Out front next, the breaking news, cease your purge.

Democrats going to war with Elon Musk as he is trying to dismantle the federal government.

Tonight, exclusive new details on the young men, Musk has reportedly recruited to help him.

Plus, Trump backing down twice in a day, now putting a hold on his tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

So what changed? Were these always empty threats or not? And embracing DEI, the CEO of a

popular cosmetics company that's going to come out, put his face to it, to talk about why he

believes in diversity, why he is not caving to Trump like so many other companies have. Let's go out

front. And good evening,

I'm Erin Burnett on this Monday. Out front tonight, the breaking news, Musk dismantling the government.

Exclusive breaking details out front tonight about the young men Elon Musk is sending in as his

lieutenants. The editor at Wired, who broke the details about who they are, what they're doing, is out front in just a moment because it comes as the world's richest man now has unprecedented power and access to critical government operations. Among them, well, one of the things he's trying to do is shut down the agency in charge of U.S. humanitarian aid. So Musk has tweeted about this a whole lot,

but I think this one summarizes the whole mantra here.

USAID is a criminal organization, time for it to die.

They're all pretty much like that.

And he's got Trump's blessing on this one.

If there's fraud, these people are lunatics.

They're tremendous fraud. They turn out to be radical

left lunatics. So he's talking with the people there. It's also about the programs. I mean,

USAID is a big organization. They do spend money on a whole lot of things. Fighting disease and

starvation are on the list. And the most important thing actually just boils down to this.

If there are legitimate

concerns about U.S. aid and fraud and it's spending money, then investigate it, let the American

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