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🗓️ 8 February 2025
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0:00.0 | Because accurate reporting has never been more important. We have spent the last week talking about USAID. It's a number one target for Donald Trump, for Elon Musk. Can we talk about where this war on USAID even came from? It's crazy. So they didn't talk about this during the campaign. You didn't hear a word one about USAID. |
0:23.6 | I read about this just a couple days ago. |
0:25.3 | In December, Joe Rogan has a guest on who's like a crazy right winger, allegedly crazy. |
0:33.0 | I guess I have to say in this day and age, who is like a white nationalist, self-reclaimed white nationalist, influencer. |
0:41.9 | And he goes on and talks all about how the Foreign Service and USAID in particular is a hive of criminality, |
0:49.3 | and he's a conspiracy theorist. |
0:51.5 | And who's listening to Rogan in that episode is Elon Musk. This is the first time that Elon has heard of USAID. |
0:58.0 | He picks it up right away, starts tweeting about it. And that's how it got here. It just is a line from Joe Rogan books this guest. Elon hears about it. And now, like you're saying, like millions of people are going to go without |
1:12.6 | food and medicine because Rogan platformed a controversial thinker. Like I've, and it's suddenly a criminal |
1:19.8 | enterprise. Quickly to follow up on what Peter was asking, have you directed Elon Musk to review |
1:24.9 | Pentagon spending given it's the biggest discretionary spending in the federal budget? |
1:28.3 | Yes, I have Pentagon education, just about everything. We're going to go through everything. Just as it was so bad with what we just went through with this horrible situation, we just went through. And I guess 97% of the people have been dismissed. It was very, very unfortunate. |
1:44.5 | You're not going to find anything like that, but you're going to find a lot. |
1:48.0 | And I've instructed him to go check out education to check out the Pentagon, which is the military. |
1:54.3 | And, you know, sadly, you'll find some things that are pretty bad. |
1:56.9 | But I don't think proportionally you're going to see anything like we just saw. |
2:00.4 | Breaking overnight, Donald Trump says that he is cutting off President Biden's access to |
2:04.9 | intelligence material. |
2:06.5 | Trump said online that Biden did the same to him in 2021. |
2:09.9 | I do want to point out that President Biden did so after January 6th when Donald Trump |
2:16.0 | was facing scrutiny for his role in the capital |
2:18.3 | insurrection. And speaking of the insurrection, the FBI has now turned over to the Trump |
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