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It is Tuesday, April 29th. Here's what's happening right now on CNN This Morning. I think every foreign leader approached me and said hello. It's day 100. President Trump marking a milestone in his second term. So how are you feeling about it? New polling out this morning. Plus... It's been 100 days of hell for American families. Democrats still struggling to find their footing in a Republican-controlled Washington. Can they gain any ground? Also this...
President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. Canada's Prime Minister is taking a victory lap and sending a warning to his neighbors to the south. And the MAGA push for a new baby boom. Could things like cash bonuses help make motherhood in America great again?
It's 6 a.m. here on the East Coast. Here's a live look at the White House. President Trump waking up on his 100th day in office. Good morning, everybody. I'm Adi Cornish. Thank you for waking up with me. And we're going to begin with this 100th day, right? President Trump's wide reaching and controversial attempts to reshape the government as he's pushed his agenda. Those are changes that have been met with some resistance by some, by applause from others.
Now they said the most successful 100 days in the history of our country, and I believe that's right.
It's been a roller coaster. We're going to look at a few of the big issues so far. So you have President Trump's immigration crackdown, including the mistaken deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a mega prison in El Salvador. And that set up a high-stakes showdown with the courts. Then there's the on-again, off-again, on-again in the latest turn. Just last night, the administration indicated that a deal had been reached on car tariffs.
but all the uncertainty is taking a toll. In a brand new CNN poll released in the last hour, more than half said that they are pessimistic or afraid when it comes to the rest of Trump's presidency. And the number of Americans who say they are afraid is up 12 points since December.
As a small business owner, my main concern is the instability, that just not knowing the, you know, there's tariffs today, there's a 90-day hold. What we would like to see is everything level off. We've already started to see a downturn in the restaurants. Like, it's going to affect day-to-day working people. These tariffs are hurting everyday Americans.
Joining me now in the group chat, Isaac Tovar, CNN senior reporter, Chuck Rocha, Democratic strategist and former senior advisor to Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns, and Ashley Davis, former White House official under President George W. Bush. I'm glad you guys are all here in this mix of people because you've done a lot of congressional campaigns. You know what people are saying out there. And Ashley, I think your specialty with security and your background is really important in the context of how Trump has been behaving.
I want to start with you, Isaac, because what are you hearing from the White House? Is this a day where they're going to be like, everything's great, everything's great, we got more to come? Well, the president is headed to Michigan today, and he is doing that because Michigan has always held a special place in his heart since he won in 2016 that
rally that he did right after midnight on election night 2016, and then he won Michigan, broke the blue wall. He, of course, lost Michigan in 2020, but came back and won Michigan again in 2024. And he really associates a lot of his political power with what he's been able to do there, connect with the people there.
uh... the rust belt working class and politics of terrorists are scrambled a bit there because you had the detroit three auto workers some of them like a sean fain being like listen it's about time someone did something for us globalism was trashed uh... globalization was trash so they're excited i'm kinda wondering how in your world
how people are thinking of this 100 days. Is it the start of something, the end of something? I think on the political side, it's folks who are like, we're willing to give this a shot. There was a lot of folks that were Democrats or independents who didn't like Joe Biden because they thought he was old and weak. That's coming from a Democrat. That was real talk in focus groups. They're like, let's try this. We'll try it again. We remember how we liked the prices back then. Yeah, it wasn't that bad. But those are the people, I think, in this poll that are moving. If you've got a Donald Trump poster on your wall in your bedroom, you ain't going nowhere.
But if you're a middle-of-the-road voter, I think that right now you're feeling the anxious that you see in this polling. Just showing by party in our polling about whether people think basic. Are things going well in America today? Republicans, of course, are enjoying this moment. They're enjoying Trump. Independence is like, honestly, the only number I ever look at these days because they're the ones who help Trump.
