happened. it probably, you know, cuomo had to step down too. and then they did investigations and now he's going to run for mayor. so i. >> just a president who has been credibly accused of sexual assault and found liable, um, in a in a civilian court. i mean, you know, on the other side of this, there's been a lot of things that have changed to where there's more permissiveness about what people do in public office. and so, i mean, we have elon musk, who is the father of 13 children and has his ex partner pleading for him to be a good father on social media. so, you know, i think, um, a lot to discuss about this. >> one thing that lewinsky interview will do is spur a conversation, as it has for sure. um, one quick programing note if you're missing kasie hunt in your day, as we all are, be sure to tune in to her new show. it is the arena with kasie hunt at 4 p.m. weekdays here on cnn. her unique perspective, her reporting to the day's most important stories will all be

there. that premieres monday. thanks to everyone. cnn news central is right now. >> gathering the cabinet. president trump holding his first cabinet meeting of his second term today and with a plus one, elon musk, who is not a cabinet secretary. the last time we checked, also expected to be there. >> and a narrow win for republicans after late night drama on capitol hill. speaker johnson, president trump managing to convince multiple republican holdouts to say yes on a critical step to move trump's agenda forward. but could the whirlwind vote mean bigger problems ahead for johnson? >> all right, one strange long haul flight. a couple forced to sit next to a dead body for hours. what the airline is saying this morning. i'm john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. this is cnn news

center. >> if there was any question left of the power and influence that elon musk has gained in this administration this morning, it is about to get laid on the table, quite literally. donald trump holding his first cabinet meeting of his second term. and among the group will be someone who is not in the cabinet, not vetted or approved by congress, and, frankly, a man whose role the white house continues to struggle to define. elon musk is expected to attend with the seat at that table, just as cnn is hearing that there is growing frustration among some of those very same cabinet secretaries over elon musk, doge moves targeting their agencies. some headaches and some annoyance. that is how trump officials are now describing the feeling this morning about musk's threats to fire federal employees who do not meet his demands. so let's start with alayna treene this hour, with this new reporting

from the white house for us. elena, what are you learning? >> well, look, i think you said it exactly right, kate. i mean, elon musk power is only going to be further solidified today when he joins donald trump's cabinet members for that first cabinet meeting this morning at 11 a.m. now, this does come, though, as we're learning and i'm learning from my sources, administration officials, white house officials. et cetera. that some of them are growing frustrated with how elon musk is kind of pushing out his doge efforts that way to take the chainsaw to the federal government. i'm told it's not necessarily that he wants to find, you know, the bloat in government. we know a lot of people who are in the trump administration, in the white house agree that there is a waste, fraud and abuse that could be found and they want to root out, but it's the ways in which he is doing it. i'm told that is where this frustration is stemming from. one is that they were not given a heads up when elon over the weekend, elon musk over the weekend had issued that email asking workers, what did you do last week? asking them to list out five things and then arguing. this is really the

key point here, saying that if they didn't respond, that they would be forced to resign or have their employment terminated. and that's where i was hearing that a lot of this came from. one is that some of these cabinet secretaries were just sworn in. some haven't even had their confirmation votes yet, and they need time. these sources were arguing to go through their review process to look at, you know, their needs, who they want to keep, et cetera. the other part of this, though, is that, you know, the questions of who has the authority to actually fire people who work in their own agencies. they thought that that was decisions that they should be making, not someone like elon musk and doge. now, we did hear the white house yesterday clarify that the president, you know, agrees that his cabinet secretary should be the ones making these decisions here. but it comes as there's been a lot of confusion. and again, we're hearing some of this frustration really start to show, as musk has been doing more and more regarding the federal workforce. but the one thing that's really important to keep in mind here, kate, is the one person who is not frustrated with musk, and

that is donald trump. i am told that he is really cheering on musk's efforts. he is arguing that he wants to see him do more. and then we actually saw him post this morning kind of tripling down on his support of elon. he said, quote, i thought it would be appropriate to take out my thank you truth to elon musk after all of us. big election win. nothing has changed. run, elon run. so clearly donald trump is standing behind him. kate. >> that's at least what it seems right now. great to see you. let's see what happens this morning with that cabinet meeting. appreciate it john. >> all right. new this morning we're learning that ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is expected to meet with president trump at the white house on friday. a ukrainian official tells cnn the u.s. and ukraine have agreed on a deal to ukraine's natural resources and reconstruction for the country, for the united states to get a piece of the profits from it. the u.s. backed off some of its most extreme financial demands, but it's unclear if ukraine is getting the security guarantees it was hoping for. let's get

