Jared Isaacman: What went wrong at NASA | The All-In Interview

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4.2 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

(0:00) David Friedberg welcomes Jared Isaacman

(1:10) Jared's background: billion-dollar founder, pilot, commercial astronaut

(7:15) Relationship with Elon Musk, road to becoming a commercial astronaut

(16:37) Becoming Trump's nominee to lead NASA, the major issues at NASA and his plan to fix things

(31:52) Breaking down NASA's proposed budget cuts, the space race against China, private vs public space industry

(48:31) The truth behind Jared's nomination being withdrawn by President Trump

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0:00.0	Jared Isaacman was nominated by President Trump to become the 15th administrator of NASA in December.
0:05.9	He passed out of the Senate committee in May and was set to be confirmed by the full Senate this week.
0:11.5	However, on Friday, President Trump withdrew his nomination for Isaacman.
0:15.6	We asked Jared to sit down with us for conversation.
0:18.7	We dive into everything. His experiences as a successful entrepreneur,
0:22.8	fighter jet pilot, commander of the world's first all-civillion spaceflight and the first civilian
0:27.7	to conduct a spacewalk, what he saw in his six months studying NASA, how American government
0:33.7	bureaucracy has eroded its performance and puts the nation at risk in the great
0:38.4	space race underway with China. And what really happened? Was it a discovery about prior donations
0:44.4	to Democratic candidates or an association with Elon Musk that lost him the nomination?
0:49.5	Here's my conversation with Jared Isaacman.
0:51.6	I'm going all in. All right, besties.
0:54.6	I think that was another epic discussion.
0:57.1	People love the interviews.
0:58.6	I could hear him talk for hours.
1:00.2	Absolutely.
1:01.0	We crush your questions.
1:02.2	A minute.
1:02.6	We are giving people ground truth data to underwrite your own opinion.
1:06.2	What did you guys say?
1:06.7	That was fun.
1:07.5	That was great.
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