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>> it is wednesday, march 12th. here's what's happening right now on cnn this morning. >> we're certainly concerned about rising prices because we have to pass them along. >> new tariffs taking effect overnight. but what do americans think of president trump's trade wars. we've got the numbers in a new cnn poll. plus. >> our schools save our schools. >> mass layoffs underway at the department of education will look at how this will impact students, teachers and parents across the country. and then. >> there's a serious safety issue here, which is why we're issuing these urgent safety recommendations. >> questions and answers and new rules for the faa. the first report from investigators on the collision in the skies above the potomac. also, this. >> alex doe iran.

>> a week long trip that turned into a nine month saga. a rocket launched today will finally help bring two american astronauts back to planet earth. 6 a.m. here on the east coast. here's a live look at nearby baltimore. good morning, baltimore, and good morning to you. i'm audie cornish. i want to thank you for waking up with me. and i want to start with stocks, because stocks across the markets are taking a dive this week. one number is going up. the number of people who disapprove of president trump's handling of the economy. so according to some new cnn polling just out today, 56% of adults disapprove of his economic moves, and that's higher than at any point in his first term in office. those numbers sink even lower when you ask about tariffs. only 39%

approve of how he is handling those. overnight, the president's 25% tariff on all imported steel and aluminum went into effect. all of this, the tariffs, the rising trade war with allies are raising fears of a recession. and president trump seems to be going full steam ahead. >> i think there will be a recession. >> i don't see it at all. i think this country is going to boom. but as i said, i can do it the easy way or the hard way. the hard way to do it is exactly what i'm doing. but the results are going to be 20 times greater. >> joining me now to talk about all of this, sabrina rodriguez, national politics reporter for the washington post. elliot williams, cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. and kristen soltis anderson, cnn political commentator and republican strategist. kristen, i want to start with you because you're not just a strategist. you poll. so when you hear numbers like this, where does

your mind go? >> there's a glass half full and glass half empty. way to read them. the glass half full way to read them is this is still better than a lot of what trump saw during his first term. he still is looking a little bit better than you would have expected in a for a president that has such high say, unfavorable numbers, where a lot of americans go. i don't really like him, but i guess i like what he's doing. on the other hand, this is a decline from the start of his term. it is, and especially the fact that it's disapproval on the economy ticking lower is a real problem. >> it's not too bad, right? when we look at it from the cnn poll, his immigration numbers are much better. first term high of 44%, first term low 35%. but here's where my eyes go is independent voters. when they talk about how they feel about how he's performing now on that issue, you've got a real difference, obviously, between republicans and democrats, but you have a real shift with independents and sabrina. those were the people who brought him

to 2024 to 2025, actually 100%. >> and i think for a lot of folks, the calculus was, you know, i was tired of hearing on the campaign trail last year, people say, i don't really like the way he talks. i don't really necessarily agree with everything he says, but i think he's going to be the person who's best for the economy. and for a lot of folks in these first 50 days of the trump administration, they're sort of been this grace period. this obviously things aren't going to change overnight, but a lot of people just want to kind of understand what the plan is. you know, people are not going to get into exactly every detail about what percentage tariffs are and things like that, folks at home, but they just want to understand, okay, what exactly is the plan here? okay. it might be a little tough for a couple months, but i get the vision for six months and a lot of people don't see that right now. >> i want to bring you in because the wall street journal, which has really been hitting hard on the terraces, you're calling them dumb. but the quote from them this week, sort of under the idea of how do you like the trade war? now mr. trump behaves as if his manhood is implicated because a foreign

nation won't take his nasty border taxes lying down, border taxes, not tariffs. right. and we said from the beginning that this north american trade war is the dumbest in history. and they were being kind. they say. so can you talk about that perception? right. which is coming from the business pages. >> and man, going after the guy's manhood that. i was not expecting that he. yeah. but, you know, to sabrina's point about this idea of what's the play? where is the president going? i think more than anything else. and the numbers are reflecting this. it's the inconsistency and unpredictability that i think people are responding to. people maybe could have gotten their head around the idea of tariffs, but their tariffs one day and then not for the auto industry and then the next day and then and then it's just uncertain. >> lawyer and he says tariffs are a negotiating tool. sure. when you're when you're negotiating uncertainty is good. >> absolutely. but when you're negotiating as the president of the united states, uncertainty can tank global markets. and we've seen that over the last week or two. and so, sure, bring other people to the table. but there's a consequence to doing

