Obviously, as all of you know, because I know you have all been paying attention to this,

a lot has happened since we last spoke, and we're going to get to all of it, I promise.

But to kind of understand how radically everything has changed today, I think we need to go back to this moment.

This was just six days ago.

Not even a week, not even a week ago.

That Donald Trump was practically fawning over Elon Musk

during his Oval Office sendoff. I mean, Trump even gave Musk a big, shiny gold key. Look at that,

very weird, as a token of his appreciation. And he said that even though Musk was leaving the government,

he would still very much be a part of this team.

Many of the Doge people, Elon, are staying behind, too, so they're not leaving. And Elon's

really not leaving. He's going to be back and forth, I think. Elon's not really leaving. He'll be

back and forth. Even though he's living somewhere else,

we're still committed to each other and to the children. And by children, I mean the 22-year-olds

Musk and Trump put in charge of the federal government, obviously. But that was the message

out of the White House six days ago, not even a week ago. Trump and Musk were parting ways on

what appeared to be somewhat friendly terms.

Now, we knew at least part of the reason why Musk likely decided to leave when he did. I mean,

for one thing, if Elon Musk stayed on as a full-time White House advisor, he would have had to

disclose many of his own business conflicts. And we're going to be digging into those later this

hour with the great Norm Eisen and this new exclusive report.

But we know that at the time of Musk's exit, his biggest company, Tesla, was in a bit of a downward spiral.

Thanks to consumer boycotts, you can see many of them across the screen and protests and pretty intense public blowback.

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