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China Announces Retaliatory Tariffs Against U.S. Imports; Trump Agrees To Pause Major Tariffs On Canada And Mexico. Trump Pauses Tariffs on Canada, Mexico for 30 days; One-on-One with Rwandan President Paul Kagame; NTSB Reviewing New Data from Wreckage of Deadly Crash; Most of Trump's Executive Actions Align with Project 2025; Spain's Ex-Football Chief on Trial; "Day Without Immigrants" Movement. Aired 1-2a ET
Aired February 04, 2025 - 01:00 ET
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world and everyone streaming us on CNN Max. I'm Rosemary Church.
Just ahead, Mexico and Canada get a break from U.S. tariffs, but nothing yet for China. And Beijing is striking back with levies of its own. And dismantling USAID, Trump's state department says it's now in control of the humanitarian agency. Why Democrats are calling this move unconstitutional and blaming Elon Musk. Plus, rebel groups call for a cease fire in the Democratic Republic of Congo after intense fighting leaves hundreds dead and thousands displaced.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from Atlanta, this is CNN Newsroom with Rosemary Church.
CHURCH: Good to have you with us. Just minutes ago, China hit the U.S. with retaliatory tariffs. Now this came less than an hour after the U.S. president's 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods took effect. China's new tariffs applied to certain American products like crude oil, liquefied natural gas and agricultural machinery. Donald Trump has vowed to speak with Beijing soon.
Now, this follows a major turnaround in his trade war with Mexico and Canada. President Trump struck deals with both countries on Monday after the threat of imminent tariffs caused markets to tank and jitters in the business community. For the next 30 days, the tariffs are on hold even though President Trump had insisted last week that nothing would stop them from kicking in this week. However, the White House claimed on Monday that it was Canada and Mexico, quote, "bending the knee."
Included in this temporary agreement, plans for Mexico to station 10,000 troops at the U.S. border to keep migrants and drugs from getting in. And Canada will implement its previously announced border plan while installing a so called fentanyl czar, even though a mere 0.2 percent of the drug seizures happen at the Canadian border. Despite the deal, President Trump took additional jabs at the United States northern neighbor.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Canada is very -- you know, we're not treated well by Canada. Canada is very tough. They're very, very tough to do business with and we can't let them take advantage of the U.S.
What I'd like to see Canada become our 51st state. If people wanted to play the game right, it would be 100 percent certain that they'd become a state.
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CHURCH: CNN's Jeff Zeleny takes a closer look at the tariff turmoil.
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JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): President Trump backing off a trade war with Mexico and Canada for now, at least.
TRUMP: When you're the pot of gold, the tariffs are very good. They're very powerful.
ZELENY (voice-over): Trump reached a last minute deal with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreeing to a month long delay on 25 percent tariffs on all goods imported to the U.S. Both Mexico and Canada agreed to bolster security at the U.S. border and increase resources to crack down on fentanyl. As he signed executive orders in the Oval Office, we asked Trump if he blinked in striking a deal with Mexico.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you blink this morning?
TRUMP: There was no blinking. She's a wonderful woman. But she did agree to 10,000 soldiers on the border. I would say that's a lot.
ZELENY (voice-over): Talks between Trump and Trudeau continued throughout the day. Following an afternoon phone call, the Prime Minister announced a deal saying, "Canada is making new commitments to appoint a fentanyl czar. We will list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7 eyes on the border. But Mexico accounts for the vast majority of fentanyl, with more than 21,000 pounds crossing the southern U.S. border last year and only 43 pounds coming in from Canada. While Trump vowed to press ahead with a long term plan for tariffs in these countries and beyond, he said there could be short term economic pain through higher prices or inflation.
TRUMP: Tariffs don't cause inflation, they cause success. Cause big success. So we're going to have great success. There could be some temporary short term disruption and people will understand that. ZELENY (voice-over): Among Americans, that remains an open question. Among Canadians, their resentment was clear as "The Star Spangled Banner| was met with jeers at a weekend hockey game.
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ZELENY (voice-over): Trump remained steadfast in his longstanding belief in tariffs, which the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page blasted as the dumbest trade war in history.
