have a lot of authority over 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 an 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 to kind of 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. >> i'm not even looking at the market because long term, the united states will be very strong. >> a whiplash in trade policy here. at the white house has sent the stock. >> market reeling. >> donald trump. >> says he'll. >> begin holding biweekly cabinet meetings to confer with elon musk about cuts being made to government. >> if they can cut, it's better. and if they don't cut, then elon will do the cutting. >> the european. >> leaders what. >> was once a distant. >> concern, now. >> seems to be reality. u.s. commitment to their defense is no longer a rock solid guarantee. europe is capable. >> of standing up on its own two feet. >> hello, and a. warm welcome to our viewers joining us from. >> the u.s. and all. >> around the world, i'm rahel

solomon. it is friday, march 7th, 5 a.m. >> here in new york. >> and it's been a rocky week. >> for wall street as. >> investors grapple with uncertainty amid u.s. president donald trump's foreign trade war. the dow jones losing nearly 1%. on thursday. the nasdaq composite sliding more than two and a half points, and the broader s&p 500 falling as well. let's take a look at where futures stand today. well, this is a nice sight. green across the board. 3.5 hours before the all important february jobs report. we'll see how that impacts the markets. but these numbers come as mr. trump announces new trade concessions. he now says that he will delay tariffs on more canadian and mexican products until april. cnn's jeff zeleny has more. >> a whiplash in trade policy here at the white house has sent the stock market reeling for the last. >> several days. >> president trump. adjusting course on the canada and mexico tariffs. specifically offering on. >> thursday yet. >> another month long reprieve. >> a day. >> after he offered automakers. >> a similar reprieve.

>> now, there is no question the financial. markets have been wondering what exactly this white. >> house is up to. as the. stocks have fallen. >> the dollar. >> has weakened and there's been an. >> inconsistent pattern across many. >> of these decisions. >> but the president on thursday. insisting the market had nothing to. >> do with it. >> no, nothing to do with the market. i'm not even looking at the market because long term, the united states will be very strong with what's happening here. >> of course. >> that is very much an open question. the president has long. >> used the. >> stock market and the financial markets as a whole, as a metric for. >> how he. guides his success. >> he certainly did so. >> during the first term in office. >> and he has. >> throughout the course of much of his life. but there is. >> no. >> doubt the president. >> is also still. >> in favor. >> of imposing. >> some type of tariffs, he believes. >> and he said again. thursday at the white house, the united states is being ripped off, in his words, by some of these countries. he's also insisting that reciprocal tariffs will. >> go. >> into effect on april 2nd, and

that would really cover the gamut of goods from autos to alcohol to so many other things, and not just canada and mexico. it's all reciprocal tariffs. any country the united states does business with. >> so the. >> bottom line to all of this, the questions here now is the president has delivered a series of threats over tariffs. but taken many of them back. is he serious. >> about the. >> next round. of course we'll have to wait and see on that as the markets still wonder what this white house is up to. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. and president trump's latest trade move applies to goods covered by the existing free trade deal between the three nations. that's the u.s., mexico and canada agreement. it was proposed by president trump during his first term and officially replaced the north american free trade agreement in 2020. now, amid the tariff threats, the leaders of mexico and canada have been in talks with trump. >> i can. >> confirm that it was a. >> colorful call.

>> i've been. having conversations. >> and working. with donald for over eight years. >> now. >> and a lot of it is. >> rolling with it. >> so i said to him. >> we are getting results. president trump, now. >> that you put in the. >> tariffs, how are we going to continue cooperating and. collaborating with something that hurts the people. of mexico? >> meanwhile, the president has been imposing fresh tariffs on china while expressing hope of building good relations. but now china says that such a, quote, two faced approach would fail. on friday, beijing warned against world powers prioritizing their own interests. >> there are more. >> than 190 countries in the. >> world. >> should everyone stress. >> my country first and obsess over a position of strength? the law. >> of the jungle would. >> reign again. smaller and weaker countries would bear the brunt first, and international norms and order would take a body blow. >> in the meantime, donald trump says that he will begin holding bi weekly meetings to confer

