boris. >> the first jobs report of 2025 is out. and the numbers for january not quite what economists had expected. the labor market added only 143,000 jobs, though the unemployment rate dropped to 4%, which is historically low. cnn's matt egan is here to crunch the numbers for us. matt, how do you read them? well. >> boris, january. >> has a. >> long history. >> of being. >> a messy month. when it comes to jobs reports. and this one definitely lived up to that reputation. there's a lot of conflicting signals here, a lot. >> of. >> moving parts. let me go through the numbers 143,000 jobs. >> added in january. >> that is worse than expected. and as you. >> can see on that. >> chart, this was a big slowdown from the gangbusters growth at the end of last year. december was revised upwardly to 307,000. so this is less than half of that pace. digging into why. >> this happened. >> economists had been bracing for a slowdown, in part because of the los angeles wildfires and the extremely cold. temperatures throughout much of the country.

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boris. and, i mean, this may have been a case where the person who stepped forward was not the fool or coward, but more of the fall guy. here's what we know. people familiar with meetings that took place today tell us that emil bove, the acting deputy attorney general, had summoned those who were left in the public integrity section. that's after five people resigned last night when they refused to sign this motion to dismiss. so they had this meeting with them. he said he needed one career person to step forward and to sign the document. now, after beauvais left, the team still met and talked together. they considered a range of options, sources tell us, including a mass resignation. but then it was one longtime member of the team, someone close to retirement, ed sullivan, who said that he would step forward and sign the document. now on the document, he is also joined by the acting head of the criminal division, tony bacon, as well as emil bove signature himself. but this was an act that w

was he rang and spoke to boris and he was going to help him campaign.ppened. so we know that leaders of the opposition governments, they do brief stuff like this, and i think it's a deflection tactic and is, i'm afraid, fake news. >> camilla okay, but do you think there's ever a chance that bofis think there's ever a chance that boris johnson might follow in your footsteps and defect? >> reform i don't i don't think so, to be honest. i mean, i'm not sure he'll want to come back onto the front line of politics, to be honest with you, camilla. so no, i don't think he'd do it for either party. >> no. okay. fair enough. but don't you agree that if it does look as if the vote is split on the right, that right wing voters will really be wanting the tories and reform to come together ? because they will together? because they will consider that there's a fate worse than a split on the right, and that's another four years of laboun >> look, i mean, i've tried to do that before the general election. as you know, camilla, i tried to i spoke with rishi, i spoke wit

i'm boris sanchez sitting in for anderson. we begin with breaking news out of the department of justice. we've just learned who finally agreed to sign off on the dismissal of corruption charges against new york mayor eric adams. the justice department late today filed documents with the judge in the case seeking dismissal of the charges without prejudice, meaning they could be revived again. listed as signatories. antoinette bacon, who supervises the justice department's criminal division, and edward sullivan, senior counsel with the public integrity section, notably acting deputy attorney general and former trump criminal defense attorney. emil bove signature is also on the document. this comes after a mass exodus at doj and new york's southern district, which was set to try the case this spring. when anderson signed off last night, six people had resigned over what some of those quitting have criticized as a politically driven deal to coerce adams cooperation with the administration's immigration enforcement policies. today,

here we go. >> boris. something that we're seeing just in the past few minutes, a big pivot from the justice department. now, we know the justice department has been under fire since they first announced this move to dismiss this case. this set off a controversy, including over half a dozen prosecutors, including the trump picked u.s. attorney here in manhattan, resigning over this decision. and just moments ago, attorney general pam bondi, his chief of staff, chad mizelle he started a twitter thread laying out a more legalistic explanation for why they want this case dismissed. this is the first time that we have heard them talking about sort of concrete reasons beyond immigration enforcement, right? because the concern was that initially when the deputy attorney general sent the memo saying that this needed to be dismissed, he specifically said that the decision was not based on the merits of the case or assessing any legal theories. that's what set off the concern about a quid pro quo, because their arg

boris. some of those 67 stories all cut far too short by this tragedy. >> gabe cohen, thank you so much for the update. our thoughts obviously are with their families. thanks, brianna. >> and let's talk now with billy nolan, former acting faa administrator. he's currently the chief regulatory affairs officer for archer aviation incorporated. he also flew army helicopters and was a pilot for american airlines. billy, thanks for being with us. and maybe you can give us a sense of what we should be expecting here, because the ntsb will be holding a news conference here in the next few hours. they have this data recovered from the black hawk helicopter. they will be releasing. what information might we learn? what might we not learn? >> yeah. >> well, thank you for having me on today. >> i don't think. >> we will learn. >> today at this briefing that you will have a definitive answer. you know, once, once they've got the data off of the the black box for the, the black hawk, it will take them ti