Rupert Murdoch, whose media empire includes the newspaper, visited the Oval Office and was on hand as Trump spoke with reporters.
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TRUMP: I'm going to have to talk to him. Not only is it not them, you're going to see. You're going to see. Every single one of those countries is dying to make a deal.
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ZELENY (on camera): President Trump said he was very pleased with the deals reached with both Canada and Mexico. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, she put it a slightly way saying both countries were bending their knee to the U.S.
For the next month, though, as this trade war still looms and lingers, the question is what is the risk for both countries? It certainly is. Which country blinked? We do know the market reaction watched very carefully here at the White House and it was not a positive one.
Jeff Zeleny, CNN, the White House.
CHURCH: Let's go to Los Angeles now. And Ryan Patel is a senior fellow with the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. He joins us now. Appreciate you being with us.
RYAN PATEL, SENIOR FELLOW, DRUCKER SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: Good to join you, Rosemary.
CHURCH: So China has just announced it's imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports including crude oil and agricultural machinery after President Trump's additional 10 percent tariffs on China went into effect last hour. Trump plans to talk with his Chinese counterpart in the next few days. What do you expect to come out of those talks?
PATEL: Well, I mean the best case is you follow what they -- what he did with Mexico and Canada that it's a pause. But let me take a step back here, Rosemary, this is -- this tariff is an existing tariff from his first term. What I mean that it adds to it. So nearing many Chinese goods now face 10 percent to 25 percent tariffs. That's over $400 billion in annual imports.
And I think the other thing that is important in this, which makes it a little bit different is you mentioned the coal, natural gas that is retaliated in the tariffs by China. China's also restricted exporting key minerals and many of them those minerals are in high tech manufacturing impacting industries like the semiconductors and EV batteries. So, this is a conversation that will need to happen and to see what leads out to it.
CHURCH: Yes, we'll certainly be watching that very closely. And of course, just hours before the midnight deadline, President Trump hit the pause button on applying his 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico after the leaders of both those nations agreed to boost security at their respective borders with the U.S. What was your reaction to this negotiating tactic on the part of President Trump? And has this calmed markets -- market nerve sufficiently do you think with this 30-day delay?
PATEL: It calms the nerves to sufficiently but it just pushes the buck down to 30 days. Also just to be very -- you know, Rosemary, you and I have talked about this is a blueprint by President Trump. He did it recently with Colombia. He's looking to leverage bilateral talks to make a deal look a little bit better, to pause it. And so to me it's not that surprising that he put this because at the end of the day if you really did full tariffs for six months on all these countries, Mexico and Canada, neighboring countries, it would put the U.S. economy at a spiral.
Just think about that. Full force against each other doesn't make sense. And so I think it doesn't surprise me. The question becomes, Rosemary, what does considered a win for the U.S. and the administration after 30 days? What else are they looking to get and to be able to showcase it?
Because at this point it's a mark, you know, it's a positioning to be able for both Canada and Mexico because they are looking for, you know, a risk, you know, kind of a deal that helps both.
CHURCH: Yes. And I guess using the term bending the knee, I mean this -- that sort of helps Donald Trump, the optics aren't good and it's unlikely that China is going to like that sort of characterization if they give in, right?
PATEL: One hundred percent. I mean part of this, you know, and I don't really necessarily like that term either because in essence you're looking to be -- to build better partnerships. And you know, obviously the administration next week can come out and not use that term. But for me, when you're dealing with the Chinese government, you really are looking to try to find a way that nobody really looks bad to create a way that, you know, can long lasting partnerships in certain industries. That key here is not to disrupt supply chain, right?
Here's the thing. You could add a tariff in certain industries and this take it off. But if you're adding in certain high complex industries like supply chain like tech, it's not really that easy then to put the on off button and switch it.
CHURCH: And look at -- let's look at the cost of those tariffs because of course any tariffs that are eventually applied will of course raise prices for Americans. All economists agree with that. Even President Trump acknowledges this despite repeatedly promising during the election campaign that he would bring prices down. How bad will these tariffs be for consumers if deals can't be made?
