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>> how the president's move. >> is. >> already roiling markets. >> and what could. >> soon cost. >> you more. >> plus. >> usaid, the aid agency targeted by the richest man. >> in the world. >> reports of. >> staffers defying. >> elon musk. >> and being. >> shut out. >> or shown the door. also ahead, the purge at the fbi agents packing their desks with the threat of. >> mass firings. >> still looming. and the latest. >> on. >> plane crashes in both washington. >> dc and philadelphia. >> the key piece of evidence that could. help unlock what happened in both tragedies. >> good morning. it's 10. >> a.m. eastern, 7 a.m. pacific. >> i'm ana. >> cabrera, reporting. >> from new york. >> let's begin. >> with. >> breaking news in donald. trump's trade war. stocks opening down sharply this morning. you see the dow, s&p and nasdaq all in the red by several hundred. and we expect the president of mexico to announce her country's response

any moment now to the tariffs president trump slapped on mexico, canada and china. over the weekend. canada already announcing its own counter-tariffs in response. joining us now, nbc news senior white house correspondent gabe gutierrez, our business correspondent brian chung, and justin wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the university of michigan. brian, we're already seeing the markets responding here. we're also, of course, waiting to see what this means for everyday americans on the cost of goods. what kind of reaction can we expect? >> yeah. well, wall street having. >> a negative reaction to the tariffs. again, this is the first market day since the tariffs were announced over the weekend. but we're seeing the dow down over 1%. the nasdaq. those tech heavy stocks are down 2%. but look there are main street implications to all of this for regular regular americans that have to pay for things that have already been expensive over the last four years. those costs could rise further under these proposed tariffs. when you just talk about gasoline, for example. again, that 10% tariff specifically on canadian energy, likely to lead to increases of

between 15 to $0.25 per gallon at the pump. and also, when it comes to cars, this is a big one. the automotive industry is very deeply intertwined between our neighbors to the north and south. the average retail car price likely to rise by $3,000. and then you also look at the other types of goods that we import from canada and mexico, from mexico, a lot of agricultural products, tomatoes, avocados. we also get beef and beer from them and from canada. you also look at some very similar types of products as well when you talk about beef as well. so look, there's this is the implications of this i just can't underscore are so wide ranging because these are our major trade partners when it comes to china, canada and mexico. they account for 42% of all imports to the united states as of last year. these are our major friends and trade partners. >> so mexico is expected to announce its response this hour. canada already saying it will retaliate with its own tariffs. what is the latest in this back and forth. >> well hi there ana. >> good morning. i'm actually just looking down at my phone. this press conference is. >> set to begin. >> any moment now with mexico's

president. >> so we will try to see. >> exactly what her response will be. already, she. >> said that her country. >> is looking into a plan b and also talking about. >> retaliatory tariffs. >> against the united states. now. president trump also. >> just a short time ago. he did. announce that he has spoken with. >> canadian prime minister. >> justin trudeau. just this morning, he complained that canada didn't allow u.s. banks. >> to. >> operate inside the country. but he also brought up this issue of a drug war. and essentially he is justifying these tariffs by saying that canada is allowing illegal drugs and fentanyl to pour into the united states. now, president trump also saying that he plans to speak with prime minister trudeau once again this afternoon at 3:00 eastern time. ana. >> justin, we're already seeing tariffs now, counter-tariffs the wall street journal calling it the dumbest trade war in history. writing iom the editore u.s. willingness to ignore its treaty obligations, even with

friends, won't make other countries eager to do deals. maybe mr. trump will claim victory and pull back if he wins some token concessions. but if a north american trade war persists, it will qualify as one of the dumbest in history. are there any significant concessions the president can get here? or do you agree that this trade war is really that misguided? >> we don't. really know. >> what's. >> going to happen next. >> one possibility. >> is he takes a call from the. >> the. >> leaders of canada and mexico. >> declares success. and anna, this is. >> where we're going to rely. >> on you. >> and our friends. >> in the media to. >> tell the truth, which is the president has a habit of. declaring success and taking. credit for all sorts of things that would have. >> happened anyway. >> or that. >> aren't actually going to happen. that's one possibility. the whole thing. >> gets called off. >> i think there's actually probably about a 50% chance. >> of that. >> the other. >> possibility is we plunge deeper into the dumbest trade war ever. we show the. world that this is how we treat our allies and. our friends, and that's going to create all sorts of economic uncertainty for

