protectees. so, yeah, you know, the marshal service is the oldest law enforcement agency in the united states, started in 1789. and this ability to deputize people goes back to, you know, when marshal dillon had to go after jesse james and round up the posse, right. um, this is a very different use of that authority. >> how long do you think this would be in effect? i mean, if he stopped, you know, his doge service. um, and, you know, went back to to just being elon musk. would the would that continue? probably not. >> well, i mean, it's up to the director of the u.s. marshals service who right now is acting, who has that authority. but i would imagine this is coming through the white house. >> um, but it's not like he could sort of. yeah. i mean. >> i don't think he can. i don't think he could keep them past his government service if anybody was looking. >> uh, and we, we don't know how many of his detail have actually been deputized. >> don't know. >> yeah. like much else

surrounding what's going on with elon musk. >> bit of. >> a mystery. yeah. john miller, thank you very much. i appreciate it. the news continues right here on cnn. >> it's friday. >> february 21st. >> right now. >> on cnn. >> this morning. >> this is. >> the chainsaw. >> for bureaucracy. >> doge is firing frenzy. >> elon musk celebrating. >> with a chainsaw as the white house slashes its way. >> through more federal jobs and the fbi has lost. >> trust among the american people. >> mr. patel has made it clear that his only loyalty is to the president. >> the confirmation. >> is confirmed. >> the new. >> head of the bureau, kash patel. >> confirmed as. the nation's next fbi director, marking another controversial trump nominee crossing the finish line. >> some of the rhetoric coming out of kyiv, frankly, and insults to president trump were unacceptable. >> a deepening divide the white house ramps up pressure on ukraine to end the war that

russia started. as volodymyr zelenskyy meets with trump's envoy in kyiv. >> all right. >> 5 a.m. here on the east coast, a live look at the capitol dome on this friday morning. we made it to friday. good morning everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. we begin this morning with thousands of firings and job cuts tearing through the federal government. the latest agency to be hit the irs with 6000 people. let go on thursday for employees who spoke to cnn anonymously, are warning that the job cuts could delay tax refunds ahead of the fast approaching april filing deadline. they add employees are crying, managers are crying. we are losing some really good employees. it's very gloomy. everyone is very angry. but not everyone in washington is feeling gloomy about the cuts.

>> this is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. chainsaw. >> that is elon musk. he is wielding a chainsaw. he's on stage here at cpac, the conservative political action committee. he's taking a victory lap as, of course, his doge team has been carving up the federal government. he claims that they have saved billions of dollars in taxpayer money. a cnn analysis has found that those numbers have been inflated. but musk says that his work will not stop as his team gets embedded into more government agencies. >> people ask, how can you find ways to like in dc? i'm like, look, it's like being in a room, and there's the wall. the roofs and the floor are all targets. so it's like you're going to close your eyes and go shoot in any direction. so you can't miss. it's money that's taken away from from things that are destructive to the country. that and from organizations that hate you.

>> joining us now to discuss is nick johnston. he is the publisher of axios. nick good morning. good morning. uh, so, um, elon musk and, you know, the silicon valley sort of general motto move fast and break things. he's his latest target is the internal revenue service. now, the way they've approached a lot of this has been to fire first, ask questions later. it's led them to have to reinstate, for example, people who make sure their nuclear weapons stockpile is kept safe. um, but in this case, if they break the irs, do they have time to fix it before people are going to get their checks in the mail? >> this is the real interesting thing here. so we've spent a lot of time trying to figure where there's going to be some daylight between republicans on the hill and the president. we thought maybe a little bit from these confirmation hearings, as you just had at the top of the hour. they've all sailed through, not really there now for these kinds of cuts. i like that quote right there of elon musk. we're going to shoot it. everything. appropriators on the hill do not like talk about that. that is something that they guard very jealously. and i think we're starting to see some of that pushback come again. right. like you go into twitter, you fire a bunch of

people that go down a little bit, you fix it, okay, that's no problem. someone doesn't get a refund check. someone doesn't get a social security check. a lot of phones on the hill are going to start to ring, and there's going to be consequences, i think. >> because that's the thing, right? like there is this general sense and i think, you know, we're starting to see some of it in polling. but, you know, americans generally or a lot of them feel okay, maybe the government is too bloated. it makes sense to me. it's too big. we need to like make it more efficient. and there are a lot of people who hate the irs, right? i mean, nobody likes paying taxes. let's be real. >> people like getting refunds. >> people like getting refunds on time, right? >> no, that's really interesting. so i spent a little bit of time on the road in the last week in louisiana and ohio. now these are not purple swing states. these are deep red states meeting with a lot of business leaders who are very default trump supporters. and they said those exact same things, like, we're sure there's a lot of waste in the federal government. there's definitely some. look, there definitely should be a hard look at some of these cuts, but there was always a comma and a but but i'm a little worried that he's cutting a little too fast, a little too much. and then we're really worried about what some of these impacts might have in our district. if some of this

