your department? >> yeah. it's unimaginable. and that was the honor of my lifetime to serve in president obama's cabinet for seven years. and we didn't do everything perfect. we made more than our share of mistakes. but i can tell you our heart was always in it for the right reasons. and if i had someone like elon musk looking over my shoulder, there's no way anyone with any talent, any real integrity, any clear moral compass is going to work under those conditions. and so it's just it's unimaginable to me. and it's just you're going to get people leaving. you're going to have very, you know, in, unskilled people coming into those positions, people who aren't qualified for those jobs, but they're setting up chaos. that's what trump is good at. one thing, it's chaos. and that's what you saw today, and that's what you have. the kind of, you know, elon musk looking down, looking over the shoulders of our cabinet administrators, cabinet officials. it's unimaginable to me. >> all right. arne duncan, former education secretary in the obama administration. we appreciate your time tonight. thank you so much for being with us.

>> thank you. >> the news continues right here on cnn. >> outfront next. breaking news. trump retreats as the markets tank. new jobs, numbers showing a bleak picture. prices going up. still, trump and his wealthy allies, though, say it is a small price to pay. plus, a top ukrainian official accusing the u.s. of destroying the world order as the kremlin makes it clear putin is not interested in peace and trump's nephew speaks out, no longer just taking on his uncle. but also elon musk. fred trump is our guest. let's go out. >> front. >> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. trump backing down as the markets nosedive. the president pumping the brakes on his trade war as major concerns about the u.s. economy grow. tonight the dow losing 428 points right now on track for its worst week in two years. and the nasdaq is now in correction territory. that means it's down 10% from its peak 7% since trump took office. and they are down

even as trump gave in to mexico and canada today, pausing his 25% tariffs. >> on some of these exemptions. >> that have been announced in some of these. temporary delays, have you been influenced in those decisions. >> because of. >> the market reaction? >> well, there are no delays at all. no, nothing to do with the market. i'm not even looking at the market. >> of course there was delays, right, because they were going to do them. then you had the calls with the trudeau and sheinbaum and delayed them a month. and now here we are. and now they're delayed again. as for not looking at the market, that would be new, because for years trump has been aggressive about touting just how well the markets do when he's in charge. >> since the election, the stock market has broken one record after another. the stock market is good because a lot of people think we're going to win the election. we had a great stock market. we're hitting record stock market numbers. another great all time stock market record. the stock market's up

again. >> well now it's down. we're not hearing about it. and his on again off again trade war is setting alarms off around the world i mean heads of state investors consumers. nobody really knows whether to take trump seriously because he does continue to say he's going to do them. and there's no way he won't. and then he delays it, pauses it. the question is whether he's crying wolf. nobody is is clear at this point where this is one thing is for certain, though, underneath all of this is that prices have gone up, prices have gone up at least 3% over the past month. egg prices and housing prices have gone up. the thing is, though, if you listen to trump and some of his wealthier allies, these price increases are a small price to pay for the maga agenda as the american people ready to get the country back on track and do what it do what it needs to, or do what it takes to make that happen. >> absolutely. we're going to have to adjust some prices for it now. >> we're going to have to adjust some prices for it. republican senator markwayne

mullin, i mean, look, that's his point of view, but it may be easier for him than others. he's reportedly worth at least $31 billion. one of the wealthiest members of congress. this is what treasury secretary scott bessent had to say about it access to cheap goods is. >> not the. >> asset, is. not the essence of the american dream. >> access to cheap goods is not the essence of the american dream. well, that's actually a really big topic of conversation, but it may be true for secretary bessent. he is a former hedge fund manager. he is worth at least $521 billion. so it is true for him. and then there's trump. >> there'll be a little disturbance. but we're okay with that. >> perhaps a little disturbance to somebody who says he's a billionaire. but to most americans his disturbance is serious turbulence. surging prices are hurting americans and it is not what they expected. >> under my plan, incomes will

