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jake tapper. the lead starts right now if the president wants to remake government, he'll have to get through the courts first. >> the lead starts right now. from layoffs to budget cuts over and over, judges are shutting down president trump's plan to overhaul the federal government. but did his administration just hint at how it will push back? a line from vice president jd vance may reveal what's next. plus, large protests in tel aviv after an announcement from hamas, the terror group threatening to postpone the next hostage release. the conditions, they say, must be met as a far right israeli official responds with threats of his own and a special guest on the lead. super bowl mvp jalen hurts, fresh off the eagles blowout victory over the kansas city chiefs. welcome to the lead i'm phil mattingly in for jake tapper. we begin this hour with a wave of headlines in our politics. lead president donald trump today pressing ahead with his agenda to shrink and reshape the federal government as a judge

i'm jake tapper. president donald trump said earlier today that negotiations to end russia's war on ukraine are set to begin on friday in munich. that is the major news today. out of a nearly 90 minute phone call between trump and russian president vladimir putin. trump posted details about his call with putin, who, by the way, started this unprovoked war nearly three years ago. trump also posting he was then going to call ukrainian president zelenskyy, essentially to fill zelenskyy in on these proposed peace talks that will determine the future of ukraine. trump fired off another post, saying that his subsequent call with zelenskyy went, quote, very well. zelenskyy, for his part, said this quote no one wants peace more than ukraine. together with the u.s., we are charting our next steps to stop russian aggression and ensure a lasting, reliable peace. as president trump said, let's get it done, unquote. but of course, what might ukraine have to give up in exchange for peace? a potential preview defens

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lead i'm jake tapper. >> this hour it was the search that captivated the world's attention. a tragic, tragic one. the titan sub, believed to be missing for days before it was found in pieces on the bottom of the ocean floor. now, the coast guard is releasing the suspected audio recording of the sub's implosion. as the coast guard tries to figure out exactly what went so terribly wrong. plus, could president trump's cuts to humanitarian aid programs around the world actually end up hurting america's farmers? the kansas farmers union is warning yes, possibly. and the group's executive director is here to explain why. and leading this hour, president trump moments ago, making news on a wide range of issues in the oval office, detailing his phone calls with russian president vladimir putin and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy defending elon musk's efforts to shrink the federal government and saying he wants to close the department of education immediately. let's bring in kaitlan collins at the white house for us. caitlin, let's start with the major international news. the

y jake tapper, we'll show you. stay tuned for that . brand new revolutions on usaid wasted your money in a big major way. we'll show this to you. also, the news and this debate tonight, hillary clinton out of the blue randomly weighs in on doge. but she's lighting up twitter, critics are furiously slamming her as sam person that ran the cash for implement scheme called clinton foundation. now trump transportation secretary, sean duffy, is slapping back at hillary clinton. we've got the exchange. plus this story -- >> seems netanyahu is not listening. >> we're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the united states to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. >> but it seems that prime minister netanyahu is not listening. "the wall street journal" said that he, that your administration has repeatedly been blind sided by netanyahu, and in fact he's rebuffed just about all of your admini administration's reprieves. >> bill, the work we have done -- liz: yet another major cut and pace in 60 minutes and it's a

. >> the jake tapper. >> shout out to ray gun. we always. >> have room for two. >> now trump's ambitious, audacious attempt to remake the u.s. >> government just got something of a reality check. the lead starts right now. a judge have blocked president trump's big plan to shrink the size of federal government. the deadline for federal employees to leave with seven months salary or risk getting fired, was supposed to be 11:59 p.m. eastern this evening, but now it is not. so. what now? what about the 50,000 or so who already took trump up on that offer? is this entire plan even legal? we're asking it all. plus, a new bird flu strain in the united states, this time detected in herds of dairy cows in nevada. what do you need to know ahead? and. oscars drama. the first transgender best actress nominee in the history of the academy awards is now accused of bigotry for her own past tweets. welcome to the lead. i'm jake tapper. a judge just brought federal employees more time to answer a critical question. if they are going to take the t

