up additional no's after that performance. >> you know. >> lisa murkowski has been on the fence. other senators have been on. >> the fence. and as. >> you know, you know, the moment you get to 4 or 5 no's, that's going to be the end of your your nomination. and so she was already on the line, already very precarious. and i don't think that performance did her any favors. >> i also want to talk about kash patel. you wrote that the fbi director nominee refused to say if he would target trump's rivals for investigations, and kind of tried to distance himself from his own previous remarks that were captured on video. how do republican senators react to that? and did they seem to feel he was being disingenuous, or are they trying to come up with a way to give him a pass because they want to show support for the president? >> yeah. >> i. >> mean, in. >> the main, they gave kash patel a pass. look, you know, kash was. someone who, you know, worked in the house, worked in the trump. >> administration. >> has a lot of allies on the hill and also in trump world sinking. kash patel's nomination

is not really. >> in the interests. >> of any of. >> these republican. >> senators. especially on. >> the on. >> the judiciary. >> committee. >> and especially when kash has been so loyal to trump in the years since he left office. look, part of the reason why kash got the nod to be the next fbi director was because he was so loyal and because he's so ideologically aligned with trump on a lot of kind of criminal and, and prosecutorial issues. you got to remember that kash patel was subpoenaed to testify against trump in the classified. >> documents case, and then ultimately refused. >> to do it until he was forced to by the chief. >> judge here in washington. >> and i think that is illustrative of the fact of why people don't want to go against kash. >> okay. hugo lowell, thank you so much. and we've got breaking news, a post on truth social from president trump declaring military action. what is it? our next hour starts right now. and good day from msnbc in washington. welcome to alex witt

reports. i'm christina ruffini in for alex this afternoon. as we mentioned, we've got breaking news at the top of this hour. new information on the plane crash in philadelphia. officials now reporting seven dead and 19 injured. and we are expecting word soon on what investigators found in the black boxes from that mid-air collision in washington, dc. live reports from both locations in a few minutes. we have reporters and analysts covering those developing stories at this hour, but there are new and big developments from the trump administration as well, with an apparent purge of fbi officials and some doj prosecutors associated with january 6th. let's head to nbc's yamiche alcindor. she's in west palm beach, florida, where the president is spending the weekend. yamiche, before we get to those moves, the president posted on x about a military strike in somalia. what are you hearing about that strike? >> that's right. just a few hours ago, president trump announced that there was a strike against isis. i want to

read to you part of this truth social post. he said. this morning i ordered precision military airstrikes on these senior isis attack planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in somalia. these killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the united states and our allies. he went on to say the strikes destroyed the caves they live in and killed many terrorists without any without harming any civilians. he went on to say, our military has targeted the isis attack planner for years. but biden and his cronies, of course, attacking his predecessor, wouldn't act quickly enough to get their job done. i did the message to isis and all others who would attack americans is we will find you and we will kill you. i want to also say that the defense secretary, pete hegseth, also put out a statement really reiterating that no citizens had been killed, no civilians had been killed, and that there were multiple operatives that had been killed. now, the context here is that these types of strikes have been happening in the past. they happened under the biden administration. but it is striking, of course, that this is the first big one that the president is now announcing in his first tenure here, or his second tenure here, as he just began his term. the other thing

i want to point out, as we make a big pivot, because there's a lot of news here, there is, as you just said, this, a lot of removals happening at the doj and fbi related to officials that are in senior positions, as well as officials that are connected to the january 6th attacks. what we learned from our sources at nbc is that at least six of the fbi's most senior executives have been forced out by the trump administration. also, as many as two dozen federal prosecutors who looked into and investigated january 6th capitol rioters. they have also been forced out of their jobs. take a listen to what the president said about all of this, when he was asked whether or not he knew that these removals, these firings, were happening. take a listen. >> we have some very bad people over there. it was weaponized at a level that nobody's ever seen before. they came after a lot of people like me, but they came after a lot of people. no, i wasn't involved in it. i'll have to see what is exactly going on after this is finished. but if they fired some people over there, that's a good thing, because they were very bad. they