get power and you also have some numbers here a big shift about how people are feeling about the rest of his his term and the thing that struck me was the feeling afraid number afraid is a very specific word of what I don't know I mean well what we know now is 41 percent of people feel that way I mean I I think maybe what
I would think what they're maybe afraid of is the uncertainty of the market. I mean, that's the number one issue that they have to get a grasp on after these first hundred days. Obviously, he's trying to have some stability. I'm a big believer that tariffs needed to happen. However, the uncertainty of it all and what's happening in the stock market, and whether it's actually, I was listening to the people that you had on right beforehand in regards to interviewing,
I'm not sure tariffs has really hit the numbers yet in regards to people's everyday products, but they're hearing that they're going to, so they're anticipating they are. And that narrative is just concerning. But listen, I think he's done what he needed to do on the border. Obviously, there's some controversies around it. The tax bill and making the tax cuts permanent is going to be very important, which is a whole other issue of how we'll deal with Congress. Yeah, but that's it going to be. It feels like he can say he has accomplished something,
in the first 100 days. Meaning, there are things that were accomplished, whether you like it or not. - There was an earlier CNN poll, I think it had 87% of people seeing Donald Trump as an agent of change. The question is whether that's good change or bad change. I don't think it's just the tariffs that people are responding to when they're saying that they're anxious or fearful, there are all these other things going on.
with immigration, with policies that are affecting their lives. Yeah, that are unnerving at best. School funding, we had a segment in the last hour about that. There's just a lot of, it's not clear where things are going to go. Now, that's Donald Trump's point here, that he wants it to be a very different place that we get to in the country than where we are. But a lot of people are responding to that and saying, I'd like to have some sense of what that is.
Who, for your money, is the most consequential person other than Trump in the first 100 days? Well, Musk by far. Okay. I think Speaker Johnson. They came back last night, and this is only going to get worse because they're going to start negotiating budget cuts. Okay. And that's never good. Person of consequence? You say Speaker Johnson. You say Elon Musk. You?
I might say Susie Wiles and continuing to keep the White House on the track that it is. Look, there has been obviously-- there's been a lot of soap opera drama around Pete Hegseth, other people in the administration. But the White House itself, you remember what the first 100 days of the first Trump term looked like? Yes. It was basically a turnstile. It was shades of our lives every day.
and it hasn't been that. - Okay, for my money, it's actually Russell Vogt at OMB. I think that the reshaping of the government per Project 2025 and all the work they have done is coming to fruition. Group chat, stay with us. We've got a lot to talk about today, and we're going to continue our conversation about President Trump's first 100 days in office. We're gonna dig into his foreign policy. Is America First actually working? Also, how does the US Navy lose a $60 million jet?
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It's almost 15 minutes past the hour. Here is your morning roundup. Canadians have spoken, Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberal Party will stay in power after yesterday's elections. The vote was overshadowed by President Trump's tariffs and his calls to make Canada the 51st state. We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons.
Before President Trump started taking jabs at Canada, their Conservative Party had actually been leading in the polls. All that changed pretty quickly. And a car crash through an after-school camp in Illinois has killed four people, including children. The youngest is believed to be just four years old. The state police say the driver was not injured but went to a hospital for evaluation.
In the meantime, the US Navy has lost a $60 million jet. And you might be asking how? Well, it fell off an aircraft carrier and into the Red Sea. It happened when the carrier made a hard turn to avoid fire from Houthi rebels. And that was according to a US official. And this...
Girls are having fun this morning because Cyndi Lauper is one of the 13 artists who will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. Others include the White Stripes, Outkast and Chubby Checker. They will be formally honored in November. Left off the list, nominees Mariah Carey and Oasis. I'm sure that's to come.
still to come on CNN this morning. What to expect when you're not expecting. As birth rates fall all over the world, some governments are getting desperate to change that. Plus, yet another escalation in President Trump's push for mass deportations. Ahead, how his latest executive order could lead to more local officials facing federal charges. And good morning, Seattle. What are the cities that the White House could be targeting with that new executive order?
The White House is reportedly considering ideas to boost the country's birth rate, including a $5,000 baby bonus for women. $5,000? Do you know what it costs to raise a child? $5,000? That's like taking a dollar-off coupon to a Mercedes dealership.
I want to go off script to talk about this growing movement. It's called pro-natalism, and it's the reason you hear about policies like a baby bonus. I mean, the premise is simple. They want Americans to have more babies. The solution, of course, is not so simple.
Now, people from all walks of life, including the religious right, Silicon Valley, are involved in this movement to try and find ways to reverse the trend of declining birth rates. And to be clear, it is not just the U.S. that is grappling with this. So I'm bringing in a guest from The New Yorker where they're diving into this in an article called The End of Children. Gideon Lewis Krauss, welcome to CNN this morning. Thank you so much for having me, Audie.
