the dozens or musk popping from agency to agency. >> i thought they were supposed to be checks and balances somewhere. >> so where do i let go? >> shoulder height right in front of your eyes. so okay. >> plus, he sees fear in the latino community. wishes trump would find a more compassionate way to improve border security. >> i think there's a better way to go about it. i don't know if it's necessarily just force them out. >> trump, of course, won't be on the ballot next election, but this district will help decide whether republicans keep their tiny house majority. >> the cost of living is getting crazy here in colorado, and i hope that they would have some kind of an impact on helping that. >> the new republican congressman won by just 2000 votes. his 2026 reelection prospects will likely hinge on trump's performance. on whether swing voters here see the president as focused on the big issues. or veering too far off target. gaza john king, cnn, greeley, colorado.

>> so new this morning, the president says millions of federal workers are at risk of getting fired. whatever that means. now, his administration says they're not at risk at all. elon musk says they will get completely fired. so does that clear things up? newly unsealed court documents reveal disturbing new details about the murders at the university of idaho that left four students dead and never before heard account from a surviving roommate detailing what she heard that day in a highway overpass collapses, killing at least four people. rescue operations now underway. kate is out today. i'm john berman with sara sidner. this is cnn news center. >> who is in charge. is there a new deadline to answer elon musk's email? what does semi fired even mean this morning?

way more questions than answers. after musk said he was giving millions for federal workers another chance to justify their jobs or risk losing their jobs. but whether or not they really have to is still a big question mark this morning, as trump officials send varying guidance on what they're supposed to do. also demanding answers, a federal judge who is right now weighing whether musk's department of government efficiency or doge, as he calls it, is even constitutional. cnn's katelyn polantz is covering the very latest in this doge legal dilemma. say that three times. caitlin, what are you learning? there's so much going on here. >> sara. what aren't. >> we learning? because the justice department just. doesn't have answers at this point. >> to speak. >> about what doge. is and what elon musk is doing. >> what. >> role he has, what power he. >> has. >> and where the people. who are working with doge at agencies. across the.

>> government. >> especially the treasury department, where they handle those sensitive payment. >> data. >> where they're. >> getting their direction from. the question at a hearing yesterday for about 30 minutes, there. was a grilling by a judge of a justice department lawyer. and the overarching question was, what is doge? and the justice department just didn't. >> have answers. at one. >> point, the judge even said to the lawyers in the room, if anybody knows any of the answers here, speak up. silence the questions from judge kollar-kotelly. where is mr.. mr. musk in all of this? is there an administrator of usds. that's the u.s. digital service now doge. at the present time, rhetorically she asked who's involved? who's in charge? who's giving them direction? i would hope by now we would know the structure. the reason this is important is because people are going to court, and they're asking judges to take extraordinary action, emergency intervention, to lock down data at agencies like in this case at the treasury department. and the judges just don't have enough

facts to muster them to do anything right now. so judge kollar-kotelly, in this case, she explained pretty late into this hearing that this matters, because if people at the treasury department are working with doge and taking direction from someone, be it musk, be it from the white house, that person needs to be nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate, not just some random person installed in power. and there just are not enough clear answers of the chain of command from musk to people working with doge at agencies like the treasury department. even if those people report to the secretary or another top confirmed official, the white house here, they have been no help either. there have been many questions put to them, including by cnn's kaitlan collins. here is what donald trump said last week when he was asked, what exactly is elon musk? >> elon is to me, a patriot. so, you know, you could call him an

employee. you could call him a consultant, you could call him whatever you want. but he's a patriot. >> patriot is not an official title. but when asked in court yesterday, the justice department said that elon musk was, quote, an adviser to the president. that's all we've gotten at this point. sara. >> i think it says it all. what you just said. patriots not an official title. katelyn polantz, thank you so much. appreciate all of your reporting, and i'm sure it will get even more detailed as time goes on. john berman. >> all right, new overnight jeers from angry constituents at a missouri town hall with republican congressman mark alfred the second. he mentioned elon musk. >> jerry iceman butler elon. >> musk has. >> contracts with the federal government. >> there you go. >> yeah. >> but he. >> is also, i. >> think, doing an effective. >> job conflict of interest. show me a lot of people show me

