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>> nail biter. the ball now. >> rests in the senate's court. >> and that. >> could be a problem for republicans. >> and. >> ukraine must be at the table at negotiations. there can. >> be no. >> negotiations about ukraine without ukraine. >> setting the stage. britain's prime minister prepares to sway president trump back toward ukraine in a critical meeting at the white house today. then. it is 501 here on the east coast. look at that. u.s. capitol this morning. >> a beautiful. >> morning here in washington, d.c. good morning everyone. i'm jessica dean in for kasie hunt. it is wonderful to have us with you this morning. >> we have a. >> lot of news to get to. 18 senate confirmed cabinet members and the vice president all on the guest list for the first cabinet meeting of donald trump's second term. many of them arrived with something to say. but when president trump ceded the microphone, it wasn't to any of them and said he

deferred to elon musk, the world's richest man turned senior white house adviser. >> let the cabinet speak just for a second. >> yeah, exactly. >> are either very unhappy with that. >> you know. >> if you are, well, throw them out. >> of here. is anybody unhappy? >> musk then addressed the cabinet leaders and spoke three times longer than anyone else in that room, other than the president himself. vice president jd. vance didn't get a word in for an hour. musk spoke at length, detailing his efforts to slash the federal government and admitting some mistakes have been made along the way. >> we will make mistakes. we won't be perfect. but when we make mistake, we'll fix it very quickly. so, for example, with usaid, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola. ebola prevention. i think we all want ebola prevention. so we restored the ebola prevention immediately, and there was no

interruption. >> cnn is also learning more about how musk's job fits into the trump administration. white house chief of staff susie wiles meeting with senate republicans after that cabinet meeting, and they questioned her about musk's role in the government. and she told them he reports directly to the president, not to the cabinet. joining us now, gaby birnbaum, d.c. correspondent for the nevada independent. gaby, good morning. good morning. good to have you here. it was a lot. there were just so many dynamics we could talk about in that cabinet room. but let's start first with kind of the man of the hour, elon musk, and how we really saw him take over that meeting. >> yeah, i. >> think it had two main takeaways. >> one is that i think people have been. >> predicting since. >> musk first got involved on the campaign trail. there's going to be at some point, a moment of acrimony between these two. they're two. they're too powerful. they're too wealthy to not. but i think for now we see they're still moving in lockstep. number one. and number two, i think trump 2.0 has been all about sort of loyalty. right. that's how he's picking his cabinet members. many of them have cultivated relationships with him over

years. they don't have those relationships with elon musk, with elon musk. but he's basically asking them, you want you should give him the same loyalty and deference that you give me. and that's not just subtext, right? that's text. because he asked all federal employees to sort of send doge an email with what they'd done the past week and multiple cabinet heads. pete hegseth, these are trump loyalists. marco rubio said, don't do that. right. yeah. hang on. and so if trump is telling them no, musk sort of speaks with my voice and my authority. that's a new dynamic for a lot of these longtime trump loyalists who have been in his circle much longer to have to navigate. >> right. and it is it does kind of disrupt what is a traditional chain of of control. certainly. >> right. yeah. and if you're, you know, an average federal employee, who do you listen to? your boss, your agency head, or the outside person who's not elected, not senate confirmed. >> the other thing that i thought was really striking, it was taken live, certainly made for tv. and that is a trump signature, of course. but but that it was very performative. >> yes, certainly. i mean, i think right. this has been trump's thing since he first came down the escalator, right, in 2015. he knows what makes

good tv. and yeah, if you're going to bring in elon musk and like you mentioned, have him speak more than any member of the cabinet, certainly more than jd vance. he knows, right, what people are going to be talking about the next day. but i think right now that serves political value for him. >> and we were just talking about this before we came to you. but, but but susie wiles laying out the structure. i think there have been a lot of questions. is elon musk the head of doge? no, no, no, that's this woman. it's not. he's just this. he's that. everyone trying to figure out kind of what is the set up. she says he reports directly to president trump, which i don't think is really a surprise to anybody. um, and then president trump is working with the cabinet secretaries. how do you think that set up plays going forward? >> i have to imagine this is going to come to a head at some point. but again, we've been saying that about trump and musk before, and so far it hasn't. there are sort of, you know, no one's been willing to come out and say it super publicly yet. but there are republicans who i think are frustrated behind the scenes wondering, okay, if there's congressionally appropriated spending and i'm out there, you know, trying to navigate that for my district or my state, trying to bring home federal projects and federal

