i was challenged by letitia james. we are the only guys who have been sued by letitia james. two things. what you are doing with migrants, deporting them, criminal migrants in nassau county, what you are doing with getting biological men out of women's sports, are those two things popular in nassau county? you got support? >> wildly popular. i was out to dinner last night, 7 or 8 people came to me and said thank you for protecting the integrity of girls sports. a lot of them had daughters who compete athletically. people on the street and in the minority communities, they want the criminals out. they thank us all the time. they want ice in, nassau county police department in their. we are doing the job and people appreciate it. donald trump lost nassau county by 70,000 vote in 2020. he won nassau county by 33,000 votes, that's 103,000 votes because people were fed up with biden/harris and wanted trump back. stuart: always a pleasure, thanks for being on the show. still ahead, joe rogan cheering on musk's business approach to government cuts. >> the same people who said we nee

former secretary of state antony blinken, letitia james, we just her from her. alvin bragg and former national security advisor, jake sullivan, among others. >> he's been very busy. fitting allotted to that report. appreciate it. elon putting an end to the old way of doing things in washington. big changes and does recruit are living proof. expert engineers and many are under 25. six young tech prodigies that accomplished this enormous lifetime for the success but don't tell that to the establishment left. >> elon musk and crew of teenage mutant insults continue to tear apart to 50 years of democracy. >> this band of musketeers rampaging through government -- >> 's group with their drives staging a digital coup. >> is not the worst the kids are dealing with, they are facing anonymous violet threats from leftist like these on the line. trust us, there are plenty worse than what you're seeing there on that screen we were talking about how they do kind of deserve a band name, does du dues -- >> there's so many responses to the soundbite we've heard from democrats a

and that includes the new york attorney general, letitia james, manhattan da alvin bragg, former members of the biden administration as well. does trump appear to have any motivation here other than retribution for his personal grievances? >> i think, you know. >> he would say that they, you know, abuse their power here in going after him. but all of these people kind of have one thing in common, right? they've been on the wrong side of donald trump in some way, shape or form, including president biden. right. these are the kinds of things that were promised, right? when he was running for office. he talked about retribution. he did back off a little bit and said, you know, that winning was going to be the retribution. but what we've seen over and over again in this first three weeks is that he has gone after the people that have gone after him because he feels he was wronged. and i think, you know, the american people knew well that that's what they were getting. he feels. and his his team feels like they have a mandate to do all of these things. right, whether it's to gut, as they put

charlie: so the thing that's different for alvin bragg and letitia james, they're in courtrooms. here in new york, so they have to go into these courtrooms. but in terms of getting security clearances for all these other people, it's a money-making scheme. it's a way that these -- they become lobbyists, basically, for hire for anybody who wants to hire them, and it gives them access the you are nation -- to our nation's secrets. and they maintain them in their retirement even though they have no responsibility to the government, they're not working for the government anymore. they're working for, you know, whatever -- and, obviously, there are all kinds of rules governing who they can work for, but, you know, who knows? i mean, i don't have a whole lot of faith in those rules. none of these people particularly care about rules when it comes to all the other aspects of life. so basically, it's like a protected cottage try of these former intel officials who make money and trade on their access to government secrets. and i think it's disgusting. i think they all should have -- grif

over the past four years and looking into cases brought against president trump by jack smith, letitia james and manhattan da alvin bragg and attorney general bondi, listen to this, jack smith spent more than $50 million of taxpayer money to target trump? not going after -- let me back up. forgive me. there's been 50 jihad i did plats uncovered over the last four years but they're targeting trump and school board parents and catholics? >> you're exactly right. it was the fbi under merrick garland that listed parents who cared about their children not being indoctrinated as domestic terrible resistances and this is the thing that pam -- terrorists and pam bondi going after this and building confidence for the american people. it's better and full transparency. she's going to issue quarterly reports continuing this look to the weaponization to the white house released to american people and it'll expose what happened and whether it was unethical tactical practices on j6 and whether actually letitia james, fani willis or weaponization of the justice system against a person running for the presi