right to cnn salma abdelaziz with the latest on this. salma, good morning. >> good morning. so we are seeing signs of progress after a rollercoaster couple of weeks when president trump and president zelenskyy were trading barbs. we're hearing now from ukrainian officials that an agreement has been reached to give the united states access to the country's rare earth minerals. now, i need to explain that this is basically a framework of an agreement, a final deal, as you mentioned, is set to be signed in the white house as early as this friday. again, we don't know the details. it's a framework, but we understand that the deal will include a measure for joint exploration of those rare minerals, and it will set up a fund, and portions of that fund will go to back reconstruction. i have, of course, not mentioned the most significant, most important demand for ukraine, which is security guarantees. ukraine essentially wants u.s. protection from russian aggression. president trump has commented on this and said it is

something that could be discussed later on. he also indicated that he has spoken to russia directly about these security guarantees that something that i am sure has raised eyebrows, but it is the first sign, if you will, of progress. in recent days, when it seemed that relationship was souring by the minute. but it will all be about that meeting on friday. john, watch closely. these two men have had a bitter animosity for the last few days. does president trump begin to warm to president zelenskyy, begin to show that he is willing to back ukraine in this fight? or does he continue that pivot that we've seen towards russia? >> yeah. look, remember trump called zelenskyy a dictator, would not call vladimir putin a dictator. that will make for an interesting meeting if it happens on friday. salma abdelaziz, thank you very much, sarah. >> all right. ahead, a late win for house speaker mike johnson pulling off a stunning turnaround to advance president trump's agenda in the house. but the drama is not going to end there. also a time when

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surprise win for president trump in the house overnight. last night, nearly every house republican fell in line, passing a budget proposal to advance trump's agenda. the final vote came out to 217 to 215 after speaker mike johnson lost just one single vote from kentucky congressman thomas massie. that single vote was all he could afford to lose. the win came after trump got on the phone, pushing multiple republican holdouts to change their minds. and they did. cnn's manu raju has more on what's next after this turnaround. >> by the narrowest of margins. house speaker mike johnson getting a win in pushing through the republican budget blueprint out of the house after a furious effort behind the scenes to try to lock down support for this plan, ultimately getting it approved by a 217 to 215 vote. one republican voting against the plan. that's thomas massie of kentucky. several others had indicated that they were going to vote against it, because they were concerned that it did not cut spending enough, but

ultimately, both johnson and donald trump themselves got on the phone. they urged these members to get in line, and ultimately they did. and now the question is going to be the what, how they'll go forward from here and whether they can actually reach an agreement on the other side of the capitol with senate republicans, who have a much different plan. remember, this is just simply the budget blueprint, a framework, an outline of how they plan to move ahead with donald trump's agenda. the house and the senate are in much different places. the senate has a much narrower plan, dealing with mostly on immigration issues and also on defense issues, and also on energy issues. they don't get into the issue of spending cuts. they don't get into the issue of a debt limit increase. and they certainly don't touch overhauling the united states tax code. that is all those provisions, the debt limit increase, an overhaul of the tax code, as well as deep spending cuts, about $1.5 trillion in spending cuts. that is in the house plan. the speaker of the house wants everything in one bill because he believes that in this narrowly divided house republican conference that they can only get one bill done

through this budget process. they're employing that because they can avoid a filibuster in the senate by going through the budget process. and they know they believe they only have one bite in the apple to pass the entire agenda. so what happens next? they have to first agree with the senate on what the ultimate budget blueprint is. they do pass that out of the house, pass it out of the senate again. and then they have to draft the actual legislative text under all those categories, whether it's a tax overhaul, whether it's spending cuts, which is bound to divide their party, as well as other major issues as well, how to deal with immigration provisions and the like. that's going to take significant amount of work to not only draft, but also get their party on the same page. but at the moment, speaker johnson, breathing a sigh of relief after it, looked for a moment, they did not have the votes on tuesday night. in fact, they scrapped the vote. they were going to pull the vote, sent members home, ultimately changed their mind because some members indicated they were going to vote yes, and then they brought members back minutes

later to cast the decisive vote. getting this first hurdle cleared, barely getting it cleared. but now, as the speaker said himself, the hard work begins and it's going to be very hard to get the party in line and send a bill ultimately to donald trump's desk. >> what could go wrong there? thank you. manu. coming up for us, three legal setbacks for president trump. within 90 minutes, he was ordered to restart payments on foreign aid. he was blocked from banning refugees and blocked from freezing federal grants. how those rulings are pumping the brakes on his agenda and where the fight goes from here. and luke gets revenge on dallas with the triple double and a win. >> in. >> 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. >> take a breath of fresh air

