>> this actually gets to something that even without knowing that, i wanted to ask you because we've heard the white house defend the firings in various ways, including something that i want to play for you because it was said in it's kind of stuck with me, um, from one of the president's top economic advisers, speaking with reporters and facing questions from reporters in the in the briefing room. let me play this. >> being told. >> by a lot. >> of people. >> who have been let go at other. agencies that. >> they were told. >> they were. >> being dismissed. >> because of poor performance. >> when in some cases., they haven't. >> even. had a performance review yet. >> because they've only. >> been on the. >> job a couple of months. >> yeah. >> i've never seen a person who was. >> laid off for poor. >> performance say that they were performing poorly. >> how do you react to that and what are your plans now? >> well, i definitely appreciate you telling the stories of myself and other civil servants

and veterans because we have the receipts. i, i believe i've already sent your staff my performance evaluation, showing how well i've done. and the same with other veterans who have been on the news media lately. it's not based on performance. the employees who were terminated were terminated simply because they were working for less than one year with the federal government and didn't have the full protection of due process. they fired those that were the easiest to fire, and then they're moving on to other categories. um, if it's about performance, please step up. and someone from doge or the federal government. tell me where i was wrong and tell me where i can improve, because i'm going to continue serving the veteran community in some way, shape or form. i will do it in the private sector, in health care. i will do it in local government. if my performance is poor, please let me know. i want to improve for this community that i'm a part of. >> a fighter, an army veteran and continuing to fight even today. adam mulvey, thank you very much for coming in. new hour of cnn news central starts now.

>> all right. breaking this morning. economies rattled, markets plunging in response to president trump's new tariffs. the ceo of target just warned consumers will feel the impact within days. no wi-fi, no electricity, random wires sticking out of walls. just some of the issues that federal workers found when they went back to the office after president trump ordered their return. and more than 55 million americans under severe weather threats, fires, tornadoes, blizzards set to wreak havoc across the country. sara is out today. i'm john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. >> harakat al-muqawama al-islamiyya. >> and there is a lot to get to this hour. let's start with it all. an escalating trade war with the u.s .'s largest trading partners after president trump hits canada, mexico and china

with sweeping new tariffs and they hit back, we are keeping a close eye on stocks which have plummeted yesterday to see where they're going to be headed when wall street opens up. everyday americans are set to feel the pain of this. just last hour, we spoke with democratic congressman jim clyburn, and he told me that the impacts could be catastrophic for his state, south carolina. and now, as john was just alluding to this warning from the ceo of target. >> the consumer will likely see price increases over the. >> next couple of days. if you think about all the fresh produce we depend on mexico during the winter, we're going to try to make sure we can do everything we can to protect prices. but if there's a 25% tariff, those prices will go up. >> even feeling the price increase within days. also happening right now, russia is escalating its war on ukraine after president trump decides to halt u.s. aid to ukraine. and tonight, president trump makes his first major speech before a joint session of congress since

his return to power, where all of this is expected to be in focus. cnn's elena tryon is live at the white house to start us off again. and, elena, we're all going to see a very big moment this evening with this first big address to a joint session of this term. you have seen in person so many of the president's speeches while covering him on the campaign trail. what are you expecting to see tonight? >> well, i think one key question, kate, is which version of donald trump we are actually going to see tonight? is he going to try and be presidential, call for unity, something that we know his advisers had said in the past that his inaugural speech and other victory speeches were supposed to be. or is he going to give in to his impulses and try to really garner this speech, this address to his base? throw red meat to kind of the maga wing of his party. now, we do have some sense of what this is going to be about. we know that the white house said that the theme of this address is going to be, quote, the renewal of the american dream. we also

>> when whether to, how they're going to reinstate his 2017 tax cuts, the tariffs as you were mentioning, about immigration and the border as well as, um, and i think this is the big one. >> what he's going to say about trying to end foreign wars. of course, i think a lot of people, including the world. i mean, this isn't just an address to congress. the global stage is going to be watching. this speech is how he talks about particularly ukraine and russia, what type of rhetoric he uses. you mentioned, you know, me going to dozens of speeches over the last two years. the

