the white house press briefing. you can see the white house press corps is gathered there as we're waiting for the press secretary to come out. alex marquardt back here with us. and no doubt there are going to be a lot of questions about the conversation trump had with putin about what is happening right now, as they are kind of i think the white house, the administration, alex, trying to spin this as belarus, russia, just sort of respecting the position that president trump is taking. there's going to be a lot of questions about what has happened today, what belarus may have gotten in all of this, and what is certainly good news that americans are being released. >> i think we really need to look at belarus as an extension of russia here. and that president lukashenko is doing this because president putin almost certainly asked him to. the u.s. also exchanged a prisoner. we should note a guy named alexander vinnik, a russian who was extradited here to the united states a few years ago. he is a convicted money laund

>> david: mary bruce at the white house again tonight. thank you, mary. >>> tonight, the chaotic moment on capitol hill, when democrats called for elon musk to testify to explain to the american people what he's doing, after being given access to the personal information of millions of federal workers. tonight, the cia, the newest agency affected, and millions of federal workers now have 24 hours to respond, will they take the buyout? and late today at the white house, president trump signing an executive order banning transgender women from competing in women's sports. how many players does this affect? and what the ncaa is saying about this, just moments ago. here's our senior political correspondent rachel scott tonight. >> reporter: tonight on capitol hill, democrats calling on elon musk to testify before congress, demanding to know what he's really up to, now with access to millions of federal workers' personal information. >> i move that the committee subpoena elon musk to come report as a witness at the earliest possible moment. >>

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it is a privilege to cover this white house. it is a pillage to be the white house press secretary. and nobody has the right to go into the oval office and ask a president of the united states questions, that is an invitation that is given. and their hundreds of outlets on this campus peered many of you in this room who don't have the privilege of being part of that pool every single day and getting to ask the president questions peered we reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the oval office, and you ae credentials to be here including the associated press was in this briefing room today. >> reporter: but isn't it retaliatory in nature, is the argument because the reason the ap was barred was because they are not using the phrase go for america, they are using golf of mexico in line with their standards. the white house will retaliate against reporters who don't use the language you guys believe reporters should use and how does that align with the first amendment commitment. >> secretary leavitt: i was upfront on day one if we feel their allies being pushed by all that's

that was president trump at the white house. he just spoke alongside mark fogel, who, after three years of being in a russian prison, he was sentenced to 14 years of hard labor in russia, is now back home in the united states. jeff zeleny is over at the white house for us. jeff, i want you to just tell us a little bit about a key aspect of this. the president sent steve witkoff over to russia, to moscow to make this deal happen. he was there with the president tonight. tell us about the significance of that and what they were able to accomplish in getting marc fogel home. >> abby, that is significant. and on this frigid, snow covered february night in washington, there is a sense of a thaw in u.s. russian relations. the president said there is goodwill between the u.s. and russia and steve witkoff, who you see right there on screen in the the camel colored jacket. he is the president's middle east envoy, a long time friend of president trump's from the 1980s. he was actually with him the day of his second assassination attempt i

that is the white house, the entrance to the white house. we expect the president will be speaking sometime this hour. when that happens, we'll bring it to you live. and anyway, the a lot of people put a lot of effort into this, and we're expecting one more hostage release, although we don't have the details of it. and that's happening tomorrow. anyway, joining us now from washington with a full report on the trump administration's efforts to bring americans home. mark meredith is with us. mark, good to see. good to have you. thank you for being with us, sean. >> good to be with you as well. >> you're looking at live. >> pictures of the south portico of the white house. this is where we expect fogel to arrive here momentarily. you can see it's been snowing here at joint base andrews and throughout dc, so getting over out to the white house is taking a little bit of time. his plane touching down about 50 minutes or so. you can imagine the day that mark fogel has had, not to mention the last several years. he's expected to shake hands with pre

