jackie: are these spacex, blue origin, those kind of layers? the players, but there are others who are thinking about how to better operate their constellations on orbit. caroline: also interesting is the government side of things. you have got jon plumb, who used to be in government, former assistant secretary of defense for space policy, in house now. how is it liaising with the current administration? we have just got news that a deal in south africa is in jeopardy because of relationships with elon musk and donald trump. how are you finding relationships? karan: we were pretty excited to bring jon on the team. when we briefed him he saw what was possible with this completely new platform. at the end of the day we believe that if we don't a platform that is as differentiated as what we claim it to be our work with the national security and commercial customers will come. the existing administration has clearly shown that they believe space is the next frontier and an important place to have investment and we are excited to continue to servic

he has new contracts, apparently with nasa for spacex.contract with the department of state. while he's gutting those departments for everyone else and for the poor, cutting aid to poor people. who's auditing this? >> well, that's. >> why we wanted him to come before the oversight committee. i mean, he doesn't have to do financial disclosures. i don't understand it. every member of congress has to do financial disclosures. everything in our assets. any transaction the president does, the vice president does. he doesn't have to do that. he doesn't have to go through the government ethics to recuse himself. >> does does normalize indian hate kid have to does the what big balls his name. do they have to file any disclosure? >> i don't know, i don't think so. >> i mean, you have a full list on the oversight committee of who they are. >> we don't we don't. we need to know who they are. how are they being paid? i mean, what budget authorized their payment? how who what where did they get this access to sensitive information from the treasury de

spacex went up three times in the last couple of years.ail investors the same -- [inaudible] charles: so this is right here, this is your private-public crossover, xovr, is the symbol. this ea created -- accredited investor thing, is it good or bad? sometimes you have tease things that start off with the right intentions, but it feels like an excuse to keep people from great stocks. >> that's what we are seeing. i was not expecting it, but people are getting lost in the forest. they are creating i would say false statements regarding pricing between with a wide range of variable pricing which is not true. we bought it at 185 and we can cannot really get it easier than lower price. so they're creating pushback for us and and it's obvious that people do not want the retail investor to have access -- charles: they want to buy it on the ipo day. it's going to be one of the hot test ipos in the mystery of mankind when it goes public. >> correct. for sure. charles: a.i. agents, essentially, folks, let's talk about, for instance, a call center. p

then last month, in the final days of the biden administration, a spacex starship spacex starship exploded shortly after takeoff, spreading an estimated 100 tons of debris beyond protected areas. air traffic controllers had to deal with the aftermath of that, with the planes that they were guiding safely. there were reports of debris and damage on the turks and caicos islands. air traffic in the area had to be briefly diverted. spacex announced it had undergone a, quote, rapid unscheduled disassembly. the faa immediately grounded spacex, barring future launches until an investigation could be conducted. three days later, donald trump became president and the faa administrator who elon musk wanted out announced his resignation. given all of that, given elon musk's penchant for exploding rocket ships, what he likes to call rapid unscheduled disassembly, you'd think he's the last guy the faa would want weighing in on issues of public transportation safety, especially when those issues were just illustrated the stakes of recently. but you would think wrong. as a former tv reality star and newl

the faa immediately grounded spacex. barring future launches until an investigation could be conducted. three days later, donald trump became president and the faa administrator who elon musk wanted out announced his resignation. given all that, given elon musk's penchant for exploding rocket ships, what he likes to call rapid unscheduled disassembly, you'd think he's the last guy the faa would want weighing in on issues of public transportation safety, especially when those issues were just illustrated the stakes of recently. but you would think wrong. as a former tv reality star and newly minted transportation secretary sean duffy posted today on musk's platform, quote, big news talk to the doge team they're going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system. just the world's richest man who's been empowered to get into the back end of virtually every facet of the us government and do whatever he wants, while he has billions and billions and billions of dollars at stake. charlie. charlie warzel is a staff writer at t

