steve bannon is obviously forgoing a 2 to 3 week trial.ng yourself, what are the advantages here to the manhattan district attorney's office, which was prepared to try this case? well, one of the problems potentially for them is who their witnesses would have been and what the evidence would have come from. this is an investigation that initially started with the department of justice and the southern district of new york. these were charges that were brought against steve bannon during the first trump presidency. president trump then pardoned steve bannon before the manhattan district attorney's office took up similar charges on the same facts. so you have to ask yourself, who would have testified at this trial? and given that the enmity between the federal government and alvin bragg's office is at an all time high, there may have been a calculus that they couldn't have gotten the cooperation that they really needed from federal actors before they went to trial. >> chris. >> lisa rubin, thank you. well, new york city has become the epicen

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you know, look at pardoning steve bannon. you know, steve bannon helped him.o he got away with stealing all this money. but you know by by being a pardon. by getting a pardon. he pardoned 1500 january 6th rioters because he too was a january 6th defendant. different kind of charges. so you know, this is what we're going to see throughout the trump presidency, him taking care of his own. he pardoned rob blagojevich, the former governor of michigan of illinois, in guilty in a corruption scheme. this is who he is. and it's the pardons that reveal. >> it. sort of. >> does it send a message also to the people around him that if they do his bidding, even if it's wrong, he can have their. >> back and the supreme court reinforced that message that there is no more accountability for for presidents. the decision in trump v united states said all official actions are off limits. and if you look at trump's pardons, anyone who is a political ally, whether it's the january 6th people or abortion protesters who intimidate people going to get abortion, rod blagojevich, they

let's be very clear, nicole, to steve bannon. steve bannon is an explicit as you could be.s you exactly the direction that he believes the maga movement should go. he had said right before the election, he told me that donald trump was a moderate in the maga movement. right. nobody would question the ways in which steve bannon, where he sought to take the government and by and large, steve bannon wanted that to make sure that he held on to the legions of millions of americans that catapulted donald trump into the white house two different times. and now, of course, elon musk, though, where does he take this power? and if at any point donald trump tried to reel him back or give him the boot from the white house, what does that ultimately look like? what are the consequences of it? i think we are so far from understanding that not only as journalists, but a public at large. and i think there's a lot of questions here on capitol hill, not just for democrats, but republicans, too. >> i think for donald trump as well, to understand that by shifting the power away from steve bann

here's what he said to steve bannon. quote, we got this idea to record the january 6 prisoners who recite the national anthem and took that to the studio see we mastered and digitize tvmentd that's a direct contradiction under oath of his involvement. what difference does it make? a recording, come on, durbin, move on. the recording was of political prisoners who stormed this capitol and assaulted 140 of our best and brightest and most well trained people that guard us every single day. capitol police and their d.c. counterparts. they are trying to -- some people are trying to lionize the city's effort by these thugs who came and stormed the capitol and screaming out hang vice president pence. i hope that we don't fall into this trap of trying to rewrite history what happened on january 6. that was an atrocious display of political might. and wonderful people who guard us every sing daily in this capitol. there are some here who wouldn's hearing, they disparaged the very thought that these people would be pardoned if the

here's what he said to steve bannon. quote, we got this idea to record the january 6 prisoners who recite the national anthem and took that to the studio see we mastered and digitize tvmentd that's a direct contradiction under oath of his involvement. what difference does it make? a recording, come on, durbin, move on. the recording was of political prisoners who stormed this capitol and assaulted 140 of our best and brightest and most well trained people that guard us every single day. capitol police and their d.c. counterparts. they are trying to -- some people are trying to lionize the city's effort by these thugs who came and stormed the capitol and screaming out hang vice president pence. i hope that we don't fall into this trap of trying to rewrite history what happened on january 6. that was an atrocious display of political might. and wonderful people who guard us every sing daily in this capitol. there are some here who wouldn's hearing, they disparaged the very thought that these people would be pardoned if the

