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ELENI GIOKOS, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: You're looking at live pictures from the White House where Donald Trump is expected to announce new tariffs

on aluminum as well as steel products entering the U.S. It is 09:00 a.m. in Washington, D.C., it is 06:00 p.m. here in Dubai. I'm Eleni Giokos. This is

"Connect the World".

Coming up, French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants to step up his country's AI game, and he's taking a surprising turn to get there. And a

report from inside Ukraine as conversations swirl around possible negotiations, while President Trump says he spoke to Russia's Vladimir

Putin.

All right, let's check in to see how markets are faring right now in the United States. And of course, market participants are waiting for some kind

of big move on the tariff front, specifically on aluminum, steel products entering the United States, and that's where we begin the show.

Today, we are expecting that announcement from the president. He told reporters on Air Force One on Sunday that he will be taking a 25 percent

levy on imports from all countries. So, we're talking about a blanket tariff across the board. You've got to remember, the United States imports

millions of tons of steel and aluminum every single year.

I'd like to welcome Paul Donovan. He's the Chief Economist for UBS Global Wealth Management. He joins us now from London. Great to have you with us,

Paul. So much happening today.

You know, during the first term President Trump had actually imposed 10 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum products entering the U.S. He gave

exceptions, however, to Canada, to Mexico, he instilled some quotas for other countries, but we're talking about a blanket tariff system here. Do

you think that makes sense?

PAUL DONOVAN, CHIEF ECONOMIST, UBS GLOBAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT Well, it's a tax on U.S. companies and U.S. consumers, and what it will do is very

possibly protect jobs in the metal producing industries, so the steel and aluminum industries of the United States, but what it will do is

potentially cost jobs in steel consuming industries of the United States, because if you're a car manufacturer, this is going to make you less

competitive.

It's going to make your sales overseas less competitive, because you are going to be paying a higher price than any of your international

competitors are going to be paying. So, the net effect is probably a negative for employment in the United States as a result of this tax paid

by U.S. companies who consume imported steel and aluminum.

GIOKOS: Yeah, really fascinating, if you weigh it all up. I mean, people are asking whether this is fully a global trade war that we've seen right

now, because President Trump was targeting specific countries. Now he's looking at sectors, and frankly, if you have a surplus with the United

States, you could be in trouble. How do you think this is going to play out?

DONOVAN: Well, it's a tricky one, because, of course, President Trump has Y_"

GIOKOS: Yeah.

DONOVAN: -- retreated from tariffs four times now, Colombia, Mexico, Canada and the de minimis tariff. Now what's interesting there? I think in all of

those cases; the tax would have been really visible to U.S. consumers. Immediately the price of coffee goes up, or avocados or propane or whatever

you're buying from -- who goes up.

It's an immediate, visible tax paid by U.S. consumers, so it's perfectly possible that that sort of tax is going to be threatened and rolled back.

And as I've said, we've had four retreats already, but I think on some of these other taxes, the universal tariffs, they're more likely to endure

because they're not quite so visible to normal consumers?

GIOKOS: Yeah. And we're seeing a tit for tat, right? So, countries are sort of weighing up their policy on tariffs and trade and where they stand, and

do you see retaliation, frankly, coming through on specific -- you know big ticket items that enter those countries, specifically from the U.S.?

DONOVAN: So, I think certainly there will be retaliation. I think that this is also damaging, because the retaliation is a tax on European consumers or

China's consumers. But I think it will also be more politically focused. And we saw this with the threatened taxes that Canada was going to impose.

These would be very specific targeted against goods produced in Republican areas of the United States.

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So, I think you will see a very targeted retaliation, but rest retaliation is going to come through.

GIOKOS: Yeah, I think from a macro perspective. And you know, President Trump has been very vocal about -- you know making America's economy strong

and powerful, and basically ensuring that the -- what we see now in a multi polar world, that the U.S. is still fundamentally the largest and biggest

power. Do you think that it is counter intuitive when, many cases, he's been targeting allies?

