amy gleason has this background in health care. she actually was on the task force that that was run by doctor birx during covid for coronavirus, when the cdc wasn't really putting everything together. and now she is running this. but but to give you a sense of, you know, the question of the extent of her role in what that looks like, you know, when she was reached for for comment today, the new york times noted that that she was on a pre-scheduled vacation with her family. and so it has raised questions about the timing here, because reporters have been asking for the better part of two weeks now, this question and just today in the briefing room, the white house was not ready and not able or willing to reveal that information. and so i think it gets to the extent of whether or not this is just simply someone whose name is on paper that is part of this and what it's actually going to look like in court when it comes to elon musk being the person leading the initiative here. because when you talk to white house officials, they say,

and we were told yesterday that amy gleason, a career. federal government official, is the person who is the acting administrator of us doge services, elon musk, though we were told repeatedly yesterday, is leading the doge effort. i want you to hear a little bit more of what the white house press secretary. >> said about. >> this this morning. >> amy gleason has been the doge administrator for quite some time, i believe several weeks, maybe a month. i'm not actually sure of the specific timeline. she's a career official. she's doing. >> just told. >> us yesterday. >> that they found out about her being the administration administrator yesterday. why is that? you have to ask them. they're clearly unaware i don't. you did you announce her position to the rest of the doge staff? we everybody knew. and we said who she was to all of you. because you are hounds in the media who are so obsessed with this for some reason. >> well, it's confusing though, anna. or additionally confusing is that there have been lawyers fighting. trump administratio

the question is, who is amy gleason? meanwhile, it's still not clear this. >> morning if there are any consequences. >> for government employees. >> who didn't respond to musk's. >> ultimatum email from over the weekend. >> the question. >> is, when will the. >> administration clear. >> up this confusing mess? it's way too early for this. good morning. >> and welcome. >> to. >> way too early. >> the show that does not pick up work. >> calls while on vacation in mexico. we'll explain that in. >> just. a moment. >> i'm ali. >> vitali on this wednesday, february. >> 26th, and we'll start. >> with the news. >> house republicans. >> managed to pass. >> their budget framework. >> on a. final hail mary. >> play at the last. >> minute last night. >> throughout the day. >> house speaker mike johnson. >> held multiple meetings with various gop holdouts. deficit. >> hawks who had concerns about. >> spending. and moderates. >> concerned about medicaid cuts. >> when the bill finally. >> did. >> make its way to. >> the house floor, le

so we're finding out that the acting administrator is amy gleason. her background is in health care. i mean, what do you know about the role gleason has been playing? >> well. >> from everything. >> we. >> can tell, you know, at. >> this juncture. >> as you alluded. >> to earlier, you know. >> this appears to be. >> administrator in title. >> only, right? i think we all really know who's in charge here. what we. >> know about. >> gleason is that this is not her first time working in government. she was working at the u.s. digital service, which doge has essentially subsumed during the first trump administration. and, you know, according to wired's reporting, she was already seen as some inside that agency, some legacy employees in the last few weeks as a potential administrator. right. she was facilitating contact between legacy workers, new doge operatives and other agencies. so she was certainly in the mix as a candidate for this mysterious, you know, role of of acting administrator. >> and it's unclear what you know, what this even means, jamal? i

now, amy gleason appears to be a person who was affiliated with the us digital service. that was an entity that the white house took, and existing white house entity that this white house took and turned into the doge organization. so this amy gleason official is somebody who was preexisting there under the previous administration and now seems to be continuing on. but caroline leavitt, in the briefing today said that elon musk is leading the doge effort. so unclear what the exact org chart is. there maybe a little bit more clarity today. one other thing to flag for you, scott, is that we're now getting multiple media reports that there has been a minerals deal of some kind between ukraine and the united states. we don't know the exact terms of that deal. no confirmation from the white house yet. so we'll watch that space for more information. >> all right. thanks so much for that update. that's eamon javers in d.c. up next, tesla shares under pressure again today. we're going to tell you what's weighing on that name inside the market zone next. when i started walton gog

let me get amy gleason is her name? the acting administrator.f it's not elon musk, who is going to be the person who ultimately is the administrator of doge, then are they setting it up for. well, then any mistake falls on her lap. >> oh, i mean, look, again, we have a president of the united states. i mean, he's the one who's going to have to own all of these decisions that are made. but i would just point to a harvard poll that came out yesterday where 72% of this country are completely in line with the idea of what doge this type of agency is going to do. i mean, so i heard what the congressman said. the people are very angry about it. yeah, i think it's a bunch of left wing activists who are going to town halls that are angry about it. i'm not sure the rest of the country is that angry about it. donald trump's approval rating hovers around 50%. it's the highest ever been he's. >> ever had. so, i mean, there are obviously republicans who share a concern. it's not as if that anyone who is complaining is somehow a liberal infiltrator to a repub

