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to confirm president trump's pick to lead the fbi. kash patel. even as some democrats warn that patel threatens to politicize the fbi and use it as a weapon for retribution. >> patel is one of the president's most controversial nominees, with a history of making very inflammatory comments, referring to officials who investigated president trump as criminal gangsters, accusing the fbi of using undercover agents to instigate the january 6th insurrection, creating what democrats call an enemies list of top political figures who oppose trump and promising to, quote, come after anti-trump conspirators. let's go straight to capitol hill. that's where manu raju has been speaking with lawmakers. so many republicans are saying he's, quote, the right man at the right time. some of them anyways, how do we expect the vote to go down? >> yeah, this is going to be a nail biter, but we do expect

kash patel to get the votes to be confirmed. now. just moments ago, senator lisa murkowski of alaska, republican swing vote just voted against this nomination on the floor of the united states senate. this after her support to advance this to a final vote. we have not seen a statement from her yet. i asked her about this today. she did not want to say how she would vote ultimately on this. yet. we'll see what she has to say now. we also expect another no vote on the republican side that susan collins of maine, she voted against proceeding to a final vote earlier today, and she put out a statement aligning with a lot of the democratic concerns about kash patel to lead the fbi, she said. in her statement. she said mr. patel's recent political profile undermines his ability to serve in the in the apolitical role of director of the fbi. therefore, i will vote against his nomination. now, if they're the only two no votes, that's still enough for patel to be confirmed on a 5149 vote. the republicans will control the senate, 5347.

and what does mitch mcconnell do? he is, of course, the former republican leader today announcing that he would retire from his job, his current term, at the end of next year. he's already voted against three other donald trump picks. what will he do on this vote? we have not seen mcconnell yet on the floor, but we'll be watching that very closely. if he does vote, that would require the vice president to come in and break a tie. so we'll see if it ultimately leads to that. but even if that happens, boris and brianna, we don't expect a fourth republican to break ranks. that would be enough to scuttle this nomination altogether. but every other republican has indicated that they are a yes, which means that we do expect kash patel to get this job after weeks of battling democratic efforts to try to delay and derail this nomination, they're expected ultimately to be unsuccessful, as kash patel is expected by perhaps the narrowest of margins. to get this very important post, as donald trump expected to get his man into the fbi. >> guys., manu raju live on capitol hill. we will be

watching that vote closely. let's discuss with the state attorney for palm beach county, florida, dave aronberg, and former fbi senior executive and special agent in charge, frank montoya. frank, i'd like to start with you. how significant of a change does kash patel represent for the fbi? >> it's a radical change. it really is. i mean, i served under four directors in 27 years in the fbi, and no one came in with these few qualifications with this guy's background with, you know, the the conspiracy theory angles, with just, just all of the things that he has said on podcast and written in his book. it's just it makes you wonder, you know, where the bureau is going to be heading next. it's just, i don't know, befuddling to me. >> and and dave, i mean, patel worked actually as a public defender in florida. in your view, how has he evolved since those days? what are you going to be watching for? is is he takes charge?

>> rihanna i new kash patel when he lived in south florida and he was team normal and now he's team ultra maga. and i think if you want to go to his villain origin story, it would be when in 2020, he was referred to the cia for potentially leaking classified information. and that really transformed him as someone who turned against our federal agencies, law enforcement and intelligence agencies. he felt he was treated badly. and then he found out not too long ago that the department of justice in 2017 had subpoenaed google for his email. and so he was appalled by that. that's what he's taking with him into this job. so i'm going to look to see if he continues those grievances or whether we see the kash patel we saw at the confirmation hearing someone who is more about conciliation than confrontation, i have a feeling it will be more of the latter. >> i wonder, frank, what you

think this means for the rank and file at the fbi? the folks that stay away from the politics, that are focused on investigations and helping people when they need it most, and responding to things like the airline wreck over the potomac a few weeks ago. because clearly, the work of fbi agents, a lot of it has nothing to do with politics. >> well, i mean, that's the big issue here, right? these guys have been and gals have been doing their work with, with out any kind of controversy for, for years and years. they go out every day and they do this kind of stuff without concerning themselves with, you know, whose politics are going to drive today's investigation or the course of this investigation. it's just not something that they think about on a day to day basis. but, you know, the other part of this is they're not stupid. they have seen what has happened in the in the last month and how their their friends and their colleagues have been targeted. some have been fired, some have been

