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himself refusing on at least two occasions publicly to rule it out. let's go now to cnn white house reporter alayna treene. elena, what are you learning this morning? >> well, look, it's clear one, the president was refused to rule out not only, you know, high prices being an impact of his new tariff policy, but also wouldn't rule out a potential recession in the next year or so. and not only did that once we saw him do that on fox news yesterday, but then he also doubled down on that on air force one yesterday. but look, what is very clear to me is that what they are trying to do is argue that some of the the downsides of his tariff policy. we're seeing the stock market fall again today. we're seeing concerns from really the global markets and also, of course, the united states trading partners on the news of what he is doing with mexico and canada. they're trying to argue that that is temporary. that is the argument we heard from kevin hassett this morning, one of the president's top economic advisers, arguing that this is going to be a temporary phenomenon. that is the words that he used. and he also tried to argue that the

broader economic agenda and policy that the trump administration is working on, including some of those tax cuts that we know they're trying to get into that spending bill. we'll see if that passes on friday. if there is a government shutdown, that could just throw more uncertainty into all of the markets and the economy. but they're trying to argue that that will offset some of what they are seeing play out now with the negative impact to tariff policy. but i think by and large, we've heard now from several people on wall street, we have goldman sachs, we have jp morgan, others saying that, you know, perhaps due to this, this trade deficit and the tariff policy that the president is enacting, there could be a recession in the next year or so. the president would not rule that out. and really continuing to kind of insert a lot of that uncertainty we've seen with this whiplash and the stop and start tariffs, just kind of adding fuel to that fire, pamela and wolf. >> all right. alayna treene thank you so much, wolf. >> and right now on capitol hill, the race is on to avoid another federal government shutdown. the house of representatives is expected to vote tomorrow on a stopgap bill

to keep the government open and running through september. but can republicans, with their ultra slim majority in the house, get it passed without help from the democrats? i want to bring in cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox. she's up on capitol hill. so, lauren, what are you hearing from republicans on this bill's chances? >> yeah. >> wolf. >> the first. >> stop, of course, will be. >> the house of. >> representatives, where. republican leaders have been furiously trying to coalesce their. >> members around. >> this spending bill that would keep the government funded until the end. >> of september. >> now, traditionally, a lot of conservatives. >> have. >> sworn off the idea. >> of these. >> stopgap measures, insisting that they wanted negotiations to lower spending in a full year spending bill. however, at the urging of donald trump and the fact that republicans believe they're going to have to carry this bill on their own tomorrow, we are seeing a lot of republicans saying that they will support this piece of legislation. now, the huge question mark is whether or not

there will be enough of them already. there is one republican, thomas massie, who has said he will not support this piece of legislation. and given the narrow majority in the house and the fact that a lot of democrats are warning they won't back it, that doesn't leave johnson much room for air. now, even if this can get out of the house of representatives, you are seeing signs of trouble ahead in the senate. and that is because over in that chamber, they're going to need a number of democratic votes. right now, it's not clear whether they would have enough. even if the house can get this out of their chamber tomorrow. >> the stakes are enormous. lauren fox reporting for us. lauren, thank you very much. i want to get some more on all of these major new developments. joining us now, democratic congresswoman ilhan omar. she sits on the house budget committee. congresswoman, thanks so much for joining us. as you know, the minority leader, the democratic leader in the house, hakeem jeffries, is strongly opposing this temporary funding bill to keep the government open and operating, spending money through the end of september. some democrats have privately

discussed supporting it. can you tell us where you stand? >> yeah. >> i mean. >> i think. >> leader hakeem jeffries is very clear that we cannot support a continued resolution when republicans who control the house and the senate have not made any effort to negotiate with us on what the cr would look like, we know that there is $6 billion in defense spending increase. that is not something majority of democrats, including myself, are in support of, especially when they are making $13 billion in cuts to programs that people care about. >> when you say a cr, you mean a continuing. >> continuing resolution. >> is a stopgap measure to keep the government open and operating and providing the funds for people all around the country that they desperately need. >> oftentimes, what is more desirable is a clean one or a negotiated one by both parties. and we don't have it. neither of those are the options that we're being given. >> but if there is a government shutdown, how concerned would

