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and prevents him from fully focusing on president trump's immigration crackdown. >> to this point, at least eight federal prosecutors have now resigned in protest with the former interim u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, danielle sassoon, accusing the doj of taking part in a quid pro quo with the mayor. the doj and mayor adams deny that allegation. the case is causing an uproar among some legal experts, urging the judge not to approve this dismissal without digging deeper into the circumstances surrounding the deal. joining us now to discuss former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and cnn's senior legal analyst elie honig and david freelander, he's a writer for new york magazine who has covered mayor eric adams extensively. eliot, let's start with you. judge has made it clear that under a federal rule, the executive branch is the first and presumptively the best judge of whether to drop a prosecution. but he also emphasized the court's abilities. the court's standing as an independent arm of the

government. ultimately, how do you think this is going to land? >> so those are two very important principles to keep in place. first of all, the executive branch, the justice department has extremely broad discretion to decide when it wants to proceed with the case or drop a case. and second of all, though, the judge does have some say, if you look at the federal rules, it says you can only dismiss a case with leave of court, meaning with the judge's approval. and here's the main thing that i'm going to be watching for when we when this hearing gets underway, when we get reports from paula, what basis does emil bove what basis does the justice department put forward? what they've said in the letter is that we've all seen is we want to drop this case so eric adams can help us with our political and policy agenda. that's what has caused such an uproar within doj and among doge alums. alternatively, though, up to this point, doj has said this has nothing to do with the strength of the case, the strength of the law, the strength of the facts. but it sounds like and i heard paula reporting earlier and there's some tweets out there from the doj chief of staff. they're migrating over now to. well, and it's a weak case too. so

that's a better argument to dismiss a case. i don't think it's a great one, but they're on much better footing if they go with that. but that would be a real turnabout from doj. >> on better footing if they initially went with that, i guess. okay, so this idea of like a special prosecutor, this is an idea that the nonprofit group common cause and three former u.s. attorneys have suggested about the judge appointing a special prosecutor. what do you think. >> of that? can i stamp this one out before it catches any fire? i saw that letter. i respect the people who wrote it. they cite examples that are not applicable here. they cite the very rare example where a federal court can appoint an outside prosecutor, but only in contempt cases, only where the court itself is proceeding against somebody for civil or criminal contempt. there is zero precedent for a judge to say, i hereby elie honig former prosecutor, you're going to come in. we're going to have you be the outside prosecutor on the eric adams case. that would violate the separation of powers that cannot be done. i understand what's driving the people who've written this letter, but they're off base.

they're not going to get an outside lawyer appointed here. >> david, the mayor and his attorneys have adamantly denied that adams took part in any kind of quid pro quo with doj, but obviously he's facing very serious charges. what are the stakes for him, whether or not the judge decides to dismiss the case? >> well, you know, they couldn't be higher. i mean, you know, city hall, city government in new york are just sort of ground to a halt over the last week. you have the governor, you know, looking at removing him. you have the city comptroller who's the kind of like second ranking official in the city talking about putting a committee together called an inability committee that would sort of basically whether or not the mayor is incapacitated because he's kind of under the thumb of donald trump. so it's, you know, we've seen a lot of chaos in new york city and state over the last 5 or 10 years in our politics and government, but it's really hard to match this moment. >> so, david, what is the governor? you know, what's the thinking right now with governor hochul on this? >> you know, people i've talked

to say she sort of really doesn't want to be in this situation. she would like to avoid it. um, you know, there's a primary election at the end of june and a general election in november. uh, and, you know, i think she feels like this. she'd rather not have to make this decision right now. >> how would it potentially impact the election if adams stays? >> well, you know, i mean, it's a little hard to say. i mean, he still seems to think he has a fighting chance. um, you know, to win reelection. but he might be the only one. i mean, his polling is terrible right now, and pretty much, you know, all the other candidates, including former governor andrew cuomo, who is not yet a declared candidate, kind of seem to be gunning for his job and saying he's just, you know, we cannot have someone who is essentially a puppet of donald trump in the white house. i mean, sorry, in city hall. >> interesting. and you have the attorney general, pam bondi, her staff, her chief of staff, chad mizelle tweeted some arguments saying the doj is, quote, going back to basics and calling the

