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as the reason for that decline. >> there are going to be incredible surprises on the show this year, some. >> of hollywood's biggest night, the oscars, will happen with a few notable changes and some big performances. we'll tell you what to expect. that's coming up. ukraine's president zelenskyy is expected to receive a major show of support in london today. he's meeting with european leaders for a vital summit on ukraine's future. western allies are hoping the summit will revive the momentum towards a peace deal that was slowly building last week, before it came crashing down during this, that oval office melee. zelenskyy met with uk prime minister keir starmer yesterday at ten downing street, received a much warmer welcome than he got at the white house. >> you have full backing across the united kingdom and we stand with you with ukraine for as long as it may take to achieve

what we both want to achieve, which is a lasting peace, a lasting peace for ukraine based on sovereignty and security for ukraine. so important for ukraine, so important for europe, and so important for the united kingdom. >> and while european leaders are rallying behind zelenskyy and ukraine, u.s. lawmakers are retreating to their respective parties. most republicans are siding with trump, even praising him. democrats have slammed trump's actions and are taking the opportunity to fundraise off that fiasco. of course, we're covering all this from all angles. cnn's nic robertson is in london and nick paton walsh is in kyiv. nic robertson, let's start with you. and the latest on the meeting. >> yeah, we're going to be expecting the european leaders to be arriving here for this very important summit within the next hour or so. and it's important not just for ukraine, but i think what emerges from here will set the tone of how

europe can have a productive working relationship with president trump's white house. it's what they want. it's what both sides want, but it's not in its best place right now. so while the discussion will be about ukraine, there is so much more at stake. the british prime minister has talked about what he wants to achieve. here is find a sort of coalition of the willing countries that are ready to be more forward leaning on giving security guarantees for ukraine and going forward. and that seems to imply that a lowering of expectation of united states involvement in security guarantees. remembering just a few days ago now, the europeans were looking to the u.s. to provide security guarantees for a potential boots on the ground peacekeeping type mission for as many as 30,000 european troops. how that may look going forward is different. keir starmer explained a little earlier today what he wants to

achieve here. >> we've now agreed that the united kingdom, along with france and possibly 1 or 2 others, will work with ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting. and then we'll discuss that plan with the united states. >> and one of the things that keir starmer is also saying, this is not just about the security of ukraine that's at stake, but the security of europe and the relationship with the united states. and one of the meetings. keir starmer has had already this morning is with giorgia meloni, the prime minister of italy, who said after that fractious meeting that zelenskyy had at the white house, barely 48 hours less than ago, she said it was important for the for the europe and the united states to have a very quick summit to see where they stand. this meeting here could be a precursor for that. it's certainly going to help shape

that very important relationship. victor. >> nic robertson for us there. thank you nic. let's go now to nick paton walsh live in kyiv. that's the view from london. the view from ukraine this morning. >> yeah i mean i think the scenes we've seen in london will give some heart to ukrainians who may well certainly were in absolute consternation, disbelief at what they saw on friday. this is a moment of rehabilitation, certainly a reminder to moscow that ukraine is not on its own, which may well have been the feeling you got after the oval office meeting. europe clearly rallying around zelenskyy, an extraordinarily warm welcome from starmer, who is sort of acting in the position you would have expected joe biden to have taken months ago. the sort of central crux of support for ukraine. what can they actually practically do, though, is the question. many ukrainians want to know the answer to this clear. they want to move forward with formulating some kind of peace plan that they would then

present to the united states. remember, that would be a third track, as it were, because there's the u.s. russia track being pursued by the trump administration, the u.s. ukraine track, which, frankly, let's face it, is pretty much stalled at this point. and now it seems that the europeans want to try and come up with an idea that they could potentially move forwards with. but the practical element of that requires united states aid, certainly to continue to ukraine so it can continue its fighting on the front lines, but also security backstops for that european mission. it's a far distant prospect. european boots on the ground here. we would need a sustained peace, frankly, for that to even hove into view. but the ultimate real scramble here is can ukraine continue to fight off russian aggression, if indeed the trump administration wants little or nothing to do with that? if u.s. aid dries up, its intelligence cooperation, its key air defense missile interceptors that are the most problematic parts of u.s. assistance that can't immediately be replaced. but there's a sense of urgency here. you have to remember,

while all of this drama is happening in foreign capitals, this extraordinary whiplash we've had of two weeks of trump calling zelenskyy a dictator, macron, it seems healing that initially starmer going further to and then that horrific oval office meeting, it's been head spinning for ordinary ukrainians during all of that. the drones still keep coming nightly from russia, hitting ukrainian targets. people keep dying on the front lines in horrific trench warfare. and that is something which continually burns through ukraine's manpower, its resources, and leaves them in a perilous place where foreign aid is yet more vital. all of this, though, clearly reversing back now in the last 72 hours, in a way where the kremlin can take comfort in it. so i think there's a european summit urgently needed for ukrainians to feel that they are not really going to have to radically rethink their future. >> nick paton walsh for us in kyiv. thanks so much. joining us now, politics director for the atlanta journal constitution, alex and alex, thanks for coming