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PATEL: If it can't be -- if it can't be made in the short term, I think when you think of the, you know, six months to eight months, companies are no longer even try to make a buffer for the consumer to feel the prices. I think agriculture price, especially if Mexico and Canada are back on, which they're not right now, you'd feel in the grocery store pretty quickly. I mean that's pretty clear. But like you were talking about, the markets are now a little bit reacting to a positive that, oh well, it's not going to happen. We don't need to worry about it until 30 days from now and then we're -- you and I are going to have this conversation again and what's next.
And you know, this threat of increasing pricing -- prices does mess with the consumer and businesses and how they invest because they also cannot live in that uncertainty on where they want to do in the future. So there's got to be some stability should more innovation and investment in many of these industries need to occur.
CHURCH: Indeed. Ryan Patel joining us live from Los Angeles, many thanks as always. Appreciate it.
PATEL: Appreciate you.
CHURCH: Well, the Trump administration says it is now in full control of USAID. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he is now the acting director of the U.S. Agency for International Development and is looking to align its foreign aid activities with a quote, "America first agenda." Here's what he said about that.
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MARCO RUBIO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: There are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue that are going to be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy. USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from the national interest. These are taxpayer dollars.
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CHURCH: Up until Monday, USAID was an independent federal agency. It dispensed billions of dollars in famine, aid, poverty and disaster and funded democracy building programs around the world. Donald Trump claims incorrectly that he has the power to scrap it.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Will it take an act of Congress to do away with USAID? Or do you believe --
TRUMP: I don't know. I don't think so. Not when it comes to fraud. If there's fraud, these people are lunatics. And if it comes to fraud, you wouldn't have an act of Congress and I'm not sure that you would anyway. But we just want to do the right thing. That's -- it's something that should have been done a long time ago.
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CHURCH: The president offered no concrete evidence to back up his claims of fraud. CNN State Department Reporter Jennifer Hansler runs us through what happened to USAID on Monday.
JENNIFER HANSLER, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT REPORTER: Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said he was the acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, confirming the de facto takeover of the government's humanitarian agency by the State Department. Rubio said in remarks to the press that he was not trying to stop all of USAID's activities per se, but that he -- there are things that it does that are good and things that it does that are bad and that they have strong questions about. Rubio said in a letter to lawmakers later in the day that he had delegated the authorities of acting administrator to Pete Marocco, a Trump appointee who is working at the State Department. AID officials have accused Marocco of intentionally trying to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. Democrats have argued that the move to fold USAID under the State Department's authority is not legal, and they said they will be fighting.
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REP. GERRY CONNOLLY (D-VA): We are going to fight in every way we can in the courts, in public opinion, with the bully pulpit in the halls of Congress, and here at AID itself. We are not going to let this injustice happen.
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HANSLER: In remarks at the White House later in the day, President Trump said he does believe that he has the authority to dismantle USAID. Elon Musk has also played a role in demonizing the organization, and his DOGE effort has played an outsized role in the administration's decisions about federal agencies. Over the weekend, there was a confrontation between DOGE officials and security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development that led to two senior officials being put on leave. A number of other USAID officials have also been put on leave over the past week.
In Washington, there was confusion around the rapidly changing developments around USAID as officials were told not to report to work at the headquarters on Monday. Some have been locked out of their e- mails and others say they have gotten no answers from their leadership about what is to come.
Humanitarian aid organizations have also expressed concerns about the impact that USAID shuttering would have on the broader national security and foreign policy interests of the United States.
Jennifer Hansler, CNN, Washington. CHURCH: Still to come, calls for a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Why rebel fighters want a pause in fighting after violent clashes with government forces. Back with that and more in just a moment.
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CHURCH: El Salvador has agreed to receive deportees from the United States of any nationality. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the unprecedented deal on Monday after meeting with the country's president. As part of the agreement, El Salvador says it will accept convicted criminals, including U.S. citizens into its, quote, "mega prison system" in exchange for a fee. With more than 80,000 people in its jails, El Salvador is believed to have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. White House and Israeli officials say the two leaders will hold a joint news conference Tuesday afternoon. Prime Minister Netanyahu will be the first world leader to have a formal meeting with President Trump since his inauguration. This comes against the backdrop of the Gaza cease fire and hostage release agreement.
