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And make Mexico pay for it. I don't know. Something like that would be nice. Yes. Or just a. Yeah. A gigantic series of fans on the border with filters to recirculate the air. Yeah, why not? So last night on Special Report with Brett Bear, Brett sat down and talked with. Gosh, was it seven guys? Seven. Oh, my Lord. With six or seven of the guys who are heading up the Doge efforts, including Elon Musk, of course. Executive producer Hansen has done a fabulous job of getting us many, many highlights, many more than we could play on air. Meeting time, Jack. I say I want to hear a couple from Elon Musk because the interview begins with him. But I'd really, really like to highlight at least a little bit from each of the guys because to me, the great takeaway and Elon is a brilliant guy and interesting, but between his overexposure and his halting speaking style, and as a parent of an autistic kid, I get it and I'm used to it, more or less, but it can be distracting. And my big takeaway from it was this is an amazing collection of brilliant people who are dead serious about doing what's right for the American people. Not within a thousand miles of the haphazard monster that the mainstream media has portrayed. So what do you think of a little touch on all the fellas, then? Why the Hitler salute? Well, yeah, we were kicking around a picture on the private. Well, Jeffrey Goldberg was probably on it, but the private show thread night of of Musk waving with two hands. We called it the Double Hitler. So obviously we're dabbling with Nazism here to even play it, but so here's Brett Baer with Elon Musk talking about when they took a look at the government books, what they found. We'll start with 51, Michael, and talk to all the guys here about the specifics. But for you, what's the most astonishing thing you found out in this process? The sheer amount of Waste and fraud in the government. It is astonishing. It's mind blowing. Just we routinely encounter wastes of a billion dollars or more casually. You know, for example, like the simple survey that was literally a 10 question survey that you could do with SurveyMonkey, cost you about $10,000. Was the government was being charged almost $1 billion for that. For just the survey. $1 billion for. For a simple online survey. Do you like the national park? And then there appeared to be no feedback loop for what would be done with that survey. So the survey would just go to nothing. It was like insane. You tackle. That's nice. Yeah. And then to the criticism that they are making mistakes and running roughshod over the federal bureaucracy. 53 Michael, there obviously are Doge critics who are reading all kinds of stuff. Obviously lawmakers on the other side of the A attacking you. And they characterize the approach as this. Fire ready and then aim. And how do you approach that? How do you respond to that? Well, I do agree that we actually want to be careful in the cuts. So we want to measure twice, if not thrice, and cut once. And actually that is our approach. They may characterize it as shooting from the hip, but it is anything but that. Which is not to say that we don't make mistakes. If we were to approach this with the standard of making no mistakes at all, that would be like saying someone in baseball's got about a thousand. That's impossible. So when we do make mistakes, we correct them quickly and we move on. I think it's interesting that. So the crowd that's angry at Doge, they don't get angry when they hear the government spent a billion dollars on a $10,000 survey. And then it's not even for anything anyway. I mean, that's all money that could be going to programs you like that eventually won't happen because we'll be broke. Or you should be angry that they're taking your money at all that you earned and not let letting you keep it and spending on that. You have no anger about that, only about when they get it wrong now and then before they can fix it. I'm reminded of Thomas Soul's epic book, A Conflict of Visions. People have just gotten the message that in our tribe we are anti this. So shout that it's evil. And they say, okay, I will. That's part of it. All the rational thought that goes into it, that's part of it. I think. I think there is the rational thought of there's endless government money or it's not My money or I don't pay taxes or whatever that you just don't care about waste, fraud and abuse. I think. True. I think a lot of people just don't care about it. And as I've said a million times, that's actually part of the progressive playbook is to narrow the tax base as much as possible so there aren't enough votes to vote against the graph that you spread your cronies. Anyway. Moving on from Elon Musk, Brett now turns to Steve Davis. And I should have jotted down all these guys credentials. They touch on some of it. But he's the first of the many very, very impressive serious people who is helping Elon head up the doge thing. 54. Michael, some people say this shouldn't take a rocket scientist. Steve Davis, you are a rocket scientist? Used to be, yeah. And now essentially you're the chief operating officer of Doge day to day operations. Fair to say, yeah. Part of the Doge team. So how did you end up here? What's the biggest challenge? You see, the reason I'm here, which is probably for many, is that I think the goal is incredibly inspiring. I think most of the taxpayers in the country would agree that in order to have the country going bankrupt would be a very bad thing and therefore the country going not bankrupt is a good thing that all of us are willing to kind of put our lives on hold in order to do. I think the thing that's special right now is we actually believe there's a chance to succeed, that there's an administration that's supportive and a great cabinet and just a great group that will actually make success