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right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. all right. we begin this hour with new details on the efforts to bring peace to ukraine. today, ukrainian president zelenskyy gathered with european leaders at a summit in london to help craft a plan to end the war with russia. european leaders are vowing to ramp up military spending and deploy troops to defend ukraine if a cease fire agreement is reached. this high stakes meeting comes just two days after zelenskyy had a tense visit with president trump at the white house. the heated exchange and trump's pivot towards russia have alarmed european leaders. those allies are now rallying around ukraine, offering more military aid. they're also now taking the lead at the negotiating table, but making it clear europe needs the support of the u.s. for any deal to happen. >> the discussions we've had today, particularly the

coalition of the willing, is on the basis that this is a plan that we will work with, with the u.s., and that it will have us backing. so that is the purpose of the plan, and that is why i spoke to president trump last night before we develop the work on this plan. >> president zelenskyy also received a warm welcome from king charles as the british monarch met with the ukrainian leader for more than an hour. cnn's nic robertson has the details on today's developments. >> a roadmap of how europe and ukraine move forward from here. short on specifics, short on detail what keir starmer, the british prime minister, laid out, was an effort to build a coalition of the willing, something he said that would be led by france and the uk. ukraine involved to get the support of other countries to provide the security guarantees, the boots on the ground or the planes in the sky going forward

to support a peace deal for ukraine, a peace deal that he said must provide security, respect ukraine's sovereignty. he could not say how many countries were joining that coalition of the willing. he couldn't say what they would contribute. he said that that's something that they would be doing in the coming days. but the understanding is now very clear from keir starmer. absolutely at the center of all of this is a continued and strong relationship with the united states. the absolute valued need must have of a u.s. buy in to these support for these european security guarantees. the picture that emerges from here is that europe is accelerating its efforts to step up defense spending, to step up the immediacy right now of the economic and military support for ukraine. and on that point, the british prime minister said that the uk was committing an additional 1.6

billion pounds sterling for ukraine's defense and security. 5000 air defense missiles to be purchased from the uk, with that money manufactured in belfast in northern ireland. and these missile defense systems are absolutely vital for ukraine at this time. while russia continues to assault it with air attack missiles and and drones overnight. so that's one piece. and that is symptomatic of what the prime minister is talking about bolstering ukraine and keeping it safe now. but the importance, he said, of getting to this just peace deal. and that's something, again, that he didn't have a time frame on. he didn't have a time frame either. on when he thought it was important to take the european plan to the united states. but we did hear from european leaders. ursula von der leyen, the european commission president, saying that on the 6th of march this week, european

leaders will get together and lay out a new defense architecture and plan going forward. so significant steps being made and the importance underscored of doing this with the united states, when precisely to get president trump engaged again, that not entirely clear. nic robertson, cnn, london. >> and here at home, president trump's america first agenda will take center stage this week as he delivers his first address to a joint session of congress since his november election victory. cnn senior white house producer betsy klein is in west palm beach, and cnn correspondent arlette saenz is in washington. hello to both of you. betsy. you first. the fight to secure the border. that oval office clash with president zelenskyy and the slashing of the federal workforce that is upending washington and beyond. all of those issues likely to be in this address. >> that's exactly right,

fredricka. i think we can expect president trump to take a victory lap for his first six weeks in office, and to take a page from a christmas carol. i think the speech, according to sources, is going to be framed around past, present and future priorities. so past so far, he has taken more than 100 executive actions. we should expect him to highlight some of those accomplishments. issues like culture wars, gutting diversity, equity and inclusion programs, as well as trade, women's sports and other issues. on the present, we should expect him to advocate for his budget and tax agenda going through congress right now, as well as talking about what he's doing on the border and his efforts in the middle east, and looking ahead to the future. sources say we should expect president trump to talk about sending americans to mars, as well as energy issues and artificial intelligence. but we are also getting a good picture now of how americans are responding to president trump's efforts to reimagine his use of executive authority and reshape

