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Trump Returning To Washington Amid Global Economic Fallout; Marco Rubio Meets With NATO Allies As Trump Lays Out Sweeping Tariffs; Second Unvaccinated Child Dies Of Measles In Texas Amid Outbreak; UConn Slams South Carolina To Win NCAA Women's Basketball Title; Tariff Set To Hit Major U.S. Import, Coffee; Trump's Tariffs Hit U.S. Wine Makers; Florida Lawmakers Debate Lifting Some State Child Labor Laws. Aired 6-7p ET

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JESSICA DEAN, CNN ANCHOR: You're in the CNN NEWSROOM, I'm Jessica Dean in New York.

President Trump on his way back to Washington after spending the last four days hitting the golf course in Florida. As the president gets back to work, Wall Street is bracing for what could be another chaotic week. The markets lost more than $6 trillion in two days following President Trump's aggressive new tariffs on more than 180 countries last week. The next round of tariffs is now set to go into effect on Wednesday, with more expected in the coming weeks.

The big question on everybody's mind, how long will these tariffs last?

CNN's Betsy Klein is joining us from West Palm Beach, Florida, with more on how the White House is communicating about all of this.

And Betsy, this morning on the Sunday shows, we saw a number of top cabinet officials talking about these policies, but there wasn't a lot of clarity at the end of all of this.

BETSY KLEIN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE PRODUCER: Yes, if you run a business or you're an investor or an American consumer looking for some clarity, you're not going to find it on the Sunday shows from top Trump administration officials. The president and his top economic advisers really not making clear if these tariffs in place are permanent or if there is space here for negotiations.

So President Trump has long viewed himself as a dealmaker. He has used tariffs and the threat of tariffs as a key negotiation tactic. But the reality is we are witnessing a complete reconfiguration of the economic world order. Markets are spiraling. The Dow down 10 percent from its most recent high. The Nasdaq down 20 percent. And on Friday, the Dow posted its most significant back to back losses since March of 2020, when the pandemic was just getting underway.

Economists ratcheting up fears of a global recession. Of course, so many concerns about what happens to the markets next week. And Goldman Sachs analysts are concluding that even with all of President Trump's other economic policies in place, it won't be enough to offset the damage caused by this tariff plan.

Now, there is so much mixed messaging, as you mentioned, from the president's top officials. Some of them say that there is space for negotiations. Some of them say point blank this is not a negotiation. Listen to what they said when pressed for clarity today on the Sunday shows.

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JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: Are these tariffs here to stay as Howard Lutnick and President Trump seem to be suggesting?

BROOKE ROLLINS, AGRICULTURE SECRETARY: Listen, we've got 50 countries that are burning the phone lines into the White House up.

MARGARET BRENNAN, CBS NEWS ANCHOR: Is the president considering postponing implementation to negotiate?

HOWARD LUTNICK, COMMERCE SECRETARY: There is no postponing. They are definitely going to stay in place for days and weeks.

KRISTIN WELKER, NBC NEWS ANCHOR: Is President Trump willing to negotiate or are these tariffs permanent?

SCOTT BESSENT, TREASURY SECRETARY: Well, I think that's going to be a decision for President Trump.

PETER NAVARRO, WHITE HOUSE TRADE ADVISER: This is not a negotiation. This is a national emergency based on a trade deficit that's gotten out of control because of cheating. We're always listening -- we're always willing to listen. That's what Donald Trump does best.

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KLEIN: So many questions. And of course not a lot of answers there. Now notably, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has said that the White House is open to providing some aid for the American farmers who have really borne the brunt of these tariff policies. She said the White House is open to working with Congress on potential relief for those farmers -- Jessica.

DEAN: Betsy, on another note, we're also following some new reporting tonight on this standoff in the House that appears to finally have come to an end. What more can you tell us about that? This was within the House Republicans there.

KLEIN: Yes. This is a real source of intraparty tension for House Republicans, pitting Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna against House Speaker Mike Johnson.

