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>> fiery debris from a rocket raining from the night sky. with back to back mishaps mean for elon musk's space program. it is 6 a.m. here on the east coast. here is a live look at the capital just before sunrise. good morning everybody. i'm audie cornish. i want to thank you for waking up with me now in just a couple of hours. the february jobs report is going to be released. and with it, our first look at the data behind president trump's first full month in office. so here's what we're expecting the unemployment rate to stay at 4%. that's almost a historic low. the president's widespread firing of federal workers. it's not likely to show up in the report in a big way. that's because most of those layoffs occurred too late in the month, and workers who accepted the buyouts are still technically employed. but already the economy overall is showing some

signs of stress. last month, u.s. employers announced more layoffs than any other february. since 2009, and markets are on a roller coaster as the president flip flops in his trade war. yesterday's announcement that he would delay some of his tariffs on mexico and canada, doing little to end the uncertainty. >> some of these exemptions that have been announced and 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. >> that uncertainty doesn't just impact wall street. it also makes business owners and shoppers nervous, basically leading them to stock up on some items or hold off on other purchases. >> were you able to afford the price increase? >> no, not really. i haven't been able to afford much. >> that will cost more for inputs, but then we rely on the

the market in mexico to get rid of some of our product. so then on the sales side, we're getting hit. so we're getting hit from both ends. >> i hate to charge exorbitant prices because it's just it just hurts. it just hurts. absolutely. it has to be passed on. otherwise how can we even exist here we're going to discuss this with our group in the chat today. >> tyler pager, white house correspondent for the new york times. he's also the coauthor of an upcoming book, 2024 how trump retook the white house and democrats lost america. i'm also joined by michael warren, senior editor at the dispatch, and jerusalem demsas staff writer at the atlantic. tyler, i want to start with you. the president cares about business. the president cares about numbers. is this a picture of an economy that they can be proud of? >> yeah, i think we'll see what the numbers say. obviously, we've seen that trump is very eager to tout economic growth. that was a key part of his economic message. and one of the

things that, if you recall, democrats really struggled with in 2024 is this sort of trump amnesia effect, where people felt that the economy in particular was better under trump. and so, as we see. >> and also explaining that they thought their economy was good, right. they would look to data just like we're going to announce today and say things are good. and the public would be like, no vibe session. >> right? exactly. so i think there's a difference between the numbers and the reality on the ground. but trump is someone that's very numbers focused. we saw that in his joint address to congress this week, where he ticked off all the cuts that he says the department of government efficiency has made to contracts, bragging about the big numbers, that he says, the millions and billions of dollars that have been cut. so it's sort of the first test. i don't want to overplay how much impact this will have, but it's clear that trump cares a lot about the economy. voters care a lot about the economy, and it's sort of this first early indicator of where things are. but as you noted in the intro, a lot of the impacts and the turmoil we've seen happened at the end of the month. so it's unclear how complete of a picture this will be.

>> yeah. michael warren, i hear the president talk using the phrase disturbance. there might be a disturbance. i want to play for you a cut of a small business owner in. arizona, basically speaking before the tariff pause was announced. >> we're losing a lot of money. like if i, if i sell a door for 4000 now, it's worth 5000. and if i don't charge my clients 5000, then i lose out on a thousand. so we're talking about big money here. we'll survive. but i don't think it's fair that after 27 years, instead of me projecting myself to retire, i'm projecting to myself to work three times more. >> trump administration has always talked about tariffs as a negotiating tool, and when you use it that way, that means maybe this, maybe that, maybe this, maybe that. what's the actual impact though? >> it's it's uncertainty. i mean, you can hear that uncertainty and that frustration in her voice. the president said yesterday that, you know, maybe

globalists were involved with sort of the market shifting one way or the other. >> well, he was saying that globalists that corporations by definition, right. they have their hands in many pots around the world. and so that's why they're skittish. >> right? but she doesn't look like a globalist corporation to me. she looks like a small business owner who's skittish too. yeah. and that's i think the big impact of this back and forth of using tariffs as a negotiating tactic. i'm not so sure i even buy that donald trump views it that way. he always says tariffs are good. i like tariffs. >> and always has. even before he was in public office. jerusalem i see you nodding. >> yeah i mean it's clear that there's you know there's a lot of uncertainty about donald trump's positions on a lot of policy issues. but on tariffs there's a lot of clarity. we know he likes them. he thinks that they're good. and i think there's a very strange back and forth that's happening here where people will defend trump's tariffs when they're on and then when they're off or changing in some way. you get a you get a oh, see, he's a master negotiator. and so you have difficulty engaging with the administration on the merits