affect all of americans. >> more on who amy gleason is in a moment. but it was just a few hours ago that we heard from the white house press secretary saying that they were not going to reveal the person's name, at least not from the briefing room. >> can you tell us. >> who the administrator of. >> doge is? again, i've been asked and answered this question. elon musk is overseeing doge. there are career. there are no. elon musk is a special government employee, which i've also been asked and have answered that question as well. there are career officials at doge. there are political appointees at doge. i'm not going to reveal the name of that individual from this podium. >> now, the fact that the white house ultimately did reveal who it is may have come as a surprise to gleason herself. the new york times reports tonight that she was scheduled to be on vacation in mexico when she gets back. there are certainly a lot going on. that includes just today, 21 staffers from her own department resigning in protest of what doge was doing. several judges acro

amy gleason she's worked in the previous trump administration for a little bit. she worked in the beginning of the biden administration. and she is not somebody who people are going to dwell on. she is also described as acting. and we know from trump's previous term that he likes calling people acting, even if it's not a job that senate confirmed and doesn't require an acting title. so i make of it that, you know, this is this is another moment when they have been forced to say something because there were such a crush of stories around it. these are things that could be dealt with on the front end more easily and just are not. >> yeah, i think that's a good point in terms of the fact that they are calling her as acting. this is not a senate confirmed position, but it does matter because it could determine whether this person has to file a financial disclosure form that's public, whether or not they are named in lawsuits here. i mean, essentially, this means that elon musk, if on paper he is not technically leading doge, will not be that person. presumably. >> no

. >> reporter: though elon musk has been the face, the white house says amy gleason, a staffer from the first trump term, is the acting administrator of doge. president trump stressed he's in charge as congressional republicans push for stop in tone. he announced a gold car visa is in the works for wealthy immigrants. the price tag, $5 million. >> it's going to be a route to citizenship. the people will be vetted. >> reporter: the money collected he says will help pay down the federal deficit. >> we're also learning that ukraine and the u.s. have reached a deal about ukraine's resources. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right. this will give the u.s. access to ukrainian mineral reserves, also oil and gas. all of this part of an effort by the trump white house to recoup the cost of the war. now the idea was actually initially floated in some ways by zelenskyy. ukrainian leaders have hoped that this would serve as a foundation for long-term security guarantees against any future russian aggression. it's not officially in this deal, though an officials that knows trump and zelensk

it appears based on multiple reports that amy gleason may be on vacation right now.a: white house correspondent laura veron lopez, -- barron -lopez, thank you. geoff: some other news came out about the media itself. the white house says it's changing the traditional process of how reporters cover the president. white house press secretary karoline leavitt announced today that the trump administration will now choose which media outlets will be part of a select pool of reporters that cover smaller events and travel with the president and white house officials. >> a select group of d.c.-based journalists should no longer have a monopoly over the privilege of press access at the white house. all journalists, outlets, and voices deserve a seat at this highly-coveted table. geoff: previously, the pool was organized by the white house correspondents association, an independent organization of vetted journalists who cover the president. the move is part of broader effort to limit traditional press access after the white house blocked access for associated press reporters. b

. >> amy gleason worked with the white house during trump's first term. several unions protested job and funding cuts in dc today. at least one contract was restoredded though. $250,000 to research cancers related to 7-eleven. >> and a new are hosting job fairs and sit-ins. the jr.ty of the leader. you're trying to find efficiencies and if that reduces it all for those involved. >> it gives you an idea of who is directly impacted from all the cuts. it's one thing to just say you're making these cuts without realizing the impact. >>> san jose launched a new program to help connect unhoused people with friends or family, even it if they are very far away. >>> the four outreach workers can offer people family reconnection services immediately. that'll save a bed. >> why some advocates say it is nothing to warm up. >>> and we will add a lot of 70s tomorrow. we'll talk about how long that will last in your first alert forecast. >>> and these people were feeling so lucky, they stole a wallet and bought some scratchoffs. how that plan helped a couple of people w

