spacex went up three times in the last couple of years.ail investors the same -- [inaudible] charles: so this is right here, this is your private-public crossover, xovr, is the symbol. this ea created -- accredited investor thing, is it good or bad? sometimes you have tease things that start off with the right intentions, but it feels like an excuse to keep people from great stocks. >> that's what we are seeing. i was not expecting it, but people are getting lost in the forest. they are creating i would say false statements regarding pricing between with a wide range of variable pricing which is not true. we bought it at 185 and we can cannot really get it easier than lower price. so they're creating pushback for us and and it's obvious that people do not want the retail investor to have access -- charles: they want to buy it on the ipo day. it's going to be one of the hot test ipos in the mystery of mankind when it goes public. >> correct. for sure. charles: a.i. agents, essentially, folks, let's talk about, for instance, a call center. p

the faa immediately grounded spacex. barring future launches until an investigation could be conducted. three days later, donald trump became president and the faa administrator who elon musk wanted out announced his resignation. given all that, given elon musk's penchant for exploding rocket ships, what he likes to call rapid unscheduled disassembly, you'd think he's the last guy the faa would want weighing in on issues of public transportation safety, especially when those issues were just illustrated the stakes of recently. but you would think wrong. as a former tv reality star and newly minted transportation secretary sean duffy posted today on musk's platform, quote, big news talk to the doge team they're going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system. just the world's richest man who's been empowered to get into the back end of virtually every facet of the us government and do whatever he wants, while he has billions and billions and billions of dollars at stake. charlie. charlie warzel is a staff writer at t

then last month, in the final days of the biden administration, a spacex starship spacex starship exploded shortly after takeoff, spreading an estimated 100 tons of debris beyond protected areas. air traffic controllers had to deal with the aftermath of that, with the planes that they were guiding safely. there were reports of debris and damage on the turks and caicos islands. air traffic in the area had to be briefly diverted. spacex announced it had undergone a, quote, rapid unscheduled disassembly. the faa immediately grounded spacex, barring future launches until an investigation could be conducted. three days later, donald trump became president and the faa administrator who elon musk wanted out announced his resignation. given all of that, given elon musk's penchant for exploding rocket ships, what he likes to call rapid unscheduled disassembly, you'd think he's the last guy the faa would want weighing in on issues of public transportation safety, especially when those issues were just illustrated the stakes of recently. but you would think wrong. as a former tv reality star and newl

airspace, also oversees spacex.ast year, musk threatened to sue the faa over regulatory overreach. he says the agency took too long to approve launch licenses. a transportation secrery, sean duffy, who just got on on the job a few weeks ago, also raised concerns about the military's use of helicopters in washington, d.c, crowded airspace, especially after last week's deadly collision between an airplane and an army helicopter that killed 67 people. now to the recovery mission on the potomac river in washington, d.c. new video showing workers pulling from the river what appears to be part of the american airlines jet that collided with an army helicopter last week. authorities say the crews have now recovered all 67 victims, and identified the remains of 66 of the people killed in that crash so far. crews have pulled a number of large pieces of the jetliner from the river, including the right wing parts of the cabin and the cockpit. one of the most recognizable faces in the history of bay area news has died. dennis r

can they go against spacex? medium sized rocket and having 13,000 kilograms of payload come probable in size to the spacex rocket and management team going to compete toe to toe and going to have these two going for the best decision in space. charles: overweight and i love it and the race is reason. appreciate it. folks, by the way, speaking of outer space, my next guest says that the united states is out of this world when it comes to cash. i want to bring in cofounder aishah tarique. $4 trillion in checking amounts, almost 10 trillion in savings, 4 trillion. this is individuals and money marmarkets and $18 trillion in h and going for them to be importance for investment thesis. 19 years ago at this stage mainly because we're seeing customers spend money like 3.7 to 4.2 in the last quarter but at the same time, we are seeing prices remain sticky. we have the threat of tariffs as well and going to be higher and the cash balance acts like a cushion for the consumer and the point where wages are starting to come

so the friday before inauguration, the faa unsurprisingly grounded spacex starship program. you cannot try to fly this thing again until you figure out what went wrong here and you fix it. we cannot have anything like this happen again. you are grounded. that was the friday before the inauguration. then three days later, inauguration day, the head of the faa, the faa administrator was gone. gone from his job. elon musk was rid of this faa director who had grounded his rockets because what an entertaining little crash which forced emergency diversions of dozens of passenger planes packed with humans. in september, while elon musk was busy spending the quarter billion dollars that he dumped into donald trump's campaign to make donald trump president again, mr. musk had posted a picture online of the head of the faa and had demanded his resignation. he needs to resign. he posted that because even before the faa had to ground spacex altogether, because of this most recent crash that elon musk thought was so awesome, even before that, the faa, the faa had already issued a bunch o