were very corrupt people, very corrupt. and they hurt our country very badly with the weaponization. >> now, the trump administration says they're also conducting investigations into fbi agents that were part of the investigations into the january 6th capitol attack. that is sending fear and panic throughout the bureau, because people are worried that they're going to be retaliated against merely for working on those investigations. so definitely going to be watching to see what else might be happening and what other firings might be happening. christina. >> all right. yamiche alcindor in west palm beach, and as yamiche just mentioned, we've got a lot of breaking news. we're going to turn now to the tariffs on u.s. trading partners that are expected to be put into place today as president trump's threats become reality. joining us now for more on the potential impact is lori ann larocco, cnbc global supply chain reporter and author of trade wars containers don't lie. navigating the bluster. all right, lori, you wrote about the tariffs implemented during trump's first

term. first of all, it seems to be unclear if these tariffs have actually been implemented yet. i've been talking to officials in canada, in mexico, and they're frankly asking me the same questions i'm asking them. so do we know if these tariffs are actually in place, and how do they differ from what we saw in trump's first term? >> well, cristina, i've. >> been calling individuals myself. and associations are also wondering if they have indeed been enacted. but as of right now, no, we have not seen anything in terms of an executive order or an emergency order. now, that's going to be what's different, right this time around versus the next back with the 301 tariff, companies had time to prepare. and that's where we saw that huge surge, if you will, of the front loading. and this time around, if it's in an emergency order and it's enacted today, it doesn't matter if the product came in before the eo or after customs will be able to tariff those products coming in in right now. and just

so you know, folks are not aware, probably customs actually has they pull the money directly out of the bank accounts of the shippers. and so that's the reason why all of these companies around the nation are trying to figure out what is going on, and if indeed the tariff is going to be happening. and so that's really the big thing here. and if you look at a really great chart in terms of looking at the inflationary impact, so you have a chart of, of, of an index that the fed reserve uses when, when you look at interest rate, interest interest rates and you see that skyrocket approach. that my friends, is the impact of tariffs. and that is the reason why a lot of companies out there are saying the customer is going to pay for this. >> so what can companies do to kind of hedge or prepare as they try to figure out what's going on? and is this going to impact a huge retailer like walmart more or less than it would, you know, a small business person who imports parts or very small

quantities of things from one of these countries. >> it's going to hit the smaller retailer, walmart. they have the bandwidth and the capacity to bring in their product as well as truck it in. i spoke with rick muscat. he's actually the president of a family owned shoe store called deer stags, and he told me how it's going to impact him. >> walmart sells an. enormous amount of. >> shoes in this price point. >> moderate price shoes. they have more levers to pull than we do. so during covid, when container rates skyrocketed, they chartered vessels. they could buy a whole vessel, which will have hundreds and hundreds of containers. we couldn't do that. it could be 200,000 pair that are made and heading towards us that might have a tariff when they arrive that we didn't know when we bought those shoes. >> now, muscat told me that in terms of the orders, when we're actually going to see a price increase, well, it's going to be

back to school. all of the orders that he is presently working with with kohl's, amazon and macy's, those are some of his major customers. they're negotiating now for those products coming in for july and august. back to you. >> thank you so much. we're going to turn now to some breaking developments in the philadelphia jet crash that left seven people dead. nbc's maya eaglin joins us now from philadelphia near the site of the crash. maya, do you have any new details for us? what more have we learned? >> christina. we just heard from governor shapiro and mayor parker a short while ago. they confirmed that all six passengers on that plane did die yesterday. but in addition to that, one person who was in a car in the area also passed away from this accident. officials are saying at least 19 others have been injured, but that number is expected to change in the coming days as this is an ongoing investigation and there's still a lot to search and find from officials. just to recap here, this happened

yesterday between 615 and 630. it was a jet rescue air medical ambulance on that aircraft was actually a miner who was here from mexico receiving a life saving treatment. she was with her mom. there were four other crew members, and they were on their way back to mexico. we know that there has also been a lot of debris. so officials are saying to report it if you see it, if you're if you're in the area and see it to call 911. i actually went to the four seasons diner just across the street here, and a piece of metal came through the glass window, actually injuring a customer. i spoke to the manager about how this all unfolded. take a listen to that. something hit his head, right? >> yes, yes. >> blink him to. >> he was bleeding. >> yeah. >> and? >> on the ground. >> i'm going to. >> try to. >> help him see them. >> i push him. >> the paper towel and. >> i clean him. >> i didn't see the metal piece