the size and scope of the federal government. according to a new cnn poll out just hours ago, a narrow majority of americans disapprove of how president trump is handling his job as president. 48% approve of the job he's doing so far, while 52% disapprove of the president. and a majority of americans in the same poll say he does not have the right priorities. 40% say yes. he has the right priorities. 52% say he does not. and jason miller, who is a top outside adviser to the president, also offered a preview of what to expect on tuesday. >> we have to tackle inflation. joe biden left us in a really bad spot, but by getting energy prices down and then also making sure we stop this wasteful spending, that's going to be a big component in getting this one big, beautiful tax bill done that the house has already made some great steps. we need more money for the border to keep it permanently secure. and then here's the key thing. you also touched on this making sure that we continue to bring peace and

stability around the world. but we have to do it with respect and strength. those are the two keys that president trump is going to go into. >> of course, president trump's big speech also comes just days after that explosive confrontation with president zelenskyy in the oval office. and as we are learning that top trump officials are expected to meet once more with their russian counterparts in the days ahead. >> okay, betsy. thank you. arlette, the democrats messaging, it's gotten a lot of criticism since the 2024 campaign. the party is hoping that perhaps freshman senator elissa slotkin of michigan can help turn that around when she delivers the democrats rebuttal on tuesday night. what more are you learning? >> well, fred, democratic leaders are really hoping to present a united front as they want their lawmakers and caucuses to really argue that trump's early moves in office are negatively impacting americans. lawmakers have been encouraged to take individuals

who are directly impacted by trump's moves. that includes fired federal workers and people who might have been receiving benefits relating to programs where there have been funding freezes and democratic leadership chose. freshman senator elissa slotkin of michigan to offer that official response. she is an interesting choice because she is one of just a few democratic senators who won in a battleground state that trump actually had carried in the november election. slotkin, after that election, had said democrats really needed to be talking about kitchen table issues, and that is part of the reason that democrats are really trying to push these arguments relating to cost of living, trying to point out that trump has not fulfilled his promise to immediately lower prices for americans. democrats are also eager to highlight how the gop could potentially cut medicaid and give tax breaks to billionaires. but in addition to the messaging around this this joint address, there are some

democrats who are considering not attending at all. that includes senator chris murphy, who has been a leading voice in the pushback against trump. he will instead be participating in a counterprogramming event. and here is why or how he described his reasoning for not attending. >> i think that state of the union speech is going to be a farce. i think it's going to be a maga pep rally, not a serious talk to the nation. we're going to stop that billionaire takeover, that destruction of our democracy, only by fighting them every single day. a lot of democrats think maybe you should, you know, fight every third day. you should reserve your power and jump out of the bushes at the right moment. i just think that we have to be on the offensive 24 seven. >> it comes as democrats have struggled to stop trump's actions in office, and really have not settled on a cohesive strategy for how to push back against them. so this joint address to congress by trump really presents democrats with a fresh test of whether they can

make their messaging land and further counter trump while he is in office. >> all right, arlette saenz betsy klein, thanks to both of you. appreciate it. all right. joining me right now, jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. jeff, great to see you. okay. so i think it's very fascinating that the the former house speaker, nancy pelosi, would say, hey, let me give you all some advice on how to react during the president's address. i mean, be like poker face. essentially, she's saying, you know, don't give anyone the opposition. i guess any material with, um, i guess, expressions or words that, in her view, might be inappropriate. what more are you hearing about how democrats are going to handle themselves during this joint session? address? >> well, i. >> think that democrats. >> see this. >> as a moment for. >> them to, you know, to to to. >> show at least a little bit of, of, uh.

