to isolate taiwan, or trying to decide to take taiwan? >> well, it's a very interesting point. it's a great question actually, but this would certainly, uh, i can't say minimize that would be a catastrophic event, obviously, but it will at least give us a position where we have in this very, very important business, we would have a very big part of it in the united states. so it would have a big impact if something should happen with taiwan. >> and russia. are you looking at relieving russian sanctions if there is a peace deal? >> well, we're going to make deals with everybody to get this war, including europe and european nations. and they've acted very well. you know, they're good people. i know most of them are friends of mine, the heads of state, the heads of the various countries, prime ministers from, uh, the different. i got four prime ministers and four prime ministers and five presidents called me over the last two days. and they want to work it out. they want to get it worked

out. and i think they're also, you know, they're talking money, but the money is less important than the deaths. we're talking thousands of young people a week. and people would say, why do i care about ukraine? young people? why do i care about and not all young, but they're pretty young, you know, ukraine is running a little bit low and they're getting older. they're recruiting older people. it's a very, very sad thing that's happening over there. and we want to get it finished. we want to stop the death. >> you talk about agriculture on the tariffs. is there any room left for canada and mexico to make a deal before midnight? and should we expect those chinese tariffs, the extra 10% to take effect? >> room left for mexico or for canada. no. the tariffs you know they're all set. they go into effect tomorrow. >> and on time. >> mr. president. >> just to. >> follow up on my colleague's question. >> and just so you understand, vast amounts of fentanyl have poured into our country from from mexico and, as you know, also from china, where it goes to mexico and goes to canada and

china also had an additional ten. so it's ten plus ten. and and it comes in from canada and it comes in from mexico. and that's a very important thing to say. yeah. >> please go ahead. decided if you're going to suspend military aid to ukraine. >> have you. >> made that decision. >> well i haven't even talked about that right now. i mean, right now we'll see what happens. a lot of things are happening right now as we speak. i mean, literally as we speak. i could give you an answer and go back to my office, the beautiful oval office. i could go back into the oval office and find out that the answer is obsolete. it's like his business. it's obsolete. you come up with a new chip and it's obsolete about two minutes later. right? but that's what's good about his business. that's why he's the only one that's successful in it. >> but just to follow up. >> my colleague's. >> question from russia, saying that your foreign policy is largely in line with their vision, should that be concerning to americans? >> said, what. >> should that be concerning to americans? >> read the statement. >> that russia russia says that

your administration's foreign policy is, quote, largely in line with their vision. >> well, i tell you what, i think it takes two to tango, and you're going to have to make a deal with russia, and you're going to have to make a deal with ukraine. you're going to have to have the senate, and you're going to have to have the consent from the european nations, because i think that's important. and from us, i think everybody has to get into a room, so to speak, and we have to make a deal. and the deal can be made very fast. it should not be that hard a deal to make. it can be made very fast. now, maybe somebody doesn't want to make a deal, and if somebody doesn't want to make a deal, i think that person won't be around very long. that person will not be listened to very long, because i believe that russia wants to make a deal. i believe certainly the people of ukraine want to make a deal. they've suffered more than anybody else. we talk about suffering, they've suffered. but if you think about it. under president bush, they got georgia right, russia got georgia under

president obama. they got a nice big submarine base, a nice big chunk of land where they have their submarines. you know that, right? crimea under president trump, they got nothing. and under president biden, they tried to get the whole thing. they tried to get the whole big, uh, big ukraine, the whole thing. if i didn't get in here, they would have gotten the whole thing. so, uh, i can only say you can go back to bush, you can go back to obama and go back to biden. they took a lot. the only one they didn't get. you know what i gave them? i gave them anti-tank missiles. that's what i gave them. i gave them, uh, sanctions on russia, on russia. i gave them javelins. you know, the javelins. you know, when they took out all those tanks, you know, the tanks were heading to kyiv by the hundreds and they were unstoppable. and i gave them javelins. so, you know, i

