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>> you're in the cnn newsroom. i'm jessica dean in new york. and breaking news tonight, new york's governor is declaring a state of emergency as a handful of brush fires spread through the hamptons near the end of long island in new york. you see the video showing large plumes of smoke filling the sky. governor kathy hochul says multiple agencies are now fighting that fire. right now, we don't know of any injuries or any buildings being impacted, but we do know that the fire shut down part of a highway. we will talk to the governor about the fires and her response at the top of our next hour at 7 p.m. in the meantime, we will keep an eye on these also new developments tonight in russia's war on ukraine. after a week of intense russian strikes on ukraine's energy sites, there were yet more deadly attacks overnight, president zelenskyy saying they prove that russia's goals are unchanged. this is happening as president trump effectively flips the switch on ukraine, suspending military aid and some intel sharing with kyiv. cnn's melissa bell is following the

latest developments for us. melissa more civilian deaths in ukraine over the course of the last day, 23 people killed, many more injured, say ukrainian officials. >> the result of missile and drone strikes in ukraine, even as ukrainian forces on the front lines are under pressure. specifically, we understand, from both ukrainian and russian bloggers in the kursk region captured by ukraine. you'll remember last august, what we understand is that ukrainian forces there are now in their weakest position since that area was captured with fears that what might have been a crucial bit of leverage for ukrainians is looking less and less certain for them. this, as ukrainian officials prepared to meet with american officials in saudi arabia on tuesday. president zelenskyy himself will be in the country on monday. at the heart of those negotiations. what we understand is this partial ceasefire idea that was

initially floated by the french president, now backed by president zelenskyy, essentially what it would include should it be accepted and go ahead, is the idea of a ceasefire in the air, on in the sea and on critical infrastructure. so the key the battle lines would continue to be fought over. but what the plan entails is that limited ceasefire, a prisoner swap as a sort of trust building step, as officials hope that a ceasefire along the full front line can at some point be reached. but certainly for president zelenskyy, the ending of the freezing rather of american aid, military aid, with all its vital importance to ukrainians air defenses, again tested over the course of the last day. but also, perhaps most importantly, the end of the intelligence sharing with ukrainian authorities really leaves it in a very weak position as it heads into those key negotiations. jessica. >> all right. melissa bell for us. thank you very much for

that. joining us now is cnn senior military analyst admiral james stavridis. he is a former nato supreme allied commander. and as you heard in melissa's reporting there, these recent moves by president trump shutting off military aid, pausing some intel, sharing now, the satellite imagery have weakened ukraine's negotiating position. so does this effectively in your opinion, push ukraine toward defeat? >> i think it does not push ukraine inexorably toward defeat. >> but it moves them. >> as you point out correctly, into a much weaker negotiating position. think about that partial ceasefire, which in my view, is a very good idea that president macron, president zelenskyy are pushing it would stop attacks at sea, it would stop these kind of. attacks in the air. it would stop attacks on critical infrastructure. the reason. >> putin might be. >> willing to do that is if the ukrainians were to continue to be able to use their drones

against russian infrastructure. so when you take that away from the ukrainians by taking away the intelligence sharing, you are. kind of tying one hand behind their back as they go into the negotiations, not the right way to treat an ally and a partner. >> and i'm curious if you think nato can effectively fill the gaps left left by this rapid scaling back of u.s. support in all the ways we just laid out. >> i think that nato has enormous capability even beyond the capability of the united states. if we take the u.s. out of the equation, the rest of nato still has a $500 billion defense budget, the second largest in the world, has 2 million troops. that's more than the u.s. has 1.5 million. they do have intelligence and space capability, but unfortunately,

jessica, it's not as good as that of the united states. watch for the europeans. by the way, if the u.s. continues down this path of kind of pulling back from nato, pulling back from ukraine, the europeans are going to build a very capable and powerful defense industrial base, but that is going to take time. so i'd say at the moment, as we head toward these negotiations in riyadh next week, it would be far better if the administration would show support. a final thought here. one positive thing we can point to last night on truth social. president trump threatened russia, said stop this kind of attack. stop this kind of ongoing strikes. get ready for peace. get ready for negotiation. it's the first time i've seen him criticize russia in a while. maybe that will help somewhat. >> i do want to show some of the satellite images the

