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CNN International: Sources: Trump Called Bezos To Complain After Report Amazon May List Tariff Costs, Amazon Says Plan Was "Never Approved"; CNN Poll Shows Americans Frustrated 100 Days Into New Term; Police: At Least Three Killed In Shooting In Sweden; Carney's Liberals Win As Voters Rally Against Trump; U.S. Envoy Rejects Russian Truce Offer As "Absurd". Aired 3-4p ET

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MAX FOSTER, CNN HOST: Hello, and welcome to our viewers all around the world. I'm Max Foster. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

On the 100th day of Donald Trump's presidency, the White House finds itself in an extraordinary back and forth with one of the world's biggest companies over tariffs. White House sources say Donald Trump has taken aim at Jeff Bezos, calling the Amazon founder to complain about reports the company was planning to show the extra cost of U.S. tariffs on certain products.

The reports of Amazon's plans to publicize those tariff costs first came from "Punchbowl News", causing the White House to lash out.

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KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: This is a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years. And I would also add that it's not a surprise because, as "Reuters" recently wrote, Amazon -- Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm. So, this is another reason why Americans should buy American. It's another reason why we are onshoring critical supply chains here at home to shore up our own critical supply chain and boost our own manufacturing here.

REPORTER: Is Jeff Bezos still a Trump supporter?

LEAVITT: Look, I will not speak to the president's relationships with Jeff Bezos.

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FOSTER: Well, Amazon issued a statement appearing to walk back that tariff policy not long after that White House briefing. And just a few minutes ago, the White House president Trump said he had straightened things out with Bezos over the phone.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Great. Jeff Bezos was very nice. He was terrific. He solved a problem very quickly, and he did the right thing. And he's a good guy.

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FOSTER: CNN's Alayna Treene has more details from the White House.

I mean, ultimately, it was pretty quickly resolved, wasn't it?

ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Yes. And it was great to have the president there confirm our reporting in real time, Max. But yes, so I think this is a remarkable kind of story in the way that this all unfolded. I'll just walk you through, you know, from my conversations with senior White House officials who helped us break the stories, essentially, that, you know, what happened was this story from "Punchbowl News" came out that Amazon was going to be showing or displaying on its website. They said it was considering showing these the cost of U.S. tariffs next to its prices.

Now, that was something I was told that one of the senior White House officials I spoke with and called the president to inform him of, and this is what one of them told me. They said, quote, of course, he was pissed, referring to the president's reaction to the story. And then they said, why should a multibillion dollar company pass off costs to consumers?

Shortly after that, he then the president called up the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos himself, to complain about it to him. And then, of course, you just heard the president recount how he thought the call went. He essentially said he did a terrific job and fix the problem very quickly.

But I think if you want to take a step back and think about why this is so significant is one, of course, it's that the president is able to just call up the founder of one of, as you mentioned, the biggest companies in the world and get them to back away from policy. But it's also important because, you know what it says about the tariff policy. I mean, part of this is, of course, you know, one of the main goals of what the president is trying to do with tariffs is shake up the global economic order. And part of it, as well is to try and encourage companies, but also consumers to buy American made goods, not foreign made goods.

One of the things Amazon, of course, is known best for is that they sell a lot of cheap foreign-made goods. So, I think a key question, of course, is why was this such an issue to them? Clearly, from what these White House officials were telling me is they don't believe that big companies like Amazon should be passing off the cost.

Now, one other notable part of all of this as well is how Amazon responded to this. First, after we had heard, you know, one, after we knew that the president had called Jeff Bezos. But then we also heard Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, say that they considered it a hostile political act. Amazon put out a statement saying that this was not something that

they were planning to do widespread on Amazons site. It would only be for a select few products. But then when I pushed back on this more in a conversation with one of the Amazon spokespeople, they sent me an updated statement and it said that this was never approved and not going to happen.

So again, in a very short amount of time, we saw Amazon back away from a policy after the president had kind of called up the founder and called him out on it.

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Now, one other thing as well, I think is important to keep in mind here is the relationship between the president and Jeff Bezos. It's one where they have grown increasingly close over recent months. I mean, if we were having this conversation back during the first term, it would be surprising to know that these two men have grown closer. But it's something that Bezos has specifically worked on, having this closer relationship with the president.