>> spine and opposition. >> in a way that. >> you haven't they haven't really had a. >> chance to show. >> as much over the last month to six weeks. >> this is. >> a public moment where the president will be in the in, in. congress and using the platform that is the, that, that address. it's not actually called state of the union this first time around. and, and i can tell you from having been in the room one year, uh, during his first term when he was engaging with aoc and the other women lawmakers who had worn white, he gives them a platform to. and so they will probably use it. and what exactly they'll do? it's i don't have any insight in on right now. it is interesting to to hear what the former speaker suggested, but i, i do feel confident saying that it won't just be the president donald trump show that night. i think we'll see some some response from democrats in that room for sure. >> beyond the democratic response coming from senator

slotkin. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, it just it seems to me that that i mean, who knows? uh, the speaker's. speaker pelosi's advice to to not create any fodder, if that's something that they follow, then maybe, maybe they'll, they'll sit on their hands. but my guess is he will give democrats in the room a reason to at least boo or otherwise show some kind of emotion. and i suspect that they will. >> yeah. trump adviser jason miller, you know, telling fox to just heard that sound bite. you know, that trump will talk about. respect and strength that it's needed to achieve world peace. does that kind of flag that trump will perhaps make reference to that moment in the oval office and somehow weave that into his speech? >> i mean, he'll almost certainly have to reference ukraine whether or not he specifically says something about the meeting on friday or not. is is hard to hard to

predict. but it wouldn't surprise me. i mean, he's this is not a leader or a man who who tries to pretend something didn't happen. although he did a little bit try last week when he was asked in the oval office, i was in for that about his, uh, his comment about zelenskyy being a dictator. and he said, did i say that? but i think what happened on friday is too big for him, uh, to to pretend didn't happen, whether he specifically references it or not. we'll see. but surely ukraine will be one of the main foreign policy aspects of his speech that usually goes over both foreign policy and domestic policy. uh, goals and agendas. >> um, you formerly were the president of the white house correspondents association and now, um, white house correspondents and reporters are finding this has become quite the challenge, right? i mean, especially now that the white house says it's going to manage the white house press pool in a different way. um, what what are

the challenges that you and many correspondents are facing right now in this kind of tenor that is being sent from this white house? >> well, that that requires maybe a little sort of one on one explanation of what the white house press pool is and what it does and what the pool is, is it's a group of of journalists and news organizations that go in to smaller places like the oval office or fly on air force one when the whole press corps, which is hundreds of reporters, can't, can't fit. uh, so that's something that presidents of, you know, of both political parties have made use of when they're holding meetings with foreign leaders, uh, like with president zelenskyy last year, or, excuse me, last week. um, and and that's, that's what the pool is there for, is to go in, uh, to ask questions and then to share that material with the rest of the press corps. what the white house decided to do last week is take over organization of that pool from the white house correspondents

association, and essentially start to pick who it wants to be in it. so, you know, we believe and i'm no longer the leader of the whca, but i'm still very connected to it. the correspondents association believes it's important to have independent journalists in that pool, because that is the opportunity to ask questions of people in power and to report that news out and to report those facts out. so it raises a new challenge when the white house takes over that kind of control. >> yeah. and the white house correspondents association did say that it would no longer coordinate shared coverage of president donald trump in this kind of escalating dispute over the press access. all right, jeff mason, thank you so much. great to see you. >> you too. >> all right. amid upheaval and sweeping changes, president trump heads to capitol hill to share what's potentially next. follow cnn for complete coverage and in-depth analysis. the presidential address to congress beginning tuesday at 8 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. all

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>> i mean. >> it's bad enough. >> from. >> helene. >> but now we've. got this. >> and i mean the forest. >> it's just it's going to. >> be really bad. >> it made. >> the sky such an odd color. >> i was going for a walk, and it turned this. odd yellow color yellow and red. in the woods where i was walking. >> and to answer your question, fred, several factors are combining to increase the danger of wildfires in both carolinas. there's dry vegetation due to lack of recent rainfall. there's also dry air being added to the mix. and if you combine these two factors with strong winds, you create the perfect conditions for wildfire to occur. the good news is that winds in the region are expected to significantly weaken overnight, and the temperatures will plummet to the freezing point by monday morning. more humid air is expected to return to the region by tuesday. but again, looking at those images and remember that we were there in the fall covering hurricane ian and how devastating that