case against mayor adams, quote, just one in a long history of past doj actions that represent grave errors of judgment, that kind of this case that like, hey, doj has done these corruption cases. it hasn't always worked out. what do you think of that? >> so first of all, yeah, he just tweeted this out. he basically says, well, there have been a long series. he's right. there have been a long series of supreme court arguments that have narrowed the scope of corruption laws and rejected prior doj. prosecutions. however, where was this line of thinking ten days ago? ten days ago? i'm going to read you what emil bove wrote when he started this whole process ten days ago, february 10th. quote. the justice department has reached this conclusion, meaning dismissed the eric adams case without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which this case is based. now, that is what caused the uproar here, because they said nothing to do with the strength of the evidence. instead, we're dismissing it so he can help us out with policy and political stuff. now, it seems, with this twitter chain that you just put up now, doj is sort of backtracking and saying,

well, it's actually the weakness of the case. the other thing i want to point out is, yes, the supreme court has narrowed the scope of these cases, but that doesn't mean the eric adams case was outside the scope of that. he doesn't even actually mention the eric adams case. it's a long twitter chain. he cites cases rightly going back several years. but i assure you, the southern district of new york studied those cases very carefully in bringing the adams indictment. so i want to see which one they go with in court. i mean, are they going to go with option a, politics or option b, merits of the case? and if option b, where was that ten days ago. >> see all of the above. >> yeah right. >> that's normally d. >> listen my dad told me if you're going to make an excuse, only make one excuse. otherwise no one believes you. >> we'll keep that in mind for the future. elie honig david freelander. thank you both. appreciate it. also breaking news we're tracking this afternoon president trump now escalating his criticism of ukraine's president zelenskyy casting the wartime leader as a dictator. in a social media post, trump in part saying, quote, think of it a modestly successful comedian, volodymyr zelenskyy, talked the united

states of america into spending $350 billion to go into a war that couldn't be won, that never had to start. he goes on to say that zelenskyy refuses to have elections is very low in ukrainian polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing biden like a fiddle, a dictator without elections. zelenskyy better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. >> that scathing post, and in many cases is full of false statements. and it comes after trump falsely accused ukraine of starting the war with russia yesterday. cnn's nick paton walsh is in kyiv, in ukraine. nick, what are people there saying about this? >> yeah, i mean, look, this frankly, frankly shock. there was shock this morning after the statement in the oval office about ukraine starting the war. and zelenskyy's poll rating being at 4%, both really kind of things. you normally hear the kremlin say. that sparked zelenskyy to say that trump has been living in a disinformation

space. i should point out he did say he had great respect for president donald trump and also for the american people, just as he made those comments and suggested, in fact, that it was hungarian, slovakian, pro-russian officials who might have been trying to feed that disinformation to the u.s. president. but that clearly has angered president trump and the litany of false statements, frankly, that he made about the situation in ukraine. half of the money missing, how zelenskyy had admitted to that, how zelenskyy was a dictator, how he was refusing to hold elections. look, you know, the concept of elections here in wartime is exceptionally fraught. and that appears to be an increasingly something which trump administration wants to see happen in peace time. russia's meddled in the past. in the 22 years i've been coming here, it's been a constant problem. the idea of trying during martial law when elections are suspended, to maybe get a ceasefire, to allow martial law to be lifted, to allow soldiers to vote, then how do you deal with the millions of ukrainians currently refugees and the rest of europe? how do you deal with

electoral reform, and how do you deal with the possibility of russia might launch one of its attacks during election day? so much that could go wrong, and that could deny the victor of any election with the legitimacy they so badly need to be a wartime commander here. and it's really beginning, i think, to ebb away at the narrative here. zelenskyy wants to be the singular voice that asks europe and the united states to continue aid and demands a place at the peace talks table, but instead we have this back and forth really escalating throughout the day. clearly, a lot of personal animosity behind trump's most recent truth social statement, saying that zelenskyy needs to move fast if he wants to still have a country, and suggesting that zelenskyy somehow on a gravy train, a narrative really forming here that the current leadership in kyiv in the eyes and full statements of the trump administration are denying democracy to their people and essentially pocketing the aid money that the united states has been giving them. i should add one thing we've been finding out recently, the recent offer by the trump administration to

the ukrainian government here of a deal in which they essentially hand over half of the rare earth, mineral and other resource rights to the country in exchange for future aid. that's something zelenskyy rejected. we have heard from sources familiar with the contents of the document that, remarkably, this was an offer intended to pay the united states back for aid that it had already given ukraine not to guarantee future assistance to pay that old debt back. and indeed, the document that was presented was about 16 pages long. 2 or 3 of them legal terminology, and then a list over a dozen pages of specific resources. mines, particular locations that the united states had in mind to be as part of this deal. so a definite move there, very transactional by the trump administration to get something back for aid that the biden administration essentially has already given mostly to ukraine. a lot moving here, a lot the trump administration wants, but now really ugly, frankly, 24 hours in which

