. >> laura coates live tonight at 11 eastern on cnn. >> breaking news tonight.president trump has given himself a brand new title. chairman of the board of trustees of the kennedy center. he posted this on social media. i have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the board of trustees, including the chairman, who do not share our vision for a golden age in arts and culture. we will soon announce a new board with an amazing chairman, donald j. trump. real. this is a real post. the current chairman, david rubenstein, is an ally of former president joe biden. cnn has reached out for comment from the kennedy center. rubenstein and the other members of the board. one member who was appointed appointed by a democratic president, said they had not yet heard of news related to the status of the board. my panel is back with us, and just moments ago, the kennedy center put out a statement saying they have heard about the social media post and some of the board members have received termination notices from the administration. there are some questions

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i'm laura coates and we start with the breaking news tonight. chaotic, fiery scenes in philadelphia. this after another plane crash, this time in a busy urban area. this one, a twin engine business jet crashing into a major street near a mall. this all happened shortly after 6:00 this evening. shortly after the plane took off from the northeast philadelphia airport. you can see the massive explosion that erupted right after that impact. the faa says that six people were on board and it was heading to springfield-branson national airport in missouri. ring doorbell video captured the moment of the crash, showing the plane in a nosedive before slamming into the ground. >> yeah, she's she's she's still hanging. >> the plane appears to be rotating as it was falling. it reached an altitude of about 1600 feet before plunging, coming down at 11,000ft per minute. the company operating the flight says one of the people on board was a pediatric patient. air traffic control audio describes the jet as a medevac flight. >> medevac med service. northeast tower

. >> laura coates live tonight. at 11. eastern on cnn. >> more on our breaking news out of philadelphia. a medevac jet has crashed near a mall in the city. six people were on board, including a pediatric patient. we're waiting on word about whether there are any casualties on the ground in the surrounding neighborhood. joining us now is ryan tien, an eyewitness to the crash. ryan, first of all, tell us, what did you see? >> yeah. >> um. >> so i. >> first noticed the sky just being lit this, like, bright orange, and then it just after looking up, i turned around and was faced with this massive mushroom cloud. >> oh my god. >> and where were you at the time um, i think i was like, in the pc richard and sons parking lot around 2420 cottman ave. i was just getting food. yeah. and so when you saw that happen and this massive fireball, what did you think was going on? did you see the plane fall out of the sky? >> no, i didn't, but when i like, turned around and saw the massive mushroom cloud, i just my first assumption was like

. >> and laura coates joins me now here in studio. laura, do you think this pause on the deferred resignation program or the buyouts would cause the trump administration to hold off on more mass layoffs that they're talking about, they're hinting about until they see how this plays out in court? or are they just full steam ahead? >> well, certainly, the trump. >> administration has learned from the first time around the idea of the bureaucracy might be slow, but the litigation and court procedures can be often slower and more drawn out. there is a likelihood they could take their chances and wait for there to be some reaction from the courts. obviously, there's injunctive relief saying, i'm going to pause the status quo to make sure that i have the full briefing, but they could take their chances that way. but this is quite the mess. i have to just say, this is not the fork in the road. this is the almost don corleone giving an offer you can't refuse. that seems to be happening. that's the judge's concern here. you can't tell people th

laura coates. liv starts right now. >> well. >> tonight the clock is ticking. >> for workers across. >> the federal own political beliefs ahead of the trump administration and the trump team. walking back, the president's plan to take over gaza. and it begs the question who knew about it beforehand? this plan. tonight on laura coates live. all right. just about, what, 24 hours you got roughly 2 million federal workers having to face a very dramatic choice. either you accept donald trump and elon musk's so-called fork in the road, or you venture down the path unknown. they face a midnight deadline tomorrow to resign and accept a so-called buyout. i'll tell you why i say so-called in a moment. and if they don't? well, then they run the risk of getting caught up in widespread layoffs. we know at least 40,000 workers have taken up the offer so far, but unions and state attorneys general, they're warning not to take the bait. they argue this likely isn't even legal. in just a moment, i'll talk with some

laura coates live starts right now. >> well, tonight. >> elon musk gets a new mission. a long leash and the return of his most controversial doge aid. plus, even after they won a legal victory, joins me to preview her performance of the black national anthem tonight on laura coates live. all right. at this point, we may need an auctioneer to speed read for everything that trump has actually done. i mean, just in the last few hours, he terminated president biden's security clearance. he fired the national archivist. he appointed himself chairman of the kennedy center for performing arts. yeah, you heard that right. all the while, he's letting elon musk's leash get longer and longer. >> is there anything you've told elon musk he cannot touch? >> well, we haven't discussed that much. i'll tell him to go here. go there. he does. it. >> it's that easy, huh? well, democrats aren't so sure that it's actually trump telling him to go here and there. and then he does just that. and then time magazine fanned their flames with this cover, casting elon musk as the president. oval of