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in fact, its estimated tesla and spacex account for at for at least $15.4 billion in government contracts data that would give his businesses an advantage, but the president and his press secretary have sought to reassure. where we think there's a conflict or there's a problem, we won't let them go near it. if elon musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that doge is overseeing, then elon will excuse himself from those contracts. by elon musk and the trump administration. and if we go back to72022, had bought twitter, he sent staff an email offering a payment if they left theirjob. the email subject was "a fork in the road", and musk claims within six months, twitter�*s headcount was down by 80%. in late january this year, more than two million federal employees received an email with a similar offer and a very similar subject line. this time, it's not twitter that's reached a fork in the road, it's america. british—based e—bike companies have expressed concern about a potential "flood" of cheaper chinese models coming into the uk. they're worried about

demolition crew, and there are multiple reports that doge includes staff from musk�*s companies, such as spacex. the president's creation of doge isn'tjust about how there are laws requiring them to spend money that's been appropriated by congress. they are refusing to comply with those. the only thing that could make them lawful is if they're right that the constitution gives the president almost whether it's legal or not, it's happening. over the past decade. doge may offer musk access to data that would give his a problem, we won't let them go near it. if elon musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that doge is overseeing, the email subject was a fork in the road, and musk claims within six months, twitter�*s headcount in late january this year, more than 2 million federal employees received an email with a similar offer and a very similar subject line. on some of the fallout from president trump's trump said the us will establish a plan to resettle nairobi. i guess, shall we start was aimed at tackling inequality had stemmed inequality that had stemmed f

and then getting lectured about intelligence by aoc, the guy that created spacex, spacex, starlink, tesla and is about to rescue astronauts lost in space. really? yeah, i find that amusing. yeah. >> you know what i love about elon musk? he's living rent free in all of their minds. that was quite an accomplishment. and aoc calling him unintelligent, the most unintelligent billionaire. didn't she buy a tesla? she did. she drives a tesla because it's a great car. but you know what's amazing about them? look at where the democrats spend their time and energy. they go absolutely apoplectic in front of an empty building, yelling and screaming, because the american government is not going to give the american taxpayer dollars away to foreign countries fast enough. that's really what they're complaining about. this is not money that's going to americans. this is not going to help, you know, the fire victims. this is not going to the victims. this is not going to build maui. this is money that's going out there in 2023, aid spent $68 billion. part of that was they sent out 69 million condoms. that

it's as it is unlikely to receive government security if he so applied, even as his spacex lunch company blast military and spy agency payloads into orbit. he is the first person to exceed $400 billion in self-made personal wealth. we will find more information about that as far as what he currently holds as a security clearance, if it is top-secret or not. and we will talk to anthony in florida, independent line. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. i am a younger guy. i am an independent with some very strong left-leaning tendencies when it comes to american forest projection and other international policy. but i am pretty fiscally and socially conservative. so i often don't really like where the national competition goes. around the doge question and shutting down usaid, i really did not know what this agency did. it has taken a long time for me to read and research a bit so i understand a little bit more. one bit of context i have found that has helped me kind of understand what is going on here and evaluate with a bit of a cooler head was that usaid was part of american

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the faa helps to regulate spacex.there's a whole lot of interest that elon musk has that are implicated by this powerful position he now holds. host: let's talk to ed in connecticut, republican. caller: i'm somewhat interested in the oversight of grants to states. i think recently one program that was granted to the states, $180 billion was stolen by organized crime, and yet i think of this year we are going to grant another trillion dollars to the states. it seems to me that there is significant room for improvement in oversight and think those might be helpful in that respect. guest: i just don't know the details of that specific criminal case that you mentioned, but there's a lot of different grant programs. some are formula grants were congress says that the amount of money the states get is dependent on the population or the number of highway miles in the state. there are others that are more competitive where states have to come up with programs that meet the criteria and apply in some federal agency decides whi