washington and kyiv, a relationship already on the rocks because of what we've been seeing happening in riyadh between the united states and russia, taking an uglier turn. brianna. >> yeah, indeed. and where would that leave ukraine if they were to take a deal like that? nick paton walsh live for us in kyiv. thank you very much. still to come, federal workers rallying in cities across the country against president trump's efforts to overhaul the federal workforce. >> plus, one of the world's most contagious and yet preventable diseases is now spreading into states. why? officials say the number of cases will continue to increase. and later, the all electric race car that could be the future of nascar. that and much more coming up on cnn news central. >> welcome back. >> have i got news for you? news saturday on cnn. >> ontario, canada. stable and secure. when the world around us isn't. you can rely on us for energy to power your growing economy. and for critical

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probationary civilian workers to potentially fire in a round of cuts that could come as soon as this week. and all of this as federal workers are mobilizing right now from coast to coast, they say they're taking a stand against elon musk and the department of government efficiency. with us now is chris doles. he's a federal employee who's organizing today's demonstrations. chris, thanks for being with us. can you just tell us what you're hoping to accomplish today? >> yeah, i really appreciate the opportunity. so i'm the president of my union local in new york. i work at the army corps of engineers. i'm the president of local 98, and i'm also organizing this week with the federal unionist network, which is organizing today's national day of action to stand up to this assault. they are attempting to torch the entire civil service, or at least any aspect of it that happens to do something that they see getting in the way of profits. and here, of course, i mean, they is elon musk and the handful of billionaires that have

completely taken over this administration. >> are you? so you're employed right now. >> yeah. yep. and i should disclaim, uh, anything i say is my opinion or speaking on behalf of my union. and i'm obviously not speaking on behalf of the army corps of engineers. but, yeah, i am a subject matter expert in dredging. we keep the shipping channels open for commerce, and we renourish beaches, and we do critical work all over the country, as do so many of the other agencies that they're that they're cutting. >> are you worried about getting fired? are you worried about cuts to your agency? tell me about it. >> i mean, they are pursuing a smash and grab across the entire government. i do expect that once they finish with their most disfavored agencies, you know, the consumer financial protection bureau, which they've already shuttered in the interest of, you know, letting banks and predatory lenders get away with keeping all of us in debt until we die, when they're done with the epa and making it

easier to pursue permits to transport oil all across our country without any mind to the environmental mitigation that they're statutorily required to pursue when they're done slashing the department of education and going after the socialized medicine that we have. thank goodness for veterans health care when they're done going. after all, their most disfavored agencies. i wouldn't be surprised if even agencies in the department of defense wind up facing deep cuts. but ultimately, this is an attack on all of us. elon musk is stealing from the entire american public. they're stealing our data. they're stealing the services that we all rely on. and ultimately, you just know that they're going to use everything they supposedly save to justify massive tax cuts for themselves and more corporate, more government contracts for themselves as well. ultimately, they're in it for themselves. >> and what and describe the process as you've been talking to union members. because as we've been talking to people, it sounds like, you know, their bosses who you would think would normally be in charge of doing

some kind of staff reduction, might not even be aware that they're getting fired. take us through what you're seeing. >> yeah. i mean, the the wholesale attack on probationary employees. i think there's this idea that probationary employees are just like, you know, recent college graduates who just started at the federal government. um, it's really important that the federal government bring in industry experts who have tons of experience. i spent eight years working for a dredging contractor before i started at the army corps. and anybody who happened to be hired in the last 12 months is on the chopping block completely, irrespective of how much they bring to the federal service. and i think it gets at the truth here, because they claim that they're just trying to find efficiency. but that's not actually that doesn't explain why they're doing this. you know, if they were after efficiency then they they probably would have thought a little harder before they fired, only to fire all the people you just reported on. this has nothing to do with efficiency. this is their attempt to completely remake the civil service. and we are the