a possible outcome. And I think that's given the inspiring mission and given the non zero chance of success, it was worth doing. Obviously the voice of a monster. Right? And one principle that hung over in a good way, all of the discussions that was repeated many times is we need to be adults and recognize the country is going broken. We need to get serious about this before the train wreck occurs or the beloved social programs that everybody's screaming about, even though they're not talking about touching them, really will go away. They will. The outcome you are screaming about will happen unless we do this very, very serious. Uh, do you think it's worth resetting the retirement mine? I think that's covered pretty thoroughly. I was surprised they got into that the way they did. Yeah, that's a great story. We played a whole bunch of clips on that several weeks ago when Elon first started talking about it, that they still do it by paper like it's the 50s down in a mine for all the retirement paperwork for government employees is just unbelievable. Right? And they're trying to modernize that to make it easier for federal employees to do everything they need to do, including to retire. They mentioned you have to take a seminar to teach you how to retire as a federal government employee. Let's see. All right, let's skip ahead to Aram Mogadasi, who is a software engineer as he explains, who's a major part of the effort. After a quick word from our friends at Prize Picks, springtime is here. Baseball season officially underway. Us baseball fans very excited about that. Don't miss your chance to add your favorite players from the diamond to your prize picks lineups. 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So the computer systems of the government are a terrible, sad joke and far from irresponsible frat boys. The Doge team is taking a serious look about how to make responsive to us. Let's start with 60. Michael Aram Moganassi, Doge Engineer. You go into these places, one of the more than a dozen engineers first people to go into the agencies and view the computer data sets. Tell me what you're finding and for people who don't understand how that process works, explain it for them. Yeah, I'll say the first thing that got me really excited about Doge was learning basically the state of government computers. By some estimates government it costs about $100 billion and it's funding systems that are over 50 years old in the case of something like Social Security or the irs. So really critical systems are old. They cost a lot of money to maintain and the efforts to improve them are often very delayed. So I thought, I'm a software engineer that maybe can make a difference here. And that's really what inspired me at a high level. That's gotta be something when you come out of the tech world where you're probably using the very latest, greatest, if it's last week, to come into government and realize you're using stuff that's 50 years old and figure out what that even was. Right. And here's another incredibly successful guy who answered the call and said, yeah, you know what? We might be able to actually do this for the American, American people. I'm in. I'm gonna give it a try. I like the way the next part is framed. 61, 62, back to back, please. The first, a montage of Democrats with their messaging over Doge. It's absurd that Elon Musk is trying to eliminate billions of dollars from Social Security. Elon Musk and President Trump have set their sights on cutting Social Security. Their goal is clear. Destroy Social Security from within. You're in the building. I mean, you're in the computers. What's happening there? What are you doing? Yeah, it doesn't line up with my experience on the ground. And I'll say the two improvements that we're trying to make to Social Security are helping people that legitimately get benefits, protect them from fraud that they experience every day on a routine basis, and also make the experience better. And I'll give you one example is at Social Security, one of the first things we learned is that they get phone calls every day of people trying to change direct deposit information. So when you want to change your bank account, you can call Social Security. We learned 40% of the phone calls that they get are from fraudsters. 40%. That's right. Almost half. Yes. And they steal people's Social Security is. What happens is they call in, they say they claim to be a retiree. Then they. And they convince the person, the Social Security person on the phone, to change the. Where the. Where the money's flowing. It actually goes to some fraudster. This is happening all day, every day. And then. And then somebody doesn't receive their Social Security. It's because of all the fraud loopholes in the Social Security system. They're trying to destroy Social Security from within. And then Musk makes the point. We're trying to make sure people get more money, not less. That politics is awful. The appalling dishonesty is. Is. Is problem number one. Secondly, standing in the way of actual improvement is a second evil, unforgivable yeah, we got more of this and and other stuff too. But man, how much of America had heard this take on Doge? Not very much. Not very many people stay here. Armstrong and Getty, this is Jenny Garth from I do part two. If you could lose 10.4 pounds in one month, would you try with Future Health? You can. Future Health gives millions access to affordable weight loss meds for less than three bucks a day. 