. >> jake. tapper today at four on cnn. >> america's largest distributor of humanitarian aid around the world is in serious limbo right now as president trump and elon musk work to radically remake the federal government. just moments ago, president trump said he has the power to scrap the u.s. agency for international development, also known as usaid. it's washington, d.c. offices were locked today. employees told overnight to stay home. they were locked out in one of trump's early executive orders. the agency's funding was frozen. dozens of workers were put on leave. elon musk, the world's richest man charged with slashing costs in the federal government, says president trump agrees with him that usaid needs to shut down. this afternoon, the president said musk has the power to fire government employees as long as he approves. first. >> he's got access only to letting people go that he thinks are no good. if we agree with him. and it's only if we agree with them. he's a very talented guy. from the st

i'm jake tapper. whiplash and confusion among leaders in munich. topping our world lead as president trump and his cabinet espouse what critics say are something closer to the kremlin's talking points on russia's three year onslaught against ukraine. european leaders today were hoping for reassurance that president trump understood how they view the russian threat. and after the president said this week, ukraine, quote, may be russian someday, unquote, said that he trusted russian leader vladimir putin when it comes to ukraine and even blamed russia's invasion of ukraine on former president biden. discussing whether ukraine could someday join nato. that just happened yesterday with european allies concerned that those comments resemble putin's views of the conflict. european leaders had hoped that they were maybe missing something. and then today they heard a speech by vice president j.d. vance at the munich security conference, in which the vice president rebuked u.s. allies in europe and signaled support for europe's far right parties. take a lis

i'm jake tapper. we're going to start with breaking news in our politics lead. in just a few hours, a full blown trade war could begin just after midnight tonight, president trump's 25% tariffs on most goods from canada and 10% tariffs on chinese imports is scheduled to take effect. the peterson institute for international economics estimates that trump's tariffs will cost the median american household about $600 extra per year, while chinese and canadian leaders are scrambling to try to stop trump's looming threat from becoming reality. now, trump and outgoing canadian prime minister justin trudeau just wrapped up a phone call. we will bring you that readout as soon as we get it. this as canada is announcing its own retaliatory tariffs on u.s. made products with a focus on high dollar exports from republican states such as orange juice from marco rubio's florida and bourbon from mitch mcconnell's kentucky. but what exactly does trump want from the countries that he is set to punish? listen to what mr. trump had to say after agreeing to pause the tariffs on mexi

i'm jake tapper. at any moment we are expecting to see president trump for the third time today. this time in a bilateral meeting with indian prime minister narendra modi. but trump has already made multiple headlines today. let's start with tariffs. in his first appearance earlier today, the president kicked off the process to introduce sweeping reciprocal tariffs matching higher rates that other nations currently charge to import american goods. this could potentially boost america's revenue. it could also potentially ignite a global trade war and theoretically add to inflation. when pressed by cnn's kaitlan collins, trump himself acknowledged the possibility that in the short term, prices could go up. >> right at the top of the pack. >> mr. president, because of these tariffs, who do you think voters should hold responsible? >> oh, i think what's going to go up is jobs are going to go up and prices could go up somewhat short term, but prices will also go down. >> the second time this afternoon we saw mr. trump moments ago he was swearing in the ever controversial robert f. ken

i'm jake tapper. today, new reaction from world leaders, lawmakers and even palestinians after trump's shocking comments last night. last night saying the u.s., quote, will take over, unquote. gaza trump unveiled his, quote, long term ownership, unquote, and redevelopment plan for the 141 square mile territory, much of which has been reduced to rubble after 15 months of war between israel and hamas. follow following hamas attack on october 7th, 2023. so how does president trump plan to get approximately 2 million palestinians to leave gaza? the white house this afternoon, reiterating that trump did not commit to putting u.s. boots on the ground while also not ruling it out. it's not clear what the details of this plan are, or if details exist at all. mr. trump, after all, said the gaza strip could become the riviera of the middle east. >> i envision a world, people living there, the world's people. i think you'll make that into an international, unbelievable place. >> the world's people, he said. toda

i'm jake tapper this hour. evacuations have been ordered in parts of southern california, in areas that had already been impacted by the devastating wildfires last month. and now the fears are flooding, mudslides and rockslides as storms are moving into the area. plus is the fragile ceasefire deal in gaza now back on track as we're waiting to hear more about hostages hopefully being released this weekend, we will hear from the mothers of three recently released hostages. what did their daughters endure in captivity? how are they adjusting to being back home? and leading this hour? any moment we expect to hear from president trump and indian prime minister modi at the white house. the two men are expected to face cameras after president trump made a number of headlines earlier today on russia and ukraine, on new tariffs on elon musk, and much more. let's bring in kaitlan collins, who is at the white house for us. caitlin set the stage for this modi trump meeting. >> yeah, jake, they're meeting right now. we just

