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charge and they should be using a scalpel, not a hatchet. let's go to cnn's jeff zeleny at the white house. jeff, is elon musk is doge. are they being sidelined at all here, jake? >> i think far from being sidelined. but the scalpel, not hatchet. certainly interesting language from the president himself revealing that he had a cabinet meeting today, not with cameras present like the one from a week ago, which elon musk was holding court, but this was one that was added to the president's schedule. and he advised cabinet members, we're told that they are in charge of their own departments. he urged them to hold on to the good people, perhaps throw the ones who he said are not very good employees aside, but made clear that it's the president and the senate confirmed cabinet secretaries who are in charge of their departments. now, all this is coming after elon musk. of course, we saw him at the president's address the other evening, really basking in thes applause from republicans in the

room. but there have been many concerns piling up from some of those same republicans about the, um, the aftermath and the fallout from some of these decisions that musk's company has been making. so the president described the whole meeting like this later to reporters. >> for a couple of. >> weeks now, what the cabinet members go first, keep all the people you want, everybody that you need. and it would be better if they were there for two years instead of two weeks, because in two years they'll know the people better. but i want them to do the best job they can. when we have good people. elon and the group are going to be watching them, and if they can cut, it's better. and if they don't cut, then elon will do the cutting. >> so the president went on to say that he certainly supports everything that elon musk and his department of government efficiency is doing. he said he wants to streamline the government, but it's also really the first sign, jake, that we have seen the president reining in, even to a small degree, the the latitude that musk has had over the entire government and

also responding a bit to really a lot of concern from republican senators. last week, 2 republican senators came here '. he went back to capitol hill just yesterday to meet with senators and house members. and jake, we're told he gave his. his personal cell phone number to senators to house members. he did not. jake. >> yeah. no. it's interesting so because trump says you should be using a scalpel, not a hatchet. meanwhile, it was just a few weeks ago. elon musk literally brandishing a chainsaw at a conservative convention. is the white house. considering how this new guidance will impact the pending legal issues, the lawsuits against doge? >> i mean, that really is a central question because so much litigation is pending up and really waiting in the wings. and a lot of the criticism has been that, you know, some of these firings have not been well thought out. so this certainly is giving a more linear sort of, um, a systematic sense to it. so that could be part of it, jake. but again, the bottom line is i

don't think we should overstate this. elon musk still wields considerable power. the white house is clearly, though, just showing that they're listening to some of those concerns from republicans. but there is no doubt he's still in charge of the government efficiency program, which is largely in charge of the government. >> jake jeff zeleny at the white house, thanks so much. meanwhile, president trump is making a major reversal on his own tariff policy. the president now suspending most tariffs on canada and mexico for one month. it is unclear whether that decision is doing anything to ease concern among some republican lawmakers who oppose these tariffs. cnn's lauren fox is on capitol hill. lauren, tell us what you're hearing from members of congress. >> yeah. for the last several days, republicans in the senate especially, have been making clear that they were not satisfied with these decisions, in part because they said it was really going to affect people in their states. manufacturers, farmers. and that was really coming from republicans who are extremely supportive of donald trump in many other areas,

including doge that you were just discussing with jeff there. here are just a litany of senators with some of those concerns. >> almost every industry in kentucky has come to me and said it will hurt our industry. and push up prices of homes and cars. >> and so i'm going to continue to. >> argue against. >> tariff should. >> he back off of it. if it goes, if it starts to hurt your constituents. >> when. >> we start losing. >> you, back off. >> you know, there's. >> such a thing as. >> strategic retreat. at the end of the day, i think we have more leverage than any other nation. but we've got to be smart and we don't have all the leverage. >> and you heard the president really addressing lawmakers just a couple of days ago, that they were going to be some pain points when it came to these tariffs. but i think the other piece of pain here is the uncertainty that so many lawmakers and their constituents are facing now that trump has once again made this reversal. jake. >> are you hearing any concern from lawmakers about just the chaos, the whiplash over the tariff policy in terms of what they can prepare their