you be that the public at large would blame the democrats for that? >> well, right now the house is controlled by republicans. the senate is controlled by the republicans, and the presidency is in the hands of the republicans. so it is their job to make sure that the government has the resources it needs in order to continue to function. and i think the american people are well aware of that fact, and that is who they are going to blame. >> but do you think the democrats should negotiate now with the republican leadership in the house and try to get some benefits that you want in order to approve this? continuing resolution and keep the government open? >> and, wolf, that's where the problem exists, is republicans have not been willing to negotiate with us, whether it's in the house or in the senate. they are doing this on their own and without a negotiation, you're not going to have a bill that both parties can agree on. >> but you know, the pain that would develop if the government shuts down. >> severely. >> especially at a time when we see all these federal government jobs being eliminated, people being fired, given five minutes notice, go home, don't come back. if you can only imagine

what would happen if the government doesn't have any money to keep operating. >> no, it's going to be severely devastating. as you remember in 2019 when i got sworn in, we walked into the largest, the longest shutdown, and that was only partial. and we've seen the kind of harm that was caused to people. this is going to be a full government shutdown. we haven't been able to pass a single bill. so that is why it's even more important for the party that is in leadership to find a pathway forward, to make the government to continue to keep the government open. and at this moment, they are gambling with the lives and the resources of the american people. >> stakes are so enormous. >> yes. >> they are being very reckless. >> pamela has a question. >> for you. >> clearly, democrats are looking at this as a way to have leverage. but i think that there is a question overall about democrats messaging and how united or ununited you are. i mean, just over the weekend, you heard democratic senator elissa slotkin say that democrats have been trying to find their footing. and then you have hakeem jeffries on the other end of this, saying democrats have

republicans on the run. which is it, in your view? >> well, i mean, it does obviously take some time when when there is a transition in power. and i and i think we are finding our path forward, it is clear that with some of the decisions that the administration is making in some of the firings that we've been talking about, the looming government shutdown, republicans are in a bad position because they are following a leader that is reckless. they are following a leader that is chaotic. they are following a leader that likes the idea of throwing everything into the fire. and so that creates a problem for them because they are unable now to answer to the american people that they are supposed to represent. that's why they're shutting down their in-person town halls, because they are no longer able to, in person, defend what what their constituents are really upset about. and i think that's what leader hakeem jeffries is

talking about when he says, we have republicans literally on the run. >> i want to follow up with something else, because we recently had one of your republican colleagues, brandon gill, on the show. he said that america would be better off if you were arrested and deported. he also said that there was audio of you advising what he said are illegal immigrants here from somalia on how to evade ice detection. i want you to respond to that. >> yeah. i mean, again, you know, these are people who have really stopped caring about our institutions, really stopped caring about our constitution. we know that folks who are here, whether they are documented or undocumented, we know whether you are a permanent resident or you are a citizen. you have constitutional rights. and it is really important for people to know those rights. i know that it is red meat for his base that are xenophobic and racist to to say to them that i am going to find a way to arrest and deport

a member of congress who he thinks is is doing something wrong. when i am doing the right thing, in trying to make sure everybody that is within my constituency has the resources and the information that they need. >> just. >> she was democratically elected by members, by by the people in her district. >> yes, of course, but just just to follow up very quickly, just to be clear, you're not calling his all of his base xenophobic and racist, right? well. >> i mean, he is feeding to something. he has a petition out, he's getting donations. that's what this is all about. he knows he can't deport me. there is no grounds for for my arrest. so. so this information is only being put out there by him for a reason. and that reason is because he has a base that feeds off of that. >> congresswoman ilhan omar, thanks so much for coming in. >> i appreciate you all for. >> having me. >> thank you very much. >> for your time. >> come back. >> well, this morning there is an urgent search by land, sea and air for a university of

