. >>> good morning, i'm michael george. the trump tariff trade war coincides with a canadian transfer of power. prime minister justin trudeau is out. former central banker mark carney is in. carney, a political outsider, steered canada through the 2008 financial crisis and the uk through brexit. now he'll lead canada amidst another crisis, the trade war and annexation threat. trump continues to defend his aggressive tariff policies and said the policies could plunge the country into recession. derick waller joins us. a lot of people voted for president trump to bring prices down fast. now he's saying americans may have to wait for policies to pay off. >> that's right. you may remember on the campaign trail that trump vowed to bring down grocery prices on day one. well, now at day 49, prices are even higher. with the tariff threats new concerns the economy could be headed toward a recession. >> we're going to have jobs, open factories, it's going to be great. >> reporter: president trump downplaying concerns about the possib

i'm michael george. we start with president donald trump's record-long address to a joint session of congress. over 100 minutes, he outlined his vision for his second term touching on immigration, national security, and the economy, and acknowledging his new tariffs could hurt americans. but he used his speech to attack his opponents, blame his predecessor, and air some old grievances. the speech was praised by his fellow republicans and blasted by democrats, one of whom was removed from the chamber. cbs' natalie brand joins us from washington. natalie, good morning. so what's been the reaction to this speech so far? >> reporter: good morning to you, michael. you could see the party divisions on full display in the chamber last night with some democrats even walking out. republicans, meanwhile, said that they liked what they heard as president trump detailed what he described as swift and unrelenting action during the first six weeks of his second term and said his administration is just getting started.

i'm michael george. while u.s. automakers can breathe a sigh of relief, at least temporarily, the white house says tariffs on other goods are still on. as president trump pushes for a russia-ukraine peace deal, cbs news has learned the u.s. has halted vital intelligence sharing with ukraine. cbs' jarred hill joins us with more. a lot to talk about. first off, good morning. let's start with the tariffs. day two of the trade war, and it seems like the president is already willing to hold off on at least some of these tariffs. >> eporter: that's right. one of the top automakers, ford, told the "associated press" they would last ten days before production would shut down because of the tariffs. the vice president said some other industries are looking for exemptions. the question, though, will this 30-day pause be enough. president donald trump is pumping the brakes on his auto tariffs giving a one-month pause for the big three u.s. carmakers. >> they may be asked and the president is happy to do it. >> reporter: trump

i'm michael george. tonight president donald trump is set to give his first speech before a joint session of congress since his return to the white house. the president says he'll, quote, tell it like it is. the president's address comes as he kicks off a trade war with america's three biggest trading partners. as of midnight it's now more expensive for mexico, canada, and china to bring products into america, which likely will have a big impact on prices here. canada and china added their own tariffs in retaliation. mexico has yet to detail its plans. trump is also expected to address ukraine tonight after pausing u.s. military aid into the country and attacking ukrainian president zelenskyy again following friday's white house meltdown. cbs' natalie brand jones us now from capitol hill. natalie, good morning. so what else can we expect from this speech tonight? >> reporter: good morning to you, michael. well, the white house says the theme of tonight's speech will be the renewal of the american dream.

i'm michael george. president trump's flip-flops over his trade war are baffling businesses, threatening investment in economic growth. the president issued yet another pause on sweeping tariffs on canada and mexico. federal job cuts are moving ahead, but with a new directive. jarred hill is here to break things down. good morning. these tariffs, they were only in place for two days before the president backed down. what's going on here? >> president trump is saying this happened after a phone call with the president of mexico. they say they discussed some issues related to drugs there. he's insisting, though, that this did not have anything to do with the turmoil in the stock market linked to his trade war. the reprieve covers about 38% of 23d ---ed goods from canada and nearly 50 of the from mexico for now. president donald trump is taking a step back on tariffs. >> it's just a modification. short term. >> reporter: thursday announcing a temporary pause on import taxes for goods listed in the u.s.-mexi

. ♪ defying gravity ♪ >>> good morning, i'm michael george.start with the fallout from the combative white house meeting between president trump and ukrainian president volodymer zelenskyy. european leaders met in london this weekend rallying around zelenskyy and assembling a coalition of the willing to develop a plan for ending ukraine's war with russia which they hope could win the backing of president trump. cbs' derick waller joins us now. good morning. so right now how is europe reacting to that oval office meeting? >> reporter: many of them reacted by saying they will continue to stand with ukraine. that was a message we got sunday during a round table discussion of world leaders in london that notably did not include anyone from the united states. more fallout after friday's oval office clash between president donald trump and ukrainian president volodymer zelenskyy. >> you don't have the cards right now. with us, you start having cards. >> no playing cards. >> reporter: the blowup left a deal to give the u.s. partial access to ukraine'