administration has now cut off. so. so for example, what we're looking at right now is a drone factory in russia showing new construction to the facility and increased security. late last year. again, just one example. but, admiral, how does ukraine use information like this in its planning, in its strategy? how has this beneficial to them? >> yeah, i've spent a lifetime looking at images and photographs like this for u.s. strikes. we use it in depth to key where are we going to launch our tomahawk missiles? where are we going to put our precision guided weapons are the word is targeteers spend an awful lot of time around the table also seeking to avoid unnecessary collateral damage. so for all those reasons, ukraine uses them the same way. having access to that intelligence which says, okay, there are so many drones at this site, and then having the images that show you

precisely where they're located in that perhaps rather vast base allows you, the ukrainians in this case, to use very precise drones to go after the offensive weapons of russia that are striking them. so this is absolutely crucial, both intelligence and imagery, two different things. we in the u.s. are very capable of using it. the ukrainians have gotten much, much better over three years of war. and when we just snap the switch and turn it off, it hurts their efforts. and in this present moment, it hurts their negotiating ability as they come to the table, hopefully over the next few months. >> and in the meantime, president trump is again casting doubt on whether the u.s. would defend nato allies if they were attacked. i want to play a clip. >> well, i think it's common sense, right? if they don't

pay, i'm not going to defend them. no, i'm not going to defend them. i got into a lot of heat when i said that. you said, oh, he's violating nato, but 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 and again, just reminding everyone you're a former nato supreme allied commander. >> what is your takeaway from those comments? >> just two very fundamental points. number one, the only time article five of the nato charter, which is the we all defend each other clause. the only time it's been activated in the 80 year history of the alliance is when we were attacked on 9/11. and yes, the

british, the french, the all of them came and stood with us for the next 20 years of war. i commanded 150,000 troops in afghanistan, well over a third of those were european troops. they suffered significant losses. they came and fought and died alongside us in afghanistan when we were attacked. so it's factually incorrect to say that the europeans haven't stood up to their end of the bargain. and, jessica, the second point is a pretty straightforward one. the idea of nato is not a pay as you go structure. it is that we all pool our resources. we realize that we're stronger together. and again, i said it before a moment ago, but our defense budget is about 900 billion. the second largest defense budget in the world is europe's. somewhere between 400 and 500 billion bigger than

china, bigger than russia. so they are certainly pitching in quite significantly. i'll close with this. the europeans absolutely should increase defense spending to to north of 2%, perhaps up to 3%. that would get them roughly where we are at 3.3%. i think they should do that. but in the interim, we ought to continue to see the value proposition of nato. they have come and fought for us when we were attacked. they have spent significantly on defense. we need to be working with them, not degrading them in the way that you heard a moment ago. >> and i do just want to look ahead. now. you mentioned the the meetings in saudi arabia. ukrainian u.s. team is going to meet there next week. president zelenskyy has been suggesting an air and sea ceasefire. it's something that was first raised by the french president, emmanuel macron. what kind of impact might that have? how plausible is that?

>> i think it is an absolutely powerful idea because our ally, our partner, our friend ukraine is getting pounded from the air and their economy is in difficult straits, no pun intended, because the russians are able to interdict shipping in the black sea. so this would be a very good asset for the ukrainians if we could get that across. in terms of is it plausible it's going to take a lot of pressure on russia to accept even that level of ceasefire. but president trump, as i mentioned in his most recent tweets and posts, has talked about putting pressure on russia. if we're going to get the russians to the table, it's going to require president trump to put reconomic pressure. sanctions go after their shadow

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transportation secretary sean duffy musk taking aim at duffee's organization and trying to eliminate air traffic controllers through doge, and duffy pushed back, saying, we can't do that since there's been a number of major plane crashes in recent weeks. of course, ultimately, president trump making clear that he is willing to place some limits on elon musk as he told his cabinet that they have the final say over their staffing levels. but asked about this new york times reporting, the president said there was no clash. and even today, just moments ago, issuing a statement on social media, he says elon and marco have a great relationship. any statement other than that is fake news. of course. jessica, we should note that elon musk was among the very small group of advisers traveling with the president here to palm beach on air force one last night. >> and betsy, there is also been on these tariffs so much back and forth on what is happening,