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We got a text from somebody listening to this stuff, the DOGE stuff about the computers being out of date. And he used to work in that world and he said a lot of it was they have this stupid requirement where the new system has to integrate with the old system so that end users don't notice a difference during transitions, which means you have to hold on to all the stuff from the old system for the new system. And it just doesn't work in any, in any way to try to, you know, move forward with, with, with new technology. So you just end up sticking with the old stuff sometimes 50 years down the line, apparently. If you're just tuning in, Brett Baer did a fabulous series of interviews with the leaders of the DOGE effort last night, including Brad Smith, who's a health care entrepreneur and is working on the Department of Health and Human Services stuff. You may have heard in the various lefty media that they're trying to gut scientific research and causing damage to our elite, you know, universities, blah, blah, blah. Here's Brad Smith talking about their efforts. 65 Michael Brad Smith working at HHS and obviously another element is Medicare and Medicaid. NIH, what are you finding? Yeah, well, I'd say there's a couple things we're really committed to in our work at hhs. Number one, making sure we continue to have the best biomedical research in the world. And number two, making sure, which President Trump has said over and over again that we 100% protect Medicare and Medicaid. But there's a lot of opportunity. So if I take NIH as an Example today, if you're an NIH researcher and you get a hundred dollar grant at your university today, you get to spend 60 of that and your university spends 40 of that. The policy that we're proposing to make is that you get to spend 85 of that and your university spends 15. So that's more money going directly to the scientists who are discovering new cures. Another example at NIH is today they have 27 different centers. They got created over time by Congress and they're typically by disease state or body system. There's 700 different IT systems today at NIH. 700 different IT systems, IT software systems. They can't speak to each other, so they don't talk to one another. They have 27 different CIOs. And so when you think about making great medical discoveries, you have to connect the data. Yeah, time out. You said 27 different chief information officers. Correct? Correct. And most of them are non technical. So there's a lot there, there's a, there's a lot of opportunity. It will make science better, not worse. No, no. They're derailing important research. This is, this is terrible. Elon is a Nazi. They need to be stopped. I live in a university town and a lot of people have been really upset about this aspect of it and I mean, just like sad and scared for America. And how are we going to weather the next three years? Well, how about this? How about make it even slightly more efficient and you can have more money to use for your research. Yeah, let's squeeze in 66. Michael, you're quite right. Yes. When I say that our job is tech support, I really mean it. Yeah, we have to fix the computers. If the computers can't talk to each other, you can't get research done. If the computers can't stay online, people won't receive their Social Security. So what we have here are a bunch of failing computer systems that are preventing people from receiving their benefits, that are preventing people from preventing research from happening, that are extremely vulnerable to fraud. And we're fixing it. And does that include AI? Does that include kind of changing the system overall? That's, I guess what people are afraid of is they don't know what this is all looking like. And is it going to affect me in the long term? It's going to affect them. It's going to affect people very positively. So the changes that we're doing here will ensure the solvency of the American government of the United States of America. This is what we're trying to do, is ensure that people do receive their benefits in the future, and you can only receive your benefits if the country is operating in a, in a healthy and competent way. I like Elon always bringing it back to that because that's what drives the whole thing. We're going to become insolvent. We're going to have no money. We're not going to be able to do anything if we don't change a course. Right. Right. Next we'd like to feature Anthony Armstrong, who's a banking giant who's trying to get a hold of federal personnel and duplicated efforts and redundancy and waste in that way. 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Get started risk free@greenlight.com iheart but it is very important to recognize that, that the people who work in government, who are working on health are dedicated public servants. There are neighbors, there are friends, there are people in our family who are committed to improving the lives of people across our country. A lot of them are going to be losing their jobs and we're all going to suffer because of it. That's CNN had this doctor on who is a former CDC staffer explaining how cuts and restructuring like Doge is doing is just a terrible idea. We must not improve anything because there's a huge human cost. Well, and back to the thing I've been complaining about for a long time, that the idea of somebody losing their job in government is just something that can't happen. Well, these are our friends, Jack. These are our neighbors. These are nice people. So before we get back to more Elon Doge stuff that is so interesting and not being heard anywhere in America. You know the doctor who tried to push his wife off the cliff and kill her? Oh, yeah. The latest is he tried to hit her in the head with a rock 10 times and injector with syringes. Oh. So more details to come on that it was definitely premeditated. She money insanity. So the interesting part, well, one of the interesting parts of Brit Bear's interview with a bunch of Doge leaders last night was that it wasn't just Elon Musk who's who's a lovely Fellow and brilliant. But it was the group of extremely smart, capable, accomplished people who had been assembled who are working as hard as they can on improving the federal