funding comes back to the government programs in our community, into the local hospitals from the nih cuts and of course, government checks going out the door, if one of those goes late, there's going to be real trouble. >> you know, it's interesting because there also can be and people who conceive of government employees who feel perhaps that, you know, they they're not needed, um, in this area in d.c., the scale of what's going on is really, i think, impacting communities across the country. as you note, um, stories about people who work. i heard one the other day from a woman i was interacting with here, but whose daughter lives in kansas city, and it's a small nonprofit, and they're not sure if they're going to have to fire all, you know, five of their employees because of this. jesse watters, actually, on fox news primetime host, had had some not so nice things to say about people who he used. the phrase got doge right were cut. but then he got a call from someone he knows who is a military veteran who lost his

job. i want to play what jesse watters said. let's watch. >> he just. >> found out. >> he's probably going to get laid off. he's going to get doge. and he. texted me and he said. >> jesse, you know. this isn't good. >> i'm upset. this is really sad. and this. >> guy is. >> not a dei consultant. this guy is not a climate consultant. >> you know, this guy is a veteran. >> we just need. >> to be a little bit. >> less callous with the. >> way we talk about. >> dodging people. >> if you really. jesse watters. well, then you may have a political problem. and i think that speaks exactly to the point here. when you're talking in the abstract, we're making these big cuts, we're cutting millions, we're cutting billions, we're closing department. that's great. but when it trickles down to the individual people and the services, right, people dump on the government. they hate the congress, but they love what the government does for them. they like their congressman. i think when these impacts get to the community, that's where the backlash begins. >> and it's also, i mean, you're just waking up and realizing that these are human beings with lives and families who've invested a lot in where they are. i mean, anyway, nick johnson, thank you for starting

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widening over russia's war on ukraine. the trump administration now opposes calling putin's invasion a, quote, russian aggression at the upcoming virtual g7 summit. president trump's special envoy keith kellogg holding face to face meetings with ukrainian president zelenskyy in kyiv. the talks coming one day after president trump and president zelenskyy traded jabs. trump calling zelenskyy a dictator and repeating false claims that ukraine started the war. >> we spoke with general kellogg about the front line. >> the need to free all of our prisoners of war who are held in russia, and also the necessity of reliable and well-defined system of security guarantees so the world doesn't return. and russians are no longer able to maim life. we all need peace. ukraine. europe. america. everyone in the world. >> european leaders are

assessing next steps. both uk prime minister keir starmer and the french president, emmanuel macron, are set to visit the white house next week. macron warning trump about showing weakness with putin. >> what i'm going to. >> do is i'm going. >> to tell him basically you cannot be weak in the face of president putin. >> all right. cnn's max foster is here with more on this. max, good morning to you. i want to show you the cover of the new york post here in the u.s. today. this, of course, a rupert murdoch owned newspaper. the page says president trump, this is a dictator. the picture, of course, is not max zelenskyy of ukraine, but rather putin of russia. it's just a remarkable situation. i think it's worth remembering that putin was actually kicked out of what was the g8 back after he took crimea, right, which was back in 2014. and now here we are. and

apparently the american delegation is saying they don't want to pull. they don't want to call the war in ukraine russian aggression. what more do we know? and what's the reaction on your side of the pond? >> well, it's really. >> thrown. everyone in europe because this whole war was about democracy, defending democracy. ukraine is a sovereign country. president zelenskyy was an elected leader representing european values. there was an invasion into that country and europe stood up to it. made putin an international pariah, stopped talking to him effectively and having diplomatic relations because this was about defending democracy. but when you've got, you know, europe's main ally, the u.s. saying that it's not democracy effectively because zelenskyy is the dictator, not putin, and that russia didn't invade ukraine effectively, and ukraine. you know, this argument that ukraine might have started,