coming. i seen the window broke because after i find. >> him, the metal piece back there, because i have the video too. i didn't see him. they come to here, i see him, the window broke. >> talking to some of the other employees there, a lot of them were fearful and kind of shaken up to come back to work today. but again, officials are saying if you do see some debris and we've seen some even just setting up here to alert officials because this is an ongoing investigation. christina. >> that's so startling. i can't imagine having that come through the window at you. maya, thank you so much for joining us. now we're going to turn to the other big developing story, and that's the latest on the dc plane crash. nbc's aaron gilchrist joins us once again from reagan national airport. aaron, we are expecting to hear from officials there about recovery efforts that are happening right behind you in the potomac river there. what are you expecting them to say? do we have any kind of notice on when they expect those rescue recovery efforts to be complete? and are they learning anything from the black boxes?

>> those are all good questions that we will be asking when the ntsb holds its briefing at 6:00 eastern tonight. we do understand that they do have both of the black boxes from the aircraft, as well as the black box from the helicopter. and at this point, really, the big question is, are they in a condition or are they in a condition where they can retrieve information from those boxes? the ntsb said yesterday that the boxes from the plane seem to be in good condition. they had an expectation, high expectations, that they would be able to extract data from that. they were a little more cautious about what they might be able to do with the recorders from the helicopter. that, of course, is a is a piece of equipment. the helicopter is one that the army owned, and that the army is going to have to help them to extract that data from. and so we'll be asking today whether they've been able to get any information at this point at all. the information that those recorders have will really be

critical into understanding exactly why this collision happened. on wednesday night. they will have recorded the movements, the actions of the aircraft, as well as conversations that were happening in the cockpit. as far as operations here today, we have seen some ships moving on the water here. there is a salvage operation that really is the core of the action here on the potomac river today and into the coming week. we don't expect that this is going to be a 1 or 2 day operation to remove the aircraft from the water here, and we can't forget the fact that there are still victims in the water. we know that at least 41 bodies have been recovered at this point, but there is still a need to get into that water to recover the other bodies. we asked the dc fire chief, who's been leading some of that part of the operation, what the plan is for retrieving those bodies. i want you to hear what he had to say about that yesterday. >> so the. >> the question. >> is. >> do we believe we have. >> to lift the.

>> aircraft out of. >> the water in order to finish and find the rest. >> of the remains? i believe for us to. recover the rest. >> of the. >> remains, that we are going to need to get the. fuselage out of the water. >> now we know that a large vessel, a navy vessel, was being brought up from the hampton roads area of virginia, down down the potomac river, down the chesapeake bay. that was going to be the piece of heavy equipment that would be helpful in lifting that fuselage out of the water. we were told that would it would arrive sometime today. and so we're keeping an eye out for that will, of course, be asking the ntsb about that as well. i do think it's worth noting, christina, too, that two of the three runways here at reagan national at dca are closed right now. the runway that this american airlines plane was supposed to land on, as well as one other, we're told that is going to cause some flight cancellations here. we've seen at least 30 or so far today. but it's also important that that runway, those runways

be closed because it would keep planes from flying over the area where we know some of the crews are doing some of the search activity. there is a lot of debris in the river that still is yet to be collected. christina. >> all right. aaron, a lot going on. i know when you spoke to that coast guard member earlier, they said, you know, rescue operations, recovery operations can be really taxing, but they want someone to do the same for their family. so on they go. thank you so much for joining us. and coming up. in just a few minutes, we'll talk to an aviation expert on what the what they expect from those black boxes and how they hope to prevent future incidents. and three trump nominees were on capitol hill this week, but gave very few answers to direct questions. we'll have reaction to that in 90s. >> lumify. >> it's kind. >> of amazing. >> wow. >> my go to is lumify eye drops. >> lumify dramatically reduces redness. >> in one minute. >> and look at the difference. >> my eyes look brighter and >> my eyes look brighter and whiter. feeling backed up and bloated? good thing metamucil fiber plus probiotics gummies

