The Nightcap: Elon Musk and President Trump Continue to Clash

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Nightcap discusses Elon Musk and President Trump’s continuing feud that shows no signs of slowing down. Then, the Supreme Court rules in favor of DOGE gaining access to sensitive Social Security records. Plus, Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to the U.S. to face criminal charges after being mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration. And see who made this week’s MVP list. Michael Steele, Stephen Cloobeck, Nayyera Haq, Brian Barrett and Mark Joseph Stern all join The 11th Hour.

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0:00.0	Tonight, digging in the bitter feud between Trump and Musk moves to a cold war for the truce nowhere in sight.
0:08.5	Plus, the Supreme Court rules in favor of Doge, saying Musk's team can search sensitive social security records.
0:15.6	Then the administration folds and brings a wrongly deported man back to the U.S. from El Salvador as the
0:22.2	11th hour gets underway on this Friday night.
0:30.2	Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhl. Welcome to the nightcap live from Los Angeles.
0:35.1	It is a 138 of the second Trump administration, and Donald
0:40.0	John Trump talked to several news outlets today because he wanted to make it absolutely clear
0:45.4	just how much he is not thinking about his feud with Elon Musk. Today, Trump said Musk has lost his
0:51.4	mind, and he's not particularly interested in talking to him for quite a while.
0:55.5	And White House Chief of Staff Susie Weil said that there are no plans for a call between the two men to simmer things down.
1:02.2	Meanwhile, Musk is still slamming Trump's spending bill on Twitter, saying that, quote, Congress is bankrupting America.
1:09.0	Remember, the disagreement over the bill is how this whole thing
1:12.5	started. But while all of this is going on, we got a very big reminder of just how much of an impact
1:18.7	Elon Musk made during his time in Washington. The Supreme Court has now allowed members of his
1:24.2	Doge team who are still there to get access to sensitive data at the Social Security Administration.
1:30.4	That can include social security numbers, medical records, and tax and banking information of you and me.
1:37.1	Let's get started and bring in our nightcap.
1:38.8	Brian Barrett joins us, Executive Editor of News for Wired.
1:41.9	Now you're a Huck, former White House Senior Director and former State Department Senior Advisor.
1:46.2	She's now an MSNBC columnist.
1:48.2	And Stephen Klubeck, Democratic candidate for California governor and former CEO and chairman of Diamond Resorts International.
1:54.2	He's got a new book out this week, facing hard truths, how Americans can get real, pull together, and turn our country around. Michael
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