that when people don't know what the next thing the american government's going to do. >> although i want to say howard lutnick was asked specifically, will these policies be worth it? right? we heard at the start of the show, trump saying it will all be worth it. he was asked, will they be worth it if they lead to a recession, even a short term one? here's what he had to say. >> will these policies be worth it if they lead to a recession? even a short term recession? >> these policies are the most important thing america has ever had. >> so it is worth it. >> it is worth it. a i don't think the only reason there could possibly be a recession is because of the biden nonsense that we had to live with. >> sabrina. >> i mean to say that a recession. >> is worth it. anyone that's hearing that at home, it is alarm bells, no question. the word recession is something that is deeply triggering for a lot of americans. >> stock up. it means worry. it means put off your own decisions. >> and we're. >> seeing luhansk sort of be

trump's biggest cheerleader, he said in multiple interviews in the last week. you know, he's coming out and saying anyone that's betting against donald trump is making the wrong call. and that's sort of how he's been dismissing a little bit the stock market and saying companies are sort of jumping the gun on this. but again, this is something a huge area of concern for americans that see trump just in the span of what elliot was saying. i mean, yesterday is a perfect example. trump started the day saying he was going to double the tariffs on aluminum and steel from canada. and then by the end of the day wasn't doing that. and i think the canada piece of this is very clear, because a lot of folks are saying, wait, isn't he calling trudeau governor trudeau? and isn't he talking about annexing canada? for a lot of folks, there is sort of this question, too, of why exactly are we picking on canada? that's our neighbor to the north, and china makes more. >> sense later. i think that's really intriguing, actually. we're going to have more about sort of economic warfare on the show today. still to come on cnn this morning, ukraine accepts a cease fire proposal, putting pressure on russia to do the same. we're going to have representative seth moulton on to discuss the trump

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>> them. >> okay. we're playing that clip. the idea that tariffs are an act of war because our next guest is an expert on economic warfare. edward fishman, he's the author of choke points american power in the age of economic warfare. he's a professor at columbia university and actually worked on u.s. economic sanctions policy at the state department. edward fishman, thank you to the program. welcome to the program. good morning. >> thanks for having me on, audie. >> okay, so this is pretty much your thesis here, right? that through the power of the dollar and through the fact that the dollar is the currency of international transactions, the u.s. is able to wield sanctions, tariffs as a weapon. so in that way, is trump right? >> that's exactly right. look, my book is called choke points because there are these specific choke points in the global economy that allow countries to impose significant economic pressure on others. the number one choke point is the u.s. dollar. i say in my book, audie, that trying to do business across borders without access to the dollar is like trying to travel without having a

passport. >> so here's an example. russia. president trump last week threatened new sanctions against moscow, which is kind of running opposite of the rhetoric we've heard politically on foreign policy. but he's targeting the banking sector. and do you expect to see more action like this? and is this using is this using sanctions as a scalpel? >> so look, so far president trump has applied a lot of pressure on the government in ukraine and much less on the russian government. we've seen these two threats, the one he made early in january and the other he made just a few days ago against against russia. i think we need more leverage on russia if we are going to get a just peace. and one thing i think that's misunderstood is that we have not yet maximized sanctions on russia. there's still quite a bit of pressure that could be added to the russian government, really. >> i mean, it's interesting reading the book, you talk about how so much of how we use sanctions now started with the cold war, right? it was to contain russia. but i think anyone reading the news thinks that russia survived pretty well

since the war, since it invaded crimea, and there were russian sanctions put on it then. >> i think there's some misunderstanding here, because i think what has happened, even if you look back in 20 1415, when i was working on the sanctions, russia's economy was on the brink of collapse. and then we sort of pulled back. and then during trump's first term, he didn't impose really any sanctions on russia. so i think there's been sort of this yo yo effect where russia's been sort of on the ropes. and then we kind of backtrack. and i think that's what putin thinks he can get. now, i think he thinks he can pull trump back from the brink, right when his economy is really in the doldrums. >> okay. next, economic warfare tool. tariffs. i'm looking at that quote where you see canada is not for sale. buying that canadian leader. what do you what do you see in how this is playing out canada versus mexico. because i see mexico actually kind of coming to the table, paying attention to what the administration wants in terms of the drug war. it does seem to be working air quotes for what trump wants it for leverage. what are we seeing

