WEBVTT - Give Me Buttocks Not Botox 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.520 Arm Strong and Jetty and he. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.800 Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:31.640 Allergies are brutal apparently nationwide, more states with high allergy. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.840 Alert than I've ever been at one time. Climate change 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:34.319 or who knows? 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:34.479 What? 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.640 Can we get? A giant national hepafilter? Is that possible? 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:38.920 To ask me about that? 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.800 Wow? And make Mexico pay for it? I don't know. 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.760 Something like that would be nice, yes, or just a yeah? 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.080 A gigantic series of fans on the border with the 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:52.840 filters to recirculate the air. Yeah, why not? So last 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.720 night on Special Report with Brett Bear, Brett sat down 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:00.680 and talked with gosh was it seven guys? Seven? Oh 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:05.920 my lord? With six or seven of the guys who 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.760 are heading up the DOGE efforts, including Elon Musk. Of course, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.240 executive producer Hanson has done a fabulous job of getting 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.000 us many many highlights, many more than we could play 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:21.120 on air. Meeting time, Jack, I say, I want to 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.199 hear a couple from Elon Musk because the interview begins 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.000 with him. But i'd really, really like to highlight at 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.880 least a little bit from each of the guys because 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.520 to me, the great takeaway and Elon is a brilliant 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:38.240 guy and interesting, but between his overexposure and his halting 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:43.000 speaking style, and as a parent of an autistic kid, 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.039 I get it, and I'm used to it more or less, 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.200 but it can be distracting. And my big takeaway from 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:53.240 it was this is an amazing collection of brilliant people 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.680 who are a dead serious about doing what's right for 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:01.080 the American people, not within a thousand miles of the 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.400 haphazard monster that the mainstream media is portrayed. So what 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.640 do you think of a little touch on all the fellas? 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:10.240 Then why the Hitler salute? 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.080 Well, yeah, we were kicking around a picture on the 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.000 Private Well, Jeffrey Goldberg was probably on it. But the 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:23.480 private show thread last night of Musk waving with two hands, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.639 we called it the double Hitler. So obviously we're dabbling 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.359 with Nazism here to even play it. But so here's 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:37.640 Brett Bear with Elon Musk talking about when they took 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.680 a look at the government books, what they found. We'll 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.400 start with fifty one Michael and. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.440 Talk to all the guys here about the specifics. But 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.560 for you, what's the most astonishing thing you've found out 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:47.359 in this process? 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.680 The sheer amount of waste and ford in the government. 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:55.280 It is astonishing, It's mind blowing. Just we routinely encounter 0:02:55.639 --> 0:03:01.680 wastes of a billion dollars or more casually. You know, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:07.920 for example, like the simple survey that was literally ten 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:09.920 questions survey that you could do with survey monkey quashed 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.639 about ten thousand dollars. Was the government was being charged 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.440 almost a billion dollars for that for just the survey. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.040 A billion dollars for a simple online survey do you 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.519 like the National Park? And then there pays me no 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.480 feedback loop for what will be done with that survey? 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.280 Sole say, we would just go to nothing. It's like 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:26.960 you're saying you tacking. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:28.440 That's nice. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.639 Yeah. And then to the criticism that they are making 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.360 mistakes and running rough shot over the federal bureaucracy fifty 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:38.440 three Michael. 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.040 There obviously are dose critics who are reading all kinds 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.080 of stuff. Obviously lawmakers on the other side of the 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.840 aisle are attacking you, and they characterize the approach is 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.240 this fire ready and then aim and. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.160 How do you approach that. How do you respond to that. 0:03:58.240 --> 0:03:59.920 Well, I do agree that we act. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.760 We want to be careful in the cuts, so we 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.840 want to measure twice if not thrice, and cut once. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.080 And actually that is our approach. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.920 They may characterize it as shooting from the hip, but 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.960 it is anything at that which is not saying that 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:18.279 we don't make mistakes. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.800 If we were to approach this with the. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.880 Standard of making no mistakes at all, that would be 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.440 like saying someone in baseball's got a bat a thousand 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.760 as impossible. So when we do make mistakes, we correct 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.560 them quickly and we move on. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.200 I think it's interesting that so the crowd that's angry 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.680 at DOGE, they don't get angry when they hear the 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.440 government spent a billion dollars on a ten thousand dollars survey. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.480 And then it's not even for anything anyway. I mean, 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.000 that's all money that could be going to programs you 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:55.280 like that eventually won't happen because we'll be broke, or 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.120 you should be angry that they're taking your money at 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.360 all that you earned, not letting you and spending on that. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.800 You have no anger about that, only about when they 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.760 get it wrong now and then before they can fix it. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:12.320 I'm reminded of Thomas Sole's epic book of Conflict of Visions. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.320 People have just gotten the message that in our tribe 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.640 we are anti this, so shout that it's evil and 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.120 they say, okay, I will. That's part of all the 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.040 rational thought that goes into it, and that's part of it. