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GOP Looks to Cut Fraud, Waste and Abuse from Medicaid; Trump Says They'll Make Progress for Ukraine; Rubio Arrives in Saudi Arabia; Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) is Interviewed about the Funding Bill; DHS Secretary Warns over Leaking Information. Aired 6:30-7a ET
Aired March 10, 2025 - 06:30 ET
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MARK CARNEY, INCOMING CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. Think about it. If they - if they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life.
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AUDIE CORNISH, CNN ANCHOR: Canada's next leader not backing down.
Good morning, everyone. I'm Audie Cornish. Thank you for joining me here on CNN THIS MORNING. Here's what's happening right now.
The incoming Canadian leader wasting no time taking on President Trump. Mark Carney vowing to win the trade war with the U.S. Carney is expected to be sworn in as prime minister this week.
And also new tariffs from China on farm products coming from the U.S. this morning. They're now in effect. That includes 15 percent on chicken, wheat, corn, cotton and 10 percent on produce, pork, beef and other dairy products. This is in response to President Trump raising tariffs on Chinese products.
And Congress returns to Capitol Hill today as House Speaker Mike Johnson looks to avoid a government shutdown. He unveiled a plan that would fund the government through the end of September. But Democrats aren't all on board with that.
Congressional Republicans may be on a collision course with their own constituents as Republicans look to offset potential tax cuts in the federal budget because the likely target could be Medicaid. But Republicans, including President Trump, maintain that they won't cut those programs.
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SEN. RICK SCOTT (R-FL): You can take today's spending for Medicare, today's spending for Social Security, all right, get rid of fraud, waste and abuse, and then look at the other programs, and you can balance the budget without cutting any benefits, which you shouldn't of Medicare or Social Security. This is all doable.
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CORNISH: OK, we've been looking at the math here at CNN and our senior political analyst, Ron Brownstein, has been doing the math as well.
You note that dozens of House Republicans represent districts where the share of residents receiving health coverage through Medicaid is greater than the average district nationwide. I want you to talk to me about this calculation. What do you see as being the difficulty?
RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes, good morning.
Well, you know, I covered the '95/'96 budget battle between the Republican Congress and Bill Clinton, and then again in 2017 when Republicans tried to repeal the ACA, the Affordable Care Act. And each time, Audie, they didn't really have a lot of hesitation about going after Medicaid because they viewed it primarily as a program for the urban poor.
But two things have changed to fundamentally alter that equation. First, the expansion of Medicaid under the ACA in 2012 have brought in millions of working, poor adults. And at the same time, over these past 25, 30 years, Republicans in the House have grown to dominate those kind of working poor, lower education districts, predominantly white on the edges of metro areas. And as a result, as you note, we are now in a circumstance where dozens of House Republicans represent districts where more people rely on Medicaid than the average district nationwide. And I think even more importantly, many more Republicans than Democrats - I think this is the most important, you know, information we unearthed in our - in our research at cnn.com. If you look at the health dashboard that is put together by the NYU School of Medicine, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as we did, many more Republicans than Democrats now represent districts with high incidence of all sorts of serious health problems, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, blood cancer deaths - breast cancer deaths, excuse me, heart problems. And what that means is that those are the places that are the most vulnerable if health care is revoked.
And so, there really is no way, looking at these numbers, for Republicans to make major cuts in Medicaid without targeting a lot of their own constituents and voters.
CORNISH: You've said that this is a difficulty for Republicans. What do you think that Democrats should be doing?
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When you - you were talking about covering '95 and '96, how do you think about their potential strategy?
BROWNSTEIN: Yes. Well, I actually think this is the cornerstone of their - of their strategy for 2025. If you talk to Democrats, you know, they recognize they are in a hole. I mean this - they - the image of the party is probably in a weaker position than at any point since I think the 1980s, the Reagan and George H.W. Bush era. But if you ask Democrats how they think they are going to come back, you know, there is a debate about, you know, within the party, do you fight on every front or do you focus on the economic issues? And I think most Democrats believe their best chance of kind of getting a second look from the public in 2025 is this debate on - over the budget.