anyone who wants to do business with us from any. >> part. >> of the world. the us becomes more isolated and the people who suffer are. ultimately going to be the folks. >> at home. >> but justin, is the idea here that it would rev up the production of american products, and therefore we'd have more american made goods and people would be buying more american products. >> look, if we could live in a magical world in which we would prevent, in which we could have very high tariffs without any retaliation, you could start to tell that sort of story. history actually tells us those stories don't end very well if we can only survive if we have businesses that can only survive global competition, if they get a leg up from the government, it turns out they're not very productive businesses. they produce at very high prices. and so you and i end up getting lower quality products at higher prices. but that at least is a coherent story. what's not

coherent is that in fact, we're going to get retaliatory tariffs. and so that means that those americans who are working in the industries that export to the rest of the world, your job is now under threat. so the end result of this is isolation for america, fewer opportunities and not an opportunity to be part of that great, big, beautiful, broader world that's out there. >> the american auto industry could be impacted. here's michigan democratic congresswoman haley stevens speaking about how the tariffs could impact american auto workers. >> i have spent the weekend, ali, talking about what is going to happen with plants, michigan automotive plants. and i'll tell you, i'm hearing that some are going to shut down. >> brian, could it really get that bad? what are you hearing? >> yeah. >> well, in theory, it could. i mean, it really depends on how prolonged this would be. and when it comes to just the as i mentioned earlier, the intertwined ness of the three economies, the auto industry is largely the most important one. we import a lot of car parts

from mexico, and we actually import a lot of cars that are entirely made from both mexico and canada. so there's a lot of questions here over whether or not when you have a tariff in the united states, where you have that bill that is going to go to american importers, i want to remind people who have to pay now 25% more on top of what they already had to pay on tariffs. well, then, yeah, those parts are likely to get passed on to consumers in the form of a more expensive car that you try to take off the lot. again, as i expressed earlier, that estimate could be somewhere in the range of $3,000 per vehicle. but even for people that aren't trying to buy a new vehicle, i was talking with an auto shop owner on saturday when the tariffs were announced. he said that even just the cost for getting those oil filters for a routine change, like an oil change, he said that, you know, normally that that will cost you somewhere between 50 to maybe 80 bucks. he said he could easily see those costs going up to $100 as a result of just those filters getting more expensive. so again, this is something where these people who have small businesses, right? we're not talking about, you know, pep boys or any sort of it was just

a small auto shop in, in secaucus, new jersey. they were saying those costs will have to get passed on to consumers. these are everyday impacts that people are going to start to. >> feel the trickle down effect. and we just have volkswagen now chiming in. they have a plant in mexico and they're saying that they are monitoring developments very, very closely. gabe, i want to play some sound from the president, both on the campaign trail and then this weekend, take a listen. >> already tariffs. because to me, i think it's the most beautiful word in the dictionary. more beautiful than love, more beautiful than any word i know we're going to be a tariff nation. it's not going to be a cost to you. it's going to be a cost to another country, because i'm going to put tariffs on other countries coming into our country. and that has nothing to do with taxes to us. that's a tax on another country. we may have short term some little pain and people understand that. >> so now he's saying a little pain might be happening. trump's

supporters believe the prices of things like eggs and gas would drop once he became president. if the opposite now happens, is the white house worried about political blowback here at home? >> well, well, i know that you're right. that is a little shift in messaging that we heard from the president yesterday talking about that short term pain. but look, as you heard in the campaign, he said it over and over again, even saying it was the most beautiful word in the dictionary. tariffs are something that trump during the campaign and now his administration. they believe that this will exhibit american strength around the world. so if you talk to the officials within the trump administration, they don't really see this as opening up a trade war, so to speak. they're not fully convinced that there will be so much retaliation from other countries, and they expect other countries to back down. now, whether that's realistic or not is another matter. but if you'll remember on it, just a few days ago, it was about a week ago, it was about a month ago. but the trump administration and the white house really touted how colombia's president seemingly

