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to listen to. plus budget prayer requests by speaker mike johnson is calling on a higher power as he fights to get his party on board with his budget plan. and later banning the tush push. the controversial play fueled the success of super bowl champs, the philadelphia eagles. but now another team is crying foul. good morning to you. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i'm pamela brown in washington. well, this morning thousands of federal workers are unsure of who to listen to. after a day of contradictory guidance over elon musk's email ultimatum, his deadline, his midnight deadline for employees to justify their jobs or risk losing them. it's come and gone. yesterday, the office of personnel management informed agencies that responding to that email was

voluntary. and if you don't do it, that does not, equate to resignation. but musk appears unfazed. he later posted that workers will be given another chance and claims failure to respond a second time would result in termination. the conflicting statements have left many government employees angry and confused. >> i found it to be very insulting and a waste of time. elon is not our boss. >> yeah, it was really shocking and upsetting and just so far has been a whirlwind since then of just trying to figure out what the best next steps are. >> joining us now is cnn's rene marsh. where do things stand right now, rene. >> right now, again, i would have to say, pamela, just where it stood about 24 hours ago. i mean, i think that the bottom line is many of these federal employees share that sentiment of they're not quite sure who to listen to. they're not quite sure who is in charge. you walk through the tick tock of events starting from the weekend into

yesterday and now into this morning. it is just been this whiplash of, you know, information that they're getting from multiple places, from their agency heads, from elon musk, from the president of the united states. and they really are in this moment of not quite sure knowing exactly what to do. uh, just late in the evening on monday, opm essentially told these agencies that it was voluntary, but it didn't help when elon musk then took to twitter and you highlighted it at the top there, uh, in his post on x. there you go. essentially saying that if you didn't respond to that first deadline, which was yesterday at 11:59 p.m., you'd have a second chance to respond. and if you didn't, it would result in termination again. the labor unions continue to say that this is not legal. they continue to say that elon musk

is outside of the chain of command for many of these federal employees. and the president was actually asked about his thoughts on all of this yesterday in the white house. and he was seemed to be in line with elon musk essentially saying that if people did not follow the directive in the email, that they would be semi fired, as he put it. but i think the other thing that this all revealed is just that there are limitations, uh, and pushback by some within the trump's circle. his cabinet secretary, who are certainly loyalists, many of them are willing to take a stand and say, this has gone too far. and we saw that happen yesterday at agencies like the fbi, doj, health and human services, where they. agency heads essentially told federal employees not to comply. so we will see where today takes us, pam. but again, still a state of confusion for these federal employees throughout the federal

government. >> my goodness, rene marsh, thank you. so how do americans feel about what elon musk is doing right now? let's run the numbers. cnn chief data reporter harry enten joins us now. hey, harry. hey. so how much is musk doge and these cuts? energizing the opposition. >> i mean, this is what it's all about, right? democrats were down and out after the election. doge and musk has energized this opposition. you can see it right here. what is the top worst things trump has done? you remember during that first term, it was really in the opening days that immigration policy. but that actually comes in second place at 10%. look at this much doge or the freezing, the funding freezes or cuts. look at that number one at 24%. if there is one thing that democrats and the opponents to donald trump hate right now more than anything else, it's elon musk and those cuts. it is truly energizing them at this moment. >> so how are voters overall feeling about musk's role in the

trump admin? >> yeah, if there's one person that they really don't like in the trump admin, it's elon musk and his role. take a look here. a key role for musk and trump's administration. look at this. just 42%. just 42% of registered voters approve. just 39% of independents approve of the role that he currently has. take a look here, though. what takes the cake? 54% disapprove, 54% a considerably higher disapproval rating than donald trump has currently. as i've said before, if anything is going on right now, it's elon musk dragging donald trump down. >> wow. any signs things are getting better for musk. >> and in fact, they're going in the wrong direction. take a look here elon musk net favorable rating. you go back to december of 2024. look he was underwater but it wasn't awful at minus five points. look at where he is now. in february of 2025 -12 points. way way way underwater. you need a scuba diver to get as far underwater as elon musk is at this particular point. he is way down there. >> call out the scuba divers. it is interesting because you say based on the data, elon musk is