with canada? >> i think it's not working with canada. and i think the truth is we do not have a national security threat coming from canada. tariffs historically have been used more as a tool of economic policy than a tool of warfare. right. but what trump is trying to do is to use tariffs, basically to bully the canadian government into conceding to terms that are not even defined. right? i mean, we see something like, you know, a couple dozen kilograms of fentanyl at the northern border last year. so if i'm the canadian government, i'm not even really sure what i need to do to to get trump to back off. it seems like he really doesn't like justin trudeau. so maybe what it will take is having a new canadian prime minister in mark carney to to try to repair the u.s. canadian relationship. >> one more thing. this friday, the trump administration is having an a.i. and crypto summit. the trump administration has talked about a u.s. stockpile of digital assets. what happens to the u.s. economic warfare tools if we start to encourage crypto in the

international space? >> i'm glad you're asking this, audie, because, look, the most powerful tool the u.s. has internationally is the dollar. it is critical to imposing sanctions, and it's also critical for our economy. right. we've got massive amounts of money that come into our economy, plugging the deficit every year. if we are all of a sudden going to sponsor cryptocurrencies that are not backed by anything, that in many ways are scams that are that are taking advantage of vulnerable people, not only is it bad, i think for the american people, but i think it really does endanger the role of the dollar as the world's reserve currency. that's not to say we don't need digital currency innovation. we do. we can't just stand still. but i think doing it in sort of this unruly fashion in which there are random cryptocurrencies that are, you know, launched overnight and then lose value. that's not a recipe for american financial leadership moving forward. >> all right. >> edward fishman, thanks for digging into this with us. congratulations on the book. it's called choke points american power in the age of

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people on board? good morning everyone. it's audie. i'm audie cornish. and it's 630 here on the east coast. i want to thank you for joining me this morning. and here's what's happening right now. americans, many americans giving a thumbs down to president trump's handling of the economy in a cnn poll out just this morning, 56% say they disapprove of how he's handling it. that negative review is higher than at any point during his first four years in office. today, u.s. and mexican trade officials will meet to discuss trump's new tariffs on aluminum and steel. overnight, president trump's 25% tariff on those particular imports from all nations actually went into effect. and that's threatening the price hikes for americans and the dismantling of the department of education underway this morning, hundreds of workers got layoff notices last night, with nearly half of the workforce expected to get the ax. president trump calling for the elimination of the education

department altogether. >> save our schools, save our schools, save our schools. our schools. >> that's not sitting too well with many parents and teachers, but the trump administration is moving quickly. the doors at the department headquarters in d.c. were locked yesterday. >> it's another day that a student fails a big exam because they are being denied proper accommodations for their learning disorder. these students and their families are waiting and hoping for justice and assistance that may never come. >> just over 4000 people work at the department. not for long. according to education secretary linda mcmahon what we did today was to take the first step of of eliminating what i think is, is bureaucratic bloat. >> is this the first step. >> on the road. >> to a total shutdown?

>> yes. >> i want to bring in john b king jr.. he's the former education secretary under president obama. now, john, i want to talk to you about this, because right now i think something like 10% of federal dollars go to public schools. so how big a difference does this actually make in the long run? since states control education? >> states certainly do control education. but the federal role is critical. the federal government provides funding for schools that serve very low income students. without that funding, we can expect teacher layoffs, class sizes to grow. the federal government provides funding that supports students with disabilities, ensures that they get the services they need in order to succeed in school. without the education department, that funding may not be there for students and the federal government plays a crucial role through the federal pell grant program that makes higher education possible for low income americans, and

through the student loan program that helps low and middle income americans access the american dream through pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree. so if you take away those functions, you are harming students. the education department also is responsible for civil rights protections, making sure that schools serve all of their students. >> john, i. >> want. >> to interrupt for a second because i think that for a long time, i also heard from liberals who said, look, the the department is too interested in standardized tests. for example, the department is not getting the equity outcomes in terms of student achievement that it sets forth as a standard for states. do you think it was vulnerable to this moment that conservatives have long called for? >> there are certainly things that the department could do better. and at this moment, we should have national leadership around the fact that our students are behind where they were before covid. we still