this with nbc news senior white house correspondent garrett hake. >> the new york times. >> chief white house. >> correspondent and nbc political analyst peter baker. and msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin garrett. this doge subcommittee hearing that we're monitoring is part of the oversight committee. musk faced questions about lack of transparency and oversight yesterday in the oval office. >> how is he responding? >> well, musk's argument is that he is being. transparent by posting about the cuts. >> and. >> the projects that doge is canceling. >> on x. >> and on doge's website. >> he also said. >> something kind of unusual for a trump white house related press conference. he said. >> i'm going. >> to make mistakes. >> i'm going to. >> screw stuff up. >> and essentially. >> that the oversight he's getting is from the public. take a listen to part of what he had to say about this during that oval office presser yesterday. it's not. >> draconian or radical. the people. voted for major government reform. there should be no doubt about that. that was on the campaign. the president spok

privilege to cover this white house. it's a privilege to be the white house press secretary. and nobody has the right to go into the oval office and ask the president of the united states questions. that's an invitation that's given and there are hundreds of outlets on this campus. many of you in this room who don't have the privilege of being part of that pool every single day and getting to ask the president questions. we reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the oval office and you all have credentials to be here, including the associated press who is in this briefing room today. reporter: isn't it retaliatory in nature, is the argument. because the reason that the a.p. was barred which they said was because they're not using the phrase gulf of america, they're using gulf of mexico in line with their standards, so the question here is, is the setting of precedent that this white house will retaliate against reporters who don't use the language that you guys believe reporters should use? and how does that align with the first amendment commitment that you were jus

marc cieslak, bbc news. we go let's go live to white house where as you can be white house where as youking that has stuck to roads making for driving for treacherous driving conditions here's look at 7 7111117, 7 7 7 77 7 7111117, 57 7 7 7 77 7 77h7i7ll7,7 gags; 77 7 77h7i7ll7,7 geese}; capitol hill, a number of schools and closures in the us capital and could also affect capital and cesld alse affect working conditions at the the working conditions at the offices. the first two back—to—back winter storm ice and brain of stopping snow, ice and brain of a 1500 stretch of the a 1500 mile stretch of the eastern united states. that is it for the moment. for it for the moment. thanks for watching. hello. and those temperatures, well, we only got to two degrees liscombe in devon. the seasonal average. the one bright spot, though, was shetland, sending the cold air in. in from the west. now, at the moment we have extensive cloud across the uk. to stay with us. temperatures like they have they have been for a few days now, four to six celsius at best. really. heading into thursday, the easterl

it was the same at the white house. and so you know, the classic example is the state of the union address, right? where it's just like horrific. no. one, it's the state of the union is the speech that every speechwriter dreams of writing. then you do it. it's a nightmare. you never want to do it again. and you you took the lead on the foreign policy section of eight state of the unions. and i yeah, unfortunately got roped in a few times and i was always nervous that ben was going to go off and do something else with his life, because then they might ask me to be the chief cause. and i didn't want to do that. it's not just it's bad enough having to do a laundry list of policies, but when you're the foreign policy person and nobody wants you to, you know, he's like, you should be talking about the economy. they want it to be like they weren't happy about this. yeah. so we're always looking for stories and one of the most sort of powerful stories that i feel that occurred during the obama presidency was, you know, he was

and this is a fox news alert toe white house. first we await president trump's meeting with a man released from a russian prison a while ago. according to the united states on way for hostages. another american hostage will be released tomorrow. joining us now with more details we have the secretary of state marco rubio with the u.s. special envoy for hostages with us. first mr. secretary rubio let me say to you and president trump and steve and adam and everybody involved it brings us joy to know that america code as had an american release. >> we have a great team here and he is at the tenth american who is come home after being detained overseas and it's an extraordinary achievement and that's wap when you have a strong president. and this is a case that languished under the bite administration. and the mother got to meet president trump with butler and the president was almost killed and it's a happy occasion for all americans. >> greg: mr. secretary you said ten american hostages i was only aware seven tonight and with the s