I'm also told from my conversations with Trump administration officials that Bezos, when he's in Washington, often comes and visits the West Wing to meet with the president directly. So, I think that, of course, played a role here, and one that the president also contributed to having them change some of what they were thinking of doing.

FOSTER: A lot of businesses will be looking at this as a -- as a case study, won't they? Because the way they're going to have to deal with these tariffs, is the White House expecting then businesses to absorb the cost and not pass it on to customers, or just to hide the tariff?

TREENE: You see, I mean, I agree that this is a fascinating question. It's hard to know. I mean, what we've heard publicly from White House officials from top the president's top economic advisers has been that they hope that companies particularly, you know, multi-million, multibillion dollar companies would be absorbing these costs.

But we've also heard some of his top economic advisers acknowledge that not all businesses will do that, specifically small businesses. I mean, a lot of small businesses, we've been covering the impact of this here in the United States is, you know, how hard it has been on them to try and deal with this. And many of them saying that there's no reasonable way to expect that they couldn't be forced to pass off costs to consumers.

And so that really is a key question, and one that I think, you know, the White House has struggled at some points to answer with. One of the key things we've heard repeatedly from them is they do acknowledge there would be some short term pain. The president has said that himself, but that they hope you know, the economy and businesses will do fare better in the long term. But as of now, it's very unclear when -- when that would happen -- Max.

FOSTER: Alayna Treene, thank you so much. Fascinating reporting today.

Now, 100 days into the second Trump term, the political mood in the United States is a pretty sour one. If you look at the numbers, 64 percent of those questioned in a new CNN poll, nearly two out of three think things are going badly in the U.S. right now, and there's not much confidence in either party, actually, and their abilities to steer the ship in the right direction.

Let's take a closer look at the numbers with CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten.

I guess a lot of presidents get through the honeymoon period and things go down a bit.

HARRY ENTEN, CNN CHIEF DATA ANALYST: Yeah, but I think that this is historic in terms of Donald Trump's drop. What are we talking about here? We'll talk about the economy, right? Because that was what Alayna was talking about.

And I think this is sort of just gives the game away. Trump's economic approval rating at 100 days. You know, eight years ago, the economy was a part a strength for Donald Trump. His approval rating on the economy was 49 percent. Look at him now, down ten points, down at 39 percent.

I look back at every single president I could find economic approval rating data on. You have to go all the way back since James Earl Carter in 1977, and Trump has the lowest economic approval rating on record.

Now, what's interesting is why is that the case? And I don't think in the first term you would have ever guessed why Trump would be low at this particular point. What are we talking about here? Well, family's top economic problem, say a government policy.

Look at where we were under Joe Biden last year in June, just 10 percent said a government policy was the family's top economic problem. That percentage has -- get this -- more than doubled in April of 2025 to 21 percent.

Now what, of course, might have happened over the last, say, eight, nine, ten months, in which folks would say, in fact, it's the government or government policy that's your family's top economic problem.

Oh, wait a minute. Thats right. It's tariffs. It's tariffs. And this I think is the key component of it all. That ties it all together because take a look here, Trump has been making the argument, right, tariffs may hurt you in the short term. But in the long term, they won't be as harmful to you. In fact, they could be helpful.

The American people, Max, they're not buying it. Trump's tariff policies will hurt the economy. Well, in the short term, look at this 72 percent. You rarely get 72 percent of Americans to agree on anything. But they do agree that in the short term, Trump's tariff policies will hurt the economy. But even in the long term, this, of course, is Trump's argument, 53

percent say that Trump's tariff policies will hurt the economy in the long term. The bottom line is when it comes to the economy, when it comes to tariffs, Trump is losing the argument, and that is why his overall approval ratings have been dropping and he's truly facing historic lows, at least compared to other presidents, Max.

FOSTER: Harry, fascinating. Thank you so much.

ENTEN: Thank you.

FOSTER: We are going to go to Sweden now where authorities are investigating a shooting north of the capital, Stockholm. Police say at least three people were killed in the university city of Uppsala.

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Sweden's public broadcaster SVT says the suspect fled the scene on an electric scooter.

I'm joined now by our international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson.

I mean, any sense of motive or what happened here.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: At the moment? No. The police say they're investigating, obviously chasing the suspect, the fourth largest city in Sweden.