backed down in the face of a tariff threat from president trump over receiving deportees from the united states. so they expect that to play out over and over again, potentially even after president trump, you know, imposes these tariffs on canada and mexico. so in terms of blowback, they feel that any blowback might be perhaps from the media or perhaps any short term blowback. but they see the larger picture of the us establishing itself as a as a superpower, as a bigger superpower throughout the world and achieving peace through strength. that's what the trump administration is focused on. >> they may not be done yet with these tariffs, justin, the president now threatening the european union with tariffs. the eu is also saying they'll respond with tariffs of their own. how dangerous could this trade war become if it does expand beyond china and canada and mexico? >> this is for people in the rest of the world. >> not too. >> bad for. >> them. >> which is their reliance on

the united states will go down and folks will make adjustments, and businesses are going to be a whole lot less willing to invest in north america generally and the united states specifically. but for those of us in the united states, what's going to happen then is the rest of the world keeps doing business with each other, and we start to do business much more with ourselves. and the rest of the world is 8 billion people, where 330 million people. it's a much smaller market. there's many fewer opportunities that american isolationism is going to hurt americans first and foremost. >> professor justin wolfers, gabe gutierrez and brian chung, guys, thank you all very much. president trump rattling allies and in some ways waging war against his own government. how one u.s. agency is becoming ground zero for trump and his billionaire buddy, elon musk. also a purge within the fbi. we'll dig into our new reporting that agents are literally packing their desks in case they are next. and the operation to remove wreckage of a midair

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provides humanitarian aid like food during famines, training for health care workers. overnight, usaid staffers got a memo saying not to come into the d.c. office today. the directive came hours after elon musk said he's been tasked with shutting down the organization. >> none of this could be done without the full support. >> of the president. >> you know, and with regard to the usaid aid stuff, i went over it with him. you know, in detail. and he he agreed with. the that we should we should shut it down. i mean, that's. i want to be clear. >> that's you. >> know, i actually checked with him a few times and said, are you sure? i'm like, yes. so we're shutting it down. >> one usaid official told nbc news, quote, we know we are being surveilled by doge. and right now, if you go to that agency's website, you get this. it just says there's an error. joining us now, usa today, washington bureau chief susan page and msnbc political

analyst, former democratic congresswoman donna edwards. ladies, thanks so much for joining us. so much to discuss here. susan trump and elon musk, they're really focusing their ire right now on usaid using inflammatory rhetoric to attack this agency, going so far as to call it a criminal organization. what, if any, evidence do they have? are they pointing to anything specific? >> we've seen no evidence that it's a criminal organization. president trump called it staffed by radical lunatics. we've seen no evidence of that. you know, and it's not as though this is a huge government agency rife with fraud and abuse. it's a relatively small government agency, but it's a ripe political target because foreign aid is never very popular politically with americans. and that may be one reason they've gone after it. first, it's hard to imagine this is the last government agency they'll go after, though it seems to me this is probably just the beginning. >> well, and this is an agency with tentacles all around the world, congresswoman, usaid has

been described as america's ground game for decades, supported by both parties. and as susan pointed out, it's a small piece of the bigger pie, just 1% of the federal budget. what are the consequences for the u.s. if this goes away? >> well. >> the big. >> loser in all of this is going to be the united states of america. i mean, usaid provides funding for health services to non-government organizations that work on, you know, building and strengthening democracy. and i think what this means is that the united states loses its ears on the ground in the places that we most, most need. and so it's, you know, it's an element of the united states soft power, a way that we're able to make friends around the world. and that actually strengthens the united states national security. and what shocks me most is that the congress of the united states is allowing the executive branch to

stomp all over their constitutional authority to appropriate and to legislate. they've just given up their power as a co-equal branch of government to a department that's not really a department. doge is not existent except in the mind of elon musk and the work that donald trump is allowing him to do. it's not a real government department. it doesn't have any legislative authority, and congress has to be the one to assert its authority in this and in this instance. and if they don't, then the executive branch becomes all powerful. >> susan, what's happening in this one agency is really just a glimpse into a much broader campaign. nbc news spoke with nearly two dozen federal workers who described a climate of fear, confusion, skepticism and anger at federal agencies over the past two weeks. a number of civil servants described a sense that they were being actively

