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on billions of dollars worth of american products, and canada firing back with a 25% levy that targets items from computers to sports equipment. all of this chaos and confusion rattling wall street. fueling fears of a possible recession, with economists at jpmorgan chase saying they believe there is a roughly 40% chance now of an economic downturn this year. cnn's jeff zeleny is live for us now at the white house. jeff, give us the very latest. >> well, brianna, there's no doubt that the soundtrack of this administration, at least for the last week or so of the white house, has been the falling markets. it's really been accompanying the president's ongoing decisions off again, on again on the tariffs that he's imposing on canada, on mexico, on china. and of course, coming up, more on european allies. not really was the basis of the backdrop of the conversation that the president had just a short time ago with the prime minister of ireland, who is here at the white house. he's visiting washington for a

ceremonial visit marking saint patrick's day. it's always one to underscore the relations, but certainly these new tensions with the eu, these new trading tensions, imposing tariffs on very american things like kentucky bourbon and motorcycles made in wisconsin harley-davidsons are coming front and center here. but the president was defensive about all of his decisions and the uncertainty that's roiled the markets. >> let me just tell you the inconsistency. i have the right. i have the right to adjust. and i would call i was called by the automakers as an example. general motors, ford. et cetera. the big three, the big four. and they asked me to do them a favor. could i delay it for a period of four weeks so that they're not driven into a little bit of a disaster for them? they actually love what i'm doing. but they had a problem and i didn't. i'm not like a block that just i won't

delay. i have it's called flexibility. it's not called inconsistency. it's called flexibility but that flexibility also is seen by many as uncertainty, which has led to confusion in the markets in terms of business leaders trying to plan for the future. >> so, brianna, the bottom line here is the market is still watching very carefully what this administration is doing, perhaps seeing a shorter game than the long game that he is talking about here. but he defended his moves as flexibility and said as president, that's what he can do and what he plans to do. brianna. >> whatever the game, they are still trying to figure out how to play it. and that is the challenge. jeff zeleny live for us at the white house. thank you. boris. >> as president trump wraps up his trade war. brand new cnn poll out today is giving us a clearer picture of what americans think about his performance on the job. so far, cnn washington bureau chief and political director david chalian joins us now to break down those numbers. david, what do they

say? >> well, the president's overall approval number stands at 45% in our brand new poll conducted by ssrs. boris, 54% disapprove. he's clearly underwater. he's upside down here with the american people. that's actually a familiar position for donald trump to be in. he's a polarizing figure. we know, in fact, that 45% approval number, that was his high water mark that he hit twice in his first term early on this point eight years ago. and then shortly after covid hit, he hit that number. he left at a low of 34%. so he stands at 45% right now. it's not where any president would want to be. and in fact, when you stack them up against his modern era predecessors, the 45% and the 45% eight years ago, and now that he's at, that's the lowest everyone else was above 50% at this point. at the start of a term. and where he stands on issues overall, there is some bright spots here for donald trump 51% a slim majority of americans approve of the job

he's doing on immigration. we know how central that is to his political identity. he splits about evenly with the public on managing the federal government and the federal budget. but again, boris, it is this number here, this 44% approval on the economy, issue number one, that's worth looking at. deeper, 44% approval, 56% disapproval. that is -12%. look what a strong issue the economy was for him in his first term. only back here did he have disapproval higher than approval. but it was far more narrow than it is here. this is a warning sign for donald trump. >> notably on those approval numbers. by issue, tariffs sub 40%. how do americans feel about this trade war? >> well, you note that number there. that's the 39% approval i'm looking at this 61% more than 6 in 10 americans in this poll disapprove of how he's handling tariffs. his worst issue that we've tested to date. and then i just think there are two other interesting things that the white house is no doubt aware of this donald trump would say 86% of americans

think he's busting the norms. he is approaching his use of presidential power totally differently than his predecessors. he likes that. but warning sign in here, 49% of americans think his use of presidential power is a bad thing. more than say it's a good thing. and this is probably what will keep folks up in the white house more than any stat we have in our poll, 57% nearly 6 in 10 americans say trump does not have the right priorities. only 43% say he is focused on the right priorities. and we know that the economy is issue number one, far and away for americans. and he's not scoring well on. >> it. as we just heard him say, he's not a block. so we'll see if these numbers perhaps make him more flexible than he already is. brianna. >> happening now, the trump administration is gutting the department of education. we heard the president last hour praising education secretary linda mcmahon for slashing jobs. she is firing more than 1300 people. hundreds of others accepted separation packages and more than 60 probationary workers were let go. weeks ago.