in. >> good to. >> see you. okay, so that is the case that's being built in london, right? who in washington, if anyone is giving them an assist, is there someone in the president's circle or in his party that could have his ear that says, mr. president, we need to back ukraine or stay with them and offer these security guarantees? >> potentially. >> i think right now it's too soon to say. or for many of us to actually know who has the president's ear and may carry the most weight. there is history. there is generations of american foreign policy that would support a continuation of this relationship with ukraine and europe writ large. but the question is, when you look at what happened friday in the oval office, europe's response within hours. europe's response yesterday, and then the meeting that will have the summit in just a few hours. what comes out of that and does that apply a different kind of pressure now to washington to say, look, we are where we are, but this is what's in the world's interest. let's work together to make sure that ukraine is secure.

everyone is safe in europe in america and have that unified front against russia. >> yeah, and it's interesting that some in the president's circle is now national security advisor is, of course, backing him. but previously he compared zelenskyy to churchill. so there's been a 180 from several people inside the president's inner circle. we'll have to see how much of the president's address on tuesday to a joint session of congress. and of course, the american people is about this. but overall, what are we expecting from the president tuesday? >> so it's been about 40 days since inauguration day. a lot has happened over the past month. indeed. so so look for a look for the highlights, right. we will hear about the the broader change in foreign policy in this country. we will hear about just the this remaking of the federal workforce that is affecting every state across the country, but also look for hearing more about the the actual changes happening on the ground when it comes to the

everyday issues that we heard about throughout the campaign, whether it's what's happening at the border, the southwest border with mexico to the dismantling of diversity programs across the federal government, the one thing that people will likely want to hear is these are the accomplishments in the first 30 or so days. but what happens? what happens from here. >> especially on the economy. >> on the economy especially inflation is still a concern. the prices have not gone down the way many people would hope they would have gone down. so will there be reassurances? will people watching across the country walk away from tuesday thinking, okay, we've had this focus on all these other things in january, but okay, now we're now, we're now are we assured we know that those prices that have been so high, whether it's at the grocery store or the gas station, just buying a car, all that now begins to come down. >> and the polls show that most americans believe that the president has not done enough to bring those prices down. the democratic response to this is going to be delivered by a freshman senator, elissa slotkin, who is a moderate. the last time the president

addressed a joint session of congress, this was back in 2020. it was from progressive michigan governor gretchen whitmer. and people will remember that. then speaker nancy pelosi ripped up the state of the union. the copy that she had, obviously a shift here in response from the democrats in their selection about the messaging after the president. >> it is a shifted response. but also, when you look at what has happened since election day, there are more questions that have to be answered. we know where the administration is taking the country. democrats in particular, want to know where is the party taking them, what is their answer to the changes they've seen and the changes that are yet to come? we've we've talked to many people in washington over the past few weeks, and there is division. people are not quite sure what that path forward should be. how strong should democrats push back? as james carville said? do we do the democrats just kind of sit back and watch and let things fall apart? you know, there is a fine line that many

in the party are trying to thread, and tuesday will give us a glimpse into potentially one of the paths forward for the party. >> there has been pushback from the voters in constituents we've seen at these town halls. one of the early ones was here in roswell, not far from where we're sitting right now. and are we seeing that continue? we've got video here. this is kansas senator roger marshall at a town hall. i think we have time to play this. let's watch this. >> okay. remember, you got elected from the whole state. >> i'm going. >> to. >> say this. >> one time. if you all keep cutting me off, if you're rude, which you're being, i'm going to leave. and i know you're fed so much misinformation. i know i despise vladimir putin. he's a bloodthirsty war criminal. >> hey. >> hey. >> thank you. i think the government is doing right now as far as cutting out those jobs. a huge percentage of those people. and i know you care about the

veterans. our veterans. yes. and that is a shame. yes, yes, that is a danger. i'm not a democrat. >> but i'm worried. >> about the veterans man. >> thank you. >> all right. >> well, i. >> yield it to one of my my elders, and i appreciate his comments. um, i think it's a great. i'm not going to. we don't have time for everyone to stand up. i do got two more commitments today. i appreciate everybody making the drive out and god bless america. >> thank you. thank you. our our our. >> so he lifted that georgia senator raphael warnock at the end of the week announced that five social security administration offices in georgia would be closing. four of those are in districts represented by republicans. is the pushback continuing here in georgia? >> so offices in georgia, more than 40 across the country? it's one thing, i think, for people to have an idea of what the federal government is, this