justice department and the white. house blocks. >> an associated press reporter from covering. >> an event for a second day. the wire service punished for. refusing to. >> officially embrace trump's renamed. >> gulf of america. welcome to our viewers here in the united states. >> and. around the world. >> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation. >> room. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> let's get right to the breaking news on president trump's phone call with vladimir putin. and what happens next, including his expected meeting with the russian leader. that's likely to happen in saudi arabia soon. cnn's fred pleitgen. >> is standing by. >> for us live in moscow. but first, let's go to cnn's jeff zeleny over at the white house. jeff, first of all, tell us more about what the president just said about his phone call with putin. >> wolf. >> an extraordinary thaw in us-russian relations here, beginning with that phone call that the president of the united states and the president of russia had earlier today. i'm told it laste

and we are expecting to see him any moment at the white house. also, the war of words underway over the gulf. why the white house blocked a reporter from the oval office today and the free speech implications. i'm kaitlan collins, and this is the. source. i want to start with breaking news this hour, because any moment, the american teacher, mark fogel, is about to land at joint base andrews, back on u.s. soil for the first time in more than three years after he was wrongfully detained in russia. the white house announced this today in a surprise statement and called the deal an exchange. as we are waiting on more details and to see how marc fogel is doing when he steps off that plane, he will later be going to the white house, where the president is expected to meet him after he returns and arrives at the diplomatic reception room there. the press corps is standing by. we are standing by. also joining me right now. off the top is president trump's special envoy for hostage affairs. adam boehler, who helped negotiate the release of marc fogel. an

but let's talk about what else happened here at the white house today, which was the white house hasarred the associated press from three events that have happened, not the press briefings, but from three events where the pool of reporters goes in, which for people who don't cover the white house on a daily basis, because you can't put everyone in the oval for a pool spray of his meeting with a world leader, there's one person representing each medium print, radio, tv producers that go into this. the ap has a wire. they distribute their news widely to to thousands of people across the u.s. they are now barred over the fact that they will not use the term gulf of america, that you still use gulf of mexico. and the white house was asked about this today, and this is what they had to say. which white house official made the decision to bar the ap reporter from the oval office and the diplomatic reception room last night? >> well, first of all, let me just set the record straight. it is a privilege to cover this white house. it's a privilege to be the white house press secretary, and nob

every day in the trump white house, but did happen every day in the biden white house.y asked questions about elon musk's possible conflict of interest, but no one in the white house press corps asked a question about elon musk literally snatching food away from starving babies. there has not been one question asked in the white house by anyone in the white house press corps, to the white house press secretary or to donald trump about elon musk's decision, supported by donald trump, to take food away from starving babies, from starving mothers, from starving grandparents. in sudan, where the united states agency for international development was saving lives every day by getting food to people in the middle of a famine. elon musk's conflicts of interest, though, of course, are not as important as the people that he is actually killing in africa this week. and that is what he's doing. that is what's happening. you heard doctor atul gawande, former usaid official, on this program monday night, saying lives have already been lost. people have already died because of what e

that is taking place inside the white house, but alan, just remind us once again what's happening in the next few minutes in the next hour or so and, and what we should be expecting a voice. so this a slightly unusual and we've seen a donald trump when he met the japanese prime minister at the end of last week. in fact, it was on friday that when they go into the oval office, this tends to be what's called a pool sprague, which effectively means that a number of select comments are allowed in to provide the material for old broadcast as including ourselves and the sit next to the fire in the oval office and journalists can fight off a few questions. some presidents like to take questions like that, donald trump loves to take questions like that. any fires often a whole range of beauty is of interest. and king of duleigh would obviously answer some questions as well. but king abdullah doesn't want to be put into a position where he's asked the question, but he can't answer or doesn't want to answer or would possibly embarrass donald trump. and so there will be no pool spray this time,