president often used kind of favorable language when talking about authoritarian leaders. i think that rhetoric would be seen in an entirely different light now that he is president, and he would be addressing both, you know, the house and the senate. so very much many people looking forward to to what he says there. >> absolutely. elena, thank you so much, john. >> as for the democrats, one of the senate's newest members, elise slotkin, will deliver the democratic response tonight to the president's address. let's get right to cnn's lauren fox, who is on capitol hill. what else do democrats have planned for the evening? lauren? >> yeah. john, one of the challenges for democrats is to really drill down where they want to respond to president trump in this address tonight, specifically, senator chris, a democrat from delaware, said the democrats are going to have to deal with the fact that donald trump is going to hit on a lot of issues. he's going to raise a lot of concerns for democrats, and then they need to have some

kind of unified message coming out of the speech. elissa slotkin will be the official democratic response. she is a newly minted u.s. senator from the state of michigan. she is also someone who has won a series of really tough congressional races in a swing district in that state, and she really has focused on kitchen table issues, the economy, preserving medicare and social security and medicaid. she's also going to be focusing likely on the auto industry and what tariffs could mean for that industry. that's so crucial to her state back home. you know, it's really interesting because a lot of democrats are grappling with what happened on friday in the oval office between president zelenskyy, donald trump and jd vance. but they said that that is not really the kind of issue that's going to resonate for everyday americans. and if they are trying to reach across the country and make it clear what the democratic message is right now in response to donald trump, their argument is they need to be focusing on the economy. they need to be

focusing on issues that matter to more americans. so that, i expect, is going to be the focus for a lot of democrats coming out of this. we should also note that many democrats are going to be bringing federal workers who have been furloughed or fired as their guests to the state of the union. that also gives you a sense of what they want to be focusing on tonight. john. >> watching it very closely up there, lauren fowlkes on capitol hill, thank you very much. and we should note on inside politics later today with dana bash, senate majority leader john thune will be there. so do not miss that. kate. >> joining us right now david sanger, white house national security correspondent for the new york times. and errol lewis, political anchor for spectrum news, columnist for new york magazine. guys, thanks so much for being here. let's talk about the big speech tonight. gentlemen, errol, i was i was wondering as we were walking in here today how different tonight's speech would be had it been given one week ago with because within that week you had an oval office blowup with the president of ukraine, and now you have a trade war upon us.

>> yeah, there's going to be a lot more eyeballs on this, including the whole world watching to hear what president p has to say. it's going to be a real important, pivotal moment. essentially, what this administration is doing is changing sides in the war between russia and ukraine. still trying to make sense of it. the president will address it tonight. and i think that this will sort of complete the process of moving the u.s. from siding with our ally ukraine, to siding with russia in ways that are going to be very disruptive. and certainly when it comes to the market, when it comes to the economy of what we're whatever is going to happen on wall street today, we know that the tariffs are going to make changes that everyone is going to feel. it's going to be something that's undeniable. so both wall street and main street are going to feel the effects of something that's happened just this week. >> i mean, the warning from the ceo of target just this morning that people are going to feel price increases within days. that's going to be something that the president is going to have to contend with. >> the vast majority.

>> of our. >> all of our fresh. >> fruits and vegetables come from mexico. >> he said we depend on mexico in the winter, right. >> in the winter especially. >> they have a better climate and so forth. and. >> you know. >> grocery stores, they operate on something like a 2% margin. so it's not like they can absorb or even defer an increased expense. the expense goes up today because of the tariffs. the prices will go up tomorrow. literally. >> david, on ukraine and what that what we're going to hear tonight. um, donald trump cutting off military aid to ukraine. what we're going to hear about it tonight. everyone will be listening in because one thing that while the president has said and everyone around him has said, what zelenskyy needs to do is apologize. is it clear yet exactly what zelenskyy can do or say that would unfreeze military aid? >> it isn't. and, you know, we heard the president say he's got to be more grateful. but if we're making our foreign policy decisions, decisions of life and

death, whether or not a nascent democracy survives on the basis of whether there is a peek at the way two leaders have dealt with each other, and that's going to be a hard argument to make, i think, on the global stage. look, errol had this just right. what we have seen happen in the past four weeks has been a rapid shift of the united states from backing a flawed democratic ally and basically moving itself. the president would say to a middle position to negotiate, his critics would say to a pro russian position, uh, in an effort to reorient the foreign policy of the united states. and the result is that the president tonight, i think, has the high burden of explaining the moral basis for this shift, because here we had a country that was invaded. he wouldn't admit use that word by