So I was shocked in your article to read that it's like Nepal, Albania, like there is no country that isn't dealing with a falling birth rate. And just to be clear, is there a real decision or consensus about the cause? No, actually not at all. For a long time, people...
thought of this as an affliction of affluent countries that people made more money and they wanted to spend their money on consumption goods and that there was less of an incentive to have children. That may have been true until perhaps 20 years ago, but for the last two decades that has no longer been true. It really is a universal phenomenon. And you can find ways to, you know,
give elaborate descriptions of these phenomena in particular places. Right. But almost none of these descriptions generalize to other places. So you can always find some part of the cross-section that will fall. You can always find a way to cross-find it.
Okay. The reason why I'm asking is because several of these countries, whether it be Italy, whether it be Russia, they have given baby bonuses. They have, frankly, more paid leave. The U.S. does not have a mandated federal paid leave. Are there policies that work? And are you hearing any of those policies being raised by the Trump administration?
So the general consensus among demographers seem to be that if you spend a truly staggering amount of money, you can raise the birth rate by perhaps a fifth of a baby per woman. So a place like France spends something like 5% of its GDP, and they're certainly higher than the OECD average, but they're lower than the replacement rate that you would need to keep a stable population.
But then again, Hungary spends 5% of their GDP and their growth rate continues to fall. So, so far, there are all sorts of different things that people have tried. People have tried matchmaking services. People have tried, you know, more normal sounding things like
subsidies and are extended parental leave and attempts to change social norms around parenting especially egalitarian parenting you know it's become very common in sweden for men to leave work at 2 30 to pick up their kids
But no matter what you do, nothing seems to be reversing the trend. There is not a single example of a country that has fallen to ultra low fertility and then managed to get back up to replacements.
So people do consider this a problem. It's not just something like that on the right or population people are obsessed with. In America, when we looked at polling, the reasons why Americans weren't having kids, top of the list was just don't want children, right? It wasn't like focus on career and frankly state of the world. Can't afford it was the fourth reason. It actually wasn't the first reason.
The reason why I bring this up is because people talk about this being, it's either intrinsic, you want to, it's cultural. Some of the leading pronatalist voices in this country have talked about this. And here's what one of them had to say. She's somebody who has been kind of at the forefront of this movement. She's the founder of pronatalist.org, Simone Collins.
Really, prenatalism is something that's endogenous. It comes from within. And if people don't feel internally and intrinsically motivated to have families, they're not going to do it. So don't force people. It doesn't work. So I want to hear your response to that, that like there's not much you can do to make people want them. Is there anything you can do to make it easier when they do?
Well, I mean, I'm not sure she's totally true, correct about that. I mean, there's a lot of research that shows that, like many other things, reproduction is a matter of social cues and that it's not that someone has a native desire to have a certain number of children, that the number of that
the desire to have children does reflect the community that you're in, the number of children you see, the extent to which your neighborhood and your community feel child-friendly.
Getting back to your question about how everyone considers this a problem, that's not really true. I mean, it's very, very difficult to find a credible demographer who believes that the U.S. birth rate around 1.6 represents anything close to a real problem.
I mean, these are things that are, you know, America has historically been a high immigration country that has helped keep our population more or less stable. I mean, our fertility rate ranks still among the highest of OECD nations.
And that's not to say that it never can be a problem. I mean, I spent time reporting in South Korea, which has the lowest birth fertility rate in the world. And that's at the point where pretty much everyone across the political spectrum will say like,
yeah, this really is a problem. And they've tried almost everything you can possibly imagine over the last 10 or 15 years. The government has spent a total of something like $250 billion on various initiatives, and it has done absolutely nothing. All right, Gideon Lewis Krauss, thank you so much for this context. He's staff writer at The New Yorker.
And coming up on CNN this morning, oh Canada, rise and shine. It was one of the most consequential elections in decades for Canadians, what the Prime Minister is now saying about the growing pressure from President Trump. Plus, it's been 100 days since the President took office, but why is that milestone so important?
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Canada's Prime Minister is vowing to never give in to Donald Trump after his party secured a victory in yesterday's election. Good morning, everybody. I'm Audie Cornish. Thank you for joining me on CNN this morning. It is half past the hour and here's what's happening right now.