dollars and then someone i don't have a relationship with is just, you know, can just sort of cut that at the executive level. that's tricky for them to navigate. that's confusing, and that's not how they're accustomed to doing government. and so i think i'm sure they did have a lot of questions for susie wiles about. >> yeah for sure. and look, and in the meantime it's full, full speed ahead. and the cabinet secretaries and doge is going to do what it's going to do. and to your point, the the republicans on the hill are going to have to kind of deal with any fallout and try to advance this, this budget. >> right? yeah. and we we've already seen it some town halls. we saw it, you know, in deep red districts in georgia with rich mccormick. we've seen other places around the country people are starting to get upset about doge. and if you're an average republican, you don't necessarily have answers about what elon musk's role is. that hasn't been made super clear, as you mentioned. >> yeah. all right. more to come. gabby, thanks so much. thank you. have a great day. straight ahead on cnn this morning remembering a legend. oscar winning actor gene hackman and his wife betsy found dead inside their new mexico home. plus, the remains of the final hostages turned over to israel

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the cause of death, but the santa fe sheriff's office says it is not believed to be foul play. hackman, of course, starred in prominent films across decades, including superman, hoosiers, the royal tenenbaums, unforgiven and the french connection. cnn's richard roth has more on hackman's life and legacy. >> gene hackman was the blue collar common man on screen. it was no act. >> you know, i did a lot of things. i sold shoes, i drove truck, i drove a. >> cab, i. >> jerked. >> sodas. >> he grew up loving movies starring jimmy cagney and edward g. robinson. >> my mother and i were at a film once, and she said, i want. >> to see. >> you do that someday. and that was all it was needed. >> at the pasadena playhouse, the aspiring actor met another young actor, dustin hoffman. the two were voted least likely to succeed. >> take a good look, pop. i'm buck barrow. >> that changed when he was cast in bonnie and clyde. hackman was nominated for an oscar, the

first of numerous anti-hero roles from the 1960s on. the acclaim covered up a potential career disaster. he was fired from the graduate, starring his pal hoffman, after just two weeks as mr. robinson. >> i thought it was like the beginning of the end for me. >> hackman pressed on a ski coach in downhill racer, an astronaut in marooned and a second best supporting actor nomination for i never sang for my father. there were tensions on set with father melvyn douglas, who had wanted another costar. in real life, hackman's own father left the family when he was 13. >> when you decide to do a role, you choose both the good and the bad that's happened to you, and you try to make that that come alive. >> i popeye's here. hands on your heads! get off the bar and get on the wall. >> as fierce new york city police detective popeye doyle, a defiant hackman burst through the screen in the french connection. he didn't like playing a bigot, beating up people. >> i wanted to be fired from the film the first couple of days because i was very.

uncomfortable. >> also testing his nerves, driving in one of the most famous car chases in movie history. >> we would go right down the street without any crowd control. and it was really scary. >> the role he wanted out of won him an oscar for best actor in 1972. the award ignited a monumental film biography. from the poseidon adventure. >> to stand aside and close the door, to keep the air from coming in. or you can try to stop me. >> to the conversation. >> there's one sure fire rule that i have learned in this business is that i don't know anything about human nature. i don't know anything about curiosity. >> it wasn't always deadly serious. in young frankenstein. >> what is your name? mhm. i didn't get that. >> and there was superman. >> oh yes, of course you've been there. i do forget you get around don't you. >> now a huge star. hackman said he always liked the idea of hollywood, but not the hubbub. >> personality wise, i don't fit in. >> it's been five years. >> hackman said his favorite film was the offbeat scarecrow