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>> so luka doncic gets a little revenge against his former team of the mavericks. his trade to the lakers earlier this month, as you well know, sent shockwaves through the nba, setting up for quite a face to face reunion last night, and the game did not disappoint. cnn's andy schultz has the highlights. andy, what are those highlights? >> well, you know, kate, ever since that trade earlier this month, you know, fans have had last night circled on their calendars. you know, what would luka do in his first revenge game against the mavs. and you know many dallas fans have certainly not forgiven gm nico harrison for trading luka and nico on the court in that blue suit, watching luka warm up before the game and laker fans at one point actually chanting thank you nico during the game for the trade. first quarter, luka knocking down a three and then he kind of screams towards the mavs bench. that was actually luka only three of the night. just six for 17 from the field. but he and lebron had the two man game going especially in the fourth. luka to lebron there for three. gives the lakers the lead. moments later luka again

finds lebron for the slam. lebron scoring 16 of his 27 in the fourth. luka finished with 19 points, 15 rebounds and 12 assists for a triple double. lakers would get the win 107 to 99 and here was luka afterwards, on facing his former team. >> i can't even explain what it was. different game. uh, like i said, sometimes i don't know what i was doing and, you know, i'm just glad. glad it's over. honestly. >> all right. while we now watch luka on the lakers, another basketball legend calling it a career after 20 seasons in the wnba. diana taurasi making her retirement official. in an interview with time magazine, saying, mentally and physically, i'm just full. the 42 year old leaves the game the most decorated player in women's basketball history. taurasi won three wnba titles, three ncaa titles at uconn, and she's the only basketball player to win six olympic gold medals. taurasi also leaves the game as the wnba all time leading scorer. nearly

3000 points ahead of tina charles, who is in second. speaking of all time scoring records, alex ovechkin, now just 12 goals away from wayne gretzky's all time mark ovechkin scoring here on the power play for goal number 883. he needs 12 in 24 games to break the record this season. the capitals did lose 3 to 1 to the flames in calgary. goalie dan vladar said afterwards. it was kind of cool to give up a goal to ovechkin. >> i was shooting a little bit, but there is a reason why he has so many goals like that. and you know. um, obviously, uh, it's it's going to be a story for, for my kids one day that, you know, a player like this go around me. but obviously at that moment you don't appreciate it. and, you know, i'm happy we just played twice against them. >> like the attitude you can catch the vancouver canucks take on the los angeles kings tonight on tnt and streaming on max at 9:30 p.m. eastern. okay, i

really find myself appreciating a segment like this today because, you know, we say goodbye to diana taurasi and then we still have lebron at 40 year old and ovechkin at 39 years old hanging on. and we still get to watch them play. but we need to appreciate it because we don't know how much longer we have with those two. >> i appreciate all those things, especially. did that guy say what i thought he said in that soundbite from the locker room? >> he said he said cheating. he said he was cheating a little bit. yeah, i know you gotta next time you listen to it again, knowing that it's cheating, you'll hear it this next time. >> i will have to listen again because my brain turned off after i thought i heard what i thought i heard. uh, andy, thank you so much. really appreciate it. um, john. >> oh, look, i definitely heard what you heard because we're on the subject of aging there. i thought it was just all part of the same theme. all right, buy your way to america. president trump's new proposal to sell access to the country. forget green cards. what about gold cards? and this morning, three