pittsburgh student who is missing in the dominican republic. the 20 year old has not been seen since thursday. here's a picture of her. right now, police are interviewing a man who was with her just before she disappeared. let's go live now to cnn's rafael romo. raphael, what are you learning this morning? >> hi, pam. good morning. >> authorities have been interviewing. >> a young man believed to have been the last person the young college student identified by officials as 20 year old sudiksha konanki, was with before she went missing. what? i was able to find out overnight through a law enforcement source in the dominican republic, is that this young man in his 20s, is not considered a suspect at this time, the same source told me earlier this morning that the young man told police he and konanki went into the ocean, where he claims the young woman was swept away by a wave. but he also told police that he believed she had followed him out of the ocean before he fell asleep on the beach because he was feeling ill. 20 year old sudiksha konanki was last seen on surveillance camera, with seven other people entering the

beach at the republica hotel in punta cana on thursday at 415 in the morning. according to my source pam, five young women and one young man who were with her left the beach area at 5:55 a.m. but konanki stayed behind with the young man, who was also part of the group. that young man is seen on surveillance video leaving the beach. the beach area four hours later at 955 in the morning. konanki was reported missing at 4:00 in the afternoon. that very same day. overnight, pam i also spoke on the phone with her father, who has traveled to the dominican republic. subbarayudu konanki described his daughter as a very nice girl and very ambitious young woman who wanted to pursue a career in medicine. she's a pre-med student at the university of pittsburgh, where she's a junior. the dominican national emergency system is coordinating search efforts on the island for konanki, according to a statement. officials are using four teams of drones equipped with advanced technology that have been

deployed to conduct a thorough search in the coastal area of bavaro. originally from india, konanki is a permanent resident of the united states, as is her family. pamela. her father told me they have been living in the country since 2006. now back to you. >> all right. rafael romo. thank you so much, wolf. >> very sad story indeed. we'll stay on top of it. also new this morning, the u.s. department of homeland security is converting its popular app for a whole new purpose. the cbp one app allowed migrants to apply for asylum here in the united states. but the new conversion means migrants can report their intent to self-deport. cnn correspondent priscilla alvarez is here in the situation room to explain what's going on. priscilla, this reflects the immigration priorities of the trump white house, doesn't it? >> it does. >> and this is an app that the administration had their eyes on from the very beginning. in fact, only minutes after president donald trump was sworn appointments to come to a legal

port of entry had that shut off. now, what we're learning is that they're converting the app to have an entirely different purpose, as you described, which is essentially to announce that they are willing to self-deport by submitting their information to the government, by submitting photos. essentially saying that they are going to leave the country, which again, is just so extraordinary when it was originally intended for people to legally come into the country. now, of course, this is part of a wider campaign by the administration. millions of dollars being spent to essentially convey to the world that people should not come here. and if they are here legally, that they will be targeted and deported back to their origin country. so certainly this is adding to the message by the trump administration that they are hunkering down on their deportation pledge. now, in terms of self-deporting, there are people who may be willing to leave the united states who are discouraged by what they are seeing. there are also people who are going to be very

hesitant about giving their information to the federal government, given the state of play right now. so we'll see how many people actually apply and put their information into this app. but at the end of the day, this was an app that was targeted from the beginning and is now intended to serve a whole new purpose. >> we'll see what happens. and if anybody knows what's going to be happening, it's you. priscilla alvarez, our excellent reporter. she really knows her stuff. >> she really does. she's been working overtime for us. thank you so much, priscilla. and still ahead, we're going to speak to a distillery owner from my home state of kentucky. up next about what the tariffs could do to his spirits and his industry. >> plus, could two of the most infamous brothers in the country be out of prison very soon? the los angeles district attorney is about to give an update on the menendez brothers case. we'll bring all of that to you. that's coming up. stay with us. you're in the situation. >> room. >> united states of scandal with. >> jake tapper sunday. >> at 9:00 on cnn. >> nice going lou. nothing like