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interesting to hear him talk as well about the issue of the apology, which has, by some trump officials, been requested. he was asked that question very specifically. would he apologize? and the response he gave was not simply to say, yes, i would. he instead talked about the significant casualties that ukraine has suffered, saying that his choice is not to end the war today. his choice would be to end the war when it even started to not have endured the 12,000 plus civilians alone that have died here in ukraine, and the tens of thousands of troops that have died on the front lines. and impassioned response, i think, essentially suggesting ukraine maybe should not be the ones apologizing here because they have been the victim in this particular war. but it was a meeting with the press that is still ongoing after a day in which i think it was more european leaders who did the talking, and one, i think, in which he says he's ready to sign the minerals deal, the rare earth minerals deal, which the

scott bessent the u.s. treasury secretary said was, quote, at present, not on the table. but ukraine does appear to still be willing to move forward with that. and so i think he also suggests that he would be open to constructive dialog with the united states going forward. it's, as i say, a press conference to play out of, which is still ongoing, but it does appear to be a president who wants to maintain an element of his composure here, to not necessarily immediately concede to some of the more strident demands of trump's inner circle, but also clearly would like to see the conciliatory some reconciliation occurring with washington. i should say to you as well, since the meeting with european leaders ended in downing street and in in central london today, we've heard from the french president, emmanuel macron, speaking to the figaro newspaper, he suggested one of the first key details that we've heard about this potential peace plan, which keir starmer, the u.k. prime minister, talked about gathering steam or

beginning to have more details around it. he is suggesting a month long kind of limited ceasefire that would occur in the air, in the sea and to stop attacks against ukraine and russia's energy infrastructure, suggesting that's something that could be done, that could be monitored, that could be affected, that could be a confidence building measure. so i think we're slowly seeing some of the details that have emerged from this meeting being leaked, but also or being spoken of publicly and also zelenskyy for the first time, delivering his thoughts on the remarkable last 72 hours. >> very fascinating. all right. nick paton walsh, thank you. coming up, republican lawmakers get an earful from outraged voters at town halls. a sample of some of the anger that these lawmakers are facing back home. next. >> the veterans man. >> thank you. >> thank you. all right. >> well. >> i yield. >> it to him. >> uh. >> united states of scandal with

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band, i'm going to leave. i know you're fed so much misinformation. i know, i despise vladimir putin. he's a bloodthirsty war criminal. >> hey. >> hey. thank you. >> 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. >> 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. appreciate everybody making the drive out. and god bless america. thank you. >> our our you're not. >> done. >> oh my. and then in texas, republican congressman keith self was greeted with chants of

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firings might have on national parks? >> well. >> fred, it's not really about who is fired or who has a job so much as although the national. park job loss will threaten our access to parks. but overall, on these environmental issues, this is going to hurt american families. you know, you can deregulate some things, but pollution isn't one of them. when you remove limits on pollution, you're going to get more dirty air, more dirty water and serious health consequences. >> um, the epa this week, president trump addressed plans for that agency. listen to this. >> i spoke. >> with lee zeldin and he thinks he's going to be. cutting 65 or so percent of. >> the people. >> from environmental. >> and we're. >> going to speed up the process to. >> but then for clarity, according to the associated press, which talked to a white

house spokesperson, trump was referring to overall budget cuts and not a reduction in personnel. so what would a large reduction in either budget or personnel mean for the epa? >> well, it's going to mean we can't enforce the law. a lot of that funding goes to create clean drinking water and clean water overall. and it it means we're going to get things that america didn't vote for and doesn't want. um, so it's a very serious, very serious situation. >> so specifically, you know, help paint a picture or meaning, um, at risk rivers and streams. uh, you know, our national parks and, uh, preservation of of animals, of, uh, of forestry. to what extent are all of these things now jeopardized, in your view? >> all those things are jeopardized. but maybe the most important thing is that the epa

