and political analysts side mohammed around the states drums shopping plan for the in danger of washington zone allies in the region is they actually help with ethnic cleansing, i believe both government would fall. time should be very careful about what he's doing. he's already the stabilizing these monarchies. these. these are dictatorships that are in his account by making them even more unpopular among their own people. this is not a smart policy. this only serves to weaken the us and because the us presence, the us supports this really, really feels through this network of countries, turkey, jordan, egypt, that am ritz morocco and, and among others. and by we keeping their hands, especially the countries like egypt and jordan and pushing them towards potential instability or saudi arabia, that would be devastating to the united states and his presence in the region. and of course my extension is randy regime. i don't think he understands any values of genocide and holocaust or something that any sane human being would reject altogether. and it's something that one would resist yet. what th

all editor in chief of the grade zone joins me again from washington d. c. max, thanks so much for coming back on. i should start all by saying is the grey zone there now in the white house that the invitation of caroline leave at trump's new press secretaries is very clear and he wanted the presumably organizations like yourselves right there in the heart of power downstairs from the oval office as well. i'm hoping to be allowed back into the state department press room, but uh, i did put in an application and the application form is about 5 lines long. i imagine thousands of people, including internet ran those, put in applications as well, and it will take a long time to process them. the white house press briefing room will likely become even more of a zoo than it was before. i don't know how it's possible to call on them when it will all show up. but uh, the, the kind of rumor mill has it that the trump administration is power at prioritizing those who are pro trunk voices. right, but in the rest, you mentioned this stay button department, people arou

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until the editor in chief of the grey zone joins me again from washington. d. c. max, thanks so much for coming. back on i should start all by saying is the grey zone there now in the white house that the invitation of caroline leave at trump's new press, secretaries is very clear. if you wanted the presumably organizations like yourselves right there in the heart of power downstairs from the oval office. well i'm hoping to be allowed back into the state department press for room, but uh, i did put in an applique.

tell that max movement all editor in chief of the grade zone joined to be a game from washington, dc to max. thanks so much for coming back on. i should start all by saying is the grey zone there now in the white house that the invitation of caroline leave it trumps. new press secretaries was very clear. if you wanted the presumably organizations like yourselves right there in the heart of power downstairs from the oval office. well, i'm hoping to be allowed back into the state department press room. but uh, i did put in an application. and the application form is about 5 lines long. i imagine thousands of people, including internet ran those, put in applications as well, and it will take a long time to process them. the white house press briefing room will likely become even more of a zoo than it was before. i don't know how it's possible to call on them what it will show up. but uh, the, the kind of rumor mill has it that the trump administration is power at prioritizing those who are pro trump voices. right. but in the rest, you mentioned this state, but department people around th

now, the investigative team of the great zone has published a report, dating washington's various attempts to overthrow the leadership and have on a us intelligence is doing all it can to exploit the resentments of those elements which usa id branded as the socialized and marginalized youth from afro cuban communities, every policy of today's most powerful empire has been calculated and designed to inflict regime change in cuba, a euphemism for the complete overall of class relations. in cuba, their agents there was this group called armies on a frank guy, and then the whole twitter internet operations. they were trying to win me over to be a type of international, a spokesperson for they were trying to do. but i come from an anti imperialist background, so i was able to sniff it out from the beginning. it smells like, uh, what we would popularly call c, i a operations. these individuals in cuba always said that they were non ideological, and they were attempting to recruit afro q bins and rap artist. and then the any d came in with millions and millions of dollars working with different p

his actual quote, flood the zone with joining me now, kevin fry, washington correspondent for new york one. kevin, good morning. where would you like to start? which piece of the flooded zone? well, should we begin with? >> i mean, maybe. >> there's even a better phrase for this variation, which might be move fast and break things to just steal something from silicon valley and elon musk effectively, because to to kind of bounce off of what senator smith was just saying earlier in the segment. essentially, there's so much going on that at least democrats are starting to argue that this is shielding and distracting from the potential damage that elon musk is doing to the bureaucratic infrastructure underneath the entire federal government. >> and that, of course, part of this is, you know, it's is that it is hard to talk about some of these, you know, the bureaucracy is fundamentally boring. correct? right. but they do a lot of really important things. and you saw democrats yesterday. i want to show a little bit of there was a press conference. we have seen democrats struggle to figure