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here's a bit of what new york's attorney general letitia james said in a video statement posted on x.s not have the power to give our private information away to whomever he wants. and he does not have the power to cut federal spending that congress approved, much less to do so by giving the richest sensitive information. and to protect your personal information. and amid efforts by the trump administration to cut costs, the us president says he wants to slash america's trade deficit with japan and warned tokyo that tariffs against them minister shigeru ishiba to the white house for their first face—to—face meeting. mr trump also announced that japan's nippon steel instead making an investment in the american company. national security concerns. mr trump reiterated friday that he also opposes a sale. meanwhile, the us president postponed a call with his "lies and falsehoods" about the panama canal. mr mulino made those comments in response to claims constitution. infrastructure programme — a move criticized by china's foreign ministry as "sabotage." this update from mexico city. jimmy

to classified information and barring entry to federal facilities to new york attorney general letitia jamesanhattan district alvin bragg who both brought cases against trump. this comes just days after he revoked former president biden's access and announced that ex-secretary of state antony blinken and former biden national security adviser jake sullivan are also being blocked. >>> the cause of an explosion and fire at a pennsylvania industrial plant is under investigation. about a dozen people were injured in the incident yesterday at the parker lord facility in crawford county north of pittsburgh. several firefighters were hurt. it caused major damage to the plant that makes specialty materials. >>> a powerful earthquake in the caribbean sea triggered tsunami warnings over the weekend. the 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit in the middle of the sea south of the cayman islands saturday. the u.s. national tsunami warning center issued a tsunami advisory for puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. that alert was later called off. no reports of major damage. >>> coming up, quarterback aaron rodge

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. >> reporter: meanwhile, cbs news has learned that new york attorney general letitia james and several other attorneys general will challenge elon musk's department of government efficiency over its access to sensitive systems and data. one more legal challenge breaking overnight, two labor unions are suing over the trump administration and the dismantling of the u.s. agency for international development or usaid. sources tell cbs news there are plans to slash the number of employees there from thousands to less than 300. michael? >> all right, naomi ruchim, thanks. >>> the president is also targeting thousands of fbi agents and other bureau employees for possible firings. now, that includes those who were involved in the investigation of the january 6th riot at the capitol. a judge blocked the justice department from releasing a list of their names. scott macfarlane spoke with an agent on that list who says the bureau is in turmoil for protecting the agents' identity. >> reporter: the largest criminal investigation in fbi history has given way to potentially its largest crisis. do you

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new york attorney general letitia james. directive is an early indication of bondi's plan, in spite of what she said during her confirmation hearing last month. >> no one will be. >> prosecuted. >> investigated because they are. >> a. >> political opponent. >> the partizanship. >> the weaponization. >> will be gone. >> america will have one. >> tier of justice for all. there will never be an enemies. >> list within the department of justice. i believe that the justice department must. be independent and must act independently. >> joining me now is nbc's ken dilanian and msnbc political analyst eugene daniels is back with me. walk us through, ken, what this new working group's mission will be. >> well. >> chris. the most important thing to say about this is that there has been no evidence produced in public. none. not a shred that any of particularly the justice department investigations of donald trump were in any way biased or unfair or weaponized to use their term, even though republicans have been making that charge, the

exactly the opposite by launching a probe of duly sworn prosecutors jack smith, alvin bragg and letitia james for the apparent crime of prosecuting the democracy was that that's hot going to apply. and we're just going to forgive them all. we'll wipe out all the agreements. we'll go around the law, circum little less awe. he's been making a blizzard of moves in these first 18 days of his second administration, meant to inspire fear and outrage, creating problems and then pretending to solve them so that he can look like a savior, keeping his promises to his base. and while it's all really bad and destructive, i think it's important to sort out the actual fires from the smoke and mirrors because, let's face it, we can't react to everything effectively all at the same time. but that's what autocrats and coup leaders want, right? while we're running from fire to fire. trump and elon's little doge gang are dismantling our federal government from within. so just for a moment, let's just take a step back and look at what he's been saying versus what he's been doing. trump announced 25% tariffs on m

