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what's happening right now on cnn this morning. >> my government will keep our tariffs on until the americans show us respect. >> canada's just chosen successor to justin trudeau is already standing up to president trump. can he stop the trade war? plus, this. >> things were popping. part of the plane was falling. >> a plane plunges into a parking lot. and another fiery crash. a recent cuts to the faa making it riskier to fly. then this. >> we'll see if we can get something done. i'd like to get something done. >> the u.s. and ukraine gear up for talks to end russia's war. what it will take to repair this between washington and kyiv. and later, the federal agency, using polygraphs on its employees.

what are the lie detector tests? looking for? 6 a.m. here on the east coast. here's a live look at the capitol, where lawmakers will be coming this week to talk about a potential government shutdown. good morning, everybody. i'm audie cornish. i want to thank you for waking up with me. coming in hot. canada's incoming prime minister vows to fight back against president trump's threats of a trade war. on sunday, canada's liberal party elected marc carney to take over as party leader from justin trudeau. now, carney will eventually succeed trudeau as prime minister. carney is actually the former top banker for both the u.k. and canada. he says he's going to keep trudeau's retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products until, quote, the americans show us some respect. >> we didn't ask for this fight,

but canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves. so the americans, they should make no mistake in trade, as in hockey canada will win. >> while canada's eventual new prime minister is vowing to win a trade war with the u.s., trump administration officials argue that the tariffs are actually fighting a drug war. they say fentanyl is the reason for the tariffs. >> we launched a drug war, not a trade war, and it was part of a negotiation to get canada and mexico to stop shipping fentanyl across our borders. >> if fentanyl ends, i think these will come off. but if fentanyl does not end or he's uncertain about it, they will stay this way until he is comfortable. >> you're saying this really is about fentanyl? it really is about fentanyl. it really is. >> it's worth noting that in the last fiscal year, u.s. border authorities have taken a total of 43 pounds of fentanyl at the canadian border. that's

less than 1% of all fentanyl seized at u.s. borders. joining me now to talk about all of this, alex thompson, cnn political analyst and national political reporter at axios. ashley allison, cnn political commentator and former director of the biden-harris campaign. and doug heye, republican strategist. thank you all. welcome to the group chat. i'm going to start with alex. i love the weekends because when you come in you hear everybody's talking points from sunday. one after another. what does it mean that they're moving this conversation in this direction? >> well, some of this is about legal justification for it because. >> you know that, again, legal justification. >> yes. because in order to for trump to have the power to unilaterally do these sort of wide tariffs, you have to have sort of a national security or a security rationale for it. that is why they keep talking. i mean, i think they do have a real policy agenda here, but some of it also is the legal justification. >> okay. doug, what i'm hearing is this is not cosmetic. i'm coming to you first. ashley, i'm not forgetting you, but i'm coming to you first because

obviously, your experience at the rnc, you're a guy who knows about message and how to talk about something publicly. so when you see flooding the zone with drug war, not trade war, what do you hear? >> it tells you there's been pushback and they're trying to find new ways to talk about it. and to alex's point, it's legal. it's also political. that's why we saw the three cabinet members all saying the exact not sort of things, the exact same words. we're going to hear fentanyl more and more, regardless of what those numbers are. clearly, fentanyl is coming in in massive numbers from the mexican border. i just crossed the border. did the land crossing over the summer, and you can see just when you're just ten feet over on the mexico side or 100 yards on the mexico side, you can see these kinds of products being sold. that's just not true in canada. but the political argument is going to remain because they have to make the political argument to make the legal argument. >> to be clear, there are fentanyl labs in canada. that is not we're not saying they don't exist. we're saying we're not talking about the organized industry that you might see coming out of mexico. ashley, i remember the

