elon musk has got to go. elon musk has got to go. >> elon musk has got to go. i got you fired up. last time. there we go. let's hear it for jeff merkley. thank you. and i would like to introduce auntie maxine maxine waters of california. >> hello, everybody. we have convened here at the treasury department. we have got to tell elon musk nobody elected your ass. nobody told you you could get all of our private information. nobody told you you could be in charge of the payments of this country. we have told you you have made enough money off our government yourself. now you want to take everybody else's payroll and make sure that they do not make the kind of money that you have made. you want to use our money to go to mars. no. we want to use our money right here in washington, d.c., in this country. we want to make sure all of our federal employees are protected. we have to make sure that you know and understand nobody elected you. you think you are the president of the united states of america? the copresidents that can take over, go into our private payment system and do whatever

no one elected elon musk. but with president trump's blessing, he has given himself tremendous power with no oversight and no accountability. musk has shown us he wants to slash meals on wheels, shutter preschools, and school lunches for kids in need, while stephen the government to help himself and his companies. and it is just one piece of the trump-musk plan to take money away from us the people and replace it with tax cuts for billionaires. did you vote for that? it is outrageous. it must end. that is why we are here today. that is why on sunday night over 50,000 people joined us on a livestream to take action and call other members and senators to fight this. and our elected officials are listening. many of them are here with us right now. we are about to hear from many of them, who are using their unique power to defend the people from this hostile takeover. we are going to start with a good friend of ours, representative maxwell frost. rep. frost: thank you. show me what democracy looks like. we are her

elon musk. >> is. >> out of order and dismantled. >> out of order, >> i call. >> mr. elon. >> there's been a motion and second motion by doctor fox. >> second by mr. >> higgins to. >> table. >> all those in favor. of tabling signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed. >> signify by saying no. >> no. >> in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. >> leading off our discussion tonight, norm eisen, who served as the white house chief ethics counsel for president obama back when the white house obeyed the law. he was in federal court today trying to force the treasury department to protect americans financial data in the possession of the treasury. norm, thank you very much for joining us tonight. please update us on the status of your your court attempt to block what's happening at the treasury. >> well, lawrence, thanks. >> for having me. >> and we anticipate that. >> tomorrow the. >> court will. >> enter an order saying. that the defendants. >> the treasury department, will. not provide. access to any payment record or payment system. >> of. >> records maint

the record is clear -- elon musk is anti-worker and anti-labor. will not allow the shadow government that musk is leading to destroy government agencies that protect workers. elon musk, we have got a message for you. you will be fired. people across all the states and capitals throughout the country are rising up and saying that we cannot have an unelected someone who has not been vetted, someone who has not taken an oath to protect the interests of the people of the united states. thank you very much. next, i'd like to introduce representative mciver. >> thank you so much, whip. my name is la monica mciver. i represent new jersey's 10th congressional district. thank you to our chair and our whip for the comments. i am here to simply say that elon musk, you're fired. i went to the treasury department on tuesday and joined with hundreds of other americans and many of my colleagues here because an unelected billionaire gained access to the social security numbers, bank account information, and personal data of millions of americans. we went there to

afraid of elon musk, is sitting idly by as elon musk has moved on to invading medicare and medicaid. that's right. elon musk now has access to all of your medicare information. elon musk now has access to every medical service medicare and medicaid has ever provided for you, or anyone in your family or anyone you know. the treasury letter about elon musk does not say whether elon musk has copied all of the treasury department's data on every taxpayer in america, and all of that data on medicare and medicaid. that's a question that senators want answered. has elon musk made copies of treasury data and other government data? that's the question everyone in the country wants answered. and there is no answer to that question in jonathan blum's letter. and remember, if anyone in the trump administration, like jonathan blum does try to tell you tomorrow or the next day that elon musk has not copied all of the treasury department's data on every taxpayer in america, there is no way to verify that. we will never have a way to verify that. it is now impossible to know and will always be impos