You know, as - this is the first time since that 1995/'96 budget, when Republicans are explicitly putting two things together in the same budget plans, tax cuts that are aimed primarily at the rich and cuts in programs - in health care programs, particularly Medicaid, that benefit the middle and working class. I mean, if you look at their tax cuts since then, they've been sugar only. They've kept the spinach far away from it.
But here, Democrats, I think, feel they can make the explicit linkage because the budget will make the explicit linkage to the argument that Republicans will be cutting Medicaid to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. And I think if you ask them, as I said, how they think they're going to come back, they are probably putting more chips on that - on that number than anything else.
CORNISH: That's CNN's senior political analyst Ron Brownstein.
Right now we want to move on to a little international news, because the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, is actually heading to Saudi Arabia. That's where he's going to meet with his Ukrainian counterparts to talk about ending Russia's war on Ukraine.
Now, according to Reuters, the U.S. will try to determine whether Ukraine is willing to make material concessions to Russia to make that happen.
It was just more than a week ago that Ukraine's president left the White House after this spat with President Trump.
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PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINE: No.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: You're not winning this.
Is coming up, as you know, in Saudi Arabia. That's going to include Russia. It'll be Ukraine. We'll see if we can get something done. I'd like to get something done. A lot of people died this week, as you know, in Ukraine. Not only Ukrainians, but Russians. So, I think everybody wants to see it get done. We're going to make a lot of progress, I believe, this week.
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CORNISH: Ukraine says Russian missiles killed more than two dozen people since Saturday.
I want to bring back the chat to talk about this a little, because our own Nick Paton Walsh writes in CNN analysis, that Trump keeps insisting that Zelenskyy commits to peace. Do we know what Trump considers peace?
ALEX THOMPSON, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: We don't. And neither do the Ukrainians and neither do the Russians. And it's causing a lot of confusion and also a lot of concern in Europe, which, you know, those countries are going to be the most affected by the outcome of this deal.
CORNISH: I heard you nodding. Is that - you feel like a question to you, too? I mean, I know what Russia wants. They want a demilitarized Ukraine. They want no NATO and no one in NATO. They want to expand their sphere of influence. And Ukraine wants to survive as an independent sovereign state. And in the meantime, I think a lot of Americans are starting to shift their sympathies.
Doug, I see you.
DOUG HEYE, FORMER RNC COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR AND REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Yes, I've been telling folks for two years now, watch House Republicans on Ukraine, because we were seeing a shift two years ago. That shift has now completely happened.
But essentially, with everything that's happening in Ukraine, Ukraine is a staging ground for eastern Europe. The past three summers I've spoken at the Polish Economic Forum. You get out of a plane in Poland, people recognize that you're American, they will come to you immediately and tell you how important Ukraine is to them because of what their very recent history is.
CORNISH: Yes.
HEYE: It's - Ukraine is critically important. But this is Poland, this is Moldova, this is Estonia.
CORNISH: Yes.
HEYE: So many countries are looking at Ukraine and asking very real questions about America right now.
CORNISH: You are not going to believe I'm saying this, I'm glad you brought up Poland, because the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, had this amazing quote in "Politico." I can't - I actually really have said this to multiple people. But he says, "it's striking but it's true. Right now, 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans for protection from 140 million Russians who have been unable to overcome 50 million Ukrainians for three years."
ASHLEY ALLISON, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Yes.
CORNISH: It sounds like maybe there should be an advantage there, but somehow there is not. How do Democrats talk about this without falling into the Russia, Russia, Russia trap?
ALLISON: Well, a couple of things. One, I think that most Americans are on the - a majority of Americans don't want a blank check to continue to go to Ukraine. They want some accountability. But I actually think it's interesting having Rubio there now. One of
the reasons why he - I think he got 99 votes in his confirmation hearing wasn't just because he was a former senator, it was because of some of his former positions on Ukraine, on China and the opposition he had to Russia, which is a little counter to how people are experiencing Donald Trump.
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So, when we saw the spat, as you called it, in the - in the Oval Office, a lot of -
CORNISH: (INAUDIBLE) names to call it.
ALLISON: Yes. A lot of - a squabble, perhaps.