constituents for, what their constituents can do when it comes to planning that these these tariffs might have a negative impact on? >> yeah, absolutely. jake, it's so interesting because lawmakers were really leaving for the weekend just as this news was breaking. but i caught up with one democrat, senator tammy baldwin, who when i told her about this reversal, she seemed kind of shocked. she was really trying to ask me some questions about what had transpired, because that is just how quick this is moving. and she told me, quote, if i know one thing about farmers that i represent and manufacturers that i represent, it's that they want certainty and they want to be able to plan. they have been bracing after hearing about, on and off again, tariffs for the chaos that they cause. and this seems like just another chaotic turn of events. again, just this really remarkable scene because many lawmakers had already left for the weekend when this news broke. and it just speaks to the fact that most of the week, lawmakers have been warning about the impact these tariffs could have now potentially another month break. but again,

jake, we just don't know what's around the corner. >> i know it is disquieting when lawmakers ask us in the media to figure out what's going on. it's supposed to be the other way around. lauren fox on capitol hill, thank you so much. let's bring in our panel. former democratic congressman from the great state of ohio, tim ryan, former republican official ashley davis, and politico's white house bureau chief dasha burns. dasha, you and your colleague wrote about president trump's decision to have these cabinet meetings with elon musk every two weeks. and the first line says, quote, president donald trump convened his cabinet in person on thursday to deliver a message. you're in charge of your departments, not elon musk. so is he and doge are they being sidelined a bit? and what's the backstory here? >> well. >> look, my. >> sources are. >> telling me that the number of calls that the president. has been getting. >> about this. >> has just. >> been overwhelming. >> and particularly. >> senator thune. >> coming out and saying, hey, we confirmed these cabinet secretaries. they should be the ones making these. decisions

that that really struck a chord. >> and so the president last night. called the cabinet secretaries, called elon musk and said, come to the white house tomorrow, we're going to have a conversation and and cleared up some of the questions, because i've been talking to government employees whose bosses don't know if their their bosses or not. you know, there was so much confusion. and so he told the cabinet secretaries with musk in the room, by the way, that you are in charge, you make these decisions. musk will will be there in an advisory capacity. you know, every agency just about now has doge advisers in the agency. i asked about that. my sources told me the agency heads can decide. do they want to keep those advisers there, or do they want to take their advice or not? >> so we've seen, you know, experts on nuclear weapons fired, then rehired, experts on tracing pandemics, fired and rehired people at the veterans crisis line, fired, then rehired. i mean, it must be frustrating to be in the federal government right now trying to make things work. what do you think is going on behind the scenes? >> well, absolutely.

>> and i. >> think the. >> chaos needs to stop, especially. >> as you said. >> about 95% of the. >> cabinet secretaries are. >> confirmed. >> so they're actually in charge. but from what i was told by both senate republicans and house republicans that were in the meetings yesterday with elon. >> that. >> he very much said, i'm giving the recommendations or my people are giving the recommendations. you take a look at not who's fired, but the the efficiencies that could happen if you cut x, y and z. but it's up to the cabinet secretary at the end of the day. and from what i understand as well that he said, was if you need to blame it on me, blame it on me, i'm okay with that. so i think that it is more of just a and legally he has to do this because they're talking they've been talking about this the last three weeks of is he as a special government employee. what type of authority does he really have. but this is the first time that the president himself has weighed in in such a deliberate manner on this. and that's significant. >> so we're talking about the cabinet secretaries not being part of this. and congress.

