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lennox served as a u.s. marine for more than ten years before pivoting to a career at a veterans hospital. kate, andrew, thank you both very much for coming to the saturday show. kate, let me start with you, because you're in the unusual position of having been fired and rehired. and i'm bringing that up because, as i just read, elon musk put out that thing on x saying, i'm sending an email and i want to know what you did last week. otherwise, you're going to be fired. and i bring that up because opm, the office of personnel management at the white house spokesperson, put out a statement that said, as part of the trump administration's commitment to an efficient and accountable federal workforce, opm is asking employees to provide a brief summary of what they did last week by the end of monday. monday. see, seeing their manager agencies will determine any next steps. what's interesting about that is it does not repeat musk's threat of if you don't answer us, you're fired. how are you doing in in this time? f

big payments that like kate bush, annie lennox, and cat stevens are among more than 1,000 musicians who. the artists are protesting proposed changes to artificial intelligence laws that would let tech firms use copyrighted material to train a.i. models. they say the move would take away control over their work. >>> and wnba superstar diana taurasi is retiring after a stellar 20-year career. the phoenix mercury guard has made her mark on the sport winning three championships, becoming the league's all-time leading scorer, earning six gold medals with team usa, and making 11 wnba all-star game appearances. the 42-year-old told "time" magazine, quote, mentally and physically, i'm just full. i'm full, and i'm happy. >>> and rumors have been swirling about travis kelce's future with the nfl since the kansas city chiefs lost the super bowl to the philadelphia eagles. chiefs general manager brett veach says the team is expecting the tight end to play next season, adding that kelce has the fire and desire to play. coach andy reid not as sure saying he believes kelce is relaxing and taking his t

and if they had not had that extra couple of 100 kilometers to travel capture, lennox already declared that he was going to kill all of a habits in leningrad and destroy the city and give it to finland. and by the way, you finish liter marshall, man, i'm was a 100 percent in favor of that but, and expose the bankruptcy of western policy to in refusing to make a uh, a treaty with associates. and it was, it should expose the betrayal of the polish government at 1st, hitler plans to use polls by offering them the role of julia ally and his campaign against russia. roland, however, considers itself to him and he's fully fledged and intends to take on a slovak, you know, rules and to crane class other plans. and there's no place for the situation was with the death of co sky hensley regarded warmly you can use the missing where to just keep working on till square. you see i'm getting started or if you're the person that gives you enough, that's what i'm getting interesting. you pushing where the chicago book deals click that goes away. it's got addition, you will will with your full score o

. >> reporter: roughly 30% of all people are veterans including andrew lennox who was just fired without warning from his job at a v.a. hospital in michigan. >> we're not some deep state that has ulterior motives. i want to go to work. i want to help veterans. >> reporter: still, the president is showing no interest in slowing down his remaking of the federal government. in his first month, signing more than 73 executive orders with musk's doge cost cutters now operating in at least 18 separate departments and agencies. >> we found billions, tens of billions of dollars of fraud and waste and abuse. and that's just the beginning. >> reporter: while republicans have praised the president for slashing what they view as wasteful spending, the white house has provided no evidence of fraud, which is a crime. also tonight, confirmed by the senate, the president's fbi director pick kash patel. despite stiff opposition from democrats and two republicans, who have repeatedly questioned his qualifications and his commitment to the bureau's independence. >> when everyone else in the first trump admi

uh, we kept talking and the lennox bring. luckily, the living room of the house, it's to the wings and give protection to the family. and then that was tucked there for 3 weeks. and also i used to live life to get them full dice. our streets were all flooded and filled with stones. metal seats from roofs 3 trunks closes. that road was full of rob. so there was no way to get me out of the house with a wheelchair. i don't think i'm going me through that. they give you guys, it would have been in a box simple and i'll save you up to see to these de helena's house to be as the marks of sec, let me die after the tragedy she up to, to become a specialist. the inclusive disaster preparedness now she walks as a facilitator for an in jewel. it's a job that's growing in importance globally. as the planet warms these us, that's like cycling e died. we become more intense and more frequent. the most vulnerable in society often suffer the most in these climate disasters. people with disabilities are up to 4 times more likely to day, and then that's early disaster. so the united nation sees the must

