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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Krystal and Saagar debate the Elon takeover of the federal government under Trump.
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0:33.5 | Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday. We have an amazing show for everybody today. What do we have, |
0:37.3 | Crystal? |
0:37.8 | Indeed, we do. Lots of things happening. So we've had a few preliminary court rulings go against Doge, particularly with their access to the Treasury. |
0:45.5 | The Trump administration this morning trying to fight back. President Trump asked about it yesterday. |
0:49.4 | So I'll give you the lay of the land with all of that. We've also got some interesting new polls down. |
0:53.7 | Trump's approval rating doing pretty well. Elon Musk's on the other hand doing pretty |
0:58.0 | badly. So we'll dig into all of those numbers and what they may portend for the future. |
1:02.8 | Elon and co have taken aim at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That agency is effectively |
1:09.2 | shuttered this week with potentially quite significant consequences. |
1:14.4 | This is some pretty brazen self-dealing from Elon and his sort of broligarch cohort. So we'll |
1:21.0 | dig into what that could mean as well. Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the Democrats in the House, |
1:26.4 | is out trying to mend fences with the billionaires who are upset with Democrats under the Biden administration or jealous of the access that the Republican billionaires are getting and all the things and goodies that they're, I mean, it's just incredible stuff. |
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