new trumpian priorities. >> as you mentioned, i am a former eeoc commissioner because i was removeds an independent agency that is bipartisan by design, right? >> there have to be an equal number of democratic and republican. >> than three of five commissioners can be members of the president's party. got it. so the goal of title vii of the civil rights act of 1964, and the way the commission was structured, was to create a multi-member bipartisan agency to work together toward consensus to protect the rights of american workers. >> to. >> be free from discrimination by firing me and my democratic colleagues. charlotte burrows, before the expiration of our term, the president has accelerated his ability to control a majority of the commission, a majority that he would not have been able to secure until the middle of 2026, and can use that majority to advance his, i think, radical agenda to eliminate dei program, to protect americans against national origin discrimination. >> what does that even. >> mean to effectively erase. trans people from existence? >> i mean, the thing about it

quote, an eeoc administrative judge emailed acting director lucas on monday, copying in most eeoc staff. the email said, quote, the tactics you are employing and the actions you have taken in lockstep with this new administration are illegal and unconstitutional. in a reference to trump's billionaire adviser elon musk, the judge wrote to lucas, quote, if upon reflection, you feel like now would be a good time to take a vacation and resign from your position, please reply all to this email and put i'd like to occupy mars in the subject line. in other words, you know, no, we're not doing these illegal things you are telling us to do, but also, while you're pondering that, why don't you resign and go to mars with elon? ta da! that's one way to do it. former eeoc officials tell the wall street journal in this reporting that they do expect soon to end up in court trying to defend the law, trying to presumably save their agency and try to stop trying to stop what trump is doing. there's actually a lot of a lot of lawsuits that are already underway. we're going to be talking tonight about laws

the acting head of the eeoc apparently did not do that. nevertheless, turn it for the question.rmination, showing up, speaking out. tonight we have with us two of the high ranking big deal government officials who have thus far stood up to trump and what he's done. first, we are going to speak with ellen weintraub. she has been a member of the federal elections commission since 2002. she has chaired the commission four times. this week, president trump attempted to fire her. miss weintraub responded in a post on twitter. quote received a letter from potus today purporting to remove me as commissioner and chair of the fec. she said, quote, there's a legal way to replace fec commissioners. this isn't it. i've been lucky to serve the american people and stir up some good trouble along the way. that's not changing anytime soon. joining us now is ellen weintraub, chair of the federal elections commission, who trump claims to have fired. she begs to differ. commissioner weintraub, i really appreciate you being here. thanks for joining us. >> pleasure to be here. rachel. >> why do you

like we're about to get another lawsuit filed by somebody else who trump illegally fired from the eeoc. today, another federal judge blocked this sort of wildly, brazenly unconstitutional gambit from trump's first day to declare the 14th amendment to the constitution to be null and void, saying it's no longer true that if you're born here, you're an american. at the end of a court hearing on this matter this morning, this federal judge just ruled right then and there in her maryland courtroom, she said, quote, trump's executive order conflicts with the plain language of the 14th amendment. it contradicts 125 year old binding supreme court precedent, and it runs counter to our nation's 250 year history of citizenship by birth. the judge said, quote, no court in the country has ever endorsed the president's interpretation. this court will not be the first. and see. tomorrow is the deadline tomorrow, midnight for extra drama is the deadline issued by trump and his top donor, elon musk, telling millions of federal workers they need to resign their jobs by tomorrow, midnight, or else. there

the ordinary tariffs need to be studied and examined and that would start as the eeoc said, in april. sen. peters: so that is a separate tariff? after that study what would be the timeline of that? mr. lutnick: i think at the end of march and april and you will hear about those at that time. big macro issues are being studied, but the micro issue is canada and mexico and precursors from china. they need to end and we need to protect our americans from fentanyl. and our trading partners in canada and mexico should end it and stop disrespecting us and allowing this to come through our borders. sen. peters: i think we all agree we want secure borders. being a northern border state, i want to do that. my concern is what is going to happen in the april timeframe as to what they could mean in terms of increased costs to americans. if not properly implemented or thought through. what sort of assurances can you give us that we will not see that when that second set of tariffs get implemented or if they get implement a check it sounds as if that is your plan. we are going to study the actions