haven't fully recovered from that period, and the federal government should be leading on that. we should be doing research on what are the best interventions to help students succeed, but those are exactly the kinds of activities that the trump administration is planning to eliminate. >> i want to ask you about who will be affected by this. you mentioned special programs for like special needs, et cetera. are there constituents of parents who are going to be affected, who are going to feel that or feel the unintended consequences of this? >> sure. look, there are 26 million students who are in schools that are served by the title one program. the program for low income students. those schools without these funds would have to eliminate advanced placement classes for students. extracurricular activities. that is something folks are going to feel right away. the department also protects civil rights. so that means that if your child isn't getting the services they're entitled to, you're an

english learner and your child, your child isn't getting the support to learn english. you won't have someone to to take that complaint to. the department received over 20,000 complaints about civil rights issues last year, and they're investigating them. without the department who will do that work? >> john b king jr.. i want to thank you so much for your time. former education secretary. i want to turn back to the group chat because as i mentioned, kristen, this is one of those things like forever people have been like, get rid of the education department on the right. elliot, did you hear anything there that struck you? >> the word disabilities, the idea of these, what are called section 504 plans, individualized educational plans that affect millions of people. >> iep. anybody who knows a parent who has a kid with special needs, you will know the phrase iep. >> and across ideology people. this touches lots of families and that program will be affected by the loss of the department of education. full stop. >> okay. i want to bring in some other topics here because

there's a lot more to talk about. but what caught my eye? health and human services secretary robert f. kennedy jr.. saying that he's going to go after artificial dyes in food. that's according to the new york times. he's also trying to close a loophole that allows manufacturers to put new chemicals in food without the oversight of the food and drug administration. these are just some of the latest initiatives he's pursued as head of hhs, as he pushes for what he sees as a healthier america. >> 10% of food stamps, which are federally funded, taxpayer funded program, is going, and it's going to the poorest neighborhoods, and they're the ones with the worst chronic disease burden. and we are literally poisoning those neighborhoods by paying for 10% of the food stamps, going to sugary drinks. >> group chat is back. sabrina, i want to start with you because i feel like michelle obama must be cheering somewhere. maybe. no, she's at south by southwest. shout out to the former first lady. but it feels like this conversation should

feel familiar to those on the left. >> 100%. i mean, this is actually an area where rfk jr.. can build a little bit of consensus. i think there's going to be, of course, strong pushback from the companies because this is a huge shift for them. but i think also for folks and companies who are looking for some type of oversight, some type of like regulatory shift nationwide, it would be helpful because we're seeing some states moving that direction. we've already seen virginia have debates about this, california have debates about this. >> yeah. >> i think the shift in the politics on the right are so interesting, because these policies are ones that actually, like california was at the forefront. the idea that there's now a california to republican administration policy pipeline is really interesting, and it has a lot to do with the new voters that somebody like an rfk was able to bring to trump. it may not have been a massive, massive coalition, but the fact is there are some voters they're not as interested in a lot of the traditional political battles, but they're really worried about what's in their

kids foods. and those are voters that trump was able to win by courting rfk and his coalition. >> can i be cynical? can i, can i can i be cynical? from me? oh, i how. >> dare you. >> but we can all agree, right? left people don't want red dye in their food or any of the other stuff. food companies donate to across the political spectrum. and there is money in the political system that comes from these folks. there will be pressure to not implement any number of these changes. when i want to single anybody out. but pepsico has an interest in producing food at a certain cost and so on. people buy it and enjoy it, and i just have a hard time believing that we can just wave a wand and get rid of dyes, and there won't be political impact in congress. >> i will add my own. >> cynicism here. >> yeah. >> i mean, this is happening in the backdrop. in the backdrop right now. there is still the measles outbreak, right? this is something that can build more consensus. this is something, for example, we've seen senator cory booker. >> it's easier. >> to talk about. >> length about. yeah. >> yeah it's yeah. who's going to come and say that they

absolutely don't want artificial dyes. when we've seen that there are certain links with certain diseases and certain disorders and easier. >> conversation to have with the voter, kristen is referring to the make america healthy again, especially female very online health conscious voter. rather than saying, oh, also measles seems bad. here's what i'm not going to do about it. i want you guys to stay with me because still ahead on cnn this morning, we want to talk about ukraine because they're agreeing to take the first steps towards a truce. will russia agree? we actually have congressman seth moulton here to talk about that. and the ntsb making some urgent safety recommendations after that deadly collision over the potomac and more from the group chat after this. >> still congested? >> nope. >> uh-oh. >> mucinex 2 in 1 saline. >> nasal spray spray. >> goodbye. >> mucinex 2 in 1. >> saline nasal spray with a