airspace, also oversees spacex.ast year, musk threatened to sue the faa over regulatory overreach. he says the agency took too long to approve launch licenses. a transportation secrery, sean duffy, who just got on on the job a few weeks ago, also raised concerns about the military's use of helicopters in washington, d.c, crowded airspace, especially after last week's deadly collision between an airplane and an army helicopter that killed 67 people. now to the recovery mission on the potomac river in washington, d.c. new video showing workers pulling from the river what appears to be part of the american airlines jet that collided with an army helicopter last week. authorities say the crews have now recovered all 67 victims, and identified the remains of 66 of the people killed in that crash so far. crews have pulled a number of large pieces of the jetliner from the river, including the right wing parts of the cabin and the cockpit. one of the most recognizable faces in the history of bay area news has died. dennis r

can they go against spacex? medium sized rocket and having 13,000 kilograms of payload come probable in size to the spacex rocket and management team going to compete toe to toe and going to have these two going for the best decision in space. charles: overweight and i love it and the race is reason. appreciate it. folks, by the way, speaking of outer space, my next guest says that the united states is out of this world when it comes to cash. i want to bring in cofounder aishah tarique. $4 trillion in checking amounts, almost 10 trillion in savings, 4 trillion. this is individuals and money marmarkets and $18 trillion in h and going for them to be importance for investment thesis. 19 years ago at this stage mainly because we're seeing customers spend money like 3.7 to 4.2 in the last quarter but at the same time, we are seeing prices remain sticky. we have the threat of tariffs as well and going to be higher and the cash balance acts like a cushion for the consumer and the point where wages are starting to come

spacex rocket. >> in september for their six month rotation on the space station.ned crew nine. they had to stay on the station because crew nine had an. assignment on the space station, right? they've got science experiments and. >> whatnot, so. >> they've stayed with crew nine that whole time. they will come back with crew nine. but only after crew ten launches to the space. station to take over the rotation, because you cannot leave the station. without american astronauts. >> on board. >> crew ten has got to go up. then crew nine can come down. >> but guess what? >> crew ten has been delayed. >> because of some problems. >> with spacex. bottom line. crew ten now going up on march. >> 12th, which then once they. >> dock. >> that allows. >> crew nine. with butch and sunny to come back. >> so we're thinking probably a. >> week after that they'll be back on the ground. it will have been nine months. can you imagine? you go up for ten days, you're there for nine months. and i asked, you know, mike massimino. >> the former. >> astronaut who's been in touch, by the wa

nasa and spacex announced that the astronauts who are still stuck at the international space stationor months, which was longer than originally planned, are going to be able to come home next month. washington correspondent some lot reports. >> i think position after space walks and 8 extra months at the international space station about one nasa says astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams could be back by mid-march instead of the end of march or early april, one pair launched on a boeing starliner last june left last month. president donald trump posted online. he asked elon musk and spacex to get williams and wilmore. >> who he says have been virtually abandoned in space by the biden administration. there return has seen several delays and schedule changes. williams and wilmore were originally supposed to come back on the boeing starliner after a week-long mission. >> they were supposed to come back in june of 2024. after issues with the starliner, nasa decided to bring them back on the spacex dragon capsule that was scheduled to land this month. that's a delay that to late ma

nasa and spacex and the agility spacex continues to demonstrate to safely meet the agency's emerging the way space flight is. how many times have you and i covered space launches and it's delayed day after day, week after week, sometimes the return is delayed. bottom line, suni and butch who have been up there for eight months, going on nine, should be back mid march now. >> and tom, this is happening as president trump's pick to lead nasa has yet to be confirmed. does that have any impact on the next mission? >> reporter: i don't think that's going to have much of an impact on suni and butch coming home. jared isaacman who s been to space twice, he is the incoming -- we expect him to be confirmed as the nasa administrator. he is not a scientist per se, and he's not a military vet, but he is knowledgeable as a pilot. he's been to space. i think for the most part, people in nasa think he's maybe as good of a choice as they're going to get. he's very close to elon musk. that relationship, elon musk, spacex founder and ceo, and jared isaacman, and president trump, all of that, may mean