You know, I think there are some trends behind this that people may be looking at right now. We think back to February this year, the European parliament talking about a wave of gang violence in Sweden. There were, they said in February, in January this year, 30 different gang related explosions in Sweden.

So, the police are not saying what they are saying is are three people are confirmed dead around about 5:00 p.m. in the afternoon. Local residents in this sort of neighborhood type area around a square in the city there reported hearing bangs that sounded like gunshots. The police got there. They discovered that that guns had gone off. Later, they said that the people were dead.

But police are saying they haven't informed the families yet because they're still trying to figure out the identities of those who have been killed. So the police leave this very open at the moment, but it does potentially, potentially look like gang-related violence.

FOSTER: Which is, you know, we've seen this upsurge. I mean, what's driving it? I mean, this was a traditionally liberal open, I mean, relatively relaxed country.

ROBERTSON: There are different types of gangs, drug gangs, motorcycle gangs, sometimes the motorcycle gangs are the drug gangs, gangs of newly arrived immigrants bringing drug businesses with them or starting drug businesses. So that's been what the experts who look at the statistics here. We heard from the Swedish police chief not long ago, saying that there are 500. She said 500 under 18-year-olds who have either committed murder or are planning to murder. It's a staggeringly high number. And what the European parliament was talking about was a need to curb the ability of youngsters, real young kids, from getting online into cyber being sort of recruited by gangs for whatever, whatever means, and then being recruited to do acts of violence.

So, some of it potentially has this new population's ability of gangs to recruit online, young kids who are -- who are motivated to go out and perpetrate these -- these crimes against. Look, it's not Sweden is not alone in this, but they are going through a particularly bad time of it where the statistics look particularly high and it -- and it all points back to a youth being recruited for this sort of thing online.

FOSTER: Nic, thank you.

Fresh off an election victory, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is vowing to never yield to Donald Trump's threats, saying his country's traditional relationship with the United States is over. Mr. Carney and his liberal party rode a wave of anti-Trump backlash to stage a major political comeback at the polls on Monday, winning another term in power.

Let's get more from Paula Newton live in Ottawa.

As you followed this election campaign, it has been quite extraordinary because there was someone else so far out in front, wasn't there from the right, and they just vanished.

PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Vanished in such a historic way. I mean, Max, I've never heard pollsters speak this way, and they talk about it in terms of when you look at the trend in democracies writ large, right? You had Pierre Poilievre who didn't even manage to hold on to his own seat last night. You can think of it, think of it in terms of Trump's 100 days, right?

And those 100 days, Pierre Poilievre looks certain to become the next prime minister of Canada. He couldn't even hold on to his seat, although his party did pick up more seats. Still, it left Mark Carney, right, the man of the moment with the impeccable resume, to try and take on an economic crisis like this. And Canadians gave them their vote of confidence.

I will say I was at liberal campaign headquarters last night. They were a little bit nervous and I know why now. He did eke out a minority, not the majority. The mandate that he wants. And sometimes, Max, I know you and I have been covering politics a long time, and sometimes I think voters are wise. Perhaps they did not want to give him or his party the full license in order to go forward on what will be very difficult in the coming days.

Take a look on how this unfolded.

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MARK CARNEY, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: Who's ready? Who's ready? Who is ready to stand up for Canada with me.

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NEWTON (voice-over): A rallying cry for Canadian sovereignty as Mark Carney declared victory in the country's federal elections.

CARNEY: We are once again. We are once again at one of those hinge moments of history, our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over. We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons.

NEWTON: The Liberal Party Leader issuing a stunning rebuke to President Trump, as he promised his country would never yield to the United States.

CARNEY: As I have been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country never. But these are not -- these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, that will never, ever happen.

NEWTON: The 60-year-old former central banker also sending a message of unity to the millions that did not vote for him.

CARNEY: And my message to every Canadian is this: no matter where you live, no matter what language you speak, no matter how you voted, I will always do my best to represent everyone who calls Canada home.

PIERRE POILIEVRE, CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION LEADER: So, I would like to congratulate Prime Minister Carney.

NEWTON: Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre conceded defeat early Tuesday, saying Carney had won enough seats to form a razor thin minority government.

Throughout his campaign, Carney rode a wave of anti-Trump sentiment since winning his party's leadership contest in the landslide after Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down last month.

