there's a plan coming and that the white house, the trump administration, was going to approach and tackle the avian flu in a different way. they say they are coming up with a holistic plan. are there more details on this? >> we do not have more details. we know that they are working on it. they're working on it at the usda and the cdc because there have been infections in humans. but what the agriculture community has said that they want to see is more funding directed at research and surveillance, understanding exactly how transmissible this virus is, where this virus is in the u.s. also, there's been talk of vaccines. that's very controversial because once you start to vaccinate birds here in the u.s., that virus is labeled endemic and then other countries are hesitant to want to trade with us and buy those birds. and those eggs potentially. >> ripple effects are enormous. >> it is it is enormous. but right now we're looking to other countries to help support the egg shortage here in the u.s. until we can catch up or get a plan in place from the

administration. >> and add this one into also, everything comes full circle because then you have the mass firings that the trump administration is doing. and this is exactly one of the backtracks that they've had to do at. the usda. exactly. >> working on this exact virus. >> yeah. it's good to see you. thank you so much, vanessa, for tracking this one for us. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> loud boos for a republican congressman in a deep red georgia district while he defends trump's power grab and huge federal cuts. meantime, doj's leader is wielding a chainsaw to show how proud he is of cutting federal jobs. and more are to come after the administration won another legal battle. plus, luigi mangione, the man facing murder and terror charges in the brazen killing of united health care ceo brian thompson back in court this morning. and amazing animal rescues caught on camera as temperatures drop to dangerous lows in ohio. i'm sara sidner

with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. >> the mass firings heard round the world. and now the echoing sound of boos reverberating back. this morning, president trump and elon musk's effort to dramatically slash the size of the federal government and shrink the size of the federal workforce is facing a new type of pushback, this time at town halls in places like deep red georgia. watch what republican one republican congressman faced yesterday. >> tyranny is. >> rising in the white. >> house, and a man has declared himself our king. so i would. >> like to know. >> whether the people would like to know what you, congressman and your fellow congressman, are. going to. do to rein in the megalomaniac in the white. >> house.

shou chew. edward dowd. thank you. now there are you. >> i'm not going to give you my best foghorn leghorn response to that, but what i you can go ahead and sit down. thank you. the when you talk about tyranny, when you talk about presidential power. i remember having the same discussion with republicans when biden was elected. >> the funny. >> thing is, the funny thing is, the. >> funny thing. >> is.

>> you're sitting here and a lot of you would probably say. >> those january 6th. >> who are yelling just as loud as you, who are upset just like you. i don't think executive privilege should be. >> huh. that was congressman rich mccormick facing boos and catcalls for his support of president trump's moves in this first month in office. this comes just as a federal judge declined to block efforts to stop those firings and moves for now, meaning that doge has a green light to continue with mass firings and elon musk offering really the embodiment of their goal with his chainsaw performance at the annual cpac conference, the annual conservative gathering yesterday. cnn's alayna treene is at the white house. she's got much more for us. where do things go today? i guess that's the question. >> well, look, the mass firings, the layoffs that we've seen really impact several different agencies throughout the government are going to continue to be rolled out today after a federal judge ruled that they can continue. he essentially said that he doesn't have the

jurisdiction. his court did not have the jurisdiction to move forward with this. his name was christopher cooper, and he essentially rejected the labor unions bid to try and halt these mass firings. again, he did not necessarily say whether or not he didn't think that this could be up for the courts. he essentially said instead that the claims need to go to the federal labor relations authority. so this could be another battle that continues to brew. but for now, these sweeping layoffs are allowed to go forward. and look, i mean, we've seen now several of donald trump's actions, whether they be executive orders, whether they be other things that he's directed people throughout the administration to do on his behalf. many of them have been tied up in the courts. some of them, of course, we've seen like this one, um, where essentially the trump administration wins and they can move forward with their policies. others where they are still tied up in the courts and really causing questions of whether or not the white house or the trump administration might try to defy those orders. i actually asked one of, um, donald trump's attorneys, the white house council member alina