biden-harris folks during the term really struggling to talk about the border in a way that connected with people saying, we're doing something. so how are you thinking about this now? you know what i mean? what is the not counter? but what is the argument that could be taken advantage of in this moment? well, i think if you. >> consider the canadian border and the mexican border, those i just feel like two different stories to be told. the reason why republicans right now are using fentanyl as a distraction, almost to what is happening with the tariffs on, is because you seem insensitive. if you say fentanyl is not an issue, when we know that people die from drug overdoses in this country. so we're smart enough as americans to bifurcate the issue of tariffs and the need to have policies in place and protect people from overdosing from fentanyl. so i would i would encourage the democrats not to take the bait here. >> okay. >> and counter it and be compassionate to folks who are

experiencing drug crisises in their communities while also saying, we want eggs to be cheaper. >> okay, so we are not just nerds into tariffs. i mean, we are, but we're not just nerds into terrorists. i want to play for you something that the president said over the weekend about whether or not the u.s. should expect a recession. >> are you expecting a recession this year? >> i hate to predict things like that. there is a period of transition because what we're doing is very big. we're bringing wealth back to america. that's a big thing. and there are always periods of it takes a little time, it takes a little time, but i think it should be great for us. >> jump ball on, great for us or a period of transition. which phrase strikes your fancy? >> well, this is a case in which the talking points were not all in unison because you had commerce secretary howard lutnick on meet the press

saying, predicting that there would not be a recession. and so they were not. >> like categorically it will be tate played back to you later if it turns out. >> the other way. but they've they've all sort of said that they expect the tariffs to be disruptive, but this is also what they ran on. and they believe that, you know, given the last 30 years of what they call sort of the hollowing out of the industrial base that that this is this is about trying to get back to that or address that. >> yeah. >> i think they ran on tariffs, but i don't think they ran on a bit of a disturbance. disturbance i think that, you know, and so i know they didn't because if they would have people kamala harris would have pounded on it. >> the same way. >> and so when, when people like myself and other folks were saying, watch out, cats like, you know, this might not land the way you expect it to land. we were told that we didn't know anything about economic policy. >> yeah, but now i wanted to say, watch out, cats. write below your name. i love that the group chat is just getting started. you guys, thanks so much. please stick around. we're

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happen a little bit more often than normal. and then it goes back and you go many years without having a problem. >> despite those claims. our next guest says president trump and elon musk are actually making matters worse, especially after that deadly mid-air collision over the potomac that killed 67 people in january. isaac stanley becker of the atlantic writes, trump deepened the faa's problems by blaming the disaster on diversity programs, a pronouncement that baffled many in the agency's workforce. at least one senior executive decided to quit in disgust. meanwhile, the new york times reports that last week, transportation secretary sean duffy actually confronted elon musk. here they write, quote, mr. duffy said the young staff of mr. musk's team was trying to lay off air traffic controllers. what am i supposed to do? mr. duffy said i have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers. end quote. isaac stanley becker joins me now, of course, from the atlantic. i want to talk about your report,

because first of all, you were able to suss out who's being let go or who's just walked out under the doge cuts. >> that's right. there are two primary ways that reductions are happening. one is through the offer of early retirement. the other is through the dismissal of probationary employees. and i was able to get my hands on some internal faa data that shows the degree of interest in that offer of early retirement. more than 1500 employees responded to that email, and among those walking out the door include aviation safety technicians, assistants, 125 engineers, 51. >> aeronautical engineers. right. these are the folks that after an incident, they're the ones who start remapping and trying to figure out what happened. >> that's even a whole separate category. aeronautical information specialists. these are people who, after a weather disaster, an incident, they update the charts and the maps that aviators and air traffic controllers rely on to make sure that people moving planes through the air can do that safely. >> now, to be clear, we're talking about staffing because there is some concern that when it came to that accident over the potomac, it was may have

been contributed to by understaffing in the control tower. what did you learn about that? >> so there was an internal faa safety report that found that staffing at the air traffic control tower was not normal at the time of that crash, and that's one of the reasons why, when there was initial interest in the buyout program among air traffic controllers that set off such alarms inside the agency, and you saw them move then to exempt those categories of workers from that offer of early retirement. that happened in about a week. now, according to what my sources are telling me, is that despite that exemption, there are many critical safety roles that are still being sacrificed and safety roles that really provide the backup for the air traffic controllers when they're doing that critical frontline work. >> okay. state of play, critical shortages. people walking at the door. in the meantime, there's a long running issue. i've covered this for a long time of antiquated systems at the faa. right. literally, like the computers, the communication systems. i think they still use walkie-talkies like it is very