it undermines the whole premise of what europe has been trying to do. um, so i am fascinated to see what macron and starmer will do with donald trump. i'm not, you know, you know, you'll do better than me, casey. how these sorts of comments will be received. but what macron said there, that suggestion that trump was being weak in the face of putin probably isn't the best strategy. >> uh, right. well, i mean, i think you're seeing a little bit of what you're talking about playing out right now with putin and zelenskyy, and there are some kind of republican administration officials who are suggesting that to zelenskyy that coming head on in public criticizing trump is not necessarily the way to get most effective way to get what you want. now, who knows if there's any way right to ultimately get what you want. but certainly there's some some needling there. max, what do you make of the fact that, i mean, the leaders that we've had through here in the first month of the trump administration already, before we get have gotten to the french president macron, the, you know, the leader of of the

uk are supposedly most special relationship in terms of allies. i mean, the others that we've seen here, the king of jordan, the prime minister of india, it has tended to be, uh, related to or including authoritarians, monarchs, people who are not as i mean, modi is someone who has been criticized and and has governed in some ways that are more trumpian, for example, as opposed to leading with our european allies. >> yeah, but there's also this idea, i think, often from america, that europe is this generic group. it's obviously not. it's, um, a multiple countries with different leaders who have had a very fractured past. and when you consider macron, who's very much a representative of the eu, you've got starmer, who representing the u.k., which left the eu, and there's this idea that they're coming over to represent europe. they don't actually represent all of europe. there have been multiple meetings and massive

disagreements between everyone, most notably keir starmer, suggesting that he would send troops to ukraine, which went down terribly in countries like germany, for example. you know, organizing the europeans to, you know, make any sort of decisions together is like herding cats, but they have actually united over this issue. but you've got macron and starmer in the room with trump effectively. you know, you know, trump is already in a stronger position because he represents one view. um, so it's going to be fascinating to see how they try and handle it. but they've really dug their heels in here. starmer has made it very clear that he does view zelenskyy as an elected leader. and just as in world war ii, elections were delayed whilst there was a war. that's a legitimate thing for zelenskyy to do. um, so when he presents that to trump, that's something that trump doesn't agree with. so i just don't know how they're going to get over these tensions. but, you know, these are master politicians as well. maybe they'll find a way. >> maybe so. max foster, always

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confirmation. democrats were fiercely opposed to patel's nomination, warning that he'll use the position to seek retribution against president trump's political enemies. >> think about what you will tell your constituents. more important, your family. maybe your grandchildren, about why you picked and voted for this person who will so completely and utterly disgrace this office and do such grave damage to our nation's justice system. >> kash patel mark. >> my words. >> will cause evil. >> in this building. >> behind us. >> and republicans who vote for him will rue that day. >> during his senate confirmation hearing, patel assured lawmakers he won't politicize the bureau. joining us now, jackie kucinich, washington bureau chief for the boston globe. jackie, good morning. >> good morning. >> thank you so much for being

here. so, patel, like all these other trump nominees, he did get some opposition. but he's sailing through put in in that seat. uh, what was the thinking behind, i mean, susan collins and lisa murkowski voting against him? and what is the future for the bureau? so one of the things that susan collins. >> cited was that. this really. >> should be. >> a staunchly apolitical. position and that. >> which is why it's a ten. >> year post. >> in theory. >> it's supposed to span several. >> uh, several administrations in order to keep it. >> out of politics. >> that is. >> instead. >> when someone like a christopher wray. >> who is another. >> trump appointee. >> was known as someone who kind of. >> skewed politics. >> stayed away. >> from it. >> however. >> this is a very. >> departure from that. kash patel, as we know, is a trump loyalist. >> he is someone who said all sorts of things. >> when trump. >> was inside and outside. >> of office. >> and which is why you're hearing so much concern from democrats.

>> and as. >> you mentioned, some corners of. >> the republican party. >> yeah. jackie, let's talk kind of big picture here, because the other thing that we saw unfold yesterday on the cpac stage, i mean, we showed everyone elon musk with the chainsaw. it was a moment. but the big picture issue that put donald trump and jd vance, uh, over the top was inflation. right. americans feel felt like everything costs too much. and they were unhappy with the biden administration about it. but we have seen signs that inflation is on the way back up here. in the early days of the trump administration, there are some some things that they've done that business leaders say is going to be inflationary. the tariffs is the most obvious example. but there are other examples as well. jd vance was on stage at cpac yesterday talking about the bring prices down project and how fast that may or may not work. let's watch what he said. >> one of the first interviews i did it was, i think 6 or 7 days after the inauguration, and somebody asked me, well, it's

been six days, what have you done to fix the inflation crisis created by joe biden? i'm like, well, first of all, it's been six days. we've done a lot in six days, but it's going to take some time to fix what joe biden broke over four years. and and we know it is it is easy, unfortunately, to burn the house down. it takes a little bit of time to build it back up. >> but of course, the reality, jackie, is that the biden administration. absolutely. i mean, inflation was, you know, raging early in his term. they did do some things to tamp it down later on, and it had been trending in the right direction, to the point, you know, that jerome powell was starting to cut interest rates instead of continuing to raise them. and now we're trending in the other direction. how long are americans going to put up with it? so you can only blame the. last administration. >> so long. and you can only blame. things that policies. >> that were implemented in with. the former administration.