CORNISH: Yes.
ALLISON: A lot of people were saying, take this from in front of the cameras and go behind closed doors and have some diplomacy and negotiate this out. And it'll be interesting to see how Rubio's posture, if he takes that very aggressive stance that J.D. Vance did, or if he will actually fall into his more traditional, diplomatic way of trying to actually resolve and bring peace to the region.
CORNISH: Yes.
THOMPSON: And keep - and keep an eye on Vance because, you know, when he was in the Senate.
CORNISH: Did you - did you mean to say Vance or Rubio?
THOMPSON: You know, Vance.
ALLISON: Vance.
CORNISH: Oh, OK.
THOMPSON: Yes, yes, because in the - when he was -
CORNISH: Which sort of sums up all the questions around diplomacy right now.
ALLISON: Yes.
CORNISH: Are we looking at J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio?
THOMPSON: Well, you should look at both because when they were in the Senate, they were on different sides of this issue. Vance was the only Republican senator that not only was, you know, pushing to maybe restrict aid, he wanted to cut off all aid.
CORNISH: Right.
THOMPSON: He was the only Republican senator that did that.
CORNISH: So, he's consistent on that.
THOMPSON: Yes.
CORNISH: Yes.
THOMPSON: He has - it's been a long-time brewing.
CORNISH: But in the meantime, Marco Rubio, obviously, spoke out about communist regimes, given his background about Cuba. So, you're right, it will be interesting to watch.
I want you guys to stay with me. We have a little bit more to talk about.
Still ahead on CNN THIS MORNING, a government shutdown potentially looming by the end of this week. Democratic Congresswoman Hillary Scholten is here in the studio to talk about what might happen next on The Hill.
Plus, the world's richest man getting the "SNL" treatment again this weekend.
We're going to have more with the group chat after this.
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CORNISH: All right, we're actually just days away from a potential government shutdown. Republicans in Congress say they have a plan to prevent that from happening. House Speaker Mike Johnson is putting together what's called a continuing resolution, which would basically just keep the government open through September. The vote is expected Tuesday, and House Democrats, well, they're actually planning to oppose the plan.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Could happen. I mean the Democrats want that. They want to destroy the country. So, I can't tell you. But it could happen. It shouldn't have happened. And it probably won't. I think the CR is going to get passed.
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CORNISH: As Democratic lawmakers face a shutdown, they're also facing angry voters who say that they actually need to be doing more to stand up to the majority party.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think waiting for 2026 and persuading people and small steps is the way to go. I think we need to do something stronger.
REP. SAM LICCARDO (D-CA): I don't either, Michael (ph). UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I - I think we need more Al Greens.
I need for you to represent how angry we are and our concerns.
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CORNISH: Joining me now to talk about all this, Congresswoman Hillary Scholten of Michigan.
Congresswoman, thank you so much for being here.
REP. HILLARY SCHOLTEN (D-MI): Thanks for having me.
CORNISH: I want to tackle just what we heard from a constituent -
SCHOLTEN: Yes.
CORNISH: Because I think it gets at an overall divide. You have Democrats in - for some Democrats in Washington, like Senator Fetterman saying, "this is chaos. I'll never vote for chaos. To burn the village down in order to save it is pretty" - he said "that's one of our core responsibilities is to keep the government running."
And then you have a constituent that says, get up and fight.
SCHOLTEN: Yes. You know, it is chaos, but it's chaos of Republicans' creation. I think it's so important for the American people to understand and realize, we did not have to be here. These funding deadlines have been set for years. We know they're coming.
CORNISH: But there have been so many past government shutdown fights. What lessons have Democrats learned from that?
SCHOLTEN: Well, I mean, we are planning to oppose this CR. The American people want us to fight. And they're going to see us fight. We are using the tools of democracy to defend our democracy. We just need three courageous, patriotic Republicans to join us and prevent this disastrous continuing resolution because, I mean, Audie, if you have seen what is in this thing, it is - it is so harmful to the American people, you know, cutting Medicaid, cutting Medicare, threatening Social Security, cutting veterans benefits, you know, while handing out tax breaks to, you know, their - their billionaire buddies. And, you know, Elon Musk is getting, you know, brand new contracts every week. This is not the budget that the American people want.