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Israel says it will send a working level delegation to Doha this weekend to, quote, "discuss technical details related to the second phase of the deal." But on Monday, Mr. Trump said there are, quote, "no guarantees that the peace is going to hold."
Well, the family of one of the Israeli hostages released last week says his health deteriorated in captivity. Yarden Bibas' family says he was held in harsh conditions and food was scarce, resulting in significant weight loss. Bibas wife Shiri and two children were also kidnapped on October 7, but Hamas claims they were killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2023, according to a Hostages and Missing Families Forum spokesperson. Israel's military says they may not be alive, but the Bibas family is still pushing for answers.
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DANA SILBERMAN SITTON, SISTER OF SHIRI BIBAS: Where are Shiri and the children? Three quarters of our heart is still in captivity. And until they bring them back, we will remain incomplete. I'll use this platform given to me to say we will no longer accept uncertainty. We demand answers.
We demand them back.
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CHURCH: Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Jenin since this major offensive began, including a two-year-old girl who was shot inside her home. As Jeremy Diamond reports, her family is now demanding justice.
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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Tayma al- Khatib's world has been shattered, but she is trying to stay strong. After all, that's what Layla would want.
TAYMA AL-KHATIB, LAYLA'S MOTHER (through translator): Layla was always the source of my strength.
DIAMOND (voice-over): Layla was just two years old when she was killed by Israeli troops. One of at least 24 Palestinians killed by Israeli military operations in and around the West Bank city of Jenin the last two weeks.
The little girl whose laughter once delighted her family now gone. The family were having dinner when Layla's grandfather heard a faint voice on a loudspeaker that sounded like the Israeli military.
BASSAM HAZA, LAYLA'S GRANDFATHER (through translator): The voice was distant. So, we didn't pay attention to it. After a few moments, we heard gunfire very close by, closer than the usual. So, I asked the girls to hide in their bedroom, and my wife and I head in our bedroom that faces the street so we could try to see what was happening.
DIAMOND: And you laid down?
DIAMOND (voice-over): Inside that bedroom, Layla's mother, Tayma, grabbed her daughter and cradled her on the ground.
HAZA (through translator): In that moment, shots were fired toward us. So, my wife and I ducked and fell to the ground, and then I heard my girls screaming from inside the bedroom.
DIAMOND (voice-over): The screams were Tayma's, Layla had been shot in the head.
AL-KHATIB (through translator): My blouse, this whole area, was filled with blood. So, I started screaming, saying, Layla, something hit her and she's bleeding. They came quickly and grabbed her from me so they could take her outside to call the ambulance.
DIAMOND (voice-over): Bassam rushed outside with Layla in his arms, where he found dozens of soldiers. They had surrounded his house. Some had taken up positions on a neighboring roof.
HAZA (through translator): I looked at one of the soldiers and asked him, why are you killing my daughter? He was a bit stunned and saw the girl bleeding, and then said, I am sorry. He's saying he said, I'm sorry.
DIAMOND: He said, I am sorry.
HAZA (through translator): I am sorry. I told him my child is bleeding. She needs help. What do you mean I'm sorry? AL-KHATIB (through translator): I wanted to hold the soldier and scream out to the world and say that he killed a young child and he burnt the heart of a mother. Any mother like me who had to endure this and then have a soldier say, I'm sorry, it's as if nothing happened.
The man who fired at Layla for no reason has to be prosecuted and punished, and not just him, anyone who was involved, from the commanders, from the army who encircled the house.
DIAMOND (voice-over): The Israeli military said it opened fire on the house after receiving intelligence about, quote, "barricaded armed terrorists" and claim they called on people to leave the building multiple times.
Immediately after they opened fire, the soldiers identified injuries among uninvolved civilians who were present in the structure and coordinated the rapid arrival of the Red Crescent to evacuate them. The IDF regrets any harm caused to uninvolved civilians and takes various measures to prevent such incidents. The incident will be examined and lessons will be learned accordingly.