want, uh, to. >> see waste. >> abuse and fraud weeded out some of. >> them. >> here today. i don't want. >> him in charge. >> of it. >> so you could hear the pushback that alfred got there. he won that district by 45 points in the last election. so on theory that republican congressman was on friendly turf. with us now is axios senior contributor margaret talev. margaret, great to see you. and we just saw that at the end of last week with rich mccormick in georgia. we're starting to see this kind of reaction bubbling up around the country. what do you make of it? >> i mean, i think it's a really important indicator, john, and what we've always seen. >> from the. >> start is that president trump's approval numbers were higher than elon musk. elon musk didn't get elected president. um, but musk's favorability or approval started out pretty high just before the start of the administration or in the very early days. and we're beginning to see not just in missouri at this town hall meeting, but in

national polling, a real dip where his he's, you know, underwater, as they say, in his disapproval numbers. musk's are higher than his approval numbers. we're also beginning to see a rise in the disapproval or strong disapproval numbers for president trump. so there's the potential that elon musk will be dragging the president's reputation down. among those voters who voted for trump because they wanted to see a change, but they just didn't want to see it this way. so that's it's sort of an important indicator to watch. and again, i still think it's early. um, but what you're looking at is, um, on the front of the federal workers who are being impacted. so much confusion. you've got the office of personnel management saying this doge demand is is voluntary. then you've got musk doubling down and saying, i'll give you another chance. but you really still, you know, might get fired if you don't respond. you've got hhs saying that malign foreign actors are probably going to be reading whatever you write. so if you decide to voluntarily fill out the form, don't say anything very specific. uh, and then

you've got these members of congress who are very worried inside the republican house conference, very, very worried about primary challenges from the president if they don't, um, act as an ally to him. but i think a little bit less worried about primary challenges. if they. turn cold to elon musk. and so, um, that's the space that, that i'm looking at. i think when you've got constituents showing up consistently at meetings and strong red districts expressing concern about musk, and that is driving disapproval, potential disapproval of president trump, that's going to be an important trend to watch. >> yeah. you make so many important points there. number one it is early but something is beginning to happen. we think based on what we're seeing, this disapproval of musk, also a disapproval of of job cuts that affect specific communities. it's a nimby thing. not in my backyard type of thing. we're seeing that and we're also seeing people kind of turn on the idea of chaos, which clearly is visible every day because

we're just not getting answers to who's in charge, things like that. but in axios this morning, your friends at axios this morning were writing, and i think it was mike allen in his piece were saying, you know, in general, this is a bargain that the administration is willing to make because they think that the country at large likes the idea of cuts, right? trimming government, and also likes the look of going after big government, attacking government. >> uh, that's certainly an indisputably true for the republican base. for the maga base. it is largely true for voters who are sort of in the center center right space. and it's not as true for for americans in the sort of center and center left basis. but it's it's those words that you use when we are listening to focus groups, talking with voters, looking at polling, we see consistently not only that, americans want to tackle the ideas of waste, fraud and abuse, but they really believe that there's a large contingent of americans who believe that it is

pervasive in american government, and that if you just, like lopped off a bunch of these jobs, you'd get a lot of money savings, that it would somehow reduce people's tax bill. so i think, um, there is a rubber meets the road moment that we're nowhere close to right now, where i think people think this is going to happen and they will be paying less taxes and government will work better. um, if that doesn't happen or when that doesn't happen, people may revisit their views on whether this was worth it, especially if their communities are impacted by these job cuts. >> so. so finally, margaret, this is becoming sort of a semi obsession, which is that donald trump is so focused on these government cuts, so focused on going after volodymyr zelenskyy, so focused on going after di, but we don't hear him talking about inflation. we don't hear him talking about day to day economic matters. do you have any sense of why that could be, when clearly it's beginning to have an impact on him in the

polls? >> uh, because it's really hard to reduce inflation just by talking about stuff, and especially if you're going to throw tariffs into the mix. there are it could be some short term stresses on the economy that pulls it in the other direction. i think he's moving the conversation to where he wants it to be, in part because it's very hard to translate the sort of positive instant results. i mean, eggs or whatever, a zillion dollars a dozen. now, you know, like this stuff is really complicated. turns out presidents can't just wave a magic wand and change the pricing structure for everything, for the goods that people consume. >> yeah, but people, i think, are starting to wonder, why aren't you talking more about me and my everyday life? we'll see if he pivots a little bit in the next few days, especially as he gets to the state of the union or his address to congress. margaret talev, thank you so much. great to see you this morning. all right. new reaction after president trump was fact checked in real time by the french president. and a new update from nasa on the asteroid

