>> carolyn corrigan, thank you so much. i know it's hard to talk about these things. um, it feels really, really, really devastating when anyone loses a job. but to lose it with something like a poor performance review, which you hadn't ever gotten, makes it that much harder. something that you say was just a complete lie. really appreciate you coming on and explaining your story to us. thank you. all right. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> breaking news this morning. police are investigating now after oscar winning actor gene hackman and his wife both found dead in their home. the latest from police, as hollywood remembers, this legendary star and a critical face to face the british prime minister set to meet with president trump at the white house, the second world leader to race in just this week to try and pull trump away from

his pro-russia stance on ukraine. and also happening right now fired usaid workers in washington are heading back to the office, given just 15 minutes to pack up and get back out, just as the supreme court just handed trump the trump administration a temporary victory on its cost cutting and fund freezing moves. john is out today. i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner. this is cnn news central. this morning an investigation is underway after the tragic news came in overnight, that legendary actor gene hackman is dead. according to the santa fe santa fe sheriff's department, he was found dead in his new mexico home along with his wife and their dog. sheriff's deputies say they do not suspect any foul play was involved. hackman was 95 years old. his acting career had some 40 years.

nominated for five oscars, he won the award for best actor two times, first with his breakout role in the 1971 film the french connection, and again 20 years later for unforgiven. here's a look at some of his many roles. >> whoa! we're gonna have ourselves a time boy. i need you to suit up. >> it's a good plan. >> how'd you figure it out? >> go go go. >> oh, i tried to imagine a fellow smarter than myself. and then i tried to think. what would he do? i gotta have a heart. >> can you elaborate on. >> that? miles and miles of heart. >> cnn's elizabeth wagmeister joins us now with much more. what is the latest you're hearing about the investigation? >> kate? this is a tragic and truly bizarre story. as you said, gene hackman and his wife found dead in their home in santa fe, new mexico. their dog

also found dead with them now. police telling us at cnn that there is no foul play expected, but no cause of death has been given yet. so obviously at this time, many more questions than answers. again, such a strange ending to a illustrious career and a great life. gene hackman turned 95 just last month and truly one of the greats in hollywood. now it dawned on me that the oscars are just 2 or 3 days away. kate and i will be there, and i am certain that there is going to be a great tribute to gene hackman during that. in memoriam. he won two oscars. he was nominated for five. i mean, when you say one of the greats, this really is one of the greats. a hollywood legend is not used lightly. but once hollywood wakes up, it is early here on the west coast. kate, i anticipate we will see an outpouring of love to honor gene hackman and his career. but one of those early tributes that has come in is from francis ford

coppola. i want to read you what he had to say. kate, he wrote, quote, the loss of a great artist always cause for both mourning and celebration. gene hackman, a great actor, inspiring and magnificent in his work and complexity. i mourn his loss and celebrate his existence and contribution. now francis ford coppola directed the film the conversation in 1974 with gene hackman. >> thank you so much, elizabeth. so much more to discuss. reminisce and remember, as well as learn more about this investigation that's underway. thank you sara. >> and we're going to do just that. one little known fact about gene hackman is that he and dustin hoffman were roommates in new york back in the 1960s. decades later, they costarred in the film runaway jury. but they first met while taking acting lessons at the pasadena playhouse, and we dug up an old interview with cnn where he talked about their not so illustrious start in the movie business.

>> gene hackman was voted at the pasadena playhouse, the least likely to succeed, right along with dustin hoffman, along with dustin hoffman. >> and we had a tough time at the pasadena playhouse, but i think we've overcome it. >> i would say so. >> all right. joining us now is sandra minetti. he's a writer, director and editor in chief of hollywood international film magazine. thank you so much for being here. we're all reminiscing about there's so many amazing movies that you even forget how many movies that gene hackman was in, because he was such a pivotal, played such pivotal roles in so many. what were some of your favorites? >> well, it wasn't just the number of movies. it was the quality. um, we've all got enough favorites, i think, to program. >> a gene. >> hackman film festival. i'll just rattle them off. uh, no way out. uh. mississippi burning. uh. the birdcage. the list goes on and on. the fact was that gene hackman's name on a poster

was a hallmark of quality. and it wasn't just that, um, you know, he was good at picking material. he was making these movies. good. uh, he was just incapable of giving a bad performance. you know, it was always excellent. what a professional. >> incredible. actually, when you mentioned mississippi burning and in the same sentence, the birdcage, it just shows you his range. it was. it was remarkable. um, let me read you. what actor george takei said. and as people are waking up, as we as we've been hearing from elizabeth wagmeister in hollywood, uh, tributes are starting to pour in. this is what takei said. gene hackman could play anyone, and you could feel a whole life behind it. he could be everyone and no one. a towering presence or an everyday joe. that's how powerful an actor he was. so we have all we all know gene hackman from the screen, right? we don't know him in person. what was his reputation with his colleagues in hollywood?