skyrocket, inflation will vanish completely. >> vanish completely. well, not only is inflation not vanished, it's obviously been going up, but incomes have been hit. a new report out today reveals that u.s. employers cut 172,000 jobs last month. that is double. it is double 103% increase from a year ago, double the number of job losses. it is the highest monthly total in job losses. now just wait for this. since covid covid in 2020. that is incredible. and it may be why today trump appears to be trying to backtrack, suggesting that he is reining in elon musk and his ability to take a literal chainsaw to the federal government, posting online quote, we say the scalpel rather than the hatchet when it comes to the doge job cuts. of course, hatchet has been what it has been thus far. jeff zeleny is out front, live outside the white house. so, jeff, i just want to start with one thing that trump said here, among

among others. but this one really stood out to me. he says he doesn't watch the markets. that would be a first. if it's the case. >> i mean, erin boyd skeptical. >> eye rolls, even from the president's advisers and admirers over those seven words. i don't even watch the market. >> but the market. is watching the white. >> house and the uncertainty that has. >> been here at the white house. >> really. >> over the last several days. >> over this threat of a trade war, an actual trade. >> war. >> a reversal. >> of a trade war. >> all left to. >> what is next. and the president, again, in the oval office today said he is not going to make exemptions for the april 2nd round of reciprocal tariffs. that, of course, is an open question because he has made exemptions. when the automakers came calling, he made exemptions again today when the president of mexico said that they are cracking down on fentanyl, and she showed him some data that showed that fentanyl production was down. so look, the bottom line to all of this, you can just see the

competing advice coming from advisers. peter navarro, for example, the top trade expert here has been really leaning into these tariffs. howard lutnick, the commerce secretary, has been sending signals to the market that the president is going to change his mind hours before he does so. but the market clearly has been rattled by this. so the question is, what comes next in all of this? there's a lot of concern on capitol hill from republican lawmakers and others. yes, they still deeply support this president. he has a big control of the house and senate, there's no doubt. but the markets are one thing. he has always loved and watched. the markets are giving their thoughts to the president, and it certainly is not an a plus grade. erin. >> certainly not at this moment. all right. thank you very much. jeff zeleny. jared bernstein was chair of president biden's council of economic advisers and former republican governor mark sanford, also a former congressman, and served on the budget committee. so i appreciate both of you very much. governor, can i start with you? you see the markets responding. you know, there was a day actually, there was a day

a month ago when the president said he's going to do tariffs. and then when he backed down, then the markets go back up. but that wasn't the case now. right. there's been this kind of whiplash of i'm going to i'm not going to i'm going to maybe one too many times. what do you think the effect of this on again off again trade war is going to be. governor, can you hear me? >> oh. i thought you said jared. >> i apologize. >> no, sorry. >> what do i think. >> the effect is going to be? i think it's going to be disastrous. you know, people go down to the local bank because it sends signals that there's stability there. and what the president right now is doing both domestically and internationally, is sending a signal that there is not stability and people don't invest into instability. it's the reason that a lot of money doesn't pour into third world countries, because they have no idea what's going to happen next. and if that's the operating environment that businesses have to look at, they're going to put the brakes on and you're not going to see

the domestic investment that he's talked about, and you're not going to see the jobs he's talked about, and you are going to see inflation. so i'm quite worried. and i think the markets obviously are too. >> and jared, you have one chart that actually speaks to exactly what the governor just said. the uncertainty index. >> yeah. the governor is spot on. if you look at the spikes in that chart, it's a chart of uncertainty caused by trade policy that lurches the way we've seen. and markets and investors really don't like that. as you said, the market the dow is down 1500 points this week. today the nasdaq down 5% over the week, as you said in correction territory, i think the one reliable force that can protect american consumers from the price increasing impact of these harmful tariffs on canada and mexico is, in fact, the stock market. the president doth protest too much when he says otherwise. we know the record on