habba, about this yesterday. she said no. i mean, looking forward, we are not going to defy orders. we believe that the white house is correct on these, and we will fight them in the legal way in court. so just to keep that in mind, but coming back to these sweeping layoffs, a lot of them are about these, what they called probationary employees. some of them put on probation by the white house, people who have been in the government and working in these agencies for two years or less, uh, many, many scores of them have been dozens, really, throughout the entire federal government have been giving these notices that they have to be fired. it was unclear if they were actually going to be halted because of this pending court order. now, we know they are able to continue to move forward. >> kate alayna treene starting us off. thank you. john. >> i want to play a little bit more of that town hall that kate just showed. this is republican rich mccormick of georgia. he won his district by more than 30 points. so theoretically, this is a pretty republican leaning place. listen to this. >> why is this supposedly

conservative party taking such a radical and extremist and sloppy approach to this? >> they have about, what, 13,000 employees? >> 13,000 employees at the cdc and the last couple of years, those those probationary people, which is about 10% of their employee base, which is about 1300 people, which you're referring to, um, a lot of the work they do is duplicitous with. i once again, one of the problems we have, i happen to be a doctor. i know a few things. okay. just give me a break. >> all right. we didn't hear their. but it was all over. this town hall was a lot of booing, a lot of loud anger directed at the congressman and what the trump administration has been doing with this now is congresswoman dina titus, a democrat from nevada. and, congresswoman, what do you make of the reaction that rich mccormick, who won his district by 30 points, had on the ground at that town hall? and what are you hearing that is or is not similar in your district? >> well, i.

>> think he deserves all of the pushback that he's getting and his argument that it's the same as biden or that these people are the equivalent of the january 6th folks who invaded the capitol is just not ringing true, even with people who may have voted for him to start with. we're hearing it in nevada, too. we're calling it the valentine's day massacre. all these people who are being cut, who are just hardworking public servants doing their job, serving the public. if he gets rid of all these people, who does he think is going to put out your social security check? who's going to deliver the mail? who's going to do all those things that we take for granted? and i think it's going to come back on him from his own folks. >> you know, when i saw this, this town hall, a video of it overnight, it made me think back to the tea party situation back in 2009, 2010. i don't know if this will be as sustained, this anger, but there were town halls back then with people yelling at their members of congress. if i remember correctly, you were in congress, then out of congress for a second. right around that

time. you probably heard a lot of heat like that. so is this the type of thing that could develop into that type of emotional response? >> well, i think it may be even greater than that. at the time, that was all about obamacare. it was something new. people were worried about government controlling their health care. at the same time, they wanted to keep their medicare, of course, but that's where that was focused. yeah, i did congress on the corner events. people would pull up in pick up trucks with bullhorns and try to get us, you know, just attack us generally. but that was one issue. this is a lot of people losing jobs, a lot of services being cut that people rely on day to day. look at what they're doing to medicaid. you see what, uh, is proposed in those budgets to cut medicaid? nevada is a state that relies heavily on that with the service industry. a lot of people don't have benefits. you cut that. you cut the subsidies to obamacare. these people are

going back to the emergency room. so it's going to be all across the board, and i think it will be sustained. >> and we will see. we will have to keep our eye on that. we have a little bit of breaking news that i want to get your reaction to. so the u.s. special envoy to ukraine, keith kellogg, just met with president volodymyr zelenskyy. they had the meetings yesterday, but he just put out a statement about the nature of their meetings. and it's pretty interesting how he words this. he says a long and intense day with the senior leadership of ukraine. this is what he wrote on twitter. extensive and positive discussions with zelenskyy, the embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war and his talented national security team. the embattled and courageous leader. that's coming from keith kellogg, the envoy to ukraine. that language is a whole lot different than calling him a dictator, which is what president trump is doing. your reaction to? >> well that's right. president trump has personally insulted zelenskyy and then tried to extort him for a big percent of

