one of the meme projects he took an interest in is called elon gate. elon gate made me rich.aul posted this video about elon gate�*s fans in the mavericks club which gives his fans exclusive content. as word spread, excitement for elon gate grew. after his video to the maverick club, the price of elon gate went to an all—time high. it remained at this price for hours before large holders of the token began to sell, crashing the price. we cannot be sure of logan's intention before he sent the video to the maverick club. new meme coins were launching daily so few people thought to ask why logan paul was promoting these seemingly worthless coins to his fans but that changed with dink doink. logan endorsed the project to his over 6 million twitter followers injune 2021. the effect was immediate. it encouraged his fans to buy. how much did you invest in dink doink? i think in total a little over $3000. early investors in dink doink helped push the price of the token up by over 400% injust four days. does that celebrity factor, having people like logan paul attached to this, give y

state crime of assault of a 17-year-old girl in a state where the age of consent is 18 and elon musk said matt gates will be our hammer of justice. elon musk wanted the first man in the history of the house of representatives described as a sexual assault or in a committee report to be the attorney general of the u.s. when trump made the most inappropriate choice of attorney general in history trump said matt gates distinguished himself in congress. well he certainly did. he is the only member of congress in history to have been unanimously judged by the house ethics committee which includes five republicans and five democrats, to have quotes, violated house rules, state and federal laws and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory assault, illicit drug use, acceptance of impermissible gifts, the permission of special favors and privileges and obstruction of congress. matt gates obstructed this house investigation in every way he possibly could which is one of the reasons the investigation took as long as it did. when matt gates resigned from congress he believed that tactic of

pennsylvania, rally when trump brought miss musk -- musk up on sage for the first time, he let elon speak, isn't he gate don't get too big. it's always been the case in the trump world, there's only one star of the show, and his name is donald trump. howard: right. >> and it'll be interesting to see if this relationship continues to foster -- howard: the media are just waiting for them the a falling out. thanks so much, griff jenkins. >>> next on "mediabuzz," congresswoman nancy mace on why she voted against the final version of the bill that kept the government open and those mystery drones. ♪ ♪ howard: joining us now from outside charleston, south carolina, is republican congresswoman nancy mace. welcome. you are -- >> good morning. howard: -- generally a donald trump support, yet you were one of three dozen republicans to oppose if him three times including on the final passage that avoided the government shutdown, even the stripped-down version that just kicks the can down the road three months and didn't include elimination of the debt ceiling which is what donald trump originally wanted. why was t

1b visas, and he also had this truth social post that seemed to be a message meant for elon musk, uh, that bill gates wanted to meet. he said, where are you? when are you coming to the center of the universe? mar-a-lago bill gates asked to come tonight. we miss you. and x new year's eve is going to be amazing. djt uh, what can we glean about that in terms of elon musk and the relationship that the two men have and the staying power? >> again, it goes back to quiet down. you're making a lot of noise there. you're kind of starting fights and picking fights that you don't necessarily necessarily need to wade into. but to jackie's point, it also shows trump has got something this time that he didn't have the first time, which is widespread adulation from corporate leaders and tech companies that he really wanted his first term. right. he's had these pilgrimages. mark zuckerberg, tick tock, which we'll get into. elon musk has been, i mean, almost ubiquitous around him as well during this entire time. and so you're seeing some of that push and pull with the tech executives making these. i mean, they're get

and, you know, there's obviously elon musk, theorist joe rogan, matt gates, who has been nominated to be the attorney general, is is one of the few republicans who signed on to a bill that wanted to expand research into psychedelics and also has spoken in, you know, pretty kind of libertarian and liberal ways about drug policy and marijuana legalization. so we do find ourselves in this really strange moment where, like a very conservative new administration, you know, brings to the table. a lot of people who think these drugs should be legal and that people should have the ability to use them to explore their consciousness, to you know, improve their mental health. so i think it's fair to assume that, like nixon and nancy reagan are rolling in their grave as they read the tea leaves of what is happening. you know, on the other, you know, the incoming era may be so wild and chaotic that they were just may not be band with or traction for this issue to even get like a hearing. but i am fascinated by what we'll see in the years ahead. and also like on kind of the second strand of this, w

question on some level mar-a-lago did president elect donald trump send a coded message to elon musk claiming that bill gatesthe founder of microsoft, is visiting mar-a-lago tonight? what are we talking about? this on your screen? where are you? trump wrote in a post on truth social. when are you coming to the center of the universe? mar-a-lago bill gates asked to come tonight. we miss you and x. x is obviously how musk refers to his son. i want to get straight to cnn's alayna treene, who is in west palm beach near mar-a-lago. elena, do we have any sense of what was behind the message, who it was intended for? >> well, phil, this does read like an apparent text message, like a message intended for elon musk. and when i talked to trump's advisers, i learned that it was, in fact, an apparent message for elon musk, which altogether is pretty funny. but look, we did learn a few things from this. one is that the bromance between donald trump and elon musk is clearly still alive and well, but also he is still, you know, supporting elon musk. after all of the backlash we've seen this week with, you know, musk defen