. >> laura coates live tonight at 11 eastern on cnn. >> tonight 300. the trump administration wants to cut the entire usaid workforce down to the size of a spartan battalion right now. usaid has 10,000 people posted across the world, many of whom have already been cut off from their systems, including email. one usaid official says bluntly, it's the worst case scenario of essentially one person for each field mission. and a few folks in d.c. but secretary of state marco rubio framed what was happening this week as a minor impact brian atwood a blanket waiver that said, if this is life saving programs, if it's providing food or medicine or anything that is saving lives and is immediate and urgent, you're not included in the freeze. >> i don't know how much more clear we can be than that. >> joining us in our fifth seat at the table is doctor chris purnell. she is the director of the naacp center for health equity and the region at large at the american college of preventative medicine. doctor purnell, going from 10,000 to 300, means there's no way that

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laura coates. >> live tonight. >> at 11. eastern on cnn. >> did donald trump actually win anything? the president walked walked the united states to the very edge of a trade war with mexico and of all places, canada. the two nations, trump says, blinked. and he says that they are offering clear, tangible concessions. but take a look at what trump, quote unquote, wants one, and it adds up to something you gift your neighbor with new wrapping paper in exchange for abandoning tariffs. trump says mexico is sending 10,000 troops to the border, and canada is implementing a $1.3 billion border plan. only mexico and canada were already doing that. mexico sent 15,000 troops to the border in 2019. during the first trump term, and then in 10,000 troops when biden was president. canada announced the same border plan that trump is touting today themselves. back in december, weeks before trump took office. the actual thing donald trump might have won, though, for now, is the good graces of wall street traders. the market started the day with a spiral, and then trump announced the deal, and the sp

earlier, two eyewitnesses described the crash scene to cnn's laura coates. >> what i saw, i saw a bunch of parts scattered through my street. yeah. >> and like parts of the plane. >> of the plane and cars. and i saw also a, i believe was like a part of the tank of the gasoline or. >> or something of the plane. it's like it was like this piece that was. >> it was pretty. >> big, like debris, you know, all over. and like, just smoke. smoke and fire. one of the houses was catching on fire as well. and they were trying to evacuate. people like to everybody be safe. >> pennsylvania's governor says environmental officials are dealing with hazardous materials at the site. federal aviation investigators are looking into the incident. our breaking news right now in gaza city. we're waiting for hamas to release an israeli american man who's been held hostage since the october 7th attacks. now, a short time ago, hamas handed two other hostages to the red cross. this is one of them. ofer kalderon israel says calderon and the other released hostage, yarden bibas are now back in israel. so i want to

. >> laura coates live tonight at 11 eastern on cnn. >> new security concerns this morning after the white house ordered the cia to send it an unclassified email with the first name and last initial of every cia staffer hired in the last two years. cnn's zachary cohen joins us now. zachary, you have been reporting on this. what threat does this email pose? >> yeah, pam, we're hearing a lot of concern about the counterintelligence threat here, and particularly because they sent it on an unclassified or in an unclassified email that opens the door to potentially exposing the identities of these new hires of these cia officers that were included in this list. and that includes people that are training to go undercover, people who can conduct their missions based purely around the fact that they are able to hide their true identity from everybody else. so that's been a prime target for foreign adversaries and foreign hackers in particular. we've seen them in the past target this unclassified white house email network. you might remember the opm hack just a few years ago was a massive bre

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. >> laura coates live tonight at 11 eastern on cnn. >> elon musk and his department of government efficiencyeam. his members now have access to the u.s. treasury's payments system. now the top civil servant at the treasury department left abruptly on friday, the same day trump affiliated officials asked about stopping certain payments made by the federal government. now, this is kind of the plumbing here, the system that doles out more than $5 trillion in payments each year. that includes social security benefits, tax refunds and payments to federal workers. nearly 90% of the government's payments. cnn's katelyn polantz joins us now. caitlin, we've been covering this, working on this, reporting it out over the course of weeks. now. i think at this point, what does the team have access to right now? do we know what's happening in the treasury department? >> well. >> it. >> appears they have access to a super secret, super sensitive system within the treasury department. it's so sensitive and so low key in the way the treasury department operates that other administrations political appointees

tonight on laura coates live. well, it's day 18 of donald trump's second term. yep, it hasn't even been three weeks. and the blitz to shrink the government is actually facing resistance from lady justice. the question tonight, though, is whether her scales can withstand the very deliberate pressure coming her way. >> i say it's both scale, depth and urgency. that's why you're seeing. and look, i strongly believe in the flood, the zone theory, which is just overwhelm the opposition. lawsuits are coming from everywhere yeah, there are lawsuits flying everywhere. >> and yes, steve bannon seems to be celebrating that point, but is he only projecting confidence because there's evidence tonight that those lawsuits are actually not just everywhere. they're actually perhaps working, at least for now. i mean, take elon musk's plan to force millions of federal workers to quit their jobs. i mean, not quit. take the fork in the road. that was the phrase by midnight. well, a judge stepped in and said, not so fast. that's going to have to wait until at least monday. so the le