to make sure military aircraft are not in the landing zone at these aircraft coming into the washingtontook place, but "the new york times" is reporting more than 90% of our c control facilities areliti shor. 73 of those facilities apparently staffing solo at least a quarter of the workforce is missing.th thatat is a lot of staff missin. what can you do to close that gap? >> well, first off, some people might hear those stats and say they airspace is not safe and ifshould i fly? if they airspace is not saved the faa would shut it down. that faa spaceiss say you can travelican and feel good about n american airplanes. but the staffing is too short.tf we lost a lot of air trafficscho controllers and schools were shutshut down during covid.de r and also under the obamanot administration, i'm sorry, the biden administrationlead they dd not lefic t academy from air tr control training at the towers. so it takes time to train these up, laura. we have a plan in place. will purge air traffic controllers and we have ideas how to do that quickly and faster thathickln the past and n smart. the sma

cnn, the washington post, the hill and the war zone, which covers the defense industry, will lose outfavor of explicitly pro-trump media outlets. access old network fox news keeps its place. change doesn't remove credentials, so the affected media will still have access to officials and briefings. cnn's statement said, quote, cnn's mission to report on the department of defense, u.s. military and trump administration will continue regardless of office arrangements. we will not be deflected from our duty to hold all three fairly and fully to account. we'll be right back. >> a single touch can say a thousand words. it says, i see you. i feel you, i got you, and i'm never letting go. ever. they say it all with irresistibly touchable skin. get in touch. gold bond. >> my eyes, they're dry. uncomfortable. looking for extra hydration. now there's blink. nutritive. it works differently than drops. blink neutral tears is a once daily supplement clinically proven to hydrate from within, helping your eyes produce more of their own tears. to promote lasting, continuous relief. you'll feel day aft

we will make sure military aircraft are not in the landing zone of it is aircraft coming into the washingtony're reporting that more than 90% of our air-traffic control facilities are short-staffed. 73 of those facilities apparently staffing solo, a quarter of the workforce is missing. that's a lot of staff missing, what can you do to close that gap? >> first off, some people hear the stats and go the airspace is not safe and should i flight, if the airspace was not safe for the faa was shut it down. the airspace is safe, air travel is the safest form of travel. you can travel and feel good about it on american airplanes. but the staffing is a short. were lots a lot of air-traffic control is when schools were shut down during covid-19, and under the obama administration, the biden administration they did not lead to these new graduates and the academy from air-traffic control train inside of towers. and takes time to train these. we have a plan in place, we will surge air-traffic controllers we have ideas on how we can break that -- do that quickly faster than in the past and get smart. the

washington dc. i thought a couple i assume joins us from dropbox in southern golf zone and phonics. some of the nice is comments as always, reading out back from donald trump doesn't sound like he's too confident about the 2nd phase of the seas. 5. how about palestinians? are they sounding any more confident? a willing dates on a drums, latest expression of doubts about the sustainability of the ceasefire. but we need to realize how much in gaza is quite unsettling for palestinians. his remarks made to hit the 1st of the talks with these by the prime minister, benjamin and yeah, on the mines, the confidence and the car into for dial see spot agreement that we impose policies for many palestinians. they believe that the drum slightest comments have seen as a threats to the stability of regions specially that they were looking for stipulates and documented carrier release of top 15 months of relentless. who would that took place in the palestinian turret trees in particular end because a strip or so many see that his the skepticism could see as a continuation of the american policy. u

truckloads of sandbags have been delivered to the burn zones, the county has been clearing drain to prevent any flooding. governor gavin newsom is in washingtoneet with national lawmakers to discuss california's request for federal wild fire aid. it is unclear whether newsom will sit down with president trump during his trip. >>> one of san francisco's largest employers is slashing jobs. according to bloomburg, sales force is cutting more than 1,000 rolls as it continues to ramp up hireing in its ai sales division. the workers impacted will reportedly be eligible to apply for other internal roles at the company. sales force joining amazon, microsoft, and meta this year in trimming its payroll to begin 2025. >>> civil rights icon rosa parks is being remembered across the country on what would have been her 112th birthday. here in the bay area, sam trans reserved a seat for her on its buses and showed off a bus wrap for black history month. she is being credited with ending segregation on public transit for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger in montgomery, alabama. >>> up next, more video from today's storm including some mini ge