the alvin bragg hush money case, the letitia. >> james lawsuit. >> because doj, i believe in the next several months will say we need your files. and i think alvin bragg is going to say, no way. and we could end up in a showdown in court over this. but look, this is politicization. i mean, there's no reason to reopen these cases. i've been critical of these cases. you know, i think that there there have been prosecutorial missteps. but to go into this and to try to declare that these were politically driven, i think is in itself political, political. >> and there's this question of what happened to states rights. i mean, you know, donald trump and the republicans have always been talking about states rights. and in this case, i don't know if that's something that's going to come up. but i do want to ask you about bondi, who is threatening sanctuary cities and sanctuary cities. you know, for people that understand what they're doing, they basically give more protections to undocumented. migrants and tell their local authorities not to to help out federal immigration authorities. so she

new york's attorney general letitia james, posting on x. we want a court order blocking elon musk, the world's richest man, from accessing american's private data. on friday, a different federal judge blocking the trump administration's plan to put thousands of usaid workers on leave and effectively pauses the ability to cut the federal relief agency. usaid provides food to 32 million malnourished children and funds projects to fight epidemics across the country. growing protests over musk's expanding role in the government. president trump says he wants musk to go even further, slashing spending at the department of education and the pentagon. >> i'll tell them to go here. go there. he does it. he's got a very capable group of people. >> it raises concerns about potential conflicts of interest. companies owned by musk have billions of dollars in contracts with the military. meanwhile, trump has announced he has revoked former president biden's ability to have daily intelligence briefings. it's a courtesy given to former presidents. biden d

the restriction is a win for letitia james who led a coalition, james alleges this level of access for unauthorized individuals is unlawful, unprecedented and unacceptable. doge has no authority to access this information. democrats on capitol hill push for a treasury department investigation into elon musk's access. democratic congressman khanna says he doesn't agree with musk's approach. >> reporter: show where the wasteful spending is an force and up or down vote. don't make that decision unilaterally. that in my view violates the constitution. >> reporter: doge says they have cut 200 contracts across 35 agencies saving $250 million. the white house has largely praised doge's actions. a federal judge did not immediate the block doge from accessing the labor department system. unions who sued have not provided proof of legal injury. mike:the white house praising cost-cutting efforts as democrats question his heavy influence. julie manchester on why this is all headed. >> reporter: good morning. mike:what is your assessment of elon musk's influence in the first few months of the admin

house to meet with joe biden's lawyers in his department of justice from georgia to new york, letitia jamesrought his indictment and of course all the brag who not only met with joe biden and joe biden's lawyers in the white house he took one of joe biden's lawyers from the department of justice to have him bring this case. all of these people in the jurisdictions are proxies of the biden white house. maria: this is part of it i know there trying to cut out cost and they say listen here's a buyout, bye-bye, the other reason for this is because they've all been politicized and that's why they're offering and telling people to d.o.j. get up you worked for jack smith and the fake investigation, you are d done. >> ultimately trump is entitled to the executive branch this is a fast way to weed out ideologues from last admin and popular by the way reuters did a survey of 15 trump executive orders downsizing the federal government was the most popular by far and the elites are freaking out but not the people. >> drug cartels very important to ratcliffe in the new cia it's going after the drug cart

you have letitia james telling people hospitals go to ignore the executiv e order on the transgenderntinue to do what you want and you will lose fan to maked yofederal funding that you areis under my purview. ien this is the derangements of thec likes never seem. that is why they lost and theyye will lose again in four years. they are a mess and they don't care about america and they don't care about ourid kids ande they don't care about fairness. they are completely woke and it is actually a joke. i just primed for you, laura but not on purpose. actually seemsntal like a mental disorder and i'm t sounds uncharitable.as i told mark zuckerberg, mehta ceo, leaving the white house late today and had alate chanceo talk to him as i know you diddi during the inauguration. but what wase he doing there again?resi is he now the second best friend to the president? >> i will not speak to that because i'm trying to keep my job in the white house. but i will tell yod u this, you would be surprised by the peopl coming here and thatab is aboutt strength. thatit is about having respect a the presid