>> oh, um. so respected. an actor's actor as the tribute from george takei alluded to there. you know, he could play hero or villain, authority figure or idiot. you know, nothing was too much of a challenge for this guy. um, and it's because he'd been through, i think, so many challenges in his own life. um, he was determined to make it a success. as we saw in the package there. voted least likely to succeed. well, he certainly made up for that because he actually received five oscar nominations. that's a very short list of actors who've got that kind of number. just look it up. uh, you'll see they're all greats. and that's a testament to gene's talent. he definitely belongs on that list of greats. and, uh, yeah, he was he was, uh, you know, when most people are sort of starting their, their careers, uh, in acting, he came quite late to it. it wasn't an overnight success here, but he was very determined to prove wrong. all the people who had doubted him. you know, um, there is a whole, uh, tradition, i think, in hollywood of the acting greats who've had

problems with their fathers or abandoned by their fathers. you know, his dad literally waved as he walked out of the door. um, you know, his, uh, his even his, um, you know, former bosses in the marines sort of doubted him. but he was determined to prove people wrong. and boy, did he ever. and he didn't. at the height of his success, start phoning it in or coast know right up to the end of his acting career, which he left on his own terms. he was giving great performances. he couldn't do anything else. >> yeah. it was in him, as you say, and he was obviously a fighter and wanted to to show people, um, his worth, even though he didn't need to. um, let me ask you about this. he was out of the public eye for a very long time. it's been about 20 years enjoying his life in santa fe. um, you don't hear that all the time. from from very famous hollywood actors. they're often, you know, drawn to the camera, if you will. but he got he got real quiet for a time then. yeah. do you know what he had been doing in those in those 20 plus years that he's been sort of off camera,

if you will? >> yeah. um, he'd been writing historical novels. um, and he had been living the quiet life. not for him. uh, the choice to go on, uh, social media. um, and draw attention to himself and sort of post every day. no, he retired from hollywood, and he stayed, uh, retired, you know, moving out of los angeles, where he was born and raised, going to new mexico, uh, and living living the quiet life. um, you know, with, uh, with his second wife, to whom he'd been married for three decades now. so, uh, yes, he actually was one of those who, uh, he was almost something of a of a recluse, actually. you know, it was interesting to watch his tv interviews and realize, um, how long ago they were because he wasn't someone who was frequently in the in the spotlight. um, but, uh, you can just turn on a tv anywhere in the world and see one of his films because his legacy is some great movies. yeah, he made close to 100 films. but on that list, it's hard to find a bad

one. >> right? it is very true. we were just showing the list of the five times he was nominated for an oscar, and the two times that he he won. and i've seen every single one of those films, which makes me 370 years old. but all of them are are very different, and all of them are very good. so i am assuming that right now some producer somewhere that is preparing for the oscars, that is coming up in just a couple of days is scrambling to try and put a tribute together. >> it's so interesting you say that because when we watch the in memoriam section at the oscars, you see clips from sort of 1 or 2 films. the hardest challenge here is what clips do you use for gene hackman? because you could fill a 20 minute tribute. really, because, you know, most actors are lucky enough and they've said to me, oh, if i could just make one great film, that would be, uh, remembered. but, uh, you know, there's there's plenty more than that. uh, for him, you can

just rattle them off. not just the five listed there, but so many others. let's not forget superman. that's the first time i ever saw him. and i think many people in the world, you know, with that being a kind of enduring franchise, uh, that people come back to generation after generation will have seen his performances as lex luthor. um, and that was, uh, something, uh, much more sort of, uh, comedic and light, you know, very different from a lot of his other work. but as you know, we've said in this tribute, whatever the challenge you lay down. gene hackman could rise to it. very impressive stuff. what a life. what a legacy. >> truly. sandra bonetti, thank you so much. i really appreciate you this morning. all right. ahead, a critical meeting soon at the white house between president trump and the british prime minister. can he get the president to agree to security guarantees for ukraine? and breaking overnight, the supreme court granting trump's request to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments. as we learn new details about the