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.520 I think there is the rational thought of there's endless 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.680 government money, or it's not my money, or I don't 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.440 pay taxes or whatever, that you just don't care about waste, 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:33.240 fraud and abuse. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.120 I think true, a lot of people just don't care 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:35.520 about it. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:37.760 And as I've said a million times, that's actually part 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.800 of the progressive playbook is to narrow the tax base 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.279 as much as possible so there aren't enough votes to 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.120 vote against the graft that you spread to your cronies. Anyway, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.320 moving on from Elon Musk Brett now turns to Steve Davis, 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.800 and I should have jotted down all these guys credentials. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.040 They touch on some of it, but he's the first 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.560 of the many, very very impressive, serious people who is 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.880 helping Elon head up the doge thing. Fifty four Michael. 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.800 Some people say this shouldn't take a rocket scientist, Steve Davis, 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.400 you are a rocket scientist. 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:11.800 It used to be yeah. 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.160 Now essentially you're the chief operating officer of dough day 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:17.159 to day operations. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.279 Fair to say, yeah, part of part of the Dose team. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.240 So how did you end up here? 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:23.360 What's the biggest challenge? 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.200 You see? 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.919 The reason I'm here, which is probably for many, is 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.279 that I think the goal is incredibly inspiring. I think 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.080 most of the taxpayers in the country would agree that 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.680 in order to have the country going bankrupt would be 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.880 a very bad thing, and therefore the country going not 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.600 bankrupt is a good thing that all of us are 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.240 willing to kind of put our lives on hold in 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.080 order to do. I think the thing that's special right 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.760 now is we actually believe there's a chance to succeed, 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:53.080 that there's an administration that's supportive and a great cabinet 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.479 and just a great group that will actually make success 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.600 a possible outcome. And I think that's given the inspiring 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.520 mission and given the non zero chance of success, it was. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.200 Worth h Obviously the voice of a monster, right, and 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:12.120 one principle that hung over in a good way all 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:16.320 of the discussions that was repeated many times is we 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:20.400 need to be adults and recognize the country is going broke. 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.239 We need to get serious about this before the train 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:30.000 wreck occurs or the beloved social programs that everybody's screaming about, 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.800 even though they're not talking about touching them, really will 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:37.040 go away. The outcome you are screaming about will happen 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:44.280 unless we do this very very serious. Do you think 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:48.280 it's worth resetting the retirement mind? I think that's covered 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.080 pretty thoroughly. I was surprised they got into that the 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.760 way they did. Yeah, just a great story. 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:55.800 We played a whole bunch of clips on that several 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.120 weeks ago when Elon first started talking about it, that 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.840 they still do it paper like it's the fifties down 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:02.480 in a mine. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:03.560 For all. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:07.640 The retirement paperwork for government employees is just unbelievable. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.240 Right, and they're trying to modernize that to make it 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:15.040 easier for federal employees to do everything they need to do, 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.120 including to retire. They mentioned you have to take a 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:22.080 seminar to teach you how to retire as a federal 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:27.000 government employee. 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First people to go 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.960 into the agencies and view the computer data sets. Tell 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.880 me what you're finding, and for people who don't understand 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.559 how that process works, explain it for them. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.760 Yeah, I'll say the first thing that got me really 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:21.319 excited about DOGE was learning basically the state of government computers. 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.040 By some estimates, government it costs about one hundred billion 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:30.640 dollars and it's funding systems that are over fifty years 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.960 old in the case of something like Social Security or 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:37.280 the IRS. So really critical systems are old, they cost 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.839 a lot of money to maintain, and they can be 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.679 the efforts to improve them are often very delayed. So 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.760 I thought, I'm a software engineer that that maybe can 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:49.800 make a difference here, and. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:53.480 That's that's really what. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:54.720 Inspired me at a high level. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.760 That's going to be something when you come out of 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.360 the tech world where you're probably using the very latest, 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.960 greatest of its last week, to come into government and 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.360 realize you're using stuff that's fifty years old and figure 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:07.320 out what that even was. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.280 Right, And here's another incredibly successful guy who answered the 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.280 call and said, yeah, you know what, we might be 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.760 able to actually do this for the American people. I'm in. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.079 I'm going to give it a try. I like the 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.440 way the next part is framed sixty one sixty two 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.239 back to back. Please the first a montage of Democrats 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:25.920 with their messaging over Doge. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.280 It's absurd that Elon Musk is trying to eliminate billions 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.080 of dollars from Social Security. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.960 Elon Musk and President Trump have set their sites on 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:35.280 cutting Social Security. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:40.320 Their goal is clear, destroy social Security from within. 