>> so long. >> so, you know, we'll have to see when they finally, um, when they finally had enough, perhaps it will be the midterms and maybe prices will. >> go down. we don't know at this point. >> um, i. >> want to give them. >> you know. >> the benefit of the doubt that maybe all the things they're saying will happen. >> the policies. >> that are currently being put into, uh. into order. um, a lot of economists have a lot of concerns. >> about whether this will actually bring prices down. >> for americans. but when it comes to those. kitchen table issues, as the biden administration found out, you can only. >> say so. >> much if people don't feel like their. >> lives are getting better. they tend to. >> take their politicians to task. >> for it. yeah. and i mean, there was a really interesting number in our our cnn poll that we put out yesterday looking at trump's approval rating, and there was a list of issues. has donald trump gone too far, done too much, and only 11% of people thought he had done too much to lower prices. right? everyone seems to want him to do more. right. your personal account to me is. >> is what a lot of people vote. >> on, right? for sure. and in fact, i think we have that list,

jackie. the other the other thing and this is of course. there you go, gone too far. the number of people think he's gone too far. 11%. not quite there yet, right? only 30% and 62% of americans say, like he's not done enough on this, right? they are pointing to what they want to do in congress as part of this. right. lowering, uh, tax business taxes to try to, you know, juice the economy, et cetera. but actually doing that is not going to be so easy. we've already seen them disagree about it. let's watch what mike johnson had to say about what's next in congress for the president's agenda. take a look. >> we keep. >> hearing about this one big. >> beautiful bill. >> tell me. >> how. >> big, how beautiful. >> oh, it's going to be so big. i shouldn't do it in that voice, but it's going to be a big, beautiful bill. and it has to be by by necessity, because that gives us the highest probability of success. remembering that i have a small margin in the house. >> one. >> one i have one vote for much of this. what could go wrong, robb? it's going to be.

>> fine. >> it's going to be fine. >> it's great. >> what could. >> go wrong? >> i mean. >> uh. >> i mean, there's lots. >> of reasons why. >> a mike johnson would. >> want one. bill. you only. >> have to pass it once. >> in. that's basically what he's running around washington saying. don't make me do this. don't make me do this twice because he has such a small margin right now. his biggest problem is the senate. right. because the senate. >> is not. >> and trump is trying to. >> pressure the senate to. >> do it. >> doesn't look like that's the path that they're going down. >> um, but i. >> mean, poor mike johnson. >> he i mean, and he. >> says it there. >> that, you know. >> you can see it all over his. >> face that. >> you know, he knows reality will. come to mike johnson in the form of votes. you know. >> every time. >> he goes to that floor. yeah. well, i think it's worth underscoring, too, that the reason he only every time he has to do the vote. yes, it's hard. but getting all of his republicans on board involves all of the different policy things. the senate wants to split up. right, exactly. and

the other thing is, like, democrats really. >> aren't feeling very charitable. >> these days to. help him get things. >> over the line. >> and i think that there's going to. >> be a lot. >> of them that just. >> kind of sit back and watch. >> you know, the chaos happened. >> on on the right. >> side of the aisle. >> as they. >> fight. >> over the. >> various minutia. >> um, tax. republicans that want to remove things. the republicans want to put things in. they're going to. >> watch the show. they're not going to raise. >> any. >> you know, any. >> help, any hands to help them. yeah. all right. jackie kucinich, thanks very much for being with us. have a great weekend. all right. ahead here on cnn this morning, ukraine's president meets with america's envoy. but is the relationship between president trump and zelenskyy already damaged beyond repair? plus, team usa versus canada in a hockey matchup for the ages. the thrilling overtime finish. we'll show you that next. >> and it. >> got. >> at morgan.

