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>> all. i'm brianna keilar with boris sanchez here in washington. and top officials from all corners of washington are turning in their resignation letters as president trump and elon musk drastically overhaul the government. the latest high ranking departure comes from the social security administration, which cites serious concerns with how musk's doge team is operating. in the meantime, court filings from the trump administration raising some new questions about musk's role in the white house. the documents say musk does not work for doge and has no authority to make decisions for federal agencies. >> doge has played a big part in gutting the federal government, has tried to gain access to sensitive information, and now a defense official confirms doge staffers are sitting in on pentagon meetings. cnn's rene marsh is following all of these threads. rene, let's start with the resignations. these are some senior folks. who is quitting and why? >> i mean, these are two agencies that. impact many. >> americans, millions of americans lives from food safety to social security benefits. so first, at the social security

administration. michelle king she had been at the agency for more than 30 years, and she walks away from her decades worth of service after clashing with doge. doge wanted to get access to sensitive systems within the agency that contain social security recipients. personal information from medical information, financial information. it's worth noting some 72.5 million americans get social security benefits from the disabled to children to retirees. and so it really raised some concerns with her as far as the access they were looking for and what they planned on doing with that information. of course, musk and his doge has said that this is all about identifying waste and fraud and rooting it out. the white house, in reference to her resignation, said in a statement that the president is committed to appointing the best and most qualified individuals who are dedicated to working on behalf of the american people. but then there's also the fda, um, that agency's food chief has also

resigned. he actually his name is jim jones. he started at the agency in 2023. he was actually in line with rfk jr.'s vision for food safety. but he left because he said that his staff was cut. you remember last week we talked about thousands of employees being fired? well, his staff, he lost 89 of them. and he said this quote, he says, i happen to agree with the priorities of kennedy, but we won't have the staff to do it. so we saw his resignation. >> rene marsh, thank you so much for the update. we have plenty to discuss now. we're joined by martin o'malley. he's a former social security administration commissioner under president biden. sir, thanks so much for being with us. first, let's get your reaction to king's resignation. what did you think when you saw the news? >> uh, i was very i. was sad. >> for the agency. i'm sad for the american people. >> i had. >> the honor to work. >> with michelle. >> king and a lot of other. really dedicated senior. >> executive service.

>> people at an agency that's actually facing the largest number. of employees. i'm sorry, largest number of customers they've ever served with fewer employees than they've had in 50 years. so, um, michelle is, uh, michelle king was a outstanding is an outstanding public servant, uh, totally beyond reproach. uh, never. partisan, always professional. and i think it says a lot about the. disregard of the law and disregard of people's personal identifying information that this new doge crowd has, that michelle would have the integrity to say, look, i'm out of here. i'm not going to be an accomplice in committing these these crimes. >> uh, elon musk has claimed that ssa is rife with fraud, suggesting that benefits are being paid to dead people, that that millions and millions of dollars are going to waste. you're laughing. but but that is a concern that a lot of americans have, is it not? is is it a laughing matter?

>> yeah. he has no idea what he's talking about. there. there is not like a zombie apocalypse of people, you know, cadavers running around with social security checks coming out of their pockets. uh, on the contrary, you know what's more common that happens is, uh, i mean, it's a big agency. so, yes, there are outliers. it's 72.5 million people, sometimes really desperate people will try to hide the fact that grandma died. so they get a couple more checks, but, um, more often, because of the checks we have in place where we interrupt payments of people over a certain age, especially if they stop receiving medicare benefits. uh, we're more commonly in, you know, more usual is that we have to restore benefits when we erroneously cut them off. when somebody moves out of country or something. but no, don elon musk, i mean, the co-presidents keep throwing stuff out on twitter that, uh,

and that they can never back up. i mean, ask elon musk, show me the 12 people that are 150 years old. he can't show me the 200 million that are still receiving checks. he can't. these 19 year old nitwits from doge that are violating the law and plucking people's, you know, personal identifying information. they don't know what they're looking at because, you know, the i.t. system that those dedicated employees have kept cranking out the checks even during covid, even during covid, uh, very old. and they have an expertise. but now donald trump, you know, the the biggest threat is to social