washington, dc and promises of cortex. and the key issue with mux actions is that it's happening in this zone that we could best describe as a gray legal zone, or perhaps more accurately described as a zone of illegality. so he is effectively shutting down an american government agency that requires an act of congress. it's a question that keeps cropping up with an act of congress to do away with us, say id or you believe you have. i don't know the way of not when it comes to fraud . if this for are these people are lunatics and it would, if it comes to fraud, you wouldn't have an active talk from once america to project strength at home and abroad. he's costing aside anything he sees is impacting his administration's bottom line. it's a move critics say. the clay is the age of america. soft power, well and truly of mike level. oh to 0 for inside story. the as well that spring and i guess from washington dc, we joined by heart and lang, the vice president for programs and policy at refugees international in colchester . and the u. k. is natasha instead of us foreign policy specialist and a professor of government at the un

and as fast as this administration has been flooding the zone with executive orders and actions, the judges really here in washington and across the country have been responding in kind. another ruling tonight. temporarily putting a check on these 2200 employees at usaid that were going to be placed on administrative leave tonight. now, that is on pause. a trump appointee to the federal bench here listed this ruling during a hearing this afternoon that lasted some 90 minutes or so. he said this. he said they should not put those 2200 people on administrative leave tonight. frankly, there is essentially zero harm in the government deposing this for for some short period of time as it relates to the employee employer relationship. so basically not doing away with this, but just doing a temporary pause on this, as both sides can argue, there are cases here. a federal employees union made the the argument here that these employees should not be placed on administrative leave. and jim, this is just one more in a series of examples we have seen virtually every day this week, a federal judge stepping up to temporarily paus

jessica washington 0 judging problem. china is still a head on alpha 0 us and south korean troops. old joint military drills in the demilitarized zone with north korea shown young calls. it preparation for the the slug risk continues for something. these are more, more like the central philippines. and this is a significant amount of rain edging 2 volts via naps of this is west area into an easy eastern and sundays. yeah. so the west stand for the lazy, surprising me drive and bounty, including and sing a pool still snowing in japan, the cold waiting subzero comes across the wall to produce a snow shot and they fall in hunter and hawkeye. the most significant, widespread snow is on its way across the yellow sea towards the northeast of china and craze for a time, maybe even in so. and then that woman brings right up to homes. you that's going to be stuck. she has some but still some, most moody for all kinds of the rain, tightening all through southern china, including hong kong and also taiwan. now, all that route has wound up little bit vision, for example, in japan and even shanghai, up to double figures. winter will of course ev

zone. and ironically, that is the way that poor martha washington experienced it through much of her marriage to george washington. because the entire time that they lived here, the last 40 years of the 18th century, the house was almost always under construction, either adding wings to the house or redoing the interiors over and over again. and we're going to quickly run through some of the the discoveries we've made recently that tell us about the changes that have happened to the house, especially in the 18th century. so as a visitor to mount vernon, you come into the central passage and you're told this is the heart of the house. it's where the butler would sort out guests to go into the various rooms. we talk about that beautiful black walnut staircase behind me, which is very safely wrapped up in moving blankets to protect it during our work. but the interesting thing that we've learned in recent years is that this center passage, which is a typical mid to late 18th century house plan, this center passage didn't exist when the house was originally built. our work in the cellar and then