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he wants, but what actually can he accomplish when it comes to suppressing these die diver hiring programs that he seems to so low in his first couple days in office? >> well, first off, happy first day of black history month. no matter how donald trump. >> tries to erase. >> the achievements. >> and accomplishments and. >> history of black people. >> we still exist. >> beyond that, i. >> think that the executive orders serve to do one thing in particular. this is a messaging strategy. >> from this. >> president, a messaging. >> strategy that i would argue is fairly. >> working across many states. we're seeing colleges and universities roll back their dei campus relations and services provided to not only students. >> of color, but also students. >> with disabilities. >> students who. >> are first generation college students. >> you name it, they. happen to be affected. >> veteran students. >> as well. >> we're watching a lot of the underworld, the funder organizations. >> that actually give. >> to institutions that are there to help support low income communities, diverse communities. every in.

everything from health care to education, access to housing. we're seeing them fall under the weight of this as well, because the funder community is backing away. we're seeing time and time again so many of the private sector giants also back away from their dei pledges. we're also watching scholarships be be removed. >> be. >> it whether they're black, latino, scholarships up to and including work opportunities. we know that in this ■country, the only people who have merit are not white males. however, if you let donald trump tell it, merit is only found. excellence is only found in white men, and he is doing his very best. from the highest perch in the world to showcase that he does not want anyone else to be able to reach the american dream. he doesn't believe in fairness, and at this point, he might as well just put on the white hood, because every black person in this country in particular knows what message this is signaling and knows exactly what he's doing when he talks, the way he talks, and when he employs these types of regulations. >> i will say, i don't know about that last part, but i have heard from members of the

private sector, you know, companies who usually do celebrations for this stuff or do panels on women's issues or, you know, diversity. they're all kind of freezing and scaling those. back to your point, because the messaging has people worried and they won't they don't want to direct the ire of the trump administration. brennan i'm wondering what the initial impression of this does to the american people. does this denote confidence in trump's handling of a national crisis? do you think his base is buying this and his priorities? is this effective for him so far? >> yeah. important to separate what works well with his base. >> with. >> with the. rest of the country. it does have the feeling of what we saw during covid. a crisis pops. >> up and. >> he seems to be freewheeling. >> obviously not that. >> surprising that he's blaming dei. >> if it's. >> not dei, it's immigrants for really any problem that he can identify. but in moments like this, you're looking for steadiness. you're looking for

competent and in control leadership and the free wheeling nature of the way he presents these things and just sort of shoots from the hips. does absolutely excite a lot of people who love donald trump, because, you know, he talks like they do, but that's probably not confidence inspiring for the for the rest of this country. you know, i don't think that his response to this tragedy is going to do him any lasting damage, but it is a reminder that as much as we talked about, you know, this trump term being different, them having their act together a little more and to a certain degree they do. it is still donald trump at his core, and he is still going to play fast and loose with the facts. he's going to make claims without evidence. and, you know, we'll have to see how long people tolerate that kind of thing. obviously, with covid, his popularity was not very high. and we'll see if this is a reminder to people of what a donald trump leadership can look like. >> brendan, i also want to ask you a lot of trump cabinet picks

on the hill this week. were trying to walk back basically their reputations kind of mid hearing. you had rfk jr claiming he's not an anti-vaxxer. kash patel saying the fbi would not take retributive actions under his watch. and tulsi gabbard pushed back on these claims that she'd be soft on russia. do you think that is enough to give republicans kind of cover or permission to vote for them, or are there 1 or 2 that you think may not make it through this process? >> yeah, it's really interesting. you know, you listen to their questions, but the excuse me, their answers, but the questions that republican senators ask is, i think, much more telling. if you remember back to the pete hegseth hearing, republican after republican was there to basically defend him and toss him softball questions. contrast that with tulsi gabbard. there were not a lot of people on that on that panel looking to make it easier on her, and they were asking her some really tough questions. they were not they were not trying to create a glide path for her. so if there's anyone in that, those