tracked and monitored in a way that was foreign before trump's return to power. one longtime manager even told nbc news, this is psychological warfare. there are echoes of musk's twitter takeover and to how this is all playing out. what more do you know about his role in all of this and his working relationship with trump right now? >> well, elon musk continues to be the president's best friend, someone who has been empowered through the president, not in an existing job that existed before, not in a job that required the check and balance of a senate confirmation. and it is that it is the strategy that we've seen elon musk use in his in his private businesses. there is this is no secret. it is a open effort to get federal workers to leave, to leave either because they have to come back to work five days a week in the office to leave, because they've been offered a kind of buyout. if they take it now, they'll get paid till september. there is there is no mystery here that there's an effort to make the federal government smaller and leaner and do fewer

things. and it's using not a not a scalpel, really using a hatchet on the federal government. >> and yet trump says he has a mandate to do this. he made a lot of promises on the campaign trail that he's now carrying out. and we're seeing virtually zero pushback from republican lawmakers who control both chambers on the hill. congresswoman, are there any guardrails right now for the trump administration? the courts obviously have a role in all of this, too. and what do you see as democrats role in this moment? >> well, first of all, i think democrats really do have a role here. and part of it is to make it clear to the american people what is happening and why, and the impact on their lives. i mean, in the case of usaid, it's jeopardized jeopardizing united states national security. and that is going to be that all of us are going to feel the fallout from that. it's just a matter of time. democrats i mean, they have the ability to assert their authority. they can file suit as well to stop this, to put a stay

on it, to allow the courts to, you know, to play a role here. and that's really what happened with the actions at omb, the office of management and budget took last week. and i think democrats have a role to play here in making sure that congress can exert its authority under the constitution. and only democrats in congress right now can do it, because we know that republicans won't. >> but democrats don't have the majority to have power and able and really being able to effectively push back directly against president trump. ladies, i got to leave it there today. but conversation to be continued. former congresswoman donna edwards and susan page, thank you so much. next here on ana cabrera reports removing the wreckage. live images right now of plane parts being pulled from the water at this hour. you can see crews working hard to get those pieces of evidence from the downed american airlines jet. this is in the potomac river as ntsb looks for answers.

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have all of that work and all of those cases and all of those convictions and all of those sentences wiped away by the president more than ever? this is not a time to pretend this isn't happening. >> right now in washington, the salvage operation to pull the wreckage of the american airlines jet that crashed into the potomac river last week is just beginning. workers using cranes to pull what is left of the plane from the icy water. you see that piece? if you look closely above the yellow, where it looks like maybe they hoisted the plane's engine, they're hoping to find the remains also of victims who remain missing. 55 of the 67 people killed have now been identified. and yesterday, grieving families gathered on the runway where their loved ones were supposed to land for a somber memorial service. nbc's aaron gilchrist is live near the crash site. aaron, the salvage operation just now getting underway, what all is involved and how long

could this take? >> well, anna. >> we were told that it would get underway at first light today. and in the last 20 minutes or so, we did see, in fact, the crane you're looking at here start to lift pieces of the airplane out of the water. you noted that we believe we're looking at the plane engine sitting on this barge that is also carrying that big crane. we were told yesterday that we should expect to see the army corps of engineers and the navy supervisor of salvage start to move these pieces out of the water. again, this is video of that engine coming out of the water and being put onto the barge here. when this accident happened, we were told that the plane had been broken into three pieces. and so part of the expectation as the next three days go by and we're told it could take about three days to lift the plane out of the water, we should expect to see it come out in pieces like that. the other important thing i think that's worth noting is that as the plane is recovered, the officials here have told us that we should anticipate there could be work stoppages if they do encounter additional remains. we know that the dc medical