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the tesla and spacex boss is due to give president might go next. done. we sometimes had been a nation of risk—takers he thinks he will go too far because he always says, if you haven't gone too far and then have to scale back, so it's going to reverse this notion of we have a whole lot of guardrails and conflict rails. and what kind of issues do you think that they may clash well, we see that musk already pushes the limits, work for somebody. fight, fight, fight. so musk is not going to just be a puppet for donald trump to share the limelight. for better or worse, want to blow up much of the bureaucratic state in the united states. that is your business we will see you very soon, hello from the bbc sport centre. and the los angeles lakers. five—time all—star luka doncic, who is currently injured, three—way trade deal. reach the nba finals. as part of the swap, with the mavericks i thought it was fake news. it is a business, - you have to understand this, nobody is safe. nobody is safe. if a five—time world nba first team, a 25—year—old, - a guy tha

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. >> that's why i brought up elon musk and the moves he's been making look what he's done with spacexhis is the model the twitter model on the u.s. government right now it's making all the bureaucrats so angry in washington. clean it up, make it efficient. >> he overshadowed them look at how much subsidies it turns out making a product that people want is how you get tesla to become a successful company nice and enjoyable same thing with spacex the federal government's own attempts to explore space. it's amazing unlike president trump we should be encouraging and not restraining. >> to look back in history believe it or not there was a move under the clinton administration to get rid of usaid under the clinton administration and it was quashed at the time by government bureaucracy and you still have once again all of the handwringing over getting rid of usaid which is not going to waste going to the state department which was the push under bill clinton when he was president. here we are again. >> what they want in washington is better control over the spending by usaid what are they

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this is -- that started spacex. builder, leader that can look at his own books and his company and say is, wait a minute, where's money going to that -- that we're just sending into with thin air? you would think you would want a e guy to account for that. why wasn't it done before? why wasn't there an individual or an entire department within treasury whose sole job was to track even a single dollar that was going into thin air. >>? rachel: yeah. it's absolutely insane. what people are seeing isn't just that elon musk is fixing things, they're seeing how bad -- things are worse than we thought they were. sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that's what we have going on now. another thing we're seeing is donald trump, once again, you know, remember when he said all things will be revealed, you know? [laughter] and as he takes office, he's also saying, you know what in there's a lot of bad people here that a shouldn't have secret service clearance. and so now he's revoking these clearances from eight more democrats

toward the pentagon, the defense department has billions of dollars in contracts with musk through spacex and other companies. >> you said there are some areas where there would be a common interest. >> i would have seen that and he would know not to do it. if there was a con flict we wouldn't let him. >> he is facing more than two dozen lawsuits to date. federal uj fedel judges blocking the accessing of sensitive records, and for now, blocking a plan that would have put thousands of usaid workers on administrative leave. the agency largely focuses on disease prevention, disaster relief and food programs in famine-stricken areas. first lady melania trump praised the agency during her husband's first term. >> we want to show the world that we care, and i am working with usaid. >> also this week, president trump stunned world leaders by floating an amamerican keover of gaza. >> the u.s. will take over the gaza strip, and we will do a job with it, too. >> you are talking tonight about the united states taking over a sovereign territory. what authority would allow you to do that? are you talk

it's a tesla roadster launched into space years ago by spacex ceo elon musk. why you would do that?n't understand. but the company sent the car into a long orbit around the sun. this was back in 2018. earlier this month, the harvard-smithsonian center for astrophysics announced this discovery. thinking we found something out there. no. then they retracted it and figured out it was courtesy of elon musk. >> there is a lot of space junk out there. that is true. but you guys, there is actually this asteroid called 2024 r4 that could potentially hit us. it's a 1.2% chance in the year 2032. >> that's pretty high. i mean, i know it's low, but a 1% chance of it actually hitting us. yeah. that means there's a chance. yes. >> decent chance. >> and you you talked to an expert about this, right? i did, at 3:00. what did they say? should we be scared? >> no, he said we don't know enough about it yet. but in april, by april, we should know more about the trajectory so we can be more certain. so maybe we panic then, but not yet. >> okay. okay. yeah. >> all right, so i have a couple of months befo