it is no coincidence that elon musk, the world's wealthiest man with billions of dollars of investment in china, is doing china's bidding. lastly what trump and musk have done is not only wrong, it is illegal. usaid was established by an act of congress and it can only be disbanded by an act of congress. stopping this will require action by the courts and for republicans to show up and show courage and stand up for our country. further, i am urging my fellow democrats to use every legislative tool we have at our disposal to slow down and stop this crime from succeeding. we are here to shine a light on this. you see the wonderful people here with us. let me give you my good friend, senator chris van hollen. sen. van hollen: thank you to don buyer and all of our colleagues gathered here and all of you who are here at this moment of a clear and present danger for the future of our country. make no mistake, this effort by elon musk and to shut down the agency for international development is an absolute gift to our adversaries. to russia, to china, to iran and others. usaid is an essential

president trump directed his corrupt billionaire friend elon musk to ransack a critical agency of the u.s. government. musk and his band of unelected alkali to have locked out usaid employees from their offices, improperly accessed highly classified information, purge the agency of nonpartisan leadership and has thrown the agency into chaos through a concerted campaign of harassment and intimidation of employees. this is on top of trump's freeze of crucial foreign assistance programs. these actions severely harm our national security. they put thousands of children around the world in immediate risk of starvation, disease and death, and sidelined some of our finest civil servants who work tirelessly every day to make the world a better place. this is a case of the very worst among us attacking the very best of us. the work usaid does is vital to all americans. agency employees stationed around the world work hand-in-hand with our military to counterterrorism and stabilize dangerous regions. they monitor and they fight diseases like ebola and bird flu, to prevent them from coming to th

now, i don't know what elon musk's intentions are, i don't know what elon musk's motivations are, i don't know what his purposes are, but they've got nothing to do with what has been lawfully adopted by the people of the united states of america through the congress of the united states. we are going to defend usaid all the way! [applause] and i want to say finally this, i have heard some murmurings in support of this outrageous, scandalous, illegal maneuver that they just need some time to do some studies for evaluation. i have heard from multiple constituents working in usaid that they have removed all evaluations from the usaid website and they have shut down immediately as of right now all of the evaluations taking place of usaid efforts all over the world. this has nothing to do with evaluation, this is about termination and obliteration of the major foreign aid programs of the united states of america, all of which together total less than $40 billion. we have a pentagon budget of $900 billion. the pentagon budget is where the defense contractor elon musk who became the richest man

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white is elon musk going after usaid? is is because musk alleges usaid funding has been used to watch deadly programs and called a criminal organization. sub-saharan africa could suffer more than any other region during the's. the u.s. gave the region he minute. assistance last year. there are ramifications already in latin america. in mexico, a busy shelter for migrants has been left without a doctor. it goes on to list many other items. let's go to mike in philadelphia, pennsylvania, and our line for independence. good morning. caller: hey, good morning. host: do you support or oppose? caller: i completely oppose elon musk. i find his presence to be noxious and antithetical to the constitutional experiment. i watch this show pretty frequently. i find it pretty foolish when i hear people call in and try to cheer on what this guy is doing with usaid with his little goons because $64 million is a drop in the bucket. elon musk between spacex and tesla has received nearly $15 billion from the american taxpayer over the course

white is elon musk going after usaid? is is because musk alleges usaid funding has been used to watch deadly programs and called a criminal organization. sub-saharan africa could suffer more than any other region during the's. the u.s. gave the region he minute. assistance last year. there are ramifications already in latin america. in mexico, a busy shelter for migrants has been left without a doctor. it goes on to list many other items. let's go to mike in philadelphia, pennsylvania, and our line for independence. good morning. caller: hey, good morning. host: do you support or oppose? caller: i completely oppose elon musk. i find his presence to be noxious and antithetical to the constitutional experiment. i watch this show pretty frequently. i find it pretty foolish when i hear people call in and try to cheer on what this guy is doing with usaid with his little goons because $64 million is a drop in the bucket. elon musk between spacex and tesla has received nearly $15 billion from the american taxpayer over the course