of what the policies they're actually trying to implement are. >> jerusalem, i want to stay with you for a moment, because you have a new article in the atlantic where you talk about the doge job cuts. we've been talking about it all week. just the sheer volume of numbers. and i get the sense you were trying to put a face to some of those numbers, and you used the term cruelty, right? the trump administration and the republican party seem to have brought into, brought, bought into the idea that americans are craving cruelty and as a result, they're using their power to, quote, own the libs. but they have miscalculated a lot to unpack there. what? tell me about the miscalculation. what do you think you're seeing in your reporting? >> yeah, i mean, i think there's a sense in, in the trump administration that part of why they won was to enact an agenda of responding on cultural issues, and that was a part of the election. but most voters voted to bring down prices. they were upset about the economy. they were upset about immigration. they weren't looking to spend a lot of time

hearing about removing trans members from the military, hearing about die. in my article, i go over some key figures that show the american public is generally not opposed to die. they have, you know, mild opinions about it. most demographics polled indicate that die either hasn't affected their life or it's improved it. and so when you see. >> those, you talk about cruelty. this is a nod to something else. way back in the atlantic, adam serwer saying the cruelty is the point, which became sort of a mantra on the left. mike warren, can you talk about like the idea of talking about what they're doing with doge? et cetera. as something that is like mean, right in the way they're doing it? that's coming up from some lawmakers. >> yeah, i've talked to some folks, activists and experts over the past few days who are very interested in what donald trump is doing to or claiming to do to shrink the size of government. and they look at the approach of elon musk and doge and think, well, this is not very good politically for the

political case, for shrinking the size of government. when you do things in this way that appear cruel, that appear sort of callous, where there's no actual sort of long term. okay, here's the plan of how we're going to do this. we're going to unravel this particular department or agency over a period of time. and i think that is a that is a political risk for donald trump to do this, to really hurt the case that might be made to say, is the government doing this the most efficient way? if if the face of that becomes people who. are right. exactly. veterans or people who are trying to do research on cancer, for instance, all of a sudden i was struck a few weeks ago, there was an announcement that an nih grant was going to be rolled back on a friday night, and by saturday morning, katie britt, a senator from alabama, a republican senator very close to donald trump, was out there saying, but this we're making sure to restore this for the university of alabama, birmingham, university of

alabama, huntsville. it was very much a realization. >> at your state. >> exactly. it's in your backyard. >> i also think, just to add on, that most people don't know how much government can impact their life on a regular basis. we've already started to see reports of people that get social security, you know, other government services that are crucial to their day to day existence being, you know, delayed or having trouble reaching, you know, an operator, as we've all struggled to, to, to reach a government employee. and so i think these cuts are still early and the impacts remain to be seen in terms of how much it sort of trickles down to everyday americans lives. and i think some people will start to be surprised as things slow down or don't exist anymore. so as the impacts start to, you know, start to hit the people outside of washington who are losing their jobs, but are, you know, depending on these services or just. >> trying to. >> hold on, y'all are getting fired up. >> about this now. so stay for the rest of the hour. i appreciate you coming up on cnn this morning. a new setback for spacex. their latest starship