really, uh, putin is the one that will tell you this is not been so good for them. the fact is that i just want fairness, i want fairness, but think of it. i gave russia nothing. except grief. i gave them nothing. i gave them sanctions and javelins. that's what i gave them. obama gave them sheets. and you heard that statement before? it's a very famous. trump gave them javelins and obama gave them sheets. and then they say, how close i am to russia. let me tell you, we have to make a deal because there are a lot of people being killed that shouldn't be killed. but remember, trump gave them nothing and the other presidents gave them a lot. they gave them everything. >> on trade. you met with president, argentine president javier milei at cpac. he wants to sign a free trade agreement with the united states. is that something that you would consider even with argentina, or consider anything? >> and argentina? i think he's great, by the way. i think he's a great leader. he's doing a great job. he's doing a fantastic job, brought it back

from oblivion. yeah, well, look at things. we're looking at the uk with things. it doesn't have to be tariffs but tariffs are easy. they're fast, they're efficient. and they bring fairness. for instance when people kill their their dollar their equivalent of the dollar whatever, whether it's the wan or the yen in japan or the yuan in china, when they drop them down, that gives us that puts us at a very unfair disadvantage. so all i have to do is say, howard, we're going to have to raise the tariffs a little bit because i've called president xi. i've called the leaders of japan to say, you can't continue to reduce and break down your your currency. you can't do it because it's unfair to us. it's very hard for us to make tractors. caterpillar here when japan, china and other places are killing their currency, meaning driving it down. so all of these things add up. and the way you solve it very easily is with tariffs. because when they do that, instead of having to make phone calls every day like

i used to do with, uh, certain leaders, president xi a little bit, a lot of phone calls talking about the fact that they're lowering their yuan, they're lowering it down. and that makes it very, very hard for us. so this way, i just say, look, let them do that and we make up for it with the tariffs. >> but speaking with mexican president claudia sheinbaum. >> sure i will. i have a lot of respect for her. i have a lot of respect for her. >> are you open the president? mr. president, take effect. it'll be 20% on china. now, how high are you willing to go against china? >> well, i can't say. it depends on what they do with their currency. it depends on what they do in terms of a retaliation with some kind of an economic retaliation, which i don't think they're going to retaliate too much. hey, look, the united states has been taken advantage of for 40 years. the united states has been a laughing stock for years and years. that's why this gentleman is built in taiwan instead of building here. it would have been better if he built here. if we had a president that knew what they

were doing, and we had a lot of them very bad on trade. look, i'm a huge fan of ronald reagan, but he was bad on trade, very bad on trade. he allowed a lot of people, a lot of business to be taken. so i say that with due respect because he was so great on other things, but he was bad on trade. we are setting records right now. records like nobody has ever seen before. when you have companies like this coming in and almost 40% of their company in one signature is going to be devoted to what he does, which is one of the most important, important businesses in the world. that's an unbelievable thing. when apple now is going to start building all of their plants here, all because of what we've done in terms of it's not because he likes me or they like me. they don't probably like me at all. i don't know, i think he likes me a little bit at least. but you know what? it's it's it's the incentive we created or the negative incentive. i mean, it's it's

going to be very costly for people to take advantage of this country. they can't come in and steal our money and steal our jobs and take our factories and take our businesses and expect not to be punished. and they're being punished by tariffs. it's a very powerful weapon that politicians haven't used because they were either dishonest or stupid or paid off in some other form. and now we're using them. >> president xi said. have you spoken with president xi about this? this time? >> i want to tell you that. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. thank you very much. >> from andrew. >> cuomo running for new york city mayor. >> we've been listening to president donald trump in the roosevelt room at the white house. notably his comments vowing tariffs set to be levied against canada and mexico at midnight of 25%, coming as the dow is just dropping. and since trump started speaking roughly at about 2:55 p.m., markets have