look, the mini feud between elon musk and steve bannon, it might not be so many after all. it's starting to spill out into the open. listen to what bannon said, giving somewhat of a let's call this a backhanded compliment to musk. >> this week we learned that musk has access to treasury's payment systems. should he be able to see or change those payments. >> elon an engineer, he thinks of things in an engineering framework. so the work elon is doing is very important. he's already identified something we've tried to get rid of for years. the house freedom caucus tried to get rid of it for years, and the usaid statutorily hasn't been removed. it's going to be rolled up under it looks like marco rubio, but it looks like you have the backing of president trump to actually zero out usaid, which has been something that people are focused on forever. so in that regard, he's doing a good work, i don't think and i don't think you can do it. regulatorily have an outside consulting firm actually take over the control of the payments from the government. but scott bessent and i think t

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i mean, he's tangled with trump ally steve bannon, vivek ramaswamy, any idea what that's about? and how do the formal members of trump's administration, including siouxsie wiles, how do they feel about musk's constant presence and direct access to the president? >> well, there are certainly people around trump who find musk to be an irritant, at least, who are jealous of his power and his access, who think he's a johnny come lately, who thinks he's causing, you know, as much trouble as he is, you know, benefit. there's no doubt there are people around trump who feel that way. remember, he trump wasn't even friends with musk until really last summer. musk supported desantis in the primaries. they're not like long term friends. this is a johnny come lately friendship, but it comes with $288 million. that's what musk invested to elect donald trump. and that gets you a lot of, you know, a lot of leeway. and i think trump likes to some extent, a disrupter. but the question is whether he can tolerate somebody who occupies the spotlight as much as elon musk does. we saw this week the p

that's why you've got steve bannon and other people on the right attacking elon musk. steve bannon has said he is a truly evil person who should not be running the us government. so at some point, we've got to wake up beyond party lines for all americans to see what's going on here in this rapidly expanding and accelerating coup. >> very quickly, just before we go, very quickly, the elon musk's doge is now in the medicare and medicaid agency. i will note that pam bondi has ended the fbi effort to combat foreign influence in u.s. politics, maybe allowing bribery to come back and force foreign bribery very, very quickly. congressman, apparently, the security clearance of the former president of united states, joe biden, has now been revoked by donald trump. your very quick response. >> well, you know, trump has his petty grievances and his recriminations and the vengeance that he wants to exact against particular people. but watch elon musk, because what he's doing is taking control of the systems themselves. and so he wants to effectuate a complete transformation in our

i am trying to find -- he was on steve bannon's show, mr. patel claimed he did not have anything to do with the january 6 choir which includes january 6 rioters who violently assaulted police officers. he said he got the idea to record. we took that to the studio and we mastered and digitized it. that is a direct contradiction under oath of his involvement. what difference does it make? the recording? move on. the recording was of a political prisoners who stormed the capitol and assaulted 140 of our best and brightest and most well-trained people to guard us every single day. the capitol police and their d.c. counterparts. some people were trying to lionize the city's effort by these thugs who stormed the capitol and were screaming out to hang vice president pence. i hope we do not fall into a trap of trying to rewrite history of what happened on january 6. it was an atrocious display. the wonderful people who guard us every day in this capitol. there are some people when we went to this hearing the disparaged the very thought these people

he created this musical undertaking and was proudly proclaiming it to steve bannon, the hard work he went through to master it, digitize it and create musical work that could be played to the trump rallies. when we asked him about it he could not remember any part of it. that kind of evasion betrays the fact that he sighedd with the prisoners when he should have sided with the police and i think that will haunt him. asked him about a fellow named stu peters. i do not know him but he is supposedly a neo-nazi and white supremacist who has a podcast. it turned out mr. patel could not remember stu peter's. he appeared on his podcast on eight different occasions. i have to question whether or not this man is ready to take over the job and guide the men and women who dedicate their lives to the safety of the united states. something has happened since his testimony. the trump administration and their approach to the department of justice. they are in the process of trying to rewrite history. they want january 6 to turn out to be a whitewashed event in history rather than the terrible embar