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trump's agenda. >> well, sarah, the commonality. here is that. >> all of the judges are. >> looking at ways that the trump administration has tried to turn off the spigot of money going outward to programs. nonprofits, a refugee admissions program. and the judges are saying, you just can't turn off the money that quickly in the way that you're doing it. so taking these one by one, there was a federal judge in seattle who essentially stopped the administration trying to block the money going to the nation's refugee admissions program. that's one the second one case that came in yesterday from a judge in washington, d.c., judge ameer ali, he said that there were nonprofits out there working with usaid. so foreign aid contractors, nonprofits, they were supposed to have money flowing to them up to february 13th. and they weren't. that funding was not restored. and so

that judge said to those to the federal government, you have to turn that money back on. that needs to be paid to these nonprofits and contractors. by midnight tonight. and the federal government then came back overnight and said, it's $2 billion. we can't just turn the money back on. so that is a live ball in court. we're going to have to see exactly how the judge responds there. and then the third piece of this, another very significant order from judge loren alikhan, also in washington, d.c., she was looking at the broad funding freeze that the administration tried to put in place and then rescind. and she said this could have been economically catastrophic, even fatal, to nonprofit groups that had sued. that was that they were expecting money from the federal government. and she said it just doesn't appear that it was done right. this case is going to continue. but judge ali khan wrote in her opinion, in the simplest terms, the freeze was ill conceived from the

beginning. defendants either wanted to pause up to $3 trillion in federal spending practically overnight, or they expected each federal agency to review every single one of its grants, loans and funds for compliance in less than 24 hours. the breadth of that command is almost unfathomable. so now, sara, we do watch to see how the administration responds. as they noted in their filing in response to this order from judge ali on the usaid foreign aid funding getting turned back on, it's not that easy to put the genie back in the bottle once they have turned off this funding. and so these cases do continue in court. there is a long road ahead and potentially a lot more clashes and a lot more people in court saying we need our money now. >> yeah, it's never going. a judge uses the word unfathomable about some argument being made by one side or the other. i do want to ask you about the white house suspending some security clearances. what are you hearing about who security clearances are being suspended and why?

>> well, this was a memorandum from the president yesterday signed by him suspending the security clearances of lawyers that may be working with former special counsel jack smith. so this is the prosecutor that brought those two criminal cases against trump classified documents and the 2020 election case. those cases are now dismissed with no final judgments determined on them. and smith, after he left the justice department as special counsel, went and got his own lawyers as a private citizen, because there have been many threats from both donald trump and his allies, republicans, especially in congress, that there will be investigations of smith and his work. and so he's using lawyers from the major washington law firm, covington and burling. they're working pro bono. but now the white house says they're going to be losing their security clearances if they have them, the sort of thing that allows them to do their job related to national security information on a daily basis. sarah.

>> yeah, the retribution tour seems to be continuing. katelyn polantz, thank you so much for all your reporting, john. >> all right. this morning, members of congress hearing anger back home and in some cases getting angry themselves. more than 100 protesters appeared outside the local offices of republican congressman ryan zinke in missoula and bozeman, montana. nbc montana reports, quote, the group of protesters claimed zinke puts public figures, including president donald trump and elon musk, before his constituents. this comes as some republicans in congress are starting to publicly criticize musk and his ultimatums on the federal workforce. this was republican congresswoman nicole malliotakis. >> and 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. >> sounds like you think musk went too far in this one case. >> well, yes, i do. >> all right. with me now is the aforementioned congressman ryan

zinke, a republican from montana. congressman, great to see you. so when it comes to elon musk, are you on like team malliotakis that he's going a little too far or team sort of unfettered action? >> well, you know, i enjoyed the shakeup. the first thing is to expose fraud abuse. and i think he's done that. the second thing is confirm it. you know, you know, at the heart of the matter is we're looking at a budget, right. and you have savings on one side for looking at fraud, waste and abuse. and then you have new expenditures on tax extensions and some of the campaign promises like no tax on tips. so it's a balancing act, but with a case of of doge. look, i am all for exposing fraud u.s. aid. it is unfathomable, to use the previous word, unfathomable, that you would have that degree of fraud in u.s. aid. i mean, we can argue whether or not, you know, taxpayer dollars, you know, are sufficient or perhaps,

you know, useful or even justified, but you can't argue against fraud, abuse. and what we're seeing is the scale of what's happening in some of our branches of government. >> respectfully, that wasn't my question. my question was, do you think musk is going too far and in some cases is doing it without any checks and balances? look, you were secretary of the interior nicole malliotakis congresswoman is basically saying that that musk should not be going over the heads of these senate confirmed cabinet secretaries. >> well, i don't think he is they're working in coordination. and quite frankly, you look at the department of interior, for instance, you have a secretary and you have very few senate confirmed people around in department of interior has seven. i'm sorry, 17 senate confirmed positions. and right now you have one. so you look at the across the board. so who is going to do this end of the day. you know i'm for it. but remember the president is the president of the united states.

