And welcome to the Jim Acosta show on this Thursday. My big guest today, Stacey Abrams. I am so excited to have you on today, Stacy. It is great to see you. And I guess I should also say welcome to Substack. You recently got on the platform. Very exciting. Thank you. Well, it is always an honor. You, your voice has been so incredibly important for so long. So it's a bit

of a treat to be able, I spent most of my life trying to avoid ever having to be mentioned by you,

but it's a delight to be with you in Substack and very excited to have launched assembly notes last

week and just rare to go.

Well, that's a great place for everybody to catch up on you and the work that you're doing, the important work that you're always doing.

And, of course, you're a prolific writer.

You have a book coming out very soon.

We'll talk about that.

But I have to start off with the big breaking news.

And, you know, I was thinking about calling this a special

edition of the Jim Acosta show, the Trump Musk catfight edition of the Jim Acosta show. I don't want to,

I don't want to start there, but I feel like I have to start there. It is a MAGA meltdown.

The big question this afternoon, what has happened to Donald Trump and Elon Musk? This is not a bad breakup. This looks like the beginning of a GOP Civil War. And they're doing everything but throwing the Chardonnay. But Elon Musk is definitely throwing something out there. He just tweeted minutes ago, time to drop the really big bomb. And again, I am reading an Elon Musk tweet on his site X. Real Donald Trump is in the

Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT. This was

after Trump went after Elon Musk and said that he was wearing thin. This is what he said on

Truth Social. I asked him to leave. I took away his EV mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars

that nobody else wanted.

And he just went crazy in all caps.

And now Congressman Eric Swalwell is tweeting that it's time to release the Epstein files.

So, Stacey, forgive me for starting with all of this nonsense and craziness and just, I mean, drama.

Hello.

I don't know what's happening here. But what your impressions, because this, this looks like the beginnings of this, of a very big implosion inside the far right of the Republican Party.

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