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i'm jake tapper, and this hour, it is a battle between the billionaires. and now it's getting personal. what is the beef between first buddy elon musk and sam altman ahead of the company behind chatgpt? well, it goes back further than you may think, and it may be all about the benjamins. plus, this is the most severe flu season in the united states in at least 15 years. where is it most active? what's your family's risk? cnn's dr. sanjay gupta is here to break it all down. leading this hour, however, president trump and first buddy elon musk in the oval office moments ago defending their plans to drastically reshape and disrupt the operations of

i'm jake tapper. whether you voted for president donald trump or not, you probably expected to see some disruption to the normal way the government does things. tariffs, aggressive deportations, efforts to shrink the federal government. the question in that last part, efforts to shrink the government is how? how is the trump administration working toward accomplishing that goal? two weeks into his second term? the answer is with very broad strokes and blunt instruments. for instance, most federal employees received a letter pushing them to resign now and be paid through september or risk the elimination of their positions in the future. and maybe some of you are thinking, good, the government needs to shrink, and maybe you think that these employees are bureaucratic dweebs here in dc enforcing crazy regulations or whatever. except i heard from one of those federal employees earlier today. she's a friend of mine. she's a psychologist for the department of department of veterans affairs at a va. not her

i'm jake tapper. a slew of headlines from president trump at the white house just a second ago in the oval office. among the topics he discussed, he was asked about potential plans to get rid of, essentially to gut the department of education. he was asked about working with congress. he was asked about what elon musk has been doing with doge, the department of government efficiency that has been going into various government agencies and departments. next up at the white house, any moment now, we are expecting president trump to meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. that reunion will be underway during this critical time in the cease fire of israel's war with hamas. prime minister netanyahu has said that negotiations for the second phase of this cease fire and hostage release deal will begin with today's meeting in washington, and the white house official says that the two leaders will discuss how to maintain the cease fire deals and a commitment to freeing all remaining hostages held

i'm jake tapper. we're tracking all of the latest developments in trump's wholesale effort to disrupt the u.s. government, pushing the limits of presidential power, including efforts to dramatically shrink the u.s. government by executive fiat. just moments ago, at a news conference with japanese prime minister, we learned that effort now extends to the united states military. >> have you directed elon musk to review pentagon spending, given it's the the biggest discretionary spending in the federal. >> budget on education? just about everything. i've instructed him to go check out education to check out the pentagon, which is the military. and, you know, sadly, you'll find some things that are pretty bad. >> elon musk to check out the pentagon. this revelation comes as the trump administration is now asking its top federal managers to rate career employees as retain or release, which to some may feel bizarrely simplistic, even flippant. do you like this employee check box? yes or no? cnn has reviewed

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jake. >> tapper, march. >> 9th on cnn. >> this morning. parts of southern california are cleaning up after a storm brought some really heavy rain and flooding to an area. the same area still reeling from those devastating wildfires last month. we're going to show you some time lapse video, going to show it to you right here. this is showing just how bad a mudflow can get and how quickly sliding down a mountain and then flooding the area below. we also want to show you this. a mudslide and debris just sweeping away a car. sweeping the car actually into the ocean in malibu. city after city, just facing a dangerous mess. cnn's allison chinchar tracking this one for us. allison, what are you seeing? yeah. so the one. >> thing that we want to note is that the rain is starting to calm back down, and we'll continue to do so over the rest of the day today. so hopefully those scenes from yesterday do not continue through the day today. but yes, this is what it looked like. kind of trying to clear out all of the mud and the debris that kind of fell