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you come out here as well, i'm just going to turn around because behind us you can see um and it's lennox and stuff. oh, so it gave destroyed alongside it here to look at this particular won't fluid. now, because you can see these vehicles a, these folders is, these are typically used in the villages of southern lebanon, especially in right now. or for 2 reasons. one to clear the debris to clear the roads, but also they used to recover the dead, the people being killed by as well, doing it from bob. and of course now that people have started to return to the villages in the south, more mobile days of being filing, some of them being on the rubble for many, many months. and just a week ago, as well launched a biology of missiles here destroying those, bulldozers this car off this construction vehicle here as villages was simply trying to pay the roads, trying to recover that and give them a dignified burial. how does that leave of the children when the car arrived to pick up the bodies of the dead? it was hit that it was on the 1st day i came here when the next day another car arrived and

president that up to stop brick into these statements about, and it's about stealing does a about the lennox vision. and, and i thought that this mcclin's and go to the senior people, which is nothing but a violation of international law. and a lot of crime, he has to stop making these statements because they're out of the ones that are approval contributed, published in, in every out of every muslim human being who believes the freedom of people. and finally, i think the do, it does have a responsibility here, and i'm sure the thing that best we've, we've had that crap that was very wanted to do some smarter than a few days. and they were trying to interview them. that is what it is to stop the problem, okay? since i think these boxes have to enter the field so that that agreement can continue. but more important than that, it is important that there are that the united states of america, and visit and start talking about the expectations and goes to protesting and people. okay, we'll leave it there. i'm gonna start most of about a whole team speaking to us from, but i'm, i'm not in the occ

. >> reporter: andrew lennox, who served in iraq, afghanistan, and syria, was just fired from his job at the v.a. in michigan. >> shock and disbelief. and straight anger. all i started hearing were these sound bytes of parasitic, unproductive, lazy, entitled government workers. and all i can think about is, from my experience, you know, like, nobody was telling me i was lazy in afghanistan when i'm sleeping in a hole. >> reporter: tonight, the pentagon is confirming they are moving forward with that 8% cut, totaling around $50 billion. the pentagon says that money will be redirected to other defense priorities for the trump administration, david. >> david: all right, rachel scott tonight. rachel, thank you. >>> there's been another deadly plane crash. tonight, investigators are on the scene of a deadly midair collision just outside tucson, arizona. the small planes crashing into each other near the runway. one plane landing safely. the other plane plunging to the ground. two people were killed. the airport does not have an air traffic control tower. >>> we also have new reporting toni

i mean, what we're talking about is on uh, well, i think a bit like finished june of the um, lennox, we've been talking about at present 20 percent of ukraine, which would not be legally recognized as part of russia, which would simply remain under russia because the ukrainians. concrete. com, correct. now the risk is the way things are going. i mean, this is another reason why i think that actually, so the formulas autonomous regions doesn't know. the reason that the, the me was cypress, if you leave this territory on the russia because you called me concrete, but didn't recognize the international community, doesn't recognize that i know a china doesn't recognize it. india doesn't recognize it. but the, the point is, the reason why there is a case with speed is that if we leave this given the way things going on the battlefield, 6 months from now, it could be not 20 percent of ukraine's last. it could be 25 percent. you know, there is a risk series western miller family. so said that since the ukrainians could collapse completely. now at that point, you're looking at not too much o

last year is pumps pace because you know, they're just a little bit of these. lennox for public policy runs across and you cannot be completed the rest of the cation which sweeps the on site, and that's on the cooperation. but this is the test 10 countries. but i've been with this string of a process in yeah. and for us progress to it, i'm going to be in sales reps as occasion around certification on the legal status . so the caspian save us more than they will sell the prospects. and notice this thing i've done of, of up to the video and can we expect, suppose the resolution of this issue in the near future with the escape of considering the results within the kind of what your global level looks password within the work group. thank you, i betsy, but shouldn't know the level of the citizen. i was thank you for the question. that's really an important one kind of answer especially considering and that's what i say. it's a convention plus nature which reflect views and is that you are very senior, mysterious, to knock on the task relating to succeed with a sort of way of useless brochu

artists and composers including cat stevens, annie lennox, hans zimmer, and others say proposed changesk. copyright law could allow tech companies to train ai with popular songs. the artists fear that could rob them of creative control. on wall street today, stocks ended mixed after a reading on u.s. consumer confidence dropped sharply. the dow jones industrial average gained nearly 160 points. but the nasdaq headed in the other direction, falling 260 points. the s&p 500 ended lower for a fourth-straight session. and some good news from space. nasa says the asteroid that once had a small but very real chance of hitting our planet is no longer a threat. at one point, scientists believed the space rock had a nearly 3% chance of hitting the earth in the year 2032. but now, both nasa and the european space agency say the chance of impact is nearly zero. and while earth is in the clear, scientists say there's still a small chance it could hit our moon in 2032. still to come on the "news hour," house republicans work to pass a trump-approved budget bill. gazans try to rebuild their destroyed