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At issue here is the process of proxy voting. Essentially, the possibility of having another way to cast your vote if, for instance, you have just had a baby, as Luna was advocating for. She announced in a post to social media moments ago that she and Johnson have reached an agreement on this. She wrote they have formalized a procedure called, quote, "live dead pairing" dating back to the 1800s for the entire conference to use when unable to physically be present to vote.

That includes new parents, the bereaved, and emergencies. She went on to thank President Trump for his support, and said that this is a policy that makes Congress pro-family -- Jessica.

DEAN: All right. Betsy Klein with the latest from West Palm Beach. Thank you so much for that.

And joining us now is spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce.

Tammy, thank you so much for being here with us. We appreciate it.

TAMMY BRUCE, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON: My pleasure. Thanks for having me.

DEAN: I want to start there with these tariffs because as our allies around the world, which you all are talking to all the time, are digesting all of this, what are they supposed to read into this? Is this a negotiation or is it not?

BRUCE: Well, I don't think they need to read anything into it. I spent a few days at the NATO Foreign Minister's Summit with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And as you might imagine, the tariffs came up. And he has been saying the same thing as has President Trump is that this is about an evening of the playing field globally.

We have been taken advantage of when it comes to unfair trade practices. The nature of what we're charged versus what we charge. And those days have got to come to an end. In the first round, with President Trump's first term, we now know in a 2024 study that, in fact, his tariffs did strengthen the U.S. economy, re-shored businesses to the United States. Everything the president does is through the lens of a businessman determined to make sure that he improves the quality of life for Americans.

But it's also, I have to say, a national security issue, is making sure that businesses do reshore here in the United States. If you make a product here, you are not going to have tariffs. There is an incentive to do this. So we've seen the change over the last decade, certainly with COVID, where we were not able to get certain materials because things weren't being made here. We were losing the manufacturing base.

So we're looking at this through a national security lens and an economic lens. And what Secretary Rubio reinforced with our allies at NATO is that this is an evening of the playing field. And then we look to bilateral negotiations with each country to make to determine what's best for those nations and what kind of negotiations we can have. And, of course, nations want to do that with us now. And that puts us in a very good position.

DEAN: So there is room, you were telling them, for negotiations ultimately.

BRUCE: Well, yes. Again, we're looking at the nature of wanting to even the playing field with reciprocal tariffs, the nature of what the president sees as being appropriate for certain countries. And then a conversation can be had. And that is what Secretary Rubio has been reinforcing publicly in the media and with our allies, is that this then moves to conversations bilaterally.

The president in the first -- in his first term did big blocks of deals which didn't work so well. And so now the goal, of course, is to do it one country at a time, allies at a time. And I believe that, Netanyahu had noted in his X account that, in fact, he would be speaking with the president about the tariffs on Israel when he's here as an example in their discussions tomorrow.

DEAN: And I do want to ask you about that as well. I just want to stay on this for one more second, though, because so much about --

BRUCE: Sure.

DEAN: As you all know, about talking to our allies around the world is about trust. Relationships are built on trust, and without that trust, it is hard to move forward.

BRUCE: Sure.

DEAN: And I know you said you were just with them at the NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting there in Brussels. You all were talking with all of them. How confident are you that they can continue to trust us when we're changing the dynamics so severely?

BRUCE: Well, it is not unexpected. President Trump has been talking about tariffs and the problems for decades. You now can look at social media and there's interviews and video of him. 10, 20, 25, 30 years ago talking about the problem with trade. He made it a hallmark of his first term. The world knows that this is a concern to him as a businessman, as an American, as the president, that this is the way for America to be treated fairly, for us to be economically more secure and for the world to be economically more secure.

What we -- what we do know is that the world recognizes that the United States is at the heart of what makes the world safe, as does economies that keep us stable.

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And what the economy that has to be stable and strong in order for the rest of the world to be safe, it's the economy of the United States. And that's what Trump recognizes. It's clearly what the American people recognize by voting him back in.