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george. good morning all. michael got a little bit ahead of himself yesterday wanting to fill out his march madness bracket. we got we got to get to the conference tournament first. and the women's started this week michael. don't worry. lots of great games yesterday, including an upset from the iowa hawkeyes. they dominated 24th ranked michigan state in the second round of the big ten tournament. caitlin clark was there. she was loving it. they got it done in front of royalty. she was pumped up for her former teammates. i was not nearly as dominant this year as they have been with clark on the team, but come tournament time, they know how to get it done and so does winthrop university. we love a buzzer beater in march around here. and here are the screaming eagles knocking off charleston southern at the buzzer and the big south conference. lots more women's conference tournament games today and this weekend. juju watkins number one usc paige bueckers and uconn. they're in action tomorrow. lots of games on espn, inclu

michael. >> all right, martha, thank you so much. george. >> michael, thanks. bringing up the latest now on pope francis. early this morning, vatican officials announced that the 88 year old had been stabilized after suffering two respiratory crises. senior national correspondent terry moran is at the vatican. good morning terry. >> good morning george. the vatican says today that the pope slept well through the night and is resting. today, this quiet morning comes after the pope was struck yesterday by those two episodes of acute respiratory failure. that is the term that the vatican has not used, francis. oxygen levels plunged at that time due to a significant accumulation of mucus in his lungs. so doctors performed two bronchoscopies, inserting a tube down the pope's throat in order to clear out that mucus from his lungs. the vatican says the pope remained conscious throughout and that he responded to that treatment. he has been able to resume some light respiratory physiotherapy to strengthen his lungs, and he is not on any kind of mechanical ventilation at

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george. >> mary bruce. thanks, michael. >> all right. thank you, george. president trump is also taking aim at the department of education. he's preparing to sign an executive order directing secretary of education linda mcmahon to dismantle the department. senior political correspondent rachel scott has the details for us. good morning. rachel. >> michael, good morning to you. and the secretary of education, linda mcmahon, has only been on the job for three days. but already this morning, president trump is preparing to sign this executive order directing her to dismantle the department of education. now, even mcmahon acknowledges that this would require an act of congress. the order does instruct her, though, to do as much as she can by law, stating the department of education's main functions can and should be returned to the states. most funding for public schools already is at the state and local level, but the department does oversee billions of dollars in funding to help low income students and students with disabilities, and enforces civil rights l

joining us now are washington post opinion columnist david ignatius and michael allen, former special assistant to president george. david, i want to start with you. you write president donald trump's sledgehammer approach to diplomacy has brought ukraine close to the bargaining table. now it's time for trump to begin taking some swings at russia, or lose any credibility as a peacemaker. now, just earlier this morning, president trump said he's weighing more sanctions and tariffs unless russia comes to the negotiating table to end the war, saying, quote, to russia and ukraine, get to the table now before it's too late. so, you know, if i were sitting in the white house right now, i would make the argument to you that you may not like it, but president trump's tactic here might be successful. what's your take? >> so i do think these. >> negotiations are moving. >> into a. >> better phase. >> he spent weeks. >> bashing ukraine. he used that metaphor of sledge hammer. >> pretty tough tactics. >> but he got what he wanted. he got ukrainian concessions and a commitment to come to the bargaining table under terms that t

george w. bush administration. instead, the three executives, purdue's top lawyer howard udell, medical director paul goldenheim, and president michaelors but denied having any knowledge of purdue's crimes. >> did the sackler family scapegoat those executives? >> quite the contrary. we were very loyal to them. >> you were so loyal that you paid them millions of dollars in bonuses after they pled guilty to criminal charges? >> we did make termination payments to each of them. i don't remember the amounts. >> would it surprise you to know that the amounts were $5 million to howard udell and $3 million to michael friedman? >> no, it would not surprise me. >> decisions are being made not based on the facts. and what's in the best interest of the american people. these are decisions being made by politics and personal gain. >> you spent more than 30 years as a federal prosecutor. where does all of this leave your faith in the justice department? >> i am greatly disappointed in the justice department because everything that the department has done since 2007 to today has been to protect the billionaires, the sackler family. >> the sacklers