talk to many of these people who've been laid off, including a man i spoke to yesterday named andrew lennox, who was fired from his job at the va. he was a marine for ten years before he went to the va to try to help his fellow veteran. >> and he. >> encapsulated, i think, pretty well the frustration that so many are feeling at the haphazard nature of these cuts and the way federal workers are being made to appear as villains. listen to part of our conversation. >> it's convenient to create an enemy. >> that everyone's against us. but like, we're federal workers. like, i'm just trying to help veterans. you know. >> it's postal worker. it's all these people. >> we're not some deep. >> state that. >> like, has ulterior motives. i want to go to work. i want to help veterans, and i want to do it again. and i'd like to do it continually. and i don't want to be dragged into these politics. >> it's worth noting, like the 80% of federal workers who live and work outside of d.c, andrew lived in. >> ann arbor, michigan. >> there are more cuts rumored and. being reported today, including at places lik

andrew lennox is a marine veteran who spent ten years serving. he was fired from a supervisor training program at the va medical center in ann arbor, michigan. andrew, thank you so much for being with us. um, first off, i just want to understand something because the grounds for termination in your case and so many others is basically a question of whether your continued employment was in the public interest. what is your reaction to that? >> so, yeah, that's the exact language that was on the termination notification. um, it's my my reaction. at first it was surprise, you know, disbelief. and i mean, this morning as i packed up my office, it's anger, you know, because it's, you know, my i was terminated for my performance. i haven't even had a performance review. nobody consulted any, you know, any supervisors or even the director of our hospital before making these terminations. >> so tell me about your job and why you wanted to work at the va. >> yeah. so i spent ten years in the marine corps. i loved it. greatest job i ever had. and i made th

. >> reporter: in december, andrew lennox started a job he considered a calling at the va hospital working as an administrative officer. he says his firing by email late last week surprised even his direct supervisors. what does that tell you about the reasoning behind it? >> it was arbitrary, and it wasn't thought out. >> garrett, this all comes as the house of representatives working on its own potential budget and budget cuts. the future of medicaid in question. what do you know about that? >> reporter: savannah, this has been a mess. congress has been slowly putting together this massive tax and border policy bill as the president has demanded. house republicans have been eyeing the $880 billion or so in the medicaid health care safety net program as a place they could reform or potentially do steep cuts to pay for other priorities, but now the president has said in his recent fox news interview that medicaid will join medicare and social security as programs the spending bill won't touch. all of it ends up as a giant math problem for the president who has promised huge savings to pay

andrew lennox who served as a marine in iraq, afghanistan, syria, was just fired from his job at the va in michigan. >> you spend ten years trying to defend the country and what we stand for, as far as honesty, integrity, justice. then we come back and you get copy and paste in the same e-mail with 10,000 other people about your performance. >> reporter: meanwhile, the trump administration is facing a series of legal challenges including over his push to end birth right citizenship. the 9th circuit court of appeals denying an emergency request overnight from the justice department to lift the block on the executive order. in a concurring decision, the judge, who trump nominated, writing deciding important substantive issues on one week's notice turns our usual decision making process on its head. the appeals court does plan to take up this case and review it in june. there's so many legal challenges on this issue, it could very well be heading for the supreme court. >> george: lots of comments from president trump yesterday. he called himself a king as he moves to take on this traffi

. >> lennox. >> kate bush. >> and cat stevens. >> are protesting. >> a. >> proposal in the uk that. >uld give. >> artificial intelligence firms access. >> to. >> copyrighted music. to push back on the. >> proposed law. the artists. >> released an album that is mostly silent except for. white noise, recorded in empty studios. according to the washington. >> post. >> a number of big name artists, including elton john and paul mccartney, have spoken out against the plan, which they say. >> could undermine. >> the recording industry by making it more difficult for artists. >> to protect. >> their work. >> astronomers say the earth. >> is no longer. >> in danger of being struck by an asteroid. >> in the. >> year of 2032. >> okay. >> the chances of impact. >> have dropped to nearly. >> zero last week. >> the odds. >> of an. >> impact were more than 3%. >> that probability. >> was the highest ever. >> recorded for. >> an object of this size. >> or bigger. >> these odds are all over the place. i know it might come back. it's going to be. i'm not. >> going to. >> change course. >> we'll see. a