nominees that i think should be worried, it's absolutely her. kash patel seems like he will be. he will be fine. but rfk is an interesting one. i think i had confidence that he was going to get through and he may still will, but the questioning from senator cassidy of louisiana, a doctor was really interesting. obviously, rfk said that he is not anti-vax, but cassidy and others gave him multiple opportunities to say that vaccines don't cause autism, and he wouldn't do it. and it clearly very much bothered cassidy. if someone like him is a chairman of one of the health committees, votes no, that could spell real trouble for him. and i think cassidy right now is trying to weigh his conscience, his training as a doctor and his interest in public health versus his politics, where obviously in louisiana, voting against a trump nominee is not very good. and i have to note that he's up for reelection and will have a primary coming up soon. so that kind of boils down to the politics of a lot of these people are facing. a lot of

these are out of the box nominees, but they all have their own politics that's dominated by trump that they have to confront. >> yeah. to your point, confirmation hearings are a little bit like the supreme court, right? you got to listen to the questions that they're asking. that kind of tells you which way they're going to vote. amisha, should democrats be voting for these nominees at all? should they be getting on board and letting the president have his picks, or should they be trying to shut them down? >> they should be trying to shut them down. and i think that they are one of the strongest, i think examples of that was in the confirmation hearing for rfk jr. when newly elected democratic senator angela alsobrooks from maryland, was literally giving him pointed questions specifically to the pseudoscience and racist science that alluded to black people not necessarily needing to have the same vaccine schedule as white people. we know what that goes back to, and i know that you pushed back a little earlier and that's absolutely fine. but when we talk about white supremacy and we talk about those white hoods and how it's presenting itself in this administration and his picks, it's not talking about people lighting fire to individual's homes. we're not

talking about bombings. we're not talking about that level of activity. but the other side of white supremacy, the other side of what the kkk did was ensure that black people's faces were not in certain spaces, was to ensure that they were cut off from achievement, was to ensure that there were various mechanisms and policies put in place that would stop the growth and economic development of the black community, and in this case, what we see from many of these nominees, rfk jr. i would put a huge spotlight on is someone who is utilizing the very same science and reasoning that was utilized in the civil war that acknowledged wrongfully that black people had smaller brains, that black people could endure more pain, that black people essentially were subhuman. that is what he used during that confirmation hearing. and that's a real problem. >> okay. amicia brennan, buck, thank you both so much. we've got to turn to some breaking news. so we're going to have to leave it there. just in the last hour, democrats have elected a new leader for the party. nbc's ben kamisar is at national harbor, maryland, where the democrats are meeting. all right, ben, who's the new leader

and what are we hearing from them? >> yes, he's the longtime leader of the. >> state democratic party in minnesota. they refer to as that democratic farmer labor party. there. >> he won pretty convincingly. >> about a majority of the vote on the first ballot. >> there have been. >> questions on whether or not the party would be able to come together and quickly elect a chair, and they did with ken martin, who basically said the time for the fighting inside the democratic party is over. we now have a leader and let's turn that fight outwards to take on donald trump with his message. i think we can hear a little bit of his words here. >> we have. >> one team. >> one team. >> that's right. >> the. >> democratic party. >> we have one fight. >> we have. >> one fight. the fight is not in here. the fight is out there, right? the fight is not in here. the fight is for our values. the fight. is for working people. the fight. right now is against. donald trump and the billionaires who bought this country. that's a fight. not in here. >> and what does that fight look

like for ken martin? well, it looks like a multi-front war. he wants to go on offense against donald trump sort of taking take him on on different issues like confirmation fights, but also on the on his administration, but also trying to connect back impact of his administration on voters to try and win back some of the people that democrats ultimately lost in the 2024 vote. it's a big job and certainly the beginning, the next phase of the democratic party, the ken martin phase, begins now. >> all right, ben, our national harbor, maryland. ben, i hope you can, you know, go on. that very nice ferris wheel they have over there after your shift today. thanks for joining us. all right. and on a more serious note, we're going to be looking into what might have caused that plane crash in philly. an aviation expert with some aviation expert with some answers wanna know a secret? more than just my armpits stink. that's why i use secret whole body deodorant. everywhere! we're all human, its okay to smell like one. (sniffs) i smell very human right now. which is totally normal. girl preach. but if it bothers you, 4/5 gynecologists would recommend whole body deodorant.