it really depends on the weather, boris.ing we are seeing is that other countries are getting in the mix, like ecuador. they're starting to grow their own cocoa trees. but boris, it takes 4 to 6 years for those trees to be available for harvest. so a long term solution, not an immediate fix. >> boris vanessa yurkevich, thank you so much. if you really want to flex and get your loved one a luxury item, buy them a dozen eggs. thanks so much, vanessa. the lead with jake tapper starts

minister boris johnson has prime minister boris johnson has exclusively told gb news now is the time to double down on brexit and take advantage of our freedoms. from al to gene editing and financial services. he goes on to say we need a government that really believes in brexit, and we need the british ruling class finally to match the bravery and imagination of the 17.4 million people who voted to leave. for supporters, the uk became a sovereign nation in charge of its own destiny. opponents believe it's isolated the country and damaged the economy. a tireless campaigner for brexit was reform ukip leader nigel farage. here he is celebrating five years ago today. mr farage is holding a reform party conference in kemi badenoch constituency. he told martin daubney although it was the right thing to do, we haven't grasped the opportunities that could have come with it. >> there are so many things that we stayed aligned to, including most of their rule book. now, clearly what keir starmer wants to do is in terms of, of defence and perhaps even foreign policy, tie us closer to the europe

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boris. >> meantime, panama is denying claims made by the state department that u.s. government ships can go through the panama canal for free. the agency there said that sets the tolls and fees, says it has made no adjustments. this comes just days after president trump again claimed the u.s. would take back the canal. cnn's patrick oppmann joins us now live with more. patrick, what is panama's president saying about this latest claim? >> you know, it seemed after president trump had. >> threatened to take. >> the. >> panamanian panama canal back by force, that the relations between panama and the u.s. were. getting back on firmer. ground after secretary of state marco rubio was in panama over the weekend, and he saw panama announce that they've effectively closed the darien gap., limiting. >> by over. >> 90% the amount of migrants coming from south america through panama to the united states in many cases. and as well announcing that they will no longer take part in the china's belt and road initiative. so a major win for the u.s. there. >> and then. >> this social

boris. >> alex marquardt, thanks for the update. live outside usaid headquarters in washington, d.c. and, brianna, these were just some of the moves that musk and his doge personnel were making over the weekend, moves that had actually been in the works for a while. >> exactly right. and his team now has access as well to sensitive payment systems at the treasury department. and the run up, as boris alluded to there, to this started a few weeks before trump even took office, when members of his transition team showed up at treasury wanting answers about how government payments are processed. things really came to a head last friday when the top civil servant at treasury, david lebryk, left unexpectedly after trump affiliated officials expressed interest in stopping certain payments, according to one person familiar with the department. liebreich pushed back on those inquiries, saying we don't do that. and that source went on to tell cnn that the trump officials seem, quote, to want treasury to be the choke point on payments. and tha

but even if that happens, boris and brianna, we don't expect a fourth republican to break ranks. that would be enough to scuttle this nomination altogether. but every other republican has indicated that they are a yes, which means that we do expect kash patel to get this job after weeks of battling democratic efforts to try to delay and derail this nomination, they're expected ultimately to be unsuccessful, as kash patel is expected by perhaps the narrowest of margins. to get this very important post, as donald trump expected to get his man into the fbi. >> guys., manu raju live on capitol hill. we will be watching that vote closely. let's discuss with the state attorney for palm beach county, florida, dave aronberg, and former fbi senior executive and special agent in charge, frank montoya. frank, i'd like to start with you. how significant of a change does kash patel represent for the fbi? >> it's a radical change. it really is. i mean, i served under four directors in 27 years in the fbi, and no one came in with these few qualifications with this guy's background with, you kno