As we said, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney holding onto his seat after an election that was overshadowed by President Trump. Now in Carney's victory speech, he delivered a defiant message to the US President saying Canada will never yield to his threats.
And the Justice and Homeland Security departments have been told to begin identifying states and local governments that could end up losing federal funding unless they cooperate with immigration enforcement. It comes after the president signed an executive order Monday calling for a crackdown on sanctuary cities.
And in just a few hours, President Trump will head to Michigan for a rally marking 100 days since he started his second term. It will be his first rally since retaking the White House. Michigan was one of the swing states that Trump flipped in 2024.
So why is this milestone such a big deal for an American presidency? It's basically an informal nod to the first hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term in 1933. In that time, FDR signed more than a dozen major pieces of legislation into law as he worked to rally the nation out of the depths of the Great Depression. That the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
So FDR was looking to calm fear in the US in his first 100 days. Today, some senators and President Trump's own party, frankly, seem to be fearful themselves. We are all afraid, okay? It's quite a statement. Oftentimes, very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real.
Also worth noting, while not many major pieces of legislation have been signed since he took office the second time, the president has issued more than 130 executive orders. The White House is calling them promises made, promises kept. Joining me now to put all this history in context is Tim Naftali, CNN presidential historian and former director of the Nixon Presidential Library. Tim, thanks for being here with us this morning. Pleasure, Audie.
I want to start with that clip of a Republican senator or independent senator from Alaska, Republican Senator Murkowski, talking about being afraid because you've described this second term of Trump with retribution as its organizing principle. What do you mean by that? - What I mean by that is that President Trump
as a candidate promised that he would use the power of the federal government the enormous power of the presidency to seek retribution to seek revenge he said to his supporters that he was doing it on their behalf but in many ways it seemed like it was for himself that he was doing this and in office he has sought to use federal power to go after perceived adversaries
in government and in the private sector. He's gone after universities. He's gone after law firms. He's gone after media organizations. He's gone after federal members of the court. He has gone after America's closest allies. And he has used the most dangerous, difficult, mean-spirited language in each case.
And that's what I meant by the fact that this government is a government of retribution and revenge. Unlike Franklin Roosevelt, who sought to banish fear from the public space. In a sense, Roosevelt was arguing at the depths of the Depression, the only way for us to come together and for our economy to work is for people to believe again in their national institutions, to have confidence in them.
Donald Trump is making a different argument. He wants to tear down national institutions. So his approach to government is the complete opposite of Franklin Roosevelt.
I want to talk more about that because some of the agencies that FDR put into place are still with us today. FDIC, the SEC. These were, there were so many he launched that they were, it was like the alphabet soup of agencies, right? That's what they called it. But Trump is also bringing to fruition a longtime Republican wish list of dismantling the New Deal. Can you talk about that? Because it feels like a huge part of this first 100 days.
Well, you know, there is no doubt that government at any level in our country could be more efficient or effective. There is there is nothing sacred about an agency. What is so striking about this president's approach to reinventing government? I mean, after all, that term comes from Bill Clinton.
was that he hasn't followed a plan. He has endowed a group called Doge with power to dismantle at will
without trying to save those elements of USAID, for example, or the Department of Education, that have lasting value not only at home, but in our efforts to create allies and security abroad. So it's the meat cleaver approach, which is not logical, that the president has taken, which makes his attempt to make the federal government more efficient unprecedented.
- Tim Naftali, CNN presidential historian. Thank you so much for being with us. - My pleasure, Audie. Thank you. - So as Democrats have been trying to find their footing since their election loss in November, where do they go from here? - It's been a hundred days of hell for American families. - Look, there is no tariff policy. It's just all chaos and corruption. - You wanna cut waste? I'll help you do it.
But change doesn't need to be chaotic or make us less safe. We started this by talking about John Lewis. It is time for good trouble, necessary trouble. In every state of this country, people are prepared to stand up and fight back. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.
Group chat is back. I want to talk about those last couple voices because each represents a path. The Bernie fighting oligarchy resting on those activists and their activism path. And you also have someone like Pritzker coming out giving that big speech, Cory Booker doing something. And then one more person I want you to hear which is Gavin Newsom who's entered my world of podcasting to try and reach across the aisle.