pulling donald trump down, but donald trump right now still standing by musk. is there any good news for musk and trump in the data? >> yeah, there's perhaps one piece of good news. and that is when it comes to these funding cuts, the type of spending musk is mainly cutting. look at the plurality answer here. 42% said it's actually wasteful spending that elon musk is cutting. 36% say he's cutting necessary programs. i think the big thing going forward will be this 20% who are not sure, they just don't like elon musk. they're not exactly sure what he's cutting, but they kind of feel like he's a flaky individual and they're not exactly sure on him. but this 20% going forward is going to be very key to determine whether or not elon musk stays in the white house. i don't know longer than a few. scaramucci. >> o harry enten always love having you on. and by the way, congrats on the new title, chief data reporter. well deserved. thanks, harry. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> and let's continue this conversation. justin wolfers is a professor of economics and public policy at the university of michigan. hi, justin. thanks

for being here. >> so how are you, mate? >> let's dive right into it. the impact of the doge cuts. many economists concede the mass layoffs and firings of federal workers will create. of course, great personal hardships, but will not dent the overall economy. do you agree? >> absolutely. so it's it's a it's an interesting case study on how to do economics. so first of all, you might ask the macro question which is is this going to affect gdp and employment and things like that. well it depends. doge claims to have saved $55 billion. um, but if you look at their website and add up their numbers, it's actually about a seventh of that $7.3 billion. and then if you go through and you eliminate all the accounting inaccuracies and the double counting and the misattribution, the wall street journal reckons it's $2.3 billion. now, these sound like big numbers. so let me make it more human. so far, the doge savings add up to $7.05 per

american. so you can see how that doesn't have a big effect on the macro economy. um, the total employment of the federal workforce, it might fall a couple of hundred thousand, but that's how many jobs we add each month. the more important question that most economists ask is, are these cuts worth it? which is to say, does each of these cuts yield a benefit larger than the cost? i'm happy to say more about that, but the benefit seems pretty small. >> so let's dive a little bit more into that cost benefit ratio. what do you think about that? >> it really depends on what you're talking about. but when you're going in with a chainsaw and it's an indiscriminate set of hacks, some of which are ideologically driven, it doesn't pass any sense of a cost benefit test. um, the, the, the white house is looking to cut 6700 workers from the irs. we know that for every extra dollar you spend trying to get the rich to actually pay the taxes that they owe, it yields $12 worth of tax revenue. so

investing less in that makes absolutely no sense. um, doge is really focused on trying to eliminate the consumer finance protection bureau, which is basically the group that prevents you and i from getting ripped off by wall street. um, you defund that, and it just means you and i get ripped off a little bit more often. they've gotten rid of surveys that track the educational attainment of young americans. and so that's going to make it harder for us to track or, um, or fix our education system. and as you go, line by line by line, you realize that a lot of these cuts in the short term, you might call it a saving, but in the long term, they're really going to harm the quality of our government and eventually yours and my lives. >> so i think that that trickle down effect is important, you know, and you have to wonder what the root cause is. you know, you look at the deficit, 36 trillion in debt. um, congress and congressional spending. i mean, is that really the root cause here is congressional spending? i mean,

what can you do? i mean, this is a lot. >> right? >> so let me just point out whatever the question is. doge is not the answer. let me explain. um, elon musk has said that he's aiming to save $2 trillion. now, if he succeeded in doing that, that would move our budget from deficit back to being in balance or a small surplus. so quite a noble goal. think of it as like a football field 100 yards on a football field. if $2 trillion is 100 yards, you need to save 20 billion. that's one 100 to move the ball one yard forward. at this point, doge has moved the football forward one tenth of one yard. and so any sense that you might get that this is addressing our fiscal woes. it's it's suggesting that doge simply doesn't understand, uh, where uh, where the real money is. um, if you wanted to know where the real money is, it's not cutting federal payroll. federal payroll is about $200 billion in total. if you look at the total amount of taxes that