the rare minerals and resources that ukraine has. they tried to walk it back a little, but then ukraine, i mean, president trump walked it forward again. you'll notice that kellogg in the past has been pretty hawkish on russia. but the interesting thing is there was no press conference after the meeting, which is like kind of giving the finger in in diplomacy. and also kellogg was not invited to the beginning of the so-called peace talks that trump is trying to put together with putin in saudi arabia. so that says something about what the priorities are and who's really in charge. >> congressman michael, what your former colleague michael waltz, who's now the national security advisor. i just want to play you some of the language that he used from the white house on zelenskyy. listen. >> look, president trump is obviously very frustrated right now with president zelenskyy. the fact that, uh, that he hasn't come to the table, that he hasn't been willing to take

this opportunity that we have offered. >> of course, former congressman waltz used to be very supportive of zelenskyy and very supportive of the ukrainian war effort against russia, sounding a little bit different now. but given how people inside the white house are sounding, do you think the special envoy keith kellogg needs to worry that maybe he won't be special envoy for very long if he keeps calling vladimir zelenskyy courageous? >> well, trump certainly has reigned in not only waltz, but also rubio, who used to be strong against russia in ukraine. so kellogg will either be pushed aside or be pushed out. wouldn't be surprised. don't forget all this is insulting and alienating our european allies too. and kind of the rejection of nato and this cozying up to putin with the phone call saying he wants him back in the g7, g8 saying they're going to visit each other. that's that is another sideline that's going on. >> all right. congressman dina titus, thank you for talking to

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>> overnight, we seem to start hearing some of the reaction that's bubbling up around the country to some of the cuts being made by the white house. this was a town hall for congressman rich mccormick, a republican in a district. he won by 30 points. listen to this. >> when you talk. >> about presidential power, i remember having the same discussion with republicans when biden was elected. >> it's just a sample. there were all kinds of boos at this town hall over some of the cuts being made by the trump administration and some of their priorities. with us now is cnn senior data reporter harry and harry. great to see you. it's always interesting when some of the reaction out there matches what we're seeing on here. >> yeah. >> this is an example where the polls. >> seem to match. >> what's going on in the public. and all i can say, mr. berman. is the people are mad. they are angry. they are rising up. take a look here. top worst

things that trump has done. this is among the folks who oppose trump actions in office so far. you might have thought going into the election or afterwards it'd be immigration policy, but that comes in at just 10%. check out on this side of the screen. i'm coming over to mr. berman's side. must doge or the funding freezes. right. these funding cuts. look at that. that takes the cake. 24%. that is the top answer amongst those who oppose donald trump's actions in office, saying it is the worst thing that he has done so far. it's must. it's doge. it's those funding cuts that people are mad. and if last night is an example, that town hall, they ain't going to take it anymore. >> okay. this is among those who oppose trump's actions in office. is there a difference sort of across party lines? >> yeah. okay, so let's zoom in on elon musk. right. we're going to zoom in on elon musk. doge. and the access of course they have to the data. this is from our poll. the most significant trump action this term so far. look at this. democrats are more angry about this than republicans are happy about it. look at this.

democrats 18% say that the musk doge access to data is the most significant action so far for trump this term. bring it over to this side of the screen. look at this. just 9% of republicans say that musk doge, and the access to data is the most significant trump action so far. so elon musk is becoming this rallying point for anger, this rallying point for anger on the left. and he's not really doing much for the right who are going, yeah, we like what's going on, but it's not close to the most significant thing he's doing so far for them. they're much more likely to say something like immigration. >> you know, people who run elections always look for what they call an animating issue, an issue that gets voters excited or focused. for democrats, maybe this is it. it's early days. we'll have to keep watching it. what is this done for elon musk? >> what is this done for elon musk? is elon musk bringing his numbers up or are they falling down? take a look here. this gives you an idea of how angry the folks are at elon musk. look at this elon musk net favorable rating. we've been tracking this. this is quinnipiac