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.280 You're in the building, I mean, you're in the computers. 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:45.199 What's happening there? 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:45.920 What are you doing? 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.600 Yeah, it doesn't line up with my experience on the ground. 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.480 And I'll say the two. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.360 Improvements that we're trying to make to Social Security are 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:59.960 helping people that legitimately get benefits protect them from fraud 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.280 that they experience every day on a routine basis, and 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:05.480 also make the experience better. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:06.600 And I'll give. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.560 You one example is at Social Security. One of the 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.160 first things we learned is that they get phone calls 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.080 every day of people trying to change direct positive information. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.520 So when you want to change your bank account, you 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.360 can call Social Security. We learned forty percent of the 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.400 phone calls that they get are from fraudsters. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.160 That's right, almost half. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.680 Yes, And they steal people's social security. Is what happens 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.560 is they call in, they say they claim to be 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:35.920 a retiree. 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.960 Then they and they convinced the post the Social Security 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.200 posts on the phone to change where the money is flowing, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.400 it actually goes to some fraudster. Is this happening all 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.960 day every day and then and then somebody doesn't receive 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.440 their social security is because of all the fraud loopholes 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:54.840 in the social security system. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.040 They're trying to destroy social Security from within. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.040 And then Musk makes the point, we're trying to make 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.560 sure people get more money, not less. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:06.120 Not politics is awful. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:13.960 The appalling dishonesty is problem number one. Secondly, standing in 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:20.359 the way of actual improvement is a second evil, unforgivable. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.920 Yeah, we got more of this and other stuff too. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:28.720 But man, how much of America had heard this take 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.079 on Doge. Not very much, Not very many people stay here. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.720 We got a text from somebody listening to this stuff, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.080 the Doge stuff about the computers being out of date, 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.640 and he used to work in that world, and he 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.720 said a lot of it was they have this stupid 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.240 requirement where the new system has to integrate with the 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.160 old system so that end users don't notice a difference 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.679 during transitions, which means you have to hold on to 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.920 all the stuff from the old system for the new system. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.800 And it just doesn't work in any way to try to, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.240 you know, move forward with new technology, so you just 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.520 end up sticking with the old stuff, sometimes fifty years. 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.560 Down the line apparently, if. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.080 You're just tuning in. Brettbair did a fabulous series of 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.640 interviews with the leaders of the Doge effort last night, 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:17.840 including Brad Smith, who is a health care entrepreneur and 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.560 is working on the Department of Health and Human Services stuff. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.600 You may have heard in the various lefty media that 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.200 they're trying to gut scientific research and causing damage to 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:30.320 our elite. You know universities blah blah blah. Here's Brad 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:34.000 Smith talking about their efforts sixty five Michael Brett. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:40.360 Smith working at HHS, And obviously another element is Medicare 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.320 and Medicaid NIH. 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:44.280 What do you find it? 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.920 Yeah, Well, I'd say there's a couple of things we're 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.720 really committed to in our work at AHHS. Number one, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.560 making sure we continue to have the best biomedical research 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.960 in the world. And number two making sure which President 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.720 Trump has said over and over again, that we one 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.920 protect Medicare and Medicaid. But there's a lot of opportunity. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.960 So if I take NIH as an example today, if 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.240 you're a NIH researcher and you get one hundred dollars 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.160 grant at your university today, you get to spend sixty 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.640 of that and your university spends forty of that. The 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.760 policy that we're proposing to make is that you get 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.600 to spend eighty five of that and your university spends fifteen. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.200 So that's more money going directly to the scientists who 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.760 are discovering new cures. Another example at NIH is today 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.400 they have twenty seven different centers. They got created over 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.040 time by Congress, and they're typically by disease state or 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:32.080 body system. There's seven hundred different IT systems today at NIH. 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.640 Seven hundred different ITS software systems. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.600 They can't speak to each other, so they don't talk 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:36.880 to them. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.840 They have twenty seven different CIOs. And so when you 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.360 think about making great medical discoveries, you have to connect 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:43.720 the data. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:43.920 Time. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:49.120 Yeah, time, twenty seven different chief information officers correct, correct, 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:49.880 and most. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.120 Of your non technical. So there's a lot there. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.400 There's a lot of opportunity. It will make science better, 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:55.200 not yours. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:00.800 No, No, they're derailing important research. This is Elon is 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.560 a Nazi. They need to be stopped. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.880 I live in a university town and a lot of 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.360 people have been really upset about this aspect of it. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.920 And I mean just like sad and scared for America 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.200 And how are we going to weather the next three years? 