gone down the dow roughly by about 140 150 points. it's now down nearly 700 points on the day. the president saying there is no room left for mexico or canada regarding negotiations that might allow those countries to evade these tariffs. the president saying that a lot of fentanyl is still coming across the border, even though the amount of fentanyl apprehended across the border with canada coming into the united states account for accounts for roughly 1% of all that's stopped coming into the united states. he also spoke a lot about ukraine. most notably, he said that speaking about president volodymyr zelenskyy, if someone doesn't want to make a deal on ukraine, that person won't be around for very long. >> that's right. he said he doesn't think the minerals deal is dead. and he said he's going to get back. u.s. aid sent to ukraine. and a lot more. let's go to nick paton walsh, who is in kyiv. he also made, we should note, nick misstatements about the age of ukrainian troops. he was repeating something that j.d. vance said that was incorrect in that oval office

meeting. uh, he was saying they're running low, uh, recruiting older now. certainly. they're actually under pressure for not recruiting younger troops and sparing some of the younger folks there in ukraine. but just take us through what you heard. um, and the impact obviously, this continues to have there in ukraine. >> yeah. just to go into that issue on recruitment. yeah. look, it's fair to say that ukraine has deliberately not recruited between the ages of 18 and 25 to essentially allow there to not have that part of their doubt by the war. and they've come under some pressure from the biden administration to push into that part of the age range. so some of the troops you meet on the field, they are in their 30s and 40. some are indeed older. and it's true to say ukraine is experiencing manpower issues too, as indeed is russia, and possibly a more acute fashion given the attrition rate and horrific casualties they tolerate there too. but i think this is an interesting talking point, but

it is essentially repeating a kremlin narrative to some degree that ukraine is forcing sort of the elderly out onto the front lines. i think that's fair to describe as an inaccurate part of the picture here, too. but it was interesting to hear donald trump not necessarily suggest that he's thinking about canceling aid to ukraine. that's a thought that's sort of been knocked around some circles over the past day or so, also suggesting that zelenskyy, you know, possibly needs to be more appreciative. it was interesting also to to try and hear him cast himself as tough on russia and talk about how, as is true, to say that the trump administration did give lethal aid to ukraine during the first trump term, he incorrectly suggested that during george w bush's term that somehow russia got georgia. yes, there was a war in 2008, and that did involve a russian incursion deeper into georgia. but they pulled back and continued to retain an area which they had some control of before anyway. but he's casting himself there to some degree as tough. and

russia somehow unclear how he's found the notion that if it wasn't for him, somehow russia would have taken all of ukraine. i think that's what he was intimating in that statement. he's been around for six weeks, and certainly the key plank of ukrainian support from the united states has been unquestioned as well. so i think it's interesting to see the tone he tried to take on that. perhaps sensitive to suggestions that maybe when the kremlin says you share their global vision, comments that were recorded earlier by the kremlin but been put out more recently, that maybe there's something there he needs to try and counter act. but i think also to really pressing questions about how this peace deal moves forward. he was complimentary about the europeans, that he was friends with them, but essentially said, if you don't get on board with the peace deal, you may not be around for long. and i think that's another pressure point that will be troubling for many in kyiv about the influence the white house clearly wants to have on who they think they can leave to be and make president here in ukraine. >> yeah, significant point, he said when asked what he wants to

see from president zelenskyy. gratitude. he said he should be more appreciative of the president, also saying he expects an update on the minerals deal coming tomorrow. during his joint address to congress. quickly, i just want to point out for our viewers the dow jones now tumbling another 100 points since we started speaking. so it's down nearly 800 points on the day. i want to go to matthew chance in moscow because, matthew, it's clear that trump wants concessions from ukraine in order to secure this peace deal. he hasn't specifically mentioned what concessions he wants from the kremlin, though. >> yeah, it's. >> pretty striking, isn't it, that, you know, he's consistently. >> talking about how zelenskyy, president zelenskyy of ukraine needs. >> to. >> make painful concessions to to make sure there's peace and to stop the people dying that that president trump consistently talks about. but he doesn't mention at all what what he wants to see russia do, what concessions for the sake of peace. he'd like to see moscow take. um, and i think that's

