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By Riane Lumer, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump said Sunday border czar Tom Homan will be in charge of deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports on Monday, with Homan telling CNN the agents will help with security at entrances and exits to ease the Transportation Security Administration’s workload.

“This is about going to helping TSA do their mission and get the American public through that airport as quick as they can while adhering to all the security guidelines and the protocols,” Homan said on CNN’s “State of the Union with Dana Bash.”

Long security lines have been seen at airports around the country, as TSA officers have quit their jobs or called out sick as they continue to work without pay amid a partial government shutdown. Homan said his “opinion is that we concentrate on the airports where the longest waits are, we prioritize those large airports with those long waits like three hours.”

“We’re simply there to help TSA do their job in areas that don’t need their specialized expertise, such as screening through the X-ray machine — Not training that, we won’t do that,” Homan said. “But there are roles we can play to release TSA officers from the non-significant roles, such as guarding an exit so they can get back to the scanning machines and move people quicker, and we’re just simply helping our fellow officers at TSA.”

The border czar said ICE will continue conducting immigration enforcement operations while aiding TSA. He added that planning discussions are taking place Sunday in coordination with the heads of ICE and the TSA, and that the public can expect more details of “a well thought out plan to execute” later Sunday.

Trump first announced the move to deploy ICE agents on social media Saturday, as lawmakers worked toward reaching an agreement to fund DHS amid mounting travel disruptions. Democrats have refused to fund the department as they demand changes that would rein in Trump’s immigration policies after two people were killed during an immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis earlier this year.

Bipartisan appropriators held a brief meeting with Homan on Friday evening that sources from both parties called “productive.” Another meeting with Homan that Senate Majority Leader John Thune had previewed for Saturday was cancelled, a GOP leadership source said, but it was unclear why.

Talks are expected to continue Sunday as Republicans await a counteroffer from Democrats after receiving a proposal to break the impasse from the White House on Friday. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing to reach a deal by the end of the week, according to a person familiar with the talks.

Two of the big sticking points remain whether to require judicial warrants on an immigration enforcement action and require ICE agents to remove their masks — both key Democratic demands that the White House has resisted.

Senators are eager to wrap up talks and pass a bill before Easter recess begins at week’s end, meaning a deal needs to be reached within the next couple of days to begin the legislative process in order to meet that timeframe.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told “State of the Union” on Sunday the plan to send ICE agents to airports was an effort to “squeeze lawmakers to try to finally come up with a plan to fund DHS.”

“It’s unfortunate that Republicans have decided that they would rather force TSA agents to work without pay, inconvenience millions of Americans all across the country and now potentially expos

Análisis de Ronald Brownstein, CNN

Las guerras por elección propia, en casa y en el extranjero, se han convertido en la característica definitoria del tumultuoso segundo mandato del presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump.

De Minneapolis y Los Ángeles a Caracas y Teherán, instigar conflictos con adversarios percibidos se ha convertido en el principal medio de Trump para perseguir sus objetivos internos e internacionales. Ha desplegado fuerza militar en Irán, Venezuela y al menos otros cinco países; lanzó guerras comerciales contra naciones de todo el mundo; ordenó redadas de control inmigratorio militarizadas en grandes ciudades gobernadas por demácratas; presionó al Departamento de Justicia para iniciar procesamientos penales federales contra individuos e instituciones que considera sus adversarios; y apoyó desafíos en las primarias contra republicanos del Congreso que se le han enfrentado.

De todas estas maneras, Trump ha puesto de cabeza el famoso consejo del politólogo Richard Neustadt, quien escribió en un libro clásico de 1960 que el poder presidencial central “es el poder de persuadir”. Trump ha gobernado como si creyera que el poder presidencial central, y quizá el único relevante, es el poder de coaccionar.

Quienes simpatizan con el enfoque de Trump creen que simplemente está aprovechando todos los enormes poderes de la presidencia de maneras que sus predecesores no lo harían, en particular para defender los intereses de Estados Unidos en todo el mundo.

