feverishly as september 11th, 2001 did, well, that's when we'll see how much we've actually learned. and what about president bush? recently, he spoke against vladimir putin's barbaric invasion of ukraine, which putin justified by citing bush's iraq war. and while the comparison differs in many key ways, putin was not the only one with iraq on his mind. >> the result is an absence of checks and balances in russia and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of iraq. i mean, of ukraine. iraq. anyway, uh. >> one of the most uncomfortable freudian slips i've ever seen.

>> hello, and welcome to our viewers, joining us here in the united states, around the world and streaming us on cnn max. i'm rosemary church. just ahead, european leaders unite promising to take the lead to end ukraine's war, but made clear they will need the support of the u.s. donald trump will make a joint address to congress this week. but new poll numbers show americans are concerned about his priorities. and hollywood's biggest night will bring you the winners of the oscars and the touching tributes to l.a. firefighters. >> live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. >> good to have you with us. well, first, this hour, a major show of support in europe for ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy as leaders move to take control of negotiations aimed at ending the war in

ukraine. at a key summit in london, british prime minister keir starmer said european leaders were working to craft a plan to stop the fighting, which would then be presented to the u.s. starmer says europe must do the heavy lifting, but that u.s. backing is needed. and french president emmanuel macron told newspaper le figaro that france and the uk have proposed a month long limited ceasefire in ukraine. all this coming just days after zelenskyy's explosive meeting with u.s. president donald trump at the white house. the ukrainian president said his country is ready to sign a rare minerals deal with the u.s., a deal. zelenskyy had been expected to sign on friday, despite the tensions. the ukrainian leader called the u.s. a strategic partner and had this to say about the relationship. >> i think our relations with the u.s. will continue because

this is more than relations during a certain moment, we must be open. ukraine is not the biggest country in the world, but everyone can see how it fights for its independence and freedom. i represent the interests of a country that heavily depends on support from partners. so of course, if i am invited for a constructive dialog for solving real problems, for serious questions and real resolute actions and answers, i will be there. out of respect for america, the american people, the president and the two parties. >> during all of this, there's been no let up to russia's attacks on ukraine. on sunday, the mayor of kharkiv said a drone targeted an apartment building, which sparked a fire and injured eight people. well, there was also a royal show of support for the ukrainian president during his meeting with king charles. cnn's nic robertson has more from london. >> so president. >> zelenskyy getting an. important meeting with king

charles at one of the king's country residence, about 100 miles north of london. sandringham. they spent an hour together and it's important symbolically because it embodies, if you will, the support that the uk is giving to the ukrainian president. but remembering as well. just a few days ago, when the british prime minister, keir starmer, was in the oval office with president trump, he handed president trump a letter an unprecedented invitation to president trump of a second state visit to the uk. so here, zelenskyy getting the royal treatment as well, embodying that support from the british government, the british people and the monarchy before he was there, he was at that gathering of european leaders as well as justin trudeau, the canadian prime minister, being hosted by the british prime minister, the british prime minister saying that this was an effort to make sure that ukraine has the military and economic needs, that it needs to fight the war. today, he spoke about

an additional $2 billion of funding going to ukraine, ukraine spending that on air defense missiles, 5000 of them to be purchased in the uk. all of that very very important but the but the some of the key details that we began to learn was that this was something of an historic moment. that's the way keir starmer saw it, that this was a crossroads in history, where he was trying to build a coalition of the willing european nations, forward leaning, able to step up and be part of the security guarantees. this is how he framed it. >> not every. >> nation will feel able to contribute. >> but that can't. >> mean that we. >> sit back. >> instead. >> those willing will intensify. >> planning now. >> with real urgency. >> the uk. >> is prepared to back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air, together with others. europe must do the heavy lifting, but to support peace in

our continent and to succeed, this effort must have strong us backing. >> and that very important point there, the need to have us support here. and he spoke about it in this way as well, that france, the uk and ukraine would work on this plan with the european nations and then bring it to the white house. so in a way, they feel like shielding president zelenskyy to some degree from sort of getting in a one on one situation in the white house with president trump. again. um, that turned so fractious just a few days ago. and an important message as well, coming at this summit from ursula von der leyen, the european commission president, saying that in just a couple of days, on the 6th of march this week, european leaders would gather and lay out a comprehensive plan on how to rearm europe. that is something president trump has been looking for europeans to do to step up