. >> amy gleason worked with the white house during trump's first term.eral unions protested job and funding cuts in dc today. at least one contract was restoredded though. $250,000 to research cancers related to 7-eleven. >> and a new are hosting job fairs and sit-ins. the jr.ty of the leader. you're trying to find efficiencies and if that reduces it all for those involved. >> it gives you an idea of who is directly impacted from all the cuts. it's one thing to just say you're making these cuts without realizing the impact. >>> san jose launched a new program to help connect unhoused people with friends or family, even it if they are very far away. >>> the four outreach workers can offer people family reconnection services immediately. that'll save a bed. >> why some advocates say it is nothing to warm up. >>> and we will add a lot of 70s tomorrow. we'll talk about how long that will last in your first alert forecast. >>> and these people were feeling so lucky, they stole a wallet and bought some scratchoffs. how that plan helped a couple of people win a

but an official named amy gleason has the title of acting doge administrator. the agency that was turned into doge, 21 members just resigned, and they posted online that they refuse to use their technical expertise to compromise core government services, jeopardize sensitive data or dismantle critical public services. musk responded by calling them political holdovers who refuse to return to the office, saying they would have been fired had they not resigned. frances? >> alice, thank you. >>> and many of the fired federal workers staged a sit-in on capitol hill where they urged senators to reverse the job cuts. >> i think it's really cruel to fire people for poor performance when they've only had great feedback. >> i have cried every day. i think that that's normal. we're just witnessing like entire industries going down, and what are the senators going to do about it? >> the yoffs are felt far beyond the nation's capital. >>> news outlets >>> news outlets ay hostile words were exchange between president trump and zelenskyy last week. >> reporter: the financial

amy gleason is her name. she worked in the first trump administration, and she is the administrator for this. she's a longtime health care consultant. but this is all coming as 21 officials are from the the department of government officials who resigned today saying they simply would not do the work they were being asked to do. so much controversy over this. as we enter the fifth week of this administration, wolf. >> lots of controversy, indeed. and, jeff, president trump, just moments ago unveiled this concept he has now of what he's calling a gold card for extremely wealthy foreigners to come to the united states. tell us about this. >> well, the president was signing an executive order on an unrelated matter and taking questions for about 40 or 45 minutes or so as he does many afternoons and was talking about a way to raise revenue. of course, that is certainly at issue now because of the the house and senate trying to negotiate a plan to pay for his tax cuts, basically. but the president, for the first t

all right, so who is amy gleason? >> well, i mean, i will just say that first that this is something i have struggled with in my own reporting, because when you talk to the white house and you try to report on doge, the attitude is that doge is everything and nothing, right? doge is responsible for they would claim all of these amazing cost saving maneuvers, many of which they. >> have come up with. >> through faulty accounting or by accounting contracts that president biden cut or that expired on his watch or were set to expire anyhow. so doge is sort of. >> all powerful. >> omnipresent, omnipotent. and then when you go to them and you say, we heard doge did this, or this person at doge did that, the response comes back, well, no, nobody works for doge. there, there. >> there is no. doge there. >> these there. >> is representatives of doge. >> elon is a. representative of. doge. katie miller. >> is married to stephen miller, is a representative of doge. which is all to say, i cannot give you a very clear answer becau

eficiencia gubernamental o 12 presentaron su renuncia en la casa blanca, confirmÓ el nombramiento de amy gleason ha prometido que no se tocarÁn medicare, medicaid ni el seguro social. un grupo de legisladores republicanos que busca cumplir con la reducciÓn de impuestos que quiere el mandatario, cree que no queda mÁs alternativa que recortar fondos federales de la expansiÓn del programa de salud. esto obligarÍa a los estados a poner mÁs dinero para que no se afecte la cobertura de mÁs de 72 millones de personas republicanos mÁs moderados se resisten este recorte. y hay que aclarar esto estÁ apenas en discusiÓn en el congreso. la casa blanca decidirÁ de ahora en adelante quiÉn serÁ parte del grupo de periodistas que puede hacer preguntas al presidente donald trump. el plan rompe con una tradiciÓn de dÉcadas en la que la asociaciÓn de corresponsales de la casa blanca determinaba quÉ reporteros participaban en la cobertura diaria de los eventos del presidente. hoy se cumplen siete meses de la detenciÓn de el mayo zambada en estados unidos y en este lapso mÉxico ha pedido cuatro veces su extradiciÓn,