and steve bannon is actually saying if you really cared about what you were saying, steve bannon all in on trump criticizing elon. here's what he said. >> the one. >> at $1. >> trillion. >> is across the. >> potomac. >> you know, get. >> an. >> uber. >> send a send an army. the visigoths over there before a federal judge tries to shut you down. and let's get into something. we can have some meaningful cuts. >> muslin back, saying, bannon's a great talker, not a great doer. would he get done this week? nothing. okay, but i'm interested, katie. i mean just that that that's out in the open. that's an open warfare. >> right? right. i mean, look, i think that, you know, bannon has taken issue with musk on several occasions. this is not sort of new for him to be launching this kind of this kind of attack. i do think it it calls back to some of the reporting that we published this week, though, around this consternation among trump's inner circle with regards to what musk and doge are actually doing. you know, and then i would also say with regards to elon's response, again, going back to w

he created this musical undertaking and was proudly proclaiming it to steve bannon the hard work he went to to master, digitize it, and create a musical work that could be played at the trump rallies when we asked him about it in the committee he couldn't remember any part of t didn't know who the singers were. wasn't sure what i was talking about. that evasion betrays the fact he sided with the prisoners when he should have sided with the police. that i think is something that's going to haunt him as he pursues this position with with the f.b.i. i then asked him about a fellow named stu beaters. i don't know him -- peters. but he is supposedly a neo-nazi, anti-semitic person, political theorist who has some sort of podcast. it turned out that mr. patel couldn't remember stu peters, who would he snb he appeared on his podcast eight different occasions. eight different occasions couldn't remember him when i asked about him. i have to question whether or not this man is really ready to take over this job and guide these men and women who dedicate their lives to the safety of the united sta

so having said that, i do think that in terms of the savings part of it, steve bannon makes a very good point, and it's what jon stewart alluded to in that clip you just showed. steve bannon says unless you cross the potomac and go to the pentagon, where we spend about $1 trillion a year in completely unaccounted for money, you're never going to really save the kind of money that would make a dent in the american debt or the american deficit. but this is the framework that we're starting with that will show how that can be done. >> we're going to get to the pentagon. i want to get to the pentagon. pete hegseth says, come on in. we want to pass an audit. we'll open the books. medicaid, medicare. we know how much fraud there is there. but are you saying the government wants to keep a thousand government employees working in an underground mine, pushing papers without any sunlight? they want them in the mine. they don't want them rescued. >> i think that when you have a ruling class power center that hasn't been challenged for decades, they expect that they will be able to continue to exer

the title for the article was is steve bannon the second most powerful man in the world? nnon was gone from the administration. so what are the chances times elon cover bothers trump? >> i think it could. there's one key difference between bannon and musk as far as their relationship to trump. and i interviewed bannon about on this about two months ago at a at a maga conference in arizona. and, and he acknowledged this off the record and that was that. musk has his own power base, which which is the quarter billion that he spent to help trump the money that he's pledged to support trump loyalists in primaries in 2026, and also his his huge following that he has on his social media account. so getting into a fight with musk is a little bit trickier for trump than getting rid of some of the stooges that he's gotten rid of in the past. i mean, trump has a lot, or musk has a lot more power than corey lewandowski or some other random trump staffer who flew a little too close to the sun and then got fired. so i think it's a trickier situation for him, but i do think it's going t

his own cover story is steve bannon, the second most powerful man in the world. late night host were joking about bannon being the actual president at the time, and mr. trump did not like that. and he was out of the white house by that summer. now this is a different trump than 2017. he seems to have a less i mean, he's creating chaos, but it seems intentionally so. and there seems to be at least less public infighting at the white house. what do you think? is musk not going to get the bannon treatment? >> it's hard. >> to say. i mean. >> the last time we. >> did. >> a deep dive on elon musk. >> and what we expected for. >> him to do in this. >> administration, it was back. >> in november, soon. >> after. >> the elections. >> and at the time, i. think we and a lot of people were. >> expecting this relationship to be pretty rocky. >> both of. them have. big egos. >> they're used to being. >> in charge. >> they're not used to sharing the. >> limelight with anyone. but i think this relationship has proven more resilient than. >> many expected. >> but still, there's a

