The White House has filled the briefing room with Trump loyalists, and they're asking the hard-hitting questions.

We're a breakback speed from President Trump. Can we expect that pace to continue as the first 100 days moves along here?

Absolutely.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Michael Loinger. Also on this week's show, Trump's government of right-wing influencers expands with a cop-turned-podcaster

joining the FBI.

Bongina was smart using his proximity as a secret service agent as a way to suggest that he was in the room

and that this proximity birthed in him this desire to root out

bureaucratic Washington no goodness. Plus three years into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Trump's

still charmed by Putin. If you see how Trump is speaking now about global politics, it's very much

just like Putin.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Lohenger.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. How about launching the show with Chico Marx?

Your Excellency, I thought you left.

Oh, no, I don't leave.

But I saw you with my own eyes.

Well, who are you going to believe?

Me or your own eyes?

I think for many news consumers,

what makes this moment so maddening is how the truth has so little bearing on policy.

For instance, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency claims $65 billion in savings,

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