massive institution anchored in washington. it's very different when those cuts turn into something that people can see and feel and feel the impact of it themselves. so will people have to wait longer for services? when you look at the other cuts that are happening across the landscape, you think about the cuts at the national weather service. there's a potential severe weather outbreak in a few days. noaa's data feeds the apps on our phone, the weather information that tells us there's a tornado coming or there are things we have to prepare for. there are questions around that, but you can go down the list, whether it's with social security, whether it's with the weather, whether it's with the cdc. the list is long, and i think we're in this place where the change is happening. but the impact that people will feel, we're still a bit we're ways from seeing the actual impacts. i think for for many people. >> we have to remember that more than 80% of federal workers work outside of washington. they work here in the country. they're not overseas. they're here in

the country. but outside of the district. alex sands, thanks so much for being with. >> good seeing you. >> all right. likewise. now, during this upheaval in the sweeping changes, president trump heads to capitol hill, as we said, to share what's next. follow cnn for complete coverage and in-depth analysis. the presidential address to congress begins tuesday at 8 p.m. on cnn. still to come, the supreme court is hearing a case that could make it easier for white people, straight people, to file and win so-called reverse discrimination cases. we dive into the legal arguments. plus, the glamor of hollywood's biggest night comes with a little controversy this year. a preview of the oscar ceremonies is ahead. and the workweek will start with severe weather for millions. as alex mentioned, coming up, where we could see the worst storms. >> amid upheaval.

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now to discuss this case is fred smith. he's a constitutional law professor at emory university. thank you for coming in studio. >> thank you so much. >> so what's the central question here? i understand it revolves around this extra requirement. >> that's exactly right. so in this particular situation, marlene ames had been an employee for the ohio youth department, and she was demoted. and she also was passed over for a job. and the demotion ended up going to a gay man at the position that she held and the position that she applied for in terms of promotion went to a gay woman. and so she's arguing that she was discriminated against because she was straight in some federal courts, including the federal court that governs ohio, where she lives. she has to show background facts that make it particularly persuasive to the court that she was discriminated against. and that's because she's not a member of a historically discriminated

against group. so, um, when it comes to straight individuals or white individuals who are arguing discrimination on the basis of race, uh, if it is a i mean, those are really kind of the big two. >> so a black person who made the same claim wouldn't have to offer those background variables. >> that's exactly right. >> okay. >> if they were arguing discrimination on the basis of race. >> and so typically when we listen to oral arguments, the guidance is don't read too much into them. don't be misled. but when justice gorsuch says, quote, we're in radical agreement today, is it clear the direction that this is going in? >> uh, yes. i think it would be shocking if they came to any other conclusion than that the lower courts that have imposed this extra requirement, that they have gotten it wrong, or at least that it's time to abandon it. >> um, so this is a time when the administration is trying to purge the the government and

public life of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. so this was is ripe for politicization. i wonder, did any of that come into the courtroom? >> not really. right. so, uh, it's tempting to kind of think about this case in dry terms. yeah, in some respects, it is this background facts requirement that goes back to a case from the early 1980s in the d.c. circuit, and it was a case that actually was about affirmative action. so in that case, it kind of is about dei. um, but more broadly, in this particular case, she's not really challenging any sort of affirmative action program. in fact, she's relying on a lawsuit from 2019 called bostock. and this is a lawsuit where a gay man who was right here in georgia was fired because he was gay, he joined a recreational football league, and he was fired from his job at

a funeral home. um, and he argued that that was discrimination on the basis of sex, that discriminating against him because he was gay was discrimination on the basis of sex. that is, he was attracted to men. if he was a woman, he was attracted to men, then that wouldn't be discrimination, right? or that he wouldn't have been fired. right. and so lambda legal prevailed in that particular claim. um, she's relying on that exact argument. she's saying that discrimination on the basis of the fact that she's straight is discrimination on the basis of sex. so really one of kind of the biggest victories for dei, uh, in the last two decades is the case she's relying on. >> okay. that's an interesting tie in. how does this the result of it, whatever the ruling is from the court, um, or whether they send it back to the lower courts to, to, um, reinterpret or apply their standard to their rulings. how does that change the workplace in the country? >> you know, probably not much. okay. and that's in part because

this rule didn't even apply nationwide in the first place. this rule, it applied in d.c., it applied to some states in the midwest, ohio, iowa, minnesota. but in the vast majority of the country, this wasn't the rule. this isn't the rule in california. this isn't the rule in georgia. this isn't the rule in most of america. um, and so moving forward, it probably won't make that big of a difference. >> professor smith, thanks for coming in. >> absolutely. >> thank you. all right. president trump may be adding another name to his long list of pardons. coming up, why trump says he's pushing to get the late pete rose into the hall of fame, despite rose being banned from baseball for gambling. also, a few americans say they feel a connection to organized religion. what a new survey says about faith and its role in american life. >> tell us. >> about accepting bribes. the stuff he did that was completely legal destroys democracy. i'm