people don't pay, the irs actually estimates the taxes that they end up not collecting. it's at least three times larger. and so if you really wanted to fix the federal budget, it would be going after things like collecting the taxes that people owe, rather than trying to hack away at the people who collect those taxes. >> we just got some breaking news that is very timely. just in to cnn that says that u.s. consumer confidence tumbled in february, seeing the biggest monthly decline since august 2021. justin, that is three and a half years. how troubling should this be for the white house? >> well, i'm just getting those data as we speak to, but, um, it is troubling. um, the consumer drives the u.s. economy. um, there's actually nothing bad happening in our economy in a in a broad perspective right now, unemployment is low. inflation is on the way down and things should be smooth sailing. the fact that consumers don't feel like it's smooth sailing. well, i think you've got one very

obvious suspect. and that's the white house, which is sowing uncertainty just about everywhere. whether it comes to trade policy, whether it's foreign policy. and i genuinely understand why consumers are nervous. and i hope this doesn't turn turn out to be a self-inflicted own goal. >> justin wolfers, always great to have you on. thank you so much. and coming up under pressure, house speaker mike johnson is expected to put a budget plan up for a floor vote today, and he's asking for prayers to get through it. can't blame him. cnn's manu raju is live on capitol hill. manu johnson is up against the clock, and fellow republicans. >> and no margin for error in this narrowly divided house. he can only afford to lose one republican vote. at least three so far are saying they would vote against this. what does this mean for the trump agenda going forward? we'll talk about that when we return. >> okay.

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his conference to move ahead with this plan. and it is extremely significant because they need to adopt a budget blueprint in order to unlock the larger trump agenda. now there's a disagreement between house republicans and senate republicans on how to proceed. but the house republicans have a plan that is sweeping in nature. among the measures here, $2 trillion about is what they're seeking in cuts of between 1.5 trillion and $2 trillion in spending cuts, additional $300 billion in funding for border security measures, immigration related measures, defense spending as well. and they want a debt limit increase for about two years which would cost cost about another $4 trillion. on top of that, they're looking at a $4.5 trillion sweeping overhaul of the united states tax code. but they first have to pass this budget resolution on the floor of the house tonight. but there's a problem. there are at least three republicans on the right who are opposed to this because they are concerned it does not cut spending deep enough. and there's republicans in the middle of the conference who are worried that the cuts could come from programs like

medicaid and are warning the speaker not to cut any further, which is why there is a problem for the speaker at the moment. and in speaking to some of those hardliners over the last day, they are making clear to me that they're prepared to vote no and potentially sink this proposal. >> if i had some indication that we could reduce some spending, i could possibly get there. but currently i don't have those. if we just turn right around and give it to the war pimps at the pentagon, i don't see that as any savings whatsoever. it is no savings. i don't think the votes are there. i'm currently a lean no, but we'll see where we get overnight. >> why are you lean, though? why are you leaning? i just. >> don't think it goes far enough. >> what are your concerns? >> not enough. not enough cuts. >> and that first congressman there, tim burchett, told me after a morning meeting with speaker johnson that he is still a no. the speaker still wants to move forward with a vote tonight. we'll see how they ultimately proceed. now, this all comes as there are also deep concerns, growing concerns among republicans about how those cuts are being pushed through by elon

musk and the department of government officials efficiency, along with the white house and trying to curtail federal programs without the consent of congress. one republican from new york, andrew garbarino, told me that he is concerned about the the way this is being handled so far. >> the way the federal firings and pushing purging the federal workforce. are you comfortable with this so far? >> well, no, i mean, i think the speaker has said a lot of people said when we're doing these things, you got to use a scalpel and not a chainsaw. >> now that new york republican was concerned, in particular about cuts that were coming to a 9/11 survivors health program that was pushed forward by musk's group. now, the white house later reversed that proposal, but it just speaks to the larger anxiety on capitol hill that republicans in particular are feeling from their constituents back home as they're going back home hearing about these cuts that are forthcoming. and how do they deal with the cuts that could be forthcoming in this larger trump agenda, that could be coming to

a whole host of programs, including medicaid? that's a big issue that the speaker has to navigate tonight to try to jumpstart the trump agenda. can he do it? we'll see on the house floor as soon as this evening. >> yeah. we have a republican house member on later on the show. we're going to of course, ask about that because that could be a big sticking point. manu raju, thank you so much. so how are trump voters feeling about the first month of the second trump administration? cnn's john king is going all over the map, and his latest stop takes him to colorado to check in with those who supported the president. >> the rant spans more than 100 acres, home to 60 horses and one last bison. >> this little guy down here, his name is trouble. >> a bit ornery at times, yes, trouble. >> you know, it's like trump. i really don't like him as a person. i think he's arrogant. kind of a jerk. >> but david hayes is a funny man. >> i tried farming for a while,