he has revoked securityvern clearance of antony blinken, jake sullivan,ke s alvin bragg, letitia jamesfter pulled the clearance on joe biden saint truth social post this, there is no need for joe biden to receive access t o classified himn 20 information.elli he set this president in 2021 with intelligence community tofm stop me, accessing details on national security. a courtesy provided for former presidents. in that same special counsel robert hur described biden at methe time is an elderly man wih a poor memory. trump echoed that sentiment said thatden biden can't be trustedh coclassified information.up so a couple of things to unpack here, guys, joey, i want to send something here. a little bit of a curveball but we watch an entire minute longth ad from secret service. you or someone that's all and add some pointu ar in your life and stirred to serve your country. to that type of p.r. matters trying to capture the imagination and excitement, passion of young people. when you see that from the secret service and they have hey' been through the ringer the last hour.>> what you think

this was a suit brought by new york attorney general letitia james and seven other ag's to stop musk. in a statement james says from the moment that elon musk and his employees gained access to our personal, private data, state bank accounts and sensitive information, people have been horrified. and the president heads to the super bowl tomorrow, but not before sitting down with our own bret baier for a super bowl interview to air pregame. >> looking forward to that. thank you. for more on the doge's efforts. let's bring in texas congressman and house doge congress co-chair pete sessions. thank you for joining us this afternoon. recapping what lucas reported there, the court system allowed doge to access labor department, not treasury. court cases continue. the argument is basically you have this international businessman who has plenty of conflicts of interest. shouldn't have access to this type of information, should he? >> really, the bottom line is the president of the united states dually elected across the country in a positive fashion promised on the campaign trail that we woul

biden's secretary of state, antony blinken, and new york attorney general letitia james are at the topp gave to the new york post. he also named attorney norm eisen, who sued the treasury department last week for sharing sensitive data with elon musk's dodge team. eisen scored a temporary victory yesterday when a judge overseeing a similar lawsuit temporarily blocked musk and doge from accessing that information. former special counsel and special assistant to president obama, norm eisen, joins us at the table. he's the executive chair of the state democracy defenders fund. welcome. good morning sir. >> norm, first of all, you're now on the president's list. he is targeting you. i have to imagine. >> that on the short list. >> you're on the short list? the work that you're doing. >> i'm just. >> number eight. you've gotten under his skin. look at the company. i mean, truly it is. first of all, did you anticipate that the work that you were doing could put you in the president's crosshairs in this way, that he would attempt to revoke your security clearance? and secondly, can you talk t

including former secretary of state antony blinken, attorney general, new york attorney general letitia jamesmanhattan district attorney alvin bragg, biden's national security advisor. jake sullivan, biden's deputy attorney general, lisa monaco. and lawyers andrew weissman, mark zaid and norm eisen. and joe biden himself. apparently, he wants to revoke his security because, oh, guess what? during january 6th, when trump was all in that messed up in that little insurrection thing that occurred in the building behind us, president biden did the appropriate thing and said, you know what? let's slow the roll on giving this kind of information, having these briefings to donald trump, the pettiness of trump is what drives these lists. >> yeah. >> what's the impact, though, on the functioning of our government? these individuals still play roles. yeah, administratively and otherwise. help us understand why these threats and the actual revocation of these levels of security and, you know, access to security clearances matter. >> well, revenge. >> and. retribution are the. >> commanding animus for don

against him, and the $500 million he owes to the state of new york for because of attorney general letitia james successful lawsuit against him. so when the day came that the trump team had to call elon musk a liar publicly and in writing, who was the brave republican who stepped forward and said, boss, i'll do it. it wasn't any of the cabinet members who have already been confirmed by the senate. the person who got the assignment today in the trump administration to call elon musk a liar publicly is jonathan blum. he's a former lobbyist for the banking industry and is now a political appointee at the treasury department, where he worked during the first trump presidency. he has a mid-level job with the title principal deputy assistant secretary in the office of legislative affairs. what that translates to is he is a lobbyist for the treasury department, a lobbyist with congress working on legislative affairs in the treasury department means that he has to keep in occasional touch with the senate finance committee staff and the house ways and means committee staff on legislative matters involvin