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yesterday, the moment highlighting the stark contrast in approach the united states and european nations are taking to try and bring an end to the war. joining us now, cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier and jill dougherty, former cnn moscow bureau chief and author. we will talk about that later, uh, in just a bit. but kim, first, can we just take a step back and look at the clear, unequivocal reversal of everything the united states has stood for when it comes to russia and its relationship with russia? and now vis a vis ukraine, they wouldn't even agree to a resolution that supports ukraine. what are we seeing here? yeah, at the u.n. >> the u.s. voted with russia. belarus and sudan against. >> the. >> rest of the. >> u.n. members. >> who were condemning russia's aggression in ukraine. >> so it is. this through the looking. >> glass universe. >> and now the. u.s. is saying,

you. >> have to pay us. >> back for money. >> the biden administration pledged with. >> future earnings. >> not just from your rare earth minerals. >> but. >> from just about all of ukraine's. output to the tune of ukraine paying back 500 billion. i'm going to do a daniel. >> dale style fact check. >> here for a minute. the u.s. has pledged 183 billion and has only given out about half of that. the eu has pledged between the eu, norway and u.k., they've pledged 207 billion and given out 166 billion. so they're way ahead of us. and ukraine being asked to pay this back to the u.s. the eu isn't asking ukraine to pay anything back. >> yeah. and some of that money, of course, goes back to u.s. companies who are supplying the weapons and the ammunition. jill, now to you, you are literally writing the book on russia. we know that the leadership is celebrating what has been a gift to them. from the words of donald trump

blaming ukraine for starting the war, when indeed russia was the one that started this war. but what might putin do with this sort of new goodwill from an american president? >> well. >> i think what. >> he wants. >> is a. restoration of russia. >> and himself back. >> at the table. >> russia being. >> a decider. >> in the world. >> uh. >> the isolation that russia. >> was in. >> after it. >> invaded ukraine. >> over. >> uh, they're. >> even talking about. >> economic relationship. >> restored with the united states. >> and i. >> should add, at. >> the. >> very time. >> that russia. >> has been nationalizing western companies. >> they are now talking about investments. so. >> uh. >> i think it's a bigger picture. >> you know. >> ukraine is really important. >> ukraine is something that. >> president putin is. >> fixated on and has been for a long time. >> but i think. >> on top of. >> that, the most important. thing to him is this

relationship with the united states and the role of russia in the world. and i think we should we could talk about this more, but we should watch what russia is doing with china, because at the very moment that all of this wagoing ont the un, putin was talking with president xi of china, and they're saying our no limits partnership continues. it's for a long time. and notably, they said no other party can interfere in that relationship. and that means the united states, because if charitably, if you look at what trump is doing, what they're trying to do is it appears, uh, pull russia toward the united states. and then as a move against china. but i think it goes way beyond that. and, uh, you know, it's obviously very controversial. >> yeah. i mean, a lot of people look at it, it's like putin. putin is former kgb. he plays chess, not checkers, and is questionable as to what game

donald trump is playing at this point. i do want to go to this remarkable moment between president trump and emmanuel macron, when he basically, you know, fact checked, donald trump in real time on the world stage. take a listen. >> europe is loaning the money to ukraine. they get their money back. >> no, in. >> fact, to. >> be to be. >> frank. >> we paid we paid 60% of the total effort. and it was through like the u.s. loans guaranteed grants and we we provided real money. to be clear, if you believe. >> that, it's okay with me. >> um, kim, can you just talk about this moment? i mean, he reaches over and almost, like, pats him on the knee like, no, you're you're incorrect. >> yeah. it's kind of like you do with a grandfather who's hearing aids aren't working properly. and you're like, you didn't quite hear that, right? um, the fact of the matter is, the european loans, um, the