with elon musk and his cabinet about cuts being made to the government. the president says that he wants cabinet leaders to use, quote, the scalpel rather than the hatchet and keep what he calls the best and most productive people. >> i want 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. >> and senate republican leader john thune says that he's trying to get clarification about a reported 70,000 layoffs coming at the department of veterans affairs. thune says that he thinks that cabinet members should take the lead on staffing decisions at their agencies. >> this is why we work so hard to get cabinet people in place is hand it off to these leaders,

these managers who are going to be making decisions and they're going to be, i think, probably better attuned. >> do you. >> feel that. >> the individual. >> is he going. >> to do that? >> i think that's a conversation that we'll have. >> meantime, fellow republican senator lisa murkowski is criticizing trump's plan to eliminate usaid, saying that she's had conversations with agency employees that paint a, quote, troubling picture of what the world looks like without humanitarian aid from the u.s. president trump has said that the agency is run by, quote, radical left lunatics. the trump administration is trying to stop a flood of emergency lawsuits against it by invoking a little known rule that requires upfront payment when filing a suit. a new white house memo says that, quote, it is the policy of the u.s. to demand that parties seeking injunctions against the federal government must cover the costs and damages incurred if the government is ultimately found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained. now, it comes as the administration suffers a string of defeats in the courts. on thursday, a judge overturned the dismissal of the

chair of the national labor relations board. that's the third time that a firing has been deemed unlawful. within a week. but another official is abandoning his challenge. special counsel hampton dellinger says that he is unlikely to win at the supreme court, and is dropping his case to remain in his role. the social security administration is telling employees that they are not allowed to look at news websites while at work. a memo obtained by cnn says that employees are prohibited from accessing general news, sports and online shopping sites on work issue devices, and that's effective immediately. the agency claims that it will reduce risk and protect sensitive information. certainly a lot to get to. for more now, let me welcome in kadia goba in washington. she is a politics reporter for semafor. great to have you this morning. so far in the president's term, we haven't seen a lot of public gop dissent on trump's plans. but but on this issue of tariffs, you are hearing gop leaders raise concerns. listen.

>> almost every industry in kentucky is gone 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 tariffs. >> should he back off of it. if it goes if it starts to hurt the constituents. >> when we start losing you back off. you know, there's such a thing as a 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. >> so what do we know about the why of it all? i mean, is this a strategic retreat or what's the strategy here? >> so this. >> isn't new. >> my colleagues and i have reported this out before. the president took office, there were major concerns about tariffs, whether lawmakers said it openly or just talked about him using it. just as a threat or a form of negotiation. now we see it being more openly or them being more openly criticized,

criticizing the president. and it's because one i would say the poll is polling is not looking great, but also some of these tariffs are impacting lawmakers constituents already, and they have to receive the phone calls from their their constituents. >> yeah. and just staying on the issue of the economy. and about 3.5 hours, a little less than 3.5 hours, we get the latest jobs numbers. it's the first one under his presidency. now, it might be too early to see the impact from the doge cuts in this report, but how does trump play this today? i mean, if you come out and you celebrate these strong numbers today, you might be forced to own them next month if they're lower because of doge or concerns about tariffs, and they start to show up in the data. so how does he play this later today? >> yeah, this was very it's it's interesting how this will play out. i'm not really clear. i had the same question during the joint address the other day. when you come to washington,

d.c. and you talk to members of congress who have constituents and who, excuse me and who talk about who and you and you talk about all the layoffs that you have, especially for members representing virginia and maryland. how does that look on television when they're cheering? it's not a great situation. and i would imagine the markets are even going to dictate some of the decisions coming out of the white house. >> yeah, i mean, we know i mean, he says he's not watching it closely now because the markets will move higher in the long term. but we know in the past he has watched the markets pretty closely. i'm turning to that meeting yesterday of trump and some of his cabinet members, elon musk of course, being there. i mean, this is being viewed as one of his first acts. one of trump's first acts of reining in the power that musk has in washington. how significant is this? and do you think it's a sign of more to come? >> i do think it's significant.