with al pacino, which was not a commercial hit. >> i don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. in my book, we're going to be winners. >> he was the basketball coach in hoosiers, one of the best sports films ever made. >> yeah. >> hackman was nominated for an oscar again for mississippi burning. >> you smile when the bulldozer ran over the black kid's body. >> he won best supporting actor for unforgiven. >> when he fires that, take out your pistols and shoot him down like a mangy scoundrel he is. >> it kind of puts a bookend to my career for me. i'm sure i'll do other films, but i can kind of relax as long as dustin doesn't get another one. >> i'm country. yes. i didn't figure for a patriot, mr. raw. >> hackman finally did get to work with his lifelong friend in runaway jury. >> i've loved every minute of my career. there's been, you know, tough times, of course, but i like the process so much. >> joining us now to talk more about the legacy of gene hackman. sh÷gun odie boloko. he

is an entertainment journalist. thanks so much for being here with us. look, we were just watching that piece there and it reminds you of just the incredible career that gene hackman had spanning over decades. and they you don't really see actors like that with film biographies that go on and on and on, with films that mean so much to so many people over and over decades. >> jessica, you said it. >> perfectly. that montage. >> of his. >> work spans. >> six decades. and we have lost in hollywood. what? and every man's after. >> two time oscar winner. >> and though he had retired. >> from acting back in 2009 due to health issues, there. >> isn't a person who watched films that doesn't have a favorite gene hackman movie. i don't care where. >> you're from. >> i grew up. playing high school basketball. >> and hoosiers is. >> the high. >> school basketball movie of my youth. right. and if you if you

like, will smith. he was opposite will smith in enemy of the state. you know, you talked about popeye doyle in the french connection where he. won his first oscar, and. >> then he won a second. >> one in unforgiven with, uh, you know, with morgan freeman and clint eastwood. he played everyone in everything. and he will be sorely missed. just the aura of gene hackman was enough to make you say, okay, i'm in for a treat. whenever he touched the screen. >> yeah, it was always like, oh, okay, this is a real movie. this is this is a serious project. if gene hackman is in it. and i think too, we didn't get to it in the piece. but the royal tenenbaums sticks out as well. >> yeah, he could do drama. he could do comedy. he played bad guys. he even played parts in movies that didn't do that well. i loved him in a movie called the quick and the dead with sharon stone and leonardo dicaprio. but there isn't

anything that gene hackman wasn't a part of that didn't make you laugh or make you think, or make you cry, or make you look at the screen and see these characters that he played and you believe. i believe he was lex luthor in those early superman opposite christopher reeve. and again, as i keep saying, a movie that he was in. there's a costar that he played opposite that is also a big actor. and we remember gene hackman. so i the this woke me up out of bed like it's two in the morning in los angeles. and we're having this conversation because the oscars are later this weekend. and one of hollywood's greatest actors, where you think, like, he could play anyone and resembled everyone is gone. and the circumstances are so are so shocking. >> yeah. it's the circumstances are certainly shocking. and we're going to wait to get more information on that. it is, um, it is, it is. it's tough to lose somebody like that. as you mentioned, he did retire from

acting back in 2009. but but again, just kind of thinking to just to lose somebody like that, that can play as you mentioned, anybody with such believability that you really buy into it. it also speaks of a different era for film that we are really seeing transition at this moment, that we've seen transition over the years. it's just a different time in the entertainment industry than when gene hackman had his career. >> this is why i love talking to you, jessica, because you and i are so simpatico on this movie and cinema on what they they're not what they used to be. i around the water cooler, people still go around the water cooler or talk. it's about tv series. it's about did you see game of thrones or the dragon or are you watching this show on hulu or this show on max, or this show on? it's all about streaming. people aren't going to the theaters, and gene hackman was a movie star, right? he didn't look like george clooney. or have maybe the sex appeal of

brad pitt. but if a gene hackman movie was in the theaters, you knew it was a quality movie and they don't make movies like that anymore. we don't see actors like gene hackman anymore that constantly work, constantly play complex characters, and constantly make us either root for the bad guy or just enjoy ourselves sitting in a theater. those days of hollywood are gone, and it's saddened because he might be one of the last of that kind, along with jon voight or, uh, you know, robert duvall. those actors that were in everything. i mean, morgan freeman might be the last elder statesman that we that we can say, okay, morgan is in that movie. i'm going to see it. and as i said, he was opposite gene hackman and unforgiven. so it's that era of cinema is gone. and i don't know, it's a loss. it's a loss for anyone who enjoyed going to the movies. it's a loss for anyone who enjoyed, uh, acting because gene hackman was so good at it.