So this is, when we say trust President Trump, we're not asking people to have to, you know, wonder if they can. They've seen the results in the first term. He ran on this kind of a dynamic. Americans and the world want things to be different. And they're going to be and it's going to be beneficial for everyone very quickly. DEAN: And you mentioned the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin

Netanyahu, is coming to meet with the president tomorrow at the president's invitation. They've noted, as you said, that tariffs will be on their list of things that they will be chatting about.

Do you think that we could see a deal for Israel on the 17 percent tariff that's been imposed on Israeli goods?

BRUCE: Well, I'm not going to get ahead of what the president of the United States wants to do. He clearly has a sense of what the plan is, and he's implementing that plan. Israel is an incredibly strong ally of ours, and I would expect, of course, a conversation to be wide ranging, but I, while I can't speak to that, I would guess, considering what the remarks of Secretary Rubio have been, is that we will be having conversations with our allies and other nations, obviously, around the world about what's fair for our country and for theirs. And so I would suspect that might be part of it.

DEAN: Yes, it was interesting because on the eve of the tariff announcement, Netanyahu had said that Israel would cancel all remaining tariffs on U.S. imports, most of which are exempt under a free trade agreement. But obviously they got those tariffs anyway. So I am curious how that -- how you see that dynamic playing out when at the time they had canceled the remaining tariffs.

BRUCE: Well, see, this is what's really interesting. And it moves to show you that nations are coming in, they're calling. They're reaching out because they do know now is the time for us to find a balance and to find a deal. And they've got the best dealmaker in the world in President Trump. And we are fortunate in that this same man is the president of this country. So I would -- I don't again want to speculate on what the conversation will be or how it will work.

But we do know that both of these men have an interest in the security and the safety of their nations, and I look forward to finding out what they come to.

DEAN: All right. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce, we really appreciate your time today. Thank you very much.

BRUCE: My pleasure. Thank you.

DEAN: Thank you.

Breaking news now, as a second child has died of measles in Texas. Officials say that the school age child was not vaccinated. The ongoing measles outbreak spans now Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and possibly Kansas. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now in Texas he says to console the family. He posted on X today, quote, "The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine."

Now, Kennedy has been slow to acknowledge the effectiveness of the measles vaccine, instead focusing on his department's response to the outbreak on alternative -- to this outbreak on alternative treatments. Joining us now is Dr. Paul Offit. He's the director of the Vaccine

Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He's also a member of the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee.

Dr. Offit, thanks so much for being here with us. I just want to start first that a second child has died in the United States from measles and just underscore how incredible that is, that that has happened.

DR. PAUL OFFIT, VACCINE EDUCATION CENTER DIRECTOR, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: You've had three measles deaths including one in a healthy 8-year-old girl, a healthy 6-year-old girl. That is as many people who have died of measles this year as have died in the entire previous 25 years.

DEAN: Wow.

OFFIT: It's tragic and it's heartbreaking because it's preventable.

DEAN: Why do you think -- I mean, obviously there is a lot of vaccine skepticism. This child was not vaccinated. But why do you think we are seeing this play out right now?

OFFIT: So we eliminated measles by the year 2000. We eliminated it because we had a two-dose schedule. We had all 50 states that had state school mandates, which were enforced, and we eliminated the most contagious infectious disease by the year 2000. And I think what happened was it's not just that we've eliminated. I think we've eliminated the memory of it, that in combination with a lot of misinformation and disinformation that's out there, much of which has been created by our current secretary of Health and Human Services, has caused people to not fear the disease, while at the same time fear the vaccine.

DEAN: Now, this hospital where the child was being treated told CNN that the child had no underlying health conditions. Why are the severe complications from -- what are the severe complications from measles that make it so dangerous, make it deadly for children?

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OFFIT: Right. So before there was a measles vaccine in 1963, every year there'd be three to four million cases of measles. There would be about 48,000 hospitalizations, primarily from severe measles, pneumonia or severe dehydration or encephalitis, which is an infection of the brain. About a quarter of those with encephalitis would be left with permanent harm, like blindness and deafness.