CARNEY: We are fighting unjustified U.S. tariffs.

NEWTON: Trump's tariffs on imports from Canada and continued threats to annex the country as the 51st state only helped him ride that wave to victory,

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FOSTER: Paula, obviously, you're very well-traveled. You've got a bit of a tone outside Canada as well. I'm just wondering if this is a real taste of anti-Trump feeling outside America that you might see emerge in other democracies as well, and how that might prove a problem to the U.S.

NEWTON: Yeah, absolutely. Max, and, you know, full disclosure here, when I hear Mark Carney talk about the United States like that, it is still jarring, even though we've been at this for several months, I would say what we witnessed in Canada, when you think it's really like having siblings in terms of nations, you can't get any closer. The anti-Americanism is actually leverage at the negotiating table.

And I would say that democracies around the world looking at how to negotiate with the Trump administration, especially if they are threatening any country, economically or otherwise, you need to get your house in order. People must stay united.

And Mark Carney and I would say even the other leaders did a very good job of rallying their own populations to say, look, the -- this is the leverage we have. These are the strengths that we hold. This is still going to be tough if we divide amongst ourselves, which is still a risk here in Canada. And you can read the analysis on digital at CNN.com. It is a risk.

And so, Mark Carney tall order today just had a few hours sleep. Yes, definitely. It's not just elbows up, Max. It is sleeves rolled up. They need to get --

FOSTER: Yeah. I mean, it's tough for him, isn't it. He's got two sides he has to balance.

Paula, thank you so much.

President Trump's envoy for Ukraine rejecting Russia's temporary ceasefire offer as absurd. Vladimir Putin has declared a unilateral truce, but it won't start until May the 8th and will only last three days.

Keith Kellogg remarks are the strongest U.S. criticism of the proposal to date.

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KEITH KELLOGG, U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY FOR UKRAINE AND RUSSIA: The three- day ceasefire is absurd. What the president wants is a permanent, comprehensive ceasefire, sea, air, land infrastructure for a minimum of 30 days, and then we can extend that. He's absolutely right. The president has this one right on the money. And that's where we want to go to.

And when you look at everything the Ukrainians are willing to work with, now it's over to the Russians, over to Putin. Okay. We've got one side now you need to come up with the other side. And I think we're close.

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FOSTER: Just moments ago, as well, the U.S. State Department warned the White House's patience is near an end. A spokeswoman said we are now at a time where concrete proposals need to be delivered by the two parties on how to end this conflict. She went on to say if there's not progress, we will step back as mediators in this process.

Spanish police say three elderly deaths may be linked to a failed electric generator during one of Europe's biggest blackouts that affected Spain, Portugal, parts of France as well. On Monday, officials in the northwestern Galicia region say they found high levels of carbon monoxide in buildings where the bodies were discovered.

Powers restored for most areas now, but it's still not clear what caused the outage. That left millions stranded. Officials also say they've ruled out a cyberattack.

Salma Abdelaziz takes a closer look at what happened.

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SALMA ABDELAZIZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): After the darkness comes the light and celebrations for what used to seem so trivial. In Spain, as trains started running Tuesday, loved ones were reunited, like Laura, who finally made it to Valencia after a night on the train station floor in Madrid.

There was no electricity, no cell phone connection. You couldn't even speak with your family, she says, until they managed to open the station, we thought we were going to sleep in the street. Then at least we could go inside, sit down. The military came and gave us these blankets, but it was bad until 2:00 a.m.

They were the lucky ones, with Spanish authorities having to rescue passengers this morning, stranded on trains overnight. In Portugal, traffic was back to normal as power to the traffic lights was restored. But just a few hours earlier, tens of millions of people in the Iberian peninsula and parts of France were left without power in one of the biggest blackouts in recent European history.

Residents directing traffic themselves, helping the elderly and stocking up on supplies, not knowing how long the blackout could go on for. Still no answers for the big question how did this happen in the first place?

Spain's prime minister and king convened the country's cabinet Tuesday, promising answers.

PEDRO SANCHEZ, SPANISH PRIME MINISTER: What people should be clear about is that the Sanish government is going to get to the bottom of this matter, and that the necessary reforms and measures are going to be taken to ensure that this does not happen again. And we are obviously going to hold all private operators accountable.