examiner has been able to identify 55 sets of remains at this point, which means there are 12 individuals who are unaccounted for and believed possibly to be inside the fuselage. so as this operation happens over the next three days, it will stop. if in fact they do find remains, they want to make sure that those remains can be recovered in a dignified way, and then you'll see the divers and the workers going back in to continue retrieving the plane before they move on to recover the helicopter. we're told that will happen after as much of the plane is recovered as is possible. and of course, this all adds to the investigation that the ntsb is doing, trying to figure out what caused this plane crash, plane and helicopter crash to happen. we were told that they've been able to retrieve data recorders and voice recorders from the airplane. they've retrieved it also from the helicopter, but they've only been able to listen to two things the recorder from the plane and the data. they've been able to look at data from the control tower here, and they offer some conflicting information about the height at which this the altitude at which

this accident happened. and so we hope today we'll hear that they were able to listen to the black hawk helicopter and get some information from that that will help to help us understand better where this collision happened, which will also inform the process of figuring out exactly what happened here for the ntsb. ana. >> okay. aaron gilchrist, thank you for bringing us the latest. and now to pennsylvania, where investigators have now recovered the cockpit voice recorder from a medevac flight that crashed into a dense neighborhood in northeast philadelphia. this air ambulance crashed just after takeoff, killing all six on board, one person on the ground and injuring 22 more. the recorder found buried in this eight foot crater at the impact site. the power of the crash itself sending debris flying up to six city blocks away. nbc's emily okita is joining us now from philadelphia. emily, what answers might this flight recorder hold? well, ana, remember that air traffic control. >> lost touch with the plane

just after takeoff, so it will provide insight and sound from what happened over the course of less than 60s. >> that the. >> plane was. in the air. >> they found it just about 100 yards or so from where i'm standing. >> down the way there. >> as the investigation continues this morning, federal investigators combing through charred debris after a medical. >> transport plane. >> nosedived and exploded near a mall and. neighborhoods in. >> northeast philadelphia. >> the crash sending people scrambling for cover. in the debris field scattered over several city blocks. the ntsb recovering both of the engines, the jet's enhanced ground proximity warning system, and the cockpit voice recorder, which. >> was uncovered. >> in a crater eight feet deep taking off from northeast philadelphia airport friday. the learjet was in the air for less than a minute before it crashed, killing one person on the ground and all six mexican citizens on

board, including lizeth murillo osuna and her daughter valentina guzman murillo, who was 11 years old, according to jet rescue air ambulance. they were heading home to mexico after four months of treatment at shriners children's hospital. the fiery explosion also injured 22 others, according to officials. andre howard says his ten year old son was struck in the head with metal while trying to protect his younger sister. >> we're supposed to be home relaxing. and we're here fighting for his life. >> beyond the yellow tape along cottman avenue, as many as 11 homes significantly damaged in the crash. now in this shaking community, the long road to recovery underway. >> we will. >> get through. >> this moment. >> now. >> it's not clear what kind of condition that black box was recovered in, but the ntsb expects it will play a key role in their investigation. by the way, we are just learning that

transportation secretary duffy is on his way to survey the crash scene. >> now another tragedy. thank you, emily akita, for bringing us that. up next here on anna cabrera reports, fbi agents have started to pack up their desks amid fears of mass firings. what happens if president trump's pick, kash patel takes the reins? plus, nomination nail biters. can rfk jr's nomination survive a vote by the finance committee? and will tulsi gabbard's damage control be gabbard's damage control be enough to get her do your dry eyes still feel gritty, rough, or tired? with miebo, eyes can feel ♪ miebo ohh yeah ♪ miebo is the only prescription dry eye drop that forms a protective layer for the number one cause of dry eye: too much tear evaporation. for relief that's ♪ miebo ohh yeah ♪ remove contact lenses before using miebo. wait at least 30 minutes before putting them back in.