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step in that regard. we hope the russians will reciprocate. >> secretary of state marco rubio, announcing that ukraine has agreed to a proposal of a 30 day cease fire with russia. under this agreement, the u.s. is also resuming intelligence sharing and military aid for ukraine. and now ukraine says it's up to russia to show that they're serious about peace. >> and today in the conversation, there was a proposal from the american side to take the first step immediately and try to establish a complete cease fire for 30 days, not only with regard to missiles, drones and bombs, not only in the black sea, but also along the entire front line. ukraine accepts this proposal. we consider it positive. we are ready to take such a step, and the united states of america must convince russia to do so. >> new. this morning, a kremlin spokesperson refusing to comment on the cease fire proposal, saying that they expect a briefing from the u.s.

government. but overnight, russian missile and drone attacks killed 14 people across ukraine. officials there reported. we're going to discuss that and more now with democratic congressman seth moulton of massachusetts. he serves on the house armed services committee. he's also a member of the congressional ukrainian caucus. welcome and good morning to you. good morning. great to be here. however, the path was to get here. trump did what he promised and got everyone to the table. now that this conversation. >> through extortion. >> i mean. >> say more. i mean, you don't extort your allies. i mean, imagine if in world war ii, whenever we had a disagreement with the brits, we just cut off intelligence sharing. imagine if president roosevelt had started using hitler's talking points. that's what trump has done over the last several weeks, literally parroting what the kremlin is saying. the bottom line is you don't sell out your allies, and we cannot forget that. that's how trump got us to this point. it's put ukraine in a much weaker position. and although we can all agree that we'd like to see this war end,

and i would like to see peace eventually in ukraine, it's clear that the president's number one priority is stopping the war. it's not what it should be, which is ukraine winning. that is the message that we need to send to the rest of the world. >> since you brought up allies and message to the rest of the world, the message that europe has received is we need to arm ourselves, that we can't rely on the u.s. in a number of areas. and i'm wondering about maybe the ramifications for that here in the u.s. itself. i mean, most of the arms contracts around the world come from u.s. companies. >> and u.s. companies are really good at this. and that's why people that's why countries all around the globe, their troops, they want american arms. i'm already hearing from u.s. defense contractors that they're worried all this business is going to go to europe. and so yet this is yet another way that trump is hurting the u.s. economy. >> we've got new polling out, actually, on the economy. basically, we're finding that

the most important issue to voters is the economy. 42% say that. senator bernie sanders says he's also seen growing anger about this. i want you to take a listen. >> people are angry. they're confused. they see the richest guy in the world going around saying, hey, we're going to decimate the veterans administration. we're going to decimate social security. we're going to be laying off people here and there and everywhere, and people are saying, what is going. >> on? >> can you give me your response to that? because people are not just saying, what is going on. they're also saying, what are democrats doing about it? how do you hear this discussion? >> first of all, the first thing that popped out to me was the va, because i'm a veteran who relies on the va for my health care, and i already know that the weights are too long, that sometimes it takes forever to get an appointment. all of that is going to get worse. we're going to go back to the days of veterans dying on waiting lists, just trying to get seen by the va. so this has real impacts on

people's lives, including people that republicans claim to care about. and yes, this is why republicans right now are refusing to even hold town halls. i have a town hall next saturday. republicans are refusing to hold town halls because it's not just democrats who are upset, it's americans across the board are furious with what elon musk is doing and not making government more efficient, but making it nonexistent. so this is really impacting people's lives, and it's making things a lot worse. >> i want to ask about this recent vote on the continuing resolution bill, which basically just says, look, we're going to keep spending where it is while we figure out the big questions about the budget. but there was a democrat from maine, jared golden, who was the only democrat to vote with republicans on this bill. and he said the cr is not perfect, but a shutdown would be worse. he also called the criticisms that democrats have around the va, for example, or money for