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Gunfire didn't just strike Layla Khatib's home.
DIAMOND: These are bullet holes.
DIAMOND (voice-over): Bullets also tore through neighboring apartments, where Layla's extended family lives.
HAZA: All kids here. Not just in this house. And up there and in my brother's house, their kids, like this.
DIAMOND: They must have been really afraid.
HAZA: Of course.
DIAMOND (voice-over): After the gunfire ended, multiple residents accuse Israeli forces of trying to cover up what happened, destroying several security cameras in the area. This video obtained by CNN shows a soldier trying to knock down a security camera on the same street with the butt of his rifle. The military did not respond to CNN's questions about the destruction of security cameras.
In a home riddled with bullets, all that is left now are the memories.
HAZA (through translator): She would hop on my shoulders and she would say, grandpa, I want to kiss your head, and she would hug me. I used to love this.
DIAMOND (voice-over): And a mother's duty to speak out for her daughter.
AL-KHATIB (through translator): I want everybody to know Layla and her story and how they killed a young child who was so ambitious, so smart. This is my duty to her. DIAMOND (voice-over): Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Jenin, the West Bank.
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CHURCH: The threat of tariffs, then a dramatic turnaround. We get the view from Canada and Mexico on their deals with President Trump to delay tariffs. Back in just a moment.
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back everyone.
An update now on our top story.
China has slapped the U.S. with retaliatory tariffs less than an hour after the U.S. President's 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods took effect. China's new tariffs apply to certain American products like crude oil, liquefied natural gas and agricultural machinery.
On Monday, President Trump agreed to pause tariffs on Canada and Mexico for 30 days. The delay came after calls with Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada and President Sheinbaum of Mexico. It happened just hours before the 25 percent tariffs were due to go into effect. President Trump had previously vowed that nothing would stop the tariffs.
Well, let's take a look at reaction from both countries now.
Patrick Oppmann has the view from Mexico. But first here's Paula Newton in Ontario, Canada.
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PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A 30-day reprieve is certainly a relief here in Canada, but officials are already looking to those 30 days and understanding that it is a reminder that the threat of tariffs is still on the table.
In terms of what's happening on the border, many Canadians support a stronger border. There will be a so-called North American strike force to help with this, really zoning in on immigration and fentanyl smuggling.
But what the president wants -- what he's talking about is opening up and having a new economic deal, and he wants more concessions from Canada.
Canada already believes that the deal already on the table is set to expire next year, is a fair one. They will, of course, negotiate, but they need to understand exactly what the demands of the president are and try and really continue to bolster their own defenses here when it comes to preserving manufacturing jobs, preserving the agricultural sector. So many things that Canada fought for in that first deal. What also happened, though, is that Canadians remain very clear-eyed
about the fact that President Donald Trump does remain a threat to the economy here. And they're looking for ways to get a win for both countries, something they thought had already been done with the last trade deal.
Paula Newton, CNN -- Oakville, Ontario.
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PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico needs to keep a quote, "cool head" when dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump and his threats of punishing tariffs on goods manufactured in her country.
Sheinbaum's steeliness under pressure during a phone conversation with Trump Monday paid off, averting a tariff war at the last minute, at least for now.
CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM, MEXICAN PRESIDENT (through translator): I responded, let's pause them for a month, and I'm confident that in a month we will deliver results for both his people and Mexico.
OPPMANN: Trump had threatened 25 percent tariffs on Mexican goods starting Tuesday, as he accused Mexico of not doing enough to impede the flow of illegal drugs including fentanyl, and undocumented immigrants across the border into the U.S.
Tariffs he agreed to postpone after Sheinbaum offered to send 10,000 Mexican national guard troops to the border to crack down on the drugs flowing north.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We had a great talk with Mexico.
OPPMANN: However, Trump stressed the negotiations are not over.
TRUMP: We haven't agreed on tariffs yet, and maybe we will, maybe we won't. But we have a very good relationship.
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OPPMANN: A trade war, though likely, would have had devastating impacts on both countries and ultimately lead to an increase in the price of a wide range of items from beer to automobiles that are produced jointly by an increasingly interwoven economy.