. >> reporter: cbs news was told late today that the acting and ministry are is amy gleason, a veteranfirst trump administration. when reached earlier by phone, gleason said she was in mexico and declined further comment. >> john: and nancy joins us now from the white house. nancy, i want to ask you about these 21 employees who have left or resigned from d.o.g.e. who are they and why did they say they are leaving? >> reporter: so, john, these are tech experts who were already working to modernize federal computer systems before their operation was kind of absorbed by d.o.g.e., and they say that what they saw d.o.g.e. doing was making government less efficient, not more. they wrote, "we will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize american sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services." they issued this resignation letter anonymously, but they say they all left senior roles in the tech industry in order to go work for federal government. >> maurice: so nancy, what about these other federal and plays wondering tonight, do i respond? d

employee with the government at this point not actually running doge, there's an administrator named amy gleasonhad worked in the past with digital service administration 2018-2021 where part of her job included response to the covid pandemic. she is an actual head of doghe, elon musk gets all the attention and provides the direction. >> many of these cabinet secretaries get advice and direction of doge, you saw kelly leffler demanding staff returned to the office. with the american taxpayer. >> reporter: the epa administrator said he found to billion dollars the administration sent to a climate organization where former democratic governor candidate stacy abrams, there's an investigation thanks to doge, donald trump says he likes his cabinet this time around more than his first term. >> i had some great people, this is a deeper, i think it is better because it is deeper. i had some people i didn't like in my cabinet, but i didn't know washington. i was a new york person. i knew new york intimately. i had great people. >> reporter: going back to dogeither e-mail asking what five things employees

it is amy gleason. cbs news got her on the phone. she didn't have a comment but she was in mexico. >> dana: all right, thanks for that update. >> bill: james freeman assistant editor. noah rothman, senior editor. you are real. want to point something out. there is so much action in congress now that we need to pay attention to how slim the margins are. democratic congresswoman from california gave birth a month ago and she brought her infant to the floor of the house last night to vote. republican from california was in the hospital with an infection and he came with a walker in order to vote last night. that's how slim the margins are. here we go. call for number one. today the federal government exceeded $1 hundred million in annual rent savings for underutilized leases totaling 3 million square feet, 7250 current lesss plenty of available office space for the current workforce. you did the math. how does that add up to you, noah? >> this is where doge and gao, which does this accounting and audits overlap. vacant properties the ga

. >> the white house later confirming amy gleason is the acting administrator of doge. in the oval office clarity coming together on president trump's deal to get access to rare earth minerals. >> i her hear he is coming on friday. okay if he would like. to say look we want to be secured. we want to get that money back. >> the president also pushing back an russia denied trump's claim yesterday that the kremlin would accept european peace keeping troops. >> a form of peace keeping that's acceptable to everybody. >> the president was asked in the oval office what ukraine gets out of this deal. and in his answer, he said it includes military equipment. now, we have asked the white house to clarify because they have insisted that this deal does not include any commitment for military support. and he could just be talking about past aid. we'll let you know what we get the answer, bret. >> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. jacqui, thanks. ♪ u.s. and ukraine agreed on framework for minerals. we are waiting for framework of that agreement. what happened at the unit

but then the white house came out and said that amy gleason is the acting administrator and apparentlyromotion was a big surprise to the people who were there because nobody had actually realized she was running the show. >> ainsley: apparently, elon musk has received more than a million responses from people giving the five bullet points. did you talk to marco rubio about the cabinet meeting tonight? what are they expecting? >> brian: no. we didn't really talk about the cabinet meeting. we did talk about yesterday the parliament in ukraine passed a resolution saying that he has our support, zelenskyy, to be president throughout the war, which says officially eliminates him as a dictator. >> ainsley: there was that u.n. resolution condemning russia we are not supporting that we don't want to antagonize. we are trying to come to the table like he said in that soundbite and we need to compromise and not going to antagonize putin today. >> steve: does sound like the good news for ukraine did drop the demand for $500 billion worth of future mineral and gas and oil rights. that has gone by

her name is amy gleason, who reportedly works from nashville, who was reportedly on who was reportedly, quote, scheduled to be on vacation in mexico today and who, according to the new york times quote, told associates that she was not aware ahead of time that the white house planned to make public her role today before the white house announced her so random tennessee resident on vacation in mexico. phone starts blowing up. they're saying, i have what job? they have elon musk's job. that's what they want me to say is my job. they want me to say i'm running tesla. no. oh, running doge, that's what they want me to say, is my job in washington. did i mention that i live in tennessee and i'm currently in mexico? okay, what do you want me to say? the word you're looking for is shambolic. there is a lot to get to tonight. republicans control the house, which means they have a majority in the house, and a majority is all they needed to pass their budget resolution. there were concerns all day that they wouldn't be able to get there, but they squeaked it by two votes in the end. whether or no

