let's bring in the mayor of denver, colorado, mike johnston. mayor johnston, good to see you. so we know a high ranking member of the train de aragua gang who has committed crimes in your area, was arrested by federal agents during that raid in new york city. are you relieved that he was caught? >> we're happy to see. >> any enforcement. >> against gang members. >> our police department is working on that here. >> in denver. >> we'll work in partnership. >> on that. so, yeah, whenever we're getting violent. >> criminals off the streets, we're. >> supportive of. >> that no matter where they're from. >> cnn has previously reported that denver is one of the top targets for ice under president trump, who spoke about the metro area in his remarks last night that make it clear denver metro area is a priority for the president, including the city of aurora, which was targeted over the weekend. so take a listen. >> we're going to get them the hell out of here. and members of the savage venezuelan prison gang known as tren de aragua and ms 13, including 50 violent individuals who were

my source tonight is the denver mayor, mike johnston. and, mayor, it's great to have you tonight. have you seen any evidence since trump took office that ice agents are conducting arrests at different or higher levels than normal in your city? >> we've not seen any. >> presence yet or any raids or activations. >> we're obviously on the. lookout all over. >> the city and talking to all of our community partners and schools and churches and hospitals and work sites, and we have not seen any evidence yet, but we assume that they are coming. >> and you're taking this seriously. >> well, we're taking it incredibly seriously. we feel like we have to take the president at his word when he lifts prohibitions on being able to conduct ice raids at schools or hospitals or churches, we assume he's doing that for a reason. we also think that would have a massive, destabilizing effect on core city services. you can't have a safe city if someone can't feel confident to take their kid to the emergency room, or can't feel confident to drop their kids off at school. and so for us, those are core pu

. >> what's your response to the mayor of denver, mike johnston, who says his city will work with ice when it comes to detaining violent criminals? but that's where collaboration with the trump administration on deportations will stop. >> well, i would. >> hope that they would work with. >> them on all criminals, whether they're violent or not. >> i think you. >> want to remove all criminals from your from your communities. and so i think it's a it's a step in the right direction. it's probably better than what we heard the mayor saying several months ago. i think it's the right move. >> but i think you want to. >> you want to you want to. >> work with. >> ice to remove all criminals from your community, whether they're violent, whether they're serious, whatever they might be. >> i think it's. >> a good idea. >> to to. >> work with law. >> enforcement and remove all of them. >> chad wolf, thank you so much for your time. really appreciate it. coming up, more reaction to president trump's executive order, mass pardons for january 6th defendants, including those convicted of violently a

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the doobie brothers also made it in with members tom johnston and michael mcdonald and patrick simmons inducted. mikeh boys joins his bandmate brian wilson in the hall of fame. and so does country music writer ashley gorley with 81 radio singles under his belt. the ceremony takes place this june in new york city. still to come, the trump administration cancels flights for refugees who were already cleared to settle in the u.s. we examine the president's plans to expand energy production in the u.s. and rollback climate initiatives. and how incarcerated firefighters are helping battle the blazes around los angeles. >> this is "pbs newshour." from the david m. rubenstein studio at weta in washington and in the west at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> as we reported earlier, the trump administration ordered all federal employees who work in diversity equity and inclusion roles to be placed on paid leave starting today. in a memo issued by the office of personnel management, agencies supervisors are also asked to submit a written plan by the end of the month for di