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🗓️ 22 February 2025
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0:00.0 | We do have a brand new broadcast for you here on The Beat. And tonight, we are looking at other more serious matters and some really shocking developments, even for those who feel that we've gotten accustomed to a lot. And we have some very special guests tonight. So we're going to deal with all of this as we go. And by the end of the hour, we have something fun as well. But we begin with the ongoing question of White House powers. Donald Trump pushing |
0:21.8 | faster and farther to test and break limits to see what he can get away with, farther than |
0:27.1 | in the first term. And we have the data on that. I've shown you more court losses than the first |
0:31.2 | month in the first term. And yesterday, we were looking at Musk aides trying to shave at the Pentagon. Today, we're seeing a |
0:38.9 | target that Trump had shown an interest in before, and sometimes for allegedly nefarious |
0:43.3 | reasons. It's something that could sound old-fashioned, even boring. We're talking about the |
0:48.6 | mail. But the reporting is that Trump is now trying to fire one of the independent groups. We've seen his attacks on those |
0:55.6 | whistleblowers and watchdogs. Well, this is the independent board of the U.S. Postal Service. |
1:01.4 | And he basically would try, according to the Post, to absorb what is this long-running institution |
1:07.9 | as a more political part directly inside the administration. |
1:11.7 | As we've told you before, a lot of these things don't get a lot of attention over the years because |
1:16.0 | they're working. They're supposed to be boring. You're not supposed to be worried about politicizing the |
1:21.2 | mail. Meanwhile, safety concerns in the sky, something that's been on many people's minds because |
1:25.8 | the White House ordered all those firings at the FAA. Elon Musk's team is also continuing at work. The National Highway |
1:33.2 | Traffic Safety Administration has seen one out of ten people cut through either the firings or the |
1:38.7 | buyouts they've been using, which again raises questions about what the long term potential |
1:43.1 | safety impacts of that are. |
1:45.4 | Musk's Tesla's, the team that regulates them, well, they've been cut in half. |
1:50.9 | That's something that benefits Musk's company. |
1:54.7 | The FDA, we're losing about 700 employees. |
1:57.5 | We're seeing that, quote, small teams hit so deeply, staff members fear for the safety of some medical devices that could be compromised. That even includes Musk's neuralink devices, according to the Times reporting. Now, this is a sprawling operation. Musk has not confined himself to one agency or one role. So we don't actually know from this reporting whether he directly did things to get |
2:20.5 | those personal benefits or whether that just happened or whether, because he has had such a |
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