old. and the person who is cutting the department and who has contracts with the department says, i've got a solution. elon musk wants to use his internet satellite network, starlink sean duffy. transportation secretary had this to say about that. >> as part of a solution. there's some terminals, like up in alaska where it's hard to access fiber wires. it's mountainous. there's some facilities that that starlink can be helpful. but again, we want to make sure we have fiber connected. systems in place and so they can play some part of it, but not all of it. americans want to make sure they have the best air traffic control system in the world. we're not there right now, but we can get there if we have the help from the private sector and the congress gives us the money. >> it's one thing to reach to the private sector. it's another thing to have someone who's directly involved in all this process. tell me, what are the issues here with elon musk

having his company replace systems? >> well, you make such an important point about the aging infrastructure at the agency, and this has been recognized in 2023, the agency awarded verizon a $2.4 billion contract to upgrade the communications network. now, elon musk's team, through doge from his private company spacex, come in last month and they say this is a problem. agency officials say we already know this is a problem. we're working on it. but what they want to do is, is to deploy a solution that relies heavily on starlink, which is the satellite internet infrastructure that's a subsidiary of spacex, to deploy these terminals across the country. and there are concerns about this. >> even ukraine has used starlink to some difficulty. >> it's become somewhat ubiquitous, not just within the country but globally. but the concerns involve not just the potential conflicts of interest in terms of this being a regulated entity before the agency now standing to profit from its use, but also some cybersecurity concerns that this has not gone through the type of

vetting and threat prevention protocols and review that other types of government contractors have. >> so let me translate. anyone could start working there. and basically you are now in the u.s. transportation grid, right? should starlink become sort of a central part of it? >> well, that's the concern of some of the experts i spoke to in terms of including experts who are well placed to to make these sort of assessments because they were part of an internal classified faa security review last year. so they know from where they speak and they're concerned about the potential for less rigorous processes and less rigorous review. >> isaac stanley-becker, this is great reporting. thank you for your time. thank you. straight ahead on cnn this morning, secretary of state marco rubio traveling to saudi arabia right now to kick start talks with ukraine. plus, why new homeland security secretary kristi noem is making some of her employees take polygraph tests.

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thank you for joining me here on cnn this morning. here's what's happening right now. the incoming canadian leader wasting no time taking on president trump. mark carney vowing to win the trade war with the u.s. carney is expected to be sworn in as prime minister this week. and also new tariffs from china on farm products coming from the u.s. this morning. they're now in effect. that includes 15% on chicken, wheat, corn, cotton and 10% on produce, pork, beef and other dairy products. this is in response to president trump raising tariffs on chinese products. and congress returns to capitol hill today as house speaker mike johnson looks to avoid a government shutdown, he unveiled a plan that would fund the government through the end of september. but democrats aren't all on board with that. congressional republicans may be on a collision course with their own constituents, as republicans look to offset potential tax cuts in the federal budget, because the likely target could

be medicaid. but republicans, including president trump, maintain that they won't cut those programs. >> you can take today's spending for medicare. today's spending for social security. all right. get rid of fraud, waste and abuse. and then look at the other programs. and you can balance the budget without cutting any benefits, which you shouldn't of medicare or social security. this is all doable. >> we've been looking at the math here at cnn and our senior political analyst, ron brownstein, has been doing the math as well. you note that dozens of house republicans represent districts where the share of residents receiving health coverage through medicaid is greater than the average district nationwide. i want you to talk to me about this calculation. what do you see as being the difficulty? >> yeah. good morning. well, you know, i covered the 9596 budget battle between the republican congress and bill clinton and then again in 2017, when republicans tried to repeal the aca, the affordable care act. and each time, audie, they