by the time he came to the white house. and so occasionally he would have to retire or for to be sick for a good bit. but otherwise he believed very much in maintaining an open house. also, the that's not just for noble purposes. it was a very practical reason. he was the first president, i believe, who understood democratic in the sense of leading entire mass of people. remember, the suffrage is being expanded to white men, more voters than ever before in american history are participating in politics. jackson again, first man to come from his part of the world. he understood politics was becoming form of entertainment, a kind of something that required engagement. there were barbecues. there were torchlight parades, there were hickory clubs as political organizing elements. he kept a portrait painter living with him in the white house. ralph earl, who painted many of the portraits you've been showing. earl there and painted jackson all the time. and so jackson understood would jackson would have loved the internet. if you

they're using it again at the white house now. but also, i think, being careful to make sure that nothing in a statement like that is inflammatory enough to show up in a future court filing. >> as we shall receive. i want to pivot away from our conversation now to bring you above my solemn responsibility as your mayor. it is rude to repeat in the facts because many sensational, enforce claims have been made, so let me be clear. i never ask anyone to break the law on my behalf or on behalf of my campaign never. >>and i absolutely never treated. >>my power. that's an elected official for any personal benefit, no witness ever came forward publicly to make claims against me, none of the baseless threats from prosecutors of new charges and new evidence ever materialized in this case were no longer continued psalms 34 1 says i will bless the lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth. so i think the justice department for its honesty. now we can put this cruel episode behind us and focus entirely on the future about c

we have publicans with control of the white house, the senate, and the house, so if they would like to pass a bill for low priorities that they know they will not get any support from the other side of the aisle, for example, democrats will not want to support tax extensions, border funding or energy policy, republicans can use budget reconciliation, and arduous process where if you can get everybody on board, allows you to circumvent the democratic alabaster, so for most pieces of legislation, 60 votes are needed in the senate, republicans only control 53 seats, and to get any of these big-ticket items done in a normal world, they would have to get at least seven republicans on board. if you use the budget reconciliation process, which can be used for various pending matters, you can circumvent that opposition. right now we are seeing republicans trying to get going on the budget reconciliation process, the first step of which is passing a budget resolution, which the answer to a chest of art diluted house republicans. host: if you would like to join the conversation and ask a questio

you're a former white house ethics czar. you heard elon musk say he's essentially policing himself right now. is that how things are supposed to work? >> no, wolf. >> the ethics laws. >> are there. >> to protect. >> against conflicts. >> so people who. >> are working for the government. >> are serving the. public interest. >> not their own interest. >> elon musk. >> is slashing. >> staff in. >> agencies that are investigating. >> him. >> what arrangements have been made? >> we haven't seen. >> his financial. >> disclosures. supposedly he's. >> signed it. how is he dealing with these conflicts? does he have waivers? >> is he recused? >> you have a criminal president, 34 convictions. no wonder he's happy. >> with elon musk. >> they're violating the law right and left. and and. >> it's a lie by the president. >> that he. >> always abides by court orders. i was. >> in. that courtroom in new york. >> he broke. >> the judge's. directive again and again. >> he was fined. >> and he didn't. stop until the judge threatened him with ja

we expect them showing up at any moment at the white house. hopefully be able to show the american people that. and then the deadline, the line in the sand that president trump drew for hamas, noon on saturday. your thoughts on both. >> this is the focus of president trump. this is important to him. it gets done in his first term, he bought 55 hostages home. >>> now we are barely three weeks into his presidency and he's bringing home number 6 or number 7. i read an article on foxnews.com where president trump met with his family and said if i get back in there i'm going to bring him home. and he did it. donald trump is amazing that way. he's committed to it and he makes it happen and this american is coming home to american soil. >> i will tell you if you read the tea leaves, the seven hostages that trump got released. americans back home. that does not include when he was transitioning and he said they better be released the hostages before i become president or all will break loose. now he's given them until noon saturday. if i'm iran and ha

all right, let's go now to alan fisher live for us at the white house, allen. so one of the things we heard when we were rolling that sound from president trump was it the president was offering a lot of if used to praise for his plan, which in fact has gotten a lot of international condemnation. so president trump was asked to one point how palestinians will be forced to leave, and he said something along the lines of they're going to be great. they're going to be very happy. so clearly know specifics being offered by trumpet. trump was doubling down on this idea that he keeps floating of a us taking control of gaza and palace and he is leaving, right? exactly like it. let's talk about the things that when the said in the oval office, donald trump talked about how polish that means of dying every day. how's the living and what he described as hell. but there was no mention of the use really on slow over the last 50 months, which is killed nearly 50000 people. and what you also did here in the oval office was king abdulla saying, donald trump has a great plan.