significant. i think that the white house is already getting pushback about the layoffs. they understand, excuse me? they understand that it was indiscriminate. and because of that, you know, some of as one member pointed out to me the other day, it doesn't make sense to take away probationary. probationary people coming in who are younger, who are just have more energy and more ambition to cover a job. when you have people who have been there for a long time and are probably used to not coming to work or, you know, just really aligned with some of the creek or the the covid, covid regulations that were imposed. would that allow agency workers to stay home? it just didn't make sense. and, you know, while it made a lot of headlines, it just doesn't work for the specific agencies. so we saw, you know, president trump saying

that his his cabinet will be responsible themselves for pulling in or making some of these hires and fires. it just it makes sense now at this point, because i think that he's just getting a lot of criticism. >> yeah. and apparently there will now be biweekly meetings. so, you know, this is likely perhaps fluid. we'll learn more and see how this develops. kadia goba, we appreciate you waking up early to be with us. thank you. all right. train travel from paris to london and northern france has been suspended this morning after an unexploded world war ii bomb was found on tracks leading to france's busiest station, the gare du nord. a spokesperson for the state owned railway company says that the bomb is huge and could be a serious threat to people's lives. let's get to cnn's melissa bell, who is covering all of this from the gare du nord station. melissa, what's the latest there? >> a huge bomb is exactly right. >> it's a 500 kilogram bomb. of which 200kg are sheer

explosives. >> now. >> this kind of unexploded ordnance is. >> found fairly regularly. >> in northern france. >> this is simply a part of europe where there was so much fighting during. >> world war ii. >> i think the most astonishing. >> thing about what we've learned. >> this morning, apart from the trouble for all the. >> travelers, because it isn't. >> just the trains to london that are at a standstill, it's also the trains across northern france. >> basically all trains leaving the gare du nord. so regional trains, national trains, international trains. but beyond the inconvenience to travelers, this was a bomb that they found in the middle of the tracks just a couple of miles from paris. as they were doing some work in that heavily, heavily populated part of saint-denis to the north of the french capital. so this bomb has been sitting in the middle of these railway tracks since world war two. and again, railway tracks that link paris to london. so they'll have been sort of feeling that bomb will have been subject to the vibrations of these tracks for a very long time. it was found fairly far underground, but still really surprising that it should have been found in such a densely populated area and in

the middle of tracks that are some of the busiest out of paris. for now, what we're hearing from the french railway operators is that they're demining operations going underway, and they hope that travel will be able to get going by the end of the afternoon. but for now, a lot of disappointed travelers here at the gare du nord behind me. rahel. >> yeah, probably a lot of shock when they realize why they're being delayed, that there's an unexploded bomb that is apparently impacting travel. not exactly what you expect. melissa bell, appreciate you. thank you. all right. and still ahead for us europe moving to fill the void as u.s. president donald trump warms up to russia. still ahead, a european vision for peace and a massive military buildup for fighting alone. plus, an abrupt change in u.s. policy. why hamas and the u.s. are holding direct negotiations for what's thought to be the first time ever. and pope francis had a surprise message for supporters on thursday. plus, the vatican's new update on the health of the pontiff. when we come back.

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the tariffs are now expected to go into effect on april 2nd, but the move does not affect existing or future tariffs on china. president trump, also directing his cabinet to manage their own staffing cuts as questions mount about the department of government efficiency. president trump making it clear that he wants them to use a scalpel, not a hatchet. then he said that elon musk and his team can make decisions on hiring and firing government workers. and later today, we get the first u.s. jobs report to cover a full month of president trump's second term. economists expect that it will show solid gains in jobs, as it's still too soon yet for doge layoffs to show up in the data. but we can see those federal job cuts in a separate survey that came out on thursday. a spike in layoffs to levels not seen in the wake of not seen since the wake of the financial crisis in 2009. u.s. employers announcing 172,000 job cuts last month. that's according to challenger, gray and christmas. that is double