Mexican citizens living on the border say --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): I consider it as mutual aggression to both the United States and Mexico because it will be the consumer who ultimately pays for these decisions that are being made.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think that Mexico doesn't have to yield. It has to do something -- something different to not receive this kind of blackmail from the United States.
OPPMANN: In return for deploying troops, the Mexican president called on Trump to help reduce the flood of guns originating from the U.S. that help arm Mexican drug cartels.
SHEINBAUM: These high-powered weapons empower criminal groups and give them firepower. We also ask the U.S. to help prevent arms trafficking from their country into ours. He agreed.
OPPMANN: Sheinbaum said she is confident Mexico can deliver results over the next month, while hammering out a new trade, migration and security deal with the Trump administration.
In order for that to happen though, and to avoid a widening cross- border trade war, cooler heads will have to continue to prevail.
Patrick Oppmann, CNN.
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CHURCH: In the Democratic Republic of Congo, rebel soldiers are calling for a ceasefire starting Tuesday amid a growing humanitarian crisis. It comes after rebels captured the eastern city of Goma last week, clashing with foreign peacekeepers and the region's military.
The U.N.'s humanitarian affairs office warns local health care facilities are overcrowded with a growing need for medicine and equipment.
The agency says at least 900 bodies have been recovered from the streets of Goma and is reporting nearly 2,900 injuries since the end of January.
U.N. experts believe thousands of Rwandan soldiers are in the Democratic Republic of Congo, supervising and supporting the rebels who took control of Goma a week ago.
But in an exclusive interview with CNN's Larry Madowo, Rwanda's president said he doesn't know if his country's troops are inside the DRC.
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PAUL KAGAME, RWANDAN PRESIDENT: This war, this fighting that has been going on from its inception was caused by DRC, not by Rwanda. These same people who are fighting right, for their rights didn't come from here.
LARRY MADOWO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So let me ask this directly, Mr. President. Today, on the 3rd of February, does Rwanda currently have any troops at all in eastern DRC?
KAGAMA: I don't know.
MADOWO: You're the commander in chief. KAGAME: Yes. There are many things I don't know. But if you want to
ask me, is there a problem in Congo that concerns Rwanda, and that Rwanda would do anything to protect itself? I would say 100 percent.
MADOWO: Does this risk a war in the region?
KAGAME: I don't know. I don't think anybody is interested in war. I even don't think Tshisekedi is interested in war himself. But he has been encouraged in that direction by people showing up to fight for him his wars.
MADOWO: then Rwanda exports coltan, for instance, which does not exist here, it's smuggled from DRC.
KAGAME: No please, I invite you. We show you where we're mining coltan.
MADOWO: But Rwanda exports any other minerals that are smuggled from eastern DRC?
KAGAME: I don't know about that because, that in any case, can't be the problem. People who are benefiting from minerals of Congo more than anybody else are South Africa. And these are the Europeans who are making news (ph) about it.
MADOWO: The comparison has been made that you are the Vladimir Putin of Africa, that he attacked eastern Ukraine claiming to protect the ethnic minority while having an eye on the minerals there.
KAGAME: I may be called anything. What can I do about it? But I am what I am. I have to be who we are. That's it.
And we have to do what we have to do. I have explained enough of that so that we have to make sure we survive any storm that blows across our country.
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CHURCH: At least 20 people were killed in northern Syria after a vehicle exploded in the city of Manbij on Monday. Syria's newly-formed transitional government says it will find those accountable for the terror attack and punish them with the most severe penalties. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack as of yet.
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CHURCH: It's been nearly 18 months since Spain's former football chief kissed a player without her consent. Now he's on trial for sexual assault. The latest from Madrid after the break.
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CHURCH: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it's unclear how long the removal of wreckage will take after the deadly mid-air collision over Washington last week. 55 of the 67 victims have been identified, but officials say wreckage removal will pause if any additional remains are found.
CNN's Pete Muntean reports.