and i would rather get run over by a bison, you know? >> the northern colorado ranch has been in his family since the 1880s. the white house in washington are far away. >> we got, like, hot dogs. >> yes, hayes wants the government shrunk, but he doesn't see a coherent plan. and he doesn't trust elon musk, doesn't believe what he says, doesn't want trump letting musk poke around social security or tax files. >> i don't know how many people he's fired. and, you know, just keeps saying, well, i found $1 billion of waste here and social security, there's hundreds of hundreds and hundreds of people that are collecting it that are between 100 years old and 150. can you believe any of that crap? he can't substantiate it, but you can't believe it. so that's a trust issue. >> a blue collar rural guy in one of the nation's most competitive congressional districts. a three time trump voter who calls the president unfocused and arrogant. but democrats should hold the celebration. >> but if you had a do over tomorrow and you had to pick

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people. >> i was raised as a migrant worker working in the fields. those are the people that are out there picking their crops. so even though i support trump, i don't believe that he's the end all, be all savior of humanity. nobody is. >> now, this one, we've had canadian hoser for a long time before all this stuff came up. all the fights with american and canadian hockey players and everything. >> like hayes, todd waufle says, trump can be arrogant and pompous. but like ramirez, he's a fan of the early pace. >> i like him going full speed. let's get let's get things done. let's find out if the policies work. they don't work. but yeah, this is the baby brewing system. boil it up. >> their waffle started satire brewing seven years ago. business is good. and he constantly debates expanding. but a plan to boost sales by adding canning machines is on hold because of trump tariffs on aluminum. >> when you fly enough, you understand, you know, uh, buckle your seat belt turbulence ahead. >> waffles approach is a trademark of many trump voters, except the things that make you cringe to get the things you want, like a better economy and a stronger border.

>> trump's going to say what he's going to say. and yes, some is going to be exaggerated, some are not going to be true. but at the end of the day, i think you got to sift through all that. is he going to get things done, is going to get the country moving the right way? >> let go right in front of your eyes, just like that. >> austin jenkins voted for lower taxes and less regulation that would help his small businesses, including this cocktail bar and the greeley hatchet house. >> he seemed like the lesser of two evils, in my opinion. >> but jenkins finds the first month unsettling. not a fan of tariffs or executive orders by 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

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>> i'm rafael romo at the georgia state capitol in atlanta. this is cnn. >> breaking news. the supreme court just ordered a new trial for richard glossip, the oklahoma death row inmate drew national attention. cnn's chief legal affairs correspondent joins us now. take us inside, paula. what the high court ruled here. >> pam, this has been one of the biggest cases of the term so far, and certainly the most high profile death penalty dispute to make it before the justices. and here, the supreme court has ordered a new trial for an oklahoma death row inmate, richard glossip. now, his case, as you said, it has garnered national attention and even support for the state's conservative attorney general amid questions about whether key evidence was withheld during his trial. now, he was convicted for arranging a murder. his conviction goes back to 1998, but there has subsequently been additional questions about some of the evidence that was used in

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reached a settlement to resolve the nearly $150 million judgment against him. according to lawyers for the two georgia election workers who sued him after the 2020 election. giuliani will narrowly avoid a second trial, which could have cost him his florida condo and new york yankees world series rings. we don't know the details of the settlement, but giuliani said on x that he has agreed to never speak about the women in a defamatory way again. and new this morning, elon musk's spacex starlink just got a contract with the federal aviation administration. now, the faa is just one of the many agencies where musk is recommending cuts, raising new conflict of interest concerns. cnn's pete muntean is following this. pete, what exactly will starlink be doing at the faa? >> well, pamela, this is not the first time there have been conflict of interest concerns when it comes to elon musk and the federal aviation administration. remember, spacex and all private spacex launches are overseen and certified by