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>> that's exactly right. if you look at trends in american religion over the long term, the picture is really one of decline. the share of americans who identify with the religion, including christianity, is coming down the share of americans who say they pray regularly or believe in god. also, coming down the short term picture, by contrast, looks very different over the last 4 or 5 years or so. what's striking to us in this new study is what we see is really a picture of stability. after declining for a very long time. the share of americans who are christian seems to have stabilized, and after growing for a really long time the share of americans who have no religion, who describe themselves as atheist or agnostic, or just nothing in particular religiously, the size of that group has plateaued. so long term decline, but shorter term stability in american religion. >> i spent a lot of time with this study this week because i find it fascinating when we get from pew these these pictures of american life, and one that term

that i'd not heard of before is just the religious switching and the numbers that i saw of people who were switching from christianity overall and catholicism specifically. i think they were most striking to me. >> yeah, there is a lot of religious switching in the united states overall. 35% of u.s. adults have switched religions. that is to say, they identify religiously as adults in a way that's different than they were raised. christianity loses far more people through religious switching than it gains. there's something like six former christians in the united states, six people who say they were raised christian and no longer identify as such. for every one convert to christianity and for catholics, the numbers are more like 8 to 1. by contrast, the share of people who say they have no religion, that group, that group is growing, is growing through religious switching. there's like six people who now say they have no religion. after having been raised in a faith. for

every one person who's left that group. >> i started this by talking about church attendance, and i have some friends who will tell you they never missed church. they go to church every sunday, but they haven't been inside a sanctuary since before the pandemic. they they call themselves bedside baptists. and so as as pew found, for people who attend, um, online services or watch religious services on television, where is the trend? >> yeah, it's really interesting. today, about a quarter of people tell us that they regularly watch religious services online or on tv at least once a month. that number was higher in the early days of the pandemic, and it has since come down as as people have returned to attending religious services in person. one thing that's really interesting is that over the course of the pandemic, the share of people who said they'd done one or the other in the past month either going to religious services in person or watch them online or on tv. that number was rock

steady at about four and ten, 40% over the course of the pandemic. and that's still what we see today. >> um, collectively, what are your findings? tell us about the the religious picture of our country. >> you know, one question these findings raise is, well, is the recent stability we've seen in american religion. is that going to last? is that going to be a permanent feature of american religion? and it's hard to predict the future. but there are some things we do know. we know for sure that older people in the u.s., by and large, are quite religious. we also know they're declining as a share of the population as their members pass away and the people coming up behind them are much less religious. so if this recent stability is going to prove lasting, something's going to have to change. either today's young adults are going to have to become more religious as they get older, or new generations of more religious young adults are going to have to come along in the absence of one of those changes. the data suggests that the longer term trends we've seen, the longer term declines we've seen in american religion

could continue. >> greg. fascinating findings from this study. as i've said, i spent some time with it. i go to the website and just look up all kinds of stuff that, uh, that you guys at pew provide through your work. thanks so much for what you do. and thanks for your time this morning. tonight's academy awards is going to be a ceremony to remember from the emilia pérez controversy to the recent wildfires that devastated so much of los angeles. we have a preview of tonight's show. >> united states of scandal with jake tapper returns next sunday at nine on cnn. >> for the professional, it's not enough to possess knowledge. >> we seek to. >> refine. >> it. to wield its power. to redefine its boundaries. >> knowledge is put to the. >> test in.

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then it culminates with a with a level three out of five threat on tuesday. and it could get higher than that as we get closer to tuesday. we're watching two weather systems. first one here the lead system is right over the plains. second one beginning to impact the pacific northwest at this time. here's how all of this works out right now. not much to see on the radar, but as we get later into the afternoon, that first weather system is really going to get its act together, and you'll see it begin to produce those severe thunderstorms later today, probably strong winds and large hail. then that pacific northwest system makes a beeline right for the plains. that leads to the chance for some stronger thunderstorms on monday. main event though, tuesday afternoon, right here across the deep south. the folks that will be feeling the brunt of that activity right here in louisiana. and then it progresses into portions of alabama and georgia early on wednesday. tornado threat very high for us on tuesday with that

weather system getting its act together. we could be seeing strong long track tornadoes with this weather system. so it's something that we certainly have to keep a very close eye on in the days to come. now, victor, we are starting to get into that severe weather season going from march all the way to may, where we see the tornado threat peak. you're going to see a considerable increase in these conversations, like you and i are having right now. >> all right, tyler, thank you. the great eight. alexander ovechkin, huh? yeah. got it now. yes, yes. he scores his 31st goal of the season, 884th of his career. because the secret is that i don't follow sports. and you guys make sure i pronounce the names right. 11 goals shy from the most goals in nfl history. >> yeah. >> close nhl. >> nfl.

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