that. i also, though, think we should be clear, as jeff was, that the call with president sheinbaum and the progress they've made on fentanyl, that's good news. but the markets are the dominant force here. >> so, governor, i'm also curious. you know, when you look at you got a layer in this, what we saw on jobs. now you have a more than doubling in the number of layoffs this february from last february. and overall, the biggest number of of job losses on a month to month basis since since covid in 2020. i mean, when you layer that in here, that is very you talk about unsettling or destabilizing for sure. >> yeah. i mean, again, i go back to very simple principles, which is investments go to where they're loved and where they have a sense of what's coming next. and inasmuch as people don't, they're not going to add, you know, small businesses. i think we'll hold off on hiring that extra person. and cumulatively, that really begins

to add up. more worrisome, though, i think, is the inflation component, which i think could really i mean, you talk about something that would bite the republican party in the midterms. oh my goodness. i mean, think about this. half of the fresh produce that you see in grocery stores across the country in the wintertime comes from mexico. a quarter of the lumber supply that goes into the houses that are being built comes from canada. you begin to put walls up to our immediate borders, and a lot of bad things begin to happen from the standpoint of inflation, which is the flip side of what will hurt people. they can lose their job or they can see prices go crazy. either way, they get hurt. and i think there will be a political consequence. >> jared, what do you think about the fact that it's being called by trump, called it a little disturbance. you heard bessent. you heard markwayne mullin. and look, i'm not trying to mock them specifically. i'm merely pointing out when money isn't an issue for you. it is hard to see how a price increase that is is massive for many is

so significant. i mean, you heard bessent say, you know, cheap goods is not the essence of the american dream. many may beg to disagree on that. on that fundamental point, but what do you think about the fact that that that this is how they're saying, well, it's just it's just a little bit of price for now. >> yeah. look, the governor is the politician here, but let me offer a little free political advice, and i suspect he would agree with it. if you're a millionaire, especially if you're a billionaire, you should never tell people not to worry about higher prices. all right? that should just be something that's kind of etched on everything you you think about. this is we know that the american consumer has been dealing with this this problem, this challenge, these pressures for a while. and when i was in the biden administration, we were doing what we could to help cut costs. we can argue about how far we got, but but we certainly never thought about doing anything that would raise costs. and here we've we've talked about they're on pause for now, but they're on pause

for only a month. we're talking about tariffs that could raise the price of a vehicle by between 3000 $509,000. you're talking about avocados, which still probably will be tariff. that's the the white house was unclear about that today. adding $0.50 per per item there. the price of gas i've seen estimates could go up $0.20 per gallon. that's real money for real people. and if you're a millionaire or billionaire and you're dismissing that, you're you're you're making a big mistake and frankly, you're insulting people. >> governor, what do you think? you know, access to cheap goods is not the essence of the american dream. we're going to have to adjust some prices for it. what we were hearing today from some close to trump. >> if that was the case, walmart would not have grown as it did out of arkansas. in fact, it became a phenomenon again, some dislocation in fairness in the process and small businesses that were hurt. but it was a phenomenon because people did indeed want cheaper goods.

everybody's struggling to make it. you're not the millionaires and billionaires. to jared's point, but most folks are out there struggling to make it, and if they could save a little bit at home, they want to do so. i think the administration is playing with real fire here. you know, you look at what happened in, you know, the 1930s with smoot-hawley tariff act, you know, world trade imploded by two thirds during that time period. i mean, if you set off the match that lights a trade war again, there will be hell to pay politically and there will be real consequences in people's lives. >> and there are consequences on war and peace. perhaps, too, as in that historical time frame. governor jared, thank you both very much. i appreciate it. and, you know, trump has repeatedly claimed that putin wants peace, but the kremlin gave some extremely revealing comments today that show the opposite. plus, trump's next target, wired reporting tonight that the administration is looking at