>> no doubt that the recent retirements were because of people wanting to do something improper personal identifying information. >> you have to. i mean, i came to understand, as president biden's commissioner of social security, that the dedicated employees at social security consider it their sacred duty to protect people's personal identifying information. it is a firable offense if an employee goes through and browses to see you know, what their brother in law might have made in the course of his life, or those things. it's a firable offense, and oftentimes it's something that is referable to the

inspector general for criminal prosecution. but now we can't do that because the president's whacked all of the inspector generals whose job it is to police against waste, fraud and abuse. so there is abuse going on, and it's all being committed by the 19 year old nitwits at doge who are empowered by the president's elon musk and donald trump. >> normally, we have to leave the conversation there. i appreciate you joining us and sharing your point of view. >> sure. thank you. >> meantime, there's another major departure, this one happening at the department of justice. the head of the criminal division within the d.c. u.s. attorney's office has now left her post. >> cnn's katelyn polantz is following this story. do we know why she quit? caitlin. >> we do. and we have obtained the resignation letter that this prosecutor wrote to her boss, a political appointee, ed martin, in the d.c. u.s. attorney's office, saying she was done. and it was because martin and others

at main justice, other people installed by donald trump to lead that department, she just didn't think that there was enough to open a criminal investigation and to take steps to freeze bank accounts related to climate and environment spending. uh, that the department wanted her to do. she said she was not going to be opening a grand jury investigation. she just didn't see that there was enough to say to a bank that they needed to freeze funds at that bank related to this federal spending because of a criminal predicate, even though the u.s. attorney had ordered her to do that. so all of this taken together, this this top prosecutor name is denise chung. she's just another person in the justice department who has been there a very long time, very well respected, who is saying, no, i'm not going to do what trump appointed legal officials are asking me to do because i think those things are

unethical or just not founded under the law. the justice department spokespeople then said, though in this situation, she's not making an act of heroism. she's just not following the commands. >> all right, katelyn polantz, thank you so much for the report. the doge led effort to drastically shrink the government workforce is really impacting veterans affairs employees. just last week, more than 1000 workers there who did not take the deferred resignation package were fired. many were probationary employees who had served less than 1 to 2 years in the department. they had fewer job protections. they didn't have the right to appeal. workers who were allegedly underperforming also targeted the trump administration, claiming the move would save the department more than $98 million a year. andrew lennox is a marine veteran who spent ten years serving. he was fired from a supervisor training program at the va medical center in ann arbor, michigan. andrew, thank you so much for being with us. um, first off, i just want to

understand something because the grounds for termination in your case and so many others is basically a question of whether your continued employment was in the public interest. what is your reaction to that? >> so, yeah, that's the exact language that was on the termination notification. um, it's my my reaction. at first it was surprise, you know, disbelief. and i mean, this morning as i packed up my office, it's anger, you know, because it's, you know, my i was terminated for my performance. i haven't even had a performance review. nobody consulted any, you know, any supervisors or even the director of our hospital before making these terminations. >> so tell me about your job and why you wanted to work at the va. >> yeah. so i spent ten years in the marine corps. i loved it. greatest job i ever had. and i made the decision to transition into the civilian world. and for a little bit, i worked in civilian jobs. i was at a

pharmaceutical company for a little bit, and they sent me to a military friendly employers conference, and i ended up sharing a table with some veterans affairs social workers. there's a marine corps vet, and he was telling me about the work he does and like looking at that group of people and the organizations that get back to, you know, veterans. i made the decision. that is what i want to do. i want to continue serving my country. and i thought there'd be no better way than helping, you know, veterans, you know, my family, the people you know, that, you know, gave me so much i'd like to give back. and my role there is an administrative officer for primary care. um, department of the hospital. so it's a lot of behind the scenes stuff. it's kind of eliminating the red tape and friction that just comes into healthcare. as far as, like scheduling doctors, the patients, making sure wait times are short, you know, scheduling, vacation pay, ordering equipment, all these things that we try and take the administrative burden off of the doctors and the nurses and the

care providers to get veterans treated, you know, as quickly and effectively as possible. >> yeah. so you have the va secretary, doug collins, saying that these firings will not negatively impact va health care. what's your reaction to that? >> he didn't ask my supervisor that. he didn't give me time to do a proper transition of duties to people that would be covering down on what i was supposed to. uh, we didn't get to pass my access to different, you know, networks and databases. i had no time to make sure that i left the job, you know, with a proper transition. so there wasn't a gap in treatment or service. i had to come in after i was fired to make sure that my team had all of the information until they cut my access to my government email and phone at 5 p.m. friday evening. >> do you get? you know, i think a lot of people don't realize that almost a third of the