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>> president trump's pick for fbi director still awaiting a confirmation vote. but that hasn't stopped trump from taking drastic action to reshape the bureau in his image. top managers have already been axed. the rank and file are packing up their desks, bracing for mass layoffs. one factor driving some of that fear is a new questionnaire making the rounds, asking for specifics about work

they did on january 6th cases. nbc news justice and intel correspondent ken dilanian is with us now, along with msnbc national security analyst and former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence, frank figliuzzi. ken, talk to us about who has been let go and how many more could be on the chopping block. >> what we know for sure, ana, is that at least eight senior executives were fired, including most of the executive assistant directors who run the major divisions and at least two heads of field offices in washington, d.c. and miami. but the fear is that a lot more is coming, because the trump justice department has identified all fbi personnel who worked on january 6th cases. that's around 5000 people by one estimate, and has sent them a list of questions trying to determine what they did on those cases. to be clear, the fbi has never experienced anything like this in its history. agents being targeted because of cases they were, in most cases, ordered to work on. the bureau is in turmoil right now over this, anna. >> and we know, of course, the

january 6th investigation was the biggest in the doj history. it involves potentially thousands of agents who took part in some of those investigative moves you're reporting, though not everyone is going along with this. so what kind of pushback is happening behind the scenes? >> yeah, that's another extraordinary element of this story. ana, the leaders of the bureau are essentially in open rebellion. we reported over the weekend that acting fbi director brian driscoll, who was installed by the white house, pushed back forcefully on a plan to fire even more agents and push back so hard that people thought he was going to be fired. and he sent a message to the workforce saying, essentially, that fbi agents cannot be fired without due process. and the special agent in charge of the new york field office, james dennehy, the assistant director in charge, sent a message to staff saying that it was time to dig in. and he added, today we find ourselves in the middle of a battle as good people are being walked out of the fbi and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with law and fbi policy. again, unprecedented. >> and frank, the dust is far

from settled here. what kind of impact does this upheaval mean for america's national security? >> yeah, the concern that i have is that, you know, although this is unprecedented drama that is riveting, it's also a national security concern. it makes america less safe right now. why is that? we've removed not only top leadership, but also leadership in field offices, including, as ken said, washington field office and miami. and now the threat of literally 5 to 6000 agents who somehow touched a january 6th case, all legitimate criminal work with many convictions, many guilty pleas, simply politicizing a revenge action against those agents here. unprecedented. so at any given time, ana, the fbi is tracking multiple terror plots in the united states. if you remove layers of leadership, if you start demoralizing and even

dismissing thousands of agents in the field, you may lose track of that terror plot. and this absolutely makes us less safe. and by the way, our adversaries russia, china, north korea, iran are relishing this moment. they would have paid tens of millions of dollars for an operation that succeeded in creating chaos inside the fbi and potentially just gutting thousands of resources, personnel, resources. so we're we're at a weak moment here. this can't go on much longer. congress has got to take action. it should be bipartisan action. they should be calling both pam bondi and kash patel to the hill. they should be demanding that acting deputy attorney general bove get to the hill and explain why he's ordering these dismissals and what he intends to do with the names of these agents. >> you talk about being demoralized, demoralized, just the folks who are still trying to hold strong. are you in touch with some of your old colleagues at the bureau? what are you

hearing from them? >> i am, there is absolute dismay over this. some of these leaders who are going out the door were highly respected veterans. some, by the way, are not eligible for retirement, meaning they will not be able to put food on their table until this is somehow resolved. we all know this is an illegal action. these summary dismissals. you can't do it. but that's all nice. but it may take a year or two of legal battles to get that all resolved. the other thing i see happening, which is interesting, is there's traditionally been some tension between field offices and headquarters. so when the field first heard, hey, a bunch of suits were walked out of headquarters, they kind of shrugged. but now that they're the thousands of agents are in peril, that their jobs are in peril in the field. that's got their attention. and kash patel, if he gets confirmed, is going to walk into an agency that literally will not want to work for him. >> okay. thank you so much. frank figliuzzi and ken dilanian. up next here in ana cabrera reports, what defense

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president says he looks forward to participating in those negotiations with president sheinbaum as we attempt to achieve, quote, a deal between our two countries. so, again, on the breaking news that these tariffs, at least with mexico, have been paused for one month. but we should point out that the president, as late as friday, had said that nothing could stop these tariffs from going into effect. so it appears we're seeing a real time negotiation here between these these top allies. and the president saying that he spoke with mexico's president just this morning. now the question becomes, ana, what will happen to canada? president trump said that he spoke with prime minister trudeau just this morning, and he plans to speak with him again at 3 p.m. this afternoon. so there remains a real possibility we could see these tariffs avoided, at least in the short term, before they take effect at midnight tonight. but again, that sizable news that is sure to have impact on financial markets, that these tariffs have been delayed at