university back in december of 2024. he was underwater but just underwater by five points. look at where he is now. in february 2025. the american people are turning against elon musk. his net favorable rating way down there. pass now minus ten points. -12 points. the bottom line is this the voters are angry with elon musk. they're angry with the cuts. the federal government you saw in the town hall last night. and they're taking it out against elon musk in the polls as well, where his numbers are falling. >> mr. berman, we'll have to see how this affects elon musk when he's up for reelection. >> and that might be one of the reasons they're angry. >> with him. all right, harriette, and great to see you. thank you very much, kate. >> also new overnight, a key meeting with cdc of cdc advisors who work on vaccine policy has been postponed. the advisory committee on immunization practices, acip, had been scheduled to meet next week to discuss and vote on vaccine recommendations for flu or other diseases. now that meeting is postponed indefinitely by the new leadership team at or under

the direction of the new health and human services secretary, robert f. kennedy jr.. this all comes as an outbreak of a disease previously eradicated by vaccines. measles is growing. the numbers are ticking up in new mexico, with now nine confirmed cases illnesses. and in west texas, a measles outbreak there has surged to at least 58 cases. joining us right now is cnn medical analyst doctor jonathan reiner. he's a professor of medicine and surgery at george washington university. doctor, it's good to see you again. let's start with this move by the new hhs. i want to read for everyone out there how i saw you react on social media, because i have heard the very same sentiment from many people, which is you write on that news about the postponing the meeting. what can happen when someone who said no vaccine is safe and effective becomes secretary of this is what can happen. well, people shouldn't be surprised by this.

please explain why this is a big deal. >> so, you know, we live in a constant threat from. >> pathogens. >> and one of. the glorious gifts of. >> medicine over. >> the last. >> century is. >> the invention of vaccines. >> so we'll. >> talk about. >> measles. >> you know. >> for a moment. >> so, you know, before i was born, uh, basically every child would develop measles before they were 15. years of age. it was just. >> expected that every child would get it. >> there'd be 4 or 5 million cases a year. about 50,000 kids. >> would be hospitalized. >> uh, about a thousand would get, you know, neurologic, horrible complications from it. 500 deaths a year. and then in 1963, the measles vaccine was rolled out. and in 2020, measles was eradicated. it was declared eradicated in the united states.

the only case, the occasional case, someone who literally came into the united states actively infected. but we've seen an erosion in vaccination in the united states, uh, between 2020 and 2024, vaccination for measles has dropped from more than 95% in this country to about 92% in this country. and in some parts, like now, west texas, you see that almost 20% of kids in that county in west texas have not been vaccinated for measles. and this and this is what happens now. it's not comforting to me that the current secretary of hhs has stated that he's not going to take vaccines away from people. we need leadership in this country. we need public health leadership in this country that advocate for vaccines and what we should be hearing now from hhs and cdc and all of our public health leaders is an urgent, uh, cry for people all over the country, not just in

west texas. if they haven't vaccinated their kids to to go ahead and and do that now. but yet, uh, we hear silence. and then, as you said, out in the open, we learned yesterday that the acip committee, the committee of like 50 volunteer, uh, vaccine specialists and i.d. docs and pediatricians who meet 3 or 4 times a year to talk about vaccine policy and also, uh, set vaccine schedules for new vaccines, that that the current meeting schedule for the next couple of weeks is indefinitely postponed. so what what message are we hearing now from public health leadership in this in the united states? and what are we to expect if bird flu jumps into the population? very, very disturbing to me. and and as you said, i am not alone. >> there are two key facts in terms of the acip meetings that i think can get lost. and people are like, it's an advisory committee. no one is taking away vaccines. here's the key facts the fda approves vaccines, but clinicians wait for recommendations from this, this

panel, to understand the best ways to use the vaccines and insurance is, as i've been learning, generally doesn't cover vaccines until a recommendation from this vaccine panel. that's why it is so important. that is why senator bill cassidy said that he had gotten a commitment from rfk jr. to specific commitment to make sure these committees are not disbanded. i guess maybe there's a difference between disbanded and indefinitely postponed. but, doctor, you also have rfk in his opening remarks to his staff, said that his priority is chronic disease. and what he said is he's going to look at new ways of trying to take it on, including, quote, unquote, formerly taboo or insufficiently scrutinized. um, contributing factors. first on the list is he plans to investigate was childhood vaccine schedules. nothing is going to be off limits. kennedy said no one should be surprised.