so the friday before inauguration, the faa unsurprisingly grounded spacex starship program. you cannot try to fly this thing again until you figure out what went wrong here and you fix it. we cannot have anything like this happen again. you are grounded. that was the friday before the inauguration. then three days later, inauguration day, the head of the faa, the faa administrator was gone. gone from his job. elon musk was rid of this faa director who had grounded his rockets because what an entertaining little crash which forced emergency diversions of dozens of passenger planes packed with humans. in september, while elon musk was busy spending the quarter billion dollars that he dumped into donald trump's campaign to make donald trump president again, mr. musk had posted a picture online of the head of the faa and had demanded his resignation. he needs to resign. he posted that because even before the faa had to ground spacex altogether, because of this most recent crash that elon musk thought was so awesome, even before that, the faa, the faa had already issued a bunch o

what separates you from a spacex? >> yeah. look, we're chasing our friends over at spacex very hard, and and, you know, there's, you know, a number of space company out there. but i think, you know, over time as we execute, it's becoming more and more obvious that we're most likely to be in the second place to spacex. so, yeah, no, we're -- i wouldn't quite characterize it the way you did, but certainly, certainly, you know, chasing the tail. if. charles: speaking of that though, your next mission named fasten your seat belt -- space belts. all right. [laughter] we're going to put some of the specs up there if this next mission. but why -- it feels like this is another leap forward for you. >> yeah. i mean, there's really only been two companies that have been able to successfully, commercial companies, build a rocket and not just launch once or twice, but launch ate scale. and, you know, we're launching here every few weeks, and, you knowing, as one rocket rolls off the production line every 15 odd days, you know, that really

the faa regulates spacex and last fall, the proposed spacex should be fined more than 600,000 dollarsensing violations. the faa is currently investigating spacex for some safety violations. so again, potentially damaging some of his businesses. with the consumer watchdog, cfpb, musk has called for its elimination entirely. he and his team are leading the efforts to dismantle that consumer watchdog. the white house recently ordered all work to stop there. why is this a possible conflict? for years, he has been trying to turn x into and everything app and that includes a digital wallet for people to send -- to send money to each other and that is excepted to launch later this year. cfpb is the main federal financial regulator of digital payment systems like that so his money business would stand to potentially benefit from a weekend cfpb -- weakened cfpb. so i recent new york times report found that the trump administration has fired officials were issued halt work orders at at least 11 federal agencies and those federal agencies have more than 32 ongoing investigations, pending complai

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in fact, its estimated tesla and spacex account for at for at least $15.4 billion in government contracts data that would give his businesses an advantage, but the president and his press secretary have sought to reassure. where we think there's a conflict or there's a problem, we won't let them go near it. if elon musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that doge is overseeing, then elon will excuse himself from those contracts. by elon musk and the trump administration. and if we go back to72022, had bought twitter, he sent staff an email offering a payment if they left theirjob. the email subject was "a fork in the road", and musk claims within six months, twitter�*s headcount was down by 80%. in late january this year, more than two million federal employees received an email with a similar offer and a very similar subject line. this time, it's not twitter that's reached a fork in the road, it's america. british—based e—bike companies have expressed concern about a potential "flood" of cheaper chinese models coming into the uk. they're worried about

spacex is a direct financial line to his wallet. it is 100% a conflict of interest. he said. no, it's not me, it's spacex employees and you know, others advocating for this, but it is literally a direct financial line and therefore a direct conflict of interest. and it was good that that was brought up. i think this is what the people need to know. it's one thing to say, hey, we do need to cut government waste. it's another thing to say, i'm going to have the person cut where he is actually also collecting. and yes, janelle, that is a direct conflict. yeah. and then he's also running x. and in the meantime, while he's meeting with the president, doing something on the side, he's in a war of words with openai. sam altman, the ceo there that's been going on for a couple of days now. right. and that brings it back from the white house and washington to the bay area to local silicon valley ai titans, two billionaires back and forth on this, the two of them, musk and altman, actually started openai originally, then parted ways, almost like a divorce, saying, you get this, i get th