president trump welcoming him home and to the white house. now, after three years of wrongful detention in russia. >> i feel like the luckiest man on earth right now. and, uh. i want you to know that i am not a hero in this at all. and president trump is a hero. >> this morning. we are now standing by to really find out more. possibly another detained american to be freed in the coming hours. that was suggested by the president last night. who this person is, though, or when and or where they will be released from, that is unclear. we're also waiting to find out how this deal to free marc fogel came together. who or what russia is getting in return? the kremlin says a russian citizen is being released as part of the exchange. but as you can see, there are a lot of questions still this morning. let's get right to jennifer hansler. she's got much more on this covering it all. what are you learning about? what more are you learning about the terms of this deal to bring marc fogel home? well. >> kate, both sides of this deal being incredibly tigh

the white house claims almost entirely wipe out the usaid workforce.ut of 10,000 employees right now they plan to keep 294 of them according to a reuters bulletin that just crossed. the white house also now tonight on the receiving end of a federal lawsuit from a dozen states trying to stop elon musk and his small team of doge engineers from accessing the personal information of federal employees. >> elon musk is helping us on it. [applause] and he's pretty good. >> peter: as doge engineers continue poring over federal spending, federal workers now have an extra four days to mull over a buyout offer. the white house press secretary says we are grateful to the judge for extending the deadline for more federal workers who refuse to show up to the office can take the administration up on this very generous once in a lifetime offer. but, some democratic lawmakers say it might be too good to be true. >> i have been saying to all the federal employees, beware of this offer. i don't believe it's been funded. >> peter: to comply with yesterday's executive orde

butjordan�*s king rejected the idea on tuesday in a white house meeting. would see palestinians keep their land in a reconstructed gaza. the white house press secretary acknowledged the king's position, but said that president trump believes his own idea is "more majestic". the king would much prefer that the palestinians stay in place, with the additional land to be used for new developed, which would greatly create jobs at levels never seen before, but the president feels it would be much better and more majestic if these palestinians could be moved to safer areas. our middle east correspondent wyre davis gave us this update from jerusalem. the ceasefire looks increasingly precarious as we get to saturday's deadline, a deadline imposed on hamas to release israeli hostages or the ceasefire deal comes to an end and the war against gaza resumes. but apart from mr trump specifying that all 76 hostages should be released, outside the framework of the existing peace agreement, the israeli prime minister and the other ministers have not specified how many priso

coming out of the white house. so we actually need. protection from the white house at this point. no one knows that better than people like marion buddy who have been attacked, bullied by the president, receiving death threats. >> just for. >> preaching from her pulpit that he might give mercy. we've seen the. >> catholic bishops. >> being attacked by j.d. vance for doing their work. being accused of going for the bottom line. >> this is gross. >> grotesque, and the lutheran services that you mentioned. >> they they help. >> the elderly, they help. people across this country doing. great work. and elon musk comes out and says. >> oh, these. >> people are money laundering. >> this is terrible. these are all attacks. >> directly on christian communities. >> the quakers. >> have. >> experienced it, with. i.c.e. being now allowed. >> to invade. >> congregations one after another. christian communities under attack from this trump-vance. elon musk administration. and it's. >> very ironic that. >> they're worried about anti-christian. >> bias, given. >> that we. >> need to be protected