>> so good at it. and i think we all are now thinking about our favorite gene hackman movies and probably going to watch them this weekend or maybe tomorrow night. thank you so much. we really appreciate you being here to talk about gene hackman with us. >> jessica. always a pleasure. let's do it again. >> all right. still ahead on cnn this morning. it hasn't happened in decades. the first measles death is now being reported in texas. as the number of cases there grow. plus, president trump, quote, one big, beautiful budget bill. not so beautiful. the some republicans in the senate. >> i could see. >> why you're expanding. >> it's nuts. online to. >> what's the secret? >> we know humans like new toys. >> so always staying one step ahead. >> and with a.i., we can look at so much more. >> than sales data. >> by our behaviors, social

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both chambers have to adopt the same version of the plan, and some house republicans say they're not budging. >> i think they understand the necessity of letting the house lead on this. we've got a smaller margin than they do for the first time in the modern era. the senate republicans have a larger margin than we do in the house, and i've got a much smaller needle to to thread here. and i think they recognize that. >> joining us now, axios congressional reporter stephen newcomb. stephen, good morning. good to have you here. i love hearing mike johnson talk about that, because what he doesn't mention is that the senate thinks very highly of itself and doesn't like to follow the house all the time. >> no, it does not. >> but but i think the speaker. >> is right. he does have, at least when you look at the political headwinds that he's managing, he's going to have a tougher job of getting any bill through his chamber just because of the lay of the land there. he was able to get the resolution through earlier this week and sort of very dramatic fashion. that's a huge first step for

for the speaker. now the work begins right now that they've sort of entered and authorized the fact that they're going to go through this budget process. now, they have to figure out where their differences are, how do they bridge the gap, and how do they get those bills to look the same by the end of the legislative process? >> and there are some a lot of questions around all of those things for for obvious reasons, because it is just a blueprint. it's just a framework. but there are a lot of questions, even from some senate republicans, about potential cuts to medicaid. i want to hear i want to play a clip from mike johnson on medicaid specifically. let's listen to that. >> he doesn't want to cut medicaid, medicaid benefits for anybody. and we don't either. i don't either. we're not going to do that. that's not part of this plan. and the democrats have been lying about it. and so it's important for us to clarify that we're going to take care of those who are rightful beneficiaries of the programs. we're going to cut the fraud, waste and abuse out of medicaid. and that's where we're going to get part of the savings to accomplish this mission. >> they want to cut some $880 million from the energy

committee, which oversees medicaid and other programs similar to it. and that's where people get squeamish, because to get to that number, it's hard not to touch what is a giant. you know, medicaid takes a lot of money. yeah. what are you hearing on that front? >> yeah. look, i mean, before, until they get into this process, we don't know exactly what the cuts are going to look like. i think that they're actually trying to find a way to to make the baseline different, so they don't have to make the cuts as steep as, as they would need to be if it were differently. but look, democrats are going to use every opportunity to to say that entitlements are on the table. and i think republicans, especially those who are up in 2026, fear going to voters in november next year and knowing that republicans have entitlements on the table. the one thing that democrats are going to say on the campaign trail, the one thing that they're doing already in congress is medicaid, medicaid, medicaid, folks, obviously, a lot of people survive off of medicaid. it's a very popular program. we're going to have to

see how republicans sort of approach that issue. but you're right, given the the amount of cuts that they need to make and the instructions that they've given to the committee, it's hard to see a way that they they don't cut into to to the program in some ways without, uh, to, to be able to get this process done. >> yeah. and just to remind everyone, you say people up in 2026, that's every house, republican house member, some senate members but but every house member. so they'll have to sort through that. then there's the question of do they make these tax cuts permanent? the trump cuts, tax cuts are sunsetting. are they going to extend them? are they going to make them permanent. and there are people on on both sides of that within the republican party. >> right. and really the question when you're talking about permanence of tax cuts is the cost of those tax cuts, right? is if you make them permanent, the cost of the tax cuts, the lost revenue is even greater. you have to make up for, uh, for that spending elsewhere. mike johnson left a meeting yesterday with john thune and other top republicans saying that he wanted to at least speaking favorably about this idea of current policy