and then getting lectured about intelligence by aoc, the guy that created spacex, spacex, starlink, tesla and is about to rescue astronauts lost in space. really? yeah, i find that amusing. yeah. >> you know what i love about elon musk? he's living rent free in all of their minds. that was quite an accomplishment. and aoc calling him unintelligent, the most unintelligent billionaire. didn't she buy a tesla? she did. she drives a tesla because it's a great car. but you know what's amazing about them? look at where the democrats spend their time and energy. they go absolutely apoplectic in front of an empty building, yelling and screaming, because the american government is not going to give the american taxpayer dollars away to foreign countries fast enough. that's really what they're complaining about. this is not money that's going to americans. this is not going to help, you know, the fire victims. this is not going to the victims. this is not going to build maui. this is money that's going out there in 2023, aid spent $68 billion. part of that was they sent out 69 million condoms. that

demolition crew, and there are multiple reports that doge includes staff from musk�*s companies, such as spacex. the president's creation of doge isn'tjust about how there are laws requiring them to spend money that's been appropriated by congress. they are refusing to comply with those. the only thing that could make them lawful is if they're right that the constitution gives the president almost whether it's legal or not, it's happening. over the past decade. doge may offer musk access to data that would give his a problem, we won't let them go near it. if elon musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that doge is overseeing, the email subject was a fork in the road, and musk claims within six months, twitter�*s headcount in late january this year, more than 2 million federal employees received an email with a similar offer and a very similar subject line. on some of the fallout from president trump's trump said the us will establish a plan to resettle nairobi. i guess, shall we start was aimed at tackling inequality had stemmed inequality that had stemmed f

it's as it is unlikely to receive government security if he so applied, even as his spacex lunch company blast military and spy agency payloads into orbit. he is the first person to exceed $400 billion in self-made personal wealth. we will find more information about that as far as what he currently holds as a security clearance, if it is top-secret or not. and we will talk to anthony in florida, independent line. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. i am a younger guy. i am an independent with some very strong left-leaning tendencies when it comes to american forest projection and other international policy. but i am pretty fiscally and socially conservative. so i often don't really like where the national competition goes. around the doge question and shutting down usaid, i really did not know what this agency did. it has taken a long time for me to read and research a bit so i understand a little bit more. one bit of context i have found that has helped me kind of understand what is going on here and evaluate with a bit of a cooler head was that usaid was part of american

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after issues with the starliner, nasa decided to bring them back on the spacex dragon capsule that wash. that's a delay that to late march or early april of this year. now they've moved that up and decided on mid-march. now we have plenty of close. we are well fed. nasa says williams and wilmore replacements will get to the international space station about 2 weeks earlier. >> spacex chose to fly an older already certified capsule instead of a new merry the astronauts insist they don't mind the extra time in space and have plenty of work to do. it's it's just been a joy to be working up here and with extra time on board, william set a new space walk record for a female astronauts. now nasa says she'll be back walking on earth a few days earlier than expected in washington today. some lot. >> the bay area's oldest independent bookstore needs help raising money to support local children. learning to books. inc is hoping to raise $100,000 for a nonprofit called reading bridge. it provides books and resources to bay area children from low income communities. the nonprofit also hosts local

tesla, billions of dollars spacex tens of billions of dollars.nd so we want to know how this information is being used and stored and potentially to the advantage of those companies at the expense of the american taxpayers. >> will the investigation? the investigation, i mean, the public is getting increasingly vocal about this unelected unvetted non senate confirmed, not that that's a real process at this point. individual profiting enormously, as senator bernie sanders said, and gaining access to private information. if your investigation goes perfectly, what what power do you have to act on its findings? in the minority. >> part of it is name and shame. >> the american people. are angry, i hope, now, but they're going to be furious when they learn the truth about how elon musk is personally benefiting. from this access. >> and you know, nicole, it would be one thing if. >> we had some disinterested, impartial, objective business person, highly successful, looking at ways to. >> make our government. >> more efficient and save money. that's not

the faa helps to regulate spacex.there's a whole lot of interest that elon musk has that are implicated by this powerful position he now holds. host: let's talk to ed in connecticut, republican. caller: i'm somewhat interested in the oversight of grants to states. i think recently one program that was granted to the states, $180 billion was stolen by organized crime, and yet i think of this year we are going to grant another trillion dollars to the states. it seems to me that there is significant room for improvement in oversight and think those might be helpful in that respect. guest: i just don't know the details of that specific criminal case that you mentioned, but there's a lot of different grant programs. some are formula grants were congress says that the amount of money the states get is dependent on the population or the number of highway miles in the state. there are others that are more competitive where states have to come up with programs that meet the criteria and apply in some federal agency decides whi

