Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. He is Team Trump's not-so-secret weapon in spending one's way out of the Democratic experiment and towards something much more closely resembling an oligarchy.

The world's richest man is now lending his massive resources to turbocharge the pressure campaign

to confirm Donald Trump's top cabinet nominees, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patel,

RFK Jr, and more, all of whom face very legitimate questions about their basic competence and

fitness for the jobs they've been tapped to do. There's brand new reporting in the New York

Times today that reveals that, quote, a dark money conservative group that Musk has used for

political spending ran digital ads in Iowa calling on people to urge Senator Ernst to vote for Mr. Heggseth.

In fact, Team Trump sees Elon Musk's wallet and vast resources as the best way to bully and browbeat Republicans into submission.

One Trump advisor telling ABC's John Carl last month, this, quote,

if you're on the wrong side of the vote, you're buying yourself a primary.

That is all the advisor told John Carl.

And there's a guy named Elon Musk who's going to finance it.

The president gets to decide his cabinet and no one else, the advisor adds.

The problem is this.

It's simply not how the Constitution says it works. The Senate

has a constitutionally mandated role. It's called advice and consent. It's an Article 2,

Section 2 of the Constitution. What Team Trump is asking is to force the Senate, in particular, the incoming Republican majority,

to simply abdicate that role and make Trump a king to surrender their constitutionally mandated

job and obligation, embedding nominees. Many Republicans, I'm sure, will be more than happy to hand over their oversight role

to the world's richest man over in the House side.

Here's Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green last week.

Elon and Vivek talked about having a naughty list and a nice list for members of Congress and senators

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