george w bush and liz cheney. so they're, they're, they're just flailing right now and the power mafia in washington that's out of power. if we listen to the words of michael mcfall, who was one of their key voices on russia, he is warned that if the united states in europe do not continue to sustain this war against russia through ukraine, then taiwan might actually decide to negotiate with china instead of continuing to arm up and that this could do grave damage to us empire in the long run. so that's why they want to keep using slavic meat to throw in to the slaughter house in order to extend russia because they're afraid about the loss of their imperium. in the long run. all i see and then bins the blame of what happened in the white house on some ends vans and the lo street at that through a pole that's vague, conducted on the website of one of the host. now the one days how representative is such a polar on the view of what americans or how the americans view of what's going on as well. cnn is part of the power mafia that is out of power and now which has been vanquished. and in many ways discredited by the re election of donald trump, cnn doesn't ma

michael lara. they had one too. and he won't wear it now because it can. it's not for everyone. >> it makes you. >> nervous, right? all right. you know, georgeurt to face charges. she killed her boston police officer boyfriend. eva pilgrim here with the first look. good morning eva. >> good morning george. karen reed maintained she did not kill her police officer boyfriend. reed has said she likes talking, and she has done just that. throughout this case. she and her legal team even inviting cameras in to film behind the scenes of her first trial for a docu series that's coming out this month. >> my name is karen reed. i'm 44 years old. >> it's the trial that captivated millions and divided a community. >> now i'm being charged with murdering a boston police officer. i could face life for second degree life in prison. i still can't believe what's happening to me. >> karen reed is accused of murdering her boston police officer boyfriend, john o'keefe. prosecutors say she hit him with her suv and left him for dead in someone's yard. as a snowstorm rolled in. >> so did you drive your car into john? >> i did not drive my car into john. didn't re

michael, i'm glad you played that clip of mr. zelensky thanking america over and over. and when you when j.d. vance asked, have you said thank you, i thought, did george marshall ever ask france to say thank you? did he ever ask germany to say thank you? did he ask japan to say thank you? that's not what americans do. we don't ask people to say thank you for the generosity. we benefit from it also. and it's just this kind of gigantic cleavage with that old word cold. that was once the part of america where we had an american president siding with an autocratic dictator who invaded another country, invaded the largest country in europe, the largest cross-border invasion since world war two, something that trump won't even admit to. so it was it was a very, very sad day for american diplomacy, for american history. and it's just painful to watch. >> julia, i want to, you. >> know, play a little. >> bit of president. >> zelensky on fox news, responding to. what we just. >> saw, what happened in the oval office. take a listen. >> do you think the public spat in the oval office in front of. >> the. >> media served ukrainians well today? >> i think this kin

george h.w. bush looking at his watch during the debate. 92. really? well, yeah. 92 that didn't work. well. michaelnsaw. this is the chainsaw of bureaucracy. at a time when there are faa cuts, at a time when they're cutting the very people that are trying to stop the bird flu from being a pandemic. at the same time, they are cutting people that were ensuring the safety of our nuclear arsenal. we could go on and on, but you got to say, i got a sense yesterday, you tell me when donald trump started talking about, hey, we're going to let the cabinet agencies take care of this, who's fired, who's not fired. and we want to keep the good people. it seems to me you never know exactly what's going to happen, but it looks like phase one, the shock and awe phase. and we don't care who's fired. we don't care how much it damages american security. we just want the headlines. looks like we may be moving to phase two of that. what do you think? >> it certainly has that air. props to my colleague kyle cheney. >> for their. >> scoop yesterday. >> about that, that. >> hastily convened, as we say in the news busines

george h.w. bush looking at his watch during the debate. 92 really? well, yeah. 92. that didn't work well. michaeln they're cutting the very people that are trying to stop the bird flu from being a pandemic. at the same time, they are cutting people that were ensuring the safety of our nuclear arsenal. we could go on and on, but you got to say, i got a sense yesterday, you tell me when donald trump started talking about, hey, we're going to let the cabinet agencies take care of this, who's fired, who's not fired. and we want to keep the good people. it seems to me you never know exactly what's going to happen, but it looks like phase one, the shock and awe phase. and we don't care who's fired. we don't care how much it damages american security. we just want the headlines. looks like we may be moving to phase two of that. what do you think? it certainly. >> has that air. >> props to. >> my colleague. >> kyle cheney for. >> their. >> scoop yesterday about. >> that, that. >> hastily convened, as we say in the. news business cabinet meeting where trump laid down the law. if we're talking about metaph