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. >> welcome to the lead i'm jake tapper. this hour our eggs are safe to eat in the united states. when will egg prices finally stop climbing? and how worried do you and me really need to be about bird flu? so many questions today. after six dairy herds in the u.s. tested positive for a new variant of the bird flu virus that's been associated with severe infections in humans. our medical team is here to dig for answers. plus, one of the richest men in the world visiting the white house today, just a few weeks after attending president trump's inauguration. but what was on the agenda and leading this hour? trump's expansive plans to reshape and shrink the federal government are getting something of a reality check. as judges are stepping in the latest ruling coming this afternoon as a federal judge delayed tonight's deadline for federal workers to take this legally questionable buyout offer. the white house says more than 50,000 federal employees have accepted the offer so far. let's go straight to cnn's jeff zeleny, who's live for us at the white house. and, jeff, all of this as pr

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i'm jake tapper and this hour, battle over the arts. one of the first moves of the new trump controlled kennedy center for the performing arts is the cancellation of a children's musical musical about sharks. this comes after trump gutted the organization's board of trustees. the recently fired kennedy center president joins us live with her first interview. i had. plus the total humiliation of all european leaders. that's how one u.s. ally is describing vice president vance's first major speech on the world stage. another ally of the u.s. is calling vance's comments, quote, unacceptable. what exactly did vice president vance say that upset so many leaders? and how is the white house responding? former u.s. ambassador to japan and former obama white house chief of staff rahm emanuel is here to discuss and leading this hour a blistering rebuke and growing fallout after the trump administration moved to dismiss corruption charges against new york city's democratic mayor eric adams. a seventh federal prosecutor has now quit over the case.

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i'm jake tapper, and this hour, it is a battle between the billionaires. and now it's getting personal. what is the beef between first buddy elon musk and sam altman ahead of the company behind chatgpt? well, it goes back further than you may think, and it may be all about the benjamins. plus, this is the most severe flu season in the united states in at least 15 years. where is it most active? what's your family's risk? cnn's dr. sanjay gupta is here to break it all down. leading this hour, however, president trump and first buddy elon musk in the oval office moments ago defending their plans to drastically reshape and disrupt the operations of the government. the president claiming that these changes are exactly why he was elected and that his administration has already found millions of dollars in fraud, although we have not yet seen any public proof of any of that. the president also facing questions about whether he can guarantee that the federal workers who took his so-called buyout offer will actually get paid through september, and whether there ar

yours and mine. >> the lead with jake tapper today at four on cnn. >> we have just been listening to president trump in the oval office, as he has announced, a reciprocal tariffs and basically import taxes, if they are levied at the u.s., the u.s. is going to levy them back. and he said many things aside from just those taxes, which, by the way, do not kick in immediately, but justifying them by saying the eu, the european union has been very nasty. he dinged canada as well. um, and he also, of course talked about ukraine and russia. >> yeah. and that perhaps was some of the most notable commentary coming from trump there saying that he trusts vladimir putin on ukraine. and though he says that kyiv is going to have a seat at the negotiating table, he looks forward to eventually meeting with putin in saudi arabia. and he added to comments made yesterday by the secretary of defense, pete hegseth, saying that he does not see how russia, a country in russia's position, would allow ukraine to join nato. and then in what was a confusing array, this sort of explanation of history that was o

you can follow me on facebook, instagram threads x and on tiktok at jake tapper. you can follow the show on x at the lead cnn. if you ever miss an episode of the lead, you can listen to the show whence you get your podcasts. go, birds. the news continues on cnn, with phil mattingly sitting in for wolf blitzer in the situation room. see you tomorrow. >> happening now. breaking news. president trump is pausing punishing new tariffs on canada just hours after agreeing to a similar delay for mexico. tonight, the trump white house says both countries are quoting now bending the knee. also this hour, secretary of state marco rubio says his department is taking control of usaid and reviewing its fate. the trump administration making new moves toward potentially scrapping the world's largest foreign aid agency, with elon musk leading the charge. plus, wreckage from the deadly dc plane and helicopter collision is now being removed from the potomac river. the recovery operation underway as investigators pour over new clues about what may have gone wrong. welcome to our view

