we're live right now. Welcome to the Jim Acosta show. It's a different start time today. So I hope

everybody got the message that on at 2 o'clock Eastern today, it's 11 a.m. on the West Coast. I'm

actually on the West Coast, which is why things are a little bit different today. You can see

with me right now is Tara Setmeyer. I'm so happy to be talking to Tara. She and I've been

friends, buddies for a very long time.

And I've been telling the viewers that one of the things that's fun about the substack thing is I'm getting to reconnect with my friends.

You know what I mean?

And there's no TV gobbly gook getting in the way.

I can just like reach out to you and say, Tara, let's do a live. And you're

like, okay, let's do it. And there's no, we've cut out the middleman. Talk about cutting out

waste fraud and abuse. Yeah. We've done that. And it's completely unfiltered, right? You don't have

any overlords that are that are kind of patrolling what you can and cannot say and who you can and cannot

have on your show.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Well, Tara, I wanted to talk to you about your substack post and Tara is on substack now,

which is terrific.

You wrote about Elon Musk and Donald Trump over at the White House, and you wrote,

while Trump was busy turning the White House into a tacky infomercial set for Elon Musk's failing Tesla Empire, tens of thousands of

federal employees, many of them veterans, were being thrown out of work again. And I do want to

start there because, I mean, we did think that perhaps one day Trump would turn the White House into a

tacky Trump casino,

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