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🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, out front next, the breaking news, Elon Musk pushing the government closer to a shutdown. |
0:08.0 | You heard me, Elon Musk, unelected, but that's the power he's got right now, killing the House Speaker spending bill just hours before the deadline. |
0:16.2 | And Trump following Musk's lead, weighing in hours after Musk. |
0:21.0 | And the House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gates' alleged sexual misconduct, releasing |
0:25.3 | it any minute. Gates says he didn't do anything wrong. |
0:28.3 | An attorney for a woman who testified before that committee saying she saw Gates having sex |
0:32.5 | with a minor is out front tonight. |
0:34.6 | Plus new details about the 15-year-old female gunman in the Wisconsin |
0:38.6 | school shooting. Her parents reportedly divorcing and repeatedly divorcing and changing |
0:45.1 | custody arrangements. Let's go out front. And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. Out front tonight, |
0:52.1 | we begin with the breaking news. Elon Musk's government shutdown, a sentence that even a year ago would have seemed completely bizarre. But not now, not after images like that. Because the man who has been by Trump's side nearly every day since the election and since that moment at a rally is pushing the country to the brink of a shutdown. |
1:14.7 | He is going after the House Speaker's funding deal just days before the deadline. |
1:19.7 | Speaker Mike Johnson has spent weeks negotiating a deal with Democrats doing what lawmakers are doing horse trading, negotiating. |
1:22.9 | And, of course, he needs Democrat support to pass anything in the closely divided house |
1:27.1 | that he faces. |
1:28.4 | And it was Musk who stood up and said, no way, firing the first shot. |
1:32.5 | Just hours after Johnson released his bill, Musk posted this on his social media platform. |
1:37.6 | This bill should not pass. |
1:39.6 | And then he posted a photo of the bill with the caption, ever seen a bigger piece of pork. |
1:43.9 | Then he posted, the more I learned, the more obvious it becomes that this spending bill is a crime. |
1:49.2 | And a threat. Quote, any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending |
1:53.0 | bill deserves to be voted out in two years. Well, he has the money to primary them, doesn't he? Then he posted again, no bill should be passed Congress until January 20th when real Donald Trump takes office. None. Zero. |
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