Measles was a feared disease. It was never considered a rite of passage. So, I mean, I'm of an age where I had measles and I remember how awful I felt when I had that disease.

DEAN: Yes. And 480 documented cases of measles have been reported in Texas in this outbreak that's still ongoing. Nearly all of those people are unvaccinated.

Can you speak to some of the misconceptions that surround the safety and the efficacy of this measles vaccine, and what parents need to know?

OFFIT: Well, first of all, that number is way low. I mean, if you look at the number of hospitalizations and you look at the number of deaths, that it's likely that there are 2,000 to 3,000 cases of measles in this country right now. In terms of the misinformation that's put out there, it's what you would expect that the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine causes autism. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on FOX News with Sean Hannity saying the measles vaccine kills people every year, saying the measles vaccine causes blindness and deafness, saying that the measles vaccine causes the same signs and symptoms of measles.

So there's a lot of bad information out there. And when you don't see the disease, you're susceptible to that bad information.

DEAN: And you write that RFK Jr.'s response to this outbreak has been, in your words, abysmal, that he's downplayed the severity of this. Now he is visiting Texas. Do you think that helps? Do you think that hurts? What can he do to make this better?

OFFIT: I think he should hold a press conference and stand up in front of the American public and say, vaccinate your children. This is unconscionable. We have probably thousands of cases of measles in this country right now, because the ones that are reported are only those that are confirmed, confirmed by PCR or serology. And a lot of people get measles and don't have those tests. And he should say clearly and unequivocally vaccinate your children. This is the only way to protect them. That would help.

DEAN: Dr. Paul Offit, as always, thank you very much. We appreciate it.

OFFIT: Thank you.

DEAN: Coming up, cream, sugar and maybe a few extra bucks. Tariffs hitting that morning cup of coffee that so many people rely on. Plus two titans of women's basketball battling for the national championship. Who walks away with the title?

You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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DEAN: If you want to be the champ, you got to beat the champ. And for the first time in three seasons, we have a new Women's National College Basketball Champion.

CNN's Coy Wire joining us now from San Antonio with more.

What have you got for us, Coy?

COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Hey, what's going on, Jessica? We had the two powerhouses in women's hoops going toe to toe. What's not to love? You had the defending champs, South Carolina, with Hall of Famer coach Dawn Staley facing the winningest coach in women's hoops history, Geno Auriemma of UConn. Let's check out some of these highlights.

UConn was just way too much in this game. They were pretty much double-digits leaders throughout this game. Their superstar, Paige Becker scored 17. She'll likely be the top overall pick in the upcoming WNBA draft, but it was Azzi Fudd and Sarah Strong going for a game high 24 points each. And Fudd, she missed last year's tournament with a torn ACL, but now she's been named tournament MVP, with UConn securing their record extending 12th national title after an 82-59 statement win -- Jessica.

DEAN: It's so exciting. I do want to add our Christine Brennan to this conversation.

Christine, thanks for being here with us, too. I just want to get your thoughts on the women's National Championship Game.

CHRISTINE BRENNAN, CNN SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR: Coy said it well. It was just an absolute annihilation, frankly, of a terrific South Carolina team by a team that was so much better today at least, and that was UConn. And when you think about it, UConn had not won a national title. As Coy said, this is their 12th, but their 11th was in 2016. So it had been nine long years for UConn and Geno Auriemma.

And what that says to me, of course, is the parity. The fact there are so many good teams now in the women's game. It used to be UConn and Tennessee. Then obviously South Carolina rose up. You would have Stanford every now and then, Baylor, LSU. But to see every year the competitiveness just grow and grow and grow, which makes this UConn win even more impressive because this is really the greatest day in women's sports until tomorrow in terms of coaching, technique, money, everything that we would measure it on.