demoted and reassigned, some have been forced into retirement. and i'm hearing the numbers are a lot larger than than what are publicly being reported. at the same time, you know, the acting director is doing his best to try to to keep morale up. but everybody is worried because, you know, in addition to what has already happened, now there's this list out there with 5 to 6000 names on it. and, and then and people are wondering, well, what's going to happen to me if i do one thing, if i step out of line one way or if i, if i, you know, decide to to try to do an investigation that they don't want me to do. so just a lot of concern about that, even when they're out there recovering evidence say at that, that that crash site, you know, in the potomac, you know, are they going, you know, you know, in the back of their minds wondering, are they going to even be able to come to work tomorrow, or are they going to get that dreaded email? so yeah, it's there is it's just a lot of conflicting emotions right now, a lot of concern. you know, i didn't even mention the, the, the probationary agents that are out there biting their nails every single day because they don't know if if they're going

to be able to come into work tomorrow. so yeah, it it really is a great deal of emotional drain right now. and then there's this new guy coming in that that everybody is looking at as you know, more of the same, you know, a hatchet man per say, who is coming in to finish the job that that emil bove at doj has already started. so yeah, a lot of concern about that. >> and dave, what are or are there not guardrails at the fbi to prevent some of the dismantling, some of the potential retribution? and if not, what do you think it will look like? >> you have the workers themselves, the fbi agents themselves, who have been there a long time, and they have a union. and so they do have some pushback. but ultimately, this administration seems to get what they want, even though the courts have initially resisted some of their attempts. uh, if the courts keep pushing back the trump administration and kash patel will just say, okay, you can stay on your job, you're just going to go to the basement and count paperclips for the

next four years. so that's the problem. if the person in charge doesn't want you, you're not going to be used. you're not going to be happy there. one guardrail would be at the department of justice, perhaps the attorney general, pam bondi, could serve as a guardrail because she said there will be no enemies list. kash patel had an enemies list and she said there will be no political retribution. ultimately, it's her decision whether someone gets indicted. but as they say in the world of law enforcement, you could beat the rap, but you cannot beat the ride. and it's kash patel who is in charge of that ride. >> dave ehrenberg, frank montoya, appreciate the perspective. thanks for joining us. >> you bet. thank you. >> let's discuss this upcoming vote and a few more items with democratic senator peter welch of vermont. he is a member of the judiciary committee. senator, thank you so much for sharing your afternoon with us. what is your reaction to the fact that patel appears to be on track to squeak by and get this confirmation with possibly 1 to 2 votes?

>> by the. >> end of the fbi as we know it. patel is an instrument of donald trump, donald trump's policy towards the justice department and the fbi is retribution. and kash patel has signed on to that full throat. when we use asked in the judiciary committee whether there would be retribution in the investigation, he said he didn't know anything about it. it turned out there's credible reports that he was running it even before he was fully nominated. so the retribution is really chilling and terrible. you've got these fbi agents who, by the way, had no decision making role in getting assigned to a january 6th case. they showed up for work. they were given a file by a superior. no involvement whatsoever. yet what we're hearing is that everybody in justice, in the fbi, who had anything to do even remotely like an intern doing some photocopying, those names are being sought by the

administration. so how does somebody who's dedicated their life to the public service and law enforcement feel when they're on the block because they did their job, and there is not a hint of any political action on the part of their decision to be involved. they showed up for work. so it's very, very alarming. >> sure. >> uh, in that regard, senator, if he is confirmed and he takes the steps that you are describing, what power do you and your colleagues have to hold him accountable? >> well, here's the reality. this is an overreach by the executive. i mean, my view, we're actually in a slow motion, but accelerating constitutional crisis. the president has said it's, quote, my justification, justice department. he's not kidding when he refers to himself as the king. so he is the one who has authority over the fbi and the justice department. other presidents have acted with a lot of restraint, respecting its

independence. those days are over. so what we're going to need, frankly, is some of our republican colleagues who share the values but fear the retribution from the president if they get out of line. we've got to push back, as the article one branch. what the democrats are in a position to do what we're doing all we can, but we don't have the votes. >> i just want to let our viewers and yourself know, senator, that despite having voted against some of trump's other nominees, retiring kentucky senator mitch mcconnell voted yes to confirm kash patel as fbi director. this is literally happening on the floor of the senate right now. to your point about how the executive branch might be held in check, i have been speaking to lawmakers recently, and many of them have made similar appeals to their republican colleagues. some of them, though, have voiced, uh, concern about what might happen in the judicial branch. a lot of these cases about executive power seem destined for the