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PETE MUNTEAN, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: New images from the site of the worst air disaster in decades show the power of the collision over the Potomac River as the National Transportation Safety Board begins the painstaking work of figuring out exactly what went wrong.
JENNIFER HOMENDY, NTSB CHAIRMAN: It's a major accident, a major event.
MUNTEAN: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy tells me she has launched a hundred investigators to this crash. Their latest focus downloading data from the black box recorder on the Army Black Hawk helicopter and lining it up with what investigators already recovered from American Flight 5342.
That data shows the pilots tried to climb one second before the crash.
HOMENDY: Every piece of information is critical to the investigation. So when we can provide that I think that will be helpful to provide some additional context and what we're looking at in this investigation.
MUNTEAN: Crews armed with cranes made more grim discoveries Monday, spending hours removing a jagged portion of fuselage from the water. Slow salvage work that could take more than a week to complete.
COL. FRANK PERA, U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS BALTIMORE DISTRICT: Tomorrow our goal is going to be the cockpit. That goal may be impacted tomorrow by a couple of environmental conditions, notably the wind.
MUNTEAN: The NTSB says parts from the Potomac will be brought to a hangar here and laid out to evaluate the angle of the collision. Investigators are also looking at whether air traffic controllers were able to accurately see the altitude of the helicopter on radar.
They have now pulled radar tracks from another air traffic control facility, and have interviewed those in the tower at the time of the collision.
HOMENDY: They have been very cooperative and we really appreciate their support on this. I'm sure it's very difficult.
MUNTEAN: Still, the major question how collision could occur at 325 feet above the 200-foot altitude restriction for helicopters here.
The FAA has closed helicopter corridors near national airport temporarily, but has not said whether the move will be permanent.
In a new company wide memo, American Airlines executives called the change welcome news and said the airline will work tirelessly with the administration and leaders in Congress to make our aviation system safer.
HOMENDY: At any time, the NTSB can issue an urgent safety recommendation. We don't have to wait till the end, and if we see there's a need, we'll do it.
MUNTEAN: Investigators now say they have the log books for the pilots of each aircraft. That includes a record of their flights and their training.
Now a team is building a history for each pilot that includes a look back of a few days leading up to the tragedy here.
Pete Muntean, CNN -- Reagan National Airport.
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CHURCH: A mother and her daughter who died in that plane crash in Philadelphia last week, are being remembered by the organization that helped the child receive medical treatment here in the United States.
Valentina Guzman Murillo and her mother, Lizeth Murillo Osuna, lived in Mexico and were in Philadelphia to receive treatment for Valentina's spina bifida condition.
The founder of the group His Wings Ranch, which helped organize Valentina's treatment, says losing the mother and daughter was an extremely painful and devastating time.
Well, during the election campaign last year, Democrats sounded the alarm about the conservative policy blueprint known as Project 2025. They warned that a second Trump term would put in place the kind of sweeping changes that we've now been reporting on since inauguration day.
CNN's Tom Foreman has more on how those warnings are playing out.
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TRUMP: We're getting rid of all of the cancer. I call it cancer. The cancer caused by the Biden administration.
TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Reforming or doing away with the federal disaster relief agency FEMA, dismantling diversity programs, rolling back environmental restrictions, accepting only two genders, replacing nonpartisan federal workers with administration loyalists, and aggressively pursuing undocumented immigrants.
All of those ideas are being pushed by President Donald Trump. And according to CNN's analysis, many reflect deep ties to Project 2025, the 900-page plan of action put out by the conservative Heritage Foundation.
During the campaign, Trump repeatedly denied any ties to the project.
TRUMP: I have nothing to do with Project 2025. That's out there. I haven't read it. I don't want to read it purposely. I'm not going to read it.
FOREMAN: And yet, of the 53 executive actions in his first week in office, CNN's analysis found more than two-thirds align with the project's proposals, including the use of active-duty military personnel along the border.
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FOREMAN: At least 140 Trump administration officials and dozens of allies helped craft that document including his new CIA director, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and Tom Homan the border czar.
TOM HOMAN, TRUMP'S BORDER CZAR: We're going to go where we got to go. Whether it's a school, a church, or a hospital.