now, new york attorney general letitia james and 18 other state attorneys general filed a lawsuit that contended that musk's associates, who were categorized as special government employees, were unlawfully granted access to that treasury system, and a u.s. district court judge temporarily restricted the doge team from that system. that judge cited risks to sensitive and confidential information, as well as vulnerability to hacking. now, the white house lambasted that ruling on saturday. in a new statement, spokesman harrison fields telling cnn, quote, these frivolous lawsuits are akin to children throwing pasta at the wall to see if it will stick. grandstanding government efficiency speaks volumes about those who'd rather delay much needed change with legal shenanigans than work with the trump administration of ridding the government of waste, fraud and abuse. now, for his part, president trump himself appears to be pleased with the work that musk and his team are doing. take a look. >> mr. president, i wonder what you make of the criticism from democrats that these staff reductions,

the suit was brought by a new york attorney general letitia james and 18 other attorneys general. >>s unelected group led by the world's richest man, is not authorized to have this information. >> elon musk fired back on x, i was told there is currently over $100 billion a year of entitlement payments to individuals with no ssn or a temporary id number. if accurate this is extremely suspicious. that usaid letters were ripped off the reagan building in washington. a trump appointed federal judge ruled late friday to hold off putting 2200 employees on paid leave ahead of the midnight deadline. democrats are outraged over the gutting of usaid. >> we will fight their violations of our constitution of the united states of america. >> wednesday trump signed executive order barring men from women sports. one day after the president offered a new plan for the future of gaza. >> the u.s. will take over the gaza strip. we will do a job with it to. we will own it. >> the idea received a positive reception from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu standing alongside trump. >> you are the gr

so alvin bragg, the district attorney in manhattan who oversaw the hush money case, as well as letitia jamesis the attorney general that oversaw the the the other case, the the fraud case against the trump organization. so all of that is going to be included in this weaponization look, which includes, by the way, the fbi agents who worked on january 6th cases. >> yeah, this is a huge story. and it would be leading our shows were it not for so many other huge stories. evan perez, thank you so much for the update. brianna. >> elon musk and his team are bulldozing a path through the federal government in their effort to cut what musk calls waste. but we've seen this playbook before. when musk took over twitter. cnn's clare duffy is with us now on this. and, clare, i know you've been talking to former twitter employees. what are they telling you? >> yeah, brianna. >> a lot of former twitter employees are having deja vu now, watching what elon musk is doing within the federal government. one of the most striking things, of course, that we've seen musk do at the government level is just the speed

he's prosecuted democrats like john edwards and republicans and others, alvin bragg and letitia jameso you may or may not know, a lot of their staffs are people taking public service lawyer salaries. they don't have endless funds to deal with potential legally frivolous efforts. there's a call for investigations into what bondi says were, quote, unethical prosecutions relating to january 6th, an ominous conclusion being leveled far before any of her own evidence has been reviewed or new investigation has been done. today, trump's d.c. prosecutor says they will pursue what they call inquiries by inquiries of anyone referred by elon musk, and reuters notes. the announcement of that investigation itself publicly. so just touting this as a public thing is unusual and contrary to doj rules, to which you might say, of course, and you'll notice how the friction is working. we try to follow the evidence and the quotes here. i am not freelancing, and i certainly am not trying to be overly alarmist, but when i report to you that former fbi agents are warning about looming violence, encouraged a

including this very sensitive treasury department payment system, now, new york attorney general letitia jamesalong with 18 other state attorneys general, filed a lawsuit contending that musk's associates, who are qualified as federal special government employees, excuse me, were unlawfully granted access to that sensitive treasury system. and then a federal judge ruled that temporarily restricting the doge team from the system, citing risks to sensitive and confidential information as well as vulnerability to hacking. but the white house is lambasting that ruling. a spokesperson, harrison fields, telling cnn in a statement, quote, these frivolous lawsuits are akin to children throwing pasta at the wall to see if it will stick. grandstanding government efficiency speaks volumes about those who'd rather delay much needed change with legal shenanigans than work with the trump administration on ridding the federal government of waste, fraud and abuse. now, for his part, president trump appears to be pleased with the work that musk and his team are doing. take a look. >> mr. president, i wonder wh