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:15.760 Well, how about this, how about. 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.720 Make it even slightly more efficient and you can have 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.840 more money to use for your research. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.640 Yeah, let's squeeze in sixty six. Michael, you're quite right. 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.520 Yes, when I say that our job is tech support, 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:29.760 I really mean it. 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.720 Yeah, we have to fix the computers. 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.000 If the computers can't talk to each other, you can't 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.520 get research done. If the computers can't stay online, people won't. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:39.560 Receive as social security. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.520 So what we have here are a bunch of failing 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.160 computer systems that are preventing people from receiving their benefits, 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.080 that are preventing people from preventing research from happening, that 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.960 are extremely vulnerable to fraud. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:55.200 And we're fixing it. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.520 And does that include AI does that include kind of 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.880 changing the system overall? That's what I guess what people 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.440 are afraid of is they don't know what this is 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.800 all looking like and is it going to affect me 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:07.840 in the long term. 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:09.800 It's going to affect them, It's going to affect people 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.320 very positively. So the changes that we're doing here will 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.480 ensure the solvency of the American Government, of the American 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.080 of the United States of America. This is what we're 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.280 trying to do, is ensure that people do receive their 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.240 benefits in the future. And you can all receive your 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.480 benefits if the country is operating in a healthy and 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:31.080 competent way. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.520 I like elon always bringing it back to that, because 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.880 that's what drives the whole thing. We're going to become insolvent, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.159 We're going to have no money we're not going to. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.600 Be able to do anything if we don't change it. 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:47.560 Course right right next, we'd like to feature Anthony Armstrong, 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.639 who's a banking giant who's trying to get a hold 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:56.120 of federal personnel and duplicated efforts and redundancy and waste 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:01.240 in that way, another very serious person doing serious work 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.119 for you, not against you. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:04.119 Yeah, so that's on the way. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.040 If you missed a segment at the podcast Armstrong and 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:10.320 Getty on demand, but stick around Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:13.040 But it is. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.440 Very important to recognize that that the people who work 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.679 in government who are working on health. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:20.480 Are dedicated public servants. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.560 There are neighbors, there are friends, There are people in 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.720 our family who are committed to improving the lives of 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.919 people across our country. A lot of them are going 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:29.879 to be losing their jobs and we're all going to 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:30.760 suffer because of it. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.280 That's CNN had this doctor on who is a former 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.320 CDC staffer explaining how cuts and restructuring like Doge is doing. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.960 It's just a terrible idea. We must not improve anything 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:44.200 because there's a huge human cost. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.720 Welling back to the thing I've been complaining about for 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.560 a long time, that the idea of somebody losing their 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.520 job in government is just something that can't happen. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.040 Well, these are our friends, Jack, these are neighbors. These 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:53.720 are nice people. 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.040 So before we get back to more Elon Doge stuff 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.200 that is so interesting and not being heard any were 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.640 in America. You know the doctor who tried to push 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.720 his wife off the cliff and killer. The latest is 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:07.080 he tried to hit her in the head with a 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:12.760 rock ten times an injector with syringes. Oh so more 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.840 details to come on that it was definitely premeditated. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:21.359 She money insanity. So the interesting part, well, one of 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.480 the interesting parts of Brett Bear's interview with a bunch 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.600 of Doge leaders last night was that it wasn't just 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:30.119 Elon Musk, who's a lovely fellow and brilliant, but it 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:37.800 was the group of extremely smart, capable, accomplished people who 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.080 had been assembled who are working as hard as they 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.320 can on improving the federal government how it functions and 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:48.440 it's you know, it's benefits for American taxpayers. Having been 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:53.000 portrayed is as this loose band of frat boy lunatics 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.679 in most of the media, these are dead serious people. 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.879 For instance, Anthony Armstrong, Morgan Stanley Banker. He is working 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.440 for DOJE at the Office of Personnel Management, trying to 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.960 modernize and make more efficient that huge part of the 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:08.720 federal government. Clips sixty seven. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.879 Michael Anthony Armstrong, DOZE, Office of Personnel Management. 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.240 You're Morgan Stanley Banker, M. 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.280 And a guy you know money, And this is a 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:19.679 lot of money slashing around. 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:22.639 There's a lot of money slashing around. It's a lot 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:24.480 of money slashing out the door. And if you look 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.560 at the federal government in the way the workforce works, 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.080 it's really a one way ratchet over decades. 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:30.879 So it's all going up. It's only going up. You 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:32.080 never you never take it away. 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.600 So that leads you with duplicative functions, It leaves you 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.119 with overstaffing, and it leaves you with functions in the 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:42.720 wrong places. So a couple of examples duplicative functions Brad 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.719