Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro and Comedian Matt Friend

The Jim Acosta Show

Jim Acosta

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4.9 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to a TGIF edition of the Jim Acosta show.
0:03.7	As you can see, joining me at the top of the hour right now is Texas Democratic Congressman
0:08.9	Joaquin Castro.
0:10.7	He's going to be talking about a lot of the news that's out there today.
0:14.3	You can see him right there.
0:16.1	All the comments are already starting to come in.
0:19.1	And a little later on in the program, a little special treat.
0:22.2	We all need this at the end of a long week.
0:25.2	Comedian Matt Friend is going to be joining the program on about half an hour from now.
0:29.6	Fortunately, Congressman Castro will be gone.
0:32.2	Fortunately for him, Congressman Castro will be gone by then before Matt Friend comes on.
0:39.1	I think he has an impersonation of me, but not of Joaquin Castro, fortunately. But I'm calling this the,
0:43.9	hail to the oligarchs edition of the Jim Acosta show. Hail to the chief is so 2024, it's now
0:49.9	hail to the oligarchs, which is reminding me it is 5 o'clock somewhere, including right here in
0:54.8	Washington, D.C. But I do want to start talking about shadow president Elon Musk over at the
1:01.2	Pentagon today. Speaking of Hale to the oligarchs, it was Elon Musk looking like a shadow president,
1:08.0	looking like a co-president, visiting the Pentagon, meeting with
1:11.1	the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. It had been anticipated, as according to Washington Post.
1:16.1	They would discuss a range of defense topics, including the threat posed by China and the billionaires
1:21.5	work to slash the U.S. government bureaucracy. The reason why this visit was really in the news, and Congressman,
1:28.6	you know this is the New York Times reported that the Pentagon was scheduled today to brief
1:33.2	Elon Musk on the U.S. military plan for any war that might break out with China. That was
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