what's being paused, what's being enacted, what are you learning about the new tariffs kicking in on products from canada next week? >> yeah, it's really been a week of whiplash on the topic of tariffs. and president trump views tariffs as a tool for negotiation, particularly the threat of tariffs. so he imposed a 25% tariffs on canada and mexico. america's neighbors on tuesday. by thursday, he had backed off, issuing a one month reprieve. and then on friday, that reprieve was short lived. he said that he would be placing 250% tariffs on canadian dairy and lumber products. the president says that this is about fairness, but this is roiling the markets and causing major uncertainty among american businesses, investors and consumers, and also setting up a key test for how the leaders of those countries are going to navigate trump over the next month. >> all right, betsy klein, thank you so much for that reporting. joining us now, cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein. ron, always good to see you. let's talk about elon

musk for a second. i feel like we talk about him a lot, but just knowing what has happened at the white house, you know, at the white house during this cabinet meeting where we really continue to see this tension between what he's trying to do and what these secretaries are trying to do at their agencies with questions of who's in charge. >> yeah. great reporting by. >> jonathan swan and maggie haberman. and it's almost. >> as if they are operating. >> jessica, i think on different time frames. you know, the cabinet officers. are the front line. >> people who. >> are going to. >> be. >> held responsible. >> when the rubber. >> as the. >> rubber meets the road, as the. >> transportation secretary. >> said, you know, it's one thing. for you to come in and say, let's fire a bunch of air traffic controllers. but basically he's saying, i'm the one who's going to have to respond if there's a major plane crash. and you know, that, i think is what we've talked about this before, you know, whatever. >> degree of. >> backlash there is. >> at the front end and there is some and maybe more than i would

have expected in terms of town halls and public opinion polls showing public concern about kind of the indiscriminate and almost reckless nature of these cuts, there's a great deal more. political exposure on the back end when, you know, if. you start reducing the federal workforce and the way that they are when things go wrong, like this measles epidemic in west texas, people are going to be asking questions. and i think the resistance of the cabinet officers reflects that. they are the ones on the front lines responsible for those results. when those questions are asked. >> well, and it is interesting because then we saw trump posting that, that these cuts need to be made with a scalpel, not a hatchet, which was interesting language to hear from him. but you talk about the the kind of the blowback and who will face that. and i think you and i have talked about this. it won't be president trump who it won't is not eligible for another term. elon musk not running it is to your point, people maybe who have a future in the republican party, maybe some of these cabinet

secretaries and the republicans who will be running in 2026 and beyond. >> right, right. >> so certainly, you know, 2026 is the front lines of response to everything about trump. and it is worth noting that the last five times a president went into a midterm election with unified control of government, which republicans have now voters have revoked it in that midterm. no president has defended unified control of government through a midterm since jimmy carter in 1978. and as i wrote in on cnn.com a couple of weeks ago, that's the longest such streak in american history. we've never had five consecutive times where a party lost control in the midterm. and so you see republicans kind of feeling under the gun to get everything that they want to get done in these two years to basically leverage a 49% win in the popular vote into a mandate to fundamentally reshape the federal government at home and to reconfigure america's relations with the world. but

the. risk of all of that is that, you know, they are activating a lot of unease in parts of the electorate, and it is the members of congress who are going to have to go on the front line and defend that in 2016. and by the way, i still view all of this, all of these cuts as the and the federal government as the warm up for the real fight that is coming later this year over the federal budget and in particular, a republican reconciliation budget plan that is going to attempt to extend the trump tax cuts, which mostly benefit people at the top and fund that largely by cutting programs that benefit the middle class and the working class, especially medicaid and enhanced health care subsidies. >> yeah. and so there's questions around how that potentially might go over with voters. and then you throw in tariffs, which trump has said that those could mean, in his words, a little disturbance. he said he's okay with that. i've heard we've heard from other cabinet officials and allies who've said, you know, it's just the beginning. i wouldn't

worry about that for the short term. but listen, americans voted trump in to bring the cost of living down even in the short term. i think the question is, will they be patient with him if the prices continue to stay high? what do you think? >> i think he's already paying a price. i mean, i think there are two big points about the tariffs. i think first, that in many ways they are a symbol of trump's conception of the presidency. in this sense, the constant hairpin turns, the perpetual instability, i think, is a feature, not a bug. it makes it very hard for businesses to plan, makes it very hard for anybody to plan. and markets don't like that. but, you know, the constant instability is good for is trump. it forces everyone, whether it's domestic industries looking for carve outs or other countries to constantly stay on his good side. it's a way for him to the unpredictability is a way for him to increase leverage over everyone else in the