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>> story. >> this is the closest ukraine has got to president trump's noisy push for peace. president zelenskyy has wanted to meet u.s. envoy keith kellogg for weeks. just not on a day like today. with the u.s. ukraine relationship crumbling around them, making what they actually discussed matter less and less. well, we're now leaving the presidency after being told that we're not expected to get a press conference or statements. not the suggestion that either man looking for publicity. and we are being told that that format is the request of the american society. over the last 48 hours have seen ukraine standing with its main backer in freefall. but their fight against an advancing russian aggressor has not stopped, even if the garish rhetoric around it has seemed to drown the dying out. the trump falsely saying ukraine started the war and its leader was deeply unpopular,

refusing elections. >> a dictator without elections. zelenskyy better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. >> and then adding zelenskyy was asleep when he was meant to meet trump's treasury secretary in kyiv. >> essentially, they told him no and zelenskyy was sleeping and unavailable to meet him. he traveled many hours on the train, which is a dangerous trip. >> for clarity. here is zelenskyy meeting with u.s. treasury secretary scott bessent. during that visit, both visibly awake. and here they are again. neither apparently asleep. but the litany of untruths from trump continues. perhaps designed to pressure ukraine into a deal over rare earth minerals that bessent brought with him. trump's national security advisor pressing again the need for a deal. >> the war has to end. and what comes with that? what comes with that should be at some point, elections. what comes with that

should be peace. what comes with that is prosperity that we've just offered. >> okay. >> okay. >> yes. >> two presidents, one in dire need of the other's help. the other apparently keen to leave him that way. >> through. >> when asked who president trump believes is responsible for russia's war on ukraine. this is what the president's national security advisor had to say. >> his frustration with president zelenskyy is that you've heard is multifold. one, there needs to be a deep appreciation for what the american people, what the american taxpayer. what president trump did in his first term and what we've done since. so some of the rhetoric coming out of kyiv, frankly, and insults to president trump, were unacceptable. >> after meeting with u.s. envoy to ukraine keith kellogg, president zelenskyy told ukrainians the meeting gave him, quote, hope. so where do we go from here? cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier is here with more on that. kim. good morning.

wonderful to see you. where do we go from here? i mean, zelenskyy clearly has angered president trump in the way that he has been dealing with this in public. has it been the right strategy? how is it impacting things? >> well, hopefully. >> keith kellogg. >> in his meetings with zelenskyy will have put. >> some flesh on the bones on this rare. >> earth minerals deal that. >> national security advisor. >> walt said the president wants him to sign. but the deal. >> as reported, only includes. >> giving over. >> rights to. >> 50% of their minerals for past aid given by the. >> biden administration doesn't say anything about future aid. so zelenskyy had wanted more details. but what has to happen next is the temperature needs to cool down between these two men. and that's what having the british prime minister and the french president visiting in the coming week, they're going to be briefing trump on, as a european official told me, um. europe's plan for taking responsibility

for defending itself and its ideas for moving forward in ukraine. so hopefully those two leaders will be able to change trump's mind on some of this and correct him about things like calling zelenskyy a dictator. >> can we talk for a second about well, let's let's stay on this for a second. i want to ask you about the g7 statement and the back and forth there. but macron in particular has had an up and down relationship with trump over the years that has had it's had its moments. what has he learned about dealing with trump that might inform how he'll approach this situation when he comes to washington? as we think as we expect that he will now. >> to be collaborative and to point out what they're paying for and what they're willing to do. because if you. seem insulting or like you're lecturing trump, he shuts off. um, also, the british prime minister is coming with the

offer of peacekeeping troops. that's so they're both going to be coming with firm, concrete offers of here's what we will do. here's the skin we will put in the game. and they'll also remind him what they've already spent. because trump seems unaware of some of that. >> interesting. so let's talk about the g7 statement, because again, uh, we. the idea that we're reporting that it's the americans that are trying to remove a reference to russian aggression. i mean, it's i when i came and sat down and looked at it this morning, i said, i'm sorry. what? >> what? >> yeah. yeah. >> it shows how far, um, putin has able has been able to get inside trump's head that he believes that this wasn't aggression. you've had russian media bragging that the hour and a half long phone call is where trump got some of these ideas, and things that putin told him. he is now repeating verbatim to the world according to russian media. and the fact that they