DONOVAN: Well, I think what we have to reflect on is a tax is a tax. I don't care how you dress it up, it's a tax, and if you increase taxes, that

is going to slow the activity in your economy. So, President Trump, by imposing taxes on U.S. companies and U.S. consumers, is going to slow the

U.S. economy.

And I think we, along with many other economists, are expecting U.S. growth to be lower this year than it was last year. So; this is going to be a drag

on economic activity. I think one of the big risks from this, though, is that because so many trade deals are being torn up, it will now be more

difficult for the U.S. to negotiate compromises with trade partners in the future, because there's a suspicion that you can't trust the U.S. on a

trade deal.

GIOKOS: Yeah, and that's a dangerous space to be in policy continuity and trust is important. Really good to have you with us Paul, much appreciates

it for your time. All right, moving on now and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is headed to Europe for his first over -- overseas trip,

official overseas trip.

The Pentagon says he's expected to be there for a week while he meets with U.S. troops and allied leaders in Germany, Belgium and Poland. Hegseth's

first stop will be in Stuttgart, Germany, where he will visit the Headquarters of the U.S. European command, as well as the U.S. Africa

Command. We've got Natasha Bertrand standing by for us at the Pentagon to give us an update on what we can expect from this trip. What are you

hearing Natasha?

NATASHA BERTRAND, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, well, this will be Secretary Hegseth's first kind of big trip on the world stage. And he is expected, as

you said, to meet with troops in these various countries in Germany, and he's going to Poland as well.

And one of the more interesting aspects of this trip is going to be his presence in Brussels, where he is going to be attending the Ukraine Defense

Contact Group, which is a forum that was set up by Former Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin to kind of coordinate all of the military assistance

and aid to Ukraine amongst the many countries that want to donate.

And the United States, has previously been the chair of that forum across all previous four years that Austin was the Secretary. But now the U.S. has

relinquished that role, and the United Kingdom is going to be chairing that forum. So already a very clear sign here that the U.S. wants to pull back

and take a step back from this leading role that it had in providing assistance to the Ukrainians.

And so, Hegseth's presence at that forum is going to be very interesting in terms of how much he actually engages? What he commits on behalf of the

United States to the Ukrainians? And, of course, how he engages with the other members of the forum?

He's also going to be attending the defense ministerial at NATO Headquarters on Thursday, again, another big test year of how he's going to

interact with these NATO allies in terms of pressuring them to increase defense spending, a major priority of the Trump Administration, asking them

to increase their defense industrial capacity, basically the manufacture of weapons and equipment.

So, that the U.S. doesn't have to carry such a huge burden, in the words of the Trump Administration. And so, this is going to be the first example,

really, of how the U.S. is going to be interacting with Europe, with NATO over the next four years, in terms of this America first agenda, right?

How can we shift more of the burden to the Europeans? How can we pressure the Ukrainians to try to come to the negotiating table when it comes to

ending this war with Russia again, a top priority for the Trump Administration. And we should note something that the Defense Department

said openly, that Hegseth is going to be pushing throughout this trip.

They said that the Secretary will quote, reiterate President Trump's commitment for a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine as quickly as

possible. So again, this is going to be a very, very telling moment for the United States on the world stage in this new administration. And of course,

we also expect to see Secretary of State, Marco Rubio overseas in Europe this week, where he will attend the Munich Security Forum.

GIOKOS: Yeah, really interesting. And as you say, Natasha, importantly, President Trump has been very clear about wanting to see NATO spending

increasing to 5 percent of GDP, and that's certainly going to be interesting to see how that plays out. Natasha Bertrand for us at the

Pentagon. Thank you so much.

Well, moving to Ukraine, with the war in Ukraine now entering its fourth year this month, Donald Trump says that he's spoken about the conflict with

Russian President Vladimir Putin, although is very unclear on when they spoke and how many times they spoke?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know you don't want to tell us about your conversations with President Putin. But can you clarify whether you had

that since you've been in office or whether it happened before you became President?