didn't really have a lot of hesitation about going after medicaid because they viewed it primarily as a program for the urban poor. but two things have changed to fundamentally alter that equation. first, the expansion of medicaid under the aca in 2012 have brought in millions of working poor adults. and at the same time, over these past 25, 30 years, republicans in the house have grown to dominate those kind of working poor, lower education districts, predominantly white on the edges of metro areas. and as a result, as you note, we are now in a circumstance where dozens of house republicans represent districts where more people rely on medicaid than the average district nationwide. and i think even more importantly, many more republicans than democrats. i think this is the most important you know, information we unearthed in our in our research at cnn.com. if you look at the health dashboard that is put together by the nyu school of medicine and the robert wood johnson foundation, as we did, many more republicans than

democrats now represent districts with high incidence of all sorts of serious health problems diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, blood cancer deaths breast cancer deaths. excuse me. heart. heart problems. and what that means is that those are the places that are the most vulnerable. if health care is revoked. and so there really is no way, looking at these numbers for republicans to make major cuts in medicaid without targeting a lot of their own constituents and voters. >> you've said that this is a difficulty for republicans. what do you think that democrats should be doing? when you were talking about covering 95 and 96, how do you think about their potential strategy? >> well, i actually think this is the cornerstone of their of their strategy for 2025. if you talk to democrats, you know, they they recognize they are in a hole. i mean, this the image of the party is probably in a weaker position than at any point since i think the 1980s, the reagan and george h.w. bush

era. but if you ask democrats how they think they are going to come back, you know, there is a debate about, you know, within the party, do you fight on every front or do you focus on the economic issues? and i think most democrats believe their best chance of kind of getting a second look from the public in 2025? is this debate over the budget? you know, this is the first time since that 1995 96 budget when republicans are explicitly putting two things together in the same budget plans, tax cuts that are aimed primarily at the rich and cuts in programs and health care programs, particularly medicaid, that benefit the middle and working class. i mean, if you look at their tax cuts since then, they've been sugar only. they've kept the spinach far away from it. but here democrats, i think, feel they can make the explicit linkage because the budget will make the explicit linkage to the argument that republicans will be cutting medicaid to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. and i think if you ask them, as i said, how they think they're going to come

back, they are probably putting more chips on that on that number than anything else. >> that's cnn's senior political analyst, ron brownstein. right now, we want to move on to a little international news, because the secretary of state, marco rubio, is actually heading to saudi arabia. that's where he's going to meet with his ukrainian counterparts to talk about ending russia's war on ukraine. now, according to reuters, the u.s. will try to determine whether ukraine is willing to make material concessions to russia to make that happen. it was just more than a week ago that ukraine's president left the white house after this spat with president trump. >> no, you're not winning this. i was coming up, as you know, in saudi arabia, that's going to include russia. it'll be ukraine. we'll see if we can get something done. i'd like to get something done. a lot of people died this week, as you know, in ukraine, not only ukrainians, but russians. so i think everybody wants to see it get done. we're going to make a lot of progress this week.

>> ukraine says russian missiles killed more than two dozen people since saturday. i want to bring back the chat to talk about this a little bit, because our own nick paton walsh writes in cnn analysis that trump keeps insisting that zelenskyy commits to peace. do we know what trump considers peace? >> we don't. and neither do the ukrainians and neither do the russians. and it's causing a lot of confusion and also a lot of concern in europe, which, you know, those countries are going to be the most affected by the outcome of this deal. >> i heard you nodding is that you feel like a question to you, too? i mean, i know what russia wants. they want a demilitarized ukraine. they want no nato and no one in nato. they want to expand their sphere of influence, and ukraine wants to survive as an independent sovereign state. and in the meantime, i think a lot of americans are starting to shift their sympathies. doug, i see you. >> yeah. i've been telling folks for for two years now watch house republicans on ukraine because we were seeing a shift