CORNISH: Right.
SCHOLTEN: So, we'll be opposing it.
CORNISH: Let me follow up on that point around Elon Musk. You had Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin also talking about concerns about voting to keep the government open, while Elon Musk, DOGE, continues to run through the federal government.
SCHOLTEN: Yes. CORNISH: And here's what she had to say.
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SEN. ELISSA SLOTKIN (D-MI): The president has been deciding how to spend the money any way he wants, even when we have a budget that both Democrats and Republicans voted on. That's a constitutional issue, right? Everyone knows Congress has the power of the purse. So, I just - until I see some assurances that whatever we pass next week is going to ensure that the money is spent the way Congress intends, I'm going to - I'm going to withhold my vote until I see that.
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CORNISH: Is there something else that you - for you would, you know, have you withhold your vote, other than the fact that you guys are all voting together against it?
SCHOLTEN: Yes. Well, I mean, and we don't necessarily always all vote together. You know, I am certainly a member who comes from a swing district. I'm the first Democrat in a century to hold this seat. I voted against my party plenty of times.
CORNISH: Yes. So, how does that complicate things for you. I mean, you must be hearing from constituents who say, look, a hit dog going to holler. That's what I've heard a million times.
SCHOLTEN: Yes.
CORNISH: That like, the bureaucracy is suffering because it's finally getting attacked by - for the better, right?
SCHOLTEN: Well, and that's not what this is about. I've been clear since day one that we need a dramatic change to the way that we fund this government. And we need the type of audit that is happening right now.
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But Elon Musk can't unilaterally make these spending decisions. It has to come through Congress. Why? Because that's where the American people get a say.
You know, Elon Musk is operating DOGE in the shadows. We don't know what he's doing. Thats why I introduced my Clear Act to make sure that DOGE is subject to the same oversight and transparency requirements as other agencies.
CORNISH: So, this goes beyond his website with his, quote/unquote, "wall of receipts." You're looking for more?
SCHOLTEN: Absolutely.
CORNISH: Do you have the power to, given that he's in the executive?
SCHOLTEN: Well, so they - DOGE should be subject to the Freedom of Information Act, just like any other agency so journalists and the American people can see what he's up to. What's he doing with this taxpayer data that he has? You know, are there actually all these billions of dollars in fraud that they're claiming? You know, the only publicly available ledger that they have put out there is full of errors and miscalculations, and they're using that as the basis to take away people's Social Security. We're not going to stand for it.
CORNISH: Any Republican co-sponsors for that?
SCHOLTEN: We're still waiting.
CORNISH: Still working.
SCHOLTEN: It's on the table.
CORNISH: OK. Great.
Congresswoman Scholten, a Democrat from Michigan, thank you so much for being with us.
It's now 50 minutes past the hour. I want to give you your morning roundup. Some of the stories you need to get your day going.
Today, the alleged ISIS member accused in the bombing at Kabul's airport in 2021 will be in federal court in Virginia. Prosecutors alleged he scoped out the location for the bombing at the airport's Abbey Gate. That's where 13 Americans were killed.
Police in the Dominican Republic searching for a missing college student from the University of Pittsburgh. Authorities interviewed a man believed to have been with the 20-year-old right before she disappeared. She was last seen on surveillance camera with several people entering the beach at a hotel.
And King Charles with a message for the commonwealth, for Commonwealth Day today, come together. But the Beatles, a famous British group, was left off his Apple playlist. You may have heard of the Beatles. They're - they're not on the list. It's officially released today to mark Commonwealth Day. One song he features, Diana Ross' "Upside Down."
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DIANA ROSS, MUSICIAN: Upside down. Boy, you turn me inside out.
KING CHARLES: Diana Ross, when I was much younger, it was impossible not to get up and dance when it was played. And I wonder if I can still just manage it.
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CORNISH: He also allegedly listens to Kylie Minogue, Michael Buble's "Haven't Met You Yet," and Bob Marley's "Could You be Loved."