supreme court. and we've talked about, uh, the recent history of this court. it leans conservative. they've also shown that they are willing to buck precedent when it comes to establishing the power of the executive with some of these questions about who he can fire and whether some of these agencies that congress established that are supposed to be independent actually are independent. do you see the supreme court siding with president trump on these issues? >> well, i certainly hope not, but i'm worried. i share that worry. keep in mind, the supreme court did what can only be described as an astonishing decision, where they said the president is, quote, above the law gave him immunity even for illegal acts. if his quote in the course of his duty that's never been our country is premised on the opposite of that. no one, including the president, is above the law. but the second element of this that i'm very concerned about is the remarks we heard from jd vance, who basically blew off the court. if they had ruled against

the president, let them enforce it. that's what he's signaling is, and that's where we'll have a real constitutional crisis. if you have the president getting an order from the supreme court and saying, drop dead, defy it. and those days, we're i'm fearful that we're going to face that. >> so then what should be the response from lawmakers like yourself and others if the president and his administration decide that they would ignore the rule of law, ignore whatever the supreme court decides if they rule against his reach as the executive? >> well, two things. one is it's going to take the american people to be objective in showing their discontent with the failure of the congress to act. it actually the overreach by the president. the second thing is that we, each of us, have an individual responsibility as u.s. senators to assert and accept the

responsibility of the independence of the legislative branch. and our failure to do that is in acceding to the overreach by the president. you know, the power of the purse is a major one. and we saw speaker johnson say, no big deal, that the president is literally interfering with that. so this is going to be played out over time. but beyond the trump agenda, which many of my republican colleagues support, and that's fair and square, and it's fair and square for the president to use all his executive authority to pass his agenda. what he can't do is do things that are unconstitutional , like declare by executive order, a constitutional provision is null and void. he can't, uh, he can't take away from congress the the power of the purse. so that's where we've got to set some collective limits. >> senator, while we have you, i do want to get quickly your thoughts on on ukraine and some of these comments from president trump being so closely aligned with the view of the kremlin and

vladimir putin, specifically on ukraine having started the war in his mind and on zelenskyy, president zelenskyy being a dictator. do you believe that that is simply bluster, to try to bring zelenskyy to the table and to try to extract more from european allies? or do you think that trump is simply cozy with vladimir putin? >> he's flipped sides. we used to be for ukraine, and now apparently we're for putin. i mean, that's real. the president doesn't kid around. he's got that offhanded way. you know, he you could interpret it as a joke or being provocative. but if we look at what trump has done, that's the beginning opening statement of where he's going. he's definitely cozy with putin. he definitely prefers putin. he's showing massive disregard for the commitment our country has had, and my republican colleagues have had. by the way, leaders like roger wicker, who have done so much for us to stand by ukraine. but the president has made it clear

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considered public safety positions, and we are continuing to hire the workforce necessary to ensure the safety and adequate supply of food to fulfill our statutory mission. the firings are part of president trump's cost cutting mission, being spearheaded by elon musk's so-called department of government efficiency. with us now is keith paulsen, who is the director of the wisconsin veterinary diagnostic laboratory. keith, thank you for being with us. i do wonder, just first off here, since we've been talking about some of these firings, have you have you felt any direct consequences or disruption in bird flu response as a result of these usda or cdc firings and then rehiring? >> absolutely. and thanks again for the opportunity to to speak today specifically as part of the national animal health laboratory network or the nln, which is really the glue that keeps together our national testing capacity for animal health and not just testing and surveillance, but maintaining

continuity of business. the null wasn't was affected the same as any other federal agency, whether that's the nbaf. facility, nvsl, cdc, and fda. and realistically, when you look at the h5n1 outbreak, be it in poultry, dairy cows or being spilling over into other species like people and cats, it's not just a single agency issue. not being able to have the resources that cdc, fda, and usda and all of the different counterparts is certainly making it more challenging to respond to the epidemic. >> okay. so and i will tell you, and i'm pretty good at acronyms, but that was a lot that was a lot of acronyms there. and i'm wondering so if you're like a layperson and you're thinking about this because a lot of people are concerned about the bird flu and they're thinking about these firings, i mean, what are the things that ultimately might trickle down to them as some of