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not a king, not even an elected one. cnn's katelyn polantz enters the group chat with that and other legal drama this week. so, caitlin, tell us a little bit about that quote. like, where is this coming up? because honestly, so many cases. >> there are so many cases, many of them are in the federal court in washington, d.c. that quote is from a case in d.c. it's a case that was decided by a judge named beryl howell yesterday where she said a person who was on the national labor relations board that was fired can stay in the job. there's been a series of cases like this. >> where the executive branch is saying, look, all of these independent boards that are all over government, we should be able to fire people. >> trump himself should be able to fire those people. it's a very trump wants to do this. and we think that he should be able to. but but there is going to be a lot of legal tests around this that sort of idea. the president is not a king. that's a refrain

that this court has really grasped onto in the past. >> so it's not just some like progressive talking point, like the courts are starting to delineate and try and make this distinction right. >> and they've been trying to say this to trump for years now, specifically, presidents are not kings. those are words written first by then ketanji brown jackson. judge ketanji brown jackson on that same trial level court, before she got to the supreme court, wrote those words. and since then, in cases where it is about donald trump and the power he wants to bring to himself and the presidency, the judges in this court keep saying presidents are not kings. and so when you're looking at a judge saying that it's about one person who was fired and removed from this board is now being reinstated by this judge. but there are a lot of other judges who are trying to say, we are seeing different ways that trump is using power to try and in

their view, exceed what he should be doing as president. there's another court. just two days ago that ruled that when the administration was shutting off funding to states, things like highway improvement, health care, that donald trump and the executive branch was putting itself above congress. so that's not about findings. that's about. >> funding to talk about that more this hour, because i think that's fascinating. i want to play a cut from trump himself because he has spoken about being hindered by the courts we're being hindered by courts where they file in certain courts where it's very hard to win, and a judge will stop us and a judge will say that it doesn't make any difference what you find. >> you just keep paying the money. that's a hell of a way to be. and i follow the courts. i have to follow the law. all it means is that we appeal, but that gives people time to cover their tracks, and that's what they do.

>> okay, i want to ask about this because obviously the trump has talked a lot about lawfare and the idea that the courts are an impediment to what he wants to do, or the idea that the justice system is biased against him. what do you hear in how he's talking there? >> i mean, look, presidents in last several decades have been frustrated with the idea that the courts can, you know, hinder their power. executives are always trying to expand their power. the difference is that donald trump kind of says this stuff out loud in a way that a lot of past presidents haven't, and he really pushes against the limits of that in kind of all of his actions. i mean, look, you've seen this again for presidents in both parties. they're always trying to sort of take supremacy away from the first branch. >> i remember carter was a president like this, where he also felt like there should be because he was fighting, obviously kind of republican congresses. and he felt like, i need more power here. >> i think, though, that it's important to distinguish because i similarly have noticed, you know, in previous

administrations, they're upset if someone will file. a lawsuit against them in an unfriendly district. this happens every single administration. but what's different about saying it out loud is that the norms actually really do matter. if you don't believe that the federal government cares what a court says that affects business decisions. i'm hearing from people in a variety of industries that are afraid to talk to the press publicly because they're worried about how that might be taken from from a, you know, a member of the administration. they're afraid about making comments about their own business outcomes. they're pretending like things that they were already doing that were normal business moves are as a result of positive moves by this administration. in an attempt to curry favor. and that sort of interaction between the private sector and the government is really concerning, because it means there's not free enterprise, there's not free speech going on, and it's a real chilling effect. >> caitlin, i have. >> one quick. >> question for you. also, every time trump speaks publicly that's entered into the public

record. so our lawyers, how closely are they paying attention? and are the things he's saying starting to make their way into cases as arguments? >> absolutely. just after the address that he gave to congress the other night, there were at least two cases i saw where lawyers said, when they're fighting, these are cases where they're fighting. elon musk, his power and doge. in those cases, they they filed supplemental authority to the court just to say the president just said elon musk is the head of doge, which is going to be. >> very pivotal. the government may be going to court and arguing, no, no, no, doge is run by this acting, blah, blah, blah. but they're getting to say, yo, he just said it and we're going to enter that into the record. >> and there's also things like that clip that we were just watching about trump, basically just criticizing the the fact that people are suing. there are steps the white house is taking to try and chill lawsuits like that. we saw last night a memo to agencies where they are going to invoke this rule that

basically no one uses in federal court to ask judges, the justice department will go be able to go and ask judges to require people who sue the administration for emergency relief to put up money, and that when i was calling people last night and said, is this rule real? can they do that? people, even liberal lawyers that i knew that were part of these cases started laughing like, wow, i can't believe someone found this rule. they can invoke it. no one ever does. but the trump administration is going. >> to read the fine print. needless to say, for trump to cnn crime and justice correspondent katelyn polantz, thank you so much for joining the group. the rest of you, i want you to stick around because still ahead on cnn this morning, there's a big meeting today at the white house that's never happened before. >> touches of black. they say a