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joining us now. alex, just how critical are today's talks? you know, we know that he met with the french president, and now he is sitting with what usually is a very strong u.s. ally. >> yes. prime minister starmer has a huge challenge ahead of him today. he is now part two, essentially in his three part series of european leaders coming here to washington this week. macron earlier this week from france. starmer today. president zelenskyy of ukraine tomorrow. all coming here to urge president trump to cajole to essentially plead with him to not abandon ukraine, to continue to support ukraine, to not give in to president putin and to give him more concessions. we will hear a lot today about the special relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. starmer will talk about how the u.k. is the number one u.s. ally. we'll also hear him talk about how europe needs to step up and spend more on defense, which prime minister starmer announced earlier this week that great britain would be spending more

on defense. but what we're really watching for here, sarah, is what progress, if any, starmer can make in terms of convincing the american president that the u.s. needs to continue to provide not just security aid, but security guarantees in the long run to prevent president putin from invading ukraine ever again. prime minister starmer has talked about the need for an american backstop as part of this deterrence set of guarantees. and we heard from the prime ministerthere is a ce backstop, it will simply give putin the opportunity to wait and to come again, because his ambition is in in relation to ukraine is pretty obvious. i think, for all to see. but we have not seen sarah. president trump warming to this idea of have not seen sarah. president trump warming to this idea of any kind of american role in this backstop. this is what the

president said just yesterday. >> i'm not going to make security guarantees beyond very much. we're going to have europe do that because it's in you know, we're talking about europe is their next door neighbor. >> so prime minister starmer and the french have talked about having their own troops on the ground as peacekeepers. they've talked about a force of some 30,000 european troops, but that has been ruled out by the u.s. they have said president trump and others have said that american troops will not be in harm's way in ukraine. so is there anything else that the u.s. can do? can they offer a long range firing capabilities, intelligence? um, heavy aircraft to to carry things around? perhaps it could be positioned outside of ukraine. these are all kinds of the kinds of specifics that the prime minister wants to talk about today. and then those arguments will be reinforced by president zelenskyy coming here tomorrow to sign that minerals deal. but very notably, despite the fact that this is a huge deal, the u.s. is not offering those critical security guarantees as

part of this deal. so this is very much an ongoing campaign by the europeans to get more assurances from the united states. sarah. >> we will see how it goes. it doesn't look great when it comes to what ukraine is expecting, but we will see. alex marquardt, thank you so much. appreciate it kate. >> joining us now to talk about this is a member of ukraine's parliament, kira rudik. it's good to see you again. thank you for being here. and what we just heard from alex marquardt playing that from president trump, that we're not going to make security guarantees beyond very much. and it's not guarantees are not part of the minerals deal expected to be signed as alex was talking about. what do you think that means? what do you take from what you hear from president trump on these security guarantees? what do you think it means for ukraine? >> hello, and thank. >> you so much for having me. the main and the key idea. >> of what. >> we think donald trump is trying to do is to make europe take more responsibility for european security.

>> so it is very important. >> that president macron. and prime premier. >> starmer will be able to. >> show their proposal. >> and they agreement to take more responsibility before president zelenskyy comes to the white house. we, uh, absolutely sure that without the security guarantees, any kind of the deal doesn't make any sense because they are simple. non-executable, uh, there has been talks by president trump that he thinks that putin wants to end the war. however, here on the ground, we have not seen any fact or any, um, action that would confirm this statement. what we have seen is that attacks on our peaceful cities didn't change. the situation at the front line did not change. this is why, uh, and it will always be like that from our side. security should come first. security should come forward. we are hopeful that, uh, agreeing to the rare minerals deal will warm up the

new administration's toward ukraine. however, i need to tell you that it is only the framework of the deal and the details. and the devil is always in the details. will come later. and that bigger deal will have to be ratified by ukrainian parliament, by verkhovna rada. and we have not seen any, uh, details on that just yet. so we will have to see what will president zelenskyy will bring. of course we wish him well and success because our future depends on it. >> i was going to ask you if you if you have seen any of the details when it comes to and you answered that, um, when it comes to the minerals deal and security guarantees, president trump also made the case yesterday that ukraine does not need security guarantees from the united states because a u.s. presence there working on mineral extraction would amount to, quote, unquote, automatic security. let me play this for

you. >> it's a great deal for ukraine, too, because they get us over there and we're going to be working over there. we'll be on the land. and, you know, in that way it's sort of automatic security because nobody's going to be messing around with our people. >> do you agree with. >> that? >> with all due respect, i remember february of 2022 when u.s. embassy was evacuating, um, its staff and its people from kyiv, when everybody was thinking that russia would attack. so, no, the u.s. presence on the ground here did not, um, create safety net for us and didn't stop russia from attacking. and we do not believe that simply having u.s. citizens or u.s. companies here in ukraine will stop putting from something. it just didn't work in the past and there is no fact that would prove that it will happen in the future. >> um. >> today, the kremlin. just today, the kremlin declared that. let me read it for that. for ukrainian regions that have been occupied and annexed by

