it's been a hell of a day. I mean, I could say that almost any day, but today has been a hell of a day.

After a bizarre goodbye event in the Oval Office on Friday, and it was bizarre, Elon Musk apparently woke up today,

decided to openly trash Donald Trump's disgusting abomination of a spending bill. His words not mine.

That's what he called it. We're going to talk about that in the show for sure.

Caroline Levitt gave another bonkers press briefing. So obviously I'm going to step in and answer a few questions a little later because it's too fun not to.

And the great Nicole Wallace is going to join me here in just a second to talk about everything happening in Washington right now and there is a lot. But I want to start tonight with this. Do you hear that? That is the rare

and blissful sound of silence. We rarely get that these days because for the first time in his presidency,

Donald Trump has not made a public appearance for three straight days. We for the first time in his presidency, Donald Trump has not made a public

appearance for three straight days. We're not sure why. Maybe he's tired. Maybe he's feeling a little

low energy. Who knows? But for whatever reason, the president is taking his longest break from the

public eye since retaking the White House. Now, if you were missing all of those nonsensical updates from the administration,

because sometimes they're interesting to talk about,

don't worry because the president has surrounded himself with what he calls the best people,

also his words not mine, who are out there fill in the void.

People like former WWE wrestling executive Linda McMahon, who

Trump inexplicably put in charge of the Department of Education. It's quite, quite an assignment

for her. Secretary McMahon, of course, testified before the Senate today, and Republican senators

kind of did their level best to lob her softball questions and make it look like she

kind of knows what

she's doing. I mean, here was Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, trying to tee her up for an easy

one. What was we ranked in reading and math in 1979? I'm sorry, what? What was we ranked nationally

in math and reading in 1979?

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