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I've had it. Let's just say I've had it. And I expect to have many more conversations. We have

to get that war ended. It's going to end, and we have to get it ended. And we have to get it ended. Should have never happened. Would have never

happened if I was president.

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GIOKOS: All right. Well, his part Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying that he is ready to negotiate with his Russian counter-part, but

only under certain conditions, take a listen.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT: If I had an understanding that America and Europe would not abandon us and that they would support us and

provide security guarantees, I would be ready for any format of negotiations.

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GIOKOS: All right, our Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh joins us now. Nick, good to see you. Clearly, there's been some

movement talk about President Trump speaking with Vladimir Putin, as well as Ukraine, saying we're ready to negotiate. What are you hearing?

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, I mean let's just pause and recognize how unusual it is for the President of

the United States to speak to the Kremlin Head say he has done so, and for the Kremlin to essentially not confirm that.

That is in itself bizarre, perhaps part of the disruptive methods that Trump is trying to bring to pretty much every part of his White House. But

at the same time, too, we now see Ukraine's President always, for three years, front and center of anything that the West or NATO did about

Ukraine. They did with Ukraine.

There in that interview, you see him essentially laying out his conditions for diplomacy. There's been a feeling, I think it's fair to say, over the

past few days, week, even that Kyiv feeling there may be things happening without them being front and center to that. We indeed heard President

Trump on Friday when he was asked if J.D. Vance, his Vice President, would see Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Munich in Germany at a security conference

coming up this weekend?

He said, no, I'm going to meet Zelenskyy soon. He said he wouldn't go to Ukraine to do it. And that sort of seems to have sparked a sense amongst

Ukrainian officials that there may be an opening for him to suddenly meet Trump ahead of Munich. Whether that happens or not, we don't know.

But this is not really all happening with the sort of stage diplomacy, the kind of behind the scenes, covert professionalism that you might have

expected from other administrations, it may bring faster and better results, but diplomacy is clearly moving forward at this point, it's

unclear who's talking to who, when, what has been set as the terms? What is the essential outcome that the Kremlin would be happy with?

And it's important to remember, too, Eleni, that this is all not just about what happens behind closed doors or on confidential conference calls or in

hotel rooms in European capitals as part of diplomacy, it also has to relate to a fast-moving front line, where we spoke to many people now who

have significant doubts that a ceasefire, if it even came in, could hold?

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WALSH (voice-over): The sound they long for here of peace, of normal.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just want to stop it. Stop the bombing. There is no future now. We don't see it. Who does? Do you see it?

WALSH (voice-over): Ten years ago, the war began here in an eastern town like this, Slaviansk. We were there to see ceasefires fall apart or used by

Russian separatists to just take more ground, a memory and distrust that endures.

WALSH: Really, do they move further into the town, or just stay in this position that Russian field unrest now a decade later, transformed into an

ugly conflict that's now entering into its fourth year?

WALSH (voice-over): Hundreds of dead or injured daily. But this drone war can feel here like high stakes gaming.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It seems they're in trench. Got it "Lucky Strike". Let's strike it one more time. Fly check it and strike the dugouts. One wounded -

is crawling.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Was that successful?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We struck the enemy. There are bushes, he will try one more time.

WALSH (voice-over): For those below a petrifying scramble in the frozen mud, the tiny buzz of death above this very remote world of chat groups and

trunk cameras so removed from the absolute horror what's going down the ground, both sides torn apart and trench warfare not been seen for a

century in some places.

Volodymyr is a week or so shy of his decade anniversary fighting Russia, joining in 2015 when Moscow sees the nearby town of -- literally during a

ceasefire, you better really mean it if you talk peace here.