collateral on them is the proceeds of the frozen russian assets that europe holds. but ukraine still has to pay those loans back. same goes for the g7 loans. it's just amazing. it feels like, um, macron is having to fact check the misinformation without calling it that, because we all know how triggering that would be for russia for sorry for trump. >> yeah. i mean, we saw what happened when zelenskyy said that trump was living in a disinformation space and suddenly, uh, trump is calling him a dictator. jill, i am curious just quickly here when it comes to this sort of conversation. we have seen donald trump lash out. um, what do you make of what might happen to macron after that situation that played out in front of everybody? >> well, macron goes back to france and, uh, the allies right now, the eu, all of europe is essentially most of europe, except for hungary. um, is

trying to unite to, uh, literally deal with the world in which the united states is no longer a guarantor or maybe even a participant in anything dealing with european security. and that is stunning. and it's stunning in the speed with which it's happening. so the europeans are very, very worried. and that was why macron came here. by the way. um, the uk prime minister will be here. starmer keir starmer he'll be here. i think it's on thursday and they are all trying to convince, uh, president trump that even if president trump is trying to negotiate, let's again say this is all part of negotiations. uh, it's very dangerous when you really do appear to be siding with one side. and that is vladimir putin. so it's a full court press. and then also trying to figure out how they, uh, protect ukraine and protect european

security. >> yeah. this might bring europe together in a way we have not seen before, a much stronger alliance there that might be part of the for europe. a silver lining. jill dougherty kim dozier, it is always such a great pleasure to be able to talk to you. appreciate you both. all right. ahead, will president donald trump's popularity be able to help the house push that big budget plan over the finish line? and new details this morning on the murder of four idaho college students. defense lawyers calling into question how investigators used dna genealogy sites to find the suspect. brian kohberger. >> twitter. >> that's a great name. >> we invented. >> a whole new thing. >> no one could possibly have understood where it was going. >> twitter breaking the bird premieres march 9th on cnn. sore throat. got your tongue? >> mucinex. sore throat. medicated drops uniquely

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university of idaho students. the defendant, brian kohberger, is accused of stabbing the students to death in an off campus home in november of 2022. cnn's jean casarez has been covering the story from the beginning and has these new details this morning. good morning. >> so much of this case has been shrouded in. >> secrecy. >> and it's to protect the potential jury pool. so brian kohberger has a right to a fair trial. but a transcript was just released from a very important hearing. and what we do know is that the victims were stabbed multiple times. four victims to death on november 13th. we know following that, that they found a knife sheath, no murder weapon, but a knife sheath under the body of maddie mogan. they swabbed the button snap of that knife sheath and found unknown single source male dna. and that's really where this all starts, because that was given to authorum genetic genealogy laboratories in houston, texas, november 22nd. they started genetic genealogy work on this

unknown dna, and we learned for the first time through a defense witness on the stand in this transcript that laboratories went generations back and found a small bit of that unknown dna on great grandparents far removed. and then they went back the other way to present day, and they found four brothers. they released the case to the fbi in december 10th, saying, look into these four brothers. and their last names were not kohberger fbi reached out to one of the brothers because they wanted that dna to go into the public databases, that law enforcement can search, the brothers said, just stop bothering me. i'm not going to do it. fbi did their own work on this, and on december 19th, that is when the name brian kohberger from genetic genealogy was first announced to idaho law enforcement. we have a quote

here, brian payne, who was the is the lead investigator, said that was a result of investigative jenin genetic genealogy that was being undertaken by the fbi. we had a phone call that evening and we were told brian kohberger's name. so from that point they went on to get search warrants. but here's more information we learned. we learned that there is there was blood on the knife sheath, but that it was actually swabbed for fingerprints. we do not know the results. if there were any fingerprints that were found on that knife sheath, it was partially under the body, but they got single source male dna. we probably won't know that until trial. also found out between the second and third floor of the home. there was blood on the handrail intermixed with single source dna. now, we do not know. from everything we know it wasn't tested. and that's something that's going to favor the defense. but the defense wanted all of this