veterans. it's kind of a gimmick, like the idea that we're sort of drumming up the idea that democrats are drumming up fear when really this needs to be taken care of. and a government shutdown would have been bad. what's your response to that? >> actually, you know, you started this by talking about how people want democrats to do something. well, this is one place where we had a little bit of leverage to do something, to say that what elon musk is doing to the va is wrong, and you might disagree with, i mean, just. say there's there's not much that democrats can do, but this is one place where we could take a stand. so i respectfully disagree with jared golden, who's a good friend and a fellow marine. i mean, there is you can certainly have different perspectives on this. you know, one thing you always see is republicans pretty much voting in line and democrats actually being more thoughtful about these bills. and there is a legitimate debate to be had. but i said, no, this is a different time. this is a time when we need to put our foot down and say, we're listening to americans, not just to democrats, but to republicans as

well, who don't want this to continue, do not want elon musk to continue wrecking the government. and so that's why i'm not going to vote for a continuing resolution. >> i have one more question. public backlash against elon musk. the trump administration is now saying that like if you, you know, are attacking teslas or dealerships going beyond vandalism, that that could be an act of domestic terrorism. but i do want to ask about this as resistance. is this what resistance should look like? >> so trump thinks that if you try to kill cops to overthrow the government and change an election that's not domestic terrorism, but somehow having a protest in front of a tesla dealership is the bottom line with trump is freedom and liberties belong to people who agree with him. and that's it. that's his view of america. that's not a view that people who believe in our constitution share. >> congressman moulton, thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> yeah. all right. time check for you. it's 51 minutes past the hour. here's your morning roundup. some of the stories you

need to know to get your day going. helicopters now barred from flying along a four mile stretch of the potomac river near ronald reagan national airport, the transportation department quickly adopted that recommendation from the ntsb preliminary report on the deadly collision involving an army chopper and an american airlines flight. this was, of course, the deadliest air crash in the u.s. in nearly two decades, and space x phoned home today. spacex is launching a mission to help bring two american astronauts back from the international space station. their ten day mission was extended to more than nine months due to severe technical issues, with their original spacecraft built by boeing and new surveillance video shows. a university of pittsburgh student who went missing last week in the dominican republic while on spring break. it shows the 20 year old with a group of friends going to the beach after 4:15 a.m. on thursday. this was right before her disappearance. the fbi says it's now helping in the

investigation and customers of southwest are not happy now that the airline is ending its 60 year tradition of free checked bags. fees kick in may 28th, with a few exceptions for those in the airline's loyalty program. or if you have a southwest credit card. >> i don't like that at all. it's the first i've. >> heard of it. >> i fly southwest. >> because of that. everybody has to make money, i get that, but i just hope that they will reconsider anyone else going to be off southwest now? >> or sabrina's face? sabrina's face says, no, thank you. amtrak posted a message about this, saying guests were the only ones doing free baggage. now, the south lawn of the white house transformed into a tesla showroom for a day by president trump. tesla shares have declined sharply since elon musk started slashing the federal workforce, and police across the country are investigating attacks on tesla showrooms, charging stations, vehicles. so

the president decided to promote tesla's using a prepared note, including the detail, which is about how teslas can be purchased for as low as 2.99 a month, which is making me feel like i'm reading an ad. he's even claimed that he's buying a red one to support his doge buddy. >> wow i get this other side. >> this is a different panel than everything's computer. that's beautiful. wow. >> musk took a $29 billion hit to his net worth in a single day on monday. and the president seems to be taking it personally. >> in the time i've known him. he has never asked me for a favor. he didn't ask me for this. i said, you know, elon, i don't like what's happening to you. he has never asked me for a thing. and he's built this great company and he shouldn't be penalized because he's a patriot. >> okay, group chat is back. and

i want to ask you something about this. kara swisher kind of musk ologist, technology reporter was saying that elon musk has been a heat shield for trump, right? taking on the sort of incoming from people who are criticizing the reshaping of the federal government. what does it say to you that trump took this step? >> i mean, i think trump recognizes that that musk has been taking so much heat. and i think he recognizes that at the end of the day. >> that he has to protect. >> him, that not necessarily. that's a choice by trump, no question about it. but i think for trump right now, i mean, you see the democratic ads being cut right now and it is video and clips of elon musk. and you see democrats really trying to like, prod at trump by saying that it's president musk and that they're co-presidents or that really musk is is the one that's running the country. there's so many memes that are being made about this. so i think it is hitting at a sore spot for trump. and sort of that's part of him coming out in defense. and i will say it's exactly the day after there was an interview where elon musk did