tonight we have the new york post reporting that trump is also stripping the security clearances of letitia jamesnt in their in this country, in their role in keeping the public safe. >> oh, absolutely. >> and actually. >> in. >> that article. >> one of my colleagues. >> who was co-counsel with. >> me on the ukraine matter. >> has apparently had his security clearance stripped. as well. i have yet to hear about mine, but. the fact of the matter is, it's a chilling effect. it's a tool to target individuals and intimidate people from doing their jobs. that's what we're here to do is. >> to use. >> the judicial system, the process, to make sure. >> that people are. >> held accountable. >> one of the. >> things that i also want to talk about today, that. >> i don't think has been reported. >> and it's really. >> important to just. >> to grasp the significance of what's happening. so we know that, for example, doge has been in the department of treasury sucking up information and. for what reason, right. >> i have. >> talked to. to individuals within the intelligence. >> community and have. heard that

now, new york attorney general letitia james and 18 other attorneys general from states filed a lawsuit saying that musk's associates, who are categorized as special government employees, were unlawfully granted access to that very sensitive system. and a u.s. district judge ruled earlier today to temporarily restrict the doge team from accessing this sensitive treasury payment system. he cited the risk to sensitive and confidential information, as well as vulnerability to hacking. now, musk is speaking out on this himself, saying in a post to x that the basis for seeking this information was to require the outgoing government payments have a category categorization code, which is necessary to pass audits. and right now, a lot of the time those codes were left blank. but for his part, president trump appears to be happy at the work that musk and his team are doing. take a look. >> mr. president, i wonder what you make. >> of the criticism. >> from democrats. >> that these. >> staff reductions, the cuts that elon musk. >> and doge. >> are doing are an unlawful power grab. and is there an

that includes new york attorney general letitia james and manhattan da alvin bragg. this means that bars them from entering federal facilities. what reasoning, if any, is the white house giving for this, or is it just an obvious revenge tactic? >> well, president trump is saying that these democratic figures who were, by the way, very, very publicly accusing him of wrongdoing, that he believes these people were politicizing their roles and as a result, their security clearances should be taken away. so that is the stance of president trump, that these are people who were misusing their security clearances and that he wants to take them away. of course, critics of these moves will say that this is really president trump going after what he sees as his perceived enemies and exacting revenge here. he also there are a lot of critics who would also say that because these people were pursuing what were, in their minds, perfectly legitimate cases against president trump, they're not being punished for doing that. so those are the two sides of what's going on there, alex. >>

doj, launching a review of past prosecutions of donald trump, focusing on jack smith bragg and letitia jamesvil case in new york and their staff. she wants to investigate what she has already called unethical prosecutions surrounding the january 6th attack, while pursuit of, i should say, improper. improper. let's go back to the earlier one. make sure i read it right. pursuit of improper investigative tactics and unethical prosecutions. i just want to make sure i got the full sentence for you guys. and then she goes on to say, telling lawyers that they should enforce views that prevailed in the election. bondi issuing these orders after taking office. this is a contrast. remember, to some of the ways she seemed to try to strike a what you might call more withdrawn or even quote unquote balanced tone in those under oath confirmation hearings. >> there will never. >> be an enemies. >> list within. >> the. >> department of justice. >> no one will. be prosecuted, investigated. >> because they are a. >> political opponent. the partizanship the weaponization will be gone. america will have one tie

now, new york attorney general letitia james, as well as 18 other state attorneys general. >> wealth management. >> incredible that. >> after so. >> many years. >> people get accustomed to war. >> and they start losing the power of feeling. >> compassionately. >> we need to be able to. >> address the root. causes that lead to. >> the fact that to be populist is so simple in today's world. >> it is a responsibility of the international community to act. >> as one. >> lockerbie, february 16th on cnn. >> democrats that these staff reductions, the cuts that elon musk and doge are doing are an unlawful power grab. is there anything you've told elon musk he cannot touch? >> well, we haven't discussed that much. i'll tell him to go here. go there. he does it. he's got a very capable group of people. very, very, very, very capable. they know what they're doing. they'll ask questions and they'll see immediately as somebody gets tongue tied that they're either crooked or don't know what they're doing. we have very smart people going in. so i've instructed him, go into education, go into milita