And for the second time in two weeks, Mike Myers returns to "Saturday Night Live" to poke fun at Elon Musk. But for this sketch, Myers called on an old character to mock the world's richest man.
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MIKE MYERS, COMEDIAN, "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE": But was taking this job a bad idea? A lot of people seem to really hate me. My Tesla stock is crashing, and my personal net worth just dropped by $100 billion.
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CORNISH: We knew it would happen. Myers dusting off his old Doctor Evil character from the Austin Powers movies. Musk has previously scoffed at the "SNL" impression, posting that, quote, "humor fails when it lies."
Myers being back, anyone into this? No.
ALLISON: No.
CORNISH: No (INAUDIBLE). No comment.
THOMPSON: I thought he was - I thought it was a b minus.
CORNISH: B - wow, this is a rough crowd.
OK, I want to have one more serious story for you. The Department of Homeland Security trying to identify employees who might be leaking information, and they're trying to use lie detectors to do it.
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MARGARET BRENNAN, CBS NEWS HOST: And you're going to continue these polygraphing of employees?
KRISTI NOEM, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: Absolutely. The authorities that I have under the Department of Homeland Security are broad and extensive. And I plan to use every single one of them to make sure that we're following the law, that we are following the procedures in place to keep people safe, and that we're making sure we're following through on what President Trump has promised, that he's going to make America safe again.
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CORNISH: OK, I wanted to ask you guys about this because the Department of Homeland Security is like a major employer, right, when it comes to federal workers. And this is part of how they will be spending their time. Is this a good use of time?
ALLISON: This is to see if people are loyal to Donald Trump or not. I don't think this -
CORNISH: But leaking is a problem, right? If everyone's busy, like, squealing, then it's a distraction.
THOMPSON: I, for one, am in favor of leaking.
HEYE: You're pro-leaking.
CORNISH: Oh, right, pro-leaking.
THOMPSON: Pro-leaking. I just want to be clear.
ALLISON: I mean, lie detector tests aren't even really admissible in the court of law as like determinative factors of people telling the truth. And so, yes, this is again how we're going to do it. This is all about a fear tactic for people who are not falling in line to Donald Trump to scare folks. It's not about leaks. It's not about leaks.
HEYE: Ashley and I -
THOMPSON: But it's actually interesting to see if it actually expands beyond DHS to -
ALLISON: Yes.
THOMPSON: Because to your point, you know, this is a broader strategy about trying to try to, I guess, like in their minds tame the federal bureaucracy and make it basically, you know, much more politicized, much more in service of Donald Trump.
CORNISH: Yes.
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HEYE: Yes, it's easy to see this expand to the Small Business Administration and the FCC and so forth.
CORNISH: Yes.
HEYE: But as a former leak hunter, good luck with that.
CORNISH: OK, leak hunter, say more. What's involved? How complicated is it?
HEYE: Well, it's complicated because you have so many people who could be leaking any detail. When I was at the RNC, we had a consistent leak on a thing that we did not find out who leaked it until after the chairman had left, when all the cell phones were turned in and somebody found a voicemail.
CORNISH: Yikes.
HEYE: It took me 12 years to serve that revenge, but I found that out, out of pure luck. And I will say, it was fantastic to serve that cold dish of revenge.
CORNISH: OK, I also want to mention this one other reference of leakers. Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, he was saying "the president was the biggest leaker of all. It turned colleague against colleague, department against a department, and it was generally bad for the administration and the country."
Alex, can I ask you, since you're pro-leak -
THOMPSON: Yes.
CORNISH: Is - this Trump administration does feel different, though, from the first one, even his relationships with the press. So, does Esper's comment still kind of apply here?
THOMPSON: I mean Trump still is probably the biggest leaker of perhaps this White House.
I remember talking to a Trump administration official. And when, you know, someone like Maggie Haberman would call, they were like, it's possible he told - like, it's possible that he's the background source.
CORNISH: Yes.
THOMPSON: You know, that - that being said, I think the reason why this is a less leaky White House is because everyone is on the same page this time. You had such factionalism in that first - in that first White House because not everyone was on the same page. You had sort of like the old Republican Party grafted on to like the - the Steve Bannon-esque wing.