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. >> i'm laura coates and we are following breaking news in philadelphia. another aviation tragedy is playing out. a medevac jet crashed less than a minute after taking off from northeast philadelphia airport. ring doorbell camera footage shows what appears to be the final moments of the aircraft. just after 6 p.m. eastern. the plane, in a nosedive before slamming into the ground. within the last hour, the operator of the medevac confirmed six people were on board its mission to help ferry a girl who had a medical procedure back home to mexico. she'd been treated in a medevac company, says that she was cleared to fly home. >> this flight was a repatriation flight of a patient who recovered and was headed home. she was fit to fly, cleared to go back home. uh, and we were contracted by a third party charitable organization to transport her back to mexico. so the final destination was to be tijuana international airport. >> i want to bring in cnn's jason carroll, who is live for us in philadelphia. jason, give us an update. what are you seeing? what do we know

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tonight on laura coates live. well, it's day 15 of donald trump's second term, and we almost got into two trade wars while also watching elon musk press control alt delete on an entire federal agency. yes, the world's richest man and doge leader. he's working to end the program responsible for delivering humanitarian aid all across the globe. now, he claims that usaid is a criminal organization and it's, quote, time for it to die, unquote. now, advocates argue that usaid saves lives around the globe. it treats diseases. it fights poverty. it responds to famines and natural disasters. it creates goodwill and promotes america's image abroad. now, that's the point that democratic lawmakers and protesters were trying to make outside the agency's headquarters. they say what trump and musk are doing is not even legal, because only congress can decide what happens to that agency. but that's not actually stopping the president or elon musk. trump says he doesn't need congress to scrap the agency, and the white house claim

laura coates, why would the justice department be returning these classified documents? is there a legal is there a national security reason to do so? >> well. >> technically, now that he's the president of united states, the. >> idea of him having. >> access to classified. >> material is not an unprecedented action. the real. challenge here is, of course, they still have not. >> gotten. >> to the bottom of whether or not. >> he misused. >> the data when he was no longer the president of the united states, when. he still had them in his possession. that has fallen to. >> the wayside. >> with the dismissal. >> of that case against him. and in florida. but he is technically able. >> to access it again. >> i do wonder if some aspects of it, though. >> are performative or trying. >> to simply appease him, because surely he will be debriefed and brought. >> up. >> to speed. >> on a whole number. >> of issues that. >> have nothing. >> to do with things that happened for maybe six. >> years ago. so i suspect that they're giving it to. >> him to suggest that. he can now use it.

here's what he recently told cnn's laura coates. >> i don't see as what i'd done anything wrong. improperly indicted. um, i see it. i do see it as a miscarriage of justice. and i think, like i said before, you know, i don't i can't condone, like, assaults on a police officer. but i think president trump said it, right. he was going to go case by case, and he did. and it wasn't the actions that he pardoned. it was a miscarriage of justice that he pardoned. >> yeah. he didn't go case by case. he's back in sort of the proud boy costume, the fred perry there, the black and gold in it. in his first interview after being released from prison, he spoke to alex jones. and this is what he said. >> the trial should have never happened. and if it did happen, it should have been outside of the jurisdiction of of the district. um, but, uh, that's how they it didn't matter what evidence we were going to bring in. alex. they didn't care about the evidence. they cared about putting trump supporters in prison. well, now it's our turn. >> it's our turn. we'll be keeping track of what becomes of so

. >> laura: joining me now is victoria coates former trump deputy national security adviser. victoria, this has been another day of nonstop news. your reaction to the president's proposal that the u.s. essentially take over the gaza strip? >> well, laura, good to be with you. it's been another momentous day in i would say the most momentous first two weeks of any president's tenure. and today we heard president trump come out and say what no american has had the courage to say before. which is that the united states is willing to step in here and play the leadership role we need to play the situation in gaza is untenable. what happened on october 7th of 2023 cannot happen again. and the only way to ensure that is to break the paradigm to create a new mold. i think that's what he was proposing today. in concert with prime minister netanyahu great to see them together again at the white house last time they came together and had some of these discussions we got the abraham accords. i think this is a great way to get the conversation going. >> laura: people have to remember that