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the tesla and spacex boss is due to give president might go next. done. we sometimes had been a nation of risk—takers he thinks he will go too far because he always says, if you haven't gone too far and then have to scale back, so it's going to reverse this notion of we have a whole lot of guardrails and conflict rails. and what kind of issues do you think that they may clash well, we see that musk already pushes the limits, work for somebody. fight, fight, fight. so musk is not going to just be a puppet for donald trump to share the limelight. for better or worse, want to blow up much of the bureaucratic state in the united states. that is your business we will see you very soon, hello from the bbc sport centre. and the los angeles lakers. five—time all—star luka doncic, who is currently injured, three—way trade deal. reach the nba finals. as part of the swap, with the mavericks i thought it was fake news. it is a business, - you have to understand this, nobody is safe. nobody is safe. if a five—time world nba first team, a 25—year—old, - a guy tha

it's people at spacex or someone that will be voting for the contract. >> all right. us now, washington bureau correspondent for the new york times, eric lipton. eric, let's talk about these conflicts. you did some reporting today about all the ways that that elon musk is tied up with the federal government financially. can you help us understand the conflicts that currently exist? >> yeah, his. >> companies have. he is one of the largest federal contractors in the united states. his companies over the last five years have received more than $15 billion worth of contracts. and just in fiscal year 2024, there was approximately. $3.8 billion worth of contract awards, most of it going to spacex from the pentagon and from nasa, which is relying upon spacex to get almost everything both astronauts, cargo, spy satellites and other, you know, products into orbit. so he is, he is. and then at the same time, he also has dozens of different investigations of his companies. and tesla is the subject of, you know, auto safety investigations. the faa is looking at the explosion of

spacex reduce launch costs by 86%. we also need to stress a commercial first mindset. we should enforce the law of the land. lifts increased competition inside of government. during the early cold war, the agencies competed against each other. today the bureaucracy would disparage that contest as duplication. i see a competitive market with multiple buyers and no single point of failure for the environment. fourth, we can enable decisive action. we understand the importance of great creative leadership. let's empower our people. i challenge you to name a comparable figure to that. and it is not for a lack of talent. we need to stop or rotating people every few years and give them the time and it the space to create. a budget is a plan and right now we are planning to fail. no private company to survive that. it would be completely out committed in the environment. that is what sets the pace for the industrial base. decision-makers in the building deserve to be treated like decision-makers with a pot of money. we should not be in any illusions on how this can be. you mu

.>> >> sean: c spacex, startling, tesla, rescuing astronauts that harris and biden lost in space, thatld be donald trump -- that would be elon musk getting lectured on intelligence from aoc. okay i will put that in the bac of my head. they hate elon musk because he is exposing all of this misappropriation of your hard-earned tax dollars, and-ear also because he is hoping good donald trump fulfill his promise and we are returning to limited government, greater freedom and not wasting our money abroad. we will part of the american people first and you want to goo to war? you want to assassinate the character of elon musk doing this for free?r remember, we are $40 trillion in debt. they are stealing your money. is stealing the money for yourgr children and your grandchildren, and the biden administration administration just found out today, made to $36 billion in in proper last year alone i. that is a quarter of a trillion dollars they wasted, we are now beginning to see where they aren spending that money because together power doing that. and inflation underbite andol devalue the dollar