ABDELAZIZ: Multiple agencies were quick to reject the idea of it being caused by a cyberattack, but without answers. Experts say questions are likely to remain for weeks.

Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, London.

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FOSTER: The report cards in for both Donald Trump and Democratic lawmakers will take a closer look at how American voters feel 100 days into this new historic administration.

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FOSTER: Democrats are marking Donald Trump's first 100 days with speeches, rallies and sit-ins. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calls the milestone, quote, 100 days of hell and promises his party is fighting the president's agenda.

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SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): The start of Donald Trump's second term has been the worst start of any president in modern times. He now has the lowest approvals any president has seen through his first 100 days since they started polling 80 years ago.

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FOSTER: But polls for the Democrats are also pretty bleak. A new CNN poll shows many Democrat voters are furious over what they see as a lack of action from their party. Just 27 percent of voters approve of the job that Democratic leaders are doing, compared to 37 percent for Republicans.

My next guest is Shaniqua McClendon, the vice president of politics for Crooked Media and a Democratic strategist as well.

Thank you so much for joining us.

I mean, I'm interested in this this line from Schumer promises his party is fighting the president's agenda. I mean, I don't think the public, certainly outside America, sees any evidence of that. Is there any?

SHANIQUA MCCLENDON, VICE PRESIDENT OF POLITICS, CROOKED MEDIA: Yeah. I think something we have to remember is Democrats don't have a lot of governing power, so they're not going to be able to stop Republicans on a lot of these bills that they're pushing through. But what we saw in our last election is that capturing people's attention is just as important. And that is what Democrats are doing right now.

I mean, we saw Bernie Sanders go to a Coachella concert. We are seeing, members go to -- Democratic members go to Republican districts where Republicans are vulnerable for their reelection and getting a lot of attention on these town halls. We saw Cory Booker spend 25 hours speaking on the Senate floor and even saw a sit in with him and Hakeem Jeffries this weekend.

So, Democrats are doing what they can to get people's attention. And then Chris Van Hollen going to El Salvador. Those are the kinds of things that get people paying attention to what Republicans are doing. And then fighting in the ways that they can.

FOSTER: Donald Trump just bypassing Congress, so isn't, he in so many ways. You know, this is why people are talking about a constitutional crisis. So, I guess it's quite difficult for the Democrats to get involved and push back.

MCCLENDON: Yeah. You know, our courts are supposed to be doing more than it seems they are being able to because Donald Trump is, is defying them. But ultimately, Congress is supposed to do something. And the reason that it can't is because Republicans have the majority right now.

If Democrats had the majority in at least one chamber, we would see more. But a lot of what Trump is doing, Congress has the ability to stop. But Republicans, you know, all the people in his party are frankly afraid of him. They're afraid of a primary from the right, and they're just letting him do whatever he wants.

FOSTER: Obviously, you know, there's the -- you know, the day to day pushback that an opposition party can achieve through the through the sort of political system in Congress. But is the other issue here that there isn't, you know, a problem with a system, really, that there isn't a leader, as it were, you know, a candidate at this point who can really bring the party together and bring national support out for Democrats, there's this absence of a leader for many people. I know there are leaders in the Democratic system, but until there's a candidate, it's very hard for the public and the rest of the party to get behind one specific agenda.

MCCLENDON: Yeah, we see a lot of different leaders on -- on the left who are trying to get their vision out there. And I think we're going to continue to keep hearing different messages. And you're right, it does make it a little bit more difficult to figure out, you know, for people who don't pay attention to politics 24 hours a day, it's a little more difficult for them to figure out, you know, who's in charge here.

But again, right now, when Donald Trump is doing so many reckless things with our economy, with deporting American citizens I think Democrats are doing what they need to do, and they're drawing attention to the things that he's doing by, you know, again, going to El Salvador and just bringing attention to all the bad that Donald Trump is doing. But we do need to -- it's Democrats get a little bit more focused as we do that on what we're offering Americans.

FOSTER: Harry Enten was going through the numbers, the polling numbers for President Trump and saying they were historically low for this period of a presidency. He has achieved a lot more in a presidency in the first 100 days than many other presidents, hasn't he, in terms of specific tasks and policies?

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So, is that to be expected? I mean, how much do we read into that?