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>> it's not just the axis of evil and russia trying to revise the world order. >> but the. >> u.s. is finally destroying this order. >> destroying it. >> as the u.s. wavers, europe has come out in a show of force for ukraine and its president, volodymyr zelenskyy. today, eu defense ministers, they were meeting, they approved plans to boost defense spending by a significant amount. but despite trump's assurances that putin wants peace, he has said this repeatedly. of course, so far, putin has not made serious attempts at it. not only are they continually bombarding ukraine, of course, with attacks, but vladimir putin is demanding that any peace deal must ensure russia's security, while his foreign minister, sergei lavrov, categorically today rejected something that's been very clear from europe, which is the use of any eu peacekeepers, said no way, no deal. if that's part of it out front now. ian bremmer, renowned global affairs analyst, the

founder of eurasia group and. gzero media. so, ian, you hear former general zelezny, now ambassador, you know, and obviously he was fired by zelenskyy. he's got that, you know, but 100% on board here saying the u.s. is destroying the world order. i mean, how significant is a statement like that coming so directly from him? >> well, it's not just from him. if it was just from the ukrainians, i think we would recognize. with zelenskyy under. >> the pressure that he presently is and the. >> americans suspending intelligence sharing, suspending military support, you understand it. but the fact is that there are plenty of america's. >> closest allies. >> in canada and mexico and europe and other countries around the world that are actually saying the same thing, because it was, of course, america's global order. that is. >> about collective security. it's about free trade. >> it's about rule. >> of law. >> it's about promoting democracy. not always articulated without hypocrisy, not. always executed on well,

but nonetheless, that was the baseline. >> and that. >> is absolutely a global order that the united. states is presently trying to undo and replace it with an order where the most powerful get to do what they want. they make the rules, and everyone else has to suffer what they must. it's a much more predatory approach. it's a much more, frankly, chinese approach to the way we think about. >> the global, except for they even they have belt and road. we've gotten rid of usaid. i'm not saying that because i'm not laughing, because i think it's funny. i'm sort of just responding to it. >> there's an irony. >> to it. there's an irony to it. so. so zelenskyy is talking about practical steps towards a ceasefire. he's saying, okay, well if you do air and sea, you know, they're having a practical conversation. europe has said that they want peacekeepers. russia says no nato troops in ukraine, no peace treaties, no peacekeepers from sergey lavrov adamantly no peacekeepers or we won't do a deal. what what does that mean for any quote unquote negotiation? >> well, it may be that we

don't get a deal. it's possible. look, it's very interesting that in this war, the americans are saying you europe need to take a leadership role. you need to do it. it's going to be your troops, not our troops. it's going to be your money, not our money. your defensive capabilities, not our defensive capabilities. and what we have seen over the course of the last week is that the europeans are standing up dramatically compared to where they have been, to do precisely that. now, if it turns out that the europeans are the ones doing the backstopping, then they're going to be the ones that will be around the table. >> usha vance why are we the ones doing the deal? >> well, it's not sure. it's not clear that we are. right. i mean, you know, trump is the one that said that he wants the war to be over. but ultimately, if the europeans are supporting the ukrainians, if they're embracing zelenskyy in london, as we saw over the weekend, it's a little bit like the middle east situation, right? i mean, trump says he's going to do gaza. the palestinians aren't all leaving gaza. he's not making gaza riviera. now we have the saudis and the egyptians coming up with a deal, and they will if they're the ones putting in the money and

the security, they will end up being the ones doing the deal. >> so, all right, so i want to play you something. this is a center, right? french senator. okay. center. right. french senator caught my attention yesterday. he's talking about trump and elon musk. and he said this. >> washington est devenu le coeur. >> de nir oz. >> washington has become the court of nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive. courtiers and a jester on ketamine. >> tasked with purging. >> the civil service. >> trump eric. >> trump has done more damage to america than in four years of his last presidency. we were at war with a dictator. now we are fighting against a dictator supported by a. >> traitor macron is those last words really, you know, stuck with me and we were at war with a dictator. >> now we're fighting against a dictator supported by a traitor, referring to trump as the traitor. the center right politician. i mean, is the damage to america's standing with europe. it's. i know this is hard to answer in the moment