HEYE: George Costanza said, it's not a lie if you believe it. Is it a leak if the president does it? It's a - that's a totally different way of doing things as opposed to a deputy assistant secretary or something like that.
CORNISH: Yes.
ALLISON: As someone who doesn't leak and has never -
CORNISH: I was going to say, the Obama folks were known for not leaking all that much.
ALLISON: Not leaking.
CORNISH: So -
ALLISON: I mean we were eternally loyal to the president, as I - I think you should keep strategy potentially not - it's not for the press to have until it's ready to roll out.
I think that the reason why people are leaking in the Trump administration is because he wanted to undermine our Constitution. A lot of those things are actually pro-democracy things that folks are saying, whoa, wait a minute, he wants to send the National Guard out on Black Lives Matter Plaza or, whoa, this is going to happen and he is going to try and overturn the 14th Amendment.
The leaks in the Trump admin and - compared to other presidential administrations, I just think are different.
CORNISH: Yes, though we should say that I think, to your point, the conformity factor here is pretty profound this time around. ALLISON: Yes, it is.
CORNISH: It's a very different energy.
ALLISON: Which is why they're saying lie detectors, because if you don't conform, you got to go.
CORNISH: Yes.
Well, I want to ask you guys about what you're looking ahead to this week. on the show. We try and keep an eye out and give people a sense of what's coming up.
Doug, I want to start with you. Anything that you think we should be watching?
HEYE: Well, yes, we just saw yesterday in "The New York Times" a story that Tara Palmeri, who was a reporter at "Puck" and "Politico," and ABC before that, is going out on her own and completely going all in on YouTube, that she's making that decision, I think, tells us a lot about how the media is changing. If she's successful, I think she's going to tell us exactly how the media has changed.
CORNISH: I'm going to translate this for my mom. So, this person is like a very well-known reporter on the political beat. So, for them to say, I don't need legacy media or even new legacy media is remarkable.
HEYE: Yes. Absolutely.
CORNISH: OK.
Ashley Allison, what do you keep an eye on?
ALLISON: OK, the love is -
CORNISH: What is this smile I see? Go on.
ALLISON: This was not on my bingo card to be in my Twitter - or Twitter feed this past weekend. "The Love is Blind" finale came out -
CORNISH: Netflix reality show.
ALLISON: Yes. If you don't know it, you get engaged, sight unseen, after dating in these pods, and then you date for three weeks or so out in the real world, and then you decide if you're going to get married. A couple - the last show was based in Minneapolis. This is a spoiler alert, but it's been out for a couple days, so, too bad. The last couple didn't - one of the couples didn't get married because they were not politically aligned.
CORNISH: Yes. More than one couple talked about political issues keeping them apart.
ALLISON: A couple actually (INAUDIBLE). And the right is losing their mind that this girl had the audacity to have agency and say no.
CORNISH: Well, that's one interpretation, yes. But some people are worried about partisanship getting in the way of love.
Thank you for the shout-out.
HEYE: If a woman can get engaged without seeing me, I think this may be my path forward, by the way.
CORNISH: Keeping the bar low. Keeping the bar low, Doug.
HEYE: I'm going to go all in on this.
CORNISH: I want to give you the last word.
THOMPSON: Mine's not nearly as fun. I'm watching - I'm watching how Democrats respond to these tariffs. Over the weekend you saw UAW President Shawn Fain actually go out in favor of - at least directionally.
CORNISH: Yes. Big shift.
ALLISON: Yes.
THOMPSON: Yes, yes. You're also seeing a few rust belt Democrats do that, whereas a lot of the Democratic Party is reflexively against it. I'm just sort of curious how they react now that they will really go into effect on the China tariffs.
CORNISH: Yes, and I'm still keeping an eye on Canada. I've never seen so many maple leafs ever. I promise, this color is tomato, not Canadian red. I just happened to wear it this morning.
I want to thank you guys for entering the group chat, hanging out with me. "Love is Blind" reference, extra coffee for you in the green room.
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And I want to thank you all for waking up with us. I'm Audie Cornish. "CNN NEWS CENTRAL" is going to start right now.
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