“Nadie puede leer la mente del presidente, eso está claro”, dijo Nadia Schadlow, una asesora adjunta de Seguridad Nacional durante el primer mandato de Trump que ahora es investigadora sénior en el Hudson Institute. “Pero ciertamente parece que está absolutamente dispuesto a utilizar todas las formas de influencia de todas las maneras diferentes, incluidas maneras asimétricas, y no está limitado por procesos que a menudo han restringido a presidentes anteriores”.

Pero los críticos de Trump creen que los límites de su estrategia confrontacional se están volviendo más evidentes a medida que enfrenta una resistencia inesperadamente eficaz de objetivos tan diversos como el Gobierno de Irán y los ciudadanos comunes de Minneapolis que se opusieron a su ofensiva de control inmigratorio. Trump está aprendiendo que incluso con el martillo más grande del mundo, a veces los clavos pueden responder.

“A primera vista, parece una fuerza dominante, titánica […] está en el puente del barco y está dando órdenes, y la respuesta inicial parece ser que está logrando acción”, dijo el politólogo Lawrence Jacobs, director del Centro de Estudios sobre Política y Gobernanza en la Universidad de Minnesota. “Pero ahora estamos en un punto en el que podemos mirar cuáles son los efectos y resultados de lo que está haciendo. Y lo que estoy viendo ahora son mucho más las limitaciones de su enfoque”.

Escriba la frase “Trump amenaza” en cualquier motor de búsqueda y los resultados se desbordan. En el léxico de Trump, rara vez pide; en cambio, exige. Y esas exigencias casi siempre están respaldadas por amenazas de consecuencias catastróficas para cualquier individuo o institución que se resista. Cada día en la administración Trump se siente un poco como la icónica escena del bautismo en “El padrino” cuando Michael Corleone entona: “Hoy arreglo todos los asuntos de la familia”. En apenas las últimas semanas, Trump ha señalado que Estados Unidos reconsiderará su papel en la OTAN si los miembros de la alianza no brindan el apoyo que él exige para reabrir el estrecho de Ormuz; se comprometió a “cortar todo comercio” con España por negarse a permitir el uso de sus bases militares en la guerra; advirtió a Cuba que pretende reemplazar a su Gobierno mediante presión militar o económica; elogió a su combativo presidente de la FCC, Brendan Carr, por amenazar las licencias de radiodifusión de medios que cubren la guerra con Irán de maneras que

By Dan Heching, CNN

(CNN) — “The Comeback” was by no means the first series to hold a funhouse mirror up to the entertainment industry, but the comedy starring co-creator Lisa Kudrow, which returns for its final season on Sunday, has certainly always done it in its own navel-gazing yet endearing way.

As eternally optimistic and entirely self-absorbed actress Valerie Cherish, Kudrow and executive producer Michael Patrick King struck cult classic gold with the first season in 2005, showcasing the ups and downs of the LA actor life, from working with toxic writers to making sure your hair is just right no matter where you are.

Since the show last aired in 2014 — as part of a rare-at-the-time post-cancellation resurrection — Hollywood has found itself at the center of several other biting comedies, like awards season darlings “Hacks” and “The Studio,” from “Comeback” Season 2 guest star Seth Rogen.

Now, 21 years after “The Comeback” first premiered, there is room for all of them, even if the runaway success of Rogen’s blistering takedown of Hollywood prompted Kudrow and Co. to do a little tweaking to the final season behind the scenes.

“We were mindful of, let’s not be running around in golf carts too much,” Kudrow said at a recent press conference, referencing the many frantic golf cart rides Rogen and his cohorts take in the Apple TV series, which is filmed on the same studio lot as “The Comeback.”

King made the distinction that “The Comeback” is “more of a jab at ego than Hollywood.” See: a hilarious bit in this new season during which Kudrow’s Valerie brings her social media curator to a WGA strike and becomes nonplussed when a picketer’s sign blocks her best angle.

“I think it’s a cautionary tale, for me, to be careful about chasing the spotlight,” King said. “Hollywood’s just a great circus arena because so many people want to be in the spotlight.”

A lot has happened in the world since everyone last saw Valerie. The pandemic and the two union strikes that hobbled Hollywood in recent years are humorously addressed at the top of the new season, which largely tackles the arrival of artificial intelligence as Valerie agrees to star in a new sitcom written by AI.