And so to see UConn pull it off against a really, really good South Carolina team, remarkable performance. Well-deserved. And Geno has his 12th. And I'm going to guess he'll stick around trying to get another one next year.

DEAN: And Coy, I also want to talk about the men's championship game. We now know it's Florida and Houston in San Antonio. That second game last night is especially wow.

WIRE: I mean, I'm getting goosebumps again just thinking about 68,000 fans in this typically a football arena just rocking this place.

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And if it's any indication, last night's Final Four matchups with the championship game on Monday is going to be like, we are in for a doozy. You have Florida they took down the top overall seed in this tournament, Auburn. And this is a team who's got a bunch of underdogs in them, right? They go after the guys who've been overlooked as they've been coming up. Maybe not the superstars, but they just shine on the big moments. They have this toughness and grit, especially their star Walter Clayton Junior, who scored 34 points in this game.

I caught up with their coach, Todd Golden, he says this team is built off resilience and toughness, but so is, Jessica, Houston. They got here by shocking Duke and the world pulling off one of the greatest comebacks we've seen in final four history. 69-year-old head coach Kelvin Sampson has never won a national title, but now he has this team of upperclassmen who've never transferred, seeking NIL deals somewhere else. They stick with him. And coach told me just moments ago that he absolutely loves this team. Listen.

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KELVIN SAMPSON, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON HEAD COACH: Had we lost last night or lost prior to last night, I would have been more sad that I don't get to coach this team because that's how special they've been to me. I would have been more sad about that than losing the game, because you don't get a group like this that comes together for one common goal very often. This is a special group.

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WIRE: All right. The stage is set, Jessica. Florida seeking their first title in 18 years. And as I mentioned, Houston, the school, the entire school has never had a national title. And they'll get a chance to do so right here in their home state Monday night.

DEAN: That's really cool.

Christine, what are you going to be watching for on Monday?

BRENNAN: Well, as Coy said, you know, Houston, they haven't done it. The last time of course the men's team was this good was 1984. They did not win the title, but they did make the final. And we talked a lot about the SEC, the Southeastern Conference, its dominance, 14 teams in the tournament, in the men's tournament. Here's Florida, the last one standing on that front. You know, is the SEC able to pull it off?

But I agree, I think Houston it's almost got that feeling of UConn a little bit with the women's side. You know, they've been around a long time. An older coach who has been, you know, in the trenches for quite a while, Geno Auriemma, and of course Kelvin Sampson. So Houston, the way they pulled that off with down, what, 14 points with eight and a half minutes to go beating Duke, and just coming back in one of those great, great finishes, I think Houston is on a roll here for sure.

DEAN: Yes. That's the one that busted my bracket. I've been doing very well in the CNN pool, but it no longer. That was my one shining moment and it is over now. But that will be a fun game to watch on Monday for sure.

Coy Wire, Christine Brennan, our thanks to both of you.

BRENNAN: Thanks.

DEAN: Still coming up, we're going to have more news for you on the other side as we continue to watch the futures. We're looking to Monday to see just what it might hold for us when we come back.

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DEAN: President Trump's tariffs are expected to raise prices of your morning coffee. The National Coffee Association estimates nearly three quarters of Americans drink coffee every day, most of it imported from Brazil and Colombia, both now facing 10 percent tariffs.

Julia Vargas Jones is joining us now from a coffee shop in Los Angeles.

Julia, you're talking to people there about the potential impact of these tariffs. What are they telling you?

JULIA VARGAS JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, they're telling me they are concerned because the vast majority of the coffee that you see here comes from elsewhere, not from the United States. You know, here we have Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, Indonesia. 10 percent tariffs slapped on Brazil, 10 percent tariffs slapped on Colombia. In Nicaragua, 18 percent. Indonesia 32 percent. We're not even talking about Vietnam. That's in the 40s, that level of tariffs.

Now what that's doing to business owners is just putting them between a rock and a hard place, Jessica, trying to make those adjustments in prices without passing on to the consumer. We spoke to one of the owners of this coffee shop. Take a listen to what he said.

