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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Musk calls for U.S. government to ‘delete entire agencies’

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this edition of The ReidOut with what many are calling a bait and switch. As grocery prices continue to soar—despite Donald Trump's promises to lower them starting on Day One of his second presidency—there is growing fear and anxiety across the country. Meanwhile, Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has used his version of X/Twitter to weaponize anti-immigrant hysteria, antisemitism, and even race science while buying his way into the Oval Office, experts believe. He now literally stands over the elected president, taking a buzzsaw to American democracy, gutting services that millions rely on, and burning the government to the ground while salting the ashes, according to critics. House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) joins The ReidOut to discuss.

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0:00.0

Thank you all for joining us tonight.

0:01.2

We have a lot to get to in the next hour of the readout, including the stunning resignation of six federal prosecutors,

0:07.8

including a former clerk to the late conservative justice, Anthony Scalia,

0:12.0

who refused to do Trump's bidding and dropped charges against Democratic New York mayor, Eric Adams.

0:20.2

Manhattan's U.S. Attorney Daniel Sassoon

0:22.3

forcefully telling Trump's new attorney general Pam Bondi that the deal to drop the charges

0:27.3

was an improper offer and quite expressly a quid pro quo being carried out by the White

0:34.7

House. So that's happening. And we'll have much more on it coming up soon.

0:38.8

But we begin tonight with the bait and switch, even as grocery prices are soaring, despite

0:44.0

Trump's promises to lower them starting on day one of his second presidency. There is heightened

0:49.5

fear and anxiety across the country as Elon Musk, the world's richest, unelected South African oligarch,

0:56.5

who despite his own questionable immigration story, has used his twisted version of Twitter to

1:02.9

weaponize anti-immigrant hysteria, anti-Semitism, and even race science, and bought his way into the

1:10.6

Oval Office,

1:11.9

where he quite literally stands over the elected president of the United States.

1:17.7

And he's now taking a buzzsaw to American democracy

1:20.5

and gutting services that millions of Americans rely on,

1:24.9

burning our government to the ground and salting the ashes.

1:29.5

We do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to leave part of them behind.

1:38.2

Because if you leave part of them behind, it's easy.

1:41.1

It's kind of like leaving a weed, if you don't remove the roots of the weed,

1:46.0

then it's easy for the weed to grow back. But if you remove the roots of the weed, it doesn't

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