Once the idea was born, it was ostensibly fast-tracked to production because the premise was seen as being in a race against reality, where it’s entirely possible that AI-written shows are not far from coming to fruition — if they haven’t already.

“It was very much as-fast-as-you-can,” King said of the approval process for Season 3. “Our goal was to get on the air before a studio admitted they were using AI.”

Kudrow said it “really had to be an idea like the AI thing” for her to return to this world after so much time had elapsed — even longer than the break between the first two seasons — and likened Valerie taking on this new technology to her “ultimate battle.”

“Just as reality TV was the almost-extinction event at the time for scripted television, it’s the same feeling about AI,” she explained, in a nod back to how the show’s first season came about during the initial aughts-era reality TV explosion, which prompted Read more

By Francesca Street, CNN

(CNN) — Amelie Malmfält opened the message at work. When she saw Kris Brock’s name, her face broke out into a huge smile. She couldn’t believe it.

It was a simple note — he’d bumped into her parents at the airport, he said. He was wondering how she was doing. It’d been a while…

Still smiling, Amelie immediately started composing a reply in her head.

“My colleague across from me said, ‘Did you get some good news or something?’” recalls Amelie. “I was like, ‘Oh, yes … kind of.’”

The colleague looked intrigued, so Amelie continued.

“This boy, who I knew when I was eight … and then we were together when I was 18 … just reached out to me to say he bumped into my parents at the airport,” she said.

“Wait, who is this guy?” asked her colleague, confused.

“This is the person I’m going to marry one day,” replied Amelie, still smiling.

Amelie’s colleague raised an eyebrow. She was surprised. She knew Amelie was dating someone else. Amelie, too, was surprised by her words. But then she doubled down on what she’d just said.

“No, this is the one I’ll definitely marry,” she said, as her mind wandered back to where it all began.

Childhood sweethearts

Amelie and Kris’ story began in 1987. Amelie’s parents were Swedish, and as a kid she attended a Swedish elementary school in London. It was a tiny institution, with only 10 kids in her class.

“So you kind of had to get on with everyone, which was nice,” Amelie tells CNN Travel today. “There was pretty much an even split of boys and girls, and the 10 of us just hung out the whole time and had loads of fun.”

Kris joined the school the year Amelie was eight. From the moment he walked into the classroom for the first time, Amelie was fascinated by him.

“I just remember when this really exotic Swedish boy who’d lived in Australia arrived one day with this bright yellow jumper, saying ‘Sydney’ on it,” she says. “He quickly became part of a friendship group.”

For Kris, joining a new school was a bit daunting — even if he was used to new beginnings.

“I’d moved around a lot — to Asia, Hong Kong and Sydney, and then I came to the UK, to the Swedish school,” he tells CNN Travel today. “I was a bit nervous — starting a new school when you’re eight years old.”

But when Kris met Amelie, his nerves quickly turned into excitement. It was love at first sight — kind of, anyway.

“We were only eight, but I remember Amelie was the first person that I thought, ‘Wow.’ You know, whatever you feel when you’re eight years old. It was pretty innocent.”

One lunchtime, the kids were playing tag in the playground. Kris was “it” and was chasing the other kids, trying to tap them on the shoulder and tag them.

“I thought it was really clever to run into the classroom, and then I closed the door, which was this big glass door, but I also locked it, which Kris didn’t realize,” recalls Amelie.

Kris ran after Amelie to tag her, and tried to push the door open.

“But the door was locked, so he flew through the whole glass window, crashed through the whole glass door and flew through it,” recalls Amelie.

Other than a few scratches, Kris was unharmed. But Amelie was left impressed by his commitment to the game.

“And then the next day, there was a little note on my desk, saying, ‘Will you be my girlfriend? Tick yes or no.’ And I was like, ‘He flew through a glass door. I think I should say yes.’”

On their first date, the eight-year-olds went to the cinema to see the rereleased “Herbie goes to Monte Carlo.”

“My father was sitting a couple of rows behind us, so we weren’t alone at the cinema,” says Kris.

He remembers loving the film, starring the Volkswagen Beetle, and loving watching Amelie laugh at