their defense spending. so the europeans appearing to come together on a plan for that as well. nic robertson, cnn, london. >> david sanger is a cnn political and national security analyst and author of new cold wars china's rise, russia's invasion, and america's struggle to defend the west. he joins me now from los angeles. appreciate you being with us. >> great to be with you, rosemary. >> so europe is stepping up in the wake of that explosive exchange between the u.s. president and his ukrainian counterpart on friday. but european leaders are keeping the u.s. involved, with france and the uk proposing a monthon truce and a peace plan that will be presented to the u.s. where do you see all of this going from here? >> well, it's. >> a nice try and it's worth pursuing. uh, it's based on the thought that if the president and president zelenskyy can't

get along, somebody has to step in and begin to come up with concrete solutions. it's got three major problems. as i would sort of just take it as a first, first run. first, you cannot make this whole thing work if you can't get the united states the largest supplier, single supplier of arms and cash on the same page with the ukrainians, because sooner or later the ukrainians are going to have to agree to this deal, too. they're going to have to be the counterparty. the second problem with it is it's very possible that vladimir putin doesn't want to go deal with the europeans here, that he takes the same view that president trump does, which is this is a superpower issue to be resolved between superpowers. and the third problem, potential problem with this, i think, is that putin, like president trump, wants a much larger deal than just

ukraine, that ukraine is the proximate reason that they are talking. but ultimately, what they want is an agreement that might lead to full normalization of relations, the beginning of a solution to the exploration. in less than a year now of new start, the last remaining nuclear treaty between the two countries, um, some kind of u.s. investment in, uh, in, in russia itself. and of course, the europeans can't do that. >> and president zelenskyy says ukraine is ready to sign the minerals deal with the u.s. he thinks relations with the united states will continue. can that relationship be repaired? do you think? >> a little too early to tell. hard to imagine how you do it with the current cast of characters. only because president trump and, uh, president zelenskyy have such a history together. uh, their conflict goes back to, uh, mr.

trump's first term in office. it was the conversations with zelenskyy where he tried to where mr. trump tried to get him to launch investigations into joe biden and so forth. that led to the first impeachment of president trump. um, that's not forgotten. so they have all that personal history there. uh, i think for mr. zelenskyy, it was absolutely critical to show his own people that he wasn't going to get bullied into an agreement that didn't provide security guarantees. uh, for, uh, for ukraine. and those security guarantees may ultimately be provided by the europeans as president trump argues. big question about whether or not they have the capability to go provide the troops to do that. >> and of course, while all of this plays out, ukraine is still under attack and russia's

president putin has, of course, been emboldened by trump's treatment of zelenskyy and his clear preference for mending a relationship with russia, as you point out, how much harder will all this make peace negotiations for european leaders? >> well, it is interesting that president putin's, uh, approach to this is keep the pressure on, perhaps to force the ukrainians to make bigger concessions. um, president trump was told, or at least his aides were told by the, uh, outgoing biden administration that he should do the same, that he should go back to congress, make it clear he's willing to go fund more arms for ukraine, keep the pressure on the russians so that they are forced to the table. he has chosen instead an alternative route. he thinks he's going to get further by not naming russia as an aggressor. uh, by, uh,

ruling out from the start that ukraine would join nato. in other words, by making a series of concessions, including this standdown of offensive cyber operations against, uh, uh, russia, that president trump's defense secretary, pete hegseth, has, uh, has ordered. so these are all efforts to try to lure russia into the negotiations. so they're pursuing different strategies to get to the table. >> david sanger, many thanks for joining us and sharing your analysis and perspective on this matter. appreciate it. >> great to be with you. >> well, u.s. president donald trump will face lawmakers on tuesday addressing a joint session of congress for the first time in his second presidential term. it's an opportunity for mr. trump to reassure voters about his leadership since he took office,