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indication they'd be fighting against donald trump? or is this the loyalty of loyalties? >> yeah. >> this is. >> all about donald trump. >> because the. >> bottom line. >> is they're not so worried about voters in the middle of the electorate. why? i want to take you through history. play a little bit of where's waldo? split house districts, those that are won by a gop house nominee and a dem presidential nominee. ergo, in 2024 won by the republican house member and kamala harris. simply put, they don't exist. there are only three of them. there are only three of them. my goodness gracious. it's easy to find a new york yankee fan in boston, massachusetts. look how much down that is from 2016, when it was 23. or how about 2000 when george w. bush won? it was 40. the bottom line is there are really very, very few gop house members representing a district that kamala harris won. and there is only one united states senator, susan collins, representing a state that was won, in fact, by kamala harris. >> all right. so how popular is donald trump right now with the gop base? we're now just a past a month of his time in office a

second time. >> yeah. i mean, look, the bottom line is this. republicans love donald trump the way grimace loves ronald mcdonald. take a look here. republicans net approval rating february of 2017. it was plus 77 points. somehow it's even gone up. look at this. it's plus 82 points. at this point you do not want to upset the republican voters. if you are a republican member of congress, because donald trump at this point has a popularity that, truthfully, is sky high. >> we are seeing some dissent in town halls and a couple of different places. but if you were to take congress and donald trump and tell voters, okay, you choose who side you want to be on, who are they going for? >> yeah. who are they going for? if you match up the gop in congress versus donald trump, who the republicans trust more, the answer here is very simple. it's donald trump. look at this 58% when the two of them disagree. look at this. just 22% say gop leaders in congress. the bottom line is, in a matchup between the gop in congress and donald trump, donald trump is

muhammad ali. the republicans in congress are sonny liston. he would beat them right down. >> wow. we're doing boxing and we're doing a lot of things. thank you so much for that, harry. i thought you had your dancing shoes on, but apparently you had your boxing gloves on. >> my boxing gloves and. >> my dancing shoes. no, no, we're not doing that. john, please take this away from. >> him before we go. just two things. number one, i was not aware of a relationship between grimace and ronald mcdonald. >> breaking news on cnn. john berman. >> going to look into that. >> we're looking in. >> we're not sure there. >> don't know what the nature of the relationship is, but i wasn't aware there was one at all. the second thing is harriet is now the chief. chief? >> oh, is this true? >> this. this is true. all my mornings with the lovely people here. kate. >> chief. >> hold on. put. put on the blackboard. put on the blackboard. >> all right. >> put on the blackboard. there you go, chief. all my mornings here with everybody here. mr. berman at the desk. kate, who's not here today? sarah. chris. bethany, who are behind the scenes? patrick. who's in my ear every morning. it's because of you that i am now the chief data reporter. or i think it's

actually analyst. oh. >> excuse me. >> there we go. >> congratulations. thank you. hail to the chief. i did not know there was going to be an acceptance speech. there was. but. but thank you very much. >> our executive producer is so happy about. >> i'm like sally field. >> with us now is congresswoman nicole malliotakis, a republican from new york, in the house republican conference. assistant whip, thank you for bearing with us through that moment right there, congresswoman. listen, there is a budget resolution that may come to a vote in the house today. we're not totally sure, because i don't know that we know whether speaker mike johnson thinks he has the votes. but there's reporting this morning in punchbowl and elsewhere. you went from a lean no to undecided to a lean yes in one day. that's a pretty big shift. why? >> well, it wasn't really just in one day. it was over the course of the last week and i'm still undecided. i'm not 100% certain how i'm going to vote, but we are working through this. we're getting certainly some assurances from our leadership,

some math breakdown of how this is going to look like after we pass. >> the resolution. >> remember, the. resolution is just the first. step that unlocks. >> that legislative process. >> there's nothing in there specific toward any particular program or any particular tax code change. we would then have to go and craft that. and so, you know, my concerns were always making sure that if we were going to look into medicaid, that it was going to be focused on the waste, fraud and abuse that we know is rampant. it is roughly 30 billion to $50 billion a year across the country. new york, my state, is one of the worst perpetrators where we've seen that type of fraud and abuse and then making sure that we were going to look elsewhere within the energy and commerce space so that my seniors are going to be protected, that the developmentally disabled and other people with disabilities would be protected, and that my hospitals wouldn't see, see cuts that would affect the service that they provide in the community. so that's always been my concern. and as i get assurances and clarity, i'm