you've seen spacex move their incorporation from delaware to texas.g a lot of that take place across the board with bidses because they see texas as a business friendly state especially the aftermath of a new law that now rival and in some businesses feel are superior to the business course in delaware. julie: president trump has a very broad education agenda. so do you. 33 states have some form of school choice. if it happens in texas, it would be the biggest. you tried to get this done for several sessions. this time around, do you think texas will have school choice at the end of the session? gov. abbott: i really do. and there's several reasons for it. one is as you know, but others may not. i campaign this last election cycle to ensure that we elect to the texas house representatives who are going to support school choice. and we were successful in that effort and now should have more than enough post in the texas house to get it passed. it passed the texas senate just this week. and so, we're on a pathway where it should get passed. and know thi

we've we've seen this before at at tesla and spacex. and of course the twitter takeover. >> you know vitoria to ryan's point, i remember getting a call saying we have a steven davis in the gsa directory. we have a nicole hollander in the directory. we don't know if it's steve davis and nicole hollander, but we're pretty sure they do. and they have gsa email addresses. and i feel like there's been a lot of that where career officials, senior career officials are finding out through second or third hand. they don't really associate much with the musk team, as they're kind of operating right now. the biggest question i have is i would constantly think to myself, yeah, but this is the government. like private sector is one thing. a private company is one thing. this is the government. there's a way that things work is this. is that not true? here? >> i mean, there are many systems and processes and protocols in terms of how things are supposed to work. but i think one of the things that musk and the doge team have been really explicit about

the mission. >> liftoff. >> elez, who previously worked at spacex, has been the center of attention. his doge position was terminated after the wall street journal uncovered racist and eugenic posts on an account linked to him. but then elon musk, the vice president, and trump himself weighed in. >> on the doge engineers. >> was fired. >> for some inappropriate posts. the vice president says bring him back. what do you say? >> well, i don't know about the particular thing, but if the vice president said that, did you say that? i'm with the vice president. >> the injection of unconventional outsiders is alarming. some federal employees. this man who spoke at a virginia congressman's town hall this week., didn't. identify himself out of fear of retaliation. >> at elon musk in our building. >> and after he visited the building, called for a 50% cut of the entire agency. my colleagues are getting 15 minute, one on one, uh, check ins with 19, 20 and 21 year old college graduates asking to justify their existence. >> most of the hires are connected to elon musk's companies, like ethan shao

they're all workers of elon musk, either at tesla or spacex. and there are people who have worked with him throughout many years. they started off in various and sundry jobs, but they're all his crew. he's got a crew. it's almost like a, you know, like a any crew you'd see in a movie, like they move from thing to thing. and they did that. they moved into twitter and did this. and right now what they're trying to do is essentially, you know, be the genius bar for the country right now. we're going to fix all your systems. now, a lot of our i.t. systems need fixing, but they need to be done legally and safely. one of the big dangers is, is hacking by foreign governments, et cetera.. but you've got a private citizen who was not elected with his fingers in the in the i.t. system of this government. >> privacy concerns, not just privacy. yeah. well, yeah. i mean, in addition to what you just said about hacking, but i also think they're one of the things that they're doing is trying to overtake hr so that they can manage all of the entire government'

elez, who previously worked at spacex, has been the center of attention. his doge position was terminated after the wall street journal uncovered racist and eugenic posts on an account linked to him. but then elon musk, the vice president, and trump himself weighed in. >> on the. >> doge engineers. >> was fired for some inappropriate posts. the vice president says bring him back. what do you say? >> well, i don't know about the particular thing, but if the vice president said that, did you say that? i'm with the vice president. >> the injection of unconventional outsiders is alarming. some federal employees. this man who spoke at a virginia congressman's town hall this week didn't identify himself out of fear of retaliation. >> at elon musk. in our building, and after. >> he visited the building, called for a 50% cut of the entire agency. my colleagues are getting 15 minute, one on one. uh, check ins with 19, 20 and 21 year old college graduates asking to justify their existence. >> most of the hires are connected to elon musk's companies, like ethan tran.