musk is not. and the president is control. and to a degree, i think exposing it is great. the challenge is once you expose it, you have to confirm, actually there's savings in there. and what he's doing is correct. and then and then we'll look at congress doing action to make sure that we correct, you know, the overall piece of it. >> you were part of the group that passed the republican budget blueprint last night. barely. um, barely. how much would you like to see cut from medicaid? >> well, there is zero zero mention of cutting medicaid. there is no mention of cutting social security because you can't. but it is. again, it's a balancing thing that you you we have $26 trillion in debt and growing is what you have is the the savings by removing the fraud abuse right. and efficiency. and then you have what, you know, the expenditures, expenditures are the tax provisions. and the tax

provisions do cost money, but we don't want to go in debt doing this. i mean, you have to recognize that $26 trillion, the reason why we're here is spending, spending, spending, relaxing, you know, full back on the spending and make sure we have a plan that we don't go in debt with, with a taxes provisions extending that again, that that cost money and also savings. we've got to make sure they balance out. and and that's what the argument is about. it's just a simple ledger sheet. >> but of course you know that that this blueprint did call on the energy committee which oversees medicare and medicaid, that they have to cut at least, what, $880 billion. and plenty of people look at that and say you can't get there without cutting medicaid. so again, my my direct question which you didn't really address is how much would you be willing to cut from medicaid? >> it's a balance. again, it's a ledger sheet. so if we're going to do tax. >> provisions to cut. >> some, then then you have to make sure it's balanced. what we're going to do is not go in debt. now $850 billion is a

goal. again. it's over over ten years cycle. do you think there's fraud in there at that scale? likely there's pretty close. but there's also things we can do like work requirements like efficiency. you know, government is the last resort. it's not the first. so, you know, when you look at medicare, medicaid, social security, social security is off because it's reconciliation. but it doesn't mean you can't make improvements on it and get rid of the. >> waste fraud. or if you're going to tell your constituents, again, waste, fraud and abuse is some you're willing to cut. some look for some cuts in medicaid. yes. >> i will look at getting rid of the waste, fraud and abuse. and again. elon. elon musk has said there could be $1 trillion with a t, $1 trillion in waste, fraud and abuse. but again, that's what he says. we have to confirm that's what it is. and if it is confirmed, then you can have the savings of it. so we're not going to cut benefits. what we're going to do is make make it more efficiently. and if

there's fraud, waste and abuse, i think america i know america doesn't want fraud, waste and abuse. we see the abuse in usaid. we see it in programs. we see it in the spending medicare, medicaid, social security. it's no different if there's fraud, waste and abuse. we have an obligation to go after it. >> you know, the other night or the other day, the united states voted alongside russia and others against calling russia an aggressor in ukraine. and you served all over the world. do you see russia as an aggressor in ukraine? >> oh, there's no doubt in my mind that that putin is the aggressor. you know, on ukraine, i think it's important to look at the context is that you look fold it back. what was happening, number one, we left afghanistan and we no longer had the respect and certainly not the trust of our allies. you remember, britain censored us, the parliament censored us. that's the last time at like 1812 since that happened. so i

think russia looked at it. putin's a war criminal. he said. america is weak. and ukraine was pushing nato, which nato it means is that folks from montana will go to fight on donbas, which no one knows where it is in defense of ukraine. so that was nato. and they were pushed in the korean peninsula. those two things, along with the horrendous retreat in afghanistan, gave an opportunity. putin was the aggressor, i don't think, and that's not in dispute in my mind. >> okay. just the united states voted against that. um, but thank you, congressman ryan zinke from montana. great to have you on this morning. appreciate it. okay. >> so president trump signed an executive order, this one ordering the commerce department to open an investigation into the copper industry, potentially paving the way for another round of tariffs, this one on copper imports. we already know that 25% tariffs on all aluminum and steel are about to set in next

month. and about that, the leader of one of the nation's largest aluminum makers is warning those tariffs could cost thousands of american jobs. that's where cnn's matt egan comes in. he's got more reporting on this. talk to me about what you are learning about the impacts that they're projecting these tariffs are going to have on aluminum. >> yeah kate this is a. stark warning from a major american ceo. now we know the president views tariffs as a way to protect american workers. and in this case the aluminum industry. but here we have the ceo of a major aluminum company who. >> you would think would want to protect the aluminum industry. >> exactly. that's why it was so startling. they're saying that it's going to do the exact opposite. so we're talking about the ceo of alcoa. he's warning that these 25% tariffs that are set to go into effect on aluminum imports next month would wipe out 100,000 jobs in the aluminum industry. now they see 20,000 directly in the aluminum industry itself. that is significant. that's about 12% of the total workforce, plus