and that is elon musk. at the beginning of this hearing , when we asked our republican colleagues if he could bring mr. musk to this committee, republicans ran, for him. they wanted him hiding in the white house tweeting and they voted unanimously they didn't want to hear from elon musk. supposedly this committee is about rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. i agree. so let's talk about waste, fraud and abuse. the biggest fraud in u.s. government right now is elon musk prepared -- pretending to care about efficiency when what he cares about is taking your taxpayer dollars, your medicare, medicaid, your social security, and enriching himself and his billionaire buddies with it. the biggest abuse in the u.s. government right now is elon musk getting $154 billion richer since the election just a few months ago while consolidating unprecedented power over your money and your government. mr. musk invested 220 $7 million in president trump's election and making billions off of it. that's waste, fraud, and abuse. sp

elon musk made i guess donald trump works for elon musk.d that none of. >> this is about, you know, government. >> efficiency or. >> making the government work. for you. >> right now. >> it's about the american people working for elon musk. are we okay. >> with that? >> because last time i checked, this is america. this isn't china, this isn't russia, this. isn't apartheid south africa, where. >> elon musk came from. >> and we. >> need to make. >> sure that as we the. >> people that we put our foot down and say. >> not no, but. >> hell no. >> and that the members. of congress on both, both sides of the aisle do their job. >> and i guarantee you, seneca project is going to make sure. >> that. >> they do that. and we're going. >> to be. >> you're going to. >> hear from us. >> more and more about. >> that. >> because we've got a less than a minute left. i just want to get your thought. the democrats, to tara's point, are beginning to make some moves. are they the right moves? are they bold enough? getting locked out of the department of educat

and even though elon musk is a did a lot to get donald trump into office, you don't want elon musk toher goals. i think you don't want him to be a distraction. you don't want him to overshadow overshine the president outshine him. so i think there are some tensions there. obviously, you know, the more attention that elon musk gets, the less attention some of other people in donald trump's inner circle get. so there's some self-interest there, too. but it is a dynamic that's going to be really interesting to watch in the coming weeks and months. >> philip. brian, stay with us, philip. defenders of elon musk in this effort would say he's just there to shake up the status quo. and no one's had the guts to do that thus far. >> yeah. okay. so i mean, i think that elon musk has demonstrated over the course of the past several years, in particular, that he thinks he knows better than everyone else. right? and this is what he's doing. he thinks he knows better about twitter. he also operates on a set of incorrect assumptions. he operate on a set of incorrect assumptions about what was happeni

elon musk is in charge of doge. he has not been confirmed by the senate to any position in the federal government. gov. reynolds: no. rep. krishnamoorthi: and he has not been elected by anyone to anything. gov. reynolds: correct. rep. krishnamoorthi: to your knowledge she has not given a financial disclosure to congress. gov. reynolds: not that i'm aware of. rep. krishnamoorthi: ma'am, i want to bring your attention to something very disturbing, that mosque just recently tweeted. as we see in this visual, he said the doge team is rapidly shutting down illegal payments to lutheran famines -- lutheran family services. musk retweeted a post from michael flynn likening lutheran family services to money laundering. you don't believe the lutheran church is a money laundering operation, correct? gov. reynolds: i can tell you that in iowa, the taxpayers hold me personally responsible and accountable for state government, just as they hold president trump accountable -- rep. krishnamoorthi: the lutheran church is not a money

puttingn leave and terminating contracts after tech billionaire elon musk said he was in the process of shutting down the agency that oversees foreign aid. musk claimed on social media early monday morning that he ran the extraordinary move by president donald trump and had his full backing. it raised immediate objections from democrats who said trump lacks the constitutional authority to eliminate usaid, which was established by congress as an independent agency in 1998. let's take a look at what secretary of state marco rubio said about closing usaid when he was asked by reporters during his trip in central america yesterday. [video clip] >> my issue as i said is, yeah, there are things at usaid that we should continue to do and will continue to do. but everything they do has to be in alignment with the national interests and foreign policy of the united states. the attitude that usaid has adopted over the years is, no, we are independent of the national interests. we fund programs not respective if they are aligned or not aligned with the foreign policy. that is ridiculous. these a