congress. i mean, just to remind people at home, the house of representatives continues to exist. the senate continues to exist. article one, these are. alive and well. these are programs and agencies and departments that were stood up by the legislative branch. i mean, where is congress? well. >> that's a hell of a question. >> i think. >> we know. i mean. >> clearly trump took. >> over the republican. >> party. >> johnson's de facto speaker. >> everything runs through trump. >> whether you're talking about crs. continuing resolutions, whatever. >> everything's going to get. >> approved by trump. >> that's why. >> i think what he said in that room. is performative. >> it's to. >> say, you know. the better word to use is scalpel. >> not. >> chainsaw. >> because people. >> are getting worried. but at the end of the day, those cabinet. secretaries are going to. >> do what trump. wants them to do and what musk wants them. >> to do. yeah, and trump also seems to be reading the room more than he is reading the stock market. he keeps saying even though he's known for

keeping an eye on the stock market monitoring, you know what's going on there? he keeps saying like he's not paying attention and the stock market keeps going down. i mean, there was one day it went up yesterday, i guess. but like generally speaking, the tariffs have been not embraced by wall street. >> but he loves the word tariffs. i heard him say at a rally even more than the word love. so this is this is something that that matters to him. that was a big platform for him. and to him it's simple and it's straightforward. the idea of reciprocity. right. even though economists might might differ with that idea. and right now it is so much more about the court of public opinion than it is about any, any changes that he's seeing. and you heard him say at the state of the union. yeah, there might be a little disturbance. um, the question that i have and i asked the press secretary, this is do americans need to buckle up and, and expect for things to get worse before they get better? >> i mean. >> what's crazy about. >> this is. >> we renegotiated nafta. >> i mean, you remember being from pa, like.

>> nafta was a huge issue in the obama-clinton. >> primary that. >> made. >> its way to the great lakes states. >> it was a huge issue, obviously in 16. trump was. >> on. >> the right side of that in those industrial states. >> and to trump's credit, as opposed to obama, he actually did renegotiate. organized labor, signed off on. >> the new nafta. >> nafta, usmca. oh, yeah. and so it. >> was an incredible. >> effort by. >> trump's team. >> by the unions. >> and rich trumka. >> and we had a great deal. >> that's lifting up. >> labor standards in mexico, which is ultimately how you start leveling the playing field. and so at the end of the day, he's. >> basically kneecapping. >> his signature initiative when he was president the last time. >> i think there's something just much broader than this, though. so we're all talking about tariffs. we understand like what it means. but i still think the general american public care about what they're paying for eggs, what they're paying for meat at the grocery store. and so that's what's impacting them every day. so we're watching the stock market go up and down. but the major,

major problem is going to be the people that voted for them. is their life better? are their groceries cheaper. and that's what i think he's going to have to defend. >> you're right. >> and these businesses. are already. baking in the tariffs. to their costs. already. they've been. >> planning on this. >> for months. they planned months in. >> advance, years in advance. so you're already seeing in. >> the. steel industry aluminum. titanium. >> you're seeing 15, 20, 25% increases in their prices already. and the tariffs were on and and off. >> that's what's going to happen. there was a report on fox, i think of a car immediately going from $80,000 to $100,000 just overnight. everyone stick around. we got a lot more to talk about yesterday on this show. democratic congressman jim clyburn of south carolina said democrats were working on a unified response to president trump. is this what he meant? a group of democrats singing we shall overcome on the house floor because congressman al green was censored in some form. we're going to discuss that next. plus, the new ruling today in the case of adnan syed,

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rights movement. the resolution against green pass 224 to 198. ten democrats joined every republican in voting to censure congressman green. we should note green is not the first lawmaker to ever heckle a president. of course, you'll remember when republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert repeatedly interrupted president biden during his first state of the union. i don't remember if republicans voted to censure them. anyway, i want to play sound from two democrats, congressman jim himes, one of the ten democrats who voted to censure green. and then there's congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. you can guess how she voted. take a listen. >> there's a deeper principle at stake here. >> which is. >> reverence for this institution. >> and when somebody. >> disrupts the the. >> institution, particularly. >> in a. >> moment. >> as. >> important. and look. >> you know. >> i have no love for donald. >> trump, but i do have reverence. >> for the office. >> of the president. >> it's really. >> because republicans.