we're in, but do you think it's permanent? >> some of it's clearly permanent. i think it is. i think, first of all, you said you center right, and he is center right in the french context. in the american context, that probably makes him center left, but nonetheless., i'll put a center on it. >> yeah. >> it's it's. >> very clear that the europeans now feel like they are dealing not with an ally that is trusted, but an adversary. the europeans have had a gun to their head from russia for years now. they haven't acted adequately on it. but they they do feel that national security concern now. they also feel a gun to their head from the united states. and that that started in munich. it started with first elon musk and then jd vance saying, actually, you're the problem, not the russians, not the chinese. you're the problem. you aren't democrats. you don't support rule of law. you don't support free speech. and we want your adversaries to be taking over like the afd in germany, who they consider a neo-nazi party. and then the americans throw zelenskyy under the bus, and they don't do it by engaging with the europeans.

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decisions have been made on cuts. what the level will be. the pentagon spokesperson responding to wired's reporting, saying they would not comment on, quote, internal deliberations. katie drummond is out front now global editorial director at wired. so, katie, what stands out to you? you get this draft response memo. so you've seen it. what stands out to you? >> you know, i think the most notable piece of this to me is that that the request actually was for an assessment of cuts up to 75%. now, the agencies that were responding to this request from secretary hegseth actually came back and said, we can't even go that far because 60% is as far as we can go without essentially, you know, destroying the entire thing. >> wow. so they asked for an assessment of cuts up to 75. >> up to 75. >> and they came back and said, we're only going to 60 because at 60 we're done. >> anything more than 60% was described as a red line for domestic and global security. >> yeah. okay. so so which is pretty unbelievable. so if so, obviously if you're being asked to look at cuts like that, that shows the the scale with which they want to approach this.

right. right. and obviously they're looking to see what these results are. what happens if you go 60% like you know, when you talk about lab leak and what happens do they. >> say i mean, we're essentially taking the united states out of any kind of role, preventing the spread of, as you said, as was quoted in the piece, you know, chemical, biological, nuclear weapons. we're talking about an increased risk of, you know, things like a lab accident, the theft of dangerous biological material, the proliferation of weapons of mass, destruction of nuclear arms around the world without the united states having the ability to essentially monitor and safeguard for those kinds of significant risks to the entire planet. >> right. and there are things they can do. i mean, they have radiation detectors. i mean, there's a lot of things that are being done that people don't realize. oh, absolutely. that, you know, that that that matter a lot. so, you know, we did just get some video in of that space debris that i mentioned in the tease. i'll show you, katie. it's lighting up the sky over jamaica. that's the that's the light up there.

that's the after the failed launch of the space x starship, it had lifted off from their facility in south texas less than an hour ago. and it. and that failed. faa had to halt flights to miami, fort lauderdale, palm beach and orlando because of this. and it's the second consecutive failure for spacex. now, look, failures happen. and elon has always been clear that he doesn't care. like just go shoot it off okay. so that within that context though, is he maxed out right now in terms of the one person only has so much time. >> well, look, it's very clear that he's that he's doing a lot. you know, he has operatives going into agencies with essentially, you know, machetes making sweeping cuts to to these various agencies. we know that he is essentially living, sleeping in d.c. while also running a lot of, you know, very high touch companies, spacex included. so it's impossible to tell. we know that this is someone who works around the clock, but certainly nothing that we're seeing from from inside the federal government is particularly reassuring about