your reaction? >> right. and you know, and this and we saw this during the confirmation hearings. this is really the cynical aspect of how mr. kennedy, uh, discusses these issues in public. he basically sets up this false straw man, suggesting that, you know, we really need safety data on these vaccines. you know, why do we really know about the safety of mmr? well, the truth of the matter is, all of these vaccines have been studied for both safety and efficacy. if it's a brand new vaccine that we've never had before, but then it's studied against placebo for for new vaccines, replacing old vaccines, treating the same viruses, the vaccines are tested for safety and efficacy against the old vaccines. so every vaccine on the market in the united states has been tested for safety and efficacy. so his arrival in washington, he's not, you know, riding on some white

horse. now, finally, to tell us whether the vaccines we've been giving our children for 60 years are safe and effective. we've had this data. he's just been someone who has refused to to read it and understand it and believe it. >> now we'll see what happens. let's see if this meeting ever gets put back on the books. for one thing, it's good to see you, jonathan. thank you, doctor john. >> all right. a former nfl player arrested for protesting the implementation of a plaque that spelled out maga at a public library and a programing note joined roy wood jr., amber ruffin and michael ian black as they serve up their take on the news of the week tomorrow night at nine and streaming the next day on max. the name of the show is have i got news for you. >> super man, the christopher reeve. >> story tomorrow. >> at ten on cnn. >> just close the doors and you're in a world of your own. travel is not just about the

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readiness. and this pause we should note it comes after cnn reported on wednesday that the mass terminations, which could have affected over 50,000 civilian employees inside the pentagon, could actually run afoul of the law. that little known law, title ten, section 129 a of the u.s. code. it essentially says that the secretary of defense may not reduce the civilian workforce program full time equivalent levels unless the secretary conducts an appropriate analysis of how those firings could impact u.s. military readiness. we were told on wednesday that defense officials were raising this with the superiors, with their superiors. the possibility that these mass terminations could actually run afoul of those rules. and now the pentagon's office of general counsel is inspecting this and making sure that dod is fully in compliance with the law here before it moves forward with carrying out these mass terminations. and, of course, we are also told that secretary of defense hegseth is going to be carrying out a review here in in

compliance with that law of how this could impact readiness, because a lot of these employees, these civilian employees across the pentagon, while they are probationary, which means that they have been on the job for about a year or less, they do, in many cases, serve critical national security roles. they are in positions like cyber security, intelligence, foreign military sales, all things that are really critical to the pentagon's kind of day to day functioning in u.s. national security. and so a lot of officials had been saying, look, it's important that we take kind of a beat here and make sure that we are not getting rid of people who are going to be extremely necessary to the military operations that need to be carried out on a day to day basis. and now it seems as though that pause, even though it's likely temporary, is now in effect. john. >> just a temporary pause for now in secretary hegseth must be getting whiplash first. he said they were going to increase spending, then cut it 8% annually. now pausing it. but this is just a pause. we'll cut still come. >> for now. we are told that it

is just a pause. while they can review the legality of these mass firings. because this is not a typical reduction in force, such that the defense department and other pentagon and other federal agencies have done in the past. this is a blanket executive order really asking them to fire large swaths of civilian employees. so they need to really figure out the legality of this and importantly, how it could impact u.s. military readiness. john. >> natasha bertrand in washington, thanks so much for this breaking news. we will hear back from you again shortly, i am sure. sarah. >> all right. a california city council meeting has sparked a national conversation after a former nfl player was arrested during an attempted protest over the implementation of a plaque at the huntington beach central library. a plaque that spelled out maga. >> maga stands. >> for. >> resegregation and racism. maga stands. for censorship and. >> book bans. >> maga is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy. >> i will now engage in the time honored american. tradition of. >> peaceful civil disobedience.