we have seen the president's indiscriminate firings of federal workers, threats of massive tariffs on u.s. allies and his catastrophic white house meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. a cnn poll taken before that meeting shows that a majority of americans are unhappy with how president trump is doing his job. 52% disapprove of his performance. only 48% approve. cnn senior white house reporter kevin liptak explains what president trump's supporters hope his address will accomplish. >> the speech president trump is planning to deliver on tuesday to a joint session of congress is typically one of the biggest audiences for any president in any given year. the dynamics, of course, with trump are somewhat different. he has completely dominated the nation's attention since taking office 41 days ago. but certainly this will still be a moment for him to deliver kind of a cogent explanation of

everything he has been doing since taking office. this slash and burn attitude towards the federal government, gutting certain agencies, laying off tens of thousands of federal workers. what you hear from republicans is this hope that the president will be able to explain what he has been doing to an audience that has been growing somewhat skeptical, and certainly in a new cnn poll, you do see for president trump, the negatives now outweighing the positives on the question of how americans approve of the president. 48%, percent say that they approve, compared to 52% who say they disapprove, which is about the same as a cnn poll in mid-february. and i'll note that this was taken before that fracas in the oval office with president zelenskyy on friday, but still represents an underwater approval rating for a president. only about a month and a few weeks into his term.

the second metric that we polled, when asked whether trump had the right priorities, 40% said yes, he did 52% no said no, he didn't. and what's interesting there is that the doubts about the president's priorities extended to a small but notable share of those who still expressed support for the president on other measures. so 12% who said that they approved of the president overall said that his priorities haven't been in the right place. and so the speech will be an opportunity for the president to kind of demonstrate exactly how the actions he's taken in office can affect everyday americans and, in his view, improve the lives of people who are living across the country. the other audience that he'll want to be speaking to in this speech are the lawmakers who are sitting in the room as they prepare to pass the president's agenda, whether it's cutting federal spending, whether it's rewriting the tax code, who want to lay out some specific priorities for them as

they plan to move forward. now, president trump's advisers say this speech is meant to try and connect directly with americans. but of course, how the president's speeches are previewed versus how they actually materialize are sometimes two very different things. and it has been interesting to go back and watch the president's addresses from his first time in office. his speech in 2017 was relatively by the book. it struck some bipartisan themes, and it was relatively well received. four years later, it was a completely different story, much more combative. the president had just been impeached, and when he finished his speech, the then house speaker, nancy pelosi, ripped up a copy of it in full view of the cameras. but certainly the political landscape has now shifted dramatically. the republicans in that room are almost entirely on the president's side. they control both houses of congress, and you can expect a valedictory tone from the president. but if he hopes for his approval ratings to change from this

speech, he will not necessarily be bolstered by his experience from four years ago. all four years, his speech didn't necessarily have a major effect on his approval rating, at least according to our cnn polling. kevin liptak, cnn, the white house. >> earlier, i spoke with larry sabato, the director of the university of virginia center for politics, and i asked him what he expected to hear from donald trump's address to congress. >> i'm expecting to hear a long list of the great achievements, the historic achievements, the greatest achievements in american and possibly world history that he has already done in just these approximately six weeks in office. and the republicans will set a new record for. cheering and applause. what's going to be interesting is to see what the democrats do. i've already heard that some of them are thinking about walking out. others are thinking about boycotting the session, and still others are

considering whether they could boo and get away with it without actually creating sympathy for trump. so there may be more drama there than there normally is. how it will play out depends on how the democrats execute this. >> and that is part of this too, isn't it? because a lot of voters feel the democrats are not pushing back enough on trump and what he's doing, but they're they're trying to assess their strategy on this, aren't they? >> yes. they're trying to figure out what to do. nancy pelosi, i think, doesn't want them to do much of anything except sit on their hands. and that may be the most effective way to approach it. but the democratic activists, the rank and file democrats have just about had it with the democratic leadership. they are furious that people aren't fighting trump more strongly and sternly than they are. so that's what's going to show on tuesday night. who's won that argument, at least temporarily. >> cnn newsroom when we come