recordemos que el presidente electo nominÓ a gates para fiscal general, pero el ex congresista retirÓ la nominaciÓn para no entorpecer la transiciÓn. elonlike that ♪ ♪♪ ♪ que rico, i like it like that ♪ ♪♪ ♪ i like it like that ♪ ♪ i've got soul, i want more ♪ ♪ i like it like that ♪ ♪ you gotta believe me when i tell you ♪ ♪♪ ♪ que rico, i like it like that ♪ ¿has estado aquí antes? ¿o aún no has venido? ven a descubrir tu nueva aventura preferida. ¿sabías que puedes hacer esto? ...increíble, ¿verdad? ...y no querrás perderte esto. también puedes subirte aquí... y luego correr para hacer esto... y antes de irte... definitivamente querrás ver eso. ♪ ♪ ilia: elon musk y vivek ramaswamy visitaron el capitolio para exponer los planes de la administraciÓn trump para recortar el gobierno federal, que ya genera debates. en el capitolio estÁ el nominado para ser el prÓximo secretario de defensa. reportera: cargando sobre sus hombros a su hijo, un sonriente elon musk que recorrÍa el capitolio. asediado por la prensa, musk se reuniÓ con republicanos para hablar del departamento de eficiencia gubernamental de trump. con Él tambiÉn se encontraba v

>> sam altman, mark zuckerberg, other bill gates right there who's had other beefs with elon musk over the years what are they doing now to fix this if they want to? >> so sam altman met recently with howard lutnick in palm beach trying to kind of forge relationships with folks that are not, you know, that are going to go around musk and folks like mark zuckerberg, you know have have been down and met with the president elect as well. so people are trying to make, you know direct pleas to president-elect trump without, you know, musk in the way. >> all right. as i said, you've got great reporting on those people. should go check out your article in the wall street journal. thanks so much for being with us. this morning. thank you. kate all right. >> there's a lot of news that we're tracking. we continue to follow the breaking news of the shooting of the ceo of united health care in midtown manhattan. a manhunt underway, all of that continues on cnn right now cnn news central is now going to pass it off to cnn newsroom. up next can't fool myself. >> it was the most exciting time in the

gates in early january. we are working on that right now. in fact, hoist republicans are already working to enact that agenda. we met as you know last week. we brought elon musk and rivek ramaswamy here to discuss how we cut waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal government. it was a very productive series of meetings. we had a smaller group discussion, and the larger one in the congressional auditorium. thank you for being here for that. we are continuing to lay the groundwork for our very aggressive first 100 days agenda in the congress that we have all been planning for a long time and talking about for a while. in the waning days of this congress and until president trump is sworn in, we are still actively advancing conservative priorities. you heard about the ndaa. we are proud of this product. it was released over the weekend and includes critical wins for our troops and our country at a very important time. i want to thank chairman mike rogers of the house armed services committee and all the committee members and all the staff for their really hard work on the bill. we spent a lot of time and effort working on it because our service members and

bill gates asked to come tonight can we miss you, seem to be a reference to elon musk.-- new year's eve will be amazing. rachel: that is a very public invitation to a new year's eve party. i thought elon musk never left mar-a-lago. charlie: he was busy getting skinny turning into skinny santa. >> a symbol of what you wants to do with the american government, the invitation would mean a somewhat permanent presence at mar-a-lago but would add to the list of tech ceos who have met with trump last couple months. jeff pazo's, meadow ceo mark zuckerberg, open ai ceo sam altman, uber's ceo, apple's ceo tim cook. that was 80%. will: this is a big turnaround, big tech wasn't behind trump in the last election, they saw the light and big tech has donated a lot of money to his campaign especially the presence of elon musk being most prominent. also the ones who weren't on board before are in on the inaugural fund so you see amazon, meta-open ai, big-money. >> welcome to the center of the universe, you know that's an inside joke between him and elon musk and makes you wonder if ther