and anyone around donald trump knows that trump was famously upset at his aide, steve bannon, upstaging him on that cover i showed you and mentioned yesterday the time magazine cover with the storyline about bannon, not trump, but bannon being this great manipulator, which implied that it was bannon really calling the shots. now, that concern or that dynamic has even more evidence right now with all of the stories we and our colleagues here at msnbc and many print reporters have been documenting that. obviously, musk is calling big shots, and now he's getting presidential type press reporters documenting this. and we know trump obsesses over press coverage. now we have the same glory bestowed on an adviser that we know upsets trump. both of them, even whether you consider it playfully or even disrespectfully referred to as a president, president bannon, can anyone stop president musk? that's from this month. and then out in the public, people on the internet using social media? of course, musk is a social media baron himself. they're getting in on this with jokes and trolling about dona

pro-business wing that wants regulation, tax cuts and there is the more radical, populist, maga crew, the steve bannon adjacent crew that is anti-immigration and anti- abortion. they make strange bedfellows. >> not so friendly with the constitution either. >> debatable. we have seen these two factions clash over the says, how do you predict this dynamic will play out as the trump administration unfolds? >> h1b visas is a great example. you have a trump guard against elon musk and the techno-types. i think trump and elon musk are two tomcats in one pillow sack and it's going to end badly is my prediction but who knows, i have been wrong before. right now, the populists are in power. are we going to have a reformation or not? the key to that is will trump have long-term political success or failure. parties do what they think works. >> to democrats capitalize on a class like this? is there an inevitable clash that immigrants can capitalize on? >> let's back up. this apology that you all have that there is a split in the republican party. there is no split in the republican party. it is all trump. get ov

conservative strategists and president trump ally steve bannon pleaded guilty to fraud today.he charge is related to accusations of duping donors who gave money to a private effort to build a wall along the u.s. southern border. bannon's guilty plea is part of a plea agreement. he will not serve any time in jail, but waives his right to appeal. bannon has called the case political persecution. two other men involved in the we build the wall project have also pleaded guilty to federal charges and were sentenced to prison. fema has fired four employees amid claims they used government money to pay for a luxury hotel for migrants. a spokesperson for the department of homeland security says fema fired its chief financial officer, two analysts and a grant specialist. the agency says elon musk noticed payment for a luxury hotel in fema shelter and services program. the dhs spokesperson called the payments egregious, saying in a statement the agency would, quote, not sit idly by and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the american people. pope francis is pu

and former trump aide steve bannon has pleaded guilty to fooling people into thinking he was raising money to build a wall at the border. as part of the plea agreement, bannon avoids any prison time. back to you. thank you scott. later today, fremont may be poised to enact one of the strictest ordinances yet banning encampments. but advocates say it goes way too far. as nbc bay area's bob redell explains from fremont city hall, leaders say the plan focuses on violators, but critics fear even volunteers may be considered offenders. we spoke with one group that helps the homeless here in fremont, and they say that this new ordinance, if passed, would not only criminalize homelessness but would also target them. people who are just simply trying to help these people who live here on the street. tonight at 7:00, at eir regular meeting here at city hall, the city council will vote on a new ordinance that would not only ban encampments on any public property and private property not specifically designed for camping, but it would also make it a crime to, quote, aid and abet an illegal enca

steve bannon, in an interview with the new york times and one of the articles today, talked about how surprised he was that republicans have just let donald trump run roughshod over federalism. >> yeah, i think that's exactly right. so many pillars of what we used to think of as kind of core republican ideology have been reversed or simply ignored by donald trump. and certainly the argument that there should be a weak federal power and a strong decentralized state power that has been at the core of what we associate with the modern republican party. interestingly, katie, now, not only do you see many democrats making that argument or leaning into that argument, but i've noticed that in the lawsuits that have greeted some of these executive overreach actions by donald trump at the beginning of his tenure, what you see is essentially two different americas, and you have the democratic attorneys general of states that have democratic leaderships filing lawsuits and as a collective. right. so you had, i think, 22 or 23 democratic attorneys general on the lawsuit against the birthright cit