least for a month with regards to mexico ana. >> right. mexico. okay. that piece is delayed. still, though, no update on canada and china. brian, how are the markets reacting? >> yeah, well, they're bouncing back off of this news. so on the dow jones industrial average, for example, we've been down as much as about a percent and a half earlier this morning. now we're bouncing back and kind of headed towards almost what could be a wash for the day. you can see the dow jones down only 150 points compared to over 600 points just a few minutes ago. but what i was also watching were the automakers, because i think that when it comes to mexico, they are such a major exporter of parts to the united states and to cars that get assembled in mexico and then get imported entirely into the united states. i'm looking at shares of ford. it was down almost 5% earlier this morning, now only down by about 1%. but we have to remember, as you pointed out, there's a resolution perhaps, or maybe a delay, perhaps in the mexican side of this equation. but we haven't heard anything from the canadian side. when you look at an automaker like ford, they have assembly plants in both mexico and also canada. so it's not like the automakers are completely out of the woods

here. and again, you do wonder okay. yeah, we just kind of kicked the can down the road to march 1st. but are there certain types of pricing dynamics where people who are anticipating the tariffs to happen as soon as tomorrow, going to already start raising prices? we've heard of in scenarios where companies do preemptively raise prices just on the threat of tariffs. so will that impact agricultural imports? even though the mexican tariffs are potentially delayed, could we still see rising prices on mexican imports like avocados and beef? those are major exports to the united states. it's entirely possible, even though this delay is still happening, we have to remember the tariffs aren't off the table. if they're just delayed, that could still lead to marginal price pressures even on the everyday groceries. like i mentioned, avocados and beef that we still import from mexico. >> yeah. and gabe, so he gets the mexican troops moving to the u.s. southern border out of the deal here. what is the trump administration hoping to get out of canada? if there is some kind of a negotiation to stop the tariffs from going into effect to our northern neighbor? >> well, white house officials and the president themselves

said that they do want to stop the flow of fentanyl on the us's northern border as well as the illegal border crossing crossings. but as you know, ana, there's just a tiny fraction of fentanyl and border crossings that come from the u.s. northern border as as compared to the southern border. now, i should point out that mexico has made promises before to crack down on illegal migration. just last year, they sent several hundred troops to mexico's northern border to try and stop the flow of illegal migration there. and they have cracked down on migrants that have been coming from guatemala as as well. and also looking at some of these migrants that hitch rides on trains to go through long distances. in mexico, there has been a specific crackdown on that. so we expect this to be in addition to a 10,000, a significant number. unclear exactly where specifically on the border they may have, but we've also received already reports of there being migrants

that have amassed on the mexican side of the border, because the trump administration has clamped down on asylum quite so much. so a lot of questions about how this will play out. and as you alluded to on a lot of questions about what canada might do, whether they might send some sort of military presence to their northern border, that remains to be seen. we'll be watching that 3 p.m. phone call between president trump and prime minister trudeau. >> gabe and brian, thank you both. keep us posted. let's talk more about president trump's immigration crackdown. defense secretary pete hegseth is traveling to the southern border as the administration sends more troops that way. the white house also announced last night that marines have now arrived at guantanamo bay to expand the migrant operation center there. and this we have new exclusive reporting that some of the migrants arrested in trump's aggressively publicized media blitz have already been released back into the u.s. nbc's priscilla thompson is standing by near el paso ahead of her visit, but first to nbc's julia

ainsley. with that new exclusive reporting, julia migrant arrests have been a key to the trump agenda. what are you learning about people already being released? >> that's right, ana. of course, trump campaigned on ending catch and release. and while they have really cracked down on catch and release at the border, we're finding that of. >> the more than 8000 migrants. >> that have been arrested since trump took office, we know that some of them are actually being released into the united states. when they do that, they put them on these ankle monitors or any kind of tracking device so that they have to check in before their hearings. but this is what happens, ana, when the net gets so big that they're not going just after criminals, but also people who are not considered a public safety threat and people who really aren't what they call amenable to deportation. if their countries won't take them back and they still are working with the exact same amount of bed space as they did in the previous administration. so now we're understanding some of these people are being released. what this means is that when we see arrest, we should not necessarily think that deportations have increased. this has all been part of