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. >> that's why i brought up elon musk and the moves he's been making look what he's done with spacexhis is the model the twitter model on the u.s. government right now it's making all the bureaucrats so angry in washington. clean it up, make it efficient. >> he overshadowed them look at how much subsidies it turns out making a product that people want is how you get tesla to become a successful company nice and enjoyable same thing with spacex the federal government's own attempts to explore space. it's amazing unlike president trump we should be encouraging and not restraining. >> to look back in history believe it or not there was a move under the clinton administration to get rid of usaid under the clinton administration and it was quashed at the time by government bureaucracy and you still have once again all of the handwringing over getting rid of usaid which is not going to waste going to the state department which was the push under bill clinton when he was president. here we are again. >> what they want in washington is better control over the spending by usaid what are they

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this is -- that started spacex. builder, leader that can look at his own books and his company and say is, wait a minute, where's money going to that -- that we're just sending into with thin air? you would think you would want a e guy to account for that. why wasn't it done before? why wasn't there an individual or an entire department within treasury whose sole job was to track even a single dollar that was going into thin air. >>? rachel: yeah. it's absolutely insane. what people are seeing isn't just that elon musk is fixing things, they're seeing how bad -- things are worse than we thought they were. sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that's what we have going on now. another thing we're seeing is donald trump, once again, you know, remember when he said all things will be revealed, you know? [laughter] and as he takes office, he's also saying, you know what in there's a lot of bad people here that a shouldn't have secret service clearance. and so now he's revoking these clearances from eight more democrats

now, nasa and spacex say crew 10 will launch on march 12th. they should come back on crew 9. >> this is my happy place. i love being up here in space. >> reporter: in january, sonny williams showed that she's ready. >> i am trying to remember what it is like to walk. i haven't walked. i haven't sat down. i haven't laid down. you don't have to. you can close your eyes and float where you are. >> reporter: former astronaut mike massamino has been in touch with sonny. >> when they come back to earth, are they going to feel the be of maybe at first. but they will get that adjusted. they should be plenty strong and healthy because they have been exercising every day. but it's always a bit of an adjustment. >> eventually we want to go home effects, which some osastronaut said they feel sick getting back to earth? >> they will be adjusting. their balance system will be off maybe at first. but they will get that adjusted. they should be plenty strong and healthy because they have been exercising every day. but it's always a bit of an adjustment. >> ev

toward the pentagon, the defense department has billions of dollars in contracts with musk through spacex and other companies. >> you said there are some areas where there would be a common interest. >> i would have seen that and he would know not to do it. if there was a con flict we wouldn't let him. >> he is facing more than two dozen lawsuits to date. federal uj fedel judges blocking the accessing of sensitive records, and for now, blocking a plan that would have put thousands of usaid workers on administrative leave. the agency largely focuses on disease prevention, disaster relief and food programs in famine-stricken areas. first lady melania trump praised the agency during her husband's first term. >> we want to show the world that we care, and i am working with usaid. >> also this week, president trump stunned world leaders by floating an amamerican keover of gaza. >> the u.s. will take over the gaza strip, and we will do a job with it, too. >> you are talking tonight about the united states taking over a sovereign territory. what authority would allow you to do that? are you talk

department of defense inspector general was looking into spacex. do you know what the trump/musk administration did to that inspector general >> >> i believe he was fired. >> everybody knows what the answer to the questions were. the u.s. department of agriculture inspector general was investigating musk neuro link. i will ask you do you know what there mr. trump did to looking into one of munchies companies? he was fired. >> inspector general at the epa was taking on tesla. since it seems you are answering the questions that everyone knows the answer to, do you know what the trump/musk administration did to that inspector general? >> i believe he was fired. >> five inspector generals looking into elon musk's companies were fired by the trump/musk administration. these inspector generals independent, protected by law. the people that find the waste, fraud and abuse and found many cases brought up today. fired because they were looking into elon musk. at the norb, the national labor relations board supposed to protect workers from getting unions bus