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agree? >> it absolutely. >> because, i mean, essentially it just takes away the opportunity to really sell anything with tariff. you can still sell at 25% the increase, but without anything on the sales, you absolutely can't sell a bottle at all. so yes. >> yeah. i mean, so tell us how this is personally impacting you. i mean, you and your two brothers, you operate this young small batch bourbon distillery. how damaging are these retaliatory measures to growing your business? >> it they're very damaging. we literally in the midst of a deal with a and b, which is new brunswick, which is a smaller province in canada. and that was starting in january. they were due to arrive in may to come back and look at a few barrels. and that's effectively been suspended indefinitely. so they're not selling. they've pulled back off the shelves as well. so it's just not ontario. it's all of canada. >> do you know how much you stand to lose in terms of sales? >> i'd say about a quarter of a million. >> a quarter of a. >> million, which is a lot for a small business. >> what does this mean for you and your business? surviving.

>> well, we're going to have to pivot. so either i mean part of it is uncertainty. so we're either a we're going to have tariffs or we're not going to have tariffs. you know when you're exporting anything it takes at least three months to six months to actually plan. so we're going to have to either pivot to another country, double down domestically or just, you know, find another strategy. so you know, we're just trying to work around it and pivot. >> how do you pivot and plan when there's been so much back and forth with the tariffs? >> well, i think part of it is realizing our strategy of exporting. so we were already this year was a big exporting year for us in the midst of actually opening our second distillery. so part of that capacity was going to go overseas. so we're also speaking to other countries beyond canada. and you know, france, uk. so maybe it's a pivot to colombia, maybe it's a pivot to brazil. you know the president mentioned reduction of indian tariffs from 150% to 100%. so it's a matter of just maybe. pivoting to other countries

effectively domestically. we're in 23 states, and maybe it's the other 27 states that we need to focus on. >> yeah. and you probably looking at the reciprocal tariffs that could go into effect april 2nd. what that could mean for your business. so at the end of the month, the european union is set to resume a 50% tariff on american whiskey. how would that impact your company. >> that would also just effectively take away our sales for europe. so we were we got hit with the first term, first tariffs in 20 2018 where we were exporting to uk to the uk. and that was 25%. so we hung in there for about a year until it was just unsustainable. now with 50%, it's almost like a nonstarter. you just can't make any profit that way. so it's a very critical time frame for exportation in terms of the bourbon industry. and we hopefully, you know, you know, we can work out some type of deal, an agreement between the two countries or two unions and figure out a way to, to move forward. >> and what do you want to see

this white house do to protect your business i think if we can get some some actual consistency in terms of tariffs, it's just a lot of uncertainty. >> so either yes, we're going to have tariffs or no, we're not going to have tariffs ideally not have tariffs and just be able to build bridges. and with the respective countries and effectively just help us be able to sell our product. that's what we need. >> i know that the bourbon industry in kentucky is a small it's a small world. a lot of you all know each other. i'm just wondering what the what others are saying, that you're talking to other business owners. >> well, i think the impact and i guess at the top of what you mentioned, the lcbo taking everything off the shelves, that that affects pretty much tremendous amount of the distilleries here in kentucky. so just the ability not to sell at all. that's that's what we're hearing. that's very, very impactful. and it's definitely sending a message. so we just have to hopefully cooler heads will prevail and and figure out a way to just come to some sort of agreement that works for

everyone. so i know for us in our bourbon, initially we were thinking we could pull off and send our gin to canada instead of vodka, but with everything being taken off the shelves, it's we just can't pivot from that at all. so yeah, so we have to basically just kind of look at another territory. >> well, victor yarborough, thank you for coming on and best of luck with your business. >> thank you again for having me, wolf. >> all right, pamela, right now, the secretary of state, marco rubio, is on his way to saudi arabia. he's about to land to try to end russia's brutal war in ukraine. what we are learning about u.s. officials mindset right now, heading into these critical negotiations. >> welcome back. >> have i got news for you? news saturday on cnn. >> buick's inspired design redefines the standard of. >> beauty. >> buick exceptional by design. >> get 0.9%. >> apr on these buick models.,