steve bannon was the president's advisor during trumps. first to well been and hasn't returned to the white house off the he and trump fell out. it would appear. his strategy never left. the us presidents has wasted no time in alienating is big is trading partners, antagonizing allies and be will during critics. we're going to put very serious terrace on mexico and canada because canada they come to canada to and the drugs that are coming through our at record numbers, the headache for the trump administration. sometimes he's old, talk the large, the black, the kind of the launch the back down in mexico, panama. and so he has this deliberate policy, as we know, it's a state of the policy of some of the advisors are coming out to some of the shopping things, but it's almost impossible to, to focus on any of them. oh is off to the state department, announced us vessels would be passing through the panama canal, free the panama canal, or florence. he issued a statement translated here, denying any changes to its fees trumps gamble. in this ca

. >> steve bannon se ha declarado hoy culpable de haber defraudado a donantes recaudando fondos para se va a librar de la cÁrcel gracias a ese acuerdo de culpabilidad que le prohÍbe recaudar fondos u ocupar un puesto de liderazgo para cualquier organizaciÓn caritativa en el estado de nueva york. >> esto, al parecer, sigue aumentando su popularidad. luigi maggioni ha aceptado mÁs de 300.000 $ procedentes de al menos unas 10.000 personas que dicen ser sus seguidores para pagar su ayuda legal. algunos donantes anÓnimos dicen que lo estÁn apoyando porque estÁn frustrados con el sistema de salud actual. maggioni es acusado de asesinar al director ejecutivo de united health care, bryan thompson, la secretarÍa de seguridad nacional, christie noem, solicitÓ al departamento del tesoro ayuda con personal del servicio de impuestos o irs por sus siglas en inglÉs. >> la peticiÓn busca que empleados de esa agencia ayuden en la implementaciÓn de las leyes y polÍticas migratorias. miriam arias estÁ aquÍ con el reporte. miriam buenas tardes. >> hola nicole. octavio muy buenas tardes. pues sÍ, hay muc

first i want to note something noted earlier by one of my colleagues who said steve bannon, who is very much affiliated with republicans these days, is saying we should increase taxes on the wealthy, increased taxes on corporations to pay for tax cuts for the middle class. just wanted to point out that is happening with some of your big supporters, jason. ok. i'm here to talk about -- one thing i've learned since i've been in congress, i guess we all know this but i've really learned it in congress and talking to collects is how different it is for different people in different parts of the country, in different states in different neighborhoods. people's incomes are different in different parts of the country but so is there cost-of-living and so is your property taxes and income taxes. it's a big difference. mr. moran, the average income in his district is $61,000 i think he said, i have one of the higher incomes in the country but our property taxes are higher as well and income taxes are much higher, i am from new york state. the 2017 tax law delivered a lot of benefits to some peop

when trump first came into office last time, we cast you as reince priebus living with steve bannon inavorite actors, laura benanti, she was playing melania trump. she was amazing. i remember thinking, oh, my god, i am "the late show"'s reince priebus. i am in the coterie. i'm in the ensemble. >> stephen: yes, sure, have that on your resume. >> brandon scott: yeah. and then i remember a week later, he was fired. [laughter] and then i remember a week later, he was fired. [laughter] and i told everyone. i was like, hey, guys, look out for me, on "the late show" and then a week later, i was completely distraught, walking the streets of new york and my friends were like, what's wrong? i was like "reince priebus was fired!" >> stephen: you took it quite personally. >> brandon scott: i did. i probably took it worse than he did. >> stephen: these days you play isaac higgentoot on "ghosts," captain the revolutionary war who is now dead. are you learning about history from doing this? is it educational? >> brandon scott: sometimes, but not -- no. >> stephen: that's what "ghosts" is, primarily.

