#DOGE IN AMERICA: CHRIS RIEGEL #SCALAREPORT: CHRIS RIEGEL CEO, SCALA.COM @STRATACACHE.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I on the World. I'm John Batchel. The Scholar Report with CEO Chris |
| 0:09.0 | Regal of Scholar.com transforming the retail space with digital signage worldwide on all the |
| 0:15.0 | occupied continents. We begin with the occupation of Washington by a man who has many businesses, and the one big one |
| 0:23.7 | right now is not about the U.S. or about Doge or about Tesla. It's about SpaceX. We're within |
| 0:30.8 | 24 hours of the window opening on the eighth test of Starship Super Heavy. All eyes on. It is a surprise to me that when Washington |
| 0:41.1 | reports, the Washington media reports negative remarks about Elon Musk, they leave out the |
| 0:47.7 | SpaceX part. The SpaceX part is what has wowed all of America and the world going to Mars. |
| 0:56.3 | However, Chris, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:58.6 | Doge, much in the news. |
| 1:01.0 | I spend a lot of time on European news in the morning. |
| 1:04.9 | Negative, negative, negative. |
| 1:06.4 | Musk is a billionaire out of control. |
| 1:09.4 | Musk and Trump mean to steal all the money they're saving for themselves and their buddies. |
| 1:15.0 | The allegations are both predictable and repetitive. |
| 1:21.1 | Do you hear complaints about Elon Musk cutting the size of government and looking at entitlements as the way to bring the |
| 1:29.8 | budget and line because we're facing deadlines X number of years till Social Security fails, |
| 1:36.9 | X number of years till Medicare and Medicaid have to reduce their payments. Do you hear that |
| 1:42.2 | with your customer base or as you travel the country? Good evening |
| 1:46.0 | to you. Good evening, John. I believe that outside of the bubbles of New York, D.C., and maybe San Francisco, |
| 1:54.3 | across the fruited plane, there's a lot of excitement about the idea of cutting government. All forms of business have gone through |
| 2:03.0 | transformations post-COVID, cutting their belts, right-sizing, resizing. Why shouldn't the |
| 2:09.3 | federal government do the same? So it's fascinating to watch Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk take on that |
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