the faa. so this only adds fuel to the fire for members of congress who have been calling for the trump administration to put the brakes on any conflicts that could benefit musk. this latest rub came out in a post on x last night, the federal aviation administration said it is testing starlink satellite internet at three locations the faa test center in atlantic city, new jersey, also what it calls two non-safety critical sites in alaska. this is timely because getting reliable weather information in alaska has been a major issue. it was just highlighted earlier this month after the crash of a bering air cessna caravan killed ten people. flying is a vital way of life in alaska. state has the highest number of pilots per capita and often weather automated weather reporting systems are working. can really be the difference between life and death for pilots, the faa says in a new statement that alaska has long had issues with reliable weather information for the aviation community, and the 2024 faa reauthorization

required the faa to fix telecommunications connections to fix those needs. likely only the start, though bloomberg reports this could be a huge contract for starlink. eventually spreading to 4000 starlink terminals over the next 12 to 18 months. really, no dispute here that the faa, various computer and communications systems are in bad need of an upgrade. the government accountability office said just this last december that urgent faa actions are needed to modernize aging systems. also set this against the backdrop of mux cuts to the federal government. the faa just asked axed about 400 employees who helped maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure. so the story really developing all the time, pam. >> it certainly is. pete muntean, thanks so much. well, visitors to yosemite national park this past weekend saw a dramatic protest, an upside down american flag. you see it right here. now, this traditionally symbolizes a distress call. it

hung over the side of the iconic el capitan rock wall, reportedly put there by employees, raising the alarm over deep cuts to the park system by the trump administration. around 1000 national parks workers have been fired. some of them are now saying this puts the entire park system in peril and will change the experience for the hundreds of millions of visitors each year. beth pratt joins us now. she is the regional executive director at the national wildlife foundation. she also worked extensively in yosemite and yellowstone. so, beth, what is your most immediate concern over the impact of these job cuts? >> yeah, you know, i think we can all relate to having to tighten our belt and do our part. but when you're making indiscriminate cuts to vital services that are serving 300 million visitors a year, it's like cutting your frontline workers in a coffee shop and expecting them to serve coffee. let's work with the park

managers if we need to make cuts and not make these sweeping and also shameful cuts. some of these people were fired saying it was for cause when indeed they were just probationary employees. so let's work together. if there's cuts but not risk things like camping, not risk things like people being able to hike or even risk having to close some of these public lands for staffing shortage or a shortage of expertise. some of these people let go were vital services and people who had been there for a long time. >> what is the impact of that? and by the way, you're right that that we've talked to several employees who are fired, say it was performance after they had just gotten, you know, a raise or a promotion because of good performance reviews. um, but what is the impact of losing people who have a lot of experience in the role? because we have seen that a lot of them have been let go. >> yeah. national parks and all these public lands, whether it's a national wildlife refuge, u.s. forest service, they require people to to protect them. they require people to manage the wildlife, to manage the people. law enforcement. there's a lot of

institutional knowledge here. so you want your best experience. people protecting these special places, which i think we can all agree on. the american people love our parks. you know, i invite president trump, come see our parks. you just did a nascar round, come to a round of yosemite. these are not places we want to put at risk. we love them and we love our park rangers. but if you are cutting people who again manage vital visitor services like campgrounds, then park managers are going to have difficult choices. as we've seen in yosemite, they had to put the campground reservations on pause because they didn't know if they'd have enough staffing to manage them this summer. >> so how do you think the experience on that note could change for park visitors after these cuts? >> yeah, i you know, i think it's just going to depend on the park. i've been seeing so many, you know, heartbreaking stories, whether it be a wildlife refuge in crystal river, florida, where they cut, you know, the people working with the public and protecting the manatees, you know, a really critical species. i've been seeing other parks

where they cut law enforcement in yosemite. they cut the only locksmiths. so i think it's going to impact in a wide variety of ways. but what we know is this is the absolute worst time. those of us who work in parks, we're gearing up now. it is, you know, memorial day. i mean, to labor day is the busy season where usually you're doubling your staff with seasonal and others. so it is it is likely to impact services. we just don't know how. but i'll tell you what it impacts more than the visitor experience is the park, once a bear is harmed or dies because the trash had an impact, because it couldn't be empty, because of last of lack of staff, that bear doesn't get a do over. once a sensitive meadow is driven on because you didn't have enough park rangers on the ground, that meadow can take decades to recover. we know what happened during the pandemic when there weren't enough boots on the ground, and these parks were trashed. so why do we want to risk our special places that most americans agree are places that we want to