the tally reported one year ago. it is also the highest february total in 16 years. all right, let's bring in corey staley, an economist at the indeed hiring lab. he joins us now from salt lake city, utah. corey, i don't know if you stayed up late or if you woke up really early, but we really appreciate having you here on a jobs friday. so talk to us about the expectation. we know that wall street is expecting about 185,000 jobs being added in the month of february. that's pretty strong. is that what you're also expecting? what are you seeing? >> yeah. yeah, definitely. >> so woke up early. >> but i mean, anything for a jobs friday, right? >> so really. >> what. >> we're expecting is to. >> see, you know, some pretty solid growth. >> you know, it's something that in the last few months has really unfolded. you know, we saw a lot. >> of slowing. >> in the. >> economy, you know, for. >> several years. >> we started to see things stabilize. and i think a lot of that's going to continue this month as well. but we're also. >> keeping our. >> eye out for some potential signs of some stress emerging as well. in this report.

>> yeah, i mean, to that point, you know, i love having indeed i love having companies that have this sort of insight into the labor market because you have a more unique perspective because of your work. does the strong jobs number match what you're seeing in the data? and the reason why i ask, because anecdotally, i've been hearing from a lot of people saying that they've actually been having a hard time. they've been applying for jobs for months, but they've been having a hard time finding work. so what do you see in your data? >> yeah. >> what we. >> see in our. >> data really is interesting. really. it tells a story that overall, the u.s. labor market is still doing pretty well, right? like still pretty solid. still pretty stable. but what's interesting is as you dive into the data separately, what you see is this is really a bifurcated labor market. there's a lot of opportunities for health care workers and workers kind of in these in-person type of jobs. whereas we've seen a lot of kind of the more knowledge worker, traditional white collar jobs really pulled back in the last couple of years at a greater

degree. and so i think that's really how we balance these things. we have, you know, strong jobs overall. but really, your experience as a job seeker right now is going to depend largely on what type of work it is you do, because software development job postings are over 30% down from where they were before the pandemic. you know, whereas we've seen things like construction and manufacturing have actually held up pretty well. and so really, again, you know, kind of a bifurcated labor market right now. and what we're seeing in job postings. >> yeah, that is an interesting point because we sort of saw that bifurcation throughout the last four years as last few years at least, as well, depending on what sector of the labor market you were in. so, corey, what would you say you're at a cocktail party, someone is looking for a job. what type of advice or tips do you share in terms of how best to position yourself in this market? right now? >> yeah, i mean, really, i think one of the good things to remember with this is, you know, this is still the business

cycle, right? we see things go up, we see things come down, you know. so certainly don't jump into conclusions. say, oh, we''e going to, you know, move away from this certain field completely, but just maybe think about some of the traditional things that have always been suggested. still hold here, you know, making sure your resume has been tailored to the job description. you know, there's a lot of different a.i. technologies and things that job seekers can now use to make sure they're doing that well, make sure they're matching their cover letter to the job, you know, and really just making sure that they're making the value that they bring to that job. clear to employers. those are still going to be things that are going to help you stand out in today's labor market. >> and then just circling back to the doge of it all. i mean, when would you expect that to show up in the data? and how much of a drag do you think that could be to the top line number? what are you watching there? >> yeah. so i mean, i think, you know, as was kind of mentioned, we've already seen a little bit of that come out in the initial claims data and in the unemployment claims data. i

think as far as how long it's going to take to really start seeing some of that unfold in these jobs reports, we'll start to see a little bit next month in the report. then from there, it'll probably take a little more time to continue to trickle through again. today's report is mostly looking at a period of time that happened before. a lot of the cuts that we've seen, and so not so much this month, but next month when we get up bright and early, we should hopefully start getting a better feeling for what's going on there. and one of the things i love is as we watch the data, we can already start seeing some movements in job postings, and we've already seen construction job postings pull back in the month of february by about 4%. but we also have seen loading and stocking warehouse jobs pick up by 8%. and so, you know, i think as we start to think about, you know, what the implications of these policies are going to be, you know, we're really going to be able to, you know, find out pretty soon, but just maybe not this month. >> yeah. and speaking of pretty

