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No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

MAGA civil war explodes between Elon & Trump faithful

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

Brian Tyler Cohen

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🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

A MAGA civil war explodes between Trump’s most vocal supporters and Elon Musk. Brian interviews Congressman Jamie Raskin about Elon Musk's takeover of the GOP, his ascent to ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and whether failing to elevate AOC to the top of the Oversight Committee was a mistake. And TYT’s Cenk Uygur joins to discuss his appearance at far-right AmFest, and whether reaching out to the MAGA-sphere is smart or naïve.


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0:00.0

Today we're going to talk about the MAGA Civil War exploding between Trump's most vocal

0:04.6

supporters and Elon Musk. And I interviewed Congressman Jamie Raskin about Elon Musk's takeover

0:09.3

for the GOP, his assent to ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and whether failing to

0:13.6

elevate AOC to the top oversight position was a mistake. And I'm joined by TYT's Jank Yugar to discuss

0:19.2

his appearance at far-right Amfest and whether reaching out to the Magosphere is smart or naive. I'm joined by TYT's Jank Yugar to discuss his appearance at far-right Amfest and whether

0:21.7

reaching out to the Magosphere is smart or naive.

0:24.5

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

0:29.4

So Elon Musk's honeymoon in the Trump administration seems to have ended before the administration

0:33.5

has officially begun.

0:35.1

While most of us were celebrating the holidays, Elon's been waging a fight

0:38.5

with the very people whose voices he spent months elevating. So he's been publicly advocating

0:43.0

for offering more visas to highly skilled foreign workers via the H-1B program. And he tweeted,

0:48.0

I'm referring to bringing in via legal immigration the top 0.1% of engineering talent as being

0:53.4

essential for America to keep winning.

0:55.5

The number of people who are super talented engineers and super motivated in the USA is far too low.

1:01.0

Think of this like a pro sports team. If you want your team to win the championship, you need to

1:05.2

recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole team to win. And he was backed up by

1:10.6

his Department of Government

1:11.8

Efficiency co-chair Vivek Ramaswami, who tweeted, a culture that celebrates the prom queen

1:16.3

over the Math Olympiad champ or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best

1:21.0

engineers. Well, I'm sure you can imagine how that went over with Trump's America first base.

1:27.2

Matt Gates, for example,

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