that is, nearly half of the workforce gone. as president trump seeks to shut down the agency altogether. cnn's sunlen serfaty is with us now with details on what's happening here in. sunlen, trump promised on the campaign trail he would do this. how is he doing it? >> yeah, this certainly, brianna, is indicative of that. this is the first step of potentially many that will hit the department of education. and the numbers here are significant and worth repeating. 1300 workers at the department, that's 50%. nearly 50% of their workforce that was let go, let go starting yesterday and into today, many regional offices completely shut down, with the entire staff laid off in boston, philadelphia, cleveland, san francisco, new york, and many other cities. and i heard from many employees that are still at the department of education employed there today, expressing real concern about their ability to carry on the mission of the

agency. given these dramatic staff reductions, concerned about carrying on their usual day to day activities. and in essence, that is part of the point here. as you referenced, president trump has been very clear that he his goal is to dismantle the department of education. he has tasked the new education secretary, linda mcmahon, with that. and she called this just one step in that ultimate goal of, in her words, cutting the bureaucratic bloat there that exists at the agency. and here's president trump, just a short while ago in the oval office. >> i feel very badly. and but many of them don't work at all. many of them never showed up to work. many of them, many of them never showed up to work. kelly and. unfortunately and that's not good. and when we cut, you know, we go. and that's what i had a number of meetings with a lot of people over the last couple of months. when we cut, we want to cut, but we want to cut the people that aren't

working or not doing a good job. we're keeping the best people. >> now, these cuts come as president trump himself has been considering an executive order to begin the process to eliminate the department of education. cnn obtained a draft order that was written last week, and it never was released. mcmahon, the secretary of education, linda mcmahon. she has acknowledged that eliminating the department of education would require congress to do so, but she has said that they will be working with congress and other federal departments to start that process, to start the next steps. so it's very clear here, brianna. these layoffs are just the first step of many other potentially more significant changes to come to the department. >> all right. sunlen serfaty, thank you for the report, boris. >> joining us now to discuss is republican congressman warren davidson of ohio. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. can you confirm that these cuts at the federal level are not going to represent fewer

resources for students, teachers, teacher salaries, after school programs in your home state of ohio? >> yeah, thanks for having me on. and i think it's important for people to know we just in the house yesterday passed a continuing resolution. and so the appropriation to the department is still the same. and in theory, when you have less overhead, you should have more to go to the cause of education. and i think that's the direction the administration is going to do. department of government efficiency. we want to support the mission, not necessarily the workforce. >> more broadly speaking, though, as there's this effort to repurpose the department of education to have more of those resources moved to the state level. can you confirm, for example, that the 800,000 kids that depend on title one, this grant program that helps lower income families? can you confirm that they're not going to see their resources affected? >> well, right now, when you look at the department of education funding, a lot of it does go to block grants. i think directionally you want to see more money going directly to the

states, and the states have more discretion. you want fewer decisions made in washington, d.c. and fewer strings attached to the washington, d.c. money. i mean, i remember last congress we voted on whether kids should have chocolate milk at school. i don't think we need a national milk policy. we don't need a national lunch menu. i don't think ohio needs a state lunch menu, frankly, across any of our counties, i think the lunch lady at your given school is fine. we don't need a countywide policy, and i think that's the direction on school and education in particular. people feel like local control really does work. >> but you don't feel like any resources are going to be cut. you're confident they're not. >> right now, the plan is that the federal money would go to the states, and we could do that, frankly, without even the department of education. and that's kind of the tension now, is do we need a leaner, meaner department of education, laser focused on improving the results? that hasn't worked. that was the theory when when jimmy carter created the department of education. but the reality is the results have been worse. we spend more and get worse results. now we want to say, what is it going to take to