moving more, more toward the yes and the process. but i'm not there yet. >> there are some republicans in the conference who would like to see cuts to medicaid that go way beyond what you're talking about, which is, you know, waste, fraud and abuse. they want to see some of the meat really cut out. would you vote for anything that was like that? >> no, i disagree with my colleagues and unfortunately there are some that are want to vote no on this resolution because they say it doesn't go far enough and we need to cut more, but we need to do this with a scalpel. i've said this repeatedly, not a sledgehammer as some of the, you know, rash decisions that i've seen coming out of doge, which i do support finding efficiencies. there is so much bloat in this bureaucracy that we have in the federal government. so much waste and overhead with tax dollars and not actually benefiting citizens. it's going to just, you know, pure, pure bureaucracy. so i understand the need to find efficiencies. and i and i support that. but we need to do it in a responsible way so we don't have unintended

consequences. what happened last week when we saw the rash decision to fire people and take away grants from the cdc, we saw the nine over 11 healthcare program in new york city that benefits so many first responders and survivors from 9/11 that i represent. we had to go back to the white house and get that reversed. and so again, that was an unintended consequence. but nonetheless, it happened and we had to get involved to reverse it. and that's what i'm trying to avoid here. let's get let's do the homework and make sure we're doing this right from the beginning and taking our time so we don't have, you know, unnecessary anxiety and, and unintended consequences later on. >> on the subject of anxiety and maybe chaos, which is what you're describing a little bit of there. i want to talk about this demand to federal workers, more than 2 million to list their accomplishments in the last week. i'm going to walk through the timeline here on saturday, february 22nd. elon musk's team sends an email that all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they've done. in the last week. failure to respond will be taken

as a resignation. that was saturday, the 22nd, but monday yesterday at 2 p.m., the trump administration informs federal agencies that it's voluntary for employees to respond to musk's email, and they will not be fired if they don't respond. but wait, there's more. at 7 p.m. yesterday, elon musk tweets subject to discretion of the president. they will be given another chance. failure to respond a second time will result in termination, so you'll definitely get fired. you definitely won't get fired. you'll definitely get fired. do you know which one it is? hmm. >> look, i think there's definitely a lack of coordination here. and again, we're seeing mr. musk make some decisions that perhaps the white house is not aware of or that they don't approve of, and then they have to go back and fix it. what i would say is, look, it's perfectly appropriate for an employer to ask the employees of what they've been, what they've been able to accomplish on behalf of the constituencies. and i think that's, you know, we do that in my office. we ask for legislative reports of what we've been able to do during

the week. the thing is this, we have a president who appointed very good people to run the various agencies, and these secretaries are the ones who should be looking within their federal agency and looking to see how they can make things better. whether that means improving job performance, whether it means making things more efficient, making making sure that there are metrics in place. so federal money that we're spending are going to their intended purpose, and they're achieving their outcome that we wanted them to. so that's that's the thing here. i feel like there should be more involvement here from the secretaries looking within their own agencies, as opposed to an outsider. i think it's it's a good endeavor for mr. musk to be looking for, you know, waste and and spending that could be eliminated. and he's done, i think, a good job with a lot of it. but again, i think some of this is happening too fast and furiously. there are rash decisions being made and it needs to kind of slow down a little bit and involve the people who are actually appointed to head these agencies

to incorporate efficiencies and changes. >> it sounds like you think musk went too far in this one case. >> well, yes, i do. >> all right, representative nicole malliotakis, we appreciate your time this morning. thanks so much for being with us, sarah. >> this morning. pope francis's condition is, quote, improving slightly, but he remains in critical condition, according to the vatican. vatican officials tell us the pope is not bedridden and is eating normally, as he does remain hospitalized battling pneumonia. to help us understand what all of this means and what it can mean for our own health, we're paging san chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. the pope. initially, i think, hospitalized for bronchitis. then it took a turn for the worse. whenever you hear pneumonia in someone his age. um, what does that tell you? >> it's obviously concerning. i mean, you know, pneumonia is always concerning in someone of advanced age and his late 80s. even more concerning. and keep in mind, as you look at this

timeline, that. >> the pope. >> has had a significant history of lung problems going back to, you know, even childhood or young adulthood, when he had part of a lung removed for an infection at that point before february 14th when he was hospitalized, we already got some indication that there were issues because he was having aides, his aides, um, give, give talks for him. for example. he was having a hard time catching his breath well enough to do that, probably more upper respiratory at that point. but then by valentine's day, lower respiratory bronchitis, that's the sort of deep cough you know, that people will get. that's usually bronchitis, then pneumonia a few days later, as you as you point out, slight improvement overall in in his condition. but you know, it's it's still pretty pretty worrisome. >> yeah. because we already know that part of his lung, one of his lungs is um, has been removed uh, years and years and years ago. what can you tell us about. he had an asthma attack as well. correct? >> yeah. so, you know, when. so