probably because he's not really talking to them about the possibility of making concessions. um, behind closed doors, though, we know that there are talks underway between moscow and washington about a whole range of other issues, business, economic deals that are being tabled behind closed doors, um, things like energy deals. according to the chief kremlin envoy or one of the main kremlin envoys to the us-russia talks, things like, um, you know, issues of investment. there have been calls for. i research to be done jointly. even a mars mission to be done jointly as well. but you know, what seems to have happened in this reset of relations between washington and moscow, which which is currently underway, is that the the issue of the ukraine war has been relegated to just one issue, possibly even a sideline issue where while the leaders and their officials talk about a whole range of other areas in which the relationship can be reset with the kremlin,

for its part, has been playing down, um, the extent of the dialog that's been taking place between the two governments. in fact, within the past few minutes, i got a message from the kremlin spokesman, dmitry peskov, saying that russia is still, quote, waiting for a substantial dialog before it makes any sort of, you know, kind of characterizations of how the how progress is going in the talks and in the the reset of relations, to coin a phrase, between washington and moscow. so publicly, the kremlin remaining tight lipped. but, you know, privately, of course, they must be sitting back and sort of enjoying, um, watching the the western alliance unravel. >> indeed. matthew chance in moscow for us. let's head now over to the white house, where jeff zeleny is keeping his eye on things. uh, you know, we're watching moment to moment how this relationship weathers this storm, and it is continuing to be rocky. but he does say that

he thinks the deal, the mineral deal is not dead, as we also watch the markets tumble ahead of these tariffs expected. >> brianna, it is quite the split screen moment really just illustrating the challenges on a variety of fronts facing this new administration. >> but first. >> on the dow, i mean, the president famously, uh, judged his first presidency by the performance in the stock market. when it is going up, when it is not. he, of course, says he does not follow it all that carefully. but there is no doubt, as the market. >> is. >> certainly reacting to the words he said, once again pledging and vowing to put those tariffs in place on canada and mexico. of course, we stood here a month ago and said it was on the verge of doing so, and then he backed away. so we shall see when the ink dries on the actual paper. but as of now, he was not backing away from that threat at all. he said the fentanyl flow has not stopped at all. of

course, that's, essentially not coming from from canada and more from mexico. but he is threatening the tariffs. and on the other front of ukraine, uh, he clearly has not dialed down the the rhetoric or the anger, uh, saying once again that zelenskyy is not appreciative enough, never mind zelenskyy. throughout the weekend, as he was meeting with european leaders, repeatedly thanked the united states. so it certainly both of these fronts will be front and center in the president's speech tomorrow evening, his first speech to a joint session of congress, basically like a state of the union. but since he's a new president, he's not actually reporting on the state of the union. he's delivering a joint address or an address to a joint session of congress. but certainly these are two of the biggest challenges. of course, so many others with high prices, inflation, et cetera.. but, uh, there's no doubt the white house is keeping an eye on the markets and we'll see which way they're going, at least at this moment. on the threat of tariffs. >> all right. jeff zeleny, thank you so much for that report. and ahead on cnn news central, when