80,000 indirect jobs could be wiped out. this is in industries that are supported by the aluminum sector, like mining and construction and manufacturing. in the alcoa ceo, he did not mince words here. he flat out said this is bad for the aluminum industry in the u.s. it's bad for american workers. now what's key here is that alcoa imports aluminum from canada, a lot of it. and so they're worried about how much more expensive that's going to get. the u.s. imports. every single year, $27 billion of aluminum, including mostly from canada, but also from china, mexico, the uae and south korea. that's why alcoa wants an exemption here for aluminum that comes from canada. now the white house, they're pushing back, right. they're saying won a lot of these international companies that are in aluminum. they import it very cheaply. and that hurts u.s. workers. and they say that these tariffs are necessary to safeguard national security

and bring back aluminum jobs to america. one last point on that front, though, because the aluminum the alcoa ceo was asked about this, and he was kind of skeptical about whether or not they'll actually be able to reshore jobs because he said they make these decisions based on 20 or 40 year horizons. and there's so much uncertainty right now about where tariffs are going. >> that's really interesting. what that's the impact on the aluminum industry. what about the impact on the economy overall? >> well listen first off you're talking about job loss potentially. right. we've heard from not just the co-ceo. the ceo of coca-cola has said that they might have to shift to make more of their drinks in glass and plastic. and that could hurt some of the canning companies that they support. they're also warning of higher prices. we've heard from brewing companies, especially craft brewers, said that beer cans could get more expensive, and consumers are starting to get more concerned about this. we learned yesterday that consumer confidence fell in february by the most in three and a half years. and most notably, consumers are expecting higher prices. look at this.

they're now expecting prices to go up by 6% over the next year. that is a major acceleration of what people were expecting just a month ago. and the conference board, which conducts the survey, they said that one of the reasons for this price spike, anticipation that we're seeing from consumers is because of tariffs. >> and still, whenever we have the president's trade adviser on, he still says, despite knowing that consumer sentiment is down in all of this, he still says, trust us, just wait and see. and that's that's the response. >> we'll see what happens. >> that's exactly right. thank you matt. john. >> all right. this morning, a couple who was forced to sit next to a dead body on a flight for hours. that couple is speaking out their new claims about the airlines response. and this morning, new details about where to get the best coffee in the world. this is according to a new ranking list. and i got to say, i kind of find this list outrageous.

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>> i just feel very thankful for who. >> we had flying our plane. yes, and i was already kind of anxious going on the plane just because of what's been happening this year so far with all the flights, you know, crashing and things happening. so i was already anxious. and then when that happened, i, i was extra thankful. very thankful for the pilot and everyone who was involved. >> totally understandable. flexjet, the company that operates the private jet, says it has launched an investigation into that incident. kate, please. >> that video is terrifying. so today, senate democrats are expected to force a vote on the senate floor on an effort to end the national energy emergency that president trump declared in one of his very first moves in taking office. democratic senators tim kaine and martin heinrich are spearheading this effort and calling it a quote unquote sham emergency benefiting the big oil companies. joining joining us right now is democratic senator tim kaine of virginia. it's good to see you, senator. thank you so much. so this vote not likely to go anywhere, given the

republican majority. and you know that. what is the point that you are trying to prove then with this? >> we're trying to point out that donald trump is is lying about an energy emergency to benefit big oil, but he's going to hurt consumers because prices will will go up and jobs will be cut. we're not in an energy emergency. the u.s. is producing more energy than we ever have. more oil, more gas and more renewables. 95% of what we added to the grid last year was wind, solar and battery storage. so we are the energy leader in the world. but donald trump met with big oil executives in august and said, if you support my campaign, i will undo green energy on day one. and that's what this is about. he declared. an energy emergency that doesn't exist. and then he said, we need to bypass many environmental laws, like the clean water act to benefit fossil fuel projects, specifically excluding benefiting wind and solar. and in fact, donald trump is unplugging wind, solar and alternative energy projects all