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think, be bringing up other issues like the gaza and hostage negotiations, other critical topics. >> without a doubt. >> there's going to be a. >> lot of discussion. >> of what's in the neighborhood of the. >> mideast, saudi. >> arabia is. >> hosting, geographically the discussions as they have with the russians and now the ukrainians. but you have something happening very much on the hostage front. what does that open up? what are the possibilities? you also have news. given the violence in syria. the government in lebanon that is important for stabilizing. so there's a series of issues that there's no doubt bilateral and in region that are going to be probably first and foremost on the conversation with the saudi prince. there's no doubt about that. >> are you comfortable, as you said, you're comfortable, rahm, with the trump administration's decision to open up direct negotiations with hamas, a group the u.s. government considers to be a terrorist organization? >> well, yes and no. i mean,

that's the short end. israel could not do it. and if it ends up bringing all the hostages out, it will be a tactical move. that was beneficial. it was that straightforward. and obviously, if you kind of read some of the stuff that's coming out, qatar probably told the united states something and the united states made a decision. and if you get all the hostages and you get a cessation of activities, it was a gamble worth taking. so i can't tell you the answer today. but given that there's a lot of information, but it gives some flexibility where the united states can do something, it breaks new ground. but if you're left without any of the without all the hostages coming out, it will have been an angle. >> after the breakdown of president zelenskyy's relationship with trump. we all know that what happened in the oval office and a reminder lenskyy won't even be part of these current talks in saudi arabia. could the u.s. create enough pressure to get president zelenskyy to step aside? >> perhaps you're not winning.

>> no, no, i don't think that's up to the ukrainian people. he's democratically elected, and even the opposition in ukraine has said there's no purpose for an election. i happen to think if i can just pull back for a second, wolf, i think the united states is going about what they want all wrong. what's underground in the sense that these critical minerals, if you look at all the research, haven't been surveyed, maybe on a good day 18 years from now, ukraine has a solution that's right in front of us, not underground, but above ground. that will solve a tremendous amount of security problems for the united states. their drone technology in the last three years went from no defense to now 30 to almost 40% of the defense industry is homegrown. and they have battle tested technology within 30 to 40 days, from the field out to the field in the laboratory. the united states can't even issue an rfp to a company in three years. our procurement process at the pentagon is messed up, and the big five defense industry companies have the united states

security over a barrel. ukraine's homegrown industry that went from 0 to 60 miles an hour in three years could turnkey a problem that democrats and republicans administrations, members of congress from both ends of pennsylvania avenue have all said needs to be resolved and the pentagon procurement is immune to reform. ukraine actually offers the united states a major solution to one of the biggest security challenges it has. and we're talking about something maybe 18 years from now, where in 18 days we could have new, new drone technology that is battle tested. i think the united states, in all due respect to, quote, unquote, the art of the deal, is actually negotiating for the wrong thing. and ukraine can actually enhance the credibility of america's security and its deterrence. and we're looking and asking for the wrong things in real time. we have a problem. the american defense procurement system is fundamentally broken. there is not a single weapon ever produced on time or on budget. ukraine has gone from 0 to 0 in

the last three years to 40% is now produced in real time in 30 days, literally something happens, they retest it and they have new technology on the battlefield that is invaluable to the united states. we should be licensing that, build it up to two thirds of the armaments, and we would have something that we've never had before, real battle tested technology and a fundamental jolt to an american bureaucracy that is broken and has been broken, and nobody can fix it on its own. >> i want to get to another important subject. rahm, while i have you a very sensitive issue. canada, as you know, will be getting a new prime minister. you have mark carney. can you hear me? all right. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> all right. as long as you can hear me. as you know, canada is going to be getting a new prime minister this week. mark carney, he's already talking tough when it comes to fighting back against trump's tariffs against canada. is there any chance that trump could seize this opportunity to deal back the