>> just their very. >> thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. and so they have to vote on censure resolutions. >> how would you have voted if you had been in congress? >> i probably would have voted. >> to censure him. yeah. >> yeah. >> i just. think we, in. >> this chaotic time, we have to look mature. disciplined. >> we, meaning democrats or democrats? >> democrats. and i think anything that's off of that, you're missing the point. you know, people don't. the one thing. they don't like about trump is. >> the chaos. >> that. is associated with him. so if you want to start. laying the groundwork for rebranding the party, if you want to lay the groundwork for taking. >> back the. >> house and potentially. taking back the white. >> house in. >> four years. >> the brand has to change and. >> the brand has. >> to be opposite of the pendulum that's. >> going to swing back is going to. >> be. be disciplined. >> be respectful. start bringing reverence back to these institutions. like jim himes was saying. i think that's really, really important. >> now it's not an issue. >> you know, it's not a policy

position. it's a tone. it's an emotional state. and democrats are. >> missing the. >> emotional beat that's. >> happening in the country. >> right now. so congress just. al green, congressman green was waving the cane. and apparently he was saying that you don't have a mandate to take away medicaid, which is probably an effective message. but i couldn't hear what he was saying. i only found that out because he told a reporter later, speaking of rebranding and speaking of congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, i want you to take a look at this. she, along with five other democratic congresswomen, released this choose your fighter video. their take on a rather old tiktok trend, in an effort to show that democrats are going to take on the trump administration. ashley, your thoughts? >> um, well. >> i probably yeah, i wouldn't do that. there is a whole theory that any press is good press. and i was watching all the different networks and everyone's playing the video, so maybe it's good. but i do agree with you. and generally the whole conversation, i was

embarrassed when marjorie taylor greene did it. obviously it's embarrassing that what the democrats did. you don't want to be the jeffries right now defending what your democrats did during the state of the union. so no one's concentrating on all the stuff that trump said, good or bad. they're concentrating on kind of criticizing the democrats. so i don't like it either way. >> so dasha, that video presumably is there to show, hey, we're ready to be an effective opposition party. do you think that that is conveyed in the choose your fighter video? what do you what's your take? >> i think democratic voters want a whole lot more than that. and i'll tell you that during the state of the union and the democratic actions during the president's speech, some of the republican operatives i was talking to during the speech were were praising trump's speech. but the vast majority of the texts and calls i was getting, republicans were gleeful, gleeful at the response from democrats because they feel

like it undermines the democratic arguments and strengthens the republican arguments and trump's power to to see that dynamic play out in such a massive way. they're thrilled with how democrats are, or rather, are not handling this administration. >> it stepped on elissa slotkin message, which was the message., and. >> she was good. >> she was great. >> she's great. >> she's a midwestern, you know, legislator from michigan who talks about the auto industry and building stuff. and manufacturing. >> and it. >> plays into the tariff issue with canada. she's articulate. she's sharp. i served with her in the house. she's awesome. >> no. >> no. >> no, no. >> everyone everyone that displays the lack of unity among democrats, of not just the message, but how to deliver the message, which is sometimes even more important. >> yeah, thanks to one and all. appreciate it. great panel. the new meeting that was just announced after trump's sit down with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy a week ago tomorrow. devolved into that oval office shouting match that resulted in serious

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step up for ukraine. nic robertson is not there. okay, never mind. the hudson institute's rebeccah heinrichs joins me now to discuss. and rebecca, ukrainian leaders are set to meet with secretary of state marco rubio and white house envoy steve witkoff next week. zelenskyy has signaled ukraine is ready to sign that minerals deal. now, we spoke at length about the deal earlier this week about how you think it's smart for ukraine to do it, because then the u.s. is more is commercially inclined to defend ukraine. is this meeting and this deal is it is going to be all it takes to get the alliance back on track, do you think? >> well, i think we're going to have to have some smoothing over. >> between the. >> united states. >> and our nato. >> allies as well. >> if you notice. >> that right. after president trump approved. turning off. >> intelligence sharing, which. >> i think. >> is. >> actually more detrimental, has immediate battlefield consequences for ukraine. as soon. >> as he did that. >> that's when zelenskyy wrote