steve bannon says unless you cross the river and go to the pentagon we spent about a trillion dollarsever really save the kind of money that would make a dent in the american debt for the american deficit. but this is the framework that we're starting with which will show how that can be done. >> jesse: we will get to the pentagon, on what to get to the pentagon, pizzas to come on in, we want to pass an audit, we will open the books. we know how much brother is there. but are you saying the government wants to keep 1000 government employees working in an underground mine, pushing papers without any sunlight? they want them in the mind. they don't want them rescued. >> i think when you have a ruling class power center that has not been challenged for decades, they expect that they will be able to continue to exercise power without anyone really stopping them. look at how many campaigns we have had, presidential campaigns where the winning candidate has promised to come in and change the way washington works. that was bill clinton's appeal, those barack obama's appeal, that was donald t

project 2025 is all about doing what is happening right now, so they are trying to deconstruct as steve bannonve state, and as i said last week, president trump and elon musk are taking a wrecking ball to the federal government by sowing chaos and confusion and fear, but he is following through on what he promised to do. geoff: how do you see it? >> i think jonathan is right. this was a promise he made to, promise kept. what is important to understand about trump is he wants to deliver results. trump always feels the political class that preceded him talk to victim but never accomplish anything. we had ronald reagan, al gore reinventing government, commissions dealing with taxes during the obama errors. here he is. elon musk says he wants to treat the federal government like a new acquisition. donald trump says go for it and let see what happens. geoff: where are the guardrails? who was going to stop any of this. democrats in congress do not have any power and republicans in congress are moving in lockstep. at the courts cannot keep up with the velocity of the trump administration. is there an

all about doing what is happening right now and so they are trying to deconstruct, as i think steve bannon the administrative state, and as i said last week, president trump and elon musk in particular are taking a wrecking ball to the federal government by sowing chaos and confusion and fear, but he's following through on what he promised to do. geoff: how do you see it? matthew: i think jonathan is right. this was a promise made, promise kept, as they like to say in trump world. the important thing to understand about trump is he wants to deliver results. he always feels as though the political class that preceded him talk to big game but never accomplished anything. so we had the grace commission during reagan, al gore's reinventing government, the commissions dealing with the debt and taxes during the obama years. nothing happened. and so here elon musk says he wants to treat the federal government like a new acquisition. donald trump says go for it. let's see what happens. geoff: what about the question democrats are raising, you know, where are the guardrails? it was going to stop th

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steve bannon has pleaded guilty to a fraud charge relating to a scheme to generate money for a private a border wall. as part of the plea agreement, he will not face jail time. the campaign was launched in 2018 raised more than $20 million. came under federal investigation and drew criticism from president trump. >> when he called this morning it was just a total shock, first of all, because of the time he called and with the news so, it is just, you know, unbelievable situation right now. we're just waiting and waiting to get him into the u.s. >> bret: malphine fogle mother of mark fogle on his way back to the u.s. trump secures americans release after biden's failed attempts. former president joe biden's administration long claimed it was working to secure foe gel's release fogel began serving his sentence in june of 2022 the biden administration did not designate him as being wrongfully detained until late last year despite multiple calls from lawmakers and fogel's family. with that bring in republican pennsylvania senator dave mccormick. big day for the fogel family, have you been

. >> steve bannon's. >> podcast. >> that's how a prosecutor rolls. following yesterday's fbi firings, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, senator jim himes, said that patel had, quote, misled the senate on his answers regarding the administration's plans for weaponizing the federal government. while there have been reports that some republican senators have privately expressed concerns about patel's fitness to head and head the fbi. no republican senator, unless this has happened in the last ten minutes, not one has publicly opposed his nomination yet. and as such. as of now, patel appears to be on track to be confirmed for the position of director of the fbi. for more on this, i'm joined by joyce vance, former united states attorney for the northern district of alabama. she's also a senior fellow at the brennan center for justice, co-host of the sisters in law podcast, and an msnbc contributor and columnist. tim weiner joins me, too. he's a pulitzer prize winning reporter and the award winning author of the books enemies a history