guardians of the civil service. we were the folks who are sworn to protect the constitution when we became federal employees. we are motivated by our service. and go figure. the richest man in the world, who i'm pretty sure is not motivated by, you know, ideas of service. he didn't become the richest man in the world by thinking of others. he's in it for himself and the other billionaires who stand to gain so much through tax cuts. and, uh, you know, the government contracts that we know they're after. >> these probationary employees. i mean, what it really comes down to is they're easiest to fire, but there's also some instances, can you take us through where someone may have gotten a promotion? so technically, their job has changed and their probationary. are you running into that where you actually have folks who have spent many, many years and the u.s. taxpayer has invested a lot of money in their expertise, and all of a sudden they're unexpectedly out. >> totally. yeah. i mean, there's basically two major categories of probationary

employees, exactly like you said. there are those who are brand new to the federal service within the last 12 months. and then there are those that, for whatever reason, are doing a new job series or a different job. and so it restarts their probationary period. and of course, the idea there is to make sure that somebody who's doing a new job that maybe they haven't done before, you know, has an opportunity for their supervisors to assess them. but that's not what's going on here. supervisors are not being asked to assess person by person, which is how it's supposed to work. they are just trying to make the deepest and fastest cuts into the civil service possible, because they're not actually into efficiency. they're just trying to whittle the government down to the smallest possible size and turn us into one big contracting agency so that big tech, you know, space x, all of the all of the firms that have that stand to make billions off of increasingly privatized services. this is an attack on our services. if i may, you know, the national day of action today that we organized with the federal unionist network, the slogan is sos. we as civil servants, federal servants are putting out a call, a distress signal to the broader public.

and we're we're looking to the broader public to respond to that distress signal. so it's sos save our services. they say this is about lazy federal workers. this is really about gutting the services that make life livable in this country. the harder it is to be a poor person in this country, the easier it is to exploit us. and that's what the billionaire class is after. >> crystals, thank you so much. we'll look to see how these rallies go. thanks for being with us. >> can i can i make a quick plug so folks know gosafe public services.com? we still have many actions across the country ahead of us in the next few hours. so if you're looking to get involved, go to gosafe public services.com. even if you can't be there, sign up and you'll be in our network because we're going to need everybody to stop this before it goes any further. >> all right chris, thank you. really appreciate it. thank you. more than 100 million people from mexico to canada are facing dangerously cold weather. we'll have the latest forecast for you.

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recent flooding. look at that. single digits just barely above the zero degree mark. and the second storm system that's dropped a few inches of fresh snow over this area has really caused some havoc. this is interstate 44 near the border of oklahoma and missouri, causing that highway to be at a standstill. it is quickly on the move, but not before producing more snow into the state of virginia. heads up norfolk into virginia beach. the storm exit. but it's what's behind it that i'm concerned about. and that is, of course, the arctic air. we still have our cresting rivers throughout the state of kentucky, and with the fresh fallen snow and the current snow depth, we look towards the temperatures into early next week, which will actually be on the warming trend that will quickly melt this snow. and that water has got to go somewhere, right back into the rivers and streams, causing additional flooding concerns. early parts of next week. back to you. >> all right. thanks, derek. the most high octane sport on the planet may be on a collision course with new electric vehicle

technology. a supercharged electric race car was on full display for fans at last week's daytona 500. and while revved up engines and smoke filled starting lines are still the norm for now, that could change, but not without controversy. cnn's bill weir has more. >> just outside. the cradle. >> of american racing. >> automobile history was made this weekend when formula drift superstar ryan turk swapped out his rubber burning rig for a machine with twice the power. >> over 1300 horses. >> but with a fraction of the noise and not a whiff of exhaust, behold, the first electric nascar. this is so surreal. >> normally, this event. >> would come with a thunderous sound of. >> that internal combustion engine, but. >> all you hear is this high pitched whine and then just the tires being shredded by those electric engines.

>> the power. >> is just. >> out of. >> this world. >> it's like nothing i've ever experienced before. >> it's like twice as much horses as one. >> of. >> the regular nascar. >> yes, that. beyond that, you have the power on demand at all times, like. a power drill. there isn't a power band. it's just there's just all the power at all time. >> this is one of three electric prototypes unveiled this year, as nascar pledges to be net zero by 2035. but while this chevy blazer was supposed to be the first electric pace car in daytona 500 history, it was literally cut off by donald trump's armored plated motorcade, a fitting metaphor for a president who was vowing to destroy ev incentives, charging networks and tailpipe pollution standards as he promised to fossil fuel executives. as the politics made your job harder. these days. >> we have very clear. corporate goals. >> around sustainability. >> and so our job is to focus on getting those done no matter who's in office or what's going