FOREMAN: More specifics. When the South American country of Colombia initially refused to accept military planes loaded with deportees, Trump quickly and aggressively threatened to impose a punishing tariff right on script with what Project 2025 proposed.
TRUMP: As you know, in Colombia, they agreed with us almost immediately after I got involved.
FOREMAN: Trump immediately revoked the security clearance of top government officials suspected of not supporting his goals. And he's talked up more oil drilling in the far north, where the Project 2025 plan says Alaska is a special case and deserves immediate action.
For all that, a Trump spokesman still insists the new president had nothing to do with Project 2025, and he's just securing the border, restoring common sense, driving down inflation and unleashing American energy.
Of course, some White House critics would just call that Trump- splaining saying this administration, for all of its claims to the contrary, has been following the Project 2025 roadmap pretty closely.
Tom Foreman, CNN -- Washington.
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CHURCH: Spanish footballer Jennifer Hermoso confronted her former boss at his trial in Madrid on Monday. Luis Rubiales is accused of sexual assault and Hermoso says his unsolicited kiss during the teams celebrations in 2023 tainted one of the happiest days of her life.
CNN's Pau Mosquera reports.
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PAU MOSQUERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Spanish star striker Jennifer Hermoso has been the very first to testify in front of the judge on the trial that will be judging the controversial kiss that she received from the former president of Spain's Soccer Federation, Luis Rubiales, while they were celebrating the victory of Spain in the World Cup that took place in Australia and New Zealand on August 2023.
Hermoso actually has ratified most of the arguments that we have heard before. This is that the kiss was not consensual, that it generated rejection on her, but she couldn't do nothing about it as it was happening.
In her own words, she felt disrespected by Rubiales.
JENNIFER HERMOSO, SPAIN WOMEN'S FOOTBALL TEAM (through translator): I think it was a moment that tainted one of the happiest days of my life. I knew I was being kissed by my boss, and that should not happen in any social or work environment.
MOSQUERA: During the hearing, Hermoso has answered to all the questions made by the different parts. This means both from the complainant and defendant's lawyers.
She stated that she received a lot of pressure in countless occasions from former members of the federation, asked to cover up the scandal.
More specifically, she said that Rubiales during the flight back to Spain, tried to persuade her as to tape a video together to justify the kiss.
Also that those that were responsible for the press department by then tried to make her sign a document, justifying also this kiss, something that she also denied to do.
From now on and on the next ten sessions of trial, the judge will receive all the witnesses, as for example, men's national team coach Luis de la Fuente or other teammates as Misa Rodriguez and Alexia Putellas.
It's estimated that the judge will hear the four accused from the 12th of February and the 19th the trial will get to an end. But we're going to have to wait another week or two until the judge makes the verdict public.
Pau Mosquera, CNN -- Madrid.
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CHURCH: Crowds took to the streets of California in protest on Monday. Coming up, more on the "Day Without Immigrants" movement and the message they're sending to the Trump administration.
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CHURCH: Welcome back everyone.
Businesses closed their shops and protesters flooded the streets of southern California on Monday. The campaign, "A Day Without Immigrants", is part of a nationwide movement to highlight the importance of migrants in the U.S. Crowds gathered in Orange County to condemn the Trump administrations
mass deportation plans.
In stark contrast, the streets in San Francisco, usually bustling with vendors, were empty. The president of the Mission Street Vendors Association explained the point they were making.
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RODRIGO LOPEZ, MISSION STREET VENDORS ASSOCIATION: It's not to affect businesses. It is to prove your car with our power, with our money but we can contribute to this country, to the economy.
Former U.S. President Joe Biden is finding his voice again after leaving the White House last month. The Hollywood talent agency CAA has signed the former president, marking a return for Biden as a client.
Following his vice presidency in 2017, the agency oversaw Biden's memoir publication and nationwide book tour before he returned to the Oval Office in 2020.
Notably, CAA also represents the Obamas and their Higher Ground Production Company.
I want to thank you so much for your company this hour.
I'm Rosemary Church. I will get back with another hour of CNN NEWSROOM right after a short break.
Do stay with us.
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