federal workforce is is veterans. do you get the impression, as you hear, uh, you know, just people, americans talking about federal workers, politicians talking about federal workers, that there's an understanding of who federal workers are. >> yeah. i think it's something that's kind of it's it's it's grown as far as like the evil bureaucracy, you know, the words that are being thrown around or, you know, parasitic, lazy, unproductive, and like, we're hearing these words. but again, i had limited experience with the va before i worked there. and then seeing the men and women that are dedicating their lives, they're not making the most money doing this. they're doing it for, you know, different reasons, especially our doctors, our administrators, these highly trained, highly skilled people have made this decision to serve like, these are the parasites. these are the lazy, unproductive, you know, employees that you're hearing. you know, politicians and other media outlets say there's, you know, there's combat veterans,

there's survivors. you know, who's who's family members passed away, you know, in service to this country. it's your neighbors. these these are not the evil bureaucrats you think that are just gumming up the system and living off the system. we want to work hard. we want to help people. and it's for, you know, it's across the board for all federal agencies. but it's just it's easy to paint them as an enemy in this situation. >> well, andrew, thank you so much for your service in the marine corps. thank you for your service at the va. we really appreciate your time today. >> yeah, i appreciate it too. and i you know, i just like to say a lot of the times the word layoff is being thrown around for what's happening. i want to be clear. these are these are terminations. we've been denied the protections that most people get during reductions in force. and we were terminated due to a technicality that they found a loophole. and it's, you know, my belief that it's a matter of time until they find more loopholes to deny more people

their benefits. and, you know, the services that we enjoy from the federal government. >> that is a concern broadly held by people, even still, who are employed in the federal workforce. i've been hearing it. andrew, again, thank you so much. we really do appreciate it. and still to come, officials in canada giving an update on the delta jet that crashed and flipped over as newly obtained footage shows, the very moment. >> plus, covert drone missions over mexico. what we're learning about the cia's efforts to spy on drug cartels. >> cooked books, corporate fat cats, swindling socialites, doped up cyclists, and yes, more crooked politicians. i have a feeling we won't be running out of those anytime soon. >> a new season of united states of scandal with jake tapper, march 9th on cnn. >> planning to join the 6 million families who discovered a smarter, more flexible way to move with pods. save up to 20%. now, for a limited time, whether you're moving across town or across the country. save up to

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today. officials acknowledging the extreme weather conditions in the days leading up to the crash. and now we're getting a closer look at what actually happened in this video obtained by cnn. watch as delta flight 4019 descends on the runway, making a hard landing right there you see flames shoot up as it skids down the runway, flipping onto its roof. as bad as this looks, all 80 people on board survived. 21 were injured. two remain hospitalized. cnn's brian todd joins us now live from toronto. pearson international airport. brian, what have you been seeing this hour? >> well, boris, that delta jet remains at the spot where it came to a stop yesterday upside down on that place on the tarmac there. and officials say it will probably remain there at least for another 48 hours while they continue their on site investigation. a couple of things that we learned from the news conference today earlier was that when first responders first got to the site, it only

took them a couple of minutes to get there because they had a whole team of first responders already at the airport. they only took them a couple of minutes to get there, and when they got there first, they had to put out spot fires. according to some of the first responding officials who spoke today. also, todd akin, the toronto airport fire chief, said after they put out those fires, he was asked, you know, what did you do then to try to get the passengers off? and he said, actually, the passengers, almost all of them were able to self evacuate and then they were escorted away. so that was a pretty pertinent development in the accounts of what happened there. uh, right after the crash, the passengers, according to todd akin, actually most of them self-evacuated from the plane when it came to a stop. uh deborah flint. the president and ceo of the toronto pearson international airport in this news conference yesterday. i mean, this morning, officials would not say whether the weather actually played a role in the crash. but here's what she had to say about the snow systems that came in through this airport, through the toronto area a couple of days

before the crash. >> from last thursday to sunday. toronto pearson saw extreme conditions two separate snowstorms on thursday and sunday. we got more than 20in, 50cm of accumulated snow. that is actually not typical. in fact, it is more snow within that time window than we received in all of last winter. there were many delays and cancellations across this part of canada and the u.s. northeast during this time, creating numerous flight delays and backlogs. >> now, you heard deborah flint talk about the delays and disruptions. now, on that front, boris. while that plane remains on the tarmac, two runways at this airport are going to remain closed, at least for the next couple of days. so there will continue to be a lot of disruptions and delays, cancellations here in toronto. boris. >> brian todd reporting live in