on. so our focus is on right now again, energy. and right now the racetrack you have behind you that keeps you up at night. and how do we decarbonize that within the next ten years. and so that's everything from energy efficiency, led lights bringing different technologies, other partner technologies so that we can reduce our own operating footprint as a sport and then bring that to the fan and educate the fan on how can we bring some of these technologies into our communities and help support the growth of sustainability across the country. >> i guarantee. >> you, there's more. >> evs in the parking lot today than there was five years ago, and in another five years, there's going to be a lot more. >> david ragan is a third generation nascar racer who now drives an electric ford mustang in retirement simply because it's fast, fun and cheaper to fuel and maintain. he believes this fan base is destined to make that same discovery, so the market, not the president, will decide. >> and i think the manufacturers really they've got their finger on the pulse. chevrolet, ford motor company, you know toyota, the big partners here in nascar.

they've all got their different plans for how they're going to attack that. and again i think nascar is just saying, hey we want to be prepared when that evolution takes place. so daytona they just electrified their parking lot. so there whenever their employees pull up they'll be able to charge your vehicle. once charging becomes more ubiquitous and it sort of gets integrated into the fabric of the everyday american, i think it will become more and more accepted, and it will be utilized more and more by everybody. >> you were telling me this is a conscious effort to win hearts and minds of folks who pay extra for the fumes and the noise of a. >> we're in the energy transition right now in this country. the energy transition isn't for some people, it's for everyone. so i think we need to have better conversations about how we use energy in the united states. and we welcome all the opinions and all the opinions out here today, because these are important decisions to make our country stronger. >> guys are watching. >> ryan turek right now in the bill weir. >> thank you so much for that

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vaccination exception rate for incoming kindergartners last school year was one of the highest in the state, at 18%. our next guest runs a medical facility for the gaines county area. albert pilkington is the interim ceo of the seminole hospital district. albert, thank you so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. tell us about the patients you've been seeing coming in with measles. i understand it's primarily young people. >> that's correct. it is young people, which is, you know, common for the measles and stuff. i think we've had 13 hospitalized. i think only two were adults. and that's, of course, the entire region. the rest were all children. >> what are their symptoms like? >> well, just what you would probably read on google or anything. you know, obviously rash, you know, fever, which is always the big risk element that, you know, the fever element of the measles and stuff. um, what you would typically expect for, you know, cold and flu kind of symptoms.

um, but the problem with measles is always, you know, really high temperatures. not surprising to see 104, 105. and then, of course, you know, associated problems that come along with a high fever. >> i do wonder if you have an idea of how many who have come in have been unvaccinated. >> well, i would say no, i don't, because, you know, once they've got the disease process started, then trying to do a titer on them or something is is really kind of a confusing lab study and stuff. i mean, i would to take a guess, i would say you got to be 90. you got to be close to 100%. i mean, the vaccine itself, you know, upon a second dose, you've got a 97% immunity. and on a first dose, you've got a 95% immunity. immunity. so, you know, i think it's fair to say that probably all of them that came in probably were not vaccinated. >> there is these stats that we've learned about vaccination exemption rates, a record share of u.s. kindergartners had an

exemption for required vaccinations last year. what is your community seeing in terms of an increase in these exceptions? i imagine you might have spoken to parents that have given you some reason as to as to why. what have they shared with you? >> we have a religious community that is very that is in within our county. and that's really the bulk of where the the group is. it's unvaccinated. they just have a religious view against any kind of outside material, you know, being put in their bodies. and, and that that's really where it's coming from. it's not it's almost narrowed into one group, you might say, and i can't give you a percentage of that group. of course, you've always got a few people that you know, maybe don't belong to that group that haven't got vaccinated for whatever reasons. but really, the bulk of it is that one, one group. >> i see. what do you think is the future of this outbreak? >> well. ultimately, everybody

that hasn't been vaccinated will probably get some element of disease or something. and so, you know, it just it's got to have some point of burnout to try and forecast that, you know, that's been our our biggest guess here. i mean, to take a guess probably within a maybe a three week window. it just what we don't know is how many people are cross contaminating others. because the problem with measles is you've got a such a long period and it is hands down the most contagious disease that's out there. not necessarily the most lethal, but definitely the most contagious. and since it stays in a dormant state, you can go for a long period of time not showing any signs or symptoms. the opportunity for cross contamination is huge, so to be able to guess how long it will last is is is really a guess. >> albert pilkington, thanks so much for the time. we appreciate you. >> well, certainly y'all come see us. >> thanks so much, brianna. >> the trump administration is expected to issue a public health order at the southern border that labels migrants as