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basically the timing of everything. tonight, a south carolina inmate is scheduled to be the first person to be executed by a firing squad in the u.s. in 15 years. the supreme court for the state of south carolina said that the governor could intervene, but this is the first in the state to choose the firing squad over lethal injection, rather than the electric chair. meanwhile, idaho is looking to make a firing squad as well. the state's primary method of execution. president trump is set to speak today at the first crypto summit at the white house. this comes one day after a signed executive order created a new strategic bitcoin reserve. the government has an estimated $17 billion worth of bitcoin. turning back now to the rising tensions between the u.s. and its european allies this week, western european leaders have scrambled to meet and come up with new plans to rearm the continent and defend ukraine, potentially without the help of

the u.s. ukraine's ambassador to the u.k. also cast doubts about whether the u.s. will abide by nato defense agreements. >> we can say that in the near future, nato likewise. can stop existing. we see that the white house makes steps towards the kremlin trying to meet them halfway. so the next target, russia, could be the europe. >> adding to those doubts, the words from president trump himself, who's got a history of criticizing nato alliance members for their defense spending or frankly, wondering if they would stand by their promises. >> if the united states was in trouble and we called them, we said we got a problem. france, we got a problem. a couple of others i won't mention. do you think they're going to come and protect us? they're supposed to.

i'm not so sure. >> it's worth noting that nato's mutual defense clause actually has been invoked just one time in the alliance's 75 year history, and it was for the u.s. after the nine over 11 attacks, they got the group chat back to talk about this week, because you had french president emmanuel macron speaking very strongly about this, saying we can't really rely on our u.s. ally the way we used to, but i want to play one more clip before we start. russian state tv says that putin has found trump's weakness. >> gaza trump is like superman and our president putin has found his weakness, he tells state tv. as soon as trump hears the words rare earth metals, he's ready to accept any terms. >> look, i mean, everything we know about donald trump is that he views foreign policy as transactional, as entirely transactional. >> that's been discussed as a strength, i think, by republicans in some way. right. >> right. but it's i think they view it as a strength. i think

it is certainly upending a viewpoint. and it's somewhat bipartisan. >> and public from the public chamber of the russian federation seems to think of it as kryptonite. >> yeah. my colleague olga kazan, she wrote an article for the atlantic yesterday about how putin is loving this. and she watched, you know, a ton of the russian state tv. and you can just see that this sort of breakdown between the united states and its allies over, over what like with canada, like, what are we even arguing about? it's unclear to even members within this administration when they're trying to defend the policy and that sort of disarray is like very confusing. >> okay. you get extra points for mentioning canada because then i get to show this jack daniels is down bad in the aftermath of these tariffs. jack daniels parent company says canada pulling booze off shelves is even worse than tariffs. >> yeah. >> i mean i mean, i think the question here is just the uncertainty. and i think that pervades every issue. it's the economy that we've talked about with the tariffs. it's the, you

know, relationships that the u.s. has abroad and its he's a deal maker, as you said. but the question is to what end and what is the end result? and what does the u.s. get out of it? >> it's funny. liquor sales go up during economic downturns. this is a real problem for canada. the economy gets worse. >> you see, these small businesses in canada like pulling american made products off the shelves. it's reignited a sense of canadian patriotism that i think trump was surprised by. i think he often expects people to just sort of fold and just acquiesce in order to get, you know, they're worried about losing the u.s. market. >> and they're not jumping at the 51st state suggestion. >> no, governor trudeau is not happy about that title. >> all right, you guys stay with us. i want to talk about some domestic politics. in a minute, we might be getting a preview of what 2020 8th may look like as democrats search for a way back to power. democratic governor gavin newsom of california, who could be a presidential contender, just broke with his party's stance on transgender athletes. he had conservative