tension with canada? >> well, you say deal back the tension. yes, there's an opportunity because as you can see, the market now in the sense of the financial markets have now put an america into negative territory. and you literally because of the uncertainty and unreliability of donald trump's tariffs, you're inducing and producing a recession here at home that was totally unnecessary. the second thing is to watch is both what's happening to the liberal party in canada that's been revived because of donald trump and the elections in greenland. donald trump is now the instigation for elections overseas that are anti-american. when they used to be pro-american and he's creating a scenario where there's political hay to be made by attacking america or standing up to america. there are good and bad tariffs. donald trump's replaced them with unreliable and uncertain tariffs, and the uncertainty is going to create a recession that was totally unnecessary. and

donald trump will own it. that is the art of his deal. and that's the consequences. which is why i'm shocked at the republican congress that's going to be up there like timid souls, and they are going to take a recession going into their 2026 elections. they should be speaking up about this. but i'm not the one to give them political advice, but that's what's going to happen. and so i think there's a way to dial it back. and he has done it in the past when the markets have turned. he has now, i don't understand even politically, let alone talking on the weekend about a recession. he now owns it. he has he would own it otherwise. but for now he's created his own vehicle to create, and he's produced a recession. and by giving word to it, he's made it the trump recession. >> we'll see if that happens. rahm emanuel, thanks, as usual, for joining us. pamela. >> and still ahead, could the menendez brothers be released soon after decades in prison, in just hours, the los angeles

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series on netflix sparked a lot of new interest in this case. but all of this national attention enough to get them out of prison. >> there are still paths that could lead them to freedom, pamela. but what will have to take place here is finding out what the los angeles county district attorney nathan hochman, has said. now, he has already come out and said that he opposes a new trial for the brothers. he says that they've put forth a continuum of lies, as he put it, and that even if this letter that was reportedly written by one of the brothers and sent to their first cousin, who was 14 years old at the time, stating that they were being sexually and physically abused by their father. he says that he doesn't believe that is truly new evidence that requires for a new trial trial, and he also says, quote, it does not constitute self-defense. now, ultimately, it will be up to a judge to decide whether or not they get a new trial. but this still could be a setback. keep in mind that the brothers are sending serving life sentences without the chance of parole

here. so one of the things that they're looking for as well is perhaps just resentencing, where there is a chance of parole. and they also are petitioning the governor who could come out and gavin newsom could right away just say that they are free and grant them clemency. what he has said, though. governor newsom has said that he's going to wait for the district attorney hochman, to finish his review, which we are assuming that's what we're going to hear about today before moving forward. but he has asked the california board of parole hearings to do an investigation of the brothers to see if they would be or pose a, quote, unreasonable risk to society if they were freed. obviously, this whole process here could take some time, but it is worth noting that the entire family, except for one member of the menendez family, supports freedom for the brothers, saying that they have been reformed and that they were abused by their father. the brothers also claim that their mother knew about it and stood by and did not act to protect

the brothers as well. the other issue here, if you remember, there was a previous los angeles county district attorney, george gascon, who was saying that he that the brothers should be freed. he also pointed to their rehabilitation while they were in prison, showing that they were starting up different programs to help different inmates, even though they knew that they had no chance of parole. all of that, they're saying, should feed into this decision here. we'll find out later today, pamela, whether or not it makes a difference. >> we sure will. i know you'll bring us the very latest on that front. stephanie elam, thank you so much. and cnn, by the way, will have full live coverage of the l.a. county district attorney's news conference this afternoon, one eastern. we'll be right back.

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>> the song is the locomotion and this is music for dancing again. it has that infectious energy which makes it, i find, incredibly hard to sit still. i always recall his words. the people have a voice inside of them. he gave the world that voice in a way that no one who heard can ever forget and other artists. >> pamela on the playlist include michael buble. ray. grace jones and diana ross and i a few months ago had dinner with diana ross. >> wow. >> what was. >> that like? it was so exciting because i grew up loving motown. >> she's a legend. >> she's amazing. >> all right, so we should note that you do a song of the day every day, put it on my stories, on my instagram. how do you walk us through your process for that? >> well, i love music. i've always loved music ever since i was a little boy. my mom made me take piano lessons, so i've always loved music. and if there's a song that just pops up in my head, i sort of wind up singing it all day. you know our song of the day today? >> yes. what is the song of the

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