Not one person ever in my office has ever used the word Latinx. I'm like, what are people talking about? Would you say no men and female sports? Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness. So it's deeply unfair. Trump's for you. She's for them. And devastating. Again, devastating. Is there a place for a pro-life Democrat in the Democrat Party? I mean, there should be.
There's some real choices that's fixing to happen and you can separate folks that are fighting back from folks that are fighting to become president in 2028. And the way I'd separate that is to camp, I'm always a constant campaigner. Yeah, how can you tell? Because I think everyone's running. There's going to be a lot of us. It's going to be a full employment for Democratic consultants. Thank you for having me. I'd also like to say that there's something very important that we miss sometimes because we love talking about battleground states.
and as I've seen this in primary states early days, is that you have to win a primary before you win a general election. And with Democrats, you have to go talk to the base, and it's the only time that the base really has ultimate power is to say who's going to be the nominee, a la even Donald Trump in his base, because that's how you win a primary. Then you have to redo your strategy to actually win the general election. Part of what we're facing here is we don't know what the situation the country is going to be in by the time we get to the primaries.
But right now, and I was in New Hampshire on Sunday night. Already, Isaac? Your part is a problem. Here's what I will tell you. I was there for the same New Hampshire dinner in April of 2017. And the keynote speaker then was Joe Biden, who said, I'm not running. But we all know how that turned out.
So what they are doing, I think, that unites a lot of them, whether it's Bernie Sanders or Pritzker, is trying to speak to this frustration and anger that we see in that CNN poll we were talking about a couple minutes ago and have people feel like they are at least seeing
that reflected in their political leaders. Yeah, that seems like a low bar, but yeah. But it's not the way that a lot of Democrats approached the beginning of the Trump term. Ashley, last word to you. No, I'm just wondering why AOC wasn't on this, because I actually think that she's the one that's doing...
the best in regards to obviously she's attacking the president. The president's not running in four years. I mean, that's what you have to talk about right now. But she also is filming professional. Every one of her speeches is done like professional, professional, almost like a campaign, like a presidential campaign. And she's raising money. She also is connecting with young voters and she's connecting with women. So and Republicans hate her.
Exactly, but remember Hillary Clinton wanted to run against Donald Trump in 2016 because it was like the worst candidate.
Is she does she do something over the next two years to really try to make herself maybe a little bit more likable? Not with Republicans, but with independents? Yeah, yeah. That's an important vote here. Group chat. Stick around. We're going to be talking more up next on CNN this morning from Greenland to Gaza, Canada to Kiev and beyond. President Trump's dramatic reentrance onto the world stage has upended the global order. Is the world safer for it?
Plus, Amazon takes on SpaceX. It's a 21st century space race with billions of dollars on the line. Group chat's hanging out. Stay with us. The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip. So I think Canada is going to be a very serious contender to be our 51st state.
Greenland is a wonderful place. We need it for international security. China is operating the Panama Canal and we didn't give it to China. If the talks aren't successful with Iran, I think Iran is going to be in great danger. Your country is in big trouble. Wait a minute. No, no. You've done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble. I know. You're not winning. You're not winning this.
Okay, it's been a hundred dizzying days since President Trump moved back into the White House, but we're going to take a closer look at his foreign policy agenda, some of the things he's threatened to do, like take control of Gaza, develop it into the Riviera of the Middle East, annex Greenland, turn Canada into the 51st state. And while that talk goes on, his team is actually being involved in a lot of discussions, for example, with Iran, also with Russia and Ukraine about ending the war there. In a recent interview with The Atlantic, the president summed it up this way.
I run the country and the world. So let's break this down. We have CNN global affairs analyst Kimberly Dozier who always helps me understand things. And first I want to talk about who has been maybe a significant figure in Trump's foreign policy, Steve Witkoff. I kind of feel like if he's not on the ground, nothing is actually happening. We're not talking about Trump's Secretary of State or anything like that. Can you talk about how that's been received by the world or the difference?
Well, people understand that Trump trusts his family and then he trusts a very close group of people who are like-minded around him. Witkoff is in that vein. He is another property developer. He has done business with some of the same people that Trump has done business with, including in Russia.