preserve and protect? and again, why are we running our parks with a profit motive? the what we are charged with, our park is mandated by congress is to protect them unimpaired for future generations. that should be the bottom line here. >> in his first term, president trump signed this bipartisan great american outdoors act, which provided billions to fund maintenance and sustainment projects in national parks. but it's on track to run out of money this year. how concerned are you that this may be a kind of double whammy for parks and for wildlife? >> exactly. you know, that's why president trump supported parks and recreation, and it's in his first year. so please re-up that support. look at these parks. these parks are not fat on the bone. you're talking a minuscule part of the federal budget. i hear some of these subsidies to other companies, which could literally fund the entire public land system for the whole year. so i am concerned, and the american people should be concerned.

please, again, in a time where we agree on very little, we agree on our public lands, we agree that we love our wild heritage and these natural landscapes. ken burns titled his documentary america's best idea. it is an idea of democracy that we exported to the world. so i am concerned in the american people should be concerned. so please, we implore president and this administration to restore funding to parks and make sure that we can make them whole and protect them, and that visitors can bring their kids to go camping, that they can bring their kids to go fishing. right. these are time honored traditions that we don't want to put at risk. >> beth pratt, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> and when push comes to shove, one nfl team is looking to ban the tush push. cnn's coy wire is here. what's the deal? >> what's up? pam? >> to push. >> or not push the tush. that is the question. is this a team

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that lost to them. or is it because, you know they don't have a quarterback who can do it as well as jalen hurts with the eagles. it's how he scored his first touchdown in their super bowl win over the chiefs. the tush push where a quarterback barrels ahead while getting shoved by teammates like a snowplow for a first down or a touchdown. some say it's unfair. it's unstoppable. others say don't hate. just figure out how to stop it. like probably jake tapper. you know, eagles fans, the super bowl champs made it popular. well, nfl mvp troy vincent says at least one team has submitted a rule proposal to ban the play. at least 24 of the 32 team owners would have to approve the rule change. pam, here's one of the originators of the pushing of the tush, aka brotherly shove, former eagle future hall of famer jason kelce, describing the way he sees this divisive play. >> it depends on what you think of football. like if you think football is this incredibly, meticulously organized game with, you know, it's like chess and whatnot, then i could see why you don't think the tush push is a very football centric

play. but if you think football is a play, that comes a sport that comes down to physicality, aggression and like we're going to it's going to be our will versus your will for a yard. you know, i think that sums up football pretty good to me. >> now whether it's fair or not because teams can't stop it is one thing. but the key factor determining if this play would be potentially banned in a potential vote would likely be whether or not it is safe, and if injury data shows that this play does put players at greater risk for injury, then there would be a strong chance the tush push could be banned. >> we shall see about the old tush push. didn't think i'd be saying that today, but there you go. um. all right, so let's switch gears to skiing. you spoke with one of the best, if not the best in the sport. what did she tell you? >> yeah. mikaela shiffrin, when you talk about some of the greatest athletes ever, she is one of them. and on sunday, she became the first downhill skier ever to reach 100 wins. an incredible moment for her, especially given how difficult

these past few months have been. after her 99th win, she had this scary crash in killington in november. she punctured her abdomen. she was all beat up. it rattled her. she told me about her ptsd, ptsd, and she also talked about how that might impact her moving forward in her career. listen. >> with this latest injury, um, there's also a part of me that wonders if i'm going to be able to get back to that level. so right now, probably my biggest goal has nothing to do with results, not about milestones. it's really just about diving within myself to see what's now possible for me. that's really overwhelming and a little bit stressful to think about, but it's also kind of exciting. >> so those winter olympics are coming up soon. pam. mikaela is using this historic milestone to create positive change for our youth. $100,000 for 100 wins. her mc 100 reset the sport campaign. she teamed up with share winter. they're going to provide young kids who wouldn't

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