. >> hello my name is christina lennox and i'm the co-founder of brownstone shared housing and we created a place that's affordable for $700 month to month out of a vacant formerly formerly vacant bank and then we were hit with an affordable housing fee of $306,000 which stunts our growth and it actually puts us at risk of having to pack up all of our furniture and move out of the city. >> but without this affordable housing fee we're able to create not just tens more housing for people but hundreds more in a few months. so i am in support of removing this affordable housing fee. >> thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is p.j. eugenio and i'm with som can completely exempting conversion project from all impact fees hurt existing residents in the saddle market and set a dangerous precedent regarding the city's commitment to the existing residents. the impact fees support desperately needed affordable housing child care, school parks and other community serving infrastructure. it feels like the city is doing whatever it can do to pu

. >> hello my name is christina lennox and i'm the co-founder of brownstone shared housing and we created a place that's affordable for $700 month to month out of a vacant formerly formerly vacant bank and then we were hit with an affordable housing fee of $306,000 which stunts our growth and it actually puts us at risk of having to pack up all of our furniture and move out of the city. >> but without this affordable housing fee we're able to create not just tens more housing for people but hundreds more in a few months. so i am in support of removing this affordable housing fee. >> thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is p.j. eugenio and i'm with som can completely exempting conversion project from all impact fees hurt existing residents in the saddle market and set a dangerous precedent regarding the city's commitment to the existing residents. the impact fees support desperately needed affordable housing child care, school parks and other community serving infrastructure. it feels like the city is doing whatever it can do to pu

. >> in a way, that's the piece of this that reminds me of when lennox came onto the scene and completelye where windows was going to be everywhere and windows server was going to rule everything, and there were all these like, expenses just for the software in the enterprise, linux and open source came in. and then suddenly it was less about just licensing the software itself. it was more about, okay, what about the know how to secure this, to deploy it, etc. maybe that happens with these models as well. we're still at that stage where it's unclear exactly how the business model is going to work out. a lot of this for nvidia back to them, i think depends on price, performance. if the performance that they come out with, with their next, you know, technology bundle the chips, the systems post blackwell is that much more performant than the cheaper stuff that other folks are coming out with. then maybe jen jensen ends up continuing to win on price performance. >> interesting. >> yeah. >> that's great john. >> really i mean yesterday blown away by what you did. >> thank you. >> thank you. r

marine veteran andrew lennox started a job he considered a calling at the va hospital. >> in ann. >> does that tell you about the reasoning behind it? >> it was arbitrary. >> and it. >> wasn't thought out. >> all right, where to begin? you know, again, i think president trump is tapping into something that makes a lot of sense to people waste, fraud and abuse making cuts that. but again, it's how it's being done. whether how it's being done is lawful and whether how it's being done is productive and actually in service of the american people. jen psaki you want to take a stab at this? >> yeah. look, to your point. i mean, waste, fraud and abuse, the government. is bloated. it could become more efficient. there have been efforts to do this in the past by democratic and republican administrations. putting that aside, they are doing this in such a willy nilly way as my best way of describing it. i mean, there are examples. the nuclear experts within the department of energy who are responsible essentially for at different plants across the country, moving nuclear materials, taking them

kate bush, annie lennox, billy ocean are just a few of the 1000 artists rallying against the government's plans all to do with copyright. we're going to bring you their best song shortly. >> and getting things done. president zelenskyy is going to head to washington as he agrees to exchange mineral resources in return for aid from president trump. have a listen. >> i hear that he's coming on friday. certainly it's okay with me if he'd like to. it's a very big deal. look, it could be $1 trillion deal. it could be whatever. but it's rare earths and other things. >> and you've just spotted a video, haven't you? >> that trump extraordinary video that trump's put on his truth and whatever his. >> truth social. >> truth social. >> truth social website. it's a it's an ai video, but it's of a vision of gaza because as he said, he wants to take over gaza. it includes trump hotels and a huge gold statue of donald trump. now it's an entertaining video. but why would the president of united states put that on his website? is that what the is that the vision of the middle east he's got? >> it's better