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unequivocally rejects the politicization of humanitarian aid and its exploitation as a tool of blackmail, a tactic that would only deepen the suffering of more than 2 million palestinians who are already enduring immense hardship due to a campaign of devastation and forced displacement. but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israel has agreed to this proposal by u.s. special envoy steve witkoff. under this framework, on the first day, hamas would release half of the hostages still in gaza, and over the next seven weeks or so, ending on april 20th, at the end of the jewish holiday of passover, the remaining hostages would be released. in exchange for that, they would continue to release palestinian prisoners and surge aid into gaza. but he had a warning. >> there will be no. >> free lunches. >> if hamas thinks that the ceasefire can continue, or that it can benefit from the terms of

phase a without us receiving hostages. it is deeply mistaken. >> during the 42 days of the first phase of the ceasefire, dozens of israeli hostages were released. hundreds of palestinian prisoners as well, and aid got into gaza. the international committee of the red cross that facilitated the transfers said it saved countless lives in gaza and warns that any unraveling of this agreement risks plunging people back into despair. people like these residents of gaza. >> i hope the truce lasts and that these wars finally end. our children are terrified of the bombings. we want peace for ourselves and our kids. enough destruction. we don't even have a place to live. >> hamas has rejected that u.s. backed proposal to extend this first phase of the ceasefire. hamas has also called the israeli decision to block aid to gaza a cheap blackmail and a war

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vaccinated due to medical reasons. but he also wrote that the decision to vaccinate is a personal one. in the past, kennedy said no vaccine is safe and effective. attempting to tie them to a rise in autism while also recommending alternative medicines. however, studies show the mmr vaccine is 97% effective, with no links to neurological disorders. the figure skating world is paying tribute to those lost in january's tragic plane crash in washington. sunday's legacy on ice event featured some of skating's biggest names, but perhaps the most emotional moment. maks naumov, who lost both of his parents, collapsed to his knees after he skated to one of their favorite songs. 67 people were killed in the mid-air collision over the potomac river that included 11 young skaters, their coaches and family members who were flying back from the u.s. figure

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>> welcome back to our viewers here in north america. i'm rosemary church. on tuesday, donald trump will make his first address to congress since his november reelection. speaking to a joint session of congress, the president is expected to celebrate his recent shakeup of the american government and lay out some of his plans for the year ahead. for democrats, the speech offers a chance to do something they haven't done much of during trump's second term fight back. arlette saenz has more from washington. >> democrats will face a fresh test this week as they're looking to counter president trump's joint address to congress. democratic leaders are hoping to present a united front, as they're trying to argue that trump's actions in his first six weeks in office and the plans that republicans want to pursue in the coming months will not help, but instead will hurt the american people. one way they're trying

to highlight that is by bringing guests to the state of the union, who are individuals who have been negatively impacted by trump's early moves. that could include fired federal workers and other individuals who might be involved with programs that were subjected to those funding freezes in these early weeks. now, democrats have also chosen democratic senator elissa slotkin of michigan to deliver the official rebuttal to trump's remarks. it's an interesting choice because slotkin is a freshman senator who was one of only two freshman senators to actually win in a battleground state that trump won back in november. she is often talked about the need for democrats to talk about kitchen table issues in order to win back voters in the upcoming elections. now, while that is a big focus of the democratic response, there are some who are considering not attending this speech at all. one of those is democratic senator chris murphy, who has really been a leading

voice in the pushback against trump. here is why he has decided not to attend that speech on tuesday night. >> 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 over seven. >> now, for the democrats, who are in the house chamber on tuesday night, they will also have to decide whether to try to respond or react to trump in real time on the spot. former house speaker nancy pelosi, who famously ripped up the speech that trump delivered during his last state of the union as president. she is urging democratic lawmakers to exercise some caution, saying in an interview that they should essentially just let trump stew

in his own juice. it all comes as democrats really have struggled to stop trump's actions in the first six weeks of his presidency, and they also have yet to settle on a cohesive message and strategy for how to push back on those actions. but the varying tactics of democrats will be on display during the speech, as democrats are still trying to find their way out of the political wilderness. arlette saenz, cnn, washington. >> elon musk's department of government efficiency has slashed tens of thousands of jobs from the u.s. government since trump took office. more cuts are expected in the coming days and weeks. and now some republican lawmakers are starting to feel the heat getting blasted by angry constituents back home. but the leader of the house republicans is defending musk's moves. >> he's shown me. >> many of the examples of the. outrageous abuses. and i'm telling you, dana, when the american people understand what has been happening. >> with our.