two years ago. that shift is now completely happened. but essentially with everything that's happening in ukraine, ukraine is a staging ground for eastern europe. the past three summers i've spoken at the polish economic forum, you get out of a plane in poland, people recognize that you're american. they will come to you immediately and tell you how important ukraine is to them because of what their very recent history is. it's ukraine is is critically important. but this is poland, this is moldova, this is estonia. so many countries are looking at ukraine and asking very real questions about america right now. >> you're not going to believe i'm saying this. i'm glad you brought up poland because the polish prime minister, donald tusk, had this amazing quote in politico. i actually really have said this to multiple people. but he says it's striking, but it's true. right now, 500 million europeans are begging 300 million americans for protection from 140 million russians who have been unable to overcome 50 million ukrainians

for three years. yeah, it sounds like maybe there should be an advantage there, but somehow there is not. how do democrats talk about this without falling into the russia, russia russia trap? >> well, a couple of things. one, i think that most americans are on the majority of americans don't want a blank check to continue to go to ukraine. they want some accountability. but i actually think it's interesting having rubio there. now. one of the reasons why he i think he got 99 votes in his confirmation hearing wasn't just because he was a former senator, it was because of some of his former positions on ukraine, on china and, and and the opposition. he had to russia, which is a little counter to how people are experiencing donald trump. so when we saw the spat, as you called it, in the in the oval office, a lot. >> of names. >> to call it. yeah, a lot of a squabble, perhaps. yeah a lot of people were saying, take this from in front of the cameras and go behind closed doors and have some diplomacy and negotiate this out. and it'll be

interesting to see how rubio's posture, if he takes that very aggressive stance that jd vance did, or if he will actually fall into his more traditional, diplomatic way of trying to actually resolve and bring peace to the region. >> and keep and keep an eye on vance, because, you know, when he was in the. >> senate. >> did you mean to say vance or rubio? >> you know vance? >> oh, okay. >> yeah. yeah. because when. >> he sort of sums up all the questions around diplomacy right now, are we looking at j.d. vance or marco rubio? >> well, you should look at both because because when they were in the senate, they were on different sides of this issue. vance was the only republican senator that not only was, you know, pushing to maybe restrict aid, he wanted to cut off all aid. he was the only republican senator. >> that didn't on this. >> yeah. he is it has been a long time brewing. >> but in the meantime, marco rubio obviously spoke out about communist regimes, giving his background about cuba. so you're right. it will be interesting to watch. i want you guys to stay with me. we have a little bit more to talk about. still ahead on cnn this morning, a government shutdown potentially looming by the end of this week. democratic congresswoman hilary

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passed. >> as democratic lawmakers face a shutdown, they're also facing angry voters who say that they actually need to be doing more to stand up to the majority party. >> i don't think. >> waiting for. >> 2026 and persuading people and small steps is the way to go. i think we need to do something stronger. i don't either, but i think we need more al greens. i need for you to represent how angry we are and our concerns. >> joining me now to talk about all of this, congresswoman hillary scholten of michigan. congresswoman, thank you so much for being here. i want to tackle just what we heard from a constituent, because i think it gets at an overall divide. you have democrats in for some democrats in washington, like senator fetterman saying this is chaos. i'll never vote for chaos to burn the village down in order to save it. it's pretty, he said. that's one of our core responsibilities, is to keep the government running. and then you have a constituent that says, get up and fight.

>> yeah. >> you know, it is chaos, but. >> it's chaos of. >> republicans creation. i think it's so important for the american people to understand and realize we did not have to be here. these funding deadlines have have been set for, for, for years. we know they're coming. >> but there have been so many past government shutdown fights. what lessons have democrats learned from that? >> well, i mean, we are planning to oppose this. cr the american people want us to fight and they're going to see us fight. we are using the tools of democracy to defend our democracy. we just need three courageous, patriotic republicans to join us and prevent this disastrous continuing resolution. because, i mean, if you have seen what is in this thing, it is it is so harmful to the american people, you know, cutting medicaid, cutting medicare, threatening social security, cutting veteran's benefits, you know, while handing out tax breaks to,