people have a general understanding what asthma is. you think about it. exercise induced asthma or cold induced asthma. it's it's an inflammation of the airways that causes spasm of the airways. so just think about those airways. you know, normally you got air going in or air going out. they start to spasm like this as a result of asthma. in this case an asthmatic crisis. typically that spasms actually worse as you're exhaling. even more so than inhaling. but all of that basically, first of all is very uncomfortable but makes it harder for you to actually exchange air in your lungs. so that's that's concerning on top of pneumonia, which already is disinfection of the lungs. now you get the asthmatic crisis on top of that. and i think that's what really had people worried in particular over the weekend. you can give medications to sort of decrease that spasm of those airways. um, and you also give more oxygen. and, you know, you're familiar with these nasal cannulas, you see the two prongs that go inside the nose. you can give

high flow oxygen through those nasal cannulas 60l of oxygen. it's so much oxygen so quickly that you have to warm that oxygen. you have to humidify that oxygen because it can be very drying. so it's quite you know, it can really accomplish a lot. but that's what he's required as well. dealing with the pneumonia, dealing with the asthmatic crisis, giving high flow oxygen again in the wake of someone who has part of their lung removed and is, you know, in his late 80s. >> why did he have a blood transfusion? what was that for? >> there are two things there. and this this is an important thing because you think lung infection, what does that have to do with blood transfusions. so there's there's two things. first of all, if you give red blood cells, red blood cells are what carry oxygen throughout the body. so the more red blood cells you can have, you know, you want to make sure that level does not drop. that improves the opportunity to to transport oxygen throughout the body. but there was something else as

well. and that is something known as platelets. platelets are another blood component responsible for your clotting. people's platelets may sometimes drop as an early indication that they're starting to develop a more widespread infection. platelets start to get consumed in the body. so no one is saying that the pope has sepsis, which is a sort of body wide infection. but that is the concern, sarah. that is the big concern here. obviously, the pneumonia, which is what they call polymicrobial many different organisms sort of causing that pneumonia. but the idea that it could spread into the blood and spread into the rest of the body is the concern. and so you look for clues. are the platelets dropping? are there other, other indications of that? and you try and get on top of it as quickly as possible. so that's certainly something that doctors are going to be monitoring. and if we get more information about that, we'll bring it to you as well. >> you know, i always feel a thousand times smarter after listening to you. and then i completely forget everything

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office has opened an. investigation for homicide, and they believe that the young. woman may have. >> been in. >> denial about. >> her pregnancy. >> now. >> what. >> else do we know about this woman? we know, of. >> course. >> that she is american, that she is 18 years old and that she had been. staying at this hotel for a week with. >> a young. >> group of friends. they'd been. traveling throughout europe. now, this morning we were able to. speak to neighbors in this. >> neighborhood where in. >> the east of paris. sarah, it's not a very touristy neighborhood. and on monday, neighbors here were awoken by the sounds of sirens. ambulances, police cars. and when they found out what had happened, they were deeply shocked. and sarah, just a couple of hours ago, the u.s. embassy in paris did release a statement saying that they were very saddened by the loss of this young life. sarah. >> this is just a horribly tragic story. thank you so much. saskya vandoorne live there for us from paris, john. oh, you are here. hello, john. >> right. new dash cam video of

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bruce willis and ben affleck and probably stand down, at least for now. a new hour of cnn news central starts now. >> confusion, chaos and questions. so many questions. elon musk says federal workers have another chance to answer his email, or they will be fired. president trump says they must answer, or they may be semi fired, whatever that means. but it's administration says you don't have to answer at all. this chaos and confusion, just part of everyday life for federal workers right now. all right. house speaker mike johnson facing pushback from hardliners in his own party as he tries to pass a budget plan with a razor thin margin. will that vote happen today? and defense secretary pete hegseth heads to guantanamo bay today as officials scramble to make the base ready for the hundreds of migrants the trump administration wants to detain there. i'm sara sidner with john berman kate