what he's doing right now. and, you know, now we have, again, more questions being raised about the company that need, i remind everyone, the faa is actually overseeing while we have doge operatives inside the very agency that is overseeing exactly the incident that you just showed. >> and so you use the word machete. you know, trump had his cabinet meeting with elon today. but, you know, in in it he said, we're going to do this every two weeks, but we're learning, he told the secretary. say, but you guys are the ones making the decisions. you know, not elon. elon's recommending. and then he used the word we say the scalpel rather than the hatchet. sure. of course. that's what they say. what we see is a hatchet. >> we're seeing a hatchet. >> yes. >> let's be honest. >> what do you make, though, of this softening from him? >> well, look, it's certainly an interesting commentary on musk's position relative to the secretary's right relative to the administration. i think that's certainly notable. but i think one thing we see with this, with this pentagon request, right, with secretary hegseth making this request, look at up to 75% of cuts. the

president clearly doesn't need elon musk to be wielding the machete or whatever other, you know, weapon metaphor we want to use. he has his own members of the administration who are clearly ready and willing to do that for him. >> all right, katy, thank you very much. thank you. and as i mentioned, president trump told his cabinet members that they and not elon musk are the final voices on potential cuts. but trump seemed to suggest later today that musk will be able to cut if his cabinet members don't. >> 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, those. that's precious, that's very important. and we want them to keep the good people. and so we're going to be watching them. and 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. >> out front. now, former democratic and independent senator joe manchin. so, senator, you know, basically, you know, he softened a little bit. you know, you guys make the decisions. but basically but if you don't do it, he will it sounds like a parent talking to to to kids. so do you see any scenario where elon musk should be the final voice over cabinet secretaries in these cuts? >> no, no, i think what i'm understanding is the president made some adjustments today. >> and here's. >> the thing. if i was going to be a secretary for any president, donald trump or anyone else, i would say, tell me the job you want me to do. tell me what you're trying to do in that agency and what your goals are. and i'll put a staff together and make it happen. and that's what they'll say is, well, we'll talk about that and what they want to do. i want to put the people from the white house to watch over what you're doing so that you do what they want you to do. and i think he has a lot of strong willed people in his cabinet are saying, wait a minute. i've been very successful in business. i've done pretty well in life. i can pick the right people. tell me what.

>> you want. i don't need elon doing it. >> tell me what? tell me what you need, and then we'll make the decisions. now, if we don't. and there's waste and fraud and abuse that we don't get rid of, then that bring elon, bring anybody in. but i know some of the people he has and they're good people. they can do their job, let them do their job. and i think that's what they got through. and he's doing that. >> so you think they did push back one of the fired workers was actually sitting where you were sitting right now a few days ago, luke graziano, a 20 year army veteran, he had done multiple tours in each, two in iraq, two in afghanistan. and he got fired from bronx veterans hospital. and five weeks before his probationary period ended. and again, i always want to say probationary, not because you're on probation just because you hadn't been there that long, i guess. and here's something he said that actually really stood out to me. here it is, senator i'm very privileged. >> to have the job that i have or had. i very much like to get back to it.. i think no one, no one deserves a job. but if they're willing to, you know,

raise their right hand and swear the oath and become a federal service employee. i think that they have every right. >> so 1 in 3 federal workers or veterans, 75, 70,000 workers from the va are expected to lose their jobs. senator, i know this is something you you know, you spent a lot of your career working with veterans. what do you what do you think about that? >> and let me just say, first of all, from the veterans, i have a state that's highly populated with veterans. we have we fought more wars and conflicts and shed more blood than most states have on a percentage basis. so the veterans and the veterans care is very near and dear to me and all of us. and i'm just hopeful that they understand the people that are depending on the care they've been receiving, that that is not going to be deterred or basically reduced. next of all, anybody that has a job, the greatest thing a person can have in life is the respect and dignity of a job. to take care of yourself and support your family. and that should be taken with great, great, great concern and pride. and when you have to