>> taxpayer dollars, that congress has been. unable to discern, even with our best oversight. >> efforts. >> elon has been able to crack the code. he's inside the belly of the beast of the bureaucracy, and the algorithms are crawling through the data constantly. >> and you are. >> confident that things. >> like 800 employees at noaa and the agency that is responsible for making sure that hurricanes are, or at least are not as devastating because people know about it ahead of time. and states like yours of louisiana, you're confident that those cuts will not end up hurting the american people. they don't go beyond the waste, fraud, and abuse. that is understandable that you want to eliminate. >> yes. what you're going to see is a very a very careful attention paid to ensuring that the essential programs of the federal government, the things that make sense to american taxpayers and it follow common sense, will be sustained and supported and funded. >> former new york governor andrew cuomo is hitting the ground running. he held his

first campaign event on sunday, one day after announcing his bid to become new york city's mayor. our gloria pazmino is in new york with the latest from cuomo's camp. >> well, former governor. >> andrew cuomo has. >> officially set the stage for what is the start of his political comeback as he launches his race for new york city mayor. >> now. >> he held a campaign rally at union headquarters. for the carpenters union here in new york city, where there was a big crowd to welcome him into the race. he was welcomed on to the stage by his three daughters, and then he launched into his stump speech focused on public safety, transportation and quality of life issues. here in new york city. now, the former governor also spent a lot of time ticking through all of the accomplishments of his administration, of his time in the governor's mansion. that's a ten year record that opponents are ready to pounce on. in fact,

many of the other candidates that are running in this primary race for mayor have already been pointing to that record and saying that many of the crises that cuomo is talking about now were put in place because of policies that he installed while he was in office as governor of the state of new york. andrew cuomo's speech was specifically focused on public safety, at one point saying that he wants to make sure there are more officers patrolling city streets and on the city's subways. take a listen. >> we need more police in our subways, more police in our high crime areas, more police to stop the number of recidivists because nothing works if people don't feel safe and public safety is still job one. >> now, just like his opponents are ready to scrutinize that record, there are also opponents who say that he should not be in the race, that this is not an

opportunity for the former governor to redo his legacy, and that they are not ready to forgive him or move on from the scandals of the past, specifically the sexual harassment scandals that led him out of office. i spoke to ana maria archila. she is the co-director of the new york working families party. they held a protest event outside of union headquarters on sunday, responding to cuomo's campaign announcement. take a listen. we remember. andrew cuomo's. records and we. >> refuse to accept his rewriting of history. we refuse to accept this collective amnesia of the political class. and we are here to say hell no to andrew cuomo. a lot of crisis that we are facing is a crisis that he helped create. and in his video yesterday, he talked about this crisis as if he had had no hand in it. he maybe wants to rewrite history. i'm sure he needs it for himself,

for his own soul. but we are not stupid. we remember. >> it'll be ultimately up to new york city voters who will get to make a decision this upcoming june in the democratic primary. the general election will be held in november, so we expect to see a lot more. cuomo on the campaign trail over the next several months. gloria pazmino, cnn, new york. >> this year's mardi gras festivities in new orleans are getting a big boost in surveillance. project nola, a nonprofit, community based network, is using its web of security cameras. about 10,000 in all, to help law enforcement monitor the festivities on bourbon street and beyond. the group, which also helped authorities after the deadly new year's eve attack in the city, has cameras positioned on private property that can be outfitted with facial recognition and license plate reading software. but critics warn it could lead to privacy violations and that people of

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for alabama and georgia. that is a considerable threat and a dangerous threat to anytime you have severe weather moving through during the overnight hours, so make sure you stay weather aware. the highest threat for tornadic activity is likely here across louisiana and portions of mississippi, but you can't rule it out as the system moves eastbound into alabama and georgia. speaking of tornadoes, we are we are entering into tornado season. it peaks in may, so we'll have plenty more discussions like the ones we're having right now as we go through the coming months. now, with this weather system, it's not just the tornadoes and damaging winds. we're also watching for a flash flood threat here, too, across a big chunk of the country. in addition, the dry fuels some strong winds, maybe some lightning associated with this, uh, this this storm system is leading to the highest threat level in southeastern new mexico for fires. a level three out of three here. so make sure you stay weather aware across the

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