MCCLENDON: I think the polling does reflect how much he's been able to get done. But again, a lot of those things are bad. We've seen our stock market continue to go down because of this really just kind of idiotic tariff policy that he is really married to.

He said he was going to reduce prices on day one. We haven't seen that. They're going to continue to go up. He laid off, you know, tens of thousands of federal workers. That is not helping our economy. And that's just making more people sour on his administration, which is why we see the polling numbers that we do.

And again, you have Kilmar Abrego Garcia being accidentally deported and then washing their hands of it. There have been children deported. A 4-year-old who has stage four cancer. These are not -- yeah, that's a long checklist of things he's gotten done. But it's not the things that are going to increase your poll numbers. And I think we're going to continue to see those go down as he keeps checking off the list of things that he wants to do.

FOSTER: Shaniqua McClendon, thank you so much for joining us today.

MCCLENDON : Thank you.

FOSTER: As we've been covering, President Trump has hit the 100-day mark in office today, but it's the next 100 days that have Americans even more worried.

Coming up, what's behind their fears of a recession?

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FOSTER: It's no coincidence that President Donald Trump will mark his 100th day in office in Michigan, the center of auto manufacturing in the U.S.

Later today, the president is expected to announce a new policy meant to ease the tariff burden on American automakers.

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CNN chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny is in Warren, Michigan, just outside Detroit.

And people are talking about a U-turn, Jeff?

JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF U.S. NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Max, it's yet another U-turn. And we've seen a series of them, and it's one of the reasons that the voters we've been talking to here. Supporters of President Trump and detractors alike really have been locked in this whirlwind, this dizzying series of tariffs that, of course, has rattled the financial markets but also left an unclear sense of direction.

One Trump voter we supported here, we talked to here, actually, he said, look, he likes what the president is doing except on tariffs. He wished there was a direct, message of communication, what the president is doing. But on the reversal here today, the president is going to get some applause, at least from automakers. What he's doing is essentially rolling back what was scheduled to take effect later this week. And that was a series of tariffs on auto parts.

The parts, of course, that are made as part of these cars, part of this big connection between Canada and Mexico, the United States. Well, those auto parts will not be tariffed as well as these additional tariffs that have been sort of stacked on top of one another with aluminum and steel and other things. So, a bit of a reprieve, at least temporarily, for auto making companies, which they believe will keep costs down.

But, Max, the bottom line, the underlying really a sense of things here. Yes, Trump supporters are happy to have the president back in office.

But at this 100-day mark, which is an early measure, no doubt the economic anxieties are very loud. Our latest polls show that 59 percent of Americans, that's 6 in 10 Americans believe that Trump's policies have worsened the economy. And that certainly rings true, talking to many voters here in Michigan who, of course, sent him to the White House as one of those battleground states, he won, Max.

FOSTER: What would you say to the idea that he's actually been a very historic president as he achieved more in 100 days than any other president? And obviously, that's going to have an impact on the poll numbers. Youve covered other 100 days, if I can call it that. How would you sum it up?

ZELENY: Look, I think it's an imprecise marker. There is no doubt it's an early measure. Certainly not historic in terms of the number of laws he signed, particularly given the fact that Republicans control the House and the Senate. Thinking back to other presidents who happened to have their party control Congress, sometimes the new president out of the gate signs a variety of laws.

We've seen President Trump affix his signature to many executive orders, some important, some less so, but certainly not any legacy building laws, just a handful of laws, I think five laws. He has signed one immigration, one sort of sticks out. So ,in terms of fast action, looking busy and things you know, it's definitely been filled with, a lot of action, some would say chaos in terms of, historic.

I think we'll have to see. The stock market obviously has viewed it that way in a very negative way. This has been a devastating month in the market. So, I think in terms of history, let's give it a second hundred days and talk about it then.

FOSTER: Okay. We're going to come back to you on that, Jeff. Thank you so much.

ZELENY: Right.

FOSTER: As President Trump reaches 100 days in office, many in the U.S. are increasingly worried about the economy. A new CNN poll shows two thirds of adults are pessimistic about the economy, and a majority believe a recession in the next year to be somewhat likely. This is the lowest for consumer confidence since May 2020.

Let's bring you a look at the markets, how they're reacting. The big board is currently up. It's very hard to read anything into these movements these days. But immigration has been a signature issue for the Trump administration, despite growing concerns about due process, the president signed three executive orders ramping up his crackdown on Monday.

