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🗓️ 25 February 2025
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0:00.0 | Thank you all for joining us tonight. We have so much to get to in the next hour of the readout, |
0:05.1 | including Elmer Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio, returning to the scene of the crime Donald Trump |
0:10.9 | pardoned them for. But it wasn't long before Tario was placed back in handcuffs. |
0:16.6 | Plus, a shakeup at ICE as Trump's deportation plan runs into many obstacles. |
0:21.4 | But the White House is succeeding in weaponizing deportations and demonizing immigrants, |
0:26.5 | which has already had deadly consequences. |
0:30.0 | But we begin tonight with the people who are really running the country right now. |
0:33.2 | And no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. |
0:35.6 | I'm talking about this guy. |
0:37.2 | Elon Musk, who yesterday made an appearance at the conservative political action conference, |
0:42.1 | aka CPAC, where he rambled incoherently and waved around a chainsaw while wearing sunglasses |
0:49.2 | indoors. |
0:50.5 | That weird guy has control of our government because he bought it getting Donald Trump in the bargain. |
0:57.0 | And today, we are getting a frightening new look at just how much control that means. |
1:02.0 | In a new article for the Atlantic, one employee in senior leadership at USAID describes Doge's level of access to their systems as God mode, writing that they now have |
1:14.7 | full unrestricted access to the agency's digital infrastructure, including total control |
1:20.6 | over systems that Americans working in conflict zones rely on, the ability to see and |
1:26.4 | manipulate financial systems that have historically awarded |
1:29.4 | tens of billions of dollars and perhaps much more. And with that level of unfettered access at |
1:36.6 | USAID, it raises the question of who or what is stopping Musk and Doge from doing the same thing |
1:42.9 | at every government agency that they're |
1:45.1 | infiltrating? And what could that mean for the American people? The Atlantic rights. At NASA, |
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