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imported goods from mexico and canada will go into effect. china will also see its current tariff doubled to 20%. let's discuss with roben farzad. he's a business journalist and the host of full disclosure. robin, thank you so much for joining us. obviously, we're already seeing the impact of this threat on wall street. how soon could consumers start feeling the effects of these additional tariffs? >> well, i think for starters, it's a whole new school of management and negotiation. i mean, you come in with equal parts bluster, brinksmanship, smack talk, charm. i mean, the president of mexico is great. she's not great. she's not doing enough. and so everybody, you know, the. only real indicator, the only real check and real time indicator you have on that is markets. you see bond markets. you see mexico's currency. you see the canadian dollar which has been very weak. and obviously the dow doing what it did today. so markets interpret that in real time. when we start feeling it in terms of car parts and avocados at chipotle and whatnot, i mean

that is up to manufacturers. >> now all three countries have promised to respond when these tariffs are imposed. what industries do you think they'll target? >> i mean, where does an american car stop and a mexican car start? i mean, you could take a dodge ram. right. these are made by stellantis is like an old chrysler. there are essential parts that are made in mexico. you look at volkswagen, which is a german car manufacturer. there's bmw and toyotas that are made in the united states that need parts and equipment that come from canada and mexico. so right now, those companies and these economies and their central bankers are saying, what do you want from us, exactly? i think they're trying to interpolate what would trump be able to pitch as a win? i mean, you see the last grain of fentanyl coming across the border. does it require that you just give him the chance to qualitatively say, all right, the borders are safe, we're not going to slap you with 25% tariff. so they're looking for actionability and

they see it as a doom loop. if they have to call the bluff and come out and slap us back with 25%. i mean, certainly mexico in terms of textiles, agriculture, so much that is manufactured, that is offshored there. if you go to a walmart and target, just look at the things that are made abroad that have given you that that chance for, you know, the dividend discount in the united states. i mean, that is all jeopardized immediately at a time when inflation is really front and center in the u.s. >> yeah. those beloved avocados. i do want to ask you about what trump laid out as a potential pathway to doing business in the style that you described, trump's style, and he talked about tsmc, this taiwanese chip maker that's visiting the white house today. the event that we watched earlier was part of this announcement, $100 billion deal of investment by these chip makers. but this chip maker in the united states, the president talks about these companies building here. is it more likely that we'll see that kind of foreign investment in the united

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national oceanic and atmospheric administration, which you probably know is noaa. it's the parent agency of the national weather service. thank you so much for being with us. if you could just talk to us a little bit about what you're seeing, because there's more than 800 noaa employees that were fired last week. you say more than 100 of those were national weather service employees. so as we're looking at this kind of severe weather, do you have a sense about the roles that those fired employees would play in a scenario like this? >> yeah. >> thanks for having me, brianna. >> and i'd. >> start by saying there's never a good time to terminate people within the weather. service or noaa writ large who called out the dust storms. but i'd also point out tornado season is right behind, followed by hurricane season. then we're going to have the summer with heat, flood, droughts. the fact that over 100 people were fired from the weather services means the american public and industries and. communities will

get diminished services. >> with. >> respect to weather. >> so often we hear, and this is what we're hearing about every agency. oh, these aren't frontline people, but can you speak to what happens when support staff at noaa or the national weather service, or canned what the trickle down effect is to people who fill critical roles? >> yeah. >> well, first, i would say noaa has always been operating at an understaffed level, especially in the weather service. and while i was administrator, i regularly made the argument that we needed to see more people brought in. and it is forecasters, it's information technology specialists, it's electronic specialists. these these firings are indiscriminate and misguided. and what it means is that the kind of. >> products and. >> services that we expect, that we pay one penny for a day for every american are going to be less frequent. they may end up being less accurate, and we won't see as many of them. so

while you may think of the weather as the information you get to decide to go on a picnic, don't forget that it is critical for all aspects of the economy. agriculture, transportation, electricity. and so these cuts, which are beyond cuts to the bone, will result in a reduction of services that americans are paying for right now. >> axios is reporting that meteorologists in charge at about a dozen forecast offices in the national weather service's central region retired. five left in the eastern region. what do those meteorologists in charge do? tell us why they're important. >> well, basically, the meteorologists in charge are the chief operating officers at each of the 122 weather forecast offices around the country. so every one of your audience within probably a 50 or 75 miles, has a weather forecast office. the mc is the one who is in charge. the mc makes the