>> well, boris, i think he just showed us the reason is that truth social post.ms that the president was doing this to flex his federal power over california politicians he claims are messing up the water. uh, trump has on the campaign trail going back to his first term, explained california water with almost a childlike ignorance. uh, and what is most staggering is that people at the army corps of engineers in california who know better, had to follow his command. he's talked about this giant faucet that holds water from canada and the pacific northwest. there's no such thing. this water will end up in the central valley, a farm country hundreds of miles. an entire mountain range away from los angeles, where the fires are now fully contained anyway. so this defies logic on every level. but the. but the warning lights for the rest of america is that the army corps of engineers is following these orders, and it doesn't seem like there's anybody there to tell him. this is not going to do anybody any good. it's going to waste 2 billion gallons of water that could be

so the message very clear from the region, boris, don't do it. it's a bad idea. that's the message. >> nic robertson, thanks so much. let's expand the conversation now with cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel cedric leighton and cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier. thank you both. always great to see you. kim, aside from being highly unlikely as a resolution for gaza, these kind of comments also serve as a recruiting tool for jihadi groups. >> absolutely. i mean, this is the third rail in middle east politics. you do not fulfill the worst fears of everyone in the middle east that the u.s. would be on israel's side in all things by saying something like this. and this will be a recruiting poster for al qaeda, for i.s.i.s. most of all, for hamas. the moment anyone tries to move the palestinians out of gaza, you've got something like 2 million gazans there, more than half of them do not support hamas right now. but the moment you tell them that, you've got to leave because of a u.s. plan backed by israel, every single one will join hamas and fight.

boris, uh, the question here is why? and what the affidavit makes clear is that shockley was grieving the death of their mother. as you heard, the police chief use the she her pronouns. trinity shockley is transgender. it is not clear what pronouns trinity shockley used, but they were grieving the death of their mother. they had been bullied at school after being hit by a drunk driver, and then further. boris, you know this, uh, trinity shockley, this teenager felt immense guilt after learning that the driver who had hit them later committed suicide. so a lot of factors here. much more to learn. but the big takeaway for anybody watching is the real significance. if there is a concern, bring it to police immediately. boris. >> whitney wild, thank you so much for the reporting, brianna. >> seven years ago today, a gunman killed 17 people at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. for seven years, the parents of joaquin oliver have channeled their grief into advocacy, creating viral moments that keep the

>> i mean, boris, this is. >> a community that. >> you and i know very well. it neighbors are beloved. hialeah. doral, florida. it also is the backyard of one of donald trump's golf courses and resorts. a lot of people in this community are taken off guard. i mean, there's a lot of fear. there's a lot of confusion. there's a lot of outrage right now in doral, florida. this is a community that's about 40% roughly from venezuela. and they supported trump so vocally. and they didn't think that when he was talking about immigration, when he was talking about, you know, the mass deportations that he was talking about them, he thought, you know, he's talking about aragua. he's talking specifically about, you know, this scary venezuelan gang that has come, you know, that people are coming into the united states. he's talking about cracking down on criminals, sending them back. a lot of them were very supportive of that, but now they're seeing, oh, wait, we had legal status. we had, you know, work permits, a shield from deportation. we did it. the air quotes right way

boris. >> yeah, they're accusing doj of a direct quid pro quo. kara eric adams is now responding to some of these accusations. what is he saying? >> yeah. eric adams was on fox news this morning. you know, following all these resignations. and, you know, this case still has not been dismissed. some justice department attorney would need to step forward, file that motion, and a judge would have to accept it. but he was on fox. and this is how he reacted to everything that has happened over the past 24 hours. >> think about that. think about that. >> think about my attorney. >> alex spiro. >> one of the one of the top, uh, trial attorneys in the country. imagine him going inside saying that the only way mayor adams is going to assist in immigration, which i was calling for since 2022, is if you drop the charges, that's quid pro quo. that's a crime that took us three. she took it took her three weeks to report in front of her a criminal action. come on. this is silly. >> so there you hear? that's the the mayor reacting to. we also did obtain a lawye

>> boris? my response is predicated on the front row seat that i had to the effort in 2021 and 2022. in the first instance, to prevent this war in the first place. the diplomacy that was conducted at hypersonic speed in european capitals in kyiv, in conversations with russian officials, i was there at the table the last time the secretary of state, secretary blinken at the time, met with foreign minister lavrov. the foreign minister was clearly in the dark about his own president's plans when it came to russian aggression in the aftermath of russia's invasion, which was probably imminent all along. despite our best efforts. there were various attempts to find a way to end this war in a just and durable way. the fact of the matter is that, um, in order to do so, ukraine has to be put in a position of strength. that is to say that ukraine has to be provided with security assistance, economic assistance, humanitarian assistance there at the same time have to be costs and consequences on russia. an