the guy who makes spacex rockets and teslas?r ] [ audience oohs ] the guy's responsible for more explosions than wile e. coyote. [ laughter ] while signing executives orders this week at the oval office, president trump told reporters that he has, quote, "left instructions in case iran assassinated him." and they're about what you'd expect. [ laughter ] while taking questions this week from reporters in the oval office, president trump claimed that palestinians would be, quote, "thrilled to have an option to move out of gaza," and said, quote, "the gaza thing never worked out." never worked out? [ light laughter ] trump talks about gaza like it's ben affleck and j. lo. [ laughter ] "you know, it never worked out, but there's other territories in the sea." [ light laughter ] when asked yesterday during a media appearance about president trump attending sunday's super bowl game, kansas city chiefs' tight end travis kelce said that no matter who the president is, he's excited to have him. and don't feel bad, travis. none of us are

maybe elon will decide he doesn't like that blue origin and not spacex gets a contract, so he wants to gum up the works on their payments. private corporations, and competitors take note, and anyone who thinks that surely won't happen has not been paying attention. now make no mistake. trump and musk have absolutely zero -- zero legal authority to hold up any federal payments that are law. but that has not stopped them so far. this country is still reeling from the chaos of last week's blanket spending freeze and trump's illegal eo's to withhold funds are still not yet revoked. trump and musk have yet to find a law they think applies to them. that is not how things work in this country. we have a democracy. we have checks and we have balances where the president is accountable to congress. where we pass the laws and he implements them. but some of my colleagues across the aisle seem to be forgetting that our democracy doesn't work by magic. we have to do our part to hold the president accountable. our job is not to say yes to everything any president does, no matter how lawless or harm

liftoff. >> elez, who previously worked at spacex, has been the center of attention.oge position was terminated after the wall street journal uncovered racist and eugenic posts on an account linked to him. but then elon musk, the vice president, and trump himself weighed in. >> on the doge engineer was fired for some inappropriate posts. the vice president says bring him back. what do you say? >> well, i don't know about the particular thing, but if the vice president said that, did you say that? i'm with the vice president. >> the injection of unconventional outsiders is alarming. some federal employees. this man who spoke at a virginia congressman's town hall this week didn't identify himself out of fear of retaliation. >> elon musk in our. >> building, and after he visited the building, called for a 50% cut the entire agency. my colleagues are getting 15 minute, one on one, uh, check ins with 19, 20 and 21 year old college graduates. asking to justify their existence. >> most of the hires are connected to elon musk's companies, like ethan shaotran. >> this is a rea

. >> yeah, the military, you know, the one that sends musk billions of dollars to his spacex company. that one. raise your hand if you're feeling safer already. a fair question to ask tonight is if musk will be as ruthless with the pentagon as he was with usaid. the sign on the agency's dc headquarters was literally dismantled today, a visual reminder of what musk has been doing to the agency. or maybe he did to the agency, except the courts did get in his way. a judge stepped in and temporarily saved more than 2000 workers who were about to be placed on leave. in a moment, bakari sellers and scott jenkins are going to debate all of this. buckle up, my friends. but first, insight from simon schuster. the reporter behind that must read time cover story. musk's war on washington. simon, glad to have you here. you know, musk is taking quite the bulldozer to the federal government as we now see it. trump says he's telling him to go here, go there, and he does. it. is there anything, though, realistically constraining his power that you have seen? >> well, i think it's not quite right to c

. >> i was interning at spacex. >> and just kind of doing. >> this in the evenings and weekends. >> it's the word for us. >> he went on to win the. >> grand prize. >> in. >> a global competition. >> a 22. >> year old. >> undergrad at. >> the time. >> my friends were there and i was cheering, jumping. >> up. >> and down, you know, screaming, crying, all the stuff. >> i run, most of the things. >> from my laptop. >> it's just a normal. >> macbook, don't worry. but then i've just got like five. >> surplus computers in here. um, this is what i do. most of my work from. >> what he. >> does now. >> is work for. >> doge. >> the department of government. >> efficiency, headed. >> up by elon musk. who's brought in a group of gifted. >> young engineers. some in their early. >> 20s, with no prior government experience. >> their current. >> job. assignments are unclear, but it is. >> clear they're part of the trump administration's plan to slash government agencies. >> democratic senators. >> sent a letter to. >> the white house. >> describing how doge staff has. seemingly unfettered access. >> to c