that more apologetic post saying that he was ready to sign the deal. so then i know that, you know, national security adviser mike waltz. >> said. >> that they were still negotiating some terms with the ukrainians, but that they were very hopeful. and then the. >> idea here. >> is that turning off this intelligence, very painful for ukraine, results truly in the russians being able to conduct assaults without ukraine being able to see where these things are coming from, that now we're going to turn that intelligence sharing back. >> on. >> u.s. envoy keith kellogg, retired general keith kellogg spoke today about president trump's decision to pause aid to ukraine. take a listen. >> very candidly. >> they brought. >> it on themselves. >> ukraine is what i mean by that. you don't negotiate peace discussions in public. you don't try to challenge the president of the united states. >> in the oval office, that. >> in fact, you need to side. >> with me and not the russians. >> what does all of this. what is going to be the long term effect of it? because it does seem to a lot of people, a lot of americans out there, are we not on the side of the good guys anymore? are we not on the side? i mean, ukraine hasn't had

elections because they're in the middle of a war. and i think even the opposition party is on board with that. um, but they are a democracy. they are an ally. russia is not a democracy. russia does a lot of horrible things, and it feels like our alliances are in terms of just like, right and wrong. >> well it's interesting. um. >> you can see opinion polling, actually, that the american people are very supportive of president trump's foreign policy before all this happened. and there's a dip now on the washington post indicates that i think the american people want the president to be tough, but not cruel, not mean. and so you kind of have to be careful there. but again, i think to to general kellogg's point, this is diplomacy conducted in, you know, in public. and zelenskyy did make a mistake by thinking he could use that public setting to kind of triangulate against the president. it didn't work out for them. but i think it's interesting that since that happened, chinese officials now have publicly said that they want the europeans to have a seat at the table. so now china seems to be trying to take advantage of the moment to pull

the europeans towards the china side. so we have to be careful if the trump administration's effort is to try to peel, you know, russia from china. you're going to see that the chinese are still closely working with the russians, but they're going to try to pull the europeans away from the united states. >> we got the signal back with nic robertson. let's bring him in. he's at the eu summit in brussels. nic, what message did president zelenskyy have today for european leaders? >> well, a sense of urgency, a sense of how much he depends on them in their efforts to raise more money for defense spending up to ÷800 billion is what they're talking about. a very, very significant change. so his message to them on that was, thank you very much. we're really grateful. and he said, i'm not just saying these words. this is this means a lot to the people of ukraine so that we know we're not alone. i think that gets to his sense of abandonment a week ago, but he's sort of moved on from that

already. he's talking about the support that he's had here. he's talking about his planned trip to saudi arabia. he's talking about the conversations he may have there with the with the crown prince at the beginning of next week, is talking about the possibility of a ceasefire or a truce in the air that would extend to the sea and of hope, hopefully building that of a seriousness for peace. this is this is also his message here in the european union. and their message to him is we've got your back. no discussions on the future of ukraine without ukraine in the room, no discussions on that affect european security. without europe in the room is a very clear message that's being sent to moscow and i think here to washington as well, jake. >> all right. thank you so much. nick. and rebecca. reuters is reporting today that ukrainian opposition leaders. so the people who want to run against zelenskyy when it's okay to have an election, they remain opposed to having an election now because they're in the middle of war. but this comes after a different report in politico