on fox business, where he was asked about his company suffering. and there was sort of this moment of him saying, oh, you know, it's with great difficulty that he's navigating this. so there's a timeline here. and clearly we've seen tesla be affected and trump being responsive. >> we were talking during one of the breaks about like the weird political horseshoes that happen. and there's a lot of liberals, right, who love teslas because they were evs. and then you had conservatives who were like, i don't want an ev forced on me. so maybe i'm not like, it feels like things are getting a little scrambled. >> completely scrambled. there's going to be a lot of democrats that drive by tesla dealerships and have protesters, like, yelling at them and are going to want to have like a it wasn't me bumper sticker put on their car. i think. >> some are selling their cars on tiktok. >> i think that's that's fascinating. i mean, i don't feel bad for somebody who's extremely wealthy and has chosen to take on another responsibility, and that has led to the politicization of their brand. we have seen over the last couple of years a lot of

brands that the more they wade into politics, the more that suddenly they lose a large portion of either their customer base or their potential customer base coming from the other direction. you had, you know, anheuser-busch wind up, they lost a bunch of their conservative customers. i mean, when you wade into politics, this stuff can happen. >> i'm also kind of not taking the bait on this story with elon musk, where, okay, he's lost money. so have a lot of business owners across america because the dow and the s&p are down like 9 or 10% over the last week or so because the economy is struggling right now. and yes, it's a little odd to see an auto showroom on the grounds of the white house. but but i think we got bigger fish to fry. and i think it's also not weird. >> to see trump selling something like that's his whole deal. >> showcase showdown, but in a way that did not feel inauthentic. let's just. >> remember, though, he is the world's richest man, that elon musk is. so $29 billion sounds like an obscene amount of money for. >> us, but it's not right. the

new york times reporting elon musk signaled he wants to make $100 billion in donations to the three groups controlled by the trump political organization. so while we're sort of talking about that, the america pac, trump does really benefit in a lot of ways from this relationship. >> yeah. and i think that elon musk's conversion to this more conservative libertarian worldview is genuine. i think that he does want to come in with a sledgehammer and dismantle a lot of agencies. republicans have wanted that for a long time. so having elon musk and his resources as an ally all of a sudden, as of the last few years is really, really a big deal for republicans. >> okay, wednesday, hump day, this is when we're halfway through the week. we're up, we're blessed. and i want to know what you're keeping an eye on. sabrina. >> it's i mean, i think the number one thing, you know, we've talked a lot about tariffs today. and you know, trump has previewed and talked repeatedly about how he's going to pursue more. there's one date that should be on a lot of folks

minds. and it's april 2nd. he has said that he wants to pursue reciprocal tariffs, that that would mean that he would raise the tariffs on every country to the levels that they tariff us. he talks about how that's like leveling the playing field. but for a lot of people they're bracing. 2nd april second, and a lot of people are bracing for how painful that would be for the u.s. economy. how what a big escalation that would be of the trade war. so i think that's a big one to be watching. >> elliot. >> yeah. april 2nd, no fooling. but i had to. so there are 26,000 works of art that the federal government owns. and with government leases being sort of terminated. and also there's some articles about this, the office at gsa that oversees american art has been gutted. and since the beginning of time, cavemen to the romans to, frankly, the paintings on the berlin wall, societies are judged by their public art. what happens to american public art and sort of what are the legs that this story has? >> yeah, we've been paying so much attention to the real

estate and the things that are shut down. but you're saying there are things we own as a collective country. >> real quick, you know, at the justice department, giant beautiful murals inside the building. those are all over government buildings. what happens to them? >> and it's interesting. kristin, last word to you. >> i'm watching what's happening with the domestic politics of countries where donald trump is engaged in confrontation. so it's been fascinating to watch in a country like mexico. all of a sudden, the job approval of the president there has risen claudia sheinbaum. i believe it's now like 85% approved. you had the the center left party in canada that had really been suffering as of late, all of a sudden have shot up in the polls as they have a new p.m. it's interesting, in countries like ukraine, greenland, just watching the domestic politics get affected by donald trump's. >> watching that shift in real time. thanks to all of you, and i want to thank you for waking up with us. i'm audie cornish, cnn news central starts right now.