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zone. the u.s. funding cut made matters worse. why is it affecting you? you don't get money from washington. >> well, patients. >> come to us and. >> asking us for help. >> because they're not getting it from the original. >> yeah, because they're not getting support that they should from the ngo that got the funding cut. >> everywhere we go in this poverty stricken border region, we hear about basic services disrupted and aid workers being laid off. this clinic treats nearly 500 patients a day. it receives nearly 20% of its funding from the u.s. government. washington has been sending money here for at least 20 years, but now all of that has stopped. uncertainty now felt by rebecca and her nine year old daughter, rosella. yeah. can you show me your favorite pictures? the residents of the refugee camp who had to move out of the hospital when it shut down last month, even though rosella was born with a bone condition, she needs oxygen around the clock. my daughter needs the hospital to be open, rebecca says. and so do i, because i'm pregnant. the cut in u.s. funding means this pregnant mothe

washington post. it's a naked power grab, consistent with what trump's advisers have persuaded him to do, which is to flood the zoneith as much unconstitutional activity. again, this is donald trump's former lawyer. unconstitutional activity as possible with the hope that they get away with some or all of it. and that's what we're seeing before our eyes. >> yeah, they are going to get away with it. i mean, congress is not going to stop. the republicans in congress are not going to stop them. >> i think. >> this is a i think cobb is right. this is a tremendous power grab. and this goes to what lourdes pointed by the trump white house to control everything inside the white house. now, this has gotten over the decades. we've seen this in the clinton administration, in the george w bush administration. more power has been gone to the oval office from the agencies. but this is on a whole dramatically different level. and, you know, they are trying to just run roughshod over systems that have developed over decades to try to provide some checks and balances, not only in in legislating, but in how we hand out contracts an

washington post, quote. >> it's a naked. power grab consistent with what trump's. advisors have persuaded him to do, which is to flood the zone with as much unconstitutional activity as possible, with the hope that they get away with some or all of it. so. >> dave weigel, you wrote a piece in december. >> which predicted. >> why republicans. >> would do just what they're doing and why they would. >> continue to support. >> elon musk. it's titled democrats warn of president elon and republicans welcome him. in it, dave writes. this republicans. >> are operating. >> in an information space. >> where the. >> question here. should a. successful ceo run the country, not 535 members of congress. >> is obviously answered yes. this is. >> why republicans are so comfortable saying that government by musk would be the. >> will of the people. >> they don't see this. >> as. >> a clash between the elected and the unelected. they see it as. >> a clash. >> between the competent, as shown by. >> their success in. >> the. private sector and the incompetent. the latter category, consisting of elected members of congress and bureaucrats that no

zone? in 2015, governor gavin newsom sat face to face with president trump in washington, dc. the governor wants federal aid after the devastating wildfires in los angeles. >> so here at the white house just finished a meeting with president trump, had a very successful day on capitol hill as well, meeting in a bipartisan manner with republican, democratic leaders about disaster aid and disaster recovery for people impacted by the fires in southern california. >> now, it's not clear if president trump will still put conditions for getting federal disaster aid for california. at least 29 people died in those wildfires, and more than 13,000 buildings were destroyed. the damage is estimated to be more than $250 billion. >> rain is coming down in malibu and the pacific palisades, bringing fears of landslides and toxic debris to the palisades fire burn zone. officials in los angeles county say these are natural and man made slopes that are unstable, even without the wet weather. residents and city leaders are concerned the rain could bring potential disaster. >> the area is unstabl

zone, and they'll call that a touchdown. and we would all say, wait a minute, that's against the rules. that's kind of the equivalent of what we're seeing in washington right now. >> right. and meanwhile, there's the refs right at the supreme court being like, well, you know, i mean, he is patrick mahomes. who are we to say what he can't do? i mean, as long as he's got the ball i mean really he must ask. he must act boldly. so yeah, i mean it's a it is a it is a time that we are in. but i mean, hearing actually talking to brian schatz from hawaii tonight, stepping off the senate floor as they're holding the floor all night and hearing his sort of righteous fury about this and like, just keep pushing, just keep doing everything. and we're not giving up and we're just going to keep trying everything we got. put a little spring in my step. i got to say i loved i loved that interview with him. >> yeah. no, he has the great advantage of not having been there too long to settle into this kind of thing. we're going to have senator sheldon whitehouse and let raphael warnock join us. they're part of this all night senate protest that is really we've never see