toronto. thank you so much, brianna. >> and for more on this investigation, i want to bring in cnn aviation analyst and former ntsb managing director peter goelz. your biggest takeaways, peter, from the new video of this crash that we are seeing today. >> well, that video was very revealing, brianna. i mean, it showed that the rj, typically just before it lands at about 35ft above the runway, flares upwards just a little bit to allow it to come down at a gentle rate. in this case, you can see the nose never pitches up. it comes down hard. the right, uh. undercarriage, the landing gear collapses, and the right wing apparently catches, uh, in the in the grass off the runway and tears off. if that is a very revealing, uh, video. and

it's going to play a major role in the investigation. >> so talk about the possibilities here for i mean, it seems pretty obvious that it's either some kind of pilot error or it's some kind of mechanical failure, or maybe some kind of combination, and then weather could factor in as well as to what would have caused such a hard landing. >> well, the voice recorder, uh, when that is downloaded by the transportation safety board, that will tell us what's going on in the cockpit and whether the crew was on top of this landing, whether they were getting ready to stick it as they should have, or whether there was, whether there were confusion, whether they were behind the aircraft, as the term goes. the voice recorder will spell that out. in addition, the data recorder will give us

indications of what was happening to the plane, what its sink rate was. did it encounter a wind shear at the last moment that drove it into the ground? uh, these are all things that will come out in the coming weeks, and i think it's going to be a combination, uh, starting with with the weather and the very heavy gust that drove that plane down into the into the runway. >> and you know, how important is it and how much will it tell you when you get investigators get statements from the crew from, of course, the pilots and from the passengers. >> well, the pilot interviews will be critical, as will the videotape and the passengers. they'll all be interviewed. just primarily for egress issues. how did they get out of the aircraft? what was the evacuation like? but the flight crew will be interviewed

separately to determine what they thought was going on and what their responses were. they will be asked to explain how they were set up for this landing and what happened. >> all right. peter, great to have your insights. thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks, brianna. >> top diplomats from the u.s. and russia are wrapping up the first real talks on ending the war in ukraine. details on what was accomplished and what might happen next when we come back. >> it's the news. >> welcome back. >> but it's also kind of not the news. >> we don't fact check here. we don't care, man. why all the information on this show so terrible? >> have i got news for you saturday at nine on cnn.

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battlefield. do you see any scenario in which russia would agree to those demands? >> hello, boris, and thank you so much for having me. well, these demands are actually nothing new for us. they are the same that russia had in 2022 when they first attacked us, uh, where they were already making certain claims about the legitimacy of ukraine's president and government. they were also telling that they have already, uh, taken the control both of president zelenskyy and of the government. however, as a representative of ukrainian parliament, i must assure you that ukrainian parliament is legitimate. according to ukrainian constitution and president and the government are legitimate as well. ukraine will conduct the elections at the point when it will be safe to do so. and russia is the sole reason of why we are unable to continue with our democracy. so to hear that from their

representative is just another another set of lies. and i am so sorry that the world has to hear that. >> i am curious about your confidence level. when you hear secretary of state marco rubio say that ukraine and other european leaders that are that are involved in this conflict will be brought to the table to negotiate with russia. uh, how soon do you think that will happen? do you foresee that being of consequence to ultimately what a deal looks like? >> boris, i'm sorry to interrupt you. i don't know if you can hear that, but right now, kyiv is under attack. and, uh, what i'm hearing sitting at my home is how our air defense is trying to take down some of the russian drones or missiles. and it is super scary. i think that would be an answer to any,

uh. any statements that russia is making or any. i'm sorry. it's like really loud here. um. russia is the reason why this war has begun. it's in their hands to make it stop, to pull the troops and go back. i do not understand why the united states new administration have changed the rule of not negotiation, of not negotiating with terrorists. and right now are trying to legitimize them or their claims. it is very painful. and, uh, it basically diminishes all the. all the price that we have paid, the ultimate prices of lives of our citizens, because at least we would expect that the united states would demand returning of ukrainian children or exchange of the prisoners of war to be sitting at the same table with

the war criminals. >> president trump has said that he wants to see a return on u.s. assistance to ukraine. president zelenskyy has said that he would be open to striking some kind of deal on rare earth minerals. do you think that is a good deal? what exactly do you think trump wants? >> oh, perhaps trump wants to explain to the u.s. citizens who elected him that he is able to stand for the u.s. interests, and there is actually a very good way of doing that is get use of russian frozen assets that are being right now frozen in belgium, depository euroclear. we are talking about ÷300 billion that are being untouched. and i think there is a possibility to work a deal with the european union to use this money if the united states need them to. that will be fair and just way of making russia