he's feuded with the faa over. >> launch licenses. >> for spacex. remember, the faa has in its portfolio commercial space. and he tweeted earlier that may maybe make the faa administrator resign because of that. >> and the faa administrator. >> ultimately did resign on january 20th. >> still no permanent. >> head at the faa. so really. >> echoes of project 2025, in the sense of privatizing the faa is what they wanted. >> to do. >> and that's been a. >> big push. and it was a push by the first trump administration back in 2017 to privatize the faa. but the level of support was so different then. and so sources in the airlines are telling me it probably won't happen this time around. there's not enough union support, not enough support from the airlines. so a lot of really big questions here about what doge could potentially do to the faa. 45,000 employees. and so many of them are air traffic controllers. maybe the one thing that musk does have going for him here is he's technically a licensed pilot by the faa as a private pilot certificate. >> yeah,

and by the way, there was an elon musk spacex person spacex person over there at the justice department be looking over kash patel's shoulder in the purge? >> senator peter welch of vermont, thank you very much for your time tonight, sir. i really appreciate you joining us on short notice. as we continue to cover this developing story, i want to turn now to another big story that broke today in the washington post. and it actually relates to what senator welch was just saying there. we're still in the early hours of understanding what this means, but i think this may end up being a very big deal. today, the post broke news that the highest ranking career official at treasury man named david david leebrick, is leaving the us government. quote, after a clash with allies of billionaire elon musk over access to sensitive payment systems. so elon musk and his team of people have reportedly been asking treasury for access to the payment systems that the government uses to pay its bills to pay out trillions of dollars a year across the federal government, also payments to businesses and indivi

lockheed martin, to raytheon, product into what the defense department, the department of energy, spacex. they need to obviously have superconductors, chips and the like, and all those are formed from the rare earths that are on our property. it strikes me you're in a really powerful position, for want of a better word, because you could sort of name your price, couldn't you? no—one else has. "don't sell it to them. sell it to us." you could pretty much name whatever price you want, couldn't you? look, um, the interesting thing about mining is other people find... when it does that, all the other explorers go out and find lithium, and it's come back down to $1,000 a tonne. the same thing will happen with rare earths. position. the australian government has never done this before, they gave $1 billion to an australian company the us government under biden had 1.5 billion earmarked the united states. there's two or three up—and—coming ones there. the advantage for us — ours has been drilled. it's relatively cheap to extract. it's relatively... it's very environmentally friendly. a lot of t

and much like he brought people from spacex and tesla over to twitter when he took that over, he's now bringing some of these employees, people who are loyal to him into the government right now, and doge and all these agencies that he's trying to really trim and change. final question. the democrats concerns about elon muskk havg access now to the treasury department's payment system, are those concerns valid? i think they are. there are privacy concerns here, job concerns here. and just sort of the way things have always gone, not to say that they have to keep going that way, but it is really unusual to have someone, a business tycoon inside the treasury department, not elected. exactly. and that's why, i mean, there's an entire rally. you know, we didn't elect elon musk all based on that. how is he getting this much power? it's very unusual. it's fairly unprecedented. and it's got democrats absolutely just perplexed right now and some republicans behind closed doors i think so. thank you scott. you bet. up next, back to our microclimate weather alert coverage, the power outages here

liftoff. >> elez, who previously worked at spacex, has been the center of attention.oge position was terminated after the wall street journal uncovered racist and eugenic posts on an account linked to him. but then elon musk, the vice president, and trump himself weighed in. >> the vice president says, bring him back. what do you say? >> well, i don't know about the particular thing, but if the vice president said that, did you say that? i'm with the vice president. >> another doge worker, edward cory stahle, who called himself big balls on social media, was fired from an internship with a data security firm called path network in 2022, accused of leaking information to a competitor. a spokesperson telling cnn his contract was terminated after the conclusion of an internal investigation into the leaking of proprietary company information that coincided with his tenure. the injection of unconventional outsiders is alarming. some federal employees. this man who spoke at a virginia congressman's town hall this week, didn't identify himself out of fear of retaliation. >>