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MATTHEW SCHODORF, OWNER, CAFE DE LECHE: I kind of understand on some level, I don't know if I agree with it, but I understand like we're going to raise prices on imports so that we try to guide people towards buying domestic. Right? You can't do that with coffee. You know, again, there's a small amount of production in Hawaii, but other than that you have to get it globally. So you're just -- I don't know how to say it politely, we're just getting screwed.

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JONES: Jessica, he's being quite frank with us there, right? But it's true. These are businesses that already have a really small margin. They have been seeing rising prices of coffee due to weather conditions in South America, where most of this coffee comes from. So they're looking at now having to pass those price increases on to the consumer.

DEAN: All right. Julia Vargas Jones, thank you so much for that.

Meantime, American winemakers are getting pinched as Canada retaliates to tariffs on aluminum and steel. Natasha Chen talked to one owner of one California winery whose business is facing a very uncertain future.

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NATASHA CHEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It takes years from planting a vine.

GREGORY GONZALEZ, DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE, THORNHILL COMPANIES: Boom, the buds start to burst.

CHEN: To turning grapes into a drinkable wine. But those years of planning are being uprooted by tariff wars.

NICHOLAS MILLER, 5TH GENERATION OWNER OF MILLER FAMILY WINE COMPANY: We understand they're trying to make the best decisions possible, but without guidance it's sure hard to have a business plan.

CHEN: These are muddy waters for Nicholas Miller, a fifth generation owner of Miller Family Wines on the central coast of California.

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MILLER: This is our Pastoralist Cab Franc.

CHEN: The company makes wines under different labels.

MILLER: It tends to be a lot more kind of that chocolate, that mocha.

CHEN: From very high end to more affordable ones. Miller says 10 percent of their wines are typically exported to Canada, including some custom blends.

MILLER: We became the official wine partners for the Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers.

CHEN: Wait, so what happens to that wine like we're in hockey season?

MILLER: Right, that's what we're trying to face right now is what happens to that wine.

CHEN (voice-over): Canada is typically America's biggest wine customer, importing $435 million worth of U.S. wine per year. But province controlled liquor boards there have largely stopped stocking American wine in retaliation for President Trump's tariffs on aluminum and steel. About 12,000 Miller Family Wine bottles or $90,000 worth of their wine is stuck in a California warehouse. They're already packaged with Canada specific labeling requirements, but going nowhere. And what about slapping on the required American label to sell it domestically instead?

MILLER: It may sound like an easy fix of just putting a label on, but it really is tantamount to going through a second bottling.

CHEN: That's not a cheap process to do that.

MILLER: It's not.

CHEN (voice-over): So they continue to sit in storage at a cost while Miller waits for more information.

MILLER: The politics of all that's happening right now is costing everyone something, right? CHEN: Even Trump's idea of imposing a 200 percent tariff on European

wine imports.

MILLER: It feels a little bit like fighting fire with fire, which doesn't seem like that's the right solution.

CHEN: Miller says there has to be a conversation about the real problem, an unfair fight where American wines, often highly regulated and costly to produce, are up against heavily subsidized European ones. And while there are clues about the future harvest if you read the grape leaves.

GONZALEZ: This tells us a lot about how the season is going to be for us when we start seeing clusters and-or tendrils.

CHEN: There's no clarity for the makers of the wine these grapes will become.

Natasha Chen, CNN, Santa Barbara, California.

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DEAN: Still ahead, some Florida lawmakers want to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts, even on school nights. We're going to look at a bill advancing in the Florida state legislature.

You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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DEAN: All right. Take a look at the market futures ahead of Monday. So far we're seeing the Dow down 1500 points. About 4 percent. Of course these massive declines in futures following the worst two-day stretch for stocks in five years. The worst that we've seen since the pandemic, as the markets have rejected President Trump's massive tariff regime, some of which, of course, went into effect Saturday morning when markets were not open. So these are the futures. We are keeping an eye on them as we look to tomorrow to see what that holds for us.

