Is Elon Musk transforming the federal government and will we redevelop Gaza?

We'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lauer, and I'm joined as always by the right Honorable Charles C.W. Cook,

the grill master, Phil Klein, and the notorious M.B.D.

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If you don't like what you hear here, please forget. I said anything. So MBD,

there have been all these new, warm vibes about Donald Trump since the election, but these

vibes have not transferred over to Elon Musk, who is public enemy number one in the Trump

administration, the first three weeks or so here, taking

his young group of sleep-debrived, brilliant young tech geeks, some of whom, I just love reading

about these guys, one of whom is 19 years old and a college dropout, a couple of them are

college dropouts, and rampaging through

the federal bureaucracy. USAID, the most prominent victim so far going from, I don't know, what was it,

thousands of employees to 258 employees or something like that and being transferred over

to Marco Rubio. Other federal

agencies are on his target list coming up here soon. What do you make of it?

I have to say I'm very surprised. I had no idea what Doge would be, right?

I mean, it just seemed nebulous.

At first, it was not itself a new government department

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