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VOLODYMYR SABLYN, BATTALION COMMANDER, 66TH MECHANIZED BRIGADE: The conflict was frozen, and it only led to a full-scale war. The nearby town

of the bolt of a literally during a ceasefire now. It will only get worse for us. Because the enemy will restore itself from new military units again

regroup and attack again.

WALSH (voice-over): So many Ukrainians suggesting now that if NATO wants the war to stop, it should put its troops between them and the Russians as

peacekeepers.

SABLYN: It would be a real guarantee of security in Ukraine. Because Russia, no matter how much they say that they are not afraid of anyone.

They are afraid of America and NATO as a whole.

WALSH (voice-over): One certainty, as we head out to see the front is this same drone setup and carnage is being mimicked by the Russians not far

away. Dusk can bring a brief break in Russian drones in the skies, but this red dot means there's one above us. So much changes fast in this war, but

the shelling seems like it could go on forever.

WALSH: Massive guns hiding from tiny, $500 machines here, extraordinary change. Little geo-politics here, just practical skepticism and hard

numbers. Do you think there could be a ceasefire here that could last?

VIKTOR, 66TH MECHANIZED BRIGADE: What percentage for the implementation of a ceasefire? About 30 percent. Because of the situation on the front it

doesn't look like there will be a truce. It's very hard.

ANDRIY, 66TH MECHANIZED BRIGADE: It's about 40 percent. The other side is winning, taking territory. And we by and large have nothing to say.

WALSH (voice-over): Just down the road, the Russians are coming yet again. But the prize here is only victory itself. The rest is ruins.

WALSH: Here it is the sort of Soviet prize in Lyman of the railway hub here a place that the Russians took that they were kicked out of by the

Ukrainians, and are now closing in on again, just a symbol of the relentlessness of this war. Larysa has never left, never will.

LARYSA, LYMAN RESIDENT: Here I ran barefoot. There I swam in the river. I'm 72-years-old. I don't want to leave. My three brothers are buried here all

my aunts, uncles, dad, mum. I can't leave. I can't. We've been hit 19 times today, 19 times since the morning. My husband is counting and I'm taking

sleeping pills. Nobody's is going to solve this. Only Putin will if he says that's enough, I've already killed so many people.

WALSH (voice-over): Far back Ukraine is making the bare minimum preparations for a worst-case scenario. They've always needed the world's

help to stave off disaster. Just now, hope it doesn't come disguised as peace.

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WALSH (on camera): Now, I think with these negotiations, it's fair to say, either on the way or looming, I think there is some uncertainty and anxiety

even as to how eagerly Trump wants this war over? How he's willing to potentially concede things to the Kremlin to get them to make that deal or

to come to the table. And quite where that leaves Ukraine now losing on the battlefield, clearly over months and potentially with Moscow seeing no rush

on their side at all to bring this to a close.

GIOKOS: Nick, really great reporting. Thank you so much for bringing us that story. Nick Paton Walsh for us. We're going to a very short break.

We'll be back with more news right after this. Stay with CNN.

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GIOKOS: Welcome back. Israel has completed its withdrawal from the Netzarim Corridor that runs through Gaza. It's part of the ceasefire deal with

Hamas. Also, over the weekend, three more hostages reunited with their families. Israel is calling their gaunt, frail appearances shocking. The

family members of Yuli Ben Ami and Micheal Levy are speaking about what they have been through, and they are demanding the release of all the

remaining hostages.

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MICHAEL LEVY, BROTHER RELEASED ISRAELI HOSTAGE OR LEVY: Yesterday, after a year and four months, I saw my brother again, I hugged him, but he wasn't

the same old who left home on October 7th. He came back in poor physical condition. Anyone who saw the pictures and videos couldn't ignore it. For

16 months, he was hungry, barefoot and in constant fear that every day can be his last.

YULI BEN AMI, DAUGHTER OF RELEASED ISRAELI HOSTAGE OHAD BEN AMI: He survived hell. The return of the hostages yesterday leaves no room for

doubt. They all must return. We will not stop fighting until the last hostage come home.