a larger power. and we came to their aid. and i think you've seen in the polls most americans still support that idea. and then there's the question of the tactical shift, kate, which is to say that he somehow believes that this will enable him to negotiate a peace, but a peace on his terms. if you've already given away many of putin's demands before you even actually get to the negotiating table. so he's got he's got a tough argument to make here. >> i want a little bit of your reporting as well, david, on that front, because one of the things i was saying in the new york times is that in the aftermath of the oval office meeting, the trump administration immediately began having discussions about cutting off or reducing military assistance. okay, we have now seen that. but then there's this training and possibly military intelligence support for ukraine that, according to a senior official, our reporting is that the intelligence sharing continues, at least as of this morning. but how devastating would that be to ukraine? if

that is, then the next move to have that cut off? >> that would be a critical, uh, loss for them, because much of that comes from american unique capabilities, satellite capabilities, electronic capabilities. there's a facility i've written about in germany where, uh, the ukrainians, the british, the americans are constantly meeting to evaluate the intelligence about what's happening on the battlefield. and it's a big part, not the only part, but a big part of how the ukrainians have eyes on what the russians are doing and therefore had to be able to target what what their attacks are. so think about this even if there is just a cut off in the arms, when we provide about 30% of that to ukraine, or there is some cut off in, uh, the intelligence and the russians make major gains in the interim, you're going to end up entering

a negotiation with the russians potentially holding more territory, or certainly an upper hand. so if you're vladimir putin, everything that's happened in the past week, from the blow up in the oval office to this decision, is great news. >> yeah. when vladimir putin is pumped about the moves that you're making on the global stage, as fareed zakaria put it yesterday, it's. >> time to rethink. >> the world is the world is upside. the world is upside down. um, errol, on the speech tonight. this is obviously going to be a big part of it. i just spoke with congressman jim clyburn about how democrats, um, are planning to or he thinks should be responding, um, to the president during the address before and after. i want to play with you. what? he said he'd like to see democrats do. >> i'm a product of the 60s. uh, i believe sit ins were very effective. i have advocated us sitting in tonight. go, everybody show up. get in your seats. and when he's introduced,

sit in. illustrate how displeased we are with this administration. and i believe that we can do that by sitting on our hands rather than playing into his hands. >> it kind of illustrates a key question that democrats have been struggling with ever since the election, with how do you resist and not play into his hands, and also learn from what voters said when they went to the voting booths? >> yeah. >> it's important to keep in mind that we're only a few weeks into this administration, and i think there has been a bit of shock and awe. democrats and other groupings are sort of trying to figure out how they're going to resist. i mean, you had that great interview just a few minutes ago with a fired federal worker. well, there are a lot of them in 30% of them are veterans. so they're going to organize in their own way. we saw this last weekend a number of sort of spontaneous rallies and pickets outside of tesla dealerships all over the country. that's a different kind of an energy from a different kind of an activist. but jim clyburn, of course, has it

exactly right. yes, there have to be legislative fights. yes. you have to go to court and fight against some of the transparently illegal actions that have taken place. yes. you have to call out some of the self-dealing and corruption that's going on, where musk and trump are openly profiting from some of these moves and some of the chaos. but you also have to sort of do what they're probably going to do tonight, which is sit there and make clear that they're not going along with this. >> yeah. it's good to see errol. good to see you, david. thank you buddy. so a programing note. remember to tune in cnn two cnn tonight for all of our live coverage of the president's address starting at 8 p.m. eastern. john. >> all right. this morning, missing desks, no wi-fi, no electricity. that's what federal workers are finding as they return to the office under a new mandate from president trump. and we have some pictures, live pictures from mardi gras, people showing up, getting out on the streets this morning. the party is on for now, but forecasters are warning of really powerful storms, very strong winds that

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sunday. >> okay. so we're going to learn more on sunday. exactly what those responses will be. they will be retaliatory tariffs and non-tariff measures. that will be interesting to see what those look like. we also know how china is responding. they are putting retaliatory tariffs on agriculture products here in the u.s. 15 to 10% on key products like soy, corn, poultry, things that are critical that the u.s. exports. and that is going to put u.s. farmers in a critical position because they rely on china buying so much of our agriculture products. this happened in 2018, and this was something that really impacted farmers, so much so that the federal government, the u.s. federal government, had to help out farmers with market facilitation, payments, payments to offset the losses. but markets right now, at last check on the board i was seeing were really taking a tumble off of all of this news. the tariffs that went into place at midnight and also the tariffs that we're

seeing right now. also critical to note that these three countries are our biggest trading partners, right. this is going to impact $1.4 trillion worth of goods that the u.s. gets every single year. that is 40% of all goods that we get every single year. so for consumers at home, what is this going to impact food oil, cars, apparel, toys? so much of what u.s. consumers are used to getting. the likelihood of seeing higher prices is very strong. that could happen immediately. that could happen in the future, depending on how much businesses can stockpile and absorb these prices. but for the u.s. consumer, we know that they are not feeling great about the u.s. economy right now. sentiment has fallen. inflation is heating up. this injects so much uncertainty into the u.s. consumer. and that's why we heard from target this morning saying that they are worried about what the business outlook looks like. >> and what's going to come. and if something's going to give.