some even his abilities to help us, you know, bring down government despite the fact they've seen spacexhurs. goldman released a poll, and they were asking the biggest risk to u.s. exceptionalism. you had a.i. competition, terrorism taking place but, oddly, there was nothing there about deficits, about our educational a trends which are horrific and scary, rising drug use among young adults. that wasn't there. in the meantime, you know, our stock market just reflects how great we have -- we are, our dynamism. we just had the chart how far ahead we are of the rest of the world. this stuff does not come by accident, right? it takes rule of law. it takes a system that celebrates and encourages success, a system that encourages investment. and on that front, my next guest, andreessen horowitz general partner katherine boyle. katherine, you know, i'm looking at the chart. i pulled this up this morning of the top unicorns out there, the most valuable unicorns. i'm looking at lead investor, and there it is, andreessen horowitz, andreessen horowitz, andreessen horowitz. this is absolutely amazin

it's a tesla roadster launched into space years ago by spacex ceo elon musk. why you would do that?n't understand. but the company sent the car into a long orbit around the sun. this was back in 2018. earlier this month, the harvard-smithsonian center for astrophysics announced this discovery. thinking we found something out there. no. then they retracted it and figured out it was courtesy of elon musk. >> there is a lot of space junk out there. that is true. but you guys, there is actually this asteroid called 2024 r4 that could potentially hit us. it's a 1.2% chance in the year 2032. >> that's pretty high. i mean, i know it's low, but a 1% chance of it actually hitting us. yeah. that means there's a chance. yes. >> decent chance. >> and you you talked to an expert about this, right? i did, at 3:00. what did they say? should we be scared? >> no, he said we don't know enough about it yet. but in april, by april, we should know more about the trajectory so we can be more certain. so maybe we panic then, but not yet. >> okay. okay. yeah. >> all right, so i have a couple of months befo

liftoff. >> elez, who. >> previously worked at. >> spacex. >> has been the. >> center of attention. >doge position. >> was terminated after the wall. >> street journal uncovered racist and eugenic. posts on an account linked. >> to him. but then. >> elon musk, the vice president, and. >> trump himself weighed in. >> on the doge engineers, was fired for some inappropriate posts. the vice president says bring him back. what do you say? >> well, i don't know about the particular thing, but if the vice president said that, did you say that? i'm with the vice president. >> the injection of unconventional outsiders. >> is alarming. >> some federal employees. >> this man. >> who spoke at a virginia congressman's town hall this week didn't identify himself out of fear of retaliation. >> elon musk. >> in our. >> building. >> and after. >> he visited the building, called for a 50%. >> cut of the entire. >> agency. >> my colleagues. >> are getting 15 minute, one on one. >> uh. >> check ins with 19, 20 and 21 year old college graduates asking to justify their existence. >> most of the. hires are

then there's one of musk's other companies, spacex, a huge government contractor.imes reported that the defense department's inspector general had opened a review into spacex for potentially violating rules about keeping sensitive government secrets out of the hands of our foreign adversaries. elon musk's own foreign travel and his contacts with foreign governments had reportedly not been disclosed regularly to the us government, which not only impeded his own security clearance but also reportedly led, in part at least, to this inspector general's security review of potential national security risks surrounding his companies and specifically him. well, when donald trump took office, he fired that inspector general conducting that review, along with 17 other inspectors general across the government. then there's elon musk's social media company, formerly known as twitter. when elon musk took over that company, one of his goals was to turn it into a digital payment company. he wanted everybody to start using twitter, the way they used zelle or venmo to send money el

you've seen spacex move their incorporation from delaware to texas.g a lot of that take place across the board with bidses because they see texas as a business friendly state especially the aftermath of a new law that now rival and in some businesses feel are superior to the business course in delaware. julie: president trump has a very broad education agenda. so do you. 33 states have some form of school choice. if it happens in texas, it would be the biggest. you tried to get this done for several sessions. this time around, do you think texas will have school choice at the end of the session? gov. abbott: i really do. and there's several reasons for it. one is as you know, but others may not. i campaign this last election cycle to ensure that we elect to the texas house representatives who are going to support school choice. and we were successful in that effort and now should have more than enough post in the texas house to get it passed. it passed the texas senate just this week. and so, we're on a pathway where it should get passed. and know thi