speaking of access to sensitive information, there are a lot of questions around how much elon musk has has. and that includes reports that the musk led department of government efficiency doj will touch just about every federal agency, including the department of homeland security. let's take a listen to what dhs secretary kristi noem said about it this morning. elon musk. >> is part of the administration that is helping us identify where we can find savings and what we can do, and he has gone through the processes to make sure that he has the authority the president has granted him. i am today by the work that he is doing by identifying waste, fraud and abuse. >> steph, she's saying there she's fine with the amount of access that musk has. is that the general consensus among members of the trump administration and republican lawmakers overall? or are you hearing folks question that quietly, perhaps questioning. >> you know, what i've heard at this point is kind of, you know, agreeing that they feel like elon musk has a fine amount of access to information. but what i have heard some r

. >> we are not going to help republicans keep elon musk stealing our taxpayer money. >> elon musk, youreporter: they're pressing on with doge. what president trump and elon musk and this entire administration is trying to do is make our bloated bureaucracy here in washington run like a profitable business. vast majority of americans support it so the democrat cspan hoot and holler all they want and, liz, doesn't sound like the hooting and hollering is going to stop. democrat haves had a number of eventses, even today rallying against the man in charge of doge, elon musk, but we haven't heard democrats defending a lot of this wasteful spending that doge has been cutting. liz. liz: interesting, hill i have hy vaughn, thank you so much. >> sounds like something they're most concerned about is doge engineers with access to treasury systems. can you clarify, do the doge engineers have read only access in these systems? >> yes. >> they're not allowed to write new code? >> no. no. >> democrats are outraged that the american people want to be -- want taxpayers going to good uses and not stuff

look, elon musk is a genius, brilliant. and i'm sure all these people around him are wicked smart and, you know, maybe really want to do good things. i don't understand why it all has to be done in secret and without any transparency. >> well, one question has been also, what kind of background checks they have and whatnot, because one, you know, we paid attention to so many of the executive orders trump signed on day one. i think you and i were on air that night talking about he had just signed one that essentially said for six months they can grant a security clearance to whoever he wants, not having had passed an fbi background check. this was a huge issue during trump's first administration. and so we don't have a clear picture of who all has been granted these background checks. just saying someone has a clearance doesn't mean they've passed a background check. >> we're talking about like 19, early 20s, you know, folks who, you know, their lives are just starting like, we don't know who these people are. >> yeah. and i

donald trump likes elon musk and trusts elon musk and president trump totally supports elon musk efficiencyudit and uncovered fraud in numerous areas inside agencies where there's been all kinds of spending on items that congress never mandated. in fact, mr. trump will expand musk's remit to include the education department and the pentagon. and there may well be much more to come. we'll have former jus distotis department official john yoo talk about this subject in a few minutes. now, this morning i put it this way on outnumbered. take a listen. elon musk exercise is about systems and efficiency and delivery. it is not changing policies on the fly. hence there's nothing wrong with an audit. they're finding judges who are all slightly to the left of whoopie goldberg. nothing constitutional or policy about this. larry: so, attorney general palm bondi moving rapidly to vacate various restraining orders and the payment systems reviews. interestingly none of the left wing judges opposing trump used any case law so far. justice department appeals may have to go all the way up to the supreme cou

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so is there oversight of elon musk and his coterie? >> our sense is, is really that for elon musk himself, it's basically unchecked. i mean, yes, obviously there is president trump. and when it came to the faa thing, they said they had the authority granted to them to start working on the nation's aviation systems, granted by president trump himself. musk is obviously in charge of his team, which has grown in the more than two weeks now that trump has been in office. and clearly, you're seeing who he's adding to his team. and just, you know, which agencies they're going into. and now for the department of energy. it said that essentially that this that luke, this person that they had brought on had gotten basically basic i.t. access. the question i think that a lot of people have and the reason we're we're following this so closely is where that goes and how expansive that power becomes. because for elon musk, in these last few weeks since trump regained power, it has been virtually unchecked. and there have been times where, you know,