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GIOKOS: Israeli police raided two Palestinian books stores in East Jerusalem Sunday, arresting two people. Now, CCTV footage shared by the

owners shows officers confiscating a number of books. The raids targeted branches of the educational book shop, a widely respected institution that

dates back to the 1980s.

Israeli police say detectives found books containing insightful material with nationalist Palestinian themes. Diplomats from Brazil and several

European countries attended a hearing Monday in support of the defendants. Well, let's get you up to speed on some other stories that are on our radar

right now.

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JUSTIN TRUDEAU, CANADIAN PRESIDENT: Mr. Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing.

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GIOKO: Well, that was Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking to a gathering of business leaders off camera Friday. Mr. Trudeau is heard

telling the group President Donald Trump's threat to her next Canada is, quote, a real thing.

His comments were picked up on an open mic after he believed the media had been escorted out. Trudeau previously told CNN that Trump's comments about

turning Canada into the 51st state were just a distraction from his tariff threats. He stressed that Canada becoming another U.S. state was, quote,

not going to happen.

Old man winter is gripping parts of the U.S., with 29 million people now under winter weather alerts already reeling from back-to-back snow storms,

the Midwest and Northeast are bracing for more snow this week, meteorologist warning that freezing rain and heavy snow could bring down

tree limbs and cause power outages and travel disruption.

And the United States has ramped up its surveillance of Mexican drug cartels along the Southwestern U.S. border. U.S. officials and opensource

data indicate that American spy planes have flown at least 18 border missions in the past couple of weeks. That's far more than the usual one

per month.

And still to come, the French President says Europe has to bridge the gap with the U.S. and China when it comes to artificial intelligence. And he's

hoping this week's AI Summit in France will serve as a wake-up call for fellow leaders. We're live with the latest from Paris that's coming up

after this.

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And later this hour's sweet revenge for the Philadelphia Eagles. They stopped the Kansas City Chiefs from winning a third consecutive Super Bowl

victory.

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GIOKOS: Welcome back. I'm Eleni Giokos in Dubai. You're watching "Connect the World". These are your headlines U.S. President Donald Trump says he

will announce a 25 percent tariff on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States. He also announced further reciprocal tariffs would be

coming down later this week, but did not specify who those would target.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are trying to return to their homes in Gaza. That's after Israel completed its withdrawal from the

Netzarim Corridor, a strip of land dividing the Enclave into halves. Meanwhile, an Israeli delegation is in Qatar to discuss technical details

of the ceasefire deal with Hamas.

The hearing convenes in Boston later today on a challenge to President Trump's deferred resignation offer for federal employees. A judge, put last

Thursday's deadline to accept the offer on hold after several unions sued. The White House says about 65,000 workers have so far accepted the so

called buy out.

Turning now to Donald Trump's fourth week in Washington, and the president isn't just going to war with America's trading partners. He's also venting

his anger with parts of the U.S. judiciary. Mr. Trump, his VP, J.D. Vance and Elon Musk spent the weekend blasting a judge who has temporarily

blocked Musk's access to the U.S. Treasury's payment system.

It comes as Musk and Trump's other appointees set about shutting down various federal agencies as they seek to slash the size of the government.

The latest apparent target is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Its Headquarters will be closed all week amid talk it will be completely shut

down.

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All right, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, always filled with excitement and loads of energy every single day at 09:30 a.m. and today,

Monday, very interesting day. We are anticipating to see tariffs that are going to be announced later today. Anticipated 25 percent tariffs on

aluminum as well as steel important to the U.S.

This is what we're seeing right now on the market front, DOW Jones, NASDAQ and S&P all in the green at this point, they're bracing for a data packed

week ahead of the news out of the White House on anything tariff related. Markets absorbing a lot of this information, whether it's going to be net

positive or negative for the United States, but also what it's going to mean for the global economy.

Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron says Europe is, quote, lagging behind in the AI race. Mr. Macron is vowing to fight to get ahead, and he's

actually using artificial intelligence, hoping to get other EU leaders to join him watch this.

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GIOKOS: All right, deep fakes were very entertaining there, but President Macron posting these AI generated deep fake videos of himself on social

media to promote a two-day AI Action Summit in Paris. The Summit, which kicked off today, is bringing together top government officials and tech

leaders from more than 100 countries.

France needs major investment if they want to catch up in the AI race. And the UAE is helping fill that role. Ahead of today's Summit in Paris, France

and the United Arab Emirates have agreed on a framework deal that includes investing billions of Euros to build a giant AI data center.

France says the center will be the core of a new AI campus and will have up to a gigawatt of capacity. CNN's Senior International Correspondent Melissa

Bell is live in Paris with the latest. Melissa, good to see you. Quite a video of Macron there, quite funny as well, but interesting that he's using

that as a sort of creating momentum on how Europe is falling behind on AI. So, what is the future for Europe, and I guess, how France wants to take

the lead on this?

MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think there are a couple of aims of this summit. And I think the release of that video, as

funny as it is, is really to say people, look, there are these fears about AI. It's misused the deep fakes that have been used for Emmanuel Macron but

against lots of other politicians as well.

But in fact, this summit is about de mystifying some of that technology and dispelling some of the fears that have surrounded the development of AI in

order to have individuals and smaller companies embrace it in a way that they haven't before, because there is this question of adoption, not just

here in Europe, but elsewhere.

That's at the heart very much of what they're talking about. There was a summit not so long ago in London that looked at some of the dangers of AI,

and the way it's been summarized to me here is that by some of these tech leaders, is that, look, AI has not yet brought the end of the world to us.

On the contrary, there are all these opportunities. And so, the idea of the summit here in the very grand, Grand Palais in Paris is to look at what

those opportunities are. And once the fears have been dispelled and the thing has been explained, to try and encourage people to engage with AI,

really, to give them the ability to use it, but also to transform the way AI functions in the future that it is much closer to the people using it.

That's been at the heart of so many of the messages we've heard here today. But you're quite right. There is, of course, this gap, right? You've got

the American giant that $500 billion investment announced by Donald Trump into their infrastructure projects and innovative capacity when it comes to

AI.

You have China and its DeepSeek really competing now with that American dominance, the question is, where Europe is in all this, not something

Emmanuel Macron spoke to when he spoke to Richard Quest have a listen.

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EMMANUEL MACRON, FRENCH PRESIDENT: Europe is lagging behind. But in the current situation, France is number one in Europe. So, for me, the

objective of the summit is to give an impetus and to have this wake-up call with new decision and acceleration of investment in order to bridge it.

Having said that, our view is very clear. We want the best of the world. So, we want our own research, our own start-ups to go up and scale up. But

we want to team up as well with American Indian Gulf Chinese players Alibaba and Google will be here at the summit.

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BELL: So, there is this question of how companies and governments function together to allow AI to be developed in a way that is youthful and close to

the people using it. But there is also the question of investment. What Emmanuel Macron has announced is 109 billion euros that will be invested

here in France.

Also, you mentioned that Data Park, the first of its kind here in Europe, some of that infrastructure that is crucial to what we are told really will

be this transformative technology that is going to impact all our lives. And one of some of the questions at the heart of this is, we were just

speaking to Vice President of Amazon, why are more doctors not using it?

Why are more teachers not using AI for the time being? Because people, frankly, haven't had the tools, the education, the information they needed

to be able to adopt it into their day to day lives. And a lot of the questions here at the summit are about that.

One of the questions the Eleni is whether the idea of a global governance any progress can be made here at this summit that will encourage countries

like the United States to align themselves with other governments trying to legislate on this and to bring some kind of regulative framework to

something that, for the time being, has lacked it, Eleni.

