Speaker 1: Let's go to Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: The nation's capital, where Americans saw a different image of
Speaker 2: power coming from the White House. Elon Musk, the world's
Speaker 2: richest man and new head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 2: Kind of the press conference from the Oval Office with
Speaker 2: the President of the United States, Donald Trump sitting right
Speaker 2: next to him, Both men defended their efforts to enact
Speaker 2: sweeping changes to the federal government and limit spending. The
Speaker 2: move comes as Trump signed an executive order yet another
Speaker 2: one providing new guidance for federal agencies to cut what
Speaker 2: both men characterize as excessive government spending.
Speaker 3: Your detractors, mister Muski, including a lot of Democrats.
Speaker 1: I have detractors I don't believe.
Speaker 2: It, say that you're orchestrating a hostile takeover of government
Speaker 2: and doing it in a non transparent way.
Speaker 1: What's your response to that criticism.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, you couldn't ask for a stronger
Speaker 4: manage from the public. The people voted for or major
Speaker 4: government reform. There should be no doubt about that. That
Speaker 4: was on the campaign. The President spoke about that at
Speaker 4: every rally. The people voted for major government reform, and
Speaker 4: that's what people are going to get. They're going to
Speaker 4: get what they.
Speaker 1: Voted for, mister Busk.
Speaker 2: The White House says that you will identify and excuse
Speaker 2: yourself from any conflicts of interest that you may have.
Speaker 1: Does that mean that you are in effect policing yourself.
Speaker 1: What are the checks and balances that are in place
Speaker 1: to ensure that there is accountability and transparency.
Speaker 4: Well, we actually are trying to be as transparent as possible.
Speaker 4: In fact, our actions, we post our actions to the
Speaker 4: DOGE handle on x and to the DOGE website, so
Speaker 4: all of our actions which are maximally transparent. In fact,
Speaker 4: I don't think there's been I don't know of a
Speaker 4: case that were an organization has been more transparent than
Speaker 4: the DOGE organization. And I fully expect to be scrutinized
Speaker 4: and get a daily proctology exam. Basically, I so well
Speaker 4: just camp out there. So it's not like I think
Speaker 4: I can get away with something. I'll be scruganized, not stop.
Speaker 5: And we thought that we would not let him do
Speaker 5: that segment or look in that area if we thought
Speaker 5: there was a lack of transparency or a conflict of interest,
Speaker 5: and we watched that.
Speaker 1: Also, if a judge does block one of your policies
Speaker 1: part of your agenda. Will you abide by that ruling?
Speaker 1: Will you come?
Speaker 3: I always abide by the courts, and then I'll have
Speaker 3: to appeal it. But then what he's done is he
Speaker 3: slowed down the momentum and it gives crooked people more
Speaker 3: time to cover up the books. Yeah, the answer is
Speaker 3: I always abide by the courts, always abide by him,
Speaker 3: and will appeal.
Speaker 2: You know, I listen to Elon Musk speaking there. I
Speaker 2: listened to Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, forty seventh President
Speaker 2: of the United States, formerly the forty fifth President of
Speaker 2: the United States, speaking there, and I'm watching Democrats protesting
Speaker 2: on Capitol Hill demanding justice, highlighting that nobody elected Elon.
Speaker 2: I'm hearing politicians rightfully, So I might add emphasizing the
Speaker 2: need to not stand pat and just wait to make
Speaker 2: change come midterm elections.
Speaker 1: They're not wrong.
Speaker 2: We don't need to stand out of buy and wait
Speaker 2: until the midterm elections. Folks do need to speak out,
Speaker 2: especially I elected officials. But like I told y'all before,
Speaker 2: my politics regardless of what you want to think, because
Speaker 2: most of the time I vote Democrat. That's usually involving
Speaker 2: the presidency. I didn't tell you how I vote for
Speaker 2: a gubernatorial see or a mayoral seat or anything like that.
Speaker 2: But that's neither here nor there. The point is I
Speaker 2: pride myself and being a centrist. Ill openly confessed that
Speaker 2: most people on my team are not.
Speaker 1: They're leftist.
Speaker 2: I'll openly confessed that a lot of people that I
Speaker 2: work for and whatever new regardless of what they say,
Speaker 2: I think they're rights.
Speaker 1: They're not fooling anybody. I don't care.
Speaker 2: I look at the information and I'm going to call
Speaker 2: balls and strikes like I see them.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is a problem. He is a problem because
Speaker 1: he's the world's richest man according to numerous reports, he's received.
Speaker 2: Money from our government because he's in business with the government,
Speaker 2: whether it's Skylink, Tesla or whatever. I don't have those
Speaker 2: that information in front of me. And he's not an
Speaker 2: elected official. So not only have the people not elected him,
Speaker 2: he wasn't even confirmed by the Senate.
Speaker 1: He's just Trump's guy.
Speaker 2: That is an incredible, incredible reason to be alarmed, especially
Speaker 2: when they're looking at have access to the Treasury Treasury,
Speaker 2: thereby giving them access to private information involving every American
Speaker 2: citizen in this country. Certainly there's a reason to be very,
Speaker 2: very alarmed. Nobody's denying that, But you see, I'm fair minded.