get better results? >> you mentioned doge and we've spoken about doge before. i do wonder if you have any ethical concerns about the president essentially hosting this tesla showroom outside of the white house, as elon musk has direct business that is overseen by some of the agencies that are supposed to hold doge, or rather, tesla and other of his businesses accountable. >> yeah. i mean, look, you know, presidents have always highlighted products. i mean, president trump highlighted harley davidson motorcycles and his other term, joe biden had jeeps and fords. they all go out and do this. and one of the things that is made in america product. and, you know, i think it's important for i would think that the left would be excited that donald trump is embracing the greenest vehicle made in america is a tesla. so instead of that, there's all this, oh, but it's musk and it's panic. oh, it's musk and it must be bad. and it really. >> is necessarily panic to ask about the ethical consideration that somebody who, for example,

is gutting the consumer financial protection bureau, which oversees the loans that tesla gives out, is now promoting his vehicles. and there's this talk of expanding x, the formerly called twitter, this platform to allow for payments between consumers, something that would have been overseen by the federal government. you don't feel uncomfortable having the guy that's making these decisions about cuts to those agencies at the white house showing off his vehicles. >> you know what i feel proud about is you have a guy who came to america and became an american citizen, has been phenomenally successful in america in a way that he could have never done in any other place in the world. and he's willing to risk literally, what is he lost like $100 billion of net worth. so the narrative is somehow he's going to benefit himself. he's lost like $100 billion of net worth because he decided to be public support. republicans, donald trump in particular, and then take his particular talent and put it to work for the american people. and i'll tell you, when i go back home, i was just home this weekend in ohio. we had a farm forum, talked to hundreds of farmers and ag people, and frankly, some others that just came out because they knew we were having a public event. and

they're all excited about ways to save money. even people that are critical, like cnn has been of elon musk. but they're they're saying, you know, we are spending money on things that we don't agree with, and it's great that they're finally highlighting it. >> to be fair, congressman, we are critical and question any view of ethical violations or stuff that that looks murky. and it feels weird to have somebody who has business with the federal government making decisions at the federal level about agencies that oversee his business. nevertheless, there are other. >> things he's not making decisions on awards of who buys what cars and agencies, no, no or anything like that. >> but for. >> example, and he also said, i don't want the subsidies. and he's also said i don't. >> the question. >> of need to build charging stations. we'll build our own. >> there are questions about his businesses when it comes to the pentagon with starlink and that sort of thing. nevertheless, i take your point. you're not concerned about conflicts of interest. that was my question. i do want to ask you about the stopgap funding bill. you typically don't support them. you told cnn that you received a

call from president trump, who asked you to lend your support to that, and you ultimately did, in part because you plan to implement a rescissions that would. formalize doge cuts into law. i do wonder if you got feedback from president trump on that. have you got any assurances or guarantees from speaker johnson that they would follow through on that? >> will you go back? a couple of weeks ago, we voted on a plan called budget reconciliation resolution, and it really is a plan to save money. it instructs the committees in congress find ways to save money, and that barely passed. i was one of the last people to vote for that, and one of the commitments i wanted for is, is is there a way to save some money in this upcoming march 14th deadline? and so i met with russ vought. i talked to russ vought. he's the director of the office of management and budget, and he kind of laid out the strategy that they're working on. so since then, in the past week, i met with russ vought, president trump and elon musk all last week in small groups, not just one on one meetings, meeting in the oval office. and they really

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and as they've tested it and look at it, they want to come back to congress with fy 26 appropriations. and then they also want to litigate on some of the things. and then when we get through with all that and they've identified the savings, for example, they're not going sex change operations this year, like toney isn't going to get returned to the treasury right away. but it also isn't going to get spent. and so same with lee zeldin. a lot of the things in the epa deal, he's highlighted all kinds of things that, you know, the biden administration was panicking, saying, we got to get $20 billion worth of gold bars off the titanic. he's reclaiming some of those. you've got money that was handed out very hastily, with very little oversight to people like stacey abrams. and no experience in this and say, what are we doing with this money? and the review is going to take place, and if it makes sense, then the government will try to do it. if not, it'll make a rescissions package. >> i have one last question for you, congressman, specifically on foreign policy. if russia doesn't sign on to this cease