>> boris. good to be with. you know, i took some encouragement in what she said because at least that's what you're supposed to do. appeal it, not ignore it. my fear was that we'd have essentially a coup by ignoring federal judges. and to what she said, those aren't liberal activist judges. those are judges appointed by republicans, including carl nichols, appointed by donald trump himself. i guess in today's parlance, a liberal activist judge is just a judge who disagrees with you. and it's called separation of powers, checks and balances. i would urge mr. levitt to read the constitution, because this is exactly what the framers intended. >> so i wanted to present the comparison that i've heard from conservatives to you, to see how you feel about it. they've repeatedly pointed to then-president biden's handling of student loan forgiveness in the wake of a supreme court decision. is it apples and oranges? does that compare to what trump is hinting that he might do in ignoring some of these orders? >> well, bide

boris. >> vanessa. what does the cfpb actually do and how could this work stoppage impact americans? >> yeah, the cfpb is exactly sort of what its name says. it's the consumer finance protection bureau and it's to protect americans against banking institutions. those who have been able to take advantage of americans. this was started at the end of the financial crash in 2007, 2008, to have some supervisory authority over credit card companies, banking institutions, loan services and other different organizations that everyday americans use. also, just by the numbers, about 200 million people are covered under the cfpb because they can receive funding and relief from this organization. you have about $6.1 billion in annual savings on overdraft fees and about 22 million people have are estimated to have medical debt collection removed from their credit report. so these are actual tangible things that this organization does. we know at least till the end of the week, boris, folks are not going to the offic

go ahead. >> well, here's the challenge, boris. what we know is that when latino owned businesses get contracts, they tend to hire more latinos. when women owned businesses get contracts, they tend to hire more women. when african-american owned businesses get contracts, they tend to hire more african-americans, right. this is not the math is not hard. so if we're trying to address the idea of everybody getting to participate, it does matter when the when the largest contractors in the country, which is the federal government, says that we're no longer interested in hiring people who don't, who come from diverse backgrounds. i think we want them to go out and look for it. i'm not for quotas. i don't think we should have them. but i do think when you're looking for african american staff, maybe you should go to historically black colleges and universities and see if you can find some folks who can also do the same job that they could do at some of the historically, you know, white serving institutions. let's just broaden the tent an

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but, boris, i think you're absolutely right. this is about is as much about who will be at the table as who is not. it is going to be the u.s. and the russians, along with the saudis, mediating, of course, most notably, ukrainians will not be there. we heard from a very frustrated president volodymyr zelenskyy earlier today saying that he didn't even know about this and saying that he will never agree to anything about ukraine unless ukraine has a say. and then there's the question of the europeans. after all, this war is taking place on the european continent. and trump's envoy for ukraine keith kellogg, saying over the weekend very clearly that the europeans will not have a place at the table. he said this is going to be between ukraine and russia, with the u.s. moderating that discussion. but the secretary of state marco rubio softened that a little bit on sunday, saying that the russians will or the excuse me, the europeans will have a role. take a listen. >> if it's real negotiations and we're. >> not there yet. but if that

they have so much data now, boris, they will get to the bottom of this. and we expect a preliminary report within a month. >> yeah, look forward to potentially getting some answers there. paula newton, thank you so much for the update. brianna. >> passengers on board that delta flight also providing key details for investigators. i spoke with two survivors just hours after their harrowing ordeal. >> when we hit, it was just a super hard. >> like hit the ground. and the plane went sideways. and i believe we skidded like on our side and then. >> flipped over. >> on our back. >> where we. ended up. >> there. >> was like. a big. fireball out this left. >> side of the plane. it was mass chaos. i was upside down. the lady next to me was upside down. um, we kind of let ourselves go. >> and fell to hit the ceiling, which is surreal feeling. um, and. >> then everybody was just like, get out, get out, get out. >> we didn't really know anything was the matter. or at least i didn't until, like, the second we hit the ground. um, there was no, like, real indication of

boris steve witkoff is the middle east envoy. he's been engaging with middle east partners on the cease fire deal. he is not necessarily someone who has russia in his portfolio. and the direct link in that statement to the war in ukraine, this is something that we've been discussing a lot this week. the trump administration moving closer to presenting a deal to end the war in ukraine. lots of questions about how to get russia to the table to negotiate. and clearly the release of marc fogel is playing into these negotiations. so that is extremely interesting. now, fogel was not exchanged last august. it was a major disappointment to his family in that historic deal that saw saw evan gershkovich and paul whelan come home. he he was not at the time determined to be wrongfully held by the state department. so consider essentially a hostage being held by a foreign government around the world. but he was declared to be wrongfully detained in december. and so both the biden administration and now the trump administration have been tryin

