um, palantir, of which peter thiel is chairman.they have billions of dollars of contracts with, um, with the dod. you know, we're we, um, and i'm sorry, i should i, i don't actually know the exact amount, but certainly large contracts with the dod, and they've had them for many years. um, and so i think the reality here is that, you know, we're looking at people who have a vested interest within their own companies of getting contracts with the government, of making money through deals with the government, and now have access to sensitive government data. and, you know, not that, you know, we know exactly what they're looking at because there hasn't been a lot of transparency. but that opens questions about whether or not they're able to see sensitive data from their competitors for similar contracts, whether or not they're able to see sensitive information around individuals or companies that they might consider, um, threats to their business. >> all right, victoria elliott, thank you so much. coming up, a big change to how medica

school high school graduates in at least one case, all with ties to either musk owned companies or peter thiel owned companies. so one is a former palantir intern, another intern at spacex. one is a thiel fellow. another recently completed a summer internship at neuralink, which of course is also owned by elon musk. all right. so what what are they? what are they actually doing? and who's paying paying them for the work. well, it's to be, to be candid, a little bit difficult to ascertain exactly what they are doing. what we do know is that they are working across several federal agencies, including doge, of course, as well as the office of personnel management, which is essentially the hr function for the government and the general services administration, which oversees things like federal buildings, leases and then technology and it. so what we do know is that these young men are working at the behest of, of musk and his team that he has brought in across these agencies on, you know, a number of engineering related tasks. so, okay, elon musk wants anyone, you know, talking about this, sharin

also was crucial in helping to overturn apartheid in south africa, which is where elon musk and peter thiel are from. i just want to note that last question here, because you are from the house of representatives, the body that actually is in charge of deciding how our money is spent. is there action that the house can take, number one, to force marco rubio to disclose the name of this person to whom he has given his administrative authority? now that he claims he's in charge of u.s. aid, or to block elon musk, etc, from from moving usaid under the department of state, because that's also congress's job. they can they can't just do that. >> yeah. >> i mean, the problem that we have right now is that republicans control the house and the senate in order for congress to sue. it is the speaker that gets to decide to sue on our behalf. and right now, the republicans are acting very cowardly. they can't find their spine. they are delegating their constitutional responsibility to the executive branch from the legislative branch. they are part of this constitutional crisis. they are going along wi

that same spirit that elon musk has coming from south africa and peter thiel coming from south africa. we're not going to have apartheid in america. [cheers and applause] backwards never. look at how this started. they started with a ban on our books. then they started with a ban on women's bodies. then they started with a ban on our medicine to the poor. now they started a ban on the aid to those that need it the most. now we're seeing the most powerful man in the world, donald j. trump, and we're seeing the richest man in the world, elon musk, now take money and food from the poorest woman and the poorest man on earth. it is time. it is time that we tell those in mar-a-lago, the billionaire bros, it's time for them to go. [cheers and applause] in the words of the civil rights, for whatever, backwards never, forward ever, backwards never, forward ever backwards , never. [cheers and applause] >> hi everybody. my name is bama athreya, and until two weeks ago, i had the honor to serve as a deputy assistant administrator at usaid. [cheers and applause] the greatest agency in the u.s. gov

think the reality is it's very important to highlight that musk and some of his other allies, like peter thiel, who's co who's um, uh, chair of the board of palantir, which is a big data company that works with the military. you know, musk's spacex has billions of dollars in government contracts. like a lot of these people in the tech industry rely on contracts with the government for the success of their companies. and it definitely is concerning that people who are close to them or who have worked for them, who are coming in on the doge effort, might have access to data about their competitors, have access to, you know, government contract information when when companies apply for government contracts, they share information that is not public in order to have a level of transparency with the government and, you know, yeah, it's entirely possible that they may be able to access information on their competitors. >> victoria, eliot, thank you so much for coming on and sharing all of your excellent reporting. we'll pick up the pace. that's the white house message to i.c.e. despite the agency ar

involved in doge has been either involvement in one of elon musk's companies or in companies run by peter thiel, the billionaire who is also very close with musk. he's been a longtime trump supporter. so, you know, i think the idea that somehow they're highly trained, you know, just because someone is an incredible technical has incredible technical skills, doesn't necessarily mean they have a deep understanding of privacy law or government systems. and, you know, even if someone is the best at whatever it is they do technically, the reality is that the earliest any of these people could have been accessing any of these systems was january 20th. and while silicon valley may be the land of move fast and break things, and, you know, if you're running a startup, maybe you frustrate some of your customers as you make changes. there are hundreds of millions of people who rely on the government working correctly, moving fast and breaking things means that a lot of people might be impacted by mistakes. even if everyone has the best of intentions. >> well, i guess a question would also be how the inter

room old enough to remember this, but back in the 1990s, a couple of authors named david sachs and peter thiel wrote a book about illiberalism at stanford called the diversity myth multiculturalism, the politics of intolerance. that book warns that leading academic institutions were adopting anti-western zealotry, silencing dissent and stifling intellectual life. other authors in that time frame sounded the alarm as well. and i would have to say unsuccessfully if one reads ilya shapiro is a book about the events 30 years later, morrison early in his new book, ilya shapiro describes his thoughts on how the long rise of liberalism and the unchecked decline of intellectual diversity and civil discourse in law schools has contributed to a climate of intolerance and antithetical to the mission of legal education and legal profession. as he'll discuss in a few moments, the book describes a sobering where a stanford law school mob can shut down a federal judge's speech at a federalist society event where radical columbia students can set up illegal encampments on their campus and threaten others wher