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those people who oppose him, melanie, take us to the hill. what are democrats telling you? because to peter's point, a lot of americans just on paper say, yeah, the government is too big. and i want us to focus on spending our money in america with the american people. what do democrats do in this moment? >> yeah. >> that's the real debate happening right now inside the democratic. party is because initially, they didn't want to be reflexively just going up against trump and resisting him at every turn. and there is a recognition that the, you know, the government is not popular, congress is not popular, that cutting government. waste and spending is quite popular with the public. and so initially you did see some democrats who were willing to work with the doge initiative, who joined the doge caucus on capitol hill. but that has all changed within the last week. in fact, just a few hours ago, one of those democrats, val hoyle, a moderate democrat, she announced that she's quitting the doge caucus on capitol hill because it's become so toxic and because they're seeing how t

melanie zanona, senior congressional reporter for punchbowl news. former u.s. attorney joyce vance, who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. she's also a law professor at the university of alabama. and hayes brown joins us, msnbc daily columnist and editor. okey dokey. let's start with federal employees, some 60,000. that sounds like a big number, but it is not. some are taking these buyouts. but now the program the buyout program is getting, i'm not going to say completely stopped, but at least held up in court. right. donald trump has announced lots of big changes, but day in and day out we are seeing them get roadblocked. >> we're seeing them get. >> roadblocked for now. like your point about it being very. >> early in. >> the. >> game. >> is a good one, but i am afraid it cuts both ways. >> like. >> yes. we're seeing federal courts step up and say what you're doing. doesn't seem like it's really on the money. i have. >> a lot of questions. >> we're going to pause these. >> things while we take. >> a look and see if there's a case. but what. i'm worried a

melanie with the potential economic impacts on the eurozone , factoring in their base case of 10 to 15% crossing in terms of 29 to 30 million shares for 101 euros per share and that is the line crossing so that is another stock for you to watch. and now some other stories making the news. elon musk says his department of government efficiency is in the process of trying to shut down u.s. aid. the agency's website when off-line and sources say some officials were placed on lead after denying staff from the department of government efficiency access to systems. he also said his team is shutting down some payments to federal contractors, suggesting he may have access to sensitive systems used at treasury. president trump has put the ceo in charge of modernizing i.t. but he appears to be expanding that to include control over financial foes and other parts of the government. unicredit has made a new move with a minority stake in general. they say therefore .1% stake is a pure financial investment with no strategic interest. they began accumulating in september. and we will have an exclusive

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melanie stansbury. >> introduced the. nobody elected. >> elon musk act. what congresswoman stansbury said this week. >> we are. not going to let. an unelected. private citizen steal. >> our data. >> that's right. we are. >> not going to let. >> elon musk. >> steal our country. >> yep. that's right. >> and we are not going to let donald trump dismantle. >> everything that. america stands for, because. >> this is. >> our country. >> all right. we'll see if. >> republicans disagree that nobody. >> actually elected elon musk. we'll see. >> if. >> house republicans. will even. >> allow that this bill to come up. >> for a vote. this afternoon. >> donald trump. >> signed another. >> executive order. >> withholding funding to south. >> africa and to promote the resettlement. >> of afrikaner. >> white descendants of dutch and. >> french settlers who are, quote, refugees. >> escaping government. >> sponsored. >> race based discrimination, including racially. >> discriminatory property. >> confiscation. >> end quote. >> now. south africa's expropriation. >> act, a l

today, house democrats jamie raskin and melanie stansbury introduced the. nobody elected elon musk act. here's what congresswoman stansbury said this week. >> we are. not going to. let an unelected. private citizen steal. >> our data. >> that's right. >> we are. >> not going to let. elon musk steal our country, and we are not going to let donald trump dismantle everything. >> that america. >> stands for. >> because this. >> is our. >> country. >> all right. we'll see if republicans disagree that nobody actually elected elon musk. we'll see if house republicans will even allow that this bill to come up for a vote. this afternoon, donald trump signed another executive order withholding funding to south africa and to promote the resettlement of afrikaner white descendants of dutch and french settlers who are, quote, refugees escaping government sponsored race based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation, end quote. now, south africa's expropriation act, a law that seeks to address past injustices 30 years after the end of apart

melanie. oh, so melanie, i think it was trying to like assimilate to like white america and trying to fit into like, yeah. jessica said about the white and black binary. i'm just kind of what america had because the latino identity so diverse and so complex. um, i think that society was still not subject to understand. that's right. so the populations in the south prior to the 1970s were still pretty small. we didn't kind of large scale migration the way did in places like l.a. or miami or new york. right. so there wasn't a real sense of as a category. so we look at places like duke university city. we had early, you know, since like the 19 tens, there have been latinos attending duke university specifically non-black latinos attending duke university. and we talked a little bit about in relation to this category, provisional whiteness. so when i talk that category, when we think about early latinos in the south, specifically in the jim crow era, what i'm sort thinking about is how latinos bot

