. the idea that a person not confirmed by the u.s. senate is rummaging through
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collecting, and the federal government has the most extensive collection of data on individuals throughout the united states, whether that's through the irs, social security, just to name a few places. the idea that they are rummaging through that data, not just with security background checks, but also with firewalls that are established, is a dangerous precedent for a country that believes in not only your privacy, but fundamentally also believes in protecting that information, especially in a period of i. it's it's open source. now, from a political standpoint, which is kind of where the question was, john, that idea of focusing on on musk versus trump, uh, i would stay laser focused on the president, the united states, from a purely political partisan. but there's a larger question that also should be a part of the discussion. the idea that privacy and your personal data, whether it's medical, financial or otherwise, and taxes are now
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being rummaged through by people that have no background checks or no experience doing that, that is a very dangerous place to go. and i think the american people believe fundamentally in their privacy. >> why the laser focus politically on the president and not elon musk? because we're hearing a lot of democrats talk about musk. >> i understand that, and that's because that's the shiny bauble over here. the president united states is the person that was elected. the president of united states is the one who is, you know, harry s truman said the buck stops here. he was the one that he'll decide whether, in fact, you're going to have an avian flu, a bird flu. that's going to be a major pandemic. we're going to fire all these scientists. we're going to basically shut the nih, cdc down eggs. prices are going way up, and we have no scientists that are actually on the job, the cops on the beat to protect americans. so the price of groceries are up, the price of eggs are up. and also we're going to see 1 or 2 mutations away from a major, major epidemic, potentially in the
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united states. and to me, that's the president's responsibility to protect america. and we're going to see whether these type of cuts, these type of reckless behavior is going to end up creating the conditions for a pandemic. everybody you talk to. and one element is the price of eggs. the other element is you're a mutation away from a major problem where you can from human to human exposure and pass on a new type of pandemic flu that has got massive consequences. and now we're basically laying off the very scientists. and as you know, last week, they're now searching for the nuclear scientists to bring them back, that they fired recklessly. well, you're going to have that situation. and it's a disease and a price of eggs that's going to come to your local grocery and your local health clinic. >> i'm hearing you talk about eggs and grocery stores and disease. you came up during bill clinton. you raised money for his 1992 campaign, and you said that part of the political genius of bill clinton was that
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he knew how to find the right issue. that cuts like a hot knife through butter. so as you're observing this now, what do you think? what do you think that issue is that might cut through for democrats? >> well, i think one of the things i would focus on is very straightforward, and it's in the data in the sense that i don't think the president's focusing on inflation. that is one of the core issues that he got elected. why are we talking about the price of greenland, when we should be talking about the price of groceries? but as an example of that, i think the democrats during the super bowl should have all been at the grocery store in front of an egg, shells showing how they were emptying out, and the price of eggs are continuing to rise. or now seven bucks a dozen. and to me, this is an example. nobody. i can't find a single time before the election, not a single time. but we're the price of greenland was the focus. it was the price of groceries that was going to be solved. according to then candidate trump. on day one, the price of eggs are going up and
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we fired all the people that are going to protect us from avian flu, destroying more and more of the chickens throughout the united states. and you could see the price. so to me there, this is about inflation. this is about president trump taking his eye off the ball. they are not we're not interested in the price of greenland. we're interested in the price of groceries. >> your friend, your. >> friend. james carville, focused on. >> your old friend james carville, talked about what he thinks the reaction of democrats should be. he says, what i think they should do is what we call in rural america play possum. just let it go. don't get in the way of it. or, as we like to say, don't just stand there, do nothing. so sort of let trump cook for now until maybe he goes too far. what do you think of that? >> um, you know, uh, i don't dismiss what james has to say. i don't agree with him on this. one second example. let's take government reform where i think democrats should be on the price of not just defending government. here's an example.
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in 2023, they aggregated all the inspector general reports. they added up to $93 billion in savings. i would file a case today. it's very clear by the law that the president broke the law. you have to have 30 day notice for all the inspector generals who are the police on the beat against waste, fraud and abuse. doge has basically found maybe a couple billion dollars. there's $93 billion found by the professionals. let's put each and every one of those up for a vote to cut. and they should be not only up for a vote, they should be amendments to the appropriations process. you've got $93 billion of savings right now. that's $9 more per dollar that doge has found. and i would be the party that wants to reform government wants to find waste, fraud and abuse. uh, rather than defending the institutions, reforming the institution should be the brand of democrats. >> rahm emanuel, it's great to have you at cnn. great to have you for the first time on the flagship morning show. appreciate your time this
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warehouse in pennsylvania went up in flames monday after a reported explosion inside. the complex is just north of philadelphia, was evacuated immediately. a massive fire. people in nearby homes and businesses are being told to avoid the area as crews continue battling what's going what's happening there in the hotspots that remain. there's also new video in showing the dramatic rescue of a teenager who got stuck inside a narrow mine shaft in california. 16 years old, got sucked 50ft down. he was exploring the mine shaft with friends when his rope broke on their climb out. the teen tried to free climb back up but could not. he was taken to a local trauma center for treatment and should be okay. the thing of nightmares, john. all right, so elon musk is calling for journalists at 60 minutes. he's calling him the biggest liars in the world. and he declared they deserve to serve, quote, a long prison sentence. with us now is cnn chief media analyst brian stelter. and, brian, it's
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interesting because he's saying this at the same time that vice president vance is giving speeches overseas about free speech. >> that's exactly right. >> and i just. couldn't help but try to point out the hypocrisy involved in this, john. and it's and it's not just yours truly pointing it out. if you go and look at elon musk's twitter feed, many of his fans are piling on him saying, dude, you said you were a free speech absolutist. you have decried free speech restrictions in other countries. so what are you doing talking about prison time for journalists? this started on sunday night when 60 minutes aired a really interesting segment about the cuts to usaid, that agency that was dismantled by musk and doge in the trump administration. musk responded, calling 60 minutes a bunch of liars and calling for long prison sentences. that's the kind of really unhinged comment we've heard from us time and time again, as he's become the leading, most vicious media basher in the entire trump administration. oftentimes, he posts so much that he gets a pass for for some of these
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comments. i counted yesterday, musk tweeted at least 94 times and retweeted dozens of other times. so he's putting so much out there, it's like an avalanche. it's hard to keep up. but in this case, when he was decrying 60 minutes, even many of his own fans said, hey, wait a minute, you're going too far. you said you were in support of all free speech. what are you doing? talking about jail time. it's an interesting example of how even musk's allies and fans can hold him accountable sometimes. >> and brian, you've written eloquently on the difference between the discussion over free speech and what you call favored speech. explain what you mean by that. >> right. i don't think we're really oftentimes having arguments over free speech. what we're having are arguments over favored speech versus disfavored speech. and right now, the trump administration clearly favors certain kinds of speech. trump signed an executive order saying he was reversing censorship at the same time that he signed other executive orders, policing word choice, policing certain word use. so there's a kind of

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