russia are, quote, unquote, an integral part of russia and non-negotiable. what is that going to mean for these talks? >> well, russia's position was never different than right now. they wanted to take all of ukraine. they added our territories to their constitution when we were fighting for them. and, uh, russia never said that they really to want to end the war or want to, uh, have any kind of compromise. this is why here in ukrainian parliament and in ukraine, on the ground, we are so surprised that the new administration has this like certain illusion that putin wants to end the war and wants to negotiate. this is not what we see. this is not what we feel. and we hope that the realization of this will not come at a huge price, because for us, it came with a very huge price and ultimate price that our people had to pay.

>> really quick, that when president zelenskyy meets with donald trump tomorrow, where things are right now. do you think the future of ukraine hinges on the outcome of that face to face at the white house? >> that would be indeed a very important meeting. and even as an opposition party leader, i wish nothing to president zelenskyy but success, because our physical survival depends on that. we hope it will be the step in the right direction. >> kira rudik, thank you very much for coming in. ahead for us right now. fired usaid employees are being escorted back into the office. the now shuttered headquarters in d.c. and given just 15 minutes to pack up their belongings and get back out. supreme and the supreme court also just weighed in. >> amid upheaval. >> and sweeping changes. >> the president of the united

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the constitution, but because they're just loyal to trump. and that's the way kings armies work. and let's be clear, his secretary of defense has clearly said as much when asked about these firings, secretary hegseth said he's trying to remove roadblocks to what needs to get done. well, one of those roadblocks where the senior jag, the senior lawyers in the pentagon, the ones who tell the officers and the secretary of defense whether they're following the law, they want them out of the way so that they don't have to follow the law going forward. >> another thing that is facing, well, it gets to funding of all sorts is the budget blueprint, the budget fight that is now entering really a new phase. it's kind of like the reality phase of what republicans are going to be able to pull off amongst themselves, as there are differences between the house and the senate. last night, speaker mike johnson was on cnn. he insisted that republicans will not be making cuts to entitlements to pay for the trump agenda. listen to this.

>> the white house has made a commitment. the president has said over and over and over, we're not going to touch social security, medicare, medicare or medicaid. we've made the same commitment. now, that said, what we are going to do is go into those programs and carve out the fraud, waste and abuse and find efficiencies. >> do you believe him? do you believe that they will not be cutting any entitlements? how do you hold them to it, since you don't want those programs cut? >> well, first of all, no, of course i don't believe them. i mean, this is the president who said he was going to end the war in ukraine on day one, who said egg prices were going to come down. they're going up. he's made any number of lies throughout his his campaign, throughout his first presidency and throughout this one. you can't trust him. his vice president, jd vance, said the january 6th protesters and assailants, the conspirators who attacked the capitol, would not be freed. i mean, this administration lies all the time. but what's really remarkable is how they've gotten all these republicans in congress to just join in lying alongside them. they absolutely

plan to cut medicaid. they have made that very clear. they have to come up with this money to give tax cuts to billionaires somehow. and ordinary americans, middle class americans, are going to be footing the bill. we know that's going to happen. so i'm afraid these republicans just aren't telling the truth yet again. >> congressman, though, is eliminating waste, fraud and abuse, finding efficiencies in more efficiencies in the entitlement programs. do you think that amounts to a cut to the program in your view? i mean, said another way, like would any changes or reforms to medicaid be okay? >> absolutely. and i'm not afraid to say that as a democrat, there are some democrats who say you can't touch any of this. i've always been a champion of modernizing government. in fact, i have signed on to the social security 2100 act that ensures social security will be able to survive so that it's there, not just for my parents who are using it now, but for me and for my kids, which today it won't. so we do have to make reforms to these

programs, but we don't need to cut benefits that americans are depending on right now. and that's what republicans are, are setting out to do with these massive cuts to pay for their billionaire tax cuts. >> congressman, i just had a member of ukraine's parliament on talking about the meeting today and more importantly, the meeting tomorrow between zelenskyy and president trump. and she basically said without security guarantees, no deal matters, because nothing is because it's not nothing is going to be enforceable if there are not security guarantees coming from the united states and the trump administration. i want to play for you what donald trump said about the meeting and about, well, him setting up the meeting with what he said about security guarantees yesterday. listen to this. >> well, i'm not going to make security guarantees beyond very much. we're going to have europe do that because it's in you know, we're talking about europe is their next door neighbor. but