if this happens, you know, gates is going to be basically the latest billionaire to step into trump's orbit. elonk has been at trump's side since his campaign. amazon's jeff bezos has recently shared a meal with the president-elect, and a number of companies, including zuckerberg's meta, have donated to trump's inauguration fund. is this becoming a thing? corporations are going to feel like they have to do, they have to go down and ingratiate themselves or risk being left out? >> well, they clearly do. obviously, they saw what happened in his first term. president trump, you know, is the head of a party that was once a free market, hands-off the corporate world kind of party that today, in fact, he does like to pick winners and losers in the marketplace. he made very clear while he was president that if somebody, a corporate ceo, angered him, in some way or another seemed to cross him, that he was willing to use the power of the federal government to go after them. ask the people who tried the time warner merger because of cnn or ask jeff bezos, who experienced it with amazon because the presiden

elon musk. quote, where are you, when are you coming to the center of the universe? mar-a-lago, bill gatesonight. we miss you, new jersey will be amazing. what is your reporting telling you about how republicans are responding to trump's seeming reliance on elon musk. the new york times reports he is essentially living at mar-a- lago. >> that was a weird post. i will not lie. it felt like maybe it was a dm he accidentally put in public. as for elon musk, he clearly has outside influence over trump. we saw this a week ago or this past week. this is something trump has in the past been clear he is against the program for high skilled pieces. because elon musk supported it because he took a sharp stance against some conservatives over it, trump ultimately sided with elon musk and said he had long been supported which is factually not true. really, elon musk is setting up policy and involved in calls with other leaders, an unprecedented amount of power for an unelected person who has no real accountability. he will have a lot of sway over the budget, a lot of say over foreign policy, domestic

we've seen now trump is touting the fact that bill gates wants an audience with him, which could be construed as a as a message to musk. you predict that elon musk might be one of the first casualties of trump's ego. so how do you think his ego affects his relationships with with advisors and appointees? and that might maybe constrain his effectiveness in terms of governance? >> yeah, i think that's exactly right, that it is a question of ego that in a more efficient system, you can trust your own lieutenants to, you know, be good people who are with your agenda under a personalist system, you always feel most threatened by your own lieutenants. and so elon, who has an enormous amount of personal wealth of media influence through his ownership of x, formerly twitter, it is precisely because he has an independent power base that he's going to be perceived as most threatening to trump. in the old metaphor, the tall poppies get cut first. >> all right, so as we saw in trump's first administration, they they didn't actually get that much done because they didn't follow procedure, they didn't do their homework. and often things got bogged down i

elon's son new year's eve is going to be amazing. djt trump also, by the way, teased a surprise visit from bill gates. he says the microsoft founder is taking the pilgrimage to the winter white house tonight. gates went from donating $50 million to kamala's campaign to now begging to see trump. but at this point, really, who isn't? from silicon valley to wall street to washington, everyone is lining up outside of 40 seven's door. even the great state of canada, after threatening them with crippling tariffs and promising to cut down their taxes by 60% if they became our 51st state. top canadian officials got on the first plane down to west palm beach to meet with the president elect's team and shark tank investor and canadian kevin o'leary says he's heading to mar-a-lago to start the annexation. >> canadians over the holidays. the last two days have been talking about this. they want to hear more. and so, you know, there's obviously a lot of issues, more details. but what this could be is the beginning of an economic union. think about the power of combining the two economies, erasing the border betwee

gate in early january. working on that right now. in fact, house republicans are working to enact that agenda. we met last week, we brought elonsk and the vivek ramaswamy to discuss how we can't waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal government and it was a productive series of meetings. it's got a small group discussion and a larger one in the congressional auditorium. we we're continuing to lay the groundwork for our aggressive first 100 days agenda that we've all been planning for for a long time in talking about for a while. in the waning days of this congress and until president trump this one and we are still actively advancing conservative priorities. he wrote about the ndaa, brown this product release over the weekend and includes critical wins for our troops and our country at a very important i do what you think chairman rogers of the house armed services committee at all community members and staff with a really hard work on the bill. spent a lot of time and effort working on it because our service members and a families deserve our best efforts. that's what with the landmark investment in quality of life as you h

states right now, but if bill gates had never sold any of his shares which he used in large part for philanthropy, never sold any of the shares, he would be a trillionaire. elonion. i should mention president trump speaking just finished up speaking down at the new york stock exchange today. he just won, obviously, "time" person of the year. it's the first time -- not the sitting president yet. ronald reagan the first sitting president, i believe, to speak at the new york stock exchange, now probably what, 30 some plus years ago. it's an interesting morning, but he's definitely out there telling the wall street world that he -- this is the president, he is behind them. >> i have about 47 other questions to ask him. >> let him go. >> he has to go. andrew ross sorkin, we'll finish this up tomorrow. dave, give us your final thoughts on everything you've heard here? >> the people that want to investigate the investigators need to be careful. joe mccarthy did it, doug brinkley said it, he held up a list, and look what happened. there are no schools or parks named after joe mccarthy. that's the lesson kash patel and my friend pam bondi and donald trump need to reme