that trump officials were meeting with potential political opponents to zelenskyy about this very idea, quote, top trump allies hold secret talks with zelenskyy's ukrainian opponents. it does seem as though president trump wants zelenskyy replaced. >> well, i think at this point, what we know from the trump administration is they want zelenskyy to, you know, to relent. and so that's the official position, as you pointed out, jake, you know, different democracies do things differently. the constitution in ukraine forbids there to be an election when there's martial law, when there's a war going on. and so, as you said, even zelenskyy's political opponents oppose there being an election. so i think that's important. the other thing that's important here is to remember that china and russia continue to increase their collaboration against the west. so you're going to have europeans step up and say, look, we can help ukraine. we want to be want to have a seat at the table as well. the other thing that we haven't heard much yet from is how much the russians are going to respond to this. we started to hear a little bit, the russians are already saying

they're not going to allow european peacekeepers in ukraine. that's a key part of this. ukraine is not going to demilitarize. ukraine needs to be tough and strong. that's actually a key part of the u.s. effort to make sure that ukraine has its own domestic military capability. so even though this has been very difficult between the united states and ukraine, this is actually the easy part. the harder part is coming, and that's going to be getting the russians to stop their assault against ukraine. >> all right. rebecca heinrichs as always, so great to have you. thank you so much. raw milk has become more popular in recent years despite health and safety concerns. and now robert f. kennedy jr., the secretary of the department of health and human services, could push raw milk even more into the mainstream. that story is next. >> are you hungry? >> i'm hungry. >> oh, perfect. >> i'm so excited. >> this is. cuisine at. >> a. >> different level. >> oh, yeah. >> food makes me so happy. >> eva longoria searching. >> for spain premieres april 27th.

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>> this has been deeply disappointing to a lot of newsom supporters for. >> a couple of reasons. >> number one. >> just like you said, jake, 20 years ago, newsom was the first big city mayor to greenlight same. >> sex marriages. >> here in san francisco when he was mayor of san francisco. >> just a few weeks in. >> and that was. unpopular among. >> the. democratic party. dianne feinstein. >> called him out. >> barack obama didn't want his picture taken with him, but newsom stood his ground, and he has been a hero to the lgbtq community since then. so this is deeply disappointing. >> to them. we have. >> state legislators here in california. >> saying. >> um. >> one a wtf? >> you know, you're you're. >> basically repeating. conservative talking points here on this. and another scott wiener, who's a longtime ally of newsom, saying. >> this is this. >> is deeply disappointing. >> to be with charlie kirk and to to be saying the same things as kirk. so it's that and then the other disappointing. >> thing that. >> many are saying. here is that, uh. >> you know, newsom has. after the election, he. said democrats

should be going on shows like. joe rogan's podcast and places. >> where. >> uh, you know, democrats were to meet republican voters where they are. and newsom's been very good at that. he goes on conservative media, and he and he and he and he does things there that the viewers there are very unfamiliar with, which is like recite facts. >> um. >> and so he is not so but in this case, this podcast, which he claimed he would be stress testing, in his words, you know, republican talking points and beliefs. it was there was very little stress testing at all. i mean, he. >> it was. >> very it was very. >> um. >> friendly interview of kirk and he didn't push back on him hardly. >> at all. yeah. >> and i think a lot of democrats. >> are, are. >> sort of baffled about this is not the newsom that they've, they've seen and know. >> so a democratic strategist not uh, not in san francisco or california but in dc might think, look, this is an issue. this is an 80 over 20 issue

where democrats are in the 20 and the rest of the public is in the 80. do you see this as part of an effort for newsom to broaden his appeal for a potential run for president in 2028? >> yes. well, that's the thing. it's it's a move to the center by newsom. and but it's surprising and disappointing to many of the people who have known him for and, and worked with him for 20, 25 years here in california, where he, where he basically rocketed to national stardom because of his, take on same sex marriage and his leadership on the issue. but here, he's kind of dropped the ball. >> joe garofoli, thank you so much. really appreciate it. i'm thrilled to announce that the show united states of scandal is back this weekend for season two. sunday's episode focuses on the abscam scandal, the fbi's complex and undercover scheme to offer politicians cash bribes through hidden, hidden camera meetings by posing as arab

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