He is a wheeler dealer. So Trump trusts his style of doing business, which includes breaking rules and throwing away past norms because Trump was really frustrated the last time around when people from the State Department, etc. would tell him, well, this is the way it's always been done. And
You can't change it and it means nothing much will change and so he throws that out and brings someone in who's like Yeah, all rules are broken. Let's let's throw the rule book out and see what we can do because we've got we're not constrained by what has been done before for the longest time we were hearing about MAGA like
populist movements around the world that were coming to the forefront. And an interesting dynamic has happened with Trump returning, which is like you see in Canada. That movement just took a major hit because of Trump and the things that he's been saying. How have other countries started to see Trump? Like what's the mood among world leaders about how they're going to deal with him? We know what Canada thinks now. They're like, it's over. They called it a betrayal.
Well, diplomats were dreading him coming in, but those that I've spoken to recently say it's so much worse. It's a supercharged version of Trump won in that he is sort of unfettered. No one's telling him, sir, you might not want to do that. But are they ready? Like, are they coming in with strategies to deal with him? They have figured out that you flatter his ego. You listen to the angry rhetoric.
You don't respond too angrily to that. You figure out what he actually wants or what you can offer him, and you don't take him on head-on in public. - It feels like that's a description of what China's doing. - Indeed. They're like, they let him kind of go all over the place with his statements, and they just, you call it the blunt bat or the bunt. You know, you just-- - Yeah. And Xi Jinping is like, "No thanks to a public meeting." - Hold to your position.
But meanwhile, Xi Jinping has the markets, et cetera, to protect him. Other nations, weaker nations, have to figure out, is there something I could offer him in the Oval Office?
Britain offered the visit to this special state visit that had never been done before. People have been following that model. They've been coming up with carrots. Exactly. While he's coming up with sticks. Exactly. One of the things that's been interesting is with the gutting of federal agencies and the destruction of certain ones, USID, Voice of America, what intrigued me is these were tools that past presidents used as so-called soft power.
You want to make sure that the water is flowing in some third world country where you don't want a terrorist group to fill in the gap of services. You want to have your propaganda tool, you know, reporting about what's going on in the world. Trump's nixed all that. So can you help me understand? Well, having been on VOA, I got to say we didn't do propaganda. We did news. But writ large,
That was about spreading the idea of America and America as guarantor of, you know, Pax Americana, guarantor of peace around the world and setting the standard for democracy. Trump doesn't see the value in that. He doesn't see the value in this soft power stuff. Or he thinks being a strong nation is what's going to do it. Exactly.
autocratic and I've had one diplomat express the same feeling I've gotten from a bunch of them. They said, look, it used to be that America was that shining city on the hill that people wanted to emulate or travel to to study in. And now we're watching things like the humiliation of President Zelensky in the Oval Office, someone who was totally dependent on the U.S. for survival and thinking
America has changed. And that they never want to be in that position. It used to be a different idea. Now it's just like Russia and China, another country that will be pushy and throw its weight around to get its own way. Kim, thank you so much. I appreciate this. Appreciate you being here this morning, CNN Global Affairs analyst. Now, welcome back to you who are with us because it's eight minutes to the top of the hour. Here is your morning roundup.
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It's a new space race, Amazon trying to keep up with SpaceX. Now Amazon is launching its own internet satellites. 27 of them went into orbit on Monday. They'll eventually circle the globe nearly 400 miles above the Earth. But that was actually a clip because there's going to be a new Miami Vice, which honestly is the real news. The director, the same one who did Top Gun Maverick, Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, starred in an earlier Miami Vice movie in 2006.
That actually earned more than $163 million. All right, Congress is back in D.C. this week. Many lawmakers are, frankly, probably happy to be in Washington for once so they don't have to face down these town halls, which have devolved into furious shouting matches. Sometimes it's Republican lawmakers, sometimes it's Democrats. All are facing tough questions about their role in the president's second term.
We would like to know what you, as the people, the Congress, who are supposed to reign in this dictator, what are you going to do about it? These people have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a foreign country with no due process. You know, 84% of Americans support voter ID. That's the reality. All right, everybody, hang on. Let's let her get to it. You don't get to do this!
Hey, group chat is back. I wanted to talk about our first hundred days, like we the voters. Some of us have been going to these town halls and making our opinions known and saying we are not happy in this moment. Some of us are really struggling with this economy. And I want to get a sense of like how you're thinking about how all this has been received.
I think it goes back to what we were talking about earlier, the anxiety and the churn that people feel. It's about... But the White House is saying, be patient. This is just about patience. Patience is something that voters, that human beings don't usually have a lot of. And the idea, whether...