now, on that front, boris. while that plane remains on the tarmac, two runways at this airport are going to remain closed, at least for the next couple of days. so there will continue to be a lot of disruptions and delays, cancellations here in toronto. boris. >> brian todd reporting live in toronto. thank you so much, brianna. >> and for more on this investigation, i want to bring in cnn aviation analyst and former ntsb managing director peter goelz. your biggest takeaways, peter, from the new video of this crash that we are seeing today. >> well, that video was very revealing, brianna. i mean, it showed that the rj, typically just before it lands at about 35ft above the runway, flares upwards just a little bit to allow it to come down at a gentle rate. in this case, you can see the nose never pitches up. it comes down hard. the right, uh. undercarriage, the landing gear collapses, and the right wing apparently catches, uh, in the in the grass off the runway and tears off. if that is a very revealing, uh, vide

boris. i mean, there are days where markets move in mysterious ways, and it's not really clear what's driving stocks up or down. today is not one of those days. it is totally clear the dow fell almost 700 points this morning as investors were bracing for president trump to put tariffs on all three of america's biggest trading partners. but the market turned around completely. you see, the dow is actually up by a few points right now. and that's because, yes, trump has said that those tariffs on mexico, they haven't been canceled, but they've been delayed by a month. so the message from the market seems clear here. right. tariffs are not great for business. and we've heard the same message from business groups right. homebuilders are warning of higher home prices because there's going to be tariffs on building materials. farmers are worried about retaliatory tariffs. and the footwear industry is also alarmed about higher prices. i talked to the ceo of the trade group who represents crocs, nik

boris. >> pretty soon pennies could be harder to come by. president trump says he is ordering the u.s. mint to stop production. he says it will help save costs and he may be right. right now, it takes more than $0.03 to produce a single penny. but there's a catch here. there might be a hiccup to his plan without the penny. more nickels may have to go into circulation, and they're actually more expensive than pennies. those five cent nickels cost over $0.13, almost $0.14 to make each one. the u.s. mint says that during the 2024 fiscal year, they pumped out 3.2 billion pennies and just 202 million nickels to meet demand from retailers, the mint would probably need to print an additional 850,000 nickels, which would then wipe out the savings of eliminating the penny and actually wind up costing the united states $78 million more. still, some argue it may be time to put the penny out to pasture. the national association of convenience stores says that eliminating pennies could actually speed up transaction times, as an example, canada actually s

>> no, no, not in my judgment, boris. it was an act of trying to protect fbi employees from being maliciously attacked online. if, in fact, this very sensitive information with their personally identifying data was shared online, let's remember where this came from. the acting deputy attorney general sent a message last friday to the fbi demanding this data. the subject matter and the message line was termination. he's now trying to back up from that a little bit and try to make it seem as if everyone whose information is coming over to the justice department won't actually be terminated, but he does go on in his message yesterday to make it clear that people who indicated undue partisan influence or refuse the orders of the department of justice would be treated that way. so i think the the leadership of the fbi did the right thing trying to protect these employees, trying to do something to ensure that they are subjected to the normal policy and processes that we have in place to to address significant allegations of mi

boris. >> yeah, and it's happening right now. i wouldn't be surprised if you got more text messages as the day progressed. rene marsh, thanks so much for that reporting, brianna. >> another big story that we're following. turmoil at the justice department after a seventh federal prosecutor quits for refusing to follow orders to drop corruption charges against new york city mayor eric adams. and now some of them are calling out doj leadership in a scathing resignation letters. cnn senior has resigned saying? >> well, brianna, this is a scathing letter. letter. and it really does call into question the leadership of the justice department and the entire reason why this is being done this day. this is a spiraling crisis at this hour, and we're still waiting to see which lawyer is going to be willing to put their name on the document to dismiss these charges. that's probably that needs to happen. perhaps in the coming hours. i'll read you just this letter, a piece of this letter from hagan scotten. he's an assistant u.s. attorney in

i'm boris sanchez alongside brianna keilar in our nation's capital. and starting right now, a high stakes hearing on president trump's so-called buyout offer to nearly 2 million federal employees. federal judge george o'toole, a clinton appointee, paused last thursday's deadline for workers to take the deferred resignation program. and in just moments, he is set to hear arguments about the legality of trump's plan and decide whether to extend that freeze. >> and the white house is saying that at least 65,000 federal workers have opted into the program so far. so far. but federal employee unions who are suing to block it say it is a quote. unlawful, short fuzed ultimatum. we're joined now by chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid and cnn legal analyst carrie cordero as well. so, paula, last thursday is when judge o'toole initially put the pause on this, pushed it until at least today, although we're going to have to see what happens here. but what if both sides been using this time for look, this is really high stakes for. >> the trump administra