over the country, including in virginia, in ways that will drive costs up and cost us jobs. >> so you have that effort, but you also have another effort that you're taking on with other senators. can you just send a letter to the transportation secretary asking for a response to questions about the impact? the mass firings have happened throughout the government on the faa and airline safety. i mean, we were just sarah was just reporting on another very close call that we saw happen in chicago. i assume you have not gotten a response yet from secretary duffy. do you think airline safety has been compromised by the some 400 firings at the faa? i mean, do you think it is less safe? >> yeah. >> it there may the trump administration is making air travel less safe by their actions. kate, you you know that a year ago i begged with my colleagues, don't force more traffic into dca. it's already way too busy. but members of congress want to have flights to their own cities. and so they forced an expansion of service

into dca when it was way too crowded. i told folks that if they did this, they would regret it. and that accident that killed 67 people never should have happened. yesterday you saw a flight into reagan national. another flight in chicago have to abort the dca flight was exactly like one i was on at the end of june last year. you're coming in for a landing. you're almost there. and then the pilot has to pull a dramatic change of direction and pull up and not land, because there's too much traffic around there. so the last thing we should be doing is firing faa staff and terminating the aviation safety committee at the dhs, which donald trump also did in his first week in office. we need more faa, more air traffic controllers, not fewer. and no, the administration has not answered my questions about why they are firing faa staff. >> the we'll wait to hear those responses. the faa, they do say that air traffic controllers, while they're definitely still short staffed and have been for a long time, they're not part of the firings. just for

everyone out there to know. but. yeah. >> although they're blaming them, they're saying that, um, because of dea policies, they're trying to blame these actions on faa air traffic controllers. when they're overworked, their staff shortages, and the trump administration is taking actions that are that is hurting air safety. >> virginia has around 145,000 federal workers. is the latest that i saw. i saw this the third highest share in the nation. what are the mass firings going to mean just for the commonwealth? >> it's a massive gut punch to the economy of virginia, kate. we also have a lot of federal contractors who contracts have been frozen. these are people who are doing work at the pentagon or doing research cancer trials with nih. this is creating a huge problem for the economy here. and more importantly, it's just hurting citizens that folks rely on. it's going to be tax season. when you call the irs with a question, you want to get your

question answered and get your refund on time. if you're waiting for a social security disability determination, it takes too long already. you don't want to slow it down. you want to have air traffic controllers. the administration's, um, with with elon musk at the helm. apparently decision to just fire a whole lot of people is hurting the economy, but it's also hurting the services that americans depend on. >> i saw moody's say that they think that it could it could force the dc into a recession this year. do you think that's what it could do to virginia? >> well, i think i think donald trump could do it to the nation. look, you raise energy costs. you lay off a whole lot of people. you engage in, you know, bizarre actions every day. you know, cozying up to vladimir putin and and stiff, stiff arming ukraine. you're going to have tariffs going into effect, apparently against canada and mexico next week. deeply unpopular. we saw in trump's term, one that these tariffs hurt the economy. yeah, i'm worried about economic effects in virginia. but i think donald

trump is a wrecking ball that's already damaging the american economy. and he's going to do even more of it. >> let's end on a nonpartisan and bipartisan note. happy birthday, senator. your staff gave us a little heads up. >> well, you're very sweet, kate. yes. 67 years, man, and going strong. >> never. you don't look a day under. day over 21, buddy. thank you for coming in and sharing your birthday with us. thank you so much, john. >> absolutely right. new this morning a couple wants answers about their long flight from melbourne to doha, namely why they had to sit next to a dead body. let's get right to cnn's mark stewart for the latest on this. this is one heck of a story, mark. >> john, this. >> is. >> an upsetting. >> story for so many different reasons. >> these passengers were on a flight from melbourne, australia, to doha, qatar, around ten hours into this 14 hour journey. a woman collapsed in the aisle. attempts were made to try to revive her. unfortunately, she did die. so

then the crew made a move using a wheelchair like device to try to move her to the front of the aircraft toward the business class cabin. unfortunately, the aisle way was too narrow, so this woman's body was then placed in a seat next to a married couple covered in a blanket. this morning, qatar airways is expressing is expressing its condolences to this family, apologizing to passengers about how this all unfolded. very upsetting for this husband and wife on a vacation heading to italy. let's take a listen to jennifer collins. she was with her husband. she explains what happened. >> yeah, i'm not a great flier at the best of times. um, but when my husband turned around and said, move, move, we got to move. i was really shocked. um, and i said, are they going to, you know, put her there. and luckily, a lady behind me, um, on the other aisle, um, she said, darling, darling, come