In the meantime, how young is too young to work long hours? It's a question that's ignited debate in Florida due to a recent bill in the state Senate. The bill lawmakers are advancing would loosen many restrictions on teen work hours in that state.

Ivan Rodriguez joining us now.

Ivan, what's going on here?

IVAN RODRIGUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Jessica, it all has been developing for quite some time now. Last year, the Republican-led state legislature passed a law allowing parents, guardians or even school superintendents to waive the 30-hour work week limit for 16 and 17-year-olds during the school year. Now, this new proposal aims to do away with even more child labor restrictions.

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RODRIGUEZ (voice-over): Describing Lofty Pursuits in Tallahassee, Florida, in one word isn't so simple.

Definitely smoother, right?

GREGORY COHEN, OWNER, LOFTY PURSUITS: Somebody once described lofty pursuits as a performance art project that happened to turn a profit.

RODRIGUEZ (voice-over): From a classic American soda fountain to handmade candy, Gregory Cohen has captivated his customers for more than three decades. As a business owner who has hired teenagers before, Cohen says certain parts of a proposed Florida bill aimed at deleting certain restrictions on minors could make sense in terms of flexibility. And when teen workers take breaks.

COHEN: Getting that half hour break exactly at four hours or exactly at the right time so we don't violate is really hard to schedule when you don't know when the customers are coming in.

RODRIGUEZ: Still.

Is this really changing much?

COHEN: I don't know.

RODRIGUEZ (voice-over): The bill would allow 16 and 17-year-olds to work more than eight hours in a day when school is scheduled the next day, and work over 30 hours a week during the school year without mandated breaks. For 14 and 15-year-olds who are home-schooled, attend virtual school, or have graduated high school, the bill also removes restrictions on overnight work on school days. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis argues the change will help fill positions left by deported migrants.

GOV. RON DESANTIS (R), FLORIDA: What's wrong with expecting like our young people to be working part time now? I mean like that's how it used to be when I was growing up. Why do we say we need to import foreigners even importing illegally when, you know, teenagers used to work at these resorts?

RODRIGUEZ: Do you believe that this bill would have an impact on a child's development?

SADAF KNIGHT, CEO, FLORIDA POLICY INSTITUTE: Absolutely, because we already are seeing high levels of absenteeism.

RODRIGUEZ (voice-over): Sadaf Knight with the Florida Policy Institute says right now children who want to work longer hours can already do so through a waiver process involving parents, guardians or a school superintendent.

KNIGHT: This bill would eliminate that process altogether. So parents are essentially being excluded from the process of the decision-making around how long and how much their kids work.

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RODRIGUEZ: Members of the Youth Action Fund, a nonprofit made up of high school and university students, rallied at the state capitol.

CAMERON DRIGGERS, FOUNDER, YOUTH ACTION FUND: Lawmakers are trying to bring us back to the Gilded Age. And that cannot be more true. This is going to target low-income people. And obviously, as a result, black and brown Floridians who are more likely to have to rely on income from a young age to support their families.

RODRIGUEZ: For Cliff and Shannon Sherry, owners of Doggy Dayz Daycare, it's unnecessary to change the law since they've never had any issue hiring minors before. Most importantly, they believe kids should be kids.

CLIFF SHERRY, OWNER, DOGGIE DAYZ DAYCARE: We just hope it's not going to lead to kids having to make a tough decision as to whether they need to work or they can do those, you know, things that everybody wants to do when they're kids.

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RODRIGUEZ (on-camera): The number of child labor violations in Florida has nearly tripled in recent years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. Now, legislative analysis of the bill says it will increase opportunities to generate income for certain individuals and employers and could have a positive impact on the private sector. If passed, the law will take effect July 1st -- Jessica.

DEAN: All right. Ivan Rodriguez, thanks so much for that.

Still ahead, Pope Francis making a surprise public appearance, his first since leaving the hospital two weeks ago.

