vivek ramaswamy took to the political scene. he took it by storm when he announced his campaign for president. now, ramaswamy gearing up to get back on the campaign trail. he is expected to announce a run for ohio governor in 2026. now, some of vice president vance's top political advisers have already joined ramaswamy's team, and despite not formally announcing his campaign yet. new polling. look at this. it found the ohio native with an impressive lead over potential competitors, winning 52% of gop voters in a hypothetical primary ballot, and his closest opponent had 18. here with more. vivek ramaswamy. okay. obvious question. you can't look at that number. you're at 52, your closest competitor. if you want to even call it a competitor, is at 18. the next person's at two. so i would say that your odds of being the next governor are high if you want it. do you want it? >> look, i think that states are going to have to lead the way. it reminds me of donald trump leads in the primaries, which encourages michonne. but the way i lo

this is vivek ramaswamy who had been one of the cochairs. the recently installed secretary of state, marco rubio had this to say a number of years ago with respect to elon musk and tesla. quote, right after president biden signed senator rubio's forced labor prevention act into law, tesla opened a store in chang jang. he went on to say that corporations are helping the chinese communist party cover up genocide and slave labor in the region. that is secretary rubio. and as we speak, he is allowing elon musk to essentially take over usaid. this is a corrupt abuse of power that is going on. as my colleagues said, it is not only a gift to our adversaries but trying to shut down the agency for international development by executive order is playing illegal -- is plain illegal. it is illegal. elon musk may get to be dictator of tesla. he does not -- he may trait -- he may try to play dictator in washington, d.c. but he doesn't get to shut down the agency for international development. as we are speaking, at a federal court, district court right do

between steve bannon, who's someone who was very invested in that myth, versus elon musk and vivek ramaswamybasically say, look, if you want to be exceptional, if you want to be at the top, then you actually have to do something other than simply say, i'm an american to get there. >> i'm still trying to figure out, charles, how how the hell you sit here and put out a statement about the importance of black history month and how we want to do all this, all this stuff for black people, and then tell your government that anything they cannot celebrate black history month, they cannot level up a conversation around the efforts to include black people in this government or in this country. so help me square that obviously contorted, distorted circle. >> i don't know that i can help you square it. what i can tell you is that i'm almost as confused as you are. and as much as look, we've seen white nationalism and an element of white nationalism power. donald trump from 2016 all the way to the present. that has always been a part of his shtick and his jam and those of his supporters. what we saw tha

vivek ramaswamy about what. >> to already. >> left the building. >> they've already left one, left one of the co, you. >> know. >> the. >> co. >> founders behind. but but what's really it seems is happening is that there are all these people who we don't know if they actually work for the government. really. we don't know if they've they've passed conflict of interest or financial disclosures or anything like that. we don't really know. yeah. and many of them probably haven't. >> one of them and they're husband and wife team. >> involved in everything. it seems that is happening right. >> now at. >> the federal level. we've got to go for this one. but stick around. we're not going anywhere just yet. coming up next we are. he is interviewing to be in charge of america's health system, and she wants to be in charge of america's secrets. but even republicans are hesitant about both of them to give them the keys to those two departments. we'll discuss that. >> super man, the christopher reeve story tomorrow at 8:00 on cnn. >> my eyes, they're dry, uncomfortable looking for extra hydration.

i mean, i and you certainly do not have to i don't know where this guy came from either, but vivek ramaswamy had this to say about him. >> i would describe him as filling a vacuum in the maga movement that i think needs to be filled, which is an intellectual beacon. maga movement has been a great populist movement across this country. but one of the things that i think we need in order to take this movement to the next level is an intellectual foundation of who we are and what we stand for. >> and i don't even i mean, maybe let's pause it. he didn't know about the racist tweets. the adl put out a statement back in 2020 condemning him back then. so how is this person who would say that black people need to know their place in society and intellectual of any kind? it's bizarre. >> yeah. i don't i'm like the congresswoman. i don't have any familiarity with him. however, what i would say is, based on what you read tonight, um, one of the things about the trump coalition is that it is seeking to stop dividing americans by race and start uniting americans by our unique american values. some of the

midnight with vivek ramaswamy, senator joni ernst of iowa, and senator. >> mike lee of utah.is all. >> part of what is going on at the department of government efficiency. we've seen a number of headlines about this over the. >> last few days, frank. >> and what we found out last night during this twitter spaces was musk plans to shut down u.s. aid. he said, quote, none of this stuff could be done without the full support of the president. you know, and with regard to the u.s. aid stuff, i went went over it with him, you know, in detail. and he agreed with that. we should shut it down. so there you go. there's your confirmation. at least i know there is some wiggle room about comments from the president, but elon musk apparently believes he has the authority to go through and shut down u.s. aid. also, musk took this opportunity to speak a lot about breaking up bureaucracy within the government. he called it a fourth branch of government, saying, quote, you have the rule of the bureau, and this is obviously wrong. it's unconstitutional, unconstitutional. and it is imperative,