Among them, one aimed at potentially cutting off federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities, which don't comply with federal immigration laws. And while border crossings are down, public opinion on his handling of this issue is dropping, as seen in poll shows, around 45 percent approve of his immigration efforts. That's down six points from March.

Let's bring in CNN's Maria Santana, who joins us now from New York.

I mean, it's not ever clear from these numbers how much impact he's actually had on immigration. I mean, are you able to tell us that he's had a positive impact on reducing immigration into the U.S., which was his signature issue?

MARIA SANTANA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Hey, how are you, Max? Well, it's no surprise that in the days leading up to Trump's 100th day in office, the White House decided to focus on immigration because despite that six point drop in approval, this of all issues versus the economy versus the tariffs, the dismantling of the federal government, this is still the one that the White House believes is the best for them.

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And they can point to some successes, like the drastic plunge in illegal border crossings, which are at their lowest level in decades. And today, ICE touted more than 66,000 arrests of undocumented immigrants in the first 100 days, with almost as many removals and the majority of them, according to ICE are of people with criminal records far outpacing the previous administration.

But this crackdown on illegal immigration has also come with its own set of problems, controversies and legal challenges. You know, Trump promised the largest deportation operation in American history, and he has certainly drastically changed the immigration process in this country. But to do so, he has really been pushing the bounds of presidential power, taking unprecedented measures like invoking a rarely used, centuries old law like the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants the government accuses of being violent gang members to a mega prison in El Salvador without affording them any due process, at times even sidestepping the courts and court orders that have, you know, ordered the return of migrants that the administration itself has admitted were deported by mistake.

Like the controversy surrounding Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, he has swath approval and securing the border and deporting criminals. But when you see mistakes, when mothers are being deported with their U.S. citizen children and things like that are happening, there's less approval for those things, like ignoring due process, Max.

FOSTER: Maria, thank you. We'll be back in just a moment.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) FOSTER: Thousands of miles away from Washington, a rural school in Oregon is feeling the impact of Donald Trump's first 100 days in office.

CNN's Kyung Lah explains how a century old heater has become a symbol of the administration's policy shifts.

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KYUNG LAH, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: Where are we going in?

BRENT FOSTER, PARENT AND VOLUNTEER, MOSIER COMMUNITY SCHOOL: We're going into the boiler room here.

LAH (voice-over): Through this door sits the impact of the Trump administrations first three months, says parent Brent Foster.

Is there a date on this thing?

FOSTER: It is very old. It's a diesel-powered fuel oil boiler. You know, this is 100-year-old technology.

LAH: That's why you may not recognize that this is a heater. It's an inefficient gas-guzzling relic. It's as old as Mosier Community School in Oregon, a public school in a building constructed in 1920.

It sits 2,700 miles away from the White House. But the problem with this heater --

FOSTER: It's directly related to the decisions that are happening in Washington.

LAH: Throughout the school, many of the original windows are cracked holes in classrooms sealed with tape. The K through 8 students hold gym class underneath gigantic vents that violate national standards. This was all scheduled to change when the Department of Energy, under the Biden administration, awarded the school an $870,000 infrastructure grant funded by Congress.

FOSTER: To get that federal funding, it was just like -- it felt like a miracle. At the same time, when the funding got froze a month ago, it was kind of equally devastating.

LAH: Are you hearing anything from Washington?

FOSTER: Right now, I'd say there's not much more than uncertainty.

LAH: How did this stall so suddenly?

Enter Chris Wright, President Trump's new secretary of the Department of Energy.

CHRIS WRIGHT, ENERGY SECRETARY: The Trump administration will end the Biden administration's irrational, quasi-religious policies on climate change.

LAH: Wright jumped into this job from founding and leading a $2 billion fracking company, which is regulated by the Department of Energy. Meaning in his new role, he oversees the industry he just left.

Under Wright, the department has been boosting business for fossil fuel corporations. At the same time, the department has been slashing green energy efforts opposed by oil companies. Caught in the middle, energy efficient grants like the one for Mosier community school.

Wright is not the only uber wealthy cabinet secretary or adviser to Trump overseeing the industry. They came from posing potential conflicts of interest.