risks for spreading diseases. according to sources, it would be trump's latest move to severely crack down on immigration, even as border crossings have plummeted. cnn's priscilla alvarez is with us. priscilla, we just talked about a measles outbreak in western texas. is there a relation here? >> well, sources. >> tell me. >> that measles and tuberculosis are part of the conversation, even though there hasn't been any connection that we know of between the measles outbreak here and the united states and crossings at the us-mexico border and former cdc officials that i've spoken with say really is beside the point. if the disease is already within the borders of the united states. very similar to what we saw in 2020. and that's really what this is all a callback to. this is a callback to the trump administration's first term, where they issued a public health order during the coronavirus pandemic. now, at the time, that was a controversial move, again, because many cdc officials said that this was really politically motivated. it was an attempt to use the pandemic to shut down the u.s. southern border. and in

this case, there appears to be a similar pushback because, again, this would be a public health order to seal off the border to asylum seekers. now, it is one of a string of moves that the trump administration has implemented. there are multiple border measures already in place that make it extremely difficult for migrants to seek asylum. in addition to that, border crossings have plummeted over the last several months. but the latest numbers showing that less than 300 people are crossing a day. so this essentially adds a layer, uh, when and if they implement this, that essentially would keep more people from getting asylum at the u.s. southern border. now, there's been litigation on this in the past. if you recall, it still was in effect over the course of the biden administration until it expired. but it is the basis here that it often becomes the controversy, because once a disease is already in the united states, that you're not introducing it into the united states. but all the same, this is something that trump adviser stephen miller has talked about a lot. he floated this multiple times in the first administration until it finally

was put in effect. and in 2023, he told the new york times that he planned to invoke this again. so certainly everything has been building to the moment of this public health order, which i'm told could come as soon as this week. and work has been happening behind the scenes to make it so. >> all right. priscilla, really interesting. thank you for that report. coming up, kfc is moving out of kentucky. why? the iconic fast food chain is leaving its longtime home. >> welcome back. >> have i got news for you? news saturday on cnn. say the. >> word and i'll lift you up. i i'm incredible. and cracked. >> incredible move. my next meeting is tomorrow at noon. and text it to jen. >> all. i i'm in quite the.

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colonel's chicken is joining a parade of companies that have moved home bases to the lone star state in recent years. cnn's business correspondent vanessa yurkevich joins us now with the details. vanessa, why is kfc kentucky fried chicken moving from kentucky? >> yeah. say it ain't so. but yum brands, which owns kfc, says they're doing this for consolidation purposes. this is a business decision. they're trying to consolidate their headquarters. so they're moving kfc from kentucky to texas to join the sister company pizza hut. and then they're going to have a second quarter headquarters in california for taco bell and habit burger. but as you mentioned, kfc is synonymous with kentucky. it's been around for 95 years. it's almost been a marketing mechanism for the state. but the company says this is going to affect about 190 employees. they're also saying that this is going to foster better communication and creativity between brands by moving kfc

next to pizza hut. they're also saying that they're going to set up a flagship restaurant in kentucky. so there's still going to be kfc in the state. but this is not the first company to do this. just want to show you a couple of those brands that have also moved from texas, excuse me, from out of state into texas. you see chevron, tesla, spacex, hp, and we've heard from some of those companies that they make the move to get better tax breaks and to be in a state with better business regulations. kfc and yum! brands saying that's not why they made the move, but there's certainly a financial incentive to move to texas. boris. >> the flagship location consolation notwithstanding, how are kentuckians reacting to this news? >> yes. well, one very prominent kentuckian, the governor andy beshear, was out with a statement right after this move was announced. he said, quote, while i am grateful for more than 500 yum yum employees in louisville, i am disappointed by

this decision and believe the company's founder would be to. this company's name starts with kentucky and it has marked our state's heritage and culture in the state in the sale of its product. my hope is that the company will rethink moving kentucky fried chicken employees out of kentucky. now, the governor certainly has a lot of power in the state. does he have power over kfc? seems like the move is already in progress and underway. as you said, the consolation is restaurants will remain and there's a flagship restaurant that's going to be set up there. but the headquarters heading down to texas, boris. >> vanessa yurkevich, thanks so much. big news, big news ahead, how multiple federal agencies are now scrambling to hire back some of the workers they let go in president trump's effort to shrink the federal government. we have details straight ahead. >> lockerbie sunday at. >> nine on cnn. >> not feeling the grays. but

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