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learning about these individuals and the coaches that were on the flight? >> yeah, this is an ice. skating community in shock. many of the victims were affiliated. with the ice rink. >> that you. >> see behind me, including. the livingstons. all four members of the livingston family were on board that flight, including 11 year old olivia, 14 year old everly, their parents, donna and peter. my colleague emilie ikeda caught up with close family, friends of the livingstons. take a listen to what they. >> had. >> to say. >> she wasn't always very happy and she. >> would always help people if they were like sad or hurt. because we come in the skating world much later than some of the other kids that they're homeschooling. so when i have questions for her, she's always so open and love to help. and this one time we are even talking about what? what does

that mean for kids? sharing that? so when i think about this, this is just so hard knowing that they're all gone. i think we're just trying to like i think we're just grieving right now, like about how all of them are gone. and, well, i think we're just trying to like, understand that, like they're gone. and i don't really understand how else we can do it. >> 12 year old sean k and his mom, julia, were also on board that flight. they, too, had been part of that elite ice skating camp that had just wrapped up in kansas earlier today. i spoke with sean's father, vitali, and it was very clear from the conversation that he was just in complete shock. he described seeing the news of the possible collision, how he raced from his home in delaware to reagan national airport, learned the

worst, and then raced back home in order to be able to tell their three surviving children what had happened before they heard it on the news. it's these kinds of harrowing accounts. it's a community very much in grief. here at the ice rink, there will be a memorial skate by candlelight tomorrow. back to you. >> all right. erin mclaughlin, thank you so much. let's bring in aviation expert greg feith. greg, i want to start with the medical jet crash last night in philly. there's still a lot of unanswered questions. what are the main things you think investigators are going to focus on when they start digging into what data they have today? >> christina, this. >> this investigation in philly is just. getting underway, as we saw last night with. >> a lot of fires around. >> the city. >> in that. >> particular area and the fact. >> that this was. >> a very high energy impact, that scattered. wreckage throughout a very large area. the first part of. >> the investigation.

>> is trying to find out where a lot of those aircraft parts are. >> it will be. >> very difficult because there was a post-crash fire, and that post-crash fire will disguise or even damage to the point where you may not recognize aircraft parts. so the board in its investigative staff are going to have to try and find those parts, and they're going to use the public public's help to try and find that, since it is scattered over a large area. but given that there is also other parts of the investigation, they'll be looking at the operations. they'll definitely be looking at the weather. but there is some discussion about whether or not this aircraft had had any kind of maintenance in the previous hours and days prior to the accident, so they'll be looking into the mechanical operation of the aircraft as well, while they're looking to get all of the parts so they can examine the physical evidence. >> yeah. speaking of that physical evidence, i mean, our team that's on the ground there was showing us a piece, came through a diner window and hit a customer in the head. our

reporter, mike allen, was saying, you can actually see debris still on the ground in philadelphia. how do you go about collecting? not only all that, but all the video evidence of this crash? right. everybody has a camera now. we've already seen so much of it hitting social media. why is it important to gather that video and watch that crash from all those different angles? and what is the process for that for investigators? >> well. >> you bring up a good point. and that is the video. given the fact that an aircraft like this should have possibly a cockpit voice recorder and or a flight data recorder, that would give the investigators the best evidence. if those boxes survive and they were equipped on this aircraft. given the nature of the impact, this high energy impact that oftentimes will damage those boxes. and then, of course, you have the post-crash fire. so now investigators are going to have to rely on that video, all of those different perspectives. you can get sound spectrum analysis. there is one video you can hear that the engines are still at a very high

power setting, which contributed to the high speed or high velocity impact. and then these other multiple positions will also give investigators the opportunity to see what the actual attitude of the aircraft was at the time of impact. i saw one video, which is indicative that the aircraft didn't just come straight down, wings level, high velocity. it actually was in a left wing, low nose, low attitude and you can actually see the aircraft turning. so investigators are going to depend on a lot of that video evidence. and of course the sounds recorded in absence or in lieu of possibly a flight data recorder, cockpit voice recorder, and using the public's assistance, they're going to they're going to probably ask for the public that if they find parts or what they believe are parts of the aircraft to contact them, that's going to be probably the biggest help. >> all right. thank you so much, aviation expert greg faith feith and crisis, chaos and the constitution. one organization

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