. >> the lead with jake tapper weekdays at four on cnn. >> did you have. >> a. >> reaction to the newe magazine cover that has elon musk sitting behind your resolute desk? >> time magazine. >> have you directed. >> elon musk to review. >> pentagon spending? >> i've instructed him to go check out education to check out the pentagon. >> is there anything you've told elon musk he cannot touch? >> well, we haven't discussed that much. i will pick out a target, and i say go in. >> welcome back to state of the union. president trump is facing increasing questions, as you just heard there, about elon musk's role in his government. what he is doing, my terrific panel is here now. shermichael, i'll start with you. i just want to go back to the sort of line of questioning with kristi noem that i had about just square the circle on republican credo here for me, because i understand that it's on the one hand, you know, washington bureaucrats, deep state, whatever it is that you call it. but on the other hand, the notion of him. really accessing personal data, a lot of information and doing, we do

i'm phil mattingly in for jake tapper this hour. a duo of winter storms is about to slam much of the united states, with double digits of snow predicted in some places and icy rain, travel delays and power outages in others. our meteorologists are tracking the latest threats ahead. plus, say farewell to the penny. president trump orders the treasury to stop producing $0.01 coins, saying they cost more to make than they are worth. but could cutting those costs actually raise prices higher than here at the store? and leading this hour, one of trump's most expansive attempts to dramatically reshape the federal government has hit another roadblock, at least for now. federal judge deciding last hour to extend the deadline for federal workers to accept the administration's legally dubious buyout offer, a deadline that had already been pushed to 5 p.m. today. just seconds from now. let's get straight to cnn's kaitlan collins. caitlin, there are a range of court fights playing out right now. this is the latest it's been challenged fairly su

they're big eagles fans as is jake tapper. he was here with his son. what a moment for those two as they got to celebrate the eagles second super bowl championship. we'll be right back here in new orleans from the field. with more on super bowl lix. >> cookbooks. 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. >> i'm josh johnson and i play for 14 different teams, but i'm switching to straight talk for good. they got playing starting at $25 a month with unlimited data. mama, great news. >> well, would you look at that, jerry? >> you got to see this. >> saying that. >> trust me. after 15 walks, gets. >> a little old. >> yeah, that really should be retired by now. i wish i invested when i had the chance to the moon. unbelievable. >> stop waiting and start investing. e-trade from morgan stanley. >> i wonder. >> if this golf cart has hands free driving. >> mode. >> it

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speaking of violent crime watch what stephen miller does to jake tapper. >> the department of agriculturetween 2020 and 2020 to 40% of crop workers were undocumented immigrants. in many cases as we know these migrants to jobs many americans do not want to do. >> you are just asking a question that we should supply america's a food with exploitation of, illegal alien labor. i obviously do not think that is what you are implying. only 1% of alien workers in the entire country work in agriculture. the illegal aliens joe biden brought into our country are not full stop doing farm work. the illegal aliens he brought in from venezuela, from haiti, from nicaragua, they are not doing farm work, they are in our cities collecting welfare. >> greg: nice. [applause] so believing illegals do what americans do not want to do. sorry, jake, even they won't watch cnn. but as always, you, you have the grandstanding political hacks going against what america wants. here is minneapolis mayor jacob frye. >> i want to speak directly to people who are undocumented. we love you, we will stand up for you, and we

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a new season of united states of scandal with jake tapper coming in march on cnn. >> welcome to the whole story. i'm anderson cooper at reagan national airport, near the site of the deadliest aviation disaster in the u.s. since 2001. 64 people were on board an american airlines flight from wichita, kansas, to washington, dc on wednesday night when it collided with an army blackhawk helicopter carrying three u.s. service members. no one survived. the investigation into what happened is well underway. and this next hour, we're going to tell you what we know about the circumstances surrounding this crash and look at some of the key safety issues the aviation industry has been dealing with in recent years. >> sort of a secret. 342 on that very miserable runway, one. >> wednesday, 8:43 p.m. on a moonless night near washington, dc. >> li qiang 5342. >> washington star one star 32021725. you take runway three three. >> air traffic control at reagan national airport asks inbound american airlines flight 5342 to land on an alternate runway number 33. >> yeah, we can do. three 3462, 342. >> the fac

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