small amount for spacex.revenue is estimated to. >> be in the billions annually. >> but still a setback. for starlink, which has been embraced. >> by canadians in more. remote locations. >> that do struggle to get cheap. >> reliable internet access. >> it's also another instance where we're seeing the flip side of musk's cozy relationship with the trump administration. kelly mentioned tesla. >> as the fallout around these new tariffs. >> comes into focus. >> musk's universe, it is in the crosshairs. >> and it's not limited to canada either. on the. >> last earnings. >> call, tesla's cfo called out. uncertainty around tariffs, noting. >> that the company has tried to. >> localize its. >> supply chain but. >> is still. reliant on parts. from across the world for their businesses. >> and he said it. >> will impact. >> the business and. its profitability. even if tariffs could restrict competition. >> from, say. >> chinese ev. >> makers, it was highly. >> unlikely that they were ever going to be able. >> to sell.

. >> spacex, whether it be. >> starlink. >> whether it be x, whether it be x, i.d. >> you. >> know. >> again. >> i'm not a fan. okay. like this is not somebody that i would want to do business with or work for. but when he goes in there, i don't think he's going to be long for the world there. i think he wants to kind of leave an imprint on the government. >> and i. >> think it is. >> who does he get results for? >> well, i mean, listen, i think it's going to be a combination of things at the end of the day. you know, on his conference call, tesla the other night, they just reported earnings okay. and this stock has been. doubled since the report shorted. >> i'm not. no no no. >> no no. the earnings were oh. >> no it was a disaster. >> this is one of the worst orders. >> all right moving on. >> no no no no stay there stay there. >> so i guess. >> my point is he made a really interesting comment on that call. he basically said to analysts investors i go to where the problems are. so if things are working in any of these companies, he lets the people that he's empow

demolition crew, and there are multiple reports that doge includes staff from musk�*s companies, such as spacexu won't find one. there's a broader question, too, about the law. because it's never existed before and nobody�*s ever tried it before, we don't know exactly what the boundaries of this are within the legal system that we've got. the president's creation of doge isn'tjust about how much the state spends, it's also about how much power the president has to decide this. if they left theirjob. the email subject was "a fork in the road", and musk claims within six months, twitter�*s headcount was down by 80%. in late january this year, more than two million federal similar subject line. this time, it's not twitter that's reached a fork in the road, it's america. some breaking news to bring you — there's been a powerful earthquake near the cayman islands in the caribbean sea. the us geological survey said it had a magnitude of 7.6. a tsunami alert has been issued for most of the region , including the coast of central america, cuba andjamaica. we will bring you more on that story when we ge

and he has been a bad boss, not just at twitter but also at spacex.orkers have filed complaints, and he's got several lawsuits for the terrible working conditions, including denying mandated rest periods and tesla. that's why he is targeting the department of labor, and he wants to conceal and obstruct the national labor relations board's investigations. then there's tesla. musk has seven complaints under the nlrb for unfair labor practices that affect more than 140,000 employees. and it's the nlrb investigations. if they're not enough, musk is also on the hook with osha for the death of a tesla factory worker in austin, texas. the record is clear -- elon musk is anti-worker and anti-labor. we 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

are concerned about elon musk's promise of rapid safety upgrades, noting the faa oversees musk's spacex rocket launches. >> it's a clear conflict of interest. secretary duffy should make sure that mr. musk is not part of the faa air transportation system. >> reporter: meanwhile, praise for new d.c. firefighter sean wathen, a marine veteran who stood silent guard for hours by the remains of army staff sergeant ryan o'hara, lost in the crash. while firefighters saluted flight attendant ian epstein, his remains brought home to charlotte. >> and tom, meantime, there's some late news from the ntsb regarding the helicopter crew. >> reporter: that's right. the ntsb now says it appears likely that chopper crew was wearing night vision goggles at the time of the crash but we don't know what type of goggle and whether they would have actually aided the pilots or made it more difficult to see an oncoming regional jet. lester? >> okay. tom with that late word, thank you. >>> let's turn now to what's been a vicious cold and flu season as flu cases flourish, some schools are left without much options