elon musk's true intentions. he sought to use his access to the treasury payment system in order to cut off payments to usaid. this raises extremely serious concerns. if elon musk can shut off payments to an entire federal agency, we can only imagine what he will be doing with americans' taxpayer, personal taxpayer information. the american people deserve to know exactly what information has been accessed, how many times it has been accessed, and for what purpose it is being used. as a ranking member of the subcommittee on oversight, i am demanding that the i.r.s. provide those answers to us immediately. i led a letter signed by every ways and means democrat to the acting commission of the i.r.s. requesting specific details about elon musk's access to america's information. let me be very clear. president trump is not king. congress is a co-equal branch of government and we will not hesitate to exercise our oversight authority to hold this administration accountable. on behalf of the american people, we expect a

elon musk is not doing it on his own. you know? it's -- he's giving the advice to the president and then they can make the decisions. he is not doing this all on his own. that is what -- i don't understand why these democrats, and the people of the united states, don't want to stop all of this fraud and stuff that's going on in our country. it's our money. why are they being so defendant of our money? host: that is marlene and minnesota. here's two beds today, first from "the new york times," writing "it isn't reform, its sabotage, musk and trump are launching a frontal attack on the government." the lead editorial from "the washington times," "the doge free up -- freak out and flamed the debate over federal spending." that some of the debate in today's papers. your thoughts this morning, mark in oklahoma, good morning. caller:[sneezing] good morning. host: good morning, mark. caller: i think they need to cut the irs, going after people from taxes. they did a big hiring. we could switch them to then border patrol and stuff. one of

. >> no one elected elon musk to nothing, and yet elon musk is seizing the power that belongs to the american people. >> we have not months. we have not weeks, but we have days to stop the destruction of our democracy. >> reporter: as trump, musk, and doge carry out their purge of the federal government, republicans on capitol hill defending their actions. >> the reality? >> the message to my democratic friends is i hear your criticism, but you need to call somebody who cares. >> he's throwing out big ideas, and if anybody thinks that all of these big ideas are going to be implemented to conclusion, they don't understand the process of disruption. >> why not go through congress for that? >> because you're reporting and you're asking questions about the old way of doing >> reporter: so back to that buyout offer for those federal workers. that hearing is now scheduled for monday. we were told at least 65,000 people had taken the administration up on that offer, but democrats and unions are warning that since this money was noit approved by congress, there's no certainty those worker

what are the chances that elon. musk would let his friends in the chinese government know. >> a little. bit more or a lot. >> more about the inner. workings of. >> the united. >> states treasury? does anyone think there is a zero chance of that happening? a zero chance? does anyone think that elon. >> musk, the most erratic. >> public figure in the world not. >> named donald trump, can. >> actually be trusted with anything? we have no idea what. >> elon musk. >> and the very. >> young men with. >> him are doing inside the treasury of the united states. no one knows. >> donald trump. >> doesn't even know. the one thing we do. know is that there's nothing good. >> that they can. >> do inside the treasury of the united states. and the other thing we know is that nothing like this has ever happened before in the history of the united states of america. on friday, the career treasury official who has served under every republican and every democratic president over the last 30 years, david liebreich, resigned from the treasur

do i still have that presumption when elon musk is around? >> well, i think the law allows you to have that presumption. but then. >> when you have the. >> people who actually are sitting on the. >> servers and. >> sitting on top of the. >> information. >> not feeling bound by the law, it's, you know, i'm not going to give you a lot of comfort. the law does provide all sorts of privacy protections, but the law counts on people respecting the law and enforcing the law. and it's not not clear where we are on that. >> if there is a lawsuit that's brought on this and said that lawsuit winds its way to the supreme court, well, i mean, first, can a federal judge put an injunction on elon musk and anybody accessing this material? and if it does end up getting to the supreme court, do you have a sense of where they might fall on this? because they have been pretty broad in their reading of executive authority? >> yeah, that's that's two good questions. i certainly think that whether the injunction goes against elon musk or against officials in the ag