Speaker 1: There's a flip side.
Speaker 2: I don't know about y'all, but aren't you a little
Speaker 2: bit suspicious about watching a bunch of Democrats raise holy
Speaker 2: hell over his access before we find out whatever it
Speaker 2: is that he's found out. I don't know about y'all,
Speaker 2: but I don't want laws being broken. I don't want
Speaker 2: the Constitution being ignored or violated. I don't want the
Speaker 2: civil liberties of American citizens being compromised.
Speaker 1: All of that is true, but I have to confess.
Speaker 2: I do want to know how much money politicians are
Speaker 2: getting from the moment they arrive on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1: What are your investments? Who did you invest with?
Speaker 6: What kind of information did you get access to to
Speaker 6: enable you to make those investments so you can make money?
Speaker 6: To the American people have the same access you have,
Speaker 6: We damn sure I don't have the same health care.
Speaker 1: From my understanding, these are questions, why do we have a.
Speaker 2: Problem knowing that the answers to them? Inquiring minds would
Speaker 2: like to know you're an elected official, that makes you
Speaker 2: a public figure.
Speaker 1: I think Trump should have given us access to his books.
Speaker 2: I think it should have been mandated when he was
Speaker 2: running for election at twenty fifteen into twenty sixteen. How
Speaker 2: in the hell did he not have to show us
Speaker 2: his tax returns? That should have been mandatory. I got
Speaker 2: a red flag up about Musk two. I'll be damned
Speaker 2: if I trust Trump. But nearly eighty million people have spoken,
Speaker 2: regardless of what the Democrats want to tell us, and
Speaker 2: I hear like the number was like two hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1: Thousand out of millions.
Speaker 2: That's what it ultimately came down to the difference in
Speaker 2: the polls between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is.
Speaker 2: He won every swing state one about fifty counties. He
Speaker 2: increased in the black, the Hispanic and the young voter
Speaker 2: demographic and the white women that was supposed to come
Speaker 2: out and be against him in droves because of his
Speaker 2: position on Roe v Wait didn't equate to him.
Speaker 1: Not being re elected.
Speaker 2: Somewhere along the line said miss it, I understand the uproar.
Speaker 2: I understand the need for the Democrats to make noise.
Speaker 2: DI is another thing. We'll be revisiting that in the
Speaker 2: days in the weeks to come, make no mistake about it,
Speaker 2: but understand on its premise to have somebody elected in
Speaker 2: office targeting excessive government spending. I'm trying to figure out,
Speaker 2: how is the taxpayer supposed to be appalled and put
Speaker 2: off and threatened by that exposure being revealed to us
Speaker 2: if I'm not trusting Musk. I'm not trusting Trump, But
Speaker 2: I'll be damned if I don't want to hear what
Speaker 2: they have to say about where to help millions upon millions.
Speaker 1: Of dollars of taxpayer money has gone. Oh, I want
Speaker 1: all those.
Speaker 2: Details, every penny if you can find out, I want
Speaker 2: it all. Where has this money been appropriated to, Who
Speaker 2: has it been appropriated by, what level of benefit did
Speaker 2: they incur from it?
Speaker 1: And who suffered because of it?
Speaker 2: There are strong questions to ask coming down the pike,
Speaker 2: especially with these executive orders Trump is handed down. You
Speaker 2: want to get rid of the Department of Education, Well,
Speaker 2: what kind of damage is that going to do? Where
Speaker 2: will we be as a country without the Department of Education?
Speaker 2: What tentacles does it have and does it reach that
Speaker 2: could detrimentally affect the American people?
Speaker 1: And if you don't have a department.
Speaker 2: Of education, How specifically is that going to benefit our country.
Speaker 1: I want to hear about all of that.
Speaker 2: I want to hear about that with the CIA, A
Speaker 2: bunch of people that you asked.
Speaker 1: To resign or take off or take seventh back, whatever
Speaker 1: you did. I want to hear that with d I.
Speaker 1: I want to hear that about the FBI.
Speaker 6: I want to hear about everything, because are you doing
Speaker 6: what you're doing to find money to make it look
Speaker 6: like we're doing better because we've located where the money
Speaker 6: is gone and and and we've identified, we're accessed touspending.
Speaker 1: Needs to be targeted so we don't have to worry.
Speaker 2: About that anymore. Are you doing it to dismantle the
Speaker 2: government in such a way that we don't really have one?
Speaker 2: And we're at the behast in the mercy of Donald
Speaker 2: Trump and Elon Musk, Because if the latter is true,
Speaker 2: then our democracy is in danger and autocracy is being
Speaker 2: get detained. If the latter is true, we don't know.
Speaker 2: Perhaps we'll find out sooner than later, but I know
Speaker 2: this much. I want to know where the money is,
Speaker 2: where the money is gone, and who the hell's been spending.
Speaker 1: It and how much did they take for themselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to know.
Speaker 2: That, even if it comes from some South African dude
Speaker 2: worth billions that has no relation to me whatsoever. My
Speaker 2: interest is in where the money resides, where the money resides,
Speaker 2: where the money resides, where the money resides.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's all I got to say about that.