baseline, meaning that they wouldn't have to cut as much again from the budget if they had if they went with the, the, the baseline that they have right now. so they can uh, but we'll have to see what they adopt and how deep those cuts are going to be. uh, if they make them permanent. again, those, those costs are even higher and they will have to make higher cuts, deeper cuts. >> yeah. it's it's all about math, right. and what they're comfortable with. all right. stephen newcomb, thank you so much. nice to have you here. after weeks of questions about who exactly is running the controversial department of government efficiency, the white house has finally revealed a name. and it's not elon musk. cnn's sunlen serfaty has more on this. >> i asked elon, who are these doge people? >> she is not. >> a household. >> name. >> he said. they're super brilliant computer people and they love the country. >> but amy gleason, at least on paper and for now is the acting administrator of doge, overseeing. elon musk's.

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>> do not visit. >> a purple. >> store. >> hamas. handing over the bodies of four israeli hostages from gaza in exchange for hundreds of palestinian prisoners. this is the final handover under phase one of the israel-hamas ceasefire deal that's set to expire saturday. bands with the remains arriving at a forensic center earlier today and israel now conducting dna tests confirming the identities of all four men. in exchange, israel is releasing more than 600 palestinian prisoners and families gathering to greet them today. it all comes as the youngest hostages killed in gaza and their mother are laid to rest at an emotional funeral. cnn's jeremy diamond has more on that. >> kayla. i. >> his voice trembling with emotion. >> yarden bibas summons what strength. >> he has. >> left to say. one final goodbye. >> his wife shiri. >> and. >> their two children, kfir and ariel. >> are finally. >> being laid to rest. >> 16 months after they were all

abducted from their home. >> near the gaza border. >> mishmish. >> for me, as. >> kayla tausche apricot yarden. >> says, calling his wife by her pet name, who will help me make decisions. without you. do you remember our last decision together in the safe room? i asked if we should fight or surrender. you said fight, so i fought. shiri, i'm sorry i couldn't protect you all. yarden was also taken hostage on october 7th, but held separately. now, just weeks after regaining his freedom, heartbreak. i'm sure you're making all the angels laugh with your silly jokes and impressions, he says to his eldest, ariel. i hope there are plenty of butterflies for you to watch, just like you did during our picnics. fear. i'm sorry i didn't protect you better. but i need you to know that i love you deeply and miss you terribly. i miss nibbling on you and hearing your laughter. yarden bibas is not alone in his grief. an entire nation joined

in mourning the deaths of the youngest israeli hostages and their mother, who came to symbolize the horrors of october 7th. their bodies carried to their final resting place in a single casket, surrounded by israeli flags and the orange balloons evoking those red headed babies. thousands of israelis have been lining this entire procession, as we now see these vans coming through, carrying the bodies of fear. ariel and shiri bibas, their mother as sheer fear, and ariel are laid to rest. their family are not done asking questions. >> as. >> our disaster. >> as a nation and as a family should not have happened and must never, ever happen again. the aunt of free says. they could have saved you, but preferred revenge. we lost our image of triumph will never happen. as one hostage family

buries their loved ones. another reuniting after 491 days of captivity. or levy is back in his brother's arms. >> he's getting stronger. he's finally eating. >> his brother michael, now sharing what he has learned about why he emerged emaciated from hamas captivity. >> they were intentionally starved. it's as simple as that. they're the terrorists. next to them ate all the time. they ate next to them. really? yeah. next to them. next to them. they. they even laughed when they saw them looking. >> so their captors were eating full meals. >> full meals? >> and what were they getting? >> chicken meat. they had everything. they were getting nothing. >> those conditions now driving both brothers to push for the urgent release of the remaining hostages. >> is right now. concentrated in

on two things. one is almog, his son. getting back to being a father. the second is to bring back all the hostages. >> jeremy diamond, cnn, tel aviv. >> and the family of hostage alon joel is hoping they will soon be reunited. they've recently been told he's alive but wounded and being held in difficult conditions. his mother is joining us now. indeed. good morning to you. i'm so sorry. we're meeting under these circumstances. it has been 509 days since your son was taken. and i know you just got word about him. this is the first, i think, update you've had. what did you learn? >> well, i learned that he a sign of life. that he is alive. at the same moment, uh, like couple minutes or an hour later, i. i am learning that, you know, he's been in the tunnels for