. >> abc seven news i-team reporter melanie woodrow has the seven on your side story. >> marine corps veteran wesley skelton is dumping out $2,500 worth of golden eagles, along with what he thought were trump silver coins. >> he said that he was going to help the people become millionaires. i could trade these in for cash at bank of america, supposedly $110,000 apiece. >> 110,000 apiece. >> correct. >> which is why skelton bought 324 of them. so you thought you were getting. >> over 35 million? >> skelton became aware of the project after watching what he now knows were fake. likely, ai generated videos of president donald trump on telegram. >> and i want to congratulate everyone who has already gotten their trump golden eagles and exchange them for a new future. >> there were also fake videos of bank of america ceo and even elon musk. >> you can even visit any tesla shop and trade your trump golden eagles for a tesla car, or use them to invest in tesla or spacex stocks. >> a bank of america spokesperson tells seven on your side, it's a scam that bank of america has nothing to do with

abc seven news i-team reporter melanie woodrow has the seven on your side story.ey actually weren't. >> they were not. kristen one of these golden eagles. you can see it here. it's pretty small. worth $59. that's how much it cost to purchase them. supposedly the trade in value more than $100,000. one pittsburgh man thought he'd be a millionaire. turns out this is a worth less than its weight. marine corps veteran wesley skelton is dumping out $2,500 worth of golden eagles, along with what he thought were trump silver coins. >> he said that he was going to help the people become millionaires. i could trade these in for cash at bank of america, supposedly $110,000 apiece. >> 110,000 apiece. >> correct. >> which is why skelton bought 324 of them. so you thought you were getting. >> over 35 million? >> skelton became aware of the project after watching what he now knows were fake. likely, ai generated videos of president donald trump on telegram. >> and i want to congratulate everyone who has already gotten their trump golden eagles and exchange them for a new future.

congresswoman melanie stansbury, thank you. still to come, one of pam bondi first directives as attorney general to shutter an fbi team in charge of combating foreign interference in u.s. elections. plus, in an effort to comply with an executive order, the cia sent the white house a list of all new hires. why the move could expose identities of those officers to foreign government hackers, and then later, lawmakers briefed on the investigation of the deadly mid-air collision between a passenger jet and an army helicopter over the potomac river. we'll have that and much more coming up on cnn news central. >> welcome back. >> have i got news for you returns february 15th on cnn. >> speak now or forever. hold your. >> only took for our cough liquid. unlike robitussin dm, delsym liquid offers 12 hours of cough relief all day or night. delsym cough. crisis averted. >> meera. joy, the overwhelming relief after miralax helps you go. miralax works naturally with the water in your body, putting you in a supernaturally good mood. miralax

melanie woodrow shows us how i tricked him into investing and what we all can learn from his mistake. join us for those stories and more at 530 on abc seven. bay area streaming tv. jillian ama. >> all right. a lot of good info. thank you. karina. and you can download the abc seven app or head to abc7 news.com and join karina in two minutes. >> and if you're watching us here on tv. world news tonight with david muir is up next. for sandhya patel, the entire team. thanks so much for joining us. i'm julian. >> glover and i'm ama daetz. we'll see you again at six. a glorious round table pepperoni pizz... huh? behold, the pepperoni, grilled chicken and bacon pizza from round table! three magnificent toppings. try it at round table pizza! still have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis... ...or crohn's disease symptoms after taking... ...a medication like humira or remicade? put them in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when symptoms tried to take control, i got rapid relief with rinvoq. check. when flares tried to slow me down,... ...i got lasting remission with rinvoq. check. and man

this is a still image from the 12 second video that was posted by teacher melanie ramirez, who you see here. she's lip synching the words speak out in the video. in the beginning, she shows off her pride flag in class, then some of the books in her classroom, and this poster saying we need diverse books. parents told me they questioned whether these items, the pride flag specifically should be in the classroom of first graders regarding that pittsburgh unified school district superintendent janet scholz says the district has only received one email about this from a parent, saying they've received numerous emails, phone calls and messages from people that they have determined do not have any children in the school district. some parents i spoke with say they didn't reach out to the district, but rather the school. scholz says. the teacher, ramirez, is teaching the adopted state and district approved standards based curriculum, going on to say the teacher is not violating any board policy, and there is nothing in the teacher's classroom that violates any policy. the pride flag has long