make adjustments and changes, make sure there's a soft landing. make sure there's something else, try to help. and that's all i'm saying. a little bit of empathy would help an awful lot. and there's been changes in government before. there's fraud, waste and abuse. there's a way to go through that. it might take a little bit longer. they want to do things very, very much up front. but you understand there's going to be a correction. either this is the right thing, the way to do it, or it's not going to be the right way. the big correction comes on the midterms, the 2026 elections. so i think you've seen president trump. he makes adjustments pretty quick. if something's not working he'll come back. and he's not afraid to come back and do something different such as tariffs. you know canada. >> well they're on they're off. >> they're on they're off. >> i mean that's you know as i said the other day i said i don't know what's worse knowing that the tariffs are not good. >> or for the markets or tough for the markets. yeah it's tough for the markets have insecurity. >> but you mentioned the midterms. but i just want to ask you about where we are right now okay. for the democratic party. and you had you know democrat

and independent. but you called the brand of the democratic party toxic. >> it's toxic. >> all right. is there anyone out there in the democratic party right now as you look and you watched that you know, address to congress anybody who can lead that party? >> well, i think there will be, first of all, the leaders you have right now, you have hakeem jeffries leading the democratic caucus and the democrat party in the house. and you have chuck schumer there responsible for the legislative branch. is there someone else going to take over the executive or will come within the legislative branch? who knows? but i think midterms will be shuffling things out quite a bit. and whatever happens and how strong or weak it may be, the only thing i've said about democrats and the democratic party, they better figure out how they lost people like me. they better figure out how they lost moderate, centrist, fiscally responsible, socially compassionate. i love my republican friends. i want to work with them. but i'm not afraid to respectfully disagree. you don't have to hate everybody. you don't have to demonize the other side. i belong to the american party now because i couldn't take it any longer. >> so the american party, i

mean. but you look out there, gavin newsom has been doing interviews with conservatives. he did one with charlie kirk, and they were talking about democrats. you know, that which kind of democrats? charlie kirk is a conservative liked. and he was raising questions. oh, we talk about joe manchin or bobby kennedy. >> talking about common sense, just common sense. if i can go home to my beautiful little town of farmington, west virginia, where i grew up of 500 people, on a good day, holiday was 500. but if i can look them in the eye and if it makes sense and i can explain it, i can vote for it. if it doesn't make it make sense and i can't go home and explain, i can't vote for it or support it, so you can put all the pressure you want on me. you can't change me because i am who i am, and that's who. most of americans give them a job, an opportunity. make sure that they're able to take care of their children. things of the sort. make sure it's safe. the president came in and he did exactly what he was saying, what he said. you did not elect the comforter in chief. you elected a basically commander in chief, and he's hit the ground running. he basically went after the border, which i beg the democrats, you can't have a

sodom at the border. you can't have catch and release. and it was horrible. but you know what? nobody can say we made a mistake. we made a mistake, we miscalculated this. and we want to work with our republican friends, secure the border. but we have to have legal immigration because we're going to have to have a workforce that's here for the right reason. there's a lot of things they can do, but to make a spectacle of the president and his address to the to the nation, what i saw was. shameful was shameful. the whole thing was shameful. and not even be able to stand when this young little man who basically wants to be a police officer and protect us all, couldn't even stand and clap for that. what happened to you? what happened to the decency and humanity in all of us? and i've said this when i was there, i was the only one standing. one time in 17, when the president trump said some things i agreed with and people were hissing and booing, and i'm thinking, that's so disrespectful to hiss and boo. the president speaking. they were hissing, booing me. they weren't booing him. so i know what it's like. come on people,

let's put some respect back in. and the dignity and decorum in the life of this great country of ours. let's be americans first and put the put the country before the party. i'm begging them all to do that. >> all right. well, senator, i appreciate it. and it's good to see you in person. >> it's good to be back. >> i know it's good to see you. and next, donald trump's nephew joins me live. he's making a plea to his uncle and republicans tonight on behalf of his son. plus, is trump giving canadian prime minister justin trudeau a, you know, something that nobody would have seen a couple of months ago? major popularity boost. harry enten tells us something we don't know. >> on twitter. that's a great name. >> jack basem naim. >> we were the most. social people. >> we invented a whole new. >> thing. >> it was the most emotional company and its founders were neurotic. >> twittering is. >> all the rage. billions of dollars. >> boom. >> but who. >> was running the. >> public square enragement equals engagement.