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DEAN: Twenty-two million people at risk for severe weather from a line of violent storms. They swept from Texas to Ohio, bringing flooding, damaging wind and tornadoes. We know at least 17 people are confirmed dead. The storm threat is now moving through the southeast, and this is the 11th consecutive day with tornadoes reported somewhere in the U.S. The same storm system leaving behind record snowfall in parts of Texas. Amarillo and Lubbock broke April snowfall records this weekend. Freeze alerts extending now from Texas all the way to Illinois.

Today, a federal district judge denied the Trump administration's request to block a courts order to return a man that it admits was deported by mistake. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador last month. On Friday, a Maryland judge ordered the father of three to be brought

back to the U.S. no later than Monday at 11:59 p.m. but according to a White House filing the Trump administration says it can't do that because it doesn't have any control over him currently to bring him back that quickly. The judge said her order to return Garcia, quote, "remains in full force and effect."

Pope Francis made a surprise appearance today at the Vatican. The crowd went wild when the 88-year-old pontiff greeted them in a wheelchair. It was the first time the leader of the Catholic Church has been seen in public since leaving the hospital two weeks ago, where he received extended treatment for double pneumonia.

And it has been a long time coming but Alex Ovechkin can finally call himself the NHL's all-time leading scorer. The 39-year-old overtaking Wayne Gretzky's mark of 894 goals after scoring in the second period of the Washington Capitals' game against the New York Islanders. Gretzky had held that record since 1994. Quite a night.

Also tonight, a new episode of the "UNITED STATES OF SCANDAL" follows the story of Anna Delvey, who managed to convince New York's elite that she was a German heiress. Jake Tapper has the preview.

JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks for having me, Jess. So this week's episode dives into the story of one of the most well-known con artists of the modern era, a woman named Anna Delvey.

Originally from Russia, born as Anna Sorokin, Delvey became a household name when the tales of her scamming of New York's elite consumed news and entertainment TV. Not only did she manage to deceive friends with her false identity as a German heiress, but also banks, hotels and businesses.

I sat down with Anna to discuss her thoughts on what she did following her 2019 conviction and imprisonment. Here's a little preview.

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TAPPER: Is it an act, or is she the most powerful type of liar, the one who truly believes that on some level, the lies she tells are built on a fundamental truth?

How do you see yourself? I mean, you know, a lot of people think you're a con artist. Do you see yourself like that?

ANNA DELVEY, CONVICTED CON ARTIST: Not at all. I think if anybody bothers to look into my criminal case, I never planned to like permanently defraud anyone of anything.

TAPPER: I mean, you did tell lies.

DELVEY: Yes.

TAPPER: Even if you thought that ultimately things were going to happen, you did tell lies about wire transfers and stuff. DELVEY: Yes, but I think it's different. Had I like, had I known that

whoever I'm talking to, they will never get their money back, that was never my mindset.

TAPPER: You thought it was all going to work out.

DELVEY: Yes. It's not like my project was something completely fantastical.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The more she got away with the more she felt she could get away with. She thinks, well, why can't I get $50 million? It's a megalomania of a kind, I guess. And also somewhat justified.

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TAPPER: Despite the theft, despite the deception, despite the lies, Anna and her story became famous or infamous. So many Americans wanting to know how a 26-year-old was able to pull off a scam of this size for this long. Even long after her conviction, she continues in so many ways to captivate America's attention -- Jess.

DEAN: All right, Jake. It's a good one. Tune in tonight. A new episode of "UNITED STATES OF SCANDAL" with Jake Tapper. It airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific right here on CNN.

We do have some breaking news as U.S. stock futures are pointing toward a much lower opening, apparently continuing last week's big selloff.

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We're going to have more on the global reaction to Trump's trade war when we come back.

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DEAN: You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Jessica Dean in New York.

We're just about 15 hours away now from Wall Street's opening bell. And right now the Dow futures are on pace for a steep decline, plunging more than 1500 points as President Trump's escalating trade war.