Honestly, it's about talking about long-term criminal justice reform or economic reform. When you say you have to deal with the pain for a while so that in a while from now it'll be better, people never respond well to it. And we saw it as a backlash to some of the things that happened at
and how it played into the election results last year. I think we're seeing it play out in different ways now. Voters are way more simple than that. Voters are like two-year-olds. What are you going to do for me now? I want it now. No, I'm going to judge you on this. Do it. Because I feel like lawmakers and politicians, they're so dismissive.
of our lived experience. Like people are frustrated out here. This is the point I'm making is they won't help now. I'm hurting now. I gotta make rent now? Don't tell me about your plans or what made me wait for this thing. It's gonna get better in time. No, no, no. I want mine now. I pay my taxes every week. But that's why I think people also that we think issues that are important, when you go out into the actually real world of this country, they're thinking exactly like that. But here's what bothers me. There's so much
anger and is it what's it from I mean is it really the anxiety or is it just because of all the 24-hour news cycle all the social media that you're just getting so much information but if I were North Korea if I were Russia if I were China I would be like look at that country being divided right now and it's anger. And they do talk about that you know I want to play one more thing which is a protester outside of Elon Musk
protest because I think he's another consequential person in this time. We're out because we want Elon Musk out of our government and out of our lives. I mean, who is this guy? The world's richest guy comes in and just starts taking a wrecking ball to our government? No way. And so, you know, here's Tesla. It's not like a franchise. It's not owned by some local businessman. It's owned directly by him. So this is the perfect place to tell him to stop it.
- But also that turned in, that goes back to my anger. That's fine, he's protesting, he's protesting peacefully, but the people that were destroying the cars and destroying the dealerships that he, I mean, like, that's just wrong. - But actually, I don't want that to obscure, that is a very real and serious issue. I don't want that to obscure the content of what this person said.
which is very plain. He was like, yo, this random rich dude is going to do X, Y, and Z. I think people are responding to what feels arbitrary. They don't actually feel like they're witnessing even strategery. They feel like they are witnessing a little. It's a blast from the past. I saved it. They're getting the raw end of it.
Right. And that Elon Musk, with everything, all the jobs that he's got, he's doing just fine. And then he goes on X and posts pictures of the robots he wants to have in his future factory. Rarely do I leave the bubble of D.C., but I got in my Jeep and drove out to Tyson's Corner on Saturday. I have a mail in from Texas. And there was folks standing on the side of the road in Tyson's Corner, to your point, not destroying cars, but just holding signs saying, Elon Musk has your Social Security number.
This is going back to both of y'all's points. I've never seen that before. Are folks just standing out there because they're anxious, they're angry, they're all the things. You don't think that's organized? I do not. But if it's organized, isn't that the point? I mean, my thing is coming out of the Tea Party era, when people thought it was AstroTurf, the Tea Party turned out to be very real. And we live today with its politicians in the highest form of government. AstroTurf or not?
Movements can happen. No, they do. That's where I go back to my AOC comment. She has the capability of having a movement. Okay, we're going to keep an eye on it. What is the thing we are looking forward to the next day or two? You don't have to do the next 100 days, Chuck.
With these failing numbers, Congress is in play. And watch if anybody actually has the backbone there to start speaking up because these numbers could be the difference between losing four seats or 40 seats. And I think the Republicans in Congress are better getting tired of this. We're 552 days from the election.
I'll give you all of that. Not counting or anything for me. No, I'm watching what the House, can Speaker Johnson really move through this week and next, this budget, and what the committees and the cutting will do and the messaging. If I were Democrats right now, I'd be talking about Medicaid all day long.
I think we can make that happen for you. We'll bring you back next week, Isaac. I always talk about politics. I would give you a little pop culture thing. We're in the final season of The Handmaid's Tale that debuted in the first year of Trump's first term. And it has been...
a window into some of the anxiety how it's playing out obviously in a very dark imaginative way yeah and how they now reflect what's what obviously was finished filming a while ago but uh since trump won and how
how it shows that sense of what's going on. Yes, and how anger can turn into a movement, for better or worse. You guys, thank you so much. We talked about so much today. I want to thank you for waking up with us. I'm Adi Cornish, and CNN News Central starts right now.
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