pleased that my attorney general of wisconsin, josh collins, joined in with 2120 other states, letitia jamesepartment, for example. but we don't have standing. it's only the people out there, the you know, and i've been saying to people, it's time to join the pta. there's strength in numbers to call out the dismantling of educational opportunity grants, to call out the, you know, the disassembling of monies for disabled children and to create the curriculum that the states don't have the money on their, you know, off their property tax bases to pay for special programing like that. and there's so much talk about protecting gender identity and gender equality in women's sports. well, that's also under the rubric of the department of education. and so, you know, when you talk about just, you know, disrupting and disassembling government, there are real life consequences to it. you know, there are people who are affected, and you out there are the people who have the power. it's now time to pay your union dues, go to your union meetings, you know, join the naacp, pay your aclu dues. there's str

now, new york attorney general letitia james and 18 other state attorneys general filed a lawsuit that contended that musk's associates. >> who were. >> categorized as special government employees, were. unlawfully granted access to that treasury system, and a u.s. district court judge temporarily restricted the doge team from that system. that judge cited risks to sensitive and confidential information, as well as vulnerability to hacking. now, the white house lambasted that ruling on saturday. in a new statement, spokesman harrison fields telling cnn, quote, these frivolous lawsuits are akin to children throwing pasta at the wall to see if it will stick. grandstanding government efficiency speaks volumes about those who'd rather delay much needed change with legal shenanigans than work with the trump administration of ridding the government of waste, fraud and abuse. now, for his part, president trump himself appears to be pleased with the work that musk and his team are doing. take a look. >> is there. >> anything you've told elon musk he cannot touch? >> well, we haven't discussed

these include new york attorney general letitia james, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, formeran, and former secretary of state antony blinken. while more of a symbolic gesture, it could hinder james's and bragg's abilities to enter federal courthouses, prisons and federal law enforcement facilities. this line of attack began last night when trump announced that he will cut former president joe biden's access to intelligence information in a social media post. trump wrote, quote, there's no need for joe biden to continue receiving access to classified information. therefore, we are immediately revoking joe biden's security clearances and stopping his daily intelligence briefings. to be clear, former presidents don't have security clearances, but they do have access to intelligence briefings anyway. this example of presidential petulance appears to be payback for biden, saying during a 2021 interview that trump should not get intelligence briefings because of, quote, erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection, trying to overturn a free and fair election should be reason enou

jack smith, letitia james and alvin bragg. this this is their that's their target.y for the district of columbia is saying he will weaponize his office on behalf of elon musk, promising an inquiry into people referred to his office by musk and saying he will investigate them and will chase them to the end of the earth. i guess, you know, one person's weaponization is another person's weaponization. i mean. >> yes, the irony is not lost on me. and there's a portion of that letter that you were just reading from. you and i are having a mind meld here, michael, because i was looking at that letter earlier today, and there's a portion of that letter that really is chilling that i want to read to you and our viewers, because before he says he's going to chase them to the end of the earth and investigate them, he says if people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted unethically, we will investigate them. i don't know when it became the role of a u.s. attorney for any office in the country to prosecute people for merely unethical actions. the whole point of a

. >> well, today, new york's attorney general, letitia james, along with 13 other attorneys general,tinue to enforce state laws that provide access to gender affirming care in states where such enforcement authority exists, and we will challenge any unlawful effort by the trump administration to restrict access to it in our jurisdictions. however, on the other side, 26 states have already restricted gender affirming care for minors or banned it outright. polls show americans are deeply divided on the issue. so where does that leave the trans community? and with so many challenges, is it likely to remain unclear or divided state by state until, i don't know, maybe it ends up in the supreme court. what do you think? >> well, first. i'd say it's clear that president trump has. >> exceeded his authority under the constitution by trying to usurp. the role of congress in dictating what conditions apply to grants, which is part of the origin of the lawsuit that we just filed with respect to medical care. >> and i do think that the. >> that eventually the courts have asked the court to weigh