we have a 10 sony transfer return to the white house. he's made one stop the lien statements officer, and we're going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america. but what may appear to be absolute? may him could be organized towns, and she went onto the truck to another time, an american football strategy called flooding the zone meet. so the donor refers to weakening the opposing team's defenses by swamping them with options. they simply don't know way to focus because there's only so much they can handle 1st, so they're not particularly bright. they're not particularly hard working. so you can overwhelm the system quite easily against all enemies for us in domestic, steve bennan was the president's advisor during trumps. first, while ben and hasn't return to the white house solve to he and trump fell out, it would appear, his strategy never left. the us presidents has wasted no time in alienating his biggest trading partners, antagonizing allies and b will during critics. we're going to put very serious tariff

we're waiting for the white house press briefing to start. but in the meantime, what do we know about this? gabe. >> hi there. chris. >> good. >> well, we're just hearing from president trump's. envoy for hostages. just a short time ago. saying that three. detainees have been released. >> one of them being an. >> american citizen. >> they were. >> released from belarus. and as we understand. >> it, they are currently at the american embassy in lithuania. again. >> that's breaking news. >> just a few. >> moments ago. that official just. >> spoke with. >> reporters at the white house north lawn. >> let's take a listen. the smartest countries are unilaterally stepping forward, and we don't even ask or we say, this would be interesting and they come up with it. and so some of these things i know, you know, everybody thinks about deals here. the smartest thing you can do to curry favor with the president of the united states is bring americans home. he's been clear about that. again, the white house. >> stressing that this is another hostage relea

now, the speaker of the house just emerged, leaving his office on the way to the white house. and he told reporters that essentially, the house is still going to try to move everything on one big bill, even as senate republicans are planning a different approach mr. speaker, are you okay with the senate moving forward with its own budget plan and the two bills. >> they've always. >> now, one top senate republican who had caught up with senator john cornyn, downplayed that dispute, suggested they could get behind this even as the house gop. one house top tax writer, jason smith, told me the senate republican plan would be unsuccessful. it would fail, he said. i asked cornyn about that comment. he says they're still moving on with one bill. what do you say to that? i think you guys are making a misstep here. >> the difference between the house and the senate. >> you're kidding. what a scandal. >> what is this going to be? is this going to be a difficult to resolve? >> no, no, we'll. >> work it out. >> we we. it's too. >> important to fail. so failure is not not an option. >> in t

president trump is asked what the white house offered russia in return. >>> the new images now emerging tonight. that deadly collision. two planes, the dramatic video showing the learjet owned by motley crue's vince neil, going off the runway. there are reports tonight the person who died might have been the pilot. authorities so far confirming only that it was a member of the flight crew. >>> president trump with the king of jordan at his side, saying the u.s. is going to take gaza. having said the palestinians would leave, he has suggested jordan and egypt would take in palestinians. how king abdullah responded. >>> the two young american women who survived that shark attack. they had just jumped into the water in the bahamas. what they describe tonight happening moments later. >>> we also have that major recall on canned tuna tonight. the rising cost of chocolate. >>> and america strong here, the 11-year-old who fell through the ice. he was saved. and he was choked up as he thanks the officer. >>> good evening. we begin tonight with these two breaking stories, just a short time ago,

again, no immediate comment from the white house. we've checked and they have not gotten back to us, brianna. >> all right. we'll wait to see what they do say. jeff zeleny live for us at the white house. thank you. boris. >> federal employees at the epa's environmental justice and civil rights office have been told they could be put on leave in the coming days. they were told that an all staff meeting, the change would be part of president trump's order ending all dei initiatives. cnn's rene marsh is going to break this down for us. rene. the trump administration has already closed the epa's dei office. so what is the environmental justice office do and how many workers could be impacted? >> right. so this is an office. it's the environmental justice as well as the external civil rights office. and these are individuals who are making sure that grant's policies are keeping in mind that there are certain communities that could be facing disproportionate impacts from things like climate change and pollution and making sure that federal