you know, their billionaire buddies. and, you know, elon musk is getting, you know, brand new contracts every week. this is not the budget that the american people want. so we'll be opposing it. >> let me follow up on that point around elon musk. you had michigan senator elissa slotkin also talking about concerns about voting to keep the government open, while elon musk continues to run through the federal government. here's what she had to say. >> the president has been deciding how to spend the money any way he wants, even when we have a budget that both democrats and republicans voted on. that's a constitutional issue, right? everyone knows congress has the power of the purse. so i just until i see some assurances that whatever we pass next week is going to ensure that the money is spent the way congress intends, i'm going to i'm going to withhold my vote until i see that. >> is there something else that you for? you would, you know, have you withhold your vote other than the fact that you guys are all voting together

against it? >> well, i mean, and we don't necessarily always all vote together. you know, i am certainly a member who comes from a swing district. i'm the first democrat in a century to hold this seat. i voted against my party plenty of times. >> complicate things for you. i mean, you must be hearing from constituents who say, look, a hit dog going to holler. that's what i've heard a million times that, like, the bureaucracy is suffering because it's finally getting attacked by for the better, right? >> well, and that's not what this is about. i've been clear since day one that we need a dramatic change to the way that we fund this government, and we need the type of audit that is happening right now. but elon musk can't unilaterally make these spending decisions. it has to come through congress. why? because that's where the american people get a say. you know, elon musk is operating doge in the shadows. we don't know what he's doing. that's why i introduced my clear act to make sure that doge is subject to the same oversight and transparency requirements as other agencies.

>> so this goes beyond his website with his quote, unquote, wall of receipts. you're looking for more? >> absolutely. >> you have the power to given that he's in the executive. >> well, so they doge should be subject to the freedom of information act just like any other agency. so journalists and the american people can, can see what he's up to. what's he doing with this taxpayer data that he has, you know, are there actually all these billions of dollars in fraud that they're claiming? the only publicly available ledger that they have put out there is full of errors and miscalculations, and they're using that as the basis to take away people's social security. we're not going to stand for it. >> any republican co-sponsors for that. >> we're still waiting, still working. it's on the table. >> okay. >> great. congresswoman skelton, democrat from michigan, thank you so much for being with us. it's now 50 minutes past the hour. i want to give you your morning roundup, some of the stories you need to get your day going. today, the alleged i.s.i.s. member accused in the bombing at kabul's airport in 2021 will be in federal court in

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and for the second time in two weeks, mike myers returns to saturday night live to poke fun at elon musk. but for this sketch, myers called on an old character to mock the world's richest man. >> but was taking this job a bad idea? a lot of people seem to really hate me. my tesla stock is crashing, and my personal net worth just dropped by $100 billion. >> we knew it would happen. myers dusting off his old doctor evil character from the austin powers movies. musk has previously scoffed at the snl impression, posting that, quote, humor fails when it lies. myers being back. anyone into this? no. >> no. >> i thought he was. >> no comment. >> i was b minus. >> b minus. rob. this is a rough crowd. okay? i want to have one more serious story for you. the department of homeland security, trying to identify employees who might be leaking information,

and they're trying to use lie detectors to do it. >> and you're going to continue these polygraphing. of employees. >> the authorities that i have under the department of homeland security are broad and extensive, and i plan to use every single one of them to make sure that we're following the law, that we are following the procedures in place to keep people safe, and that we're making sure we're following through. on what president trump has promised that he's going to make america safe again. >> okay, i wanted to ask you guys about this because the department of homeland security is like a major employer, right, when it comes to federal workers. and this is part of how they will be spending their time. is this a good use of time? >> this is to see if people are loyal to donald trump or not. i don't think. >> leaking is a problem, right? if everyone's busy like squealing, then. >> it's. >> a distraction. oh right. pro leaking. >> i mean lie detector tests aren't even really admissible in the court of law as like, determinative factors of people telling the truth. and so this is again how we're going to do