but also manhattan da alvin bragg and the civil lawsuit brought by the new york ag, letitia james. with me now, brendan belew is a former federal prosecutor who resigned in protest over trump's decision to pardon most january 6th defendants. brendan, thank you for joining. when you hear that ag bondi is creating a weaponization working group. what do you think is the intent? >> i think it's an intent to rewrite history. the basic problem that the new attorney general has is that her boss, the president, committed a bunch of crimes, and so did a lot of rioters who were acting in his name for his legitimacy and for hers. they need to rewrite the history of january 6th. and that's what i think this working group is meant to do. >> you know, one of the prosecutors who was fired for working on january 6th cases questioned bondi's decision to even review the cases. listen. >> and i do think it's a bit of a double edged sword for this administration to keep attacking january 6th, because, well, quite frankly, it may not end well for them because of the strength of the evidence and the str

also new york attorney general letitia james. what's your reaction to that?inued threats from iran on high profile u.s. officials? does that warrant for, say, president biden keeping his access to the security briefings? >> look, presidents can request president's daily briefings. it's something that, you know, that they have that authority to do. i think the revoking of national security clearances, i mean, we're just this is just getting to pettiness and to folks that are still in those roles and in those jobs. i mean, you're you're weakening their capability to be aware of threats that are impacting the communities that they represent. i think what's important, again, is that taking away these security clearances, i don't understand how that's making our nation more safe, how that's lowering the price of gas, how that's lowering the lowering the price of eggs, how you're strengthening our economy. again, donald trump came in on this idea and this platform that he's going to put america first, that he's going to somehow change our our image domestically and

new york state attorney general letitia james announced the suit yesterday, calling musk and his d.o.jy data unlawful. a federal judge yesterday signed an order limiting two of musk's allies to read only access to treasury department payment systems. the order also blocks all other doj's staffers from that information. but one of the doj's members with that read only access, reportedly resigned yesterday after the wall street journal found a social media account connected to that staff member advocating for racism and eugenics. and then there's this. a new report reveals that in less than three weeks since trump administration, the trump administration took office, elon musk is causing rifts and fissures within the president's inner circle. one self-described ride or die maga republican operative who knows president trump personally confided to wired something they claim they never thought they'd find themselves saying just weeks into trump's second term. this is a quote. they say there could be a collision course coming here at some point. when asked about if there's a brewing freakou

the suit was brought by new york attorney letitia james in 17 other ages to stop musk.dented acts state bank account details and other sensitive information, americans across the country have been horrified. now elon musk as responding on twitter which he owns a course on x saying yesterday i was told there are currently over $100 billion a year of entitlement payments to individuals with no social security number, even a temporary id number. if accurate this is extremely suspicious. democratic lawmakers tried to enter the department of education here in washington yesterday. as maxine waters after being told she could not enter. >> this is going to go out in history. the man who blocked the doors of the department. the department of education, let his children know he was standing in the way of all children being educated. >> our own bret baier stepped down with president trump for super bowl interview that will air during pregame festivities at 3:00 p.m. eastern expect to hear more about doge what elon musk is doing. thirty-six lucas thompson on the lawn thank you. pr

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special counsel jack smith, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, new york attorney general letitia jamese been covering here for days now has reached new heights. the acting number two at the department of justice, emil bove, sent a message to the acting fbi director, calling his refusal to comply with bove's request for the names of agents who investigated. january 6th. quote, insubordination. bove, writing in his message that he was then forced to make a wider request for information, quote, in light of acting leadership's refusal to comply with the narrower request, the written directive was intended to obtain a complete data set that the justice department can reliably pare down to the core team that will be the focus of the weaponization review. pursuant to the executive order referencing trump's executive order to root out what he perceives to be politicization in the intelligence community, bove's recent moves have raised alarm inside the fbi that a mass purge of thousands of employees is possible and near. and as we discussed on this show yesterday, there have already been lawsui