Okay. I know Joy just ended her show by thanking her team, which is the most authentically

joy thing to do, I can tell you, and they are also a very incredible team. But I want to start

this show tonight by thanking her. I want to thank her because she's done amazing work here. She does

tell stories no one tells. She does that fearlessly on her show, but also for the person that she is.

And even before I met Joy Reid, and I didn't meet her until I started working her, I felt like I kind of knew her.

I don't know if you relate to this.

I felt like she was kind of talking directly to me through the screen.

I know many of you watching at home know exactly what I mean.

And then when I got here, she became my office neighbor, literally two doors down. And she is the best office neighbor I could

have asked for. I mean, she's somebody whose mind and her talent and her fierceness I admire so

much, but she's also someone who I kind of just love running

into in the hallway or chatting with on the set during specials as my colleagues were just talking

about, about anything, what's happening in the world, what's going on in her life. And I'm going to

miss all of that. And so thank you to Joy Reed. I just wanted to start there.

In the meantime, I watched her show, as many of you probably did.

And I want to start, I also want to do what I know she wants us to do, which is to start fearlessly in talking about what's in the news and not holding back.

And that's what we always intend to do here, too, just like she does. I do want to start

tonight with the fast approaching deadline for federal workers to respond to what was a pretty

wild Saturday email from unelected billionaire Elon Musk. I mean, according to Musk, who I will

also note has literally absolutely zero authority to enforce this. All federal workers had until midnight

tonight to reply to an email listing five things they accomplished last week. Now he said if they

don't respond, they lose their jobs. Again, that's all according to an unelected billionaire who

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