and the supreme court have ruled that our clean air act. creates limits, allows the government to create limits on the types of air pollution that endanger us. and maybe the most serious thing that the administration is doing is trying to reverse that and saying that the government has no authority to limit the sort of pollution that causes wildfires, the sort of pollution that causes intense heat. uh, the sort of pollution that causes more intense strong storms. and, you know, when, when, uh, the administration talks about energy dominance, i get that and the benefits of that. but the fact of the matter is that there's a race going on now in the world where clean energy, jobs, jobs, making electric vehicles and the effect of the administration's actions is to surrender to the europe

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>> that's right fred. so i did hear from a source after gene hackman passing this week that the oscars will, in fact, honor him tonight. now, i had heard a few days ago that plans weren't locked, and they had discussed a few different ways to honor his incredible contributions to cinema, whether that is within the in memoriam segment that you just spoke about, or whether that is a separate moment on stage. we will see. the plans will be a surprise tonight. but as you said, so many in hollywood lost this week and that is always a bittersweet moment. but when i interviewed the ceo of the academy earlier this week, he did tell us that the in memoriam segment is going to be incredibly special tonight. now, also special tonight is the race, of course. and i have to tell you, fred, i am really excited about the race because a lot of the categories are wide open. usually the pundits can predict who is going to win, what will be a snub, what will be a surprise. but tonight, the best picture race

is actually a big question mark. i'm going to predict that honora is going to win, but it could be honora, it could be conclave, it could be the brutalist. also, if you look at the best actor race, adrien brody was the frontrunner all along. but then timothee chalamet won the s.a.g. award. so that threw it off a little bit. so we'll see tonight fred. >> okay. can't wait. meantime i'm looking at all the eye candy behind you. and you too of course. and i love what everybody is wearing. i'm seeing. i mean, i'm really not seeing anything thematic. everyone is kind of doing their own thing, and i love it. so talk to me about the fashion on the red carpet and what are you wearing? >> you know, everyone is doing their own thing, fred and i love it. i cannot wait to see the stars arrive. i had to dress up. it is the oscars and i wanted to go with the wicked theme. i'm a little glenda tonight. and guess who i just spoke to? the wizard himself, jeff goldblum. let's

take a look. >> wicked serenade. yes. um. bewitched, bothered and bewildered. >> am i. >> those icy fingers in my hair? that's like, come hither stare that strips my conscience bare. >> it's witchcraft. >> oh. >> that's kind of wicked. >> it was perfect, i loved it. thank you both so much. have the best night. sorry, my hands are cold. thank you. so that was just literally a few minutes ago. fred, jeff goldblum and his lovely wife, emily. he is truly always one of the best dressed. and i mean, the red carpet just started and i got serenaded by jeff goldblum. so we're off to a good start. much more to come. >> oh. >> oh. >> he was good. he is good on the spot. no problem. okay, we're looking at live pictures and we're seeing that beautiful crowd of of people. and there's jeff goldblum again. um, you mentioned you you kind of think timothee chalamet might, you know, do pretty well on the race

for best actor. but do you have any other predictions about best picture? look, i've only seen one of and that's emily i mean emilia pérez i've only seen one flick. i've seen nothing else. i'm going to have to catch up later. but do you have any faves? >> yes. so, you know, emilia pérez comes into the night with the most nominations with 13. and look timothee chalamet, he does have a shot after winning the s.a.g. i do think it's going to go to adrien brody. when you look at the best actress race i think demi moore has got it. she has been the frontrunner. but mikey madison from honora also won the bafta. so we will see. it will be a surprise though. there's going to be a lot of surprises tonight, fred. >> always. and that's what makes it so special. you're so lucky to be there on the red carpet and to be there for a night of surprises. it's going to be fun. elizabeth wagmeister. you look lovely. thank you so much and thank you for joining me today. i'm fredricka whitfield. the cnn newsroom continues with jessica dean