decision about how much effort to put into what services, what warnings, what watches. the mc is the critical person who makes the decision about what supporting information people will get from the foes. and if we lose the mcs, if we lose the warning coordination meteorologist, if we lose the emergency meteorologist who basically surged to areas where we're getting big storms, we will see loss of life. we will see more damage of property, and we will see economic loss. >> i mean, it's an alarm that you're sounding there. rick. rick spinrad, thank you so much for your insights. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> still ahead, a major reversal. the trump administration suspends operations and planning for offensive cyber operations against russia. how some fear this could leave the u.s. open to major attacks. >> the itch and rash of moderate

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>> because because i can. >> tell you, having served on the intelligence committee and the senior democrat. >> on the cyber. >> security committee. >> the people who. >> conduct these. >> operations, they're essentially the big dude who's armed, who sits outside a jewelry store that always gets hit up by the bad guys, and we're taking away that guy, and we're telling the bad guys, come on in and take our crown jewels, and who's going to get hurt by this small businesses. when i talk to my constituents and i've got some of the biggest companies in the world in my district who get hit all the time, and there's many small businesses who are affected by them getting hit because of the services connected to them. small businesses tell me it's coming from russia. it's state actors in russia, and then russia creates this environment there where terrorists, cyber criminals are allowed to operate freely. the best chance we have is that we can punch these guys in the face all day long. if they're trying to hit us and put them on our heels. that's not going to be occurring

anymore, according to this report. and that's going to hurt small businesses, financial institutions all across the u.s. >> so you reject the argument that. pausing these offensive operations is helpful or even necessary in expediting negotiations with the kremlin over the future of ukraine. >> yeah. to anyone who would say pausing this operation would be helpful as it relates to ukraine. well, you know, come to me tomorrow when a small business says that they were not hit by russia, we see it happening every day in real time. so if russia were to tell its own people inside its government and the cyber actors outside its government who are harbored by the government, don't hit america anymore, then i would say maybe that's a fair deal. but that would also mean trusting russia. and that's never to me been an idea that's paid off in our favor. >> pivoting specifically to ukraine, do you think a deal for peace would be more likely if

president volodymyr zelenskyy were to step aside the way that some in the administration have suggested? >> that's what putin wants. so, no, i don't agree with that at all. and frankly, as somebody who has been to ukraine during this war, it's maddening to see that we as a country who always fought the axis of evil, are now joining russia in their demands on ukraine. and, boris, let me lay this out for your viewers as to why should we be helping ukraine? if you look around the world, our biggest economic enemy is china, our biggest geopolitical enemy is russia. and in a matter of three years, without losing a single u.s. soldier, we have decimated their military and their economy. it's been the greatest return on investment for any military expenditure ever. and as far as the return on investment for soldiers lives, it's infinity because you can't divide by zero. so just economically, this

makes sense. and the money that's being spent, yes, it's a lot of money, but it's being spent inside the united states to create jobs here. i talked to ukrainian soldiers when i was over there and stay in touch with them during this conflict. and one of them once told me, you know, what gets us through this is that we know in america you don't leave your friends in the fields. and to walk away from that, people will. it will take 100 years to unsee what happened in the oval office last week. as far as friends that we're going to need in the world for any conflict that may come our way. >> lastly, congressman, before we go, trump's joint address to congress tomorrow, i wonder, are you attending and who you might be bringing as a guest? >> we're going to be announcing our guest very shortly and still thinking through, you know, whether this is something even worth sitting in the audience for. i went to the inauguration because i wanted to be witness and be a check on this guy. i

don't want to go to a maga rally. and so i'm just being straight up with you right now. i'm still thinking through how can i be most effective and still play my role as representative? >> congressman eric swalwell, we'll leave the conversation there. thanks so much for the time. >> my pleasure. thanks. >> still ahead, spacex is launching another megarocket test flight in just a few hours. it's after another one exploded a few weeks ago. we have more on this mission in just moments. >> the presidential address to congress tomorrow at 8:00 on cnn. meet noodles. >> she's part short hair.