the disruption in government? >> sure. it's kind of an alphabet soup, right? >> yeah. >> and we they kind of roll off the tongue. after a few years of experience. but realistically, when you lose capacity and let's just take the national animal health laboratory network. so there's 64 labs across the country. 58 of us have been activated essentially since 2022. and when a group like that, which is only 14 people, seven of which are spread across across the country from hawaii to virginia, is that when you lose 25% because there's 25% new people to help us deal with things like antimicrobial resistance, h5n1 amongst all of the other foreign animal diseases that we watch, like foot and mouth disease and african swine fever, 25% of 14 people. that's a big deal. and when what that causes is instead of data or testing results or

coordinating and troubleshooting those 64 different labs across the country in different states or universities, it makes it slow. so farmers, it's slower to get their test results back for state animal health officials, state veterinarians. it takes them longer to get that data. and those testing results to actually make an evidence based and informed decision. so it slows the process down significantly. and that has a real negative impact on human and animal health. >> yeah, certainly. okay. that is very clear on how that's impacting people very negatively. you told reuters about the bird flu response, the confusion over messaging and who can say what or anything is complicating matters at a bad time. can you talk a little bit more about that? are you saying that people are restricted from sharing necessary information, or are they just kind of afraid of doing it? what's happening? >> you know, it's it's a pretty tricky situation all around. and it didn't start just on january

22nd with an administration change. we since the beginning of 2024, when we started dealing with the problem in dairy cows as an undiagnosed morbidity event, and now into h5n1 influenza a, it's been quite challenging because we haven't been able to have full access and unfettered access. and by we, i mean industry, whether that's dairy, poultry, pork or state animal health officials. um, our laboratory diagnosticians, it's been pretty challenging. um, just i don't, you know, there's a lot of different complicating factors being an election year. um, having a pretty, um, unknown impact. and this is a new disease in dairy cows. and now with an administration changeover, and this happens for every administration. um, but even now, i think it's quite a bit more public. and like, even at our multidisciplinary meeting this morning, cdc and fda still aren't at that table. we can

talk to usda, but it's still pretty challenging because we don't really know what decisions are are happening or if if the industry folks and the people that are on the front lines, are they there to help guide and tell and get provide feedback of, well, here's what happens if we decide to do this. um, and i think that was really kind of highlighted. and we're hoping for more information after this weekend. where where the we came out with the administration said, hey, we're really going to double down and we're going to make h5n1 a priority, which is great. we're all very, um, anticipating that because we know it's a big problem. we have to do something about it. but then there are three kind of 10,000 foot view signs of, we're going to use vaccine. we're going to have better security, we're not going to depopulate, and we're going to use medicine. but no one really knows what that means. and then when you're already into this outbreak a year and things like that change with really no prep or any details, no one knows if they should continue doing what they're

already doing. um, do we need to go down one way or another? so it just it makes for some pretty, um, high anxiety weeks, actually. now. so, yeah. >> no, you can understand how that would happen. uh, keith paulsen, thank you so much for the work that you do and for taking us through it. we really appreciate it. >> yeah. thanks again for the opportunity. please let me know anytime. >> so we have some breaking news. the senate has voted to confirm kash patel as the next director of the fbi. cnn's manu raju is on the hill. tell us about the vote here. manu. >> yeah. this was a narrow vote. the vote was 5149, meaning that kash patel narrowly got the job as the next director of the fbi. now, this was a largely party line vote. all democrats, 49 of them, 47 of them voted no. and two republicans also voted no. those two republicans often swing votes on the gop side. senator susan collins of maine, senator lisa murkowski of

alaska, collins making clear her concerns about patel's recent political activities, warned that it could not. that the fbi director job is an apolitical job and had concerns about some of his past activities. that is similar to the message from lisa murkowski, who put out a statement saying that she had reservations about his own political activities and how they may influence his leadership. she went on to say that that she was concerned that patel did not push back when he had the opportunity to, about the administration's decision to single out january 6th fbi agents who looked into the january 6th cases. of course, we know the the administration has tried to find some of those fbi agents that were involved in various january 6th cases. she wanted him to push back on that. he did not. she did speak with kash patel earlier today, and she informed him that she would vote against him. but that was not enough to stop this nomination. four republicans would be needed to break ranks on any party line vote. one senator, senator mitch mcconnell, who has voted against three other nominees of donald