activist charlie kirk on his podcast. when the topic came up. >> would you say no men and female sports? >> well, i think it's an issue of fairness. i completely agree with you on that. it is an issue of fairness. so i revere sports. and so the issue of fairness is completely legit. and i saw that the last couple of years. boy, did i saw how you guys were able to weaponize that issue at another level not. >> now. governor newsom faces criticism from the left for those comments. the head of the human rights campaign said this the path to 2028 is not paved with the betrayal of vulnerable communities. tyler pager, michael warren jerusalem demsas is you're here with me to talk more about this. i am old enough to remember the ad that ran last year that said, kamala harris is for they, them and every pundit after for two months said that to me over and over again. and i was like, i got it. you think that was the issue? what do you see in this moment that newsom

is taking this step? instead? >> i have to say this. people aren't leaving california for texas and for florida because of woke policies, because of trans athletes in sports. they're leaving because the cost of housing is too high. and they're going to places where the cost of living is actually palatable. and so to me, democratic governors coming up and like trying to like, make news like gavin newsom for for taking a different stance on these cultural issues, are ignoring the actual important issues that their residents in their states face. >> challenge that this is an issue that people feel squeamish about. >> but it's easier for someone like gavin newsom to get on a podcast and say, like, he's flip flopped on this issue after a month of consideration, but it's harder for him to actually make changes to lower the cost of housing in his own state. >> okay. >> i disagree. i think this is, you know, with all due respect to the human rights campaign, like this is exactly what gavin newsom should want to do if he wants the 2028 nomination is to have from the left criticism of him. look, any time a candidate

or a potential nominee goes against their own party goes against their own base, donald trump knows something about that that's actually good for them in the long term and in sort of a national political conversation. i think that's clearly what newsom is trying to do, whether people believe it, whether people believe this is somewhat of a, you know, a political pandering to the center. that's another question. that's a question about newsom's own skills as a political operator. but it's it's good. it's good politics. >> i was fascinated he was on a podcast. right. like you already, you see. >> well, this has been gavin newsom's thing for a little bit. he had the podcast with marshawn lynch. he is very much clearly trying to position himself in that cultural space. and i think that's what's more interesting here. one of the things that trump did quite successfully during the 2024 campaign was really immerse himself in cultural venues that democrats were shut out of. there was a lot of. >> shut out of just having been. there was a lot. >> of consternation among the harris campaign about her inability to get on some of the politics lite podcasts, or the sort of cultural podcast that

did not delve as deeply. >> but you have to engage, right? like he was wearing no tie. like that was a different look. >> yeah, totally. and this is something that, you know, we as we talked about my book earlier that we really get into about this sort of conundrum here, about how democrats felt. they just totally got outplayed on that issue. and the other thing that i think is really interesting is every four years when a party gets out of power, we sort of see this jockeying for what the party stands for, who's the leader? and all these people. clearly, 2028 is going to be a wide open field for democrats, and there's no clear leader. and so these sort of fights play out. and one of the things that if you talk to people that worked for joe biden in 2020 when he ran for that nomination, as you were saying, they you know, it's good to have some of that criticism from the left. joe biden would argue, you know, the reason he won that primary was because he stayed true to his values. and in this. >> in doing this segment, i'm like, i'm going to be doing this segment every two months for the next four years, and i'm already tired. >> but i think i'll say this. there's a question about whether the voters are looking for cosmetic changes, like, do

they want your vibe to shift? they want you to say, like he said on the podcast, i'll put it another way, on the podcast. >> this week we were talking about metoo and and activists were talking about andrew cuomo coming back here. you have moderate name recognition. also a little bit of baggage in the harassment department. and she was saying, why aren't they looking for more leaders? and i think there's a world of democrats who will say, we can't listen to those activists. they're litmus tests are causing a problem. >> but there's a difference between listening to activists and listening to voters. when you ask voters what your most important issue is, it doesn't even pop. trans issues are not even close on gallup's polling. on pew's polling, this is just not a thing that pops for voters. >> this is the new. this is the new. i would like to have a beer with, you know, is this is i'm serious about that. do you believe. but but. >> you believe him. >> i think it doesn't matter what i think. i think if voters think, oh, wait, he's talking about the stuff in the way that i feel about it. >> that's why you keep hearing this talking point. common sense. >> but i totally, absolutely 100. >> just to jump in here. one of the things about the sort of discussion around the trends is