borys, a retired soviet colonel, doesn't trust putin either.ed this horror." borys, a retired soviet colonel, doesn't trust putin either. he says, "we need to think about peace, but we'll resist until we're stronger. europe seems ready to help. there is no point in surrendering." it's notjust a question of stopping missile attacks or deciding which side gets to keep which piece of land. in fact, president putin has already said that he wants to keep more of ukraine than the russians occupy at the moment. now, when it comes to nato, president trump seems to agree with putin that ukraine cannot be part of it. but there's more than that. president putin, effectively, wants to so dilute ukrainian he might try somewhere else. jeremy bowen, bbc news, sumy. airport on monday. which was arriving from minneapolis in the united states. with serious injuries. david willis has the latest. bleep. its tail and right wing sheared off by the impact as firefighters on the other doused it with water. staff scrambled to the scene. walking around the aircraft. 18

boris. >> and more breaking news into cnn. we've just learned that the fbi has complied with orders from the department of justice demanding officials turn over information about employees who worked on january 6th cases. sources say more than 5000 names were handed over. this comes after the doj set a noon deadline to receive the information. let's go now to cnn's security correspondent and former fbi special agent josh campbell. josh, you broke the story. how do those within the fbi think this list of names is going to be used? >> well, this is unprecedented for the department of justice to go to the fbi and demand a list of names in an apparent effort to exact retribution on behalf of a president, which it appears that that is what is potentially underway here. we knew that this could be coming, as we reported here at cnn, the justice department had sent a letter to fbi leadership demanding the list of names of people who were involved in that sprawling january 6th capitol riot cases. these were investigations run from coas

well, it's this guy right behind boris the possum.she was found at the end of an incriminating trail of chocolaty paw prints. out of breath. after downing this entire costco tuxedo chocolate mousse cake. >> brianna, why was the cake outside? >> it was because i read the homeowners ran out of space in the fridge, and so they sometimes just park things outside. it's cold there, and they were just keeping it out to keep it preserved. >> this is obviously a risk that could come with that. if you squint, it looks like a puppy. the nebraska humane society took the possum in. they say its indulgence may have actually saved her life. she is being treated for unrelated lead toxicity, which could have been fatal if she had stayed in the wild. so eating an entire cake has its benefits. the wildlife rehab where she is being treated is now selling selling merch of the viral critter you see there. wanted cake bandit. she's adorable. >> and the reason they called it in to the animal control. because cake, you know, as you know, as a dog owner is ver

boris and brianna. >> jeff zeleny live at the white house. thank you so much. let's turn to cnn chief national security correspondent, alex marquardt. alex, what more do we know about this american released from this prison in belarus? >> well, boris and brianna, two days of remarkable, unexpected prisoner releases by russia and. >> by belarus today, just. >> a couple of hours ago, we learned that three prisoners we regime, including one american citizen who is unnamed for. >> privacy reasons. >> but he was detained in belarus. we understand back in september, he was released alongside two non-americans. one is andre. >> kuntschik. >> who worked for the american backed radio. free europe, and the second is elena marchuk marchuk. we understand, has serious health conditions, while kuznetsk has been reunited with his wife and two children. and just a short time ago, we heard from the ambassador to the american ambassador to lithuania and senior state department official chris smith, because they had worked on getting these three out of belarus. take a listen. >>

really important reporting that you're doing on this, boris. >> so what is it like to be on the other side of doge? let's discuss with former federal employee elizabeth anuskavich. she was an attorney at the consumer financial protection bureau, the cfpb, and was terminated in the trump administration's mass firings. i want to read you a portion of her termination email. it says, quote, unfortunately, the agency finds that you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the agency's current needs. elizabeth, thanks so much for being with us. what was your reaction when you got that note and what was the process of being terminated like? >> hi. >> thank you so much, first of all, for having me on here and. >> for. >> everybody's attention. >> to this. um, i would say my, my reaction to receiving the notice was. complete and. utter shock. um, not only because i believe that i have the ability and knowledge and skills that fit the agency's mission and needs, but, um, because of the way that it happened, i mean, my paycheck was done as of tha