it. this is all about a fear tactic for people who are not falling in line to donald trump to scare folks. it's not about leaks. it's not. >> actually interesting to see if it actually expands beyond dhs, because to your point, you know, this is a broader strategy about trying to try to, i guess, like in their minds, tame the federal bureaucracy and make it basically much more politicized, much more in service of donald trump. >> yeah. >> yeah. it's easy to see this expand to the small business administration and the fcc and so forth. but as a former leak hunter, good luck with that. >> okay. leak hunter say more. what's involved? how complicated is it? >> well, it's complicated because you have so many people who could be leaking any detail. when i was at the rnc, we had a consistent leak on a thing that we did not find out who leaked it until after the chairman had left, when all the cell phones were turned in and somebody found a voicemail. it took me 12 years to serve that revenge, but i found that out out of pure luck. and i will say it was fantastic to serve that cold

dish of revenge. >> okay, i also want to mention this one other reference of leakers. former defense secretary mark esper. he was saying the president was the biggest leaker of all. it turned colleague against colleague department against a department, and was generally bad for the administration and the country. alex, can i ask you, since you're pro league, is this trump administration does feel different, though from the first one. even his relationships with the press. so does esper's comment still kind of apply here? >> i mean, trump still is probably the biggest leaker of perhaps this white house. i remember talking to a trump administration official, and when you know someone like maggie haberman would call, they were like, it's possible, he told her. like it's possible that he's the background source, you know that. that being said, i think the reason why this is a less leaky white house, because everyone is on the same page this time. you had such factionalism in that first in that first white house, because everyone was on the same page. you had sort of like the old republican party grafted on to like the the steve bannon esque wing.

>> george costanza said, it's not a lie if you believe it. is it a leak? if the president does it, it's a totally different way of doing things as opposed to a deputy assistant secretary or something like that. >> i someone who doesn't leak and. >> the obama folks were known for not. leaking all that much. >> i mean, we were eternally loyal to the president, as i, i think you should keep. strategy. potentially not. it's not for the press to have until it's ready to roll out. i think that the reason why people are leaking in the trump administration is because he wanted to undermine our constitution. a lot of those things are, are are actually pro-democracy things that folks are saying, whoa, wait a minute. he wants to send the national guard out on black lives matter plaza or whoa, this is going to happen. and he is going to try and overturn the 14th amendment. the leaks in the trump admin. and compared to other presidential administrations, i just think. >> yeah, though we should say that i think to your point, the conformity factor here is pretty profound this time around. it's

a very different energy. >> which is why they're saying lie detectors, because if you don't conform, you got to go. yeah. >> well, i want to ask you guys about what you're looking ahead to this week on the show. we try and keep an eye out and give people a sense of what's coming up. doug, i want to start with you. anything that you think we should be watching? >> well, yeah, we just saw yesterday in the new york times a story that tara palmeri, who was a reporter at puck and politico, abc before that, is going out on her own and completely going all in on youtube that she's making that decision, i think tells us a lot about how the media is changing. if she's successful, i think she's going to tell us exactly how the media has changed. >> i'm going to translate this for my mom. so this person is like a very well known reporter on the political beat. so for them to say, i don't need legacy media or even new legacy media is remarkable. >> absolutely. >> okay. ashley, allison, what do you keep an eye on? >> okay. the love is love. >> what is this. >> smile. >> i see? go on. >> this was not on my bingo card to be in my twitter or twitter feed this past weekend. the love

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least directionally. >> yes. big shift. >> yeah. you're also seeing a few rust belt democrats do that, whereas a lot of the democratic party is reflexively against it. i'm just sort of curious how they react now that they're really going to effect on the china tariffs. >> yeah. and i'm still keeping an eye on canada. i have never seen so many maple leafs ever. i promise this color is tomato, not canadian red. i just happened to wear it this morning. i want to thank you guys for entering the group chat. hanging out with me. love is blind reference. extra coffee for you in the green room and i want to thank you all for waking up with us. i'm audie cornish, cnn news central is going to start right now.