you trans issue is it's less about the issue itself than what it means more broadly. and i think one of the things in conversations i've had with voters is, regardless of their own view on the issue, they say, you know, why are people focused on this? there are other things that affect me. to jerusalem's point every day that the cost of housing, the economy, the cost of eggs. and so some of the they feel the conversation around this issue is distracting from other things, whether or not they agree with the governor or whoever on this specific issue. i think that's one of the things democrats got in trouble with in 2024, and why that ad trump ran about kamala harris was so devastating was because not exactly on the issue itself, but what it meant and what it was, what people were talking about instead of other issues. >> okay, we're going to talk a little bit more about this. you guys stay with me straight ahead on cnn this morning. if you can't afford eggs, get a chicken. comedian roy wood jr. joins us to discuss that suggestion from the new agriculture secretary and more. plus, the push to end daylight saving time. president trump not so sure he's on board.

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you. and roy, good morning. good morning. i need your help. i see your face. is it because of the egg? lucy's. >> why are we selling eggs like cigarettes? now? >> yes. >> good question. but i can't. this administration is not going to address this anytime soon. eggs are a midterm issue. that's just something we can blame on joe biden and the previous administration. well, i mean. >> of course, it's. >> because zelenskyy, when he comes into my house. >> so are you going to get chickens? >> no, because then the price of chickens is going to go up like there's no solution. >> for it because tariffs. >> stop eating eggs. >> just stop. okay, roy, i'm going to ask you another question, okay. this one is about doge elon musk. we've talked all week about the courts, about like the the mass firings. but one of the sort of quirky, i'll say aspects of this is politico reporting that

some of the people who are working for doge are basically setting up like home spaces in government offices so that they can be there all day, like, and they're shopping at ikea to do it. >> i mean, don't you kind of want employees that'll burn themselves out so that they eventually quit and then stop doing that job, and then doge get shut down? everybody at doge let them work 60 hours, put a mattress in the middle of the room. what i love about doge and everything that's happening now is all these companies that are starting to stand up to them and like offices are just like, no, you can't come in. and then doge is like, well, if you don't let us in, we can't fire you. how are we going to fire you if you don't let us in? exactly. you can't come in. please come tomorrow. beautiful. >> it's. yeah, it's sort of. i feel like where it's at that point. you're in a political cartoon. >> yeah. i think that everything that's going on with that

office, it's going to be one big, you know, reflection in a couple of months. i mean, at this point, doge the only people going to be left to fire is themselves. >> people are talking a lot about what democrats should do, especially the democratic party. how should they sort of stand up to the administration? i need you to process this with me. democrats doing the choose your fighter meme on tiktok. you had a variety of lawmakers participate in this. i think we have a clip. from. >> choose your. >> character. >> okay. i heard you sigh as we started to play the clip. gamers know what this is about, but i think other people were a little

bit like, why? what's your reaction? >> i just thought it was late. i think that was the main thing on the choose your fighter thing. i think october, when people were engaged and wanting to vote, might have been the move. i make no bones about it. you got to have the democrats making memes out in the hallway. you got the other half making signs and taking to the chambers, and you got the rest of them voting to censor the ones who were doing the aforementioned. i don't think that this is the most effective way to show people you're willing to fight. but it makes me appreciate the ones who made signs and turned their back and walked out the chamber and protest like that to me, was much more reasonable. protest behavior. and governor, like, i don't know, it's just every time i see a politician doing something that kids are doing four years ago, it just it always is awkward. >> you know, with have i got news for you? i feel like you make an effort to. you're always trying to find the humor in

current events, right? you're trying to find those unserious moments. and i think you're very good at smuggling in the serious into that. but talk about, like, how it's hard actually to tap into the culture. and i was actually shocked to see, you know, some of the younger lawmakers do this where it felt like a tiny bit dated. >> i think. i think the issue is that politicians, i think, have to realize that you are kind of to a degree, you're always going to be on the outer fringes of the culture. so no matter how cool hey, you got, you always going to come across as the cool substitute teacher no matter what. and we don't want you to be cool. we just want you to make a couple laws and stand up to the people that's doing stuff crazy like that would be much more. that would be much more well received. like if you look at last week when jasmine cracker was asked about elon musk and she told him to f off. like to me i'm like, okay, i bet she's walking around in that building telling people about myself. i don't mind that, but it's just like, how many people in this video do you