political system, and in some ways, the symbol of the whole administration, i think, was this decision when they dropped the case against eric adams. but they left open, you know, the idea that they could bring it back at any point, basically, if he didn't do what they want. that i think is what we are seeing on tariffs and so many other fronts. but to your other question, look, trump's economic approval rating in recent polling, particularly gallup, is below his overall approval rating. and you might say, so what? that never happened during his entire first term. during his entire first term, the economy was kind of a tailwind for him. faith in his economic management. and he is facing more doubts about the economy, i think, than he did at any point except the height of covid in his first term. and you are also seeing in polling, like the cnn poll, that a majority of americans, especially a majority of independents, say he is not focused enough on the biggest problems facing the country, which, as you note, was inflation. that is why people elected him above all. and right

now they see him as distracted from that. the greater risk is that they will see his agenda on things like tariffs and cutting medicaid and cutting health care subsidies as not only kind of missing the point, but compounding the problem. so, you know, trump is not in a bad position overall in public opinion, slightly better than he was in the first term at this point, although weaker than every other president. but if you look at the grades people are giving him on the economy and the fact that they are lower than his overall rating in a way that was never true in his first term in either gallup or cnbc, polling never happened. i think there's a little bit of a yellow, if not red light, you know, kind of blinking at him. >> very interesting. ron brownstein, as always, our thanks. >> thanks for having me. >> still ahead, a south carolina death row inmate executed by firing squad. why he chose to die this way. we're also following breaking news on long island, where firefighters are working to contain a brush fire in suffolk county. the flames and smoke forcing a portion of the sunrise highway to be shut down. new york's governor, kathy hochul, has declared a state of

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squad execution in nearly half a century. and to just get some context around this, back in 2021, south carolina passed a law that would allow for the use of firing squads in state executions. that legislation, partially motivated by the state's inability to get lethal injection drugs. do you think americans should be surprised that that this is that people are dying with the through the death penalty, with a firing by firing squad? >> yeah. >> you know, jessica, this. >> is. >> somewhat different as we know. and i know. >> society changes. >> all the time. >> norms change. values change. >> a lot. >> of things change. but this may. >> be a bridge too far for some, but apparently not for others. >> right? >> there is a school of thought out there which would suggest that death by firing squad. >> is even more. >> humane than other methods of death. you had. >> an. >> issue with. >> what they used to. >> call old sparky in florida, where there were problems in terms of the electric chair. there were issues. you alluded to. >> it in.

>> terms of the cocktail of drugs that they use in order to put people to death, whether they were an available, whether they were working properly, whether they were leading to prolonged instances of people suffering. and so here we go. death by firing squad, where in this particular jurisdiction, south carolina people volunteered, say, hey, i'll join you. three people who are employees of the department of corrections fired a shot. there was a literally a target on the condemned inmate's heart, and he's no longer. and so there will be a societal debate in terms of whether it's humane and humane, whether it's, you know, this should be what's happening. but here we are. it did happen. and the issue is moving forward. what's it going to look like? >> right. and i think that is is a question is we are seeing more debate, as you mentioned, over lethal injection, which of course had been the route that i think was much more common to see in recent history of states using lethal injection for the death penalty. but now we are

seeing different methods because in part, it's sometimes it's hard to get these drugs. et cetera, et cetera. and the questions around if it actually is, as those attorneys said, if there is a prolonged death that's involved with those drugs. >> yeah, there's no question. and i think that's part and parcel to what we see. right. this is there's only five states out of 50 who have this method. and of course, idaho just is really considering. and it's just about there whether or not death by firing squad should be the primary method. and so there are only other, you know, four states. i think that says a lot with respect to whether people think that this is the appropriate manner in which it should occur, right? the death of someone and it it shows a society. where are we moving to? right. this seems to be a bit more barbaric. some would argue, hey, i'm completely wrong, that if you shoot someone in the heart, they're dead instantly. they're not suffering from the really issues that they talked about. jessica, with regard to these drugs that were