it's amy gleason, a former us digital service official.hat's what that former service has now become. it is not elon musk, according to the white house. all right. now that that is settled, at least for the time being, doge, as you know, is trying to slash the government's budget. they want to kill off trillions of dollars in order to be able to make this country more successful. jon stewart, our friend over at the daily show on comedy central, you know, he he went through that last night and he offered a slightly different version of what might be more effective. take a look. >> so we're looking to save taxpayers some money. and i know let me think about the studies that are done or oh, how about we just take $3 billion in subsidies we give to oil and gas companies that already turn billions in profits? how long did that take? >> oh, wait. >> how about we just close down the carried interest loophole on hedge funds? that's $1.3 billion a year. oh, how about we stop the $2 trillion we've given to defense contractors to build a fighter jet

department of government efficiency, the white house is now saying the acting administrator is amy gleason. gleason previously worked at the u.s. digital service, the office that was renamed as elon musk doge. we will be following the latest on that. in the meantime, it's been a busy first month for president trump. trump's voters are paying attention to his moves here. but do they like what they're seeing? cnn's john king is all over the map. series takes him to colorado to check in with some of the president's supporters. >> the ranch spans. >> more than 100. >> acres. >> home to 60 horses. >> and one last. >> bison. >> this little guy down here, his name is trouble. >> a bit. >> ornery at times. yes, trouble. >> you know, it's like trump. i really don't like him as a person. i think he's arrogant. kind of a jerk. >> but david. >> hayes is a funny man. >> i tried farming for a while, and i would rather get run over by a bison, you know? >> the northern colorado. >> ranch has been in his family since the 1880s. the white house in washington are far away. >> we got, like, hot dogs. >> yes.

her name is amy gleason. at the um, at the precursor to doge before she was named as a champion of change by the obama administration and reportedly was in mexico on vacation when she received word that she had been tapped for this role. what do we know about her? >> well, we know that it that elon musk is the person who is in charge, but he is not in charge because of the process by which he's been hired. so this is like make decisions first and then figure out how to technically justify it for legal purposes after the fact is, is really, i think, what we're beginning to see going on. but there are two things going on at the same time. and one is that trump is empowered musk to be the front man on this, whether it's with the chainsaw at at a group of party faithful or whether it is without the chainsaw in other more public events. but to set the tone and to set the scene. and the second is that what we heard even before the beginning of this administration was from the president's outside advisers as well, i

this email and, you know, this sort of diversion on on to amy gleason as to who's really head of dogee these are sideshows. the real show is the gutting of the regulatory system in washington, dc, to the benefit quite frequently of elon musk's companies. that is waste, fraud and abuse. >> and peter baker. peter baker i'm just curious. i'm just curious. the is it the guiding of these bureaucracies? is it all show biz? is it i understand they're making they're they're making cuts that are damaging to the faa. they're making cuts that are damaging to nuclear security. they're making cuts that are damaging to the safety of people, whether it's, you know, the food and drug administration and then desperately trying to get them back. guess what? i don't understand, and i'm curious what your reporting has shown is, is there going to be any attempt to stem the chaos of the messaging coming out of the white house, where you have the president saying it's kind of voluntary, you have other people saying it's not voluntary. you then have elon musk sending out more emails, and then you have kash p

it's not elon musk, it's amy gleason, a trump political appointee with a background in health care andting. and really get this. this is really amazing. come close to the screen. when cbs news reached out to gleason on tuesday morning, she said she was in mexico and declined to comment. in other words, it appears that the administrator of this little crew that's firing employees willy nilly, people that do cancer research and give health care to veterans and take care of national parks was taking a vacation in mexico one month into their time in office, bob bauer served as white house counsel under president barack obama, and his latest post for the executive function, substack. he lays out how and why trump is openly rejecting government ethics as a matter of policy. and he joins me now. bob, you know, one of the things i've been struggling to communicate to people is just how intensely lawyered a normal white house's you are, white house counsel. full disclosure my wife worked as a as associate under you when you were there, and you just you can't just like, like the idea that you ju

it's amy gleason, who's the acting administrator. um, do we know much about her? >> she's kind of kept a low profile. and, you know, definitely i you know, my colleague mckenna has reported substantially on usds. and i think, you know, even people within usds were unsure of who the doge administrator was. um, but it does seem, you know, that she is someone who people are at least familiar with. um, who, you know, they has as as much as she's come in sort of from, uh, you know, with the doge side that she's someone that people are familiar with. but i don't really think that, you know, we know a ton at this point because she's also kept quite a low profile. >> um, i was struck by, um, these 21 of these 21 digital service members who put out this letter saying we're resigning based on what's happening here. we're not comfortable with what's going on with doge. a move like that, does that embolden elon musk? i mean, this is what he wants, right? he wants people to leave. he wants to cut down the federal workforce. and if you can't do the job, okay. goodbye. >> i mean