and think about that, boris. that plane will remain on that tarmac for the better part of the next 48 hours, as at least 20 investigators from canada, but also officials with the faa as well as the so-called go team from delta, all will be there on site, looking at the fuselage as it remains there in toronto. but as you just pointed out, there is a lot of video right now as well. the data recorder, the data recorder will be key here to really determine what was the altitude, what was the wind speed, the ground speed, all of these kinds of things as well, of course, as the communication with the control tower. i want to point out that deborah flint, who just gave a press conference there in toronto, she is the lead at toronto airport, did indicate what i saw for myself about an hour before this happened at toronto. they had had well over 20in of snow in the last week. of course, there was snow blowing everywhere. does that mean that that led to anything that we saw here? we're not sure. and at this hour, neither a

boris. >> yeah, really important point, sean. thanks so much for the reporting, brianna. >> and joining us now to talk about the impact, the very real impact that all of this is having on government employees is nicholas dieter. he's a federal worker who received a termination letter as the trump administration carries out its widespread layoffs. nicholas, thanks for being with us. just to let our viewers know you were a natural resource specialist for the national resource conservation service. you accepted that buyout offer, and then just last week, you got a termination notice when you initially accepted the buyout offer. what did you hear? >> um. >> so when i first accepted the buyout offer, um, and the first thing i want to say is i wasn't planning on accepting the buyout offer. i love my job. i think it has a valuable impact on my community. um, but i took it because three days before the initial deadline, i received an email that said because i was a probationary period employee, they couldn't guarantee me, um, my job. aft

it really depends on the weather, boris. one thing we are seeing is that other countries are getting in the mix, like ecuador. they're starting to grow their own cocoa trees. but boris, it takes 4 to 6 years for those trees to be available for harvest. so a long term solution, not an immediate fix. >> boris vanessa yurkevich, thank you so much. if you really want to flex and get your loved one a luxury item, buy them a dozen eggs. thanks so much, vanessa. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. >> apparently on president. >> trump's out list, paper straws, the penny and the judicial branch. the lead starts right. >> now. >> the courts should take. >> a step back and allow these processes to play out. what we're doing is good and right for the american people. >> the republican house speaker. >> they're siding. >> with the president and the vice president, suggesting. that the judicial branch judges just take a breather, let elon musk. >> take out the executive branch for a little spin. so how far can the trump administra

and he took the boris pickle and turned it into the windsor framework? maybe hejust had enough.t keir starmer doing a reset. is widely sought by brexiteers, and he played an important brexit negotiator. he did the brexit done, he got brexit done. he said two things to me for this fifth anniversary, out of that european nest. so here are those two statements for you to ponder to start suggesting it. things to do. they can't devote their entire life to these things. - and that's perfectly natural because they expected - don't want to talk about it anymore, because basically because i said, why don't you justjoin up with nigel farage then? needs a different argument around facts, and he wants people to come and help him push facts that boost that case. should we just have a inasmuch as anybody can ever, but we do have some handy bullet points from our of the politicking about this. the customs union has harmed our trade. how much can you point to brexit, how much brexit absolutely did damage our economic prospects. so that is point one. to the eu budget. out, but we don't send mone

meanwhile, boris johnson has backed donald trump's message to europe, urging nations to man up and steptheir support for ukraine. thousands of people are expected to march to the us embassy today in protest against donald trump's plans for gaza. it comes after the us president said he wanted to take over the territory and turn it into the riviera of the middle east. the counter—protest by stop the hate will take place along the march route near vauxhall bridge. the met police say there will be a major security operation to keep the groups apart and to minimise disruption. they've also imposed conditions under the public order act, restricting routes, assembly areas and start and finish times. pope francis remains in hospital for bronchitis treatment but is in a stable condition with a slight fever. the 88 year old was admitted after struggling with breathing issues, but had continued public engagements until just yesterday. doctors say his clinical condition is fair and he has begun drug therapy in hospital. his meetings, though, have been cancelled until at least monday, but it's uncle

i'm really glad you mentioned boris johnson a few moments ago. the western media never talks about it. they never talk about it . they don't want to talk about it, but then i talked to the matter isn't everyone needs to understand that a couple of months after the conflict began between russia and ukraine or nathan america and ukraine bars, johnson discussed with the piece towards all of this could have been avoided, if simple boris, the bo joad, but should johnson have not ruined the peace folks? how many hundreds of thousands of people have died because of one mind, right? stop the peace from coming, but now we're hoping we're going to witness. now, a return to common sense and when you talk about common sense, look what's happened in paris 24 hours ago, these e u leaders getting for a shot, getting together for a champagne lunch, but it's an emergency meeting, right? you can't see the look in their eyes. these guys are barking it, they don't know what to do now because you know, it's not to your opinion leaders. i've always made a lot of dogs