pay for what they have done and compensate to the assistance that the united states have given us. if we are right now in the world where we have to pay for for all what we have already received, but in any way, we are open to figuring out any kind of situations where ukrainian soldiers in the armed forces will have the means to fight with. and if it's the deal about the rare minerals or russian assets or anything else. president zelenskyy said that he is open to that and we would support that because the main thing that we need right now is to survive. and that was our only goal since the beginning of full scale invasion and since the beginning of the war in 2014. so we will be talking, of course, but we will not forfeit ukraine's interests. and the interests are to, um. honor the

lives of those who have fallen during the last three years to the ultimate sacrifice that ukraine's nation have done. and to make sure that we are not capitulating to russia. we didn't want to do that in 2022, when we had nobody behind our backs. and we are not going to do that right now. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. and glory to ukraine. >> thank you so much. still to come, covert drone missions over mexico. new cnn reporting on how the cia is spying on drug cartels. that story just moments away. >> unrivaled has arrived. >> the best. >> in the world. and full court. three on three. >> hold on, hold on. unrivaled. every friday, saturday and monday. presented by samsung galaxy on tnt, drew tv and stream on max. >> to follow your heart, you need to think ahead. at ubs, we match your ambition with

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usaid and the human impact, the human toll of the dismantling of that agency. that's some of the most important journalism being done in the past few weeks by cbs, by cnn, by the new york times, by other outlets. the human impact of the cuts. that's what everyone needs to know about. but within a couple of hours of that broadcast, musk lashed out, saying that 60 minutes journalists belong in jail, calling for long prison sentences. of course, musk has no power to imprison anyone, but this is dangerous because it normalizes an un-american notion that rich guys should be able to throw their critics behind bars. there should be prosecutions just because people are criticizing what is going on. musk has a history of saying this, but it all kind of gives the lie to his claim that he is a free speech absolutist. he doesn't seem to actually want free and unfettered speech when it comes to criticism of what he's doing, or just coverage of what he's doing. he only wants speech that agrees with him. and so this is the latest example of that phenomenon. >> and we're also hearing from musk today in a taped fox news

interview alongside president trump. let's take a look at this. >> 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 whole sort of like, you know, it's they call it like trump derangement syndrome. and i, you know, you don't realize how real this is until, like, it's you can't reason with people. >> okay. so what more are we expecting from that? >> yeah. and now there's kind of a newer version of trump derangement syndrome. doge derangement syndrome. this is now a term becoming popular on the right from trump supporters who are saying people who are concerned about what doge is doing, they're just deranged. they don't really get it. i think this interview with sean hannity tonight, it's an example of the illusion of transparency. what i mean by that is it appears that musk is reachable. he's answering questions. he's available. he's he's taking questions from fox. but it's really not an actual act of transparency. after all,

sean hannity, during trump's first term in office, was called trump's shadow chief of staff. so we know that hannity is rooting for trump and musk. he is supporting the work they're doing. we're not going to learn a lot of new information about what doge and musk are doing from this interview, but it's the illusion of transparency, and that is really this, this gap that needs to be filled between what musk is claiming to provide information about, claiming that doge is accessible, trying to reveal what they're doing versus the actual reality, which is they're very opaque. we know very little about what's happening behind the scenes. >> brennan not everyone in trump's orbit is thrilled about this partnership between musk and the president. trump's former white house chief strategist, steve bannon, is out there blasting musk, who's actually what he told the online publication unherd. quote, musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant. he wants to impose his freak experiments and act as god without any respect for the country's history, values or traditions. what do you make of this feud, brian? >> we need to keep an eye on

this. bannon keeps doubling down. last month, he called musk an evil person, now calling him a parasite. the reference to illegal immigrant is a reference to the fact that musk was born in south africa, and there were news reports last year suggesting that maybe he overstayed his visa in the united states. musk denied those reports, but bannon is trying to give those reports more oxygen. it seems to me bannon is on the outside trying to punch the guy who's on the inside. but right now musk is winning. trump has musk doing exactly what trump wants him doing, doing a lot of the hard work, doing a lot of the ugly work inside these government agencies. but bannon is pushing him hard on immigration, and bannon is going to continue to be a thorn in that side. >> brian stelter, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks. >> up next, folks are flipping over a discovery in the middle of the street. we'll explain in just a moment. >> here's some information about replacing windows and doors that just may surprise you. i'm brian gary. i'm here

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