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people like william. >> yes. >> and it's not. >> it's tens of millions. >> of people. >> like william. and i. >> mentioned to. >> the senator that he was a great lead in because what i think is lacking is the humanity and decency in the way the administration is going about these cuts. and i will stick with the disabled community because it's a daily part of my life. and again, for the tens of millions. so, yes, these cuts could be devastating to families. and again, tens of millions of people. i have had the pleasure of surrounding myself with very smart people over the years to give me the information i need to go out to a just the the people at large in this country and and other countries for that matter. and what i've learned is a system called value based care. and it is something that i mentioned

and spoke with in the oval office, with donald in 2020. you talked to i talked to him about this and what it is basically simply is spend less money but get better results for it. have preventative care. i have a very good friend, doctor matt holder, who runs, was a founder of two clinics in two very red states, and his clinics have found great savings by doing this model. so i implore people who are doing these cuts to understand it sounds great to just cut costs, but what they're not realizing is by cutting those costs in the back end, the expenses could be so much more. >> so i mean, we're 46 days into president trump's second term here. are you surprised with with what's happened? and you know what he's done? >> oh, not at all. i mean, as well as i know him. and if anybody didn't think this was happening going to happen, they

weren't listening. he has all the energy in the world. i wish he could dial it back a bit and be a little more thoughtful. and the people who are working with him on these things, and we could, as somebody said, use whatever metaphor you want to for cuts. i'm more on the scalpel side because i can see having again living through this every day, that cutting something arbitrarily not considering what the after effects could be to that could just absolutely devastate families. >> so he spent obviously the time on cuts and things of that nature. obviously there's ukraine. there's also gaza and gaza. you know, i want to ask you about this because you've known him your whole life, right? who's your uncle? he tweeted that image of himself as a king. right. and then he shared that a.i. generated video of gaza and gaza. you know, there's the golden trump statues and things that are lining the streets again, a.i. generated. he shared it. child holding a giant golden trump

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harry, trump and trudeau in this little tussle of sorts. yeah, they're in this fight. how do canadians feel about americans? >> they oh. >> my goodness gracious. this number was just shocking to me as i was looking at the polling from canada. those that want to treat canadians who want to treat america. >> as as. >> a friend, treat them friendly. look at this drop from february. that's a 50 point. drop from before the trump presidency to the trump presidency. now it's just 23%. something has clearly happened. and what has happened is donald trump and these tariffs that he is trying to. >> or not trying. >> to enact on canada. they don't like it. >> okay. that's incredible. so how is this benefiting trudeau who was sort of you know, he was done. he was out. >> he he was dead in the water. justin trudeau was facing his lowest approval ratings on record. way, way down. enter donald trump. what happens to justin trudeau's net approval rating in canada goes right up. what are we. >> talking about? >> look at this rise since january, a 28 point rise, he has

managed to take a politician who is dead in the water and turned him into a politician that is a fighter, and one that canada, at this particular point, is backing far more than they did before. donald trump entered the white house and entered the picture. >> i mean, it's incredible because he was dead on arrival. in fact, he's stepping down. but now there's this whole standoff. and so his party is getting a lifeline. and i mean, tell me something i don't know. >> yeah, i'll tell you something you don't know. and that is the liberal party in canada. justin trudeau's party looked dead in the water heading into the 2025 canadian elections. what happened now? well, since donald trump became president, look at their chance of winning the most seats in the canadian parliament went from less than 1% to now, 37%. you don't have to be a genius to know that. that gives them a real fighting chance in order to win a plurality of seats. there was nobody, no political expert that was out there that thought that the liberal party had any sort of a shot. that is why