we're going to make sure everything goes well. and as you know, we'll be making a we'll be really partnering with ukraine in terms of rare earth. we very much need rare earth. they have great rare earth. >> one thing not in dispute is how critical this face to face is between president zelenskyy and president trump tomorrow. i mean, the ukrainian member of parliament basically said that, like ukraine's future. agreed. when i said, do you think ukraine's future hinges on this meeting? what do you think trump is setting up for with this meeting? >> i think trump is setting up to sell out to putin. that's what he's done. it's what he did in his first term. it's what he's doing now. it's truly extraordinary that a commander in chief of the united states is siding with a murderous dictator who started this war, but that's exactly what trump is doing. and on top of that, let's not forget that back in his first term, he was trying to to to swindle zelenskyy. remember when he was trying to get a quid pro quo to go after biden? that's what led to the first impeachment inquiry. well,

now he's trying to swindle zelenskyy again. ukraine is attacked by russia. russia should be footing the bill for ukraine's rebuilding, not ukraine. i mean, imagine if someone came and burned down your house and they caught that person and said, oh, no, you're not going to pay for it, kate. you're going to pay for rebuilding your house because some other guy burned it down. that's what trump is doing when he's extracting this mineral deal out of ukraine. it's immoral. it's unpatriotic, it's un-american. and it only encourages putin to go further. so without security guarantees. get ready, eastern europe, you're going to be next. >> one thing's for sure, from ukraine to russia to the united states, how those two men address each other, talk and what they say coming out of that meeting is going to be listened to very closely. congressman, thank you very much for coming in. well thank you. so americans with disabilities are sounding the alarm on president trump's purge of dei protections. why?

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developmental disabilities. i know you work on behalf of them. can you give us some sense of how trump's dei purges are affecting people with disabilities? >> absolutely. thanks so much for having me on. i'd like to just remind your viewers that disability is a natural part of the human experience. all of us at some point in our life, whether it's due to age or illness or injury, are likely to experience a disability and disability does not discriminate. all families are affected by disability, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, income or political party, so people with disabilities are in our families, in our communities every day and are part of the group of people that we all love. >> what is your organization seeing and hearing from people with disabilities who are being impacted by some of these new policies from the trump administration?

>> people are very concerned. they're concerned that their kids with disabilities who have the right to attend the public school and get a good education, are not going to get it. they're very concerned that the health care that they get from the medicaid program is going to be taken away. they're very concerned that the services that medicaid provides, especially to adults, that allow them to live at home and not in an institution, are going to be cut back. and and just in general, they're very concerned about what these policies mean for their families, for their independence and for their future. >> why the republicans in the house are proposing $880 billion cuts to medicaid. with that amount of money. i mean, we're talking nearly $1 trillion to be cut out of medicaid. is that something that is just going to dismantle medicaid, in your opinion? >> these cuts are dramatic.

these are not small cuts. and i want folks to know what medicaid really does. medicaid will pay for a newborn with down syndrome who has a heart condition, um, and may need 1 or 2 surgeries. medicaid will pay for that same baby with down syndrome that needs physical therapy to gain strength, to learn to sit up and crawl and walk. um, medicaid pays for speech therapy for kids with language delays. medicaid pays for basic health care for people with disabilities at that that they can't otherwise get. uh, we don't want those things to be taken away from people with disabilities and their families. and that's what's of the potential of these cuts. um, i just saw your clip this morning that that some in congress are saying they can find, um, cuts from waste, fraud

and abuse. um, i'm not convinced that that's accurate. i don't believe i think we have dramatic unmet needs within the medicaid program. um, and, and that what we need is people need more access to these services and not less. >> there is this argument made when looking at medicare and medicaid that there's something like $100 million in, um, on approved payments, and they're trying to figure out where that money is. isn't there some argument that you have to you have to start looking at the fraud more deeply. >> here's what i would say. we have laws that establish a set of services for people. we need the people who are responsible for ensuring that the law is effectively implemented to do their job. and that's in large part what the federal government is supposed to do is to make sure that states are overseeing contractors, that they are following the rules. it is not

people with disabilities that need to bear the brunt of that. we need government to be effective. absolutely. but to be effective is not just to cut services away from people who need them to live with independence. >> katie neese, thank you so much for your perspective on all of this. and speaking on behalf of those who perhaps are unable to speak with for themselves. really appreciate you coming on this morning. all right. users say graphic video showing people being murdered and maimed in a timeline of their instagram reels that they never asked for. how did this happen? meta is responding this morning. >> welcome back. >> have i got news for you? new saturday on cnn. >> tap into etsy for original and affordable home and style pieces like lighting under $150 to brighten your vibe for under $100. put your best foot forward with vintage jackets or pick up

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