the whole time. he has a nail in his eyes, so he can't see one eye and that he's being starved, getting maybe a piece of bread a day and also being chained in his legs so he cannot move for the whole time. so. so he is a sign of life. for what kind of life is that? um. like hell. uh, it was terrible to hear it. uh, actually i fainted. i couldn't hear. i couldn't be it was too much for me. um, he needs to come home urgently. you know, the way he's been treating. he's not okay. and he's, you know, he's strong. he's, like, surviving this. and, um, he's he'll continue until he is being returned because he's strong. but but this is not it. this is very difficult. you know, all the hostages that were with him, uh, were released. three of them. and alone is the

fourth. and, uh, now he's alone, so it's not right. he has to come home. so. >> yeah. >> no, as you're talking, it just. my heart just aches. i cannot imagine knowing all of these things about your son and not being able to get to him. um, and just the desperation with which you want him home, i totally i think we can all appreciate that. uh, what do you what is your message to the israeli government? um, to to the american government as they now try to enter this next phase to get more of these hostages home? >> uh, firstly, i want to thank, you know, i'm in new york and i was in dc just before, uh, yesterday. so i came all the way from israel to say, you know, thank you, trump, for for starting this and for people, you know, hostages coming in and back to israel. and i want this to continue. i want to learn to come home, too. and i know that he he has the ability to do this. i know that he he has the

power and he's continuing, uh, thinking about the hostages and wanting all of them to come home, which is great. and i and, i mean, and i'm, i'm, you know, i'm thanking for that. and and his team obviously that is doing all that they can to make sure that this is happening. um, it's crucial. it's crucial that it comes as soon as possible. he does not have you know, he's humanitarian. definitely. and he needs, um, he needs you. you know, trump and the administration that his staff to to do everything they can. and also, i think my government is is knows this and wants the hostages to be returned. so i hope soon something will happen. i hope soon, you know, a loan will be will be home. >> yeah. i hope that for you. yeah. i hope that for you, too. um, what comes next for you? i know you said you were in dc. were you given any assurances by

the trump administration that they were working on this, that they had a plan? >> um, they're talking about also in the media all the time that this is of importance. this is like their main priority of bringing the hostages or the hostages home. so they're saying that and they're continuing saying that to us. you know, all the time. so so i know that they're probably thinking and trying to do their best to get to some other, uh, deal continuous or to go to stage four, stage two, that is, and, you know, i don't know. i don't know the specific i don't know, you know, i'm just i'm just a mother. okay. you're a mom. i know, and and you. >> want your boy back. i know, yeah. >> you know, i want to celebrate it. so if you can say, celebrated his birthday on the

10th of february, his sister, his or her birthday was two days before. and this is like the second birthday that her brother is now with her. because from the moment she was born, she's 15, right? she was born. she she celebrated with him and she could not celebrate her birthday this year and not last year either. and you know, she's for her. it's it's, you know, it's traumatic. and, um, and also knowing that i don't want alone to continue in this situation if he continues, you know, i don't know if he'll continue and be alive. so we have to bring him home as soon as possible. and and this is crucial because, uh, what he's what he's going through is not something i think if any mother would listen to me now and think just for a moment, okay? just for a moment. not not 500, uh,

nine days, but a moment of her child not getting food in his body. um, his being a change and not knowing the, you know, the difference between day and light for a 509 days, would she be able to, like, breathe? you know, and i have to go with this for so many days, not knowing how he is and and now knowing that he is in this condition is even worse. so. and i'm a mother. i want to help my child. i want to go and, you know, hug him and give him what he wants. and i can't do that. i know, and it's just it's heartbreaking. >> i know it is. and indeed i, i hope you are with him soon. i hope alone is with you very, very soon. we are sending you our very best. thank you for sharing his story. thank you for talking with us. we really, really appreciate it. and i hope next time we talk you are back with your son. >> thank you. thank you. >> up next on cnn this morning. how big is the measles threat?

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