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fool. >> welcome back. donald trump is pushing back the launch of some tariffs against canada and mexico until april. and the back and forth is giving canadians some economic whiplash. now they're trying to prepare for seemingly impending tariffs while also adjusting to a new and decidedly different relationship with the u.s. our john king has more. >> this is american steel in western canada for custom finishes. one belt is to burn a few notches and drill a few holes, another to weld some angled braces. soon back on a rail car and back across the border for an office project in alaska. it is a partnership that supports 100 jobs here at i industries in surrey, british columbia. this is just one piece of nearly $800 billion a year in

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berries destined for the united states on this run. what are other loads that are pretty typical? >> nursery trees, auto parts and produce? sometimes we take frozen fish. >> how much of your work are products that you know are going to end up in the united states? >> more than 8,090% of our loads are going to us. >> as many as five runs a day, 40 to 50 hours a week. but tariffs will cut shipments to the united states and cut vinayak's hours. you have a wife and two daughters? >> yes. >> and so what does that mean about planning? thinking maybe we won't make a vacation or maybe we won't buy something. what is it? >> no, no. just planning is nothing. the main thing is how to get out of this. situation by finding another job. >> does that make you mad? you might have to find another job. do you like this job? >> yeah. i love this job. >> one of many jobs now at risk because of a us-canada relationship. trump just shifted into reverse. john king, cnn,

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king's choice of music? >> well, he has a very eclectic, selection here. >> it's everything from, you know. >> 1930s crooners, afrobeat stars. so we've got bob marley plays pretty high here. kylie minogue davido and ray. what he said is he wanted to share songs which brought him joy. he says it brings joy to other people. and as you say, this is about commonwealth day, a different way of presenting it. you're used to those concerts in westminster abbey where all the family turns up. it's very formal. he's trying to reach a broader audience. he's trying to show he, you know, he's inspired by artists from the commonwealth. making himself relevant to the commonwealth. there are some issues there. we've reported on before, but i think it's just an interesting way of reaching out to the commonwealth and sharing a bit of himself as well. >> yeah. and is it one show, max? is it a series of shows? because initially i thought, is

this going to be sort of like the former president barack obama's partnerships with different streamers? i mean, what do we know about the actual project? >> so it's not any sort of commercial agreement, the sort of thing that harry and meghan, for example, had with netflix? it is, i think, just a different way of presenting commonwealth, realizing that, you know, apple has got this global audience. so it's we're learning more about the dropping different bits of information effectively over the course of the day. so it's essentially a show from buckingham palace where he talks to his playlist. but also, of course, he has access to people that you and i don't. he's met a lot of these stars, and he gives some anecdotes about what it was like to meet them. he's met kylie minogue, for example. they've helped with his charities. and, you know, if you if you look back at his career, he has always, you know, loved music. he did the whole playlist for harry and meghan's wedding, for example, and that was pretty

eclectic as well. so he is a way of showing how he's been involved in music and has lots of sort of charities that support music as well. >> yeah, i thought it was so interesting. i mean, i am also a fan of the the afrobeats star, davido, so i didn't know that i had that in common with king charles. but good to know. this morning. max foster live in london. thank you for being with us. there we are. good to have you, my friend. all right. and good to have you as well. thanks for joining us today. i'm rahel solomon, live in new york. cnn this morning is next after a quick break. i'll see you next week. >> when it comes to rooting out corruption. >> do the. >> fbi's ends justify. >> the means? >> it was. >> humiliating. >> it's an embarrassment for the country. >> the united states of scandal with jake tapper sunday at 9:00 on cnn. >> time to press rewind. >> with neutrogena rapid wrinkle

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