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streaking across the sky there above turks and caicos, which is also a beautiful place, adding to the wonderment of the scene. the investigation into that explosion is ongoing. we have former nasa astronaut garrett reisman with us now. all right, garrett, full disclosure, you're a former senior advisor for space. tell us, though, your thoughts on this eighth attempt to launch this mega rocket. >> well, i boris. hi, brandon. good to be back with you on the program. anytime spacex launches this enormous rocket, it's it's a great show. so i'll be tuning in. it's always very exciting. uh, but what they're trying to do today is basically repeat what they wanted to do the last time on the seventh test. and the hallmark of a good test campaign for spacex. the way they go about doing this is even if it ends up in a massive explosion, that they learned something important, they fixed that thing, and then they move on. and the next time they test, they go further, move the ball

downfield and make more progress. that didn't quite happen the last time. and the last time they, uh, you know, up until then, the first six tests, they went further each time and made new accomplishments every time. the last time they got cut a little bit short. it's like they didn't quite get the ball back to the line of scrimmage, if you will. and so i'll be watching very carefully this time to see if they manage to do better. >> yes. i wonder if it didn't result in them gleaning a ton from what happened, if they were still investigating the last explosion. how do they then go about fixing what went wrong? >> well, i'm sure they learned a ton and they always do. they get a lot of data and they learn every time. and to be fair, this is the first flight. the last time. the seventh time. it was the first flight of a new model of the of the starship. uh, the second stage. and so there's bound to be some growing pains. uh, and i'm sure that they. and i know that they did find out what went wrong. it was a leak

in the propulsion system that caused a fire in what we call the attic. and that's what brought down the starship the last time around. and they've made some changes, and i'm very confident we'll fix that problem. and, uh, hopefully this time we'll see them get all the way up into space and then entry, uh, and test out, really take this thing for a really good test drive to see if the improvements that they made help it get back through the atmosphere. >> fire in the attic is never good. right. we all know that. so tell us how the success of spacex's starship influences other private space companies and the future of commercial spaceflight. >> well, really, the future of this whole industry depends on on starship being successful. uh, it's going to be enormously impactful, not only because of the massive size of the rocket, not only because you can refuel it on orbit if it works out great, and you can take it to other places in the solar system like mars, but also because the

economic aspect of it, if it's fully reusable, we get back both the booster and the ship. uh, then it will drop the cost of getting a kilogram of payload up to orbit. it's already come down from about $63,000 a kilogram to around $2,000 per kilogram for the falcon rockets. this could drop another zero off that price tag. and if it does, there's all kinds of business opportunities that become profitable and realistic. >> it's fascinating stuff. all right, garrett. thank you so much. we are hoping for a show, but not too much of a show this time. garrett reisman appreciate it. >> thank you. >> still ahead, best actor winner adrien brody in a sticky situation after tossing his used gum at his girlfriend. what the heck about that? we'll talk about it next.

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the oscars, adrien brody was about to step on stage. on stage to accept best actor for the brutalist. but he forgot he had something in his mouth. so he turns around, tosses his gum to his girlfriend, georgina chapman. she runs to the front row to catch it. >> good catch. she actually did a great job of catching gum. gum is not that easy to catch. some folks on social media say they were completely grossed out. this sparked an online debate about whether throwing your already chewed gum to your significant other is sweet, or an experiment you should never try. brianna, what do you think? >> at the oscars, i'm going with the latter. it's the oscars. don't throw gum at your girlfriend. people. come on, come on. >> we know this. there's no cocktail napkin. are you going to put it at the bottom of oscar? >> the cheek. you got it. >> you keep. wow. >> up next, the arena with kasie hunt debuts right now. >> thanks so much for joining. >> us.