we don't pledge allegiance to elon musk. we don't pledge allegiance to the creepy 22 year olds working for elon musk. we pledge allegiance to the united states of america. >> no one. >> elected elon musk to nothing. we will rally. we will power a movement all across this country. elon musk wants power and we will fight back. >> yes. >> you can see that there today. and it's. >> a reminder that politics, governing news. >> as we all live through it and share it together. it evolves. >> in real time. and so it might not have been obvious when. >> donald trump. >> did win. >> by a point and a half in november. that within the first month of his term, some of this round of resistance or opposition or concern wouldn't just be about donald trump, the person, but about a very rich, foreign born billionaire who. is exerting so much control. substantively, you can say the democrats and others are concerned about. >> this politically. >> you can see. from these visuals they may think they have an opening and musk is going beyond treas

and that is elon musk. at the beginning of this hearing , when we asked our republican colleagues if he could bring mr. musk to this committee, republicans ran, for him. they wanted him hiding in the white house tweeting and they voted unanimously they didn't want to hear from elon musk. supposedly this committee is about rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. i agree. so let's talk about waste, fraud and abuse. the biggest fraud in u.s. government right now is elon musk prepared -- pretending to care about efficiency when what he cares about is taking your taxpayer dollars, your medicare, medicaid, your social security, and enriching himself and his billionaire buddies with it. the biggest abuse in the u.s. government right now is elon musk getting $154 billion richer since the election just a few months ago while consolidating unprecedented power over your money and your government. mr. musk invested 220 $7 million in president trump's election and making billions off of it. that's waste, fraud, and abuse. sp

that would be elon musk getting lectured on intelligence from aoc. okay, i'll put that in the back of my head. they hate musk because he's exposing all of this misappropriation of your hard earned tax dollars. we'll scroll it again in a minute. and also because he is helping donald trump fulfill his promise, and we're returning to limited government, greater freedom and not wasting our money abroad. but we're going to put the american people first. and you want to go to war and you want to assassinate the character of elon musk, who's doing this for free. really? remember, we are $40 trillion in debt. they are stealing your money. they are stealing the money for your children and your grandchildren and the biden administration, we just found out today made $236 billion in improper payments last year alone. that's a quarter of $1 trillion they wasted. and we're now beginning to see where they're spending that money because they get their power doing that. and the inflation under biden devalued the dollar by more than 20%. a mega americans struggling to

i want to move on to elon musk himself. you worked for usaid.d. usaid is a criminal organization. time for it to die. usaid is evil. usaid was a viper's nest of radical left marcus marxists who hate america. usaid is a criminal organization. one wonders if maybe it's some resentment for usaid having helped to overthrow the white south african government in where he grew up, the right wing, white south african government? i don't know if that's it. i really couldn't tell you what his motivations are. but your thoughts on that and him also claiming that it's a crime for wired magazine to have divulged through journalism who he has running basically the government, these young people and the new acting u.s. attorney from d.c. essentially threatening anyone who does any investigations of elon musk's doge. >> i mean, this is something that we see just across the board that is just so worrisome. i mean, first and foremost, it harkens back to what we heard during the campaign when president trump talked about the enemy from within. you know, that effor

elon musk is not doing it on his own. you know?t's -- he's giving the advice to the president and then they can make the decisions. he is not doing this all on his own. that is what -- i don't understand why these democrats, and the people of the united states, don't want to stop all of this fraud and stuff that's going on in our country. it's our money. why are they being so defendant of our money? host: that is marlene and minnesota. here's two beds today, first from "the new york times," writing "it isn't reform, its sabotage, musk and trump are launching a frontal attack on the government." the lead editorial from "the washington times," "the doge free up -- freak out and flamed the debate over federal spending." that some of the debate in today's papers. your thoughts this morning, mark in oklahoma, good morning. caller:[sneezing] good morning. host: good morning, mark. caller: i think they need to cut the irs, going after people from taxes. they did a big hiring. we could switch them to then border patrol and stuff. one of my