GIOKOS: Yeah, and Frankly, Europe has been very good at the regulatory side of things, specifically on anything to do with technology front. But I

guess one of the other questions is, why has Europe fallen behind? But from what I'm hearing from Emmanuel Macron is that France is open for business,

and so is Europe, and they looking for investment for more players globally.

BELL: Yes, I think that's right. They're looking both for companies within Europe to do what -- has done. We've got to speak to actual -- CEO of this

French start up that really only began, start up an upstart, frankly, that began very recently, only a couple of years ago he was told he couldn't do

it. He created this competitor to Open AI to DeepSeek that's doing remarkably well given its standing start a couple of years ago.

And what he was saying is that he's shown that you can actually compete, something the DeepSeek has also shown with some of the more heavily

invested and advanced technologies that are coming out of the United States and some of those big some of those bigger companies that have really

dominated the market.

And that was his aim, to show that you're right. France is hoping to weigh more heavily than it has, but there is this idea that by youth having

greater cooperation globally, there is room also for Europe to make its voice heard, not just in a regulatory sense, but actually in terms of

innovation, and the key they believe is some of the talent they have here Eleni.

GIOKOS: All right. Melissa Bell, great to have you with us thank you so much. And still to come on the show, the Eagles wreck the Chiefs ambitions

for historic three peat in the Super Bowl. We've got a look at the big game and all the fan-fare and spectacular moments around us. We'll bring you an

update right after this. Stay with CNN.

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BELL: The Philadelphia Eagles stopped the Kansas City Chiefs in their track Sunday night, snuffing out Kansas City fans dream of historic third

straight Super Bowl win. The Eagles dominated the Chiefs from start to finish, winning 40-22 for their second Super Bowl title in franchise

history. Providing the half time entertainment Rapper Kendrick Lamar performing his hits, including his Grammy Award winning song, "Not like

us".

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm tripping, I'm slamming. I'm right to the back.

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GIOKOS: The game in New Orleans was a star-studded event with too many celebrities and dignitaries to count. Donald Trump was there taking time

out from thinking up new tariffs to become the first U.S. President, sitting President to attend the Super Bowl. He took the opportunity to

troll Taylor Swift, appearing to revel in the booth she received from Philadelphia Eagles fans.

Swift was there to cheer on her boyfriend Kansas City Chief Travis Kelsey. Now celebrities also dominated a number of commercial spots during Sunday's

Super Bowl telecast. This year's ads were all about fun and familiar faces, like Dunkin Donuts, favorite pitch men.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Matt and Tom.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Forget them suckers. Matt Damon and Tom. Brady don't have the heart of a champion. We got a new squad Dunkin sequel, a flex and

Belichick Dunkin.

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GIOKOS: Another notable ad featured the singer seal performing as a seal. Let's take a look. And I've actually seen him live, he's really phenomenal.

But I tell you, this performance takes the cake. All right, some 50-brand shelled out big bucks to showcase their products in front of millions of

viewers. 32nd spots cost as much as $8 million each, and of course, we can't forget the players who were the real stars of the night.

Eagles Quarterback Jalen Hurts was named MVP after a stellar performance, and he broke his own record for the most rushing yards by quarterback in

Super Bowl history with 72. World Sports, Amanda Davies joins us now with more on the game and the ads on the performance. What are you covering

today, Amanda, so much here?

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Yeah, it was Jalen Hurts two years ago when the Eagles were beaten by the Chiefs who said, when you don't win, you

learn. You don't lose, you learn. Well, he came back with a bang to lead his side to that victory. The Eagles flying high. Disappointments very much

disappointment for Patrick Mahomes, his opposite number, and the Kansas City Chiefs.

There is a reason that no side have ever won three straight Super Bowl titles. So, we're heading straight back to New Orleans in just a couple of

minutes, with plenty more coming up in World Sport Eleni.

GIOKOS: All right, I'll be fantastic, Amanda. We look forward to that update. I'll be back at the top of the hour with more "Connect the world".

Stay with CNN.

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