don't report anything unless the government approves of it, shows you this is all part of a piece. um, and it also shows me that the administration officials like waltz, like rubio, who in their capitol hill days were very tough on russia, and both of them called this a war of aggression by russia aren't able to get him to change his mind yet. >> it is pretty remarkable. and i want to play one, um, clip from the senate floor yesterday from a senator, someone who is not in the administration. so still kind of in the position rubio used to be in. and that's senator thom tillis, who, you know, may face a tricky reelection coming up, concerned, perhaps, about a primary challenge as well. but this is what he said on the floor about putin. >> whoever believes that there is any space for vladimir putin in the future of a stable globe,

better go to ukraine. they better go to europe. they better invest the time to understand that this man is a cancer and the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime. >> so you can you can almost hear the emotion there. and of course, this is the cover. we talked about this earlier in the show of the new york post this morning. and they say president trump, this is a dictator. and it's putin's picture. it's not zelenskyy. so there is some dissent in the republican ranks here. >> even even even among maga world. people are trying to get through to trump on the channels that they know he listens to, to say, you know, don't get snowed by this guy. don't be a sucker. vladimir putin is a manipulator who you can't trust. and it sounds like he's been showed, shown pictures of dead russian troops. i bet you that the british and the french leader will be bringing in lots of visual aids to show him. here's what happened to ukrainians. russians are now executing ukrainian soldiers. according to human rights reports. instead of

making them p.o.w.s. they'll remind him of the rapes. et cetera. in bucha. all of those things that happened, the reason that putin is a war criminal and considered as such by most of the western world. >> kim dozier, thanks very much for your analysis, i appreciate it. >> thanks. >> all right. time now for sports. canada gets revenge on team usa in an overtime thriller in hockey's first ever four nations championship. there actually is some politics in this story, but i am happy to have andy schultz here to talk about the sports of it all. good morning andy. >> yeah, good morning casey. >> so the four nations tournament, you know, was supposed to be just an all star exhibition, but, i mean, it really turned into an olympic gold medal type of atmosphere. both the u.s. and canada, you know, wanting to win this game very badly. and president trump even calling the team before to give him a pep talk. >> i'm a. >> hockey fan, i love hockey. the talent, the skill that you have is crazy and just go out, have a good time tonight. and i just want to wish you a lot of

luck. you really are a skilled group of people. it's an honor to talk to you and get out there, and there's no pressure whatsoever. >> and an awesome moment before the game in boston as the crowd at td garden was just singing the national anthem together. now, canada would take an early lead, but auston matthews would find brady tkachuk for the equalizer. the game would end up going to overtime tied at two, and the u.s. had a great chance to win it. but jordan binnington blocks matthews and he snags tkachuk rebound shot. binnington 31 saves. none more important than those two for canada. and then moments later, connor mcdavid. wide open, proving why he's the best player in the world with the game winner canada. canada goes nuts as they win the four nations title. >> just to see the. >> reaction, just to know what it means to us. you know, i know it's just a quick tournament, you know, and it's not an olympic gold medal or anything like that, but it means the world to our group. as you can

see, everybody battled so hard all week. so, um, yeah, it was special. connor's the best player in our in our game. and, um, for him to put it in like that and in such a intense atmosphere, obviously in a hostile environment for canadians, um, was special. and, um, yeah, hopefully he can do that again next year to. >> and canada prime minister justin trudeau celebrating the win on x afterwards saying you can't take our country and you can't take our game. all right. in the nba, meanwhile, brutal news for the san antonio spurs victor wembanyama is going to miss the rest of the season after being diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder. the condition is a form of a blood clot. the spurs do expect wemby to make a full recovery and be ready for next season, but a really tough blow to the team in wemby, who was on the way to winning defensive player of the year. and after the news, the spurs, they did go out and beat the suns 120 to 109. that game was in austin, texas. lebron the lakers,

meanwhile, rebounding from wednesday's loss to the hornets. king james pouring in 40 points in the 110, 102 win, lebron becoming the first player ever to have multiple 40 point games after turning 40 years old. the only other person to do it, michael jordan, who has one. and casey, before we go, i did want to mention, you know, this 550 sports segment on cnn. it's been a staple for 12 years and due to, you know, programing and scheduling changes, it's not going to be every morning anymore. but brian kargus, brian papoon, john lynch been waking up for years helping make us do great sports segments in the morning, and just wanted to give them a shout out. >> i love that andy, and honestly, it has been one of my favorite parts of the show. having you coy wire carolyn. and of course, i know there's so many people behind the scenes that you name it just great. this is actually we're going to talk more about at the end of the next hour, but this is going to be my last cnn this morning with kasie hunt. i'm moving to 4 p.m. as well. and i'm i'm really sorry to see us go, but i know whatever you have next in store is going to be.

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