what is it is actually even more unclear today because hearing from president trump yesterday, when it comes to at least mexico and canada, it seems that the reason for these tariffs is now shifting. it was immigration and it had to do with drug fentanyl coming across the border. yesterday he's talking about cars. so it's all over the map. >> it's all over the map. and he gave mexico and canada 30 days to kind of get things into place. but it looks like that did not happen fast enough. and as you said, the goalpost the end line keeps shifting. this is only the beginning. this could escalate further. >> thanks, vanessa, for tracking it with us. john. >> i just want to keep those market numbers up if i can, for a moment longer, because we've been charting them since we came in overnight. this is the dow now down more than 1%. it's basically the same thing at the s&p and the nasdaq. when we came in overnight it was basically flat. but as the morning has progressed, i think investors getting more and more gloomy. the reaction from china and

mexico and canada, perhaps a little bit harsher than the administration had expected. you can see just the fall keeps on happening here. this is after huge losses yesterday. and as for that reaction from these countries, we read in politico that ontario premier doug ford threatened to shut off his province's electricity exports to the united states and block shipments of ontario's high grade nickel, which he said provides 50% of u.s. supplies. this is per the globe and mail. he added if they want to try to annihilate ontario, i will do anything, including cutting off their energy. this is energy to the united states. with a smile on his face. with us now is the man, i guess, behind that smile. doug ford, the premier of ontario in canada. premier, thank you so much for being with us. okay. what are your plans and how far are you willing to take it? >> well. >> well, first of all, i have to tell you, canadians love americans. we love the u.s.

it's one person that's causing these problems. i've talked to senators and congress, people and governors, republicans and democrats. not one of them agree with them. i've talked to business ceos of the largest companies. they totally disagree with us. and president trump ran on a mandate to lower cost to create more jobs. this is going to do exactly the opposite. the auto sector, we buy over 400% more autos than mexico, 200% more than anywhere in the in the world. and you know, he put up a smoke screen. he keeps moving the goalposts while the market is speaking loud and clear. the market is going to go downhill faster than the american bobsled team. and we're going to continue seeing in the u.s. plants closing assembly lines shut down the in the auto sector. they may last five, maybe eight, eight days before the parts that go back and forth across the border eight times. this is unnecessary. and we do have to retaliate. and i apologize to the american people. it's not you, it's your

president that's causing this problem. we're the number one customer in the world to the united states. we had a great relationship. i want to continue on with that relationship. but i will use every tool in our toolbox to send a message to president trump that this is the wrong thing to do. when warren buffett comes out and says, this is this is basically insanity. you have to listen to someone like warren buffett. >> so some of the thinking inside the administration goes something along the lines of, in the united states, we can withstand more pain than you can in canada. so how much pain can you withstand here? >> well, we have the lowest debt in the g7. the united states have more debt than anyone. he wants to come and get a tax break. put a tax break through. he's relying on two congress people. he loses two people. that's it. these tax breaks aren't going. and he's doing this on the backs of the american people. he's going to

create job losses. inflation is going up. the market's dropping. gas prices are going up. groceries are going up for what? we have a very fair trading balance. and if we exclude the energy the oil that we ship down 4.3 million barrels a day to keep cars going, the u.s. has a $50 billion surplus on everything else on manufacturing. and i'm fine with that. 55 billion is fine. but we're your number one customer to 28 states have directed us to take off all the alcohol. we're the largest purchaser of alcohol in the world. we sell to 30 or they we buy from 35 states, 3600 products over a billion. they're coming off. we have directed our team to pull off the $30 billion of contracts and not use any american companies. and again, i apologize to the american people, but the red states, the people have to start calling their senators, their governors