how long has elon musk hated the united states agency for international development? did he begin hating it when usaid was supporting the american government? foreign policy of opposition to apartheid in south africa, when elon musk was benefiting from apartheid in south africa? is that how elon musk learned to hate that branch of american government that helps the poorest people in the world? there is life saving medicine rotting on loading docks in africa right now, because elon musk has decided there is not a single poor person in the world who should be receiving any help from the united states of america tonight for anything. what kind of sociopaths want mothers to watch their babies die in african countries tomorrow and the next day and the next day? what kind of sociopaths want people to starve? and you can't say, oh, they don't want babies to die. they don't want people to starve. that's not their intention. when you stop the movement of food supplies to starving people, you are starving those people. when you stop the delivery of life saving medicine, you don

then the reward the elon musk trump bromance has benefited tesla is up 45% since the election. market value wall street sees the trump administration facilitating the robo taxing business which is a big benefit to tesla like everything else you have to take the good with the bad and put everything in context. >> real quick math before we go this guy is enormously powerful, have we ever seen a businessperson with the kind of power that elon musk has in the white house. >> after go back to the early 1900s to find somebody like andrew mellon or j.p. morgan but even those folks really don't have a nearly a much influence as elon musk. >> is a big weekend for guacamole one restaurant changes hedging the avocado but can't control cilantro what's more expensive than white. in jack: it is super bowl weekend we should let viewers know our choice of red is not a call for the chiefs we will be neutral on that but while we're talking super bowl chipotle is hedging avocado but. >> they were talking in the earnings saying only half of the avocados come from mexico so they don't need to be th

hey hey ho ho elon musk has got to go because this -- hey hey ho ho elon musk has got to go because this is about taking back our country and doing it now. make no mistake about it, elon musk's effort to dismantle the agency for international development is a gift to china. it is a gift to russia. it is a gift to our adversaries around the world. putin's cronies immediately put on x, "smart move by elon musk." this is not america first. this is america in retreat, and we are not going to retreat from american values. [cheers and applause] so it has nothing to do with government efficiency and everything to do with something that will harm our national interests. if you talk to american military leaders, they will tell you that aid is an essential and cost-effective part of our overall foreign policy and national security strategy because aid makes us safer here as we save lives around the world. [cheers and applause] aid makes us safer by providing greater stability in very combustible parts of the world. it supports our values by helping democracy movements around the world, and it figh

do you think the american people think elon musk cares about them? dr. resh: i don't think the american people should really care what he thinks. they should have someone making decisions who has taken an oath to the constitution. rep. tlaib: that is very important, isn't it? the constitution gives congress control overspending. not the president and not elon musk and the american people need to understand why that balance of government is there, to protect all of us from these kinds of decisions that are hurting people now. mr. chair, just know this, this is the same way and -- same man who wants to cut but he has $20 billion in federal contracts. he's the richest man on earth and he still taking a handout from the public. $20 billion. if it's really about that and not hurting public infrastructures that really are critical and important for the most vulnerable, and you be surprised him the people in your community into districts no matter political affiliation, will be harmed by these decisions that again, over past the congressional process. it is our

no one elected elon musk to nothing. that's right. not one democrat in america voted for elon musk. not one. not one republican in america voted for elon musk. now, the white house has confirmed that elon musk is formally a special government employee. while he's not drawing a salary, he is considered an employee of the executive branch. he's also allowed to perform limited activities for the government, but is limited to working no more than 130 days a year. nbc news has been told he is required to report and answer to the president's chief of staff, but he does have a good natural instinct. he's got a team of very talented people and we're trying to shrink government, and he can probably shrink it as well as anybody else, if not better. all right. let's bring in our business and tech reporter scott budman. so that was president trump. either elon musk's boss or coworker. coworker. one of the two summons the boss there, right? is this all a n nothing burger, whether it's from the public or lawmakers to say, hey, we want to limit elon musk's role or can that really happen from outsi