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🗓️ 18 February 2025
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0:00.0 | Thank you all for joining us tonight. We have so much to get to in the next hour of the readout, |
0:03.9 | including the very latest on that passenger plane that flipped upside down this afternoon in Toronto, |
0:09.9 | Canada, leaving more than a dozen people injured. And here in the U.S., the potentially devastating |
0:15.6 | consequences to your safety and health from the slashing of jobs in aviation and health care. |
0:22.0 | Okay, well, happy President's Day, everyone. |
0:24.1 | Or for thousands of protesters today, not my President's Day, |
0:27.8 | with rallies to denounce Donald Trump and Elon Musk taking place in Washington, D.C., |
0:32.6 | and in cities across the country. |
0:35.4 | And that is where we begin tonight, exactly four weeks into the |
0:39.4 | second Trump presidency, or perhaps more accurately, the Trump-Musk co-presidency, since the |
0:46.0 | world's wealthiest billionaire seems to be calling many of the shots. In fact, for four long weeks, |
0:52.0 | Elon Musk's gang of teen and 20-something Doge programmers, including in the |
0:57.2 | words of Vice President J.D. Vance, at least one racist troll, have been running, some might say |
1:03.8 | amok inside our government. And the tally so far for the dictator on day one and his wealthy |
1:10.0 | benefactor has definitely been weird, including two joint press availabilities. |
1:15.4 | One, inside the Oval Office that included Musk's four-year-old, seeming to whisper in Trump's general direction, you are not the president and shut your mouth. |
1:24.2 | Plus a joint interview on Fox in which Donald Trump tried to dispel the notion that his co-president is the boss of him. |
1:32.7 | Elon called me. He said, you know, they're trying to drive us apart. I said, absolutely. |
1:37.0 | You know, they said, we have breaking news. Donald Trump has ceded control of the presidency to Elon Musk. |
1:43.9 | President Musk will be attending a cabinet meeting tonight at 8 o'clock. |
1:48.4 | And I say, it's just so obvious. |
1:52.0 | It's just obviously weird. |
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