and congresspeople to stop this insanity, that one person is causing. >> what do you understand? the demands to be? on the one hand, we've heard over the last few weeks it's it's cracking down on the border, going after fentanyl distribution. now, the president is saying he wants much of the manufacturing returned to the united states. what do you think the ask is? >> well, you can't in the auto sector and no one knows what the ask is. it depends on what he wakes up and eats in the morning. and that changes. um, you know, the auto sector. you can't unscramble an egg that's been made since the 1960s in the auto pact. and expect plants to just open. open up. we buy as many cars as we sell them down to the u.s. it's been working. it's a great, great system that we have right now with all the auto sectors, but it will only last eight to maybe ten days at the max. and then you're going to see auto plants being shut down. i wish we knew, uh, what the president wanted. we need to

sit down and move forward on the usmca and put this behind us. >> i just got to ask you very briefly how upset, how mad are. canadians aren't aren't usually the types to get angry. but how are canadians this morning? >> they're absolutely livid. they're furious because we look at the united states as our family. we're one big family. we've stood shoulder to shoulder in wars and every other crisis there is. we love the american people, but unfortunately, the president has gone sideways on us, ourselves. and, you know, we power ontario powers 1.5 million homes and businesses in new york, and michigan and minnesota. i've talked to all three governors. i want to ship more electricity. i want to send more critical minerals. but i will not hesitate to use every tool in our toolbox to protect ontarians and canadians across the board. i've never seen patriotism run

so wild across our country, right down to the grocery aisles. people refuse to buy american products. this this is not right. we love america. we love the people. and the president needs to be stopped. simple as that. >> uh, doug ford, the premier of ontario and canada. we do appreciate your time. thank you for being with us again. we continue to watch the u.s. markets now off their lows by a little bit, but still dropping precipitously after the open. all right. new this morning, a ukrainian official says the country will run out of artillery in just months after president trump put a pause on aid. >> liberty. >> liberty mutual. >> is all she talks about. since we saved hundreds by bundling our home and auto insurance. >> it's pronounced liberty. >> liberty, liberty. nice try kid. >> only pay. >> for what you need. >> liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. >> if you're frustrated with occasional bloating or gas, your body's giving you signs. it's time to try a line. a line

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>> this morning, the white house has just announced the list of guests that will be attending tonight's presidential address, along with first lady melania trump. according to the white house, they include the mother and sister of laken riley, the nursing student who was murdered by an undocumented immigrant last year. her death became a rallying cry for donald trump during the presidential campaign. cnn's betsy klein has more details for us. it is always interesting who the first lady brings along with her as guests in her box during a state of the union, or an address like this. who else will be joining her? >> yeah, kate, it's so instructive. well, president trump is expected to touch on his accomplishments so far and also preview upcoming priorities. and the guests in first lady melania trump's box really give us a blueprint of what to expect from this speech. her guests represent a number of key issues, from immigration and border security to the economy

to culture wars that the president is likely to highlight tonight. they include the family, the widow and daughters of that firefighter who was killed in butler, pennsylvania, during the attempted assassination of trump. corry, of course, died trying to protect his family during that rally, shielding them from bullets. there are guests representing the administration's immigration and border security policies, including the mother of a 12 year old girl murdered by two undocumented immigrants during a walk to a convenience store. and as you mentioned, the mother and sister of laken riley that 22 year old georgia student killed by an undocumented immigrant while out for a run will be on hand, as well as roberto ortiz, a border patrol agent. the president is likely to put a focus on law and order. he will welcome the widow of jonathan miller, an nypd officer shot and killed during a traffic stop. and we should expect the president to highlight his executive action on a major political issue from the campaign, of course, banning transgender women from competing in women's sports. the first lady will host a former high school athlete who, according to

the white house quote, had her dreams of competing in college sports crushed in a volleyball match when a biological man playing on the opposing women's team spiked the volleyball at payton's face, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury. and as the president positions himself as a deal maker with russia, we will see mark fogel that american teacher wrongfully detained for more than three years in russia, returning to the u.s. last month after a deal negotiated by the administration. kate. >> yeah, there is a lot there. as you said. very well, betsy, it's very instructive who joins the first lady as guests on these big moments. it's great to see you. thank you so much. >> we've had a very busy morning, very jittery morning here. as the markets have responded to the new tariffs from president trump. canada, mexico, china all responding. i think we have a live look at the markets right now. you can see the dow down now well over 1% as with the s&p. and this follows just giant losses yesterday two there was the hope it would rebound this morning. >> now we know china canada and mexico are fighting slapping

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