fire proposal, how should the administration respond? >> well, look, the united states has been clear with president trump in a way that joe biden never was. joe biden said, as much as it takes as long as it takes, and he never defined a number, it will spend as much as it takes. that's somewhat clear. but he never defined as much as it takes to do what. and you had state department saying everything from your regime change in russia and war crimes tribunals for vladimir putin to no russians in any part of ukraine, including crimea, to just to reach a peace deal. and it kind of depended on which situation they were in. donald trump's been very clear. our mission is peace. we want to find a way to restore peace. and so i think he's going to continue to find paths to achieve that. >> if russia doesn't accept, how should the administration respond? >> i think he'll continue to work with russia to get them to accept. just a couple of weeks ago, zelenskyy wasn't ready for peace in the administration, worked to engage zelenskyy, and now he's ready for peace. >> i believe zelenskyy would refute that. but nevertheless. >> if he's not, then. >> there's no. >> point in talking at all.

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proposal. just 24 hours after ukraine accepted the u.s. plan. this is a proposal that calls for a 30 day truce, which includes a pause in the fighting across what president zelenskyy says is the entire front line. but it all depends on whether or not russia will agree to this plan. president trump telling reporters in the oval office the u.s. will get an answer soon. >> i haven't we haven't spoken to him yet with substance because we just found out and we just were able to get ukraine to agree. so we're going to know very soon. i've gotten some positive messages, but a positive message means nothing. >> with us now is the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, steven pifer. he now works with the center for international security and cooperation at stanford university. ambassador, how are you expecting this to play out with russia's response once they are briefed by american officials? they do appear to be taking their time until that key step.

>> yeah, i think moscow is it's taking its time because they're trying to figure out how they want to answer. i don't think they want to say no. they don't want to do an outright rejection because vladimir putin wants to cultivate a relationship with president trump, because putin believes that he can manipulate the american president. so i think we're going to get not a no, but we'll get a yes. but and they're now figuring out what kind of conditions that they want to attach. and that could, in fact, make the answer quite difficult. >> okay, so the conditions what could the butt be in that. yes. but and how do you see him trying to manipulate trump well, i think putin's ultimate goal really is to to get to a meeting where he can get one on one with the president. >> remember, putin is a kgb officer. they learned how to manipulate people. and i think we saw in 2018, when trump and putin met in helsinki. and

following that meeting, president trump came out and basically sided with putin over the conclusions of the american intelligence community. so i think putin is thinking about what additional demands he wants to make to achieve other goals. and they could be quite broad and quite sweeping. >> so if russia comes with their. yes, but and it does seem difficult to see how they could just come out of the gate with a no. so if there is a yes, and then somehow they kind of cloud the situation, which would, with whatever proceeds during a cease fire as they try to move to a second phase. how are you watching for trump's reaction to that? >> yeah, i think that's going to be very important because there will be, i think, a requirement for some time to parse whatever conditions the russians attach. so, for example, putin has regularly said that any kind of a ceasefire or settlement has to address what he calls the root

causes. and the root causes, he says, are really things like nato enlargement. now, i don't believe for a minute that the russians launched this war because of nato enlargement, but they use it as a pretext. and if you go back and look at in december of 2021 what putin was asking for was things totally disconnected from ukraine, but asking nato to withdraw any military infrastructure that was put in place on countries that had joined the alliance after 1999. just have that all go back to 1997. that's simply not in the cards, but that's kind of the grander plan. i think that putin has. >> so, ambassador, when you see president zelenskyy saying he's expecting to see the u.s. take strong steps against russia if they don't agree to a cease fire, but i think the expectation is that russia will at least nominally, agree to some kind of cease fire. right. it's what sort of poison pills they might attach to it. is zelenskyy setting this up

correctly? if the expectation is, yeah, russia is going to just attach some kind of poison pills, does he seem to have a good a good mastery of of what russia's next step may be here? >> yeah, i think zelenskyy is positioning himself to say, look, i have come a long way to try to meet president trump's idea of of brokering a solution. we now have to see the russians make real moves. bear in mind vladimir putin last week said he would make no concessions, no compromises. so he's got to move. but i think also the question here is president trump has to remember he's got a great deal of potential leverage with putin. there are things that he could do, for example, tightening sanctions on russia. he could ask the g7 to move to seize $300 billion in frozen russia and russian central bank assets and transfer them to a fund to ukraine, things that would be very painful for the kremlin and would give them incentives to be more accommodating and be looking for

