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I'm your host, Greg Sargent. As Elon Musk's takeover of the federal government continues,

Representative Jamie Raskin has been sounding a particularly urgent alarm about what's happening.

And on Tuesday, during a Twitter fight between Raskin and Musk, Raskin

asked him a simple question. As someone who supposedly works for the government now, will he submit

to basic financial disclosure and conflict of interest rules and norms? As of now, Musk hasn't

done this in his new role, of course. But this got us thinking, why are we treating the idea that Musk should do this as a fool's errand, as something that's hopeless?

This is itself a sign of how far we've fallen. We can't let that happen. So what do we do about it?

We're talking today about all this with Andy Craig, an expert in election law who has a new

piece for the unpopulist magazine detailing how Musk, as head of this new Department of

Government Efficiency, has gone entirely rogue with no legal or constitutional authority whatsoever.

Andy, good to have you on, man.

Thanks, Greg. Good to be with you.

So the White House just announced they've designated Musk a special government employee.

This is someone who works for the government for somewhat less time than an ordinary employee does

and is not required to file a public financial disclosure report, but he's subject to some ethics

rules and can file a disclosure report if he's going to have a big role in forming agency policy,

which it looks like Musk will. Andy, can you walk us through what it means that Musk is a designated

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