A CNN review of his actions over Trump's first 100 days found many of the changes made by this administration could directly enrich the president, his advisers or their former companies.

Trump's cabinet and advisers are the wealthiest in modern American history. These billionaires and multi-millionaires now call the shots in Washington, and some of them even oversee their former industries.

DANIELLE CAPUTO, SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL, CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER: You have these titans of industry, these extremely wealthy people who are, you know, not just the top 1 percent, but the top 0.1 percent who are working within the administration. The industry itself is not what you should be focusing on as an administration official. You should be focusing on what's best for the public.

LAH: Elon Musk, not an official member of the cabinet known for Tesla.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I love Tesla.

LAH: And also, Starlink, Musk's Internet company. Trump's administration changed the rules, clearing the way for Starlink to win new government contracts, some potentially worth billions.

And then there's Howard Lutnick, billionaire and commerce secretary.

TRUMP: Yesterday, I signed an executive order officially creating our strategic bitcoin reserve.

LAH: That move by Trump, a potential windfall for Lutnick's former financial firm now controlled by his son, which launched a cryptocurrency business last year.

HOWARD LUTNICK, COMMERCE SECRETARY: We're going to use digital assets to pound forward.

LAH: Disclosures show at least seven of Trump's top officials made significant investments in crypto.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You say and.

LAH: Mosier community students may not care or even know what a cabinet secretary is. They do know this.

UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT: Yesterday, the heaters went out.

UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT: It was kind of cold some of the days.

FOSTER: The idea that the federal government would sign a contract to essentially bring your school up to just very basic minimum and then pull the rug out from under us is difficult to understand, you know? And I hope it's not how it ends.

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LAH (on camera): We reach out to the Department of Energy to ask about this grant to mosher community school. This is a grant that also impacts dozens of public schools across the country. An energy spokesperson says the department is completing a full review of its activities, and to make sure that it is aligned with the Trump administration's priorities and energy spokesperson says in regards to Secretary Wright, he follows all of the department ethics and disclosure rules.

Kyung Lah, CNN, Los Angeles.

FOSTER: The French Open will honor 14-time champion Rafael Nadal in a ceremony next month. Our conversation with the player who made history there, next.

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FOSTER: The French Open is set to begin on May the 25th, but this year, it will be a bit different for 14-time champion and record holder Rafael Nadal. This will be the Spaniard's first time back at Roland Garros in Paris since hanging up his rackets in November of last year.

CNN "WORLD SPORT's" Amanda Davies sat down with Nadal in Madrid last week at the Laureus World Sports Awards.

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RAFAEL NADAL, WINNER, LAUREUS SPORTING ICON: I started doing this when I was around three years old, but I started practicing as a professional since I was eight years old. So, you know, when you take that decision, you need to make sure that you are 100 percent convinced. I -- what I would hate to do is announce my retirement and stay at home thinking, okay, maybe I -- I still, had the chances to, to keep playing. So, I wanted to avoid that feeling.

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Did you have to convince yourself?

NADAL: My body convinced my mind. Doctors are positive about the recovery after my surgery, on the -- on the hip. But I never find that level of -- of feeling myself free to go for any ball. And I never play it again, free of limitations. So, when I realized that that's never going to happen again, then it's

the moment that you know that it's the end.

DAVIES: What is the recipe for the magic of you and Roland Garros? And when you walk out onto that Philippe Chatrier court, why has it been such an incredibly successful partnership?

NADAL: Something that you have you have to build year by year, you know, year after year, you build this connection, you build this this magic moments. But of course, I have been, yeah, a good tennis player on, on clay, especially on every surface.

DAVIES: That's a little bit of an understatement, but --

NADAL: Yeah, but it's true. No, I have been I have been playing well in all the clay courts, tournaments. Yeah. It's something more and more special now that court is part of the history of our sport.

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And yeah, for me today, when I see myself, winning 14 times, there is something that, yeah, for me, it's even that I don't like to say, but for me, it's something crazy, you know, something that I -- I don't think I never thought that I going to had the chance to do something like this.

DAVIES: Is there any little bit of you tempted to put in an entry for the draw this year?

NADAL: So, no.

DAVIES: Definitely not going to happen.

NADAL: Not going to happen.

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FOSTER: Thanks for joining us here on CNN NEWSROOM.

I'm Max Foster.

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