melanie tells us her pents recently told her to take care of her sisters if they get deported.e just come here for the american dream that everybody comes here for the american dream. rallies happening throughout the bay area today from san jose to oakland and in redwood city, to the protest happening on what many are calling a day without immigrants, a day meant to show the everyday contributions of immigrants in the u.s. today's demonstrations a response to president trump's promise of mass deportations. a lot of fear. yeah. what are you most scared about? that my parents won't come home after work. i called out of work. i have a full time job. my little sister didn't go to school. so it can show. and it can show that us as mexicans or as latinos, we're all united. people stayed home from work and from school. in san jose's alum rock school district, almost 40% of students did not show up. and tonight at la tropicana shopping center, most businesses were closed with signs that read apoyando a nuestra comunidad supporting our community. the owners of la fonda colombiana have t

this is a still image from the 12 second video that was posted by teacher melanie ramirez, who you see here. she's lip synching the words speak out in the video. in the beginning, she shows off her pride flag in class, then some of the books in her classroom, and this poster saying we need diverse books. parents told me they questioned whether these items, the pride flag specifically should be in the classroom of first graders regarding that pittsburgh unified school district superintendent janet scholz says the district has only received one email about this from a parent, saying they've received numerous emails, phone calls and messages from people that they have determined do not have any children in the school district. some parents i spoke with say they didn't reach out to the district, but rather the school. scholz says. the teacher, ramirez, is teaching the adopted state and district approved standards based curriculum, going on to say the teacher is not violating any board policy, and there is nothing in the teacher's classroom that violates any policy. the pride flag has long

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this is a still image from the 12 second video that was posted by teacher melanie ramirez, who you see so she's lip synching the words speak out in the video. in the beginning, she shows off her pride flag in class. then some of the books in her classroom, and this poster that we should be seeing. well, the poster said we need diverse books. so parents told abc seven they questioned whether these items, the pride flag specifically should be in the classroom of first graders. the pittsburgh unified school district superintendent says the teacher is teaching the adopted state and district approved, standards based curriculum, going on to say the teacher is not violating any board policy, and there is nothing in the teacher's classroom that violates any policy. >> now for your morning money report. if you think gas is expensive now, prices at the pump could go up another $0.15 soon. and that is assuming that upcoming tariffs on canadian products actually take effect. as you know, right now they're on a 30 day pause. imports from canada and mexico were announced. tariffs on imports from ca

just moments ago, congresswoman melanie stansbury and congressman jamie raskin introduced a bill called the. nobody elected elon musk act. the bill would make sure that taxpayers won't be on the hook for damages in these litany of court challenges that are brought as a result of elon musk's actions, and those members who are taking those steps, they don't name elon quite in the text outside the name of it, but it's very obvious that they're talking about him, that he would be on the hook for those damages. chris. >> all right, so, sam, the project 2025 architect who authored a lot of what we're seeing. right, russell vote just got confirmed, as you know, as the head of omb. so today is his first full day on the job. here's what politico said about him. vote has said he wants to inflict trauma on the federal workforce, dismantle an elitist regime he believes has long stifled conservatives, and shake the very foundations of american government he believes has been captured by an administrative state. so could this be short of, i don't know, an epiphany by donald trump or a fight that incl

melanie claros, an esl teacher in south florida, told the aft that more than two dozen of her studentst stricter immigration enforcement, and that one of her students has stopped showing up to school. here in new york city, a middle aged a middle school teacher in brooklyn told news site am new york that migrant students attendance has dropped and that many, especially especially those in english as a second language, esl programs are afraid to come to school, teachers in cincinnati told the cincinnati enquirer that they've seen a drop in attendance from their immigration students, from their immigrant students since donald trump's inauguration. more than 1 in 10 students in the district are english language learners. rachel rachel van hall, who teaches esl in the city, said that a school set at a school board meeting this week. quote, families and parents are writing me saying they don't want to send their children to school, end quote, and a multilingual coordinator at an elementary school in southern delaware told the local npr station that, quote, students are telling us that they'

host: melanie up next in dallas, democrats line. hi. caller: good morning. this is melanie.ady who just called before, i am a democrat, but i was appalled with that guy that you just had on there. i don't -- i didn't support trump. i don't like what musk is doing. i think there is a bert way that we can communicate it and i think that's what the democrats need, people that can communicate with their -- what they're trying to say. he was all in his feelings. i was offended when he said they have that little girl, i am assuming he was talking about the press secretary. she's a young woman. he reminds me of what i as an african-american woman despise about the majority. thank you, pedro. host: independent line, good morning. caller: good morning. first of all, i called about a month ago on the 6th right before the vote count, and i got to talk from 4 -- in the morning and i was cut off. we tried to stop what happened on the 6th. to no avoil. -- avail. you are supposed to be open here. for somehow we got cut off and didn't get through. yesterday senator murphy from connecticut,

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