>> get the heck! >> get out! >> with me now is the man you see in the video, former punter for the minnesota vikings, chris kluwe. thank you so much for being here this morning, chris. um, look, the city council voting to put a plaque that they said was to honor the library's 50 year history that says magical, alluring, galvanizing, adventurous, which, of course, each capital letter of each word spelled out maga seems to some like a small thing in the scheme of things. why did you find it so important to to protest this so fervently? >> because what's happening in huntington beach with our city council is a microcosm of what's happening with the country as a whole. this city council, they do not care about their community. they've consistently shown they don't care about community feedback. >> they're only in it. >> to get more power for themselves and to push themselves higher into trump's orbit. they welcome this

national attention because for them, it's a way to increase their own personal power. and as a resident of this city and as someone who loves books and loves reading, it is just beyond the pale. what they're trying to do to this library. because the plaque is only the latest in a series of events. they've tried to ban books at the library, they've tried to privatize the library. and it's become very, very clear. they do not care what the community wants. they only care about themselves. >> i am very familiar with huntington beach. it is known for being a politically deep red spot in a mostly blue southern california, and they have had some policies that have really raised some eyebrows, including the banning of books. you talked about the direct parallels that you see from the darkest times, or at least one of the darkest times in world history, and you believe that we're on that path again. what is that path you believe? >> i believe we're on the path that nazi germany went down under hitler. and i say that as a political science and history major, as someone who has

studied history and the parallels are very, very clear, uh, this administration is trying to erase trans people. this administration is trying to put obedience over duty to the country. this administration is trying to thrust our country into turmoil in order to reap power for themselves. and i think regardless of political affiliation, all of us as americans should be able to agree. no kings, no tyrants, not now, not ever. i cannot express how disgusting it was to see an official white house account put out a picture of an american president with a crown on his head that goes against everything this country was founded upon. >> that's also after donald trump posted long live the king. after. stopping a policy here in new york. look, there is this issue. the american public did vote for donald trump. after all the things he said about being their retribution, about taking revenge, about clearing out the federal government's so-called deep state, as he puts it, and the mass deportations. what do

you say to americans? say, yeah, we voted for him. we did it in large numbers. he won the popular vote for the first time as well. knowing all these things. >> uh, i say to them that hitler was elected, too, and there were a lot of very good germans, uh, who believed that hitler was going to have their best interests in mind. um, and i think there are a lot of good americans that think that trump has their best interests in mind. but i am very confident that what this administration has shown has already shown that trump does not have their best interests in mind. and i would like for those americans to not live after all the bodies have dropped and be filled with regret because they failed to do the right thing when it was time to do the right thing. >> are you planning to continue doing these kinds of protests there at huntington beach, and perhaps beyond? >> uh, i plan to keep on showing up to the city council meetings unless they ban me. um, i don't know if that will be the case or not, because our next city council meeting is about a week

and a half from now, so we'll see what happens there. um, i definitely plan on on speaking out on the issue because as an american citizen, i care about my country. i want my country to be a place where everyone can have the same advantages that i had. and i have to use my privilege to make that the case. >> chris kluwe, thank you so much for coming on this morning. really appreciate you waking up bright and early, because i know it's early there in california. appreciate it. >> all right. >> it's friday guys. >> what? >> it's friday really. >> we should run the breaking news banner. >> and you know what? i'm over it. >> i'm out. >> out. >> sarah. >> i hope you. >> have a good weekend. >> i don't know how you feel about it, but. >> we feel. >> similarly, i believe. thank you all so much for joining us today and this week and forever. this is cnn news central. cnn newsroom is up next.

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