more of a compromise. unfortunately, i president trump, has not yet played that kind of leverage. but perhaps if he doesn't get a straightforward yes from the kremlin, maybe he'll be tempted to do so. >> trump we've heard him time and again say to ukraine, they don't have the cards. i mean, clearly some of the cards ukraine has are american cards, right? they're an american ally. but when you look at the cards that ukraine holds in this deal, in this negotiation, how do you see those cards? >> yeah. no, i think when people look at this one, yes, russia has more a larger population, it has a larger economy. but what they discount is ukrainian determination and resilience. i mean, go back to february of 2022. it was not immediately apparent that the west was going to provide any kind of large scale military assistance to ukraine, in part because most assumed that ukraine would be defeated fairly quickly. the

ukrainians chose to fight even when they had no guarantee of western assistance, and even when it came down to, i mean, you had pictures of preparation, including on cnn, of ukrainians all over the country assembling molotov cocktails. so at the end of the day, i think you don't discount the ukrainian determination, one, to have a free, independent and sovereign country. and at the end of the day, if they don't see an agreement that meets their needs, i think they're prepared to walk away from it and keep fighting. as difficult as that may be, and that tends to be discounted by those people who look at ukraine and say, ukraine has no cards. >> yeah, that moment with the russian warship, right. the go bleep yourself russian warship. i think we cannot forget sort of the ethos that is was early in is persisting in this country. ambassador pifer, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you brianna. >> still to come, while the trump administration moves to shrink the size of the federal workforce and make the

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promote her side hustle. cnn's kyung lah takes a look at the opm official's instagram posts, which have now been deleted. >> it looks. >> just like any other influencer. video a young woman posing in front of a camera over and over and over again, showing off her trendy but timeless professional fashion. but she's no ordinary influencer, and that's no ordinary office. her name is mclaurine pinover and she's the trump administration's new director of communications for the office of personnel management, or opm, which manages federal employees. all of these videos were shot in her government office right here at opm headquarters in washington, d.c. ground zero for trump's plan to cut thousands of workers from the federal government in the name of efficiency. inside her office captures video at her desk putting on makeup, modeling new outfits to her 800 followers.

pin over markets close on her account using what's called affiliate links. she could get a portion of any item sold through her instagram page, like this $475 skirt or $300 dress. but it's unclear whether she's made any money. on february 13th, the day 20 people on her communications team lost their jobs, she posted a moment for mixed patterns and the week when her agency demanded all federal employees list five things they did that week. she posted the businesswoman special as opm spokeswoman. she defended the memo at the time as a commitment to an efficient and accountable federal workforce. >> i would be very curious if she included her efforts to promote her brand as part of the five things that she accomplished that week. >> donald sherman, the chief counsel for an ethics watchdog group, says more than anything, this behavior is insulting to the thousands of federal employees being fired.

>> this trump administration appointee is violating the public trust at the same time as she seems to be instrumental in the administration's attack on civil servants. >> it does look like some of this happened on the clock. we were actually looking at her account this morning, and she posted a couple of instagram stories during normal work hours. you can also >> some videos as people are being laid off, young law cnn, los angeles yikes! >> our thanks to kyung lah for that report. after nearly ten

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in just a few hours. as you pointed out, docking should occur early tomorrow morning and then after about a week handover, butch and sunny and the two other members of the crew that were already up there, we'll get into that. their dragon spacecraft and come back to earth. so you can bet the >> i sure hope they are. and like i know, leroy, that they've made the best of this time, right? it's when you're an astronaut and then you get to astronaut a whole lot more than you expected. that's pretty cool. we know that. we've heard that from you. we've heard that from others. but this is tough on the families, right? this is really tough. this isn't what they prepared for. they thought that their loved ones were going to be gone for, you know, just a week. and here they are. it's been all this time. what is that adjustment like. how have they prepared for that? oh. >> yeah. well, absolutely. then there's no preparation for it. this is one of the last things they thought would happen, which certainly would have been one of the last things i thought would have happened. but, you know,

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