you know, for trump, i think that this is basically the playbook of his former strategist, steve bannon, who always said attack relentlessly, basically create so many stories, so much activity, and do it at a velocity and scale that no one can latch on to anything. and that's really what we're seeing. you know, democrats don't know what to focus on. it's usaid tariffs. canada is a 51st state. the emergency declaration at the us-mexico border, seizing greenland, reclaiming the panama canal. i mean, it's all really coming at democrats at a breakneck speed. it's just this firehose of policies and rhetoric. and i really think that they don't know which way to turn. so it's been disorienting. >> so, yeah, if they don't know what to focus on, i mean, it seems as if one thing that they are focusing on is, is elon musk, right? sort of, you know, getting more opposition, i guess, around him versus versus donald trump. is that a winning strategy for democrats? do you think? >> well, you're absolutely right. if you look at polling data, elon musk's approvals are going down as donald trump's are st

this week and that's the cover in february during trump's first year in office, first istration, steve bannonn after was he out of the administration. a lot of people think this won't last forever. >> well, first, you have in one man the greatest technologist and entrepreneur of our time and the other is a -- comparing them is not even a fair comparison. i think musk has real run room and the reason is because he's actually doing things and he's making incredible moves to transform the government. i mean, many people would say this is a very needed transformation. we are spending 6 trillion. we are taking in roughly 4 trillion. we have a trillion of interest. it's unsustainable. something has to give and trump's force of nature and musk's a force of nature will ultimately do a lot of good for the united states long term. >> i guess the biggest line-items when you talk about the department of defense, if you are really trying to cut the budget a little bit or bring the numbers down you have to look thea the department of defense, you would have to take on social security, medicare, medicaid, t

when steve bannon said that the media is too lazy and dumb to keep up with him, i was ashamed becausean't keep up with him. i was keeping score in the beginning because there was so much winning, you know, and i was doing a little bit of gloating. and now i'm just every day you wake up to a new headline like, oh, panama, greenland, the usaid. i mean, he's he's incredible, i don't know. i honestly don't know how he's doing it. >> you know, if you're against what he's doing, all you're doing is complaining. but these are good things for the country. so i guess he's right. you're not going to get tired of winning when you hear him say, never give up. i know you're highly motivated, jillian michaels. how do you think the country takes that? >> well, i'm hoping they're inspired. i can tell you personally, having gone through hardships in my life and knowing that success is a matter of attrition and you persist. but this is a guy that has been sued so many times with criminal charges. just one lawsuit is enough to make you lose hair and lose sleep, right? this guy endured all of that and th

you know that there are a lot of very right wing maga republicans like steve bannon, who. >> are completely. >> opposed to elon musk. >> and what he's doing. >> bannon has called him a truly evil person, and laura loomer has warned of what they're trying to do in terms of creating a techno state monarch in the new century. obviously, elon musk has much bigger plans than donald trump, who, you know, we know just wants to become the richest person in the world and get all. the attention. >> but elon. >> musk would really like to completely overthrow our system of government and move us into some kind of techno monarchy. under the geniuses of silicon valley. >> i find it fascinating that in all of this, no one's really leveled up. the fact you just touched on it, congressman, that elon musk is a government contractor, right? >> spending billions. >> of dollars, billions of dollars of government on 18 plus individual contracts with the us govt. why why aren't we exposing those people? what's in those contracts? because those is not going to look at those contracts. >> yeah. >> well why doesn't

longtime trump ally steve bannon pleaded guilty today to defrauding donors in a private effort to builde u.s. southern border. bannon called the case political persecution as he left the courthouse. as part of his plea agreement, bannon will avoid jail time. but he's barred from holding leadership roles in any nonprofits or charitable organizations in new york. this marks bannon's second criminal conviction. he spent four months in prison last year for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation of the january 6th attacks. jd vance used his first major policy speech as vice president to warn against what he called the excessive regulation of artificial intelligence. he made the comments at the ai action summit in paris, where more than 60 countries, including china, signed an agreement to promote responsible ai development, but the united states and the uk were not among those signing. instead, vance told world leaders that a hands-off approach to the new technology is the best way to ensure growth. >> we need international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of ai te