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_Washington always wins__ Musk leaves Trump admin _a little bit humbled_ after D.C. reality check(MP3_160K) · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: Secondly, I saw something in the New York Times today
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk, and my gosh, things are changing very quickly
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  Speaker 1: for Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 2: And there were some quotes in the Times.
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  Speaker 1: Where, of course he talked about the big beautiful bill,
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  Speaker 1: the deficit that was coming, of course, things that we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about for quite some time.
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  Speaker 2: A bill that will crush America in the coming years.
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  Speaker 1: If you just look at the deficit side of it,
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  Speaker 1: twenty trillion dollars at it over the next ten years,
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  Speaker 1: or a thirty seven trillion dollar debt.
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  Speaker 2: Don't we don't have that money. We can't sustain that
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  Speaker 2: this one.
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  Speaker 1: But also he said getting things done in Washington, DC
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  Speaker 1: is not easy, again, something that we say all the
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  Speaker 1: time here.
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  Speaker 2: Washington always wins. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: That means that if you're playing basketball in the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: you can't get the ball and say I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to get the ball and run it up the court
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  Speaker 1: and not dribble. You have to play by the rules.
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  Speaker 1: You have to play within the confines of the rules
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  Speaker 1: that are giving it to you. And in this constitutional Republic, again,
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  Speaker 1: you've got four hundred and thirty five members in the House,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred members in the Senate, you've got judges, you've
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  Speaker 1: got three different branches. It was set up specifically not
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  Speaker 1: to be easy, and Elon Musk has discovered that in
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  Speaker 1: pretty rapid succession. It looks like he's really starting to
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  Speaker 1: sound and think again like a businessman who wants to
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  Speaker 1: get out of Washington and turn his back on politics.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he effectively announced yesterday his time in Washington is
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  Speaker 3: over a little bit earlier than was planned or expected,
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  Speaker 3: but that he's done that this time as a temporary
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  Speaker 3: employee of the government, a special government employee is over.
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  Speaker 3: He's walking away. He thanked President Trump. The White House
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  Speaker 3: claims they still have a good relationship the two of them.
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  Speaker 3: That perhaps is true, perhaps is not true. But to
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  Speaker 3: your point, show there's a quote he was interviewed by
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  Speaker 3: the Washington Post. Elon Musk was in this morning's paper
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  Speaker 3: and he says, quote, the federal bureaucracy situation is much
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  Speaker 3: worse than I realized. I thought there were problems, but
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  Speaker 3: it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things
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  Speaker 3: in DC, to say the least, learning the lesson that
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  Speaker 3: many many businessmen have learned as they've come to Washington
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  Speaker 3: and tried to impose the way they do business, which
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  Speaker 3: is to sit at the head of a table and
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  Speaker 3: tell people what's going to happen to a federal government,
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  Speaker 3: to a federal bureaucracy. So he came in with the chainsaw,
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  Speaker 3: he leaves a little bit humbled perhaps, I mean you
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  Speaker 3: mentioned it. He did that interview with CBS News. We
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  Speaker 3: saw a clip of it yesterday, and he sounded more
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  Speaker 3: like the pre politics Elon Musk, which is to say,
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  Speaker 3: talking about engineering and business and all the things that
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  Speaker 3: he has become rich and famous for, and less about
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  Speaker 3: wielding that chainsaw to cut around the margins of our
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  Speaker 3: federal budget.
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  Speaker 1: Again, it's not supposed to be easy. The whole idea
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  Speaker 1: of Madison and Hamilton's constitution was you've got to actually
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  Speaker 1: work with other people to get things done. That's why
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  Speaker 1: as we look at all these and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be talking about this, this tariff ruling, you look at
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  Speaker 1: all these emergency orders that are are are put out
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  Speaker 1: there when arguably there aren't emergencies. You look at all
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  Speaker 1: the presidential orders that are put out there.
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  Speaker 2: Those make great headlines.
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  Speaker 1: They may move the ball a little bit for a month,
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  Speaker 1: two three months, but man if you want a lasting legacy,
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  Speaker 1: you have to pass legislation. Passing legislation, as Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: learned in his term, extraordinarily difficult to do. It took
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  Speaker 1: him about two years, but at the end of two
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  Speaker 1: years he passed a historic number of bills that became
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  Speaker 1: law where he had Republicans Democrats working together. Those bills
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  Speaker 1: will last, those laws will last, just like Obamacare still
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  Speaker 1: the law of the land. But these presidential orders, these
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  Speaker 1: presidential directives will not. And so I think hopefully for
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  Speaker 1: the sake of the country, we're going to have the
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  Speaker 1: President and Congress starting to work together to pass bipartisan
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  Speaker 1: legislation that we'll have a lasting impact.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see. And I'm just going to say, Joe,
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  Speaker 3: it remains true that we spend too much, that the
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  Speaker 3: federal debt and deaths are out of control. Elon Musk
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  Speaker 3: is right about that. The big problem though, is attacking
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  Speaker 3: that debt and deficit in the way that he did,
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  Speaker 3: which is trimming around the edges and cutting off usaid
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  Speaker 3: to children around the world, rather than actually looking at
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  Speaker 3: the sources of our debt and deficit, which is a
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  Speaker 3: much more difficult and complicated thing to do.