trump's plan to show mass deportations and a big crackdown. now we're understanding just because someone is arrested does not necessarily mean that they're deported. in fact, because of court orders and space constraints, many could end up right back in their communities. ana. >> priscilla, you actually repositioned to new mexico there near el paso, texas. but what what do we know about secretary headset's plans for the border? visit today? >> yeah. >> ana. >> so this is going to be. >> his first visit to. >> the border. in this. >> new role as. >> secretary of defense, we know that he's going to be meeting. >> with some. >> of those soldiers that have. >> been deployed as part of this us-mexico. southern border mission, and he's also going to be taking questions. from journalists and the press. and there's certainly no shortage of things to ask him about. >> you have. >> so much news that has. >> happened on this subject. >> just in the past couple of days, with the announcement that the trump administration plans to revoke the temporary protected. status for hundreds of thousands of venezuelans. >> and you. >> also have the news that you

mentioned of the white house tweeting that photo of marines arriving at guantanamo bay in the aftermath of the white house announcing that they plan to begin to house migrants there. so a lot of questions around what that will look like when migrants could begin arriving there and how long they might stay. but of course, all of this is coming as we are seeing this immigration crackdown continuing to escalate with the ice raids that we've seen taking place in recent weeks, and all of these various efforts. and so at the same time, across the country, you are seeing people. over the weekend, there were a number of protests protesting these anti-immigrant measures. you also see folks in dc closing their businesses today to show americans what a day without immigrants would look like. so certainly a lot of things happening on both sides of this issue. and i will also just note that over the weekend, governor abbott gave the texas national guard the powers to do immigration arrests, so deputize them to be able to do that. so

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pick for director of national intelligence doing damage control, and a new op ed explaining why she wouldn't call edward snowden a traitor in her confirmation hearing. this after her performance left even many in the white house rattled, according to a person familiar with the white house's thinking. the senate intelligence committee will vote tomorrow on her nomination, also potentially facing a tough path forward is robert f kennedy jr. the senate finance committee will vote on his nomination for hhs secretary tomorrow, and at least one key republican says he is now struggling. joining us is nbc news chief capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, let's start with tulsi gabbard. what is she saying now? >> well. >> it's clear, anna, that she recognizes that the damage that was done during her public hearing last week where she refused to call edward snowden, the former government employee who leaked a whole trove of secrets and then fled to russia. a traitor. and how that made republicans uncomfortable with

the way she answered that line of questioning. that's why she took to the wall street journal to write that op ed, trying to clarify and explain why she was unable to take that step and officially calling him a traitor. it's unclear whether or not that's going to be enough for these members of the intelligence committee to feel comfortable enough to vote her out of committee. that's the first true test tomorrow. this is a vote that takes place behind closed doors. so theoretically, the republican members could vote no without the public knowing. but chances are she will at least get to the floor before her final confirmation is decided. anna. >> what about rfk jr? what is he facing tomorrow? >> it seems very likely that his nomination is going to come down to whether or not the republican bill cassidy of louisiana feels comfortable voting yes. cassidy could kill the rfk nomination in the committee vote tomorrow. but cassidy spent the weekend in conversations with rfk jr, trying to get him to drill down on exactly what his vaccine

stance is, what he would do as health and human services secretary as it relates to vaccines. cassidy, a physician himself, is very pro vaccine and has been very concerned about rfk jr. s past statements on the issue. now there's a world where cassidy maybe votes yes in the committee to allow the rfk jr. vote to get to the floor for a full vote and then maybe votes no on the floor. if that happens, there would need to be three other republicans that would have to join with him to vote no. so both these nominations right now very much up in the air, but we could get clarity over the next 48 hours. >> we'll be watching following it all very closely. ryan nobles thanks. that does it for us today. thank you for being here. i'll see you back here tomorrow. same time, same place for now. i'm ana cabrera, reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. >> good morning. 11 a.m. >> eastern. 8 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. >> we begin with. breaking news. just moments.