used and how it would cause really this prolonged and undue agony and suffering and pain. and so what will we see other states in the union to move towards firing squads? will this be the norm, even though it's been 15 years? i think that remains to be seen. but in this, these norm busting times, i would not be surprised. >> right. and it's just kind of another example of states deciding for themselves, kind of where they fall on that, that spectrum. >> yeah, there's no question. and to that point, you notice that in this particular execution, you didn't see the supreme court step in. right. the united states supreme court, that is, they generally don't get involved in state issues. it's up to the state. they don't get involved with regard to the method of execution. some might think that this is improper. it's unconstitutional under the eighth amendment. cruel and unusual punishment. the supreme court says no. this particular state supreme court in south carolina said no. perfectly appropriate. fine. you're going to be sentenced to death. and so, yes, i mean, you

have instances now where i think it's going to be a state issue and various governors, right, that are elected in each state and the different state legislatures that are elected in that particular jurisdictions and communities are going to make the judgment call as to what should be the appropriate method. and just to button this up, jessica, we should note that there are 27 out of the 50 states that have the death penalty at all. and then, of course, the five that i mentioned that have firing squads and each has a protocol with regard to how it's done, whether you volunteer, whether there's empty bullets or live rounds, whether you stand 15ft right, as in south carolina, or 25ft as in utah. so everyone makes their own decisions. >> yeah. good context there. all right. joey jackson, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thanks, jessica. >> after the break, flights were delayed and diverted to avoid chunks of flaming debris raining down from the sky this week after a spacex starship exploded after its launch. more on what ceo elon musk called a minor setback. when we come back here in the cnn newsroom.

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with astrophysics. professor adam frank from the university of rochester. he also wrote the book the little book of aliens. adam, what happened here? thanks for being here. tell us what happened. >> yeah. >> well, this. >> was not. >> what any of us were hoping for. >> spacex. >> the starship. >> is not only important for getting. >> to mars eventually, which is a. >> much larger project, but getting to. the moon. it's a big part of nasa's. project to try and get to the moon. you know, hopefully by 2027 or so. and so this is the second time. >> that the. >> starship has exploded before it even, i mean, before it even got to places. >> or parts. >> of the mission that it had gotten to before. so what this shows is now, you know, spacex is amazing. they've done amazing things. eventually, hopefully they'll figure this out. but there's so many parts of this mission that have to work in order to get us to the moon before, say, the chinese do. in 2030 that this just pushes everything back. the the

brilliant spacex engineers can't even get to start testing some of the things they need to test, because they have to get through this hurdle first. >> yeah, and musk really categorize this as what he said was a minor setback. is it indeed minor, do you think? and what do you think? >> i think there's some concern that this is taking longer than they wanted it to take. you know, again, like i said, spacex has done amazing things. the the the researchers there, the engineers there are fantastic. but it's clear that there are some things that still haven't been worked out, and it's taking longer to work them out than i think those of us who are really interested in, you know, getting back to the moon with the artemis program would like for it to happen. >> and you mentioned, you know, trying to get back to the moon in a timely manner before china does help people understand this kind of race, to get back to the moon, to to really push forward with this. >> yeah. so what's really amazing is that, you know, the

human future in space is is taking off to, you know, not pun intended. right. is that you see, there's lots of private companies that are getting into space. last week we had or recently we had two private companies land small robots on the moon. china is highly invested in getting to the moon, so it's really within a decade or so, we expect to have a real human presence on the moon. and of course, this is really important for the u.s. to continue. it's its lead, so to speak, or it's it's frontier in space. and of course, one of the ironies that's happening with all this is all of those brilliant engineers at spacex were all trained at u.s. universities, most likely, or u.s. institutions. and it's those institutions which right now are under threat from what is happening with the administration. you know, we have the we basically have the most extraordinary scientific enterprise the world has ever built. and, you know, a lot of the leaders in science right now will tell you that that's really

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>> jack ferguson couldn't agree more. >> i think a lot of people look around their neighborhood and they aren't even sure who the veterans are. i think our country owes it to the veterans to to make sure they get proper care. >> and in response to the reporting on the possible staff cuts, peter kasperowicz spokesman for the va sent cnn a statement saying that the va will always provide veterans, families, caregivers and survivors the health care and benefits they have earned. but he said, quote, we are also making major improvements to strengthen the department. and he said that many are using rumor, innuendo and disinformation to spread fear in the hopes that the va will just keep doing the same thing. it has always done. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> all right, brian, thank you for that report. cnn's original series, united states of scandal, is back for a second season. cnn anchor and chief washington correspondent jake tapper revisits some of the most

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