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the guy who makes spacex rockets and teslas?r ] [ audience oohs ] the guy's responsible for more explosions than wile e. coyote. [ laughter ] while signing executives orders this week at the oval office, president trump told reporters that he has, quote, "left instructions in case iran assassinated him." and they're about what you'd expect. [ laughter ] while taking questions this week from reporters in the oval office, president trump claimed that palestinians would be, quote, "thrilled to have an option to move out of gaza," and said, quote, "the gaza thing never worked out." never worked out? [ light laughter ] trump talks about gaza like it's ben affleck and j. lo. [ laughter ] "you know, it never worked out, but there's other territories in the sea." [ light laughter ] when asked yesterday during a media appearance about president trump attending sunday's super bowl game, kansas city chiefs' tight end travis kelce said that no matter who the president is, he's excited to have him. and don't feel bad, travis. none of us are

we've we've seen this before at at tesla and spacex. and of course the twitter takeover. >> you know vitoria to ryan's point, i remember getting a call saying we have a steven davis in the gsa directory. we have a nicole hollander in the directory. we don't know if it's steve davis and nicole hollander, but we're pretty sure they do. and they have gsa email addresses. and i feel like there's been a lot of that where career officials, senior career officials are finding out through second or third hand. they don't really associate much with the musk team, as they're kind of operating right now. the biggest question i have is i would constantly think to myself, yeah, but this is the government. like private sector is one thing. a private company is one thing. this is the government. there's a way that things work is this. is that not true? here? >> i mean, there are many systems and processes and protocols in terms of how things are supposed to work. but i think one of the things that musk and the doge team have been really explicit about

maybe elon will decide he doesn't like that blue origin and not spacex gets a contract, so he wants to gum up the works on their payments. private corporations, and competitors take note, and anyone who thinks that surely won't happen has not been paying attention. now make no mistake. trump and musk have absolutely zero -- zero legal authority to hold up any federal payments that are law. but that has not stopped them so far. this country is still reeling from the chaos of last week's blanket spending freeze and trump's illegal eo's to withhold funds are still not yet revoked. trump and musk have yet to find a law they think applies to them. that is not how things work in this country. we have a democracy. we have checks and we have balances where the president is accountable to congress. where we pass the laws and he implements them. but some of my colleagues across the aisle seem to be forgetting that our democracy doesn't work by magic. we have to do our part to hold the president accountable. our job is not to say yes to everything any president does, no matter how lawless or harm

the mission. >> liftoff. >> elez, who previously worked at spacex, has been the center of attention. his doge position was terminated after the wall street journal uncovered racist and eugenic posts on an account linked to him. but then elon musk, the vice president, and trump himself weighed in. >> on the doge engineers. >> was fired. >> for some inappropriate posts. the vice president says bring him back. what do you say? >> well, i don't know about the particular thing, but if the vice president said that, did you say that? i'm with the vice president. >> the injection of unconventional outsiders is alarming. some federal employees. this man who spoke at a virginia congressman's town hall this week., didn't. identify himself out of fear of retaliation. >> at elon musk in our building. >> and after he visited the building, called for a 50% cut of the entire agency. my colleagues are getting 15 minute, one on one, uh, check ins with 19, 20 and 21 year old college graduates asking to justify their existence. >> most of the hires are connected to elon musk's companies, like ethan shao

it's the people at spacex or something that will be voting for the contract.nd i'd like to say, if you see any contract where the where it was awarded to spacex and it wasn't by far the best value for money for the taxpayer, let me know, because every one of them was. >> so he's not filing the paperwork for the contract, so there's no conflict well, does he does he also fly every rocket up into space? >> john, it's a business. space-x tesla x, his social media platform. these are businesses and he has a financial interest in the business. when somebody has a financial interest in a business that creates a potential conflict, we don't know if there's a conflict of interest or not because there's been no transparency. we don't have the financial disclosure forms. we don't have the waiver forms, if any. we don't know if he's recused. that is stepped away. uh, his doge crew is operating. they come in in the dark of night. we don't know what they're doing. and he's not just a special government employee. he may be the single most powerful government official. uh, i