alayna treene at the white house, thank you very much, kate. >> and joining us right now to talk more about this is democratic congressman adam smith of washington. he is the top democrat on the house armed services committee. it's good to see you again, congressman. i want to get your take on elon musk and what some of what elon musk said in that impromptu press conference and what he said, he found one of the things that he said is at usaid, he says that he found some officials had been taking kickbacks. quite a few people, he said, had managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth. while they are in that position. also, as you heard there, claiming that they are maximally transparent. what do you think of that? have you guys received any documentation or any? i don't know, any word of any of this fraud. he's accusing them of finding. >> look. >> it's unbelievably dishonest. >> and also, i guess, fiendishly clever. you know, just say you're transparent. >> and assume. people will believe it. >> there's no. >> evidence of transparency. and you've outlined a lot. >> of it

we expect them showing up at any moment at the white house. hopefully, we'll be able to show the american people that. and then the deadline, the line in the sand that president trump drew for hamas noon on saturday. your thoughts on both? >> glad they're coming home. look, this is the focus of president president trump. he this is important to him. and consequently it gets done. in his first term, he bought 55 hostages home. and now we're barely three weeks into his presidency. he's bringing home number six or number seven. and to have his family home. i read an article seventh. i read on foxnews.com where president trump met with his family and said, if i get back in there, if i get elected again, i'm going to bring them home. and he did it. and donald trump is amazing that way. he's committed to it. he makes it happen. and consequently, this american is coming home to american soil. i love it. >> you know, i will tell you, if you read the tea leaves, brian, the seven hostages that trump got released, americans back home. that does not inclu

shelby talcott is a white house correspondent for semafor, and dasha burns is politico's white house chief. shelby, you were in the room today, too. what were your takeaways? just after seeing trump talking about this on the campaign trail to animate his base, and then inside the room tonight? >> yeah. >> i think it shows that a lot of what donald trump said on the campaign trail are actual campaign promises that he plans to implement, and i think that's not the case always when we see people going out and lobbying for people's votes for two years. but in this case it is. and i also think it's notable because the social issues are central to this presidency so far. and they were, in a way, central to donald trump's win. this is not the only social issue executive order that he has signed already two weeks into his presidency. >> but there is a question of how the executive orders are clashing up against one another, because basically what this does is authorizes the department of education to to withhold federal funding from schools that don't comply with this executive order. and we

we have that shot of the white house now. goes into play and we see the president come out and the prime minister of japan pull into focus we'll go there live. let's talk about this for as long as we can. ben ferguson is with us. so what is your response to this? the new a.g. pam bondi is ready to take these on. >> your policies say you are. colorado governor says we're in compliance and work with you. i hope he means it. trust by verify. what pam bondi and tom homan are doing we're looking at what is in the statute. if you are a city within colorado not saying what the governor is saying, for example, we'll challenge you in court and may the best man win. we believe the law is on our side and we'll win. you look at the governor in illinois. i don't know if he is setting himself up to run for president one way sitting there going everything i can do to stand against trump is what i can do. he is putting his citizens at risk. illegal crime is out of control all over the state and chicago. it may be a political move. look at th

jeff zeleny at the white house, thank you so much. w to an update from our chief congressional correspondent, manu raju on capitol hill. manu, i wonder what you're hearing from house and senate republicans who took part in that meeting? >> yeah, the house. republicans are indicating. >> they plan to press ahead with their. >> own strategy, even if. >> it is running into a collision. >> course with. senate republicans who. >> have their own plan. >> part of. >> the. >> speaker's plan. >> would include basically. every aspect. >> of the trump agenda, including major. >> tax overhaul. the senate republicans say that tax piece simply. >> is not ready. they want to punt on. >> that issue. >> and they're moving on a. >> the first step on this process next week taking a different approach. but there's another problem. the house republicans still still don't have an agreement among themselves about what this initial proposal would actually look like. and in talking to the members coming out of the meeting, they sounded more optimistic. but the

