The Jim Acosta Show - Episode 5 with Beto O'Rourke and Rep. Eugene Vindman
The Jim Acosta Show
Jim Acosta
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Thanks everybody for watching this first week of the show! I’m so grateful. Don’t forget to check out the chat and leave your thoughts on topics for next week. Have a great weekend. And thank you Daniel Pinchbeck, Robin Stewart, Jonathan Brownson, George Schneider, Robert Leonard, and many others for tuning into my live video with Beto O'Rourke and Eugene Vindman! Join me for my next live video in the app.
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| 0:00.0 | these messages come up in the chat and that'll let us kind of know that we're live but could be any moment got it All right, everybody, welcome to episode five of the Jim Acosta show. |
| 0:22.0 | Happy Friday, TGIF. |
| 0:23.8 | As you can see at the bottom of the screen, I have former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke with me. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm going to be talking to him in just a moment. |
| 0:30.9 | We're going to get his take on everything that's happening in Washington right now. |
| 0:34.6 | There's a lot to get into. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm not sure, Beto, we have enough time to get into everything, but we're going to do our best in this next several minutes or show. But in the meantime, you know, it might be Friday, but it's just another day that ends in why here in Washington. The chaos continues as Trump escalates the Elon Musk-led Doge assault on the federal government. |
| 0:56.5 | Trump called for the International Development Agency, USAID, to be closed. |
| 1:01.0 | The New York Times reporting, virtually all employees at the agency were already set to be put on indefinite administrative leave as of today. And meanwhile, more doge drama. |
| 1:13.7 | The Wall Street Journal reporting a key Doge staff member who gained access to the Treasury |
| 1:17.9 | Department's federal payment system resigned yesterday on Thursday after the journal says |
| 1:24.7 | he was linked to a deleted social media account that made racist comments. |
| 1:28.9 | According to the Wall Street Journal back in September, the staffer had posted on X, quote, |
| 1:32.5 | you could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity. |
| 1:36.2 | So already an embarrassing episode for Doge when it comes to who's on their staff. |
| 1:42.4 | One update to the story we should note. |
| 1:45.1 | Vice President J.D. Vance called for that employee to be reinstated, saying, in his words, |
| 1:50.0 | stupid posts on social media should not ruin a person's life. I want to jump right into this |
| 1:55.5 | and talk to Beto O'Rourke about this because, Beto, you served in Congress. And I've been asking around Washington, nobody has ever seen anything like this before. |
| 2:05.6 | We've had government shutdowns, you've had furloughs, that sort of thing. |
| 2:09.6 | But for the President of the United States to appoint, or maybe anoint is the better word, |
| 2:15.6 | a tech billionaire to just sort of run wild through agencies |
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