beeps and now, to take up the story right away, we have john simpson, our foreign affairs editor, borisunk but sprightly — pushed him aside four months later. old name of saint petersburg would be restored. his ginger—haired deputy with a kgb past — a certain vladimir putin. i witnessed the russian economies fall about the way older russians support putin, even now. putin himself, no longer deputy mayor of saint petersburg into the topmost reaches of politics, took over as president he was young, popular and effective. and western ideas, to cut it off from ukraine apparently believing that people there wanted to join up resistance to the russian invasion. i went to kyiv soon afterwards to interview him for unspun world. the russians have upped their game with the help of will achieve his intended aim of bringing the war the old soviet union collapsed — everything now depends on the way vladimir putin emerges from a trump—organised peace negotiation over ukraine. he'll be free to carry on challenging the west. one large part of the old soviet union — which comes under attack. and aside f

and another former soviet apparatchik, boris yeltsin — pushed him aside four months later. 14 differentwhere i am now, and, of course, ukraine, broke away from russia leningrad's new mayor announced that the city's old name of saint petersburg i went round to meet him, but alas, a certain vladimir putin. i witnessed the russian economies the economic horrors of the 19905 explain a great deal putin himself, no longer deputy mayor of saint petersburg but pushed by his kgb connections into the topmost reaches of politics, from the habitually drunk yeltsin in 2000. to the west and western ideas, this is the new reality, today's reality in the crimea. in 2014, ignoring a treaty which yeltsin had signed and turn it into a russian possession. when, in 2022, he finally invaded ukraine, an extraordinarily brave resistance to interview him for unspun world. the russians have upped their game of bringing the war to an end fast. has been the way the old soviet union collapsed — the humiliation, the economic devastation, the resentment. everything now depends on the way vladimir putin emerges from a

>> boris? it is so interesting, as president trump is inside the white house, there really across washington, the effects of his three weeks in office are absolutely being felt. and now we are learning more about the plan for shrinking the size of the federal government. and this is completely separate from this buyout program, if you will. we've been talking about it's to get some other federal workers out of the workforce, and we are learning of this message that has been sent out to all supervisors, essentially asking them to rank their employees. take a look at this. ranking that federal government workers are already being ranked at. it's outstanding exceeds fully successful, fully successful, minimally satisfactory or unsatisfactory. and we are told that anyone in the bottom three categories, they may end up on a list and may be among the people to be pushed out of the government. we shall see how that works. of course, all of this is at the hand of elon musk, who has taken over the depar

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i'm boris sanchez alongside brianna keilar in the nation's capital. a key part of president donald trump's strategy to drastically cut down the federal workforce is now officially on hold. a federal judge pausing. tonight's deadline for federal employees to accept the administration's so-called buyout offer, with a new hearing scheduled for monday. >> until monday. and the white house says at least 50,000 people, about 2.5% of the federal workforce have already accepted the offer. cnn's jeff zeleny is live for us at the white house. is the administration responding to this news yet? jeff, thank. >> you, brianna. we are just getting the first response from the white house on this. of course, they have essentially been selling this for the last week or so as a good deal for federal employees trying to get them to sign up for this deferred resignation program, effectively a buyout offer, but not a traditional one like we see in private to companies. but the white house is a bit of a perhaps sarcastic response. this is what we're getting from white house

thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure boris. thank you. >> coming up, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says his country will not accept any peace deal between the united states and russia unless kyiv gets a seat at the table. what this could mean for negotiations. next on cnn news central. >> cooked corporate fat cats swindling socialites, doped up cyclists and yes, more crooked politicians. i have a feeling we won't be running out of those anytime soon. >> a new season of united states of scandal with jake tapper. march 9th on cnn. >> it's time. yes, the time has come for a fresh approach to dog food. every day, more dog people are deciding it's time to quit the kibble and feed their dogs fresh food from the farmers dog made by vets and delivered right to your door. precisely portioned for your dog's needs. it's an idea whose time has come. >> the time has come. >> like a relentless weed. moderate to severe ulcerative colitis symptoms can keep coming back. start to break away from you. see, with tremfya with rapid relief