today the white house responding after the deadline for government employees to accept the trump administrationout offer is pushed back until next week. >> we encourage federal workers in the city to accept the very generous offer. if they do want to show up to the office in if they were to rip the making people laugh there welcome to take this buyout. cheryl: sean duffy responded to hillary clinton after he enlisted the help to update air traffic control systems. all of this is a federal judge is limiting the cost cutting agencies access to the treasury department payment systems meta ceo mark zuckerberg at the white house thursday offering to help the trump administration defended advanced american tech leadership abroad. president trump telling gop congressional leaders to eliminate tax breaks for billionaire owners of sports teams in order to pass the tax cuts, they met at the white house for over four hours attempting to figure how to pass trump's massive policy bill the big beautiful bill as lawmakers struggle to find common ground on spending cuts, let's take a look at futures on your fr

the four white house chiefs of staff and donald trump's first white house didn't allow the biggest data breach in the world at the united states treasury and at the centers for medicare and medicaid and social security. donald trump's new white house chief of staff, siouxsie wiles, was profiled as the adult in the room in trump world. the washington press corps cannot let go of the idea that there will be an adult in the room with donald trump, who makes sure that the bad stuff doesn't happen. it has never been true, but the washington press corps clings to that idea. and so far, the new white house chief of staff is the weakest white house chief of staff in the history of donald trump, white house chiefs of staff. she is having the worst start of any trump white house chief of staff in the pre-trump era of american government. a treasury secretary would be impeached and removed from office for giving the richest person in the world the keys to the treasury. but the republicans in the house of representatives controlling the impeachment process. and so everyone in the trump administrati

you can soon stop by the white house.elania trump says she is, quote: excited to reopen white house tours to the public after they were put on pause as her husband's transitions into the oval office. the first lady says quote: this opportunity is unique among nations around the globe a tradition we are honored to continue for the hundreds of thousands of visitors who come each year, tours resume on february 25th and must be submitted through a member of congress. those your headlines, guys. >> brian: will she give the tour? >> steve: no. >> carley: they hire people for that steve stheef they have tour guides. >> ainsley: i wonder if they will pop in. donald trump used to do that at weddings. >> carley: imagine being the bride and seeing the president? >> steve: if you ask your member for tour of the white house also ask them for a tour of the capitol because it's really cool. >> ainslcool. >> carley: i thought you were going to say the c cafeteria. >> steve: good and expensive. >> ainsley: did you see the white house and

what do we think the white house would have been saying? >> david? >> of course we wouldn't have done that, right? >> right. we would never have done that. um, but can i just ask sort of on a basic level, can we assume that this is being read by foreign adversaries, that this has been hacked? >> i don't know for sure, but we do know in this particular case. but what do we know? we know that during the obama administration that the russians were in the unclassified white house, state department and pentagon systems, we know that the chinese, through a group called soul typhoon, that you and i have talked about before, got deeply into the telephone networks of nine major telecom providers and got at the information about how the justice department, um, basically taps into the phones of suspected spies, uh, drug dealers and so forth. when they have warrants. so their skills here are pretty good, and particularly for getting into unclassified systems. >> and very briefly, david, the lengths to which the cia would normally go not to reveal the actual firs

the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fallng me now is democratic senator claire mccaskill. senator roger wicker, senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinstein joins me now. democratic leader nancy pelosi, congressman chris van hollen, senator dick durbin, i'm joined now by senator john mccain, chair of the armed services committee. >> let me. >> emphasize, andrea. he's not putin is. >> not strong. >> he we have an overwhelming advantage of him. but what he's doing is ryan crocker said he's playing his cards skillfully. >> wow. >> the training is tough. what do you do if you're on the road and get surrounded by bad guys, ram the car in front of you at full speed. >> go go go go go. >> go go go. >> people are still ashamed to say they're hiv positive. the only way we're going to sort this out is by being. >> more loving. >> toward each other. >> what do you see in facebook? what is it about facebook that you think to those who say, well, what is the business model here? >> you know, it's a technology that brings people t