think legitimately knew what they were doing versus somebody just saying, hey, do me a favor, just jump like you fell out of the sky and then just start doing a move on a loop. so we think that you are a character in mortal kombat. we're choosing i, i yeah. >> yeah, walking a line. it's tough. roy wood jr., thank you so much for chatting with me. >> yeah indeed indeed. i'll see you saturday night and i'll see you on match of the day after. >> exactly. we want all of you to catch the new episode of have i got news for you. that's tomorrow night, 9 p.m. eastern and pacific, right here on cnn. it's 55 minutes past the hour. here's your morning roundup. some of the stories you need to get your day going. walgreens going private in a deal that's vaulted, that's valued at more than $23 billion. this will end nearly 100 years as a publicly traded company. walgreens has closed hundreds of stores, just like some of its rivals, and

there may be a possible second measles death in the u.s. this one is in new mexico. health officials say the unvaccinated person tested positive for measles, but doctors do not have an official cause of death yet. the first measles death was reported in west texas. now also, if you are tired, just wait until sunday when you lose an hour of sleep. this weekend, our clocks spring forward one hour. so should the u.s. get rid of daylight saving time? president trump not so sure. >> i assume people would like to have more light later, but some people want to have more light earlier because they don't want to take their kids to school in the dark. >> in december, trump said his party would, quote, use its best efforts to eliminate the time changes. and what kind of music does the king listen to? i guess it's kylie minogue. >> i just can't get you out of

my head, boy. you're loving is all i think about. >> on monday, dj charles i mean, king charles takes over apple's airwaves with a broadcast and a new curated playlist, a mix of genres across decades including kylie minogue, bob marley and ray. >> so this is what i particularly wanted to share with you songs which have brought me joy. >> the playlist drops monday for commonwealth day. did you feel the bop? did you feel the energy. he was giving dj. >> kylie minogue is like perfect king charles. >> yeah, that's true. that's classic uk music. okay, i want to talk about what we're actually going to be keeping an eye on over the next couple of days, give people a sense of like, what's the thing we're watching? tyler, can i start with you? >> yeah. one of the things i'm watching is what happens with the trump elon musk relationship. >> just the relationship. >> yeah. and sort of his role in the government. yesterday we saw the president host a meeting

with cabinet officials and elon musk saying, you know, you guys are in charge, not elon musk, and then put out a post on truth social saying that he wanted the, you know, the effort the government firings to be done with a scalpel, not a hatchet, some implicit sort of criticism there of how musk has been going about his work. there's been a lot of interest in how long this relationship between the president and the world's richest man will last. we see some early potential fissures. but, you know, these relationships change all the time. so we'll see what happens in the coming days. >> i feel like you're keeping an eye on is also the same for many attorneys, right. who are currently suing the administration. mike warren. >> the markets i want to see what they're doing. i know president trump says he doesn't watch the markets. i don't really believe him. i think he is watching. >> watch the markets. >> michael wieder i'm watching it for him. he can call me if he wants to to know what's happening. i want to see how they close today. and because, look, if the economy continues to go in the direction it's going, no reason to think it will or won't. that puts a real brake on a lot of the things that donald trump has been doing this. >> yeah, we got the jobs report

at 830 this morning. okay. >> jerusalem. similarly economic i'm focused on what's going on with tariffs. >> come on. >> i mean. >> that's i mean. >> yeah i guess that's where. >> the tariff. >> news, it changes every hour. it's dramatic. you never know what's going to happen. and i think it's really important to keep an eye on these kind of day to day changes. because if you're really in the know and plugged in like us, you're following this sort of thing. but that chaos is really, really difficult for, you know, smaller businesses to, to keep track of and how that's going to change their outlook. >> yeah. to your point, i'm going to be looking for reaction. will we start to see more people speak out whether they be small business owners. maybe they they be lawmakers? i'm kind of curious where you start to see that appear. i want to thank you guys for waking up with me, having such a good time chatting. i'm audie cornish, and stay with us because cnn news central starts right now.