zones. this is coming as president trump and elon musk 10 continue to dodge, continue to move forward with the doge agenda to try to strength size of the federal government. our washington correspondent raquel martin has the latest. protection bureau is the next federal agency now on life support friday, elon musk tweeted cfpb rip congress created the bureau in the wake of the 2008 market crash to protect american consumers from predatory business practices. donald trump and elon musk. >> have told the financial cops at the cfpb to stand out. democrats are sounding the alarm. they argue the administration's efforts will give companies free range to exploit consumers, according to their estimates, the apb has secured nearly 20 billion dollars for consumers since its inception. consumer groups say the targeting of the consumer protection agency is by no accident. >> right now, elon musk is launching a payment service on x, formerly known as twitter. so by stopping all cfpb work, musk appears to be shutting down any enforcement of the laws again could own company. in an interview with fox news channel's bret baier. >> president donald trump denied must have anything to you

zone, so flood insurance was not required by the lender. the fremont city council passed what's believed to be a first of its kind ordinance tackling its homeless problem. according to the washingtonto camp on public spaces and make it a misdemeanor to aid and abet people who are camping in those encampments. ktvu james torres live from fremont city hall with the details. good morning james. >> good morning pam. well, most city council members wanted to enact that camping ban, but there were some concerns over how they would do it and how strict it would be and who it would actually target. a lot of questions trying to get answered. yesterday during their council meeting, council members say they may take a look now at some of the language used in that ordinance. they want to make sure outreach workers and homeless advocates are not penalized simply for just doing their jobs, though it's still not clear what exactly aiding and abetting actually means. most city council members, including the city's mayor, supported that ban, as is one council member voted against saying she supports a ban but is against any criminalization. it's been a conversation in fremont for weeks, and just a

zone after the visit. here on capitol hill, it is another busy morning. the setting is back in at 3:00 p.m. eastern today. plenty of events here in washingtonwe will be covering, and also coming up, a view from the white house today, what is happening at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. we will take you there in about 10 minutes this morning on the "washington journal." until that time, it is our open forum. we continue to hear from you this morning about what is on your mind. this is paul in connecticut, independent. good morning. caller: good morning, john. i believe. the fact checking is very slim these days, especially on the sunday morning programs. for these misinformed people to constantly bring up, you know, issues of loss of life in the panama canal. most of those lives were lost under the french. the americans took it over, and with their administrative skills in cutting down the yellow fever and the mosquito deaths, that issue, sanitary conditions and so forth, they were able to prevail without much loss of life. there has been an update of the canal undertaken by the new canal authority. like so many situations with our nei

washington attorneys. i've heard from people on the hill. their feeling is that that right now donald trump is just flooding the zone and you know, yeah, we'llght citizenship. we'll do, you know, we'll defund agencies that congress is authorized for. we're going to throw everything at the wall and just try to overwhelm our opponents, just try to overwhelm the courts, and just, again, test the boundaries of executive power, which is, as mika said, exactly what donald trump said he was going to do on the presidential campaign, along with people like ron desantis, who also said they were going to try to expand the article two powers as much as he could, right? >> i mean, i'm just thinking synthesizing everything that's been said in the last minute or two, that we have an oligarchy within. the white, within the white house, essentially this musk clique that's reshaping government in order to wake the world, in part safer for more oligarchy by peeling back all of these laws that enforce foreign agent registration and try to curb russian oligarchs and the like. like, meanwhile, as you just pointed out, civil society is largely quiescent or quiet i

the doj's strategy, telling the washington post, quote, it's a naked power grab consistent with what trump's advisors have persuaded him to do, which is to flood the zonetivity as possible, with the hope that they get away with some or all of it. so, dave weigel, you wrote a piece in december which predicted why republicans would do just what they're doing and why they would continue to support elon musk. it's titled democrats warn of president elon and republicans welcome him. in it, dave writes this republicans are operating in an information space where the question here should a successful ceo run the country, not 535 members of congress is obviously answered yes. this is why republicans are so comfortable saying that government by musk would be the will of the people. they don't see this as a clash between the elected and the unelected. they see it as a clash between the competent, as shown by their success in the private sector and the incompetent. the latter category, consisting of elected members of congress and bureaucrats that nobody voted for. so, dave, this is being sold as government efficiency. it's being sold as disruption. it looks to a