trump, did not vote in opposition to kash patel voting in favor of his confirmation, meaning that there were enough votes here, 5149 for donald trump to get his 19th senior level nominee across the finish line. even the most controversial ones, like kash patel, seeing significant support from republicans to get their jobs. brianna. >> all right. manu raju thank you for that. from the hill. still to come, after a key meeting with the u.s. special envoy, ukraine's president says he's ready to make a peace deal if it includes security guarantees. but that is something the trump white house has not yet offered. >> when winter season hits, emergency supports your immune system with so much more than vitamin c, be ready to fight back with emergency. and for on the go immune support. try emergency crystals. no water needed. >> speak now or forever hold your. >> only took for our cough. >> liquid air.

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president zelenskyy mentioned these, quote, effective security guarantees in his conversation with kellogg walters, basically making the argument that these deals being presented to ukraine for these rare earth minerals are an opportunity for u.s. investment. and if they allow u.s. investment, it would make ukraine safer. is that the case? >> i mean, it's a shakedown, right? i mean, he's saying if you don't give us 50% of your natural resources, which it's not quite clear that that's forward looking or backwards looking, right? because the concern was that this is payback for aid that the u.s. has already given you, as opposed to tying it explicitly to future security guarantees. so that's an open question, but it would be quite a precedent for a u.s. president to say it would defend an ally only if it had some financial compensation in return. i mean, you remember you may remember this, but going back years, trump, trump said we should have taken iraq's oil, you know, and at the time we were like, oh, this is crazy talk. but here he is as president and saying, well, we

want your rare earth minerals. what was interesting about zelenskyy's comment there is he did say, listen, we can do an investment security deal. he's clearly looking for genuine security guarantees in return, which it's not clear that he's hurt. certainly we haven't heard that articulated from the white house. and most of what we've heard from the president and the vice president and others has been ukraine, europe. that's your problem if you're talking about troops or other sorts of things, that's not on us. >> at the heart of, say, the u.s. giving ukraine security guarantees would be the u.s. believing or this administration believing that ukraine deserves them. and it was really interesting to hear when waltz was asked jim, who is more responsible for this war? and he would not commit to an answer. >> yeah. >> and this is mike waltz, who previously was a russia hawk. so he's breaking with his own publicly expressed convictions about this war now. now he works for a president who will not call russia the aggressor, and

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hearing from other parents about the taunting that allegedly went on inside the school where many of the students are hispanic. cnn national correspondent ed lavandera joins us now. and, ed, what are you hearing about what was going on at this school? >> well, we've spoken with several parents over the last day who described that the scenes inside this school were jocelyn carranza went to school, that there had been an uptick in the amount of taunting and chattering about i.c.e. students being picked on and teased about i.c.e. coming to arrest their relatives and people who had come from. mixed immigrant immigration status, homes and this sort of thing. so some concerning descriptions of what we've heard from several parents away from the family of jocelyn carranza, one mother that we spoke with say, her mother, her daughter came home distraught from school just days before carranza was found dead.

>> my daughter started. >> a few weeks ago. >> coming home, telling. >> me. >> she was. afraid that i.c.e. was going to take her friends and that people had been. telling her friends that were hispanic that they were getting deported. ice was coming for them, and she was just terrified. there was talk of, um, i'm going to call ice on your family. you're going to get deported. just a lot of fear, a lot of picking at each other. >> and, boris, the week before jocelyn carranza took her life, the school district sent out an email and a letter to parents explaining to them the protocols and the the path that immigration officers would have to take to come on campus and get access to students. they sent that email about five days before jocelyn died. >> and you also spoke to jocelyn's mother. what has she learned from investigators?

>> well, she says school officials told her that she had been a her daughter had been a victim of bullying. um, that this had she was told this after jocelyn had died by a school official and also met with an investigator at the school. she still searching for answers. she is believes that there's there's much more to this, that she believes that her daughter had been taunted and she was fearful that she believed the taunts that she was going to be, that someone, a student, had told her that she was going to be left alone because of her family was going to be deported. and her mother fears that she believed that, that she was going to be left alone, and that that might have played a role into what happened in all of this. >> ed lavandera, thank you so much for bringing us this story live from dallas. if you or someone you know has thoughts of suicide, you're not alone. help is available and you can talk to someone anytime by calling 988. stay with cnn news central.

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