government, how it functions and it's, you know, its benefits for American taxpayers. Having been portrayed as, as this loose band of frat boy lunatics in most of the media. These are dead serious people. For instance, Anthony Armstrong, Morgan Stanley Banker he is working for Doge at the Office of Personnel Management, trying to modernize and make more efficient that huge part of the federal government. Clip 67 Michael Anthony Armstrong Doge Office of Personnel Management Morgan Stanley Banker M and a guy, you know, money, and this is a lot of money sloshing around. There's a lot of money sloshing around. There's a lot of money sloshing out the door. And if you look at the federal government and the way the workforce works, it's really a one way ratchet over decades. It's only going up, it's only going up. You never take it away. So that leaves you with duplicative functions, it leaves you with overstaffing and it leaves you with functions in the wrong places. So a couple of examples, duplicative functions. Brad mentioned 27 CIOs. If you had kept going with Brad, he probably would talk about the communications office. I think you've got 40 distinct communications offices in HHS, right? Wow, 40. And that's not unusual, by the way. Multiple offices like this. Wow. If you had three, you'd think you need three different communications offices for one agency, right? No, 40. Wow. It's a one way ratchet, it just grows. Next clip Michael this is not about the employees. There. There's many, many hard working, well meaning people who took these jobs. These jobs were out there. They applied for them, they took them, they're doing what's there. It's just that they're duplicating the effort of 40 offices. So you've got, that, you've got overstaffing. A good example of overstaffing would be the IRS has got 1400 people who are dedicated to provisioning laptops and cell phones. So if you join the irs, you get a laptop and a cell phone, you're provisioned. So if each of those IRS officers or employees provisioned two employees per day, you could provision the entire IRS in a little more than a month. So 12 times a year, you why would you have 1400 people whose only job it is to give out a laptop and a phone? Right. The whole IRS could be handled once a month. So that doesn't that doesn't make any sense. And President Trump's been very clear, scalpel, not hatchet. And that's the way it's getting done. And of course, that's all being portrayed as you will not be able to get the IRS to answer the phone, which they never have, or get good tax advice from them. You never have. And these guys are trying to get to those outcomes. Anyway, one more fellow to feature. This is Tom Krause, who is a CEO of the Cloud Software Group. He is working at the Treasury Department. We'll start with 70, Michael. Tom Kraus, working at treasury, you are having access to the payment system, oversees all the outgoing payments. Essentially those payments were going places we didn't know where they were going. Right? Yeah, unfortunately that's the case, Brett. You know, as an ex CFO of a big public tech company, really what we're doing is we're applying public company standards to the federal government. And it is alarming how the financial operations and financial management is set up today. Michael, let's continue on with this frat boy, doge boy, loose cannon Hitler. There is actually really only one bank account that's used to disperse all monies that go out of the federal government. Talking about one bank account. It's a big one. It's a big one. It's a big one. It's a big one. A couple weeks ago it had $800 billion in it, but it's the treasury general account. So when you hear some of my colleagues here, what they're talking about in terms of the fraud, you have to ask, well, why is this allowed to happen at a financial level? Well, it's actually quite simple, but alarming the treasury up until now, and thanks to President Trump, we're fixing this. In fact, there's an executive order that he just signed the other day which is protecting America's bank account because it really is the taxpayers money. You know, one, we're changing the culture. The culture is then not a lot of caring and not a lot of commitment to doing what's right relative to financial operations. There's a $500 billion of fraud every year. There's hundreds of billion dollars of improper payments and we can't pass an audit. The consolidated financial report is produced by treasury and we cannot pass it on. We have material weaknesses. What that means is that if I was a public company cfo, I would effectively be removed. I couldn't file financial statements, I couldn't issue securities. Can't pass along. Right. The colonel government cannot pass an audit and you know one more, he makes a great point here we're serving 580 plus agencies and up until very recently, effectively they could say make the payment. And treasury just sent it out as fast as possible, no verification. And so what we're doing is what any household would do. But imagine you're a household, you have a bank account. Everyone has, has an ATM card connected to that account. Everyone has a checkbook, that account. It's not just your children, it's not just your parents, it's your in laws, it's your extended family. And they all can go to the account and disperse funds. No questions asked, no justification, no verification. Yeah, that's not surprising to me it's horrifying. But I missed the part where they admitted that they're just trying to slap Social Security benefits out of the mouth of a 90 year old woman who's starving and blind. They didn't get to that part, I guess. And then finally, to put a cap on it, Bear wrapping up Brett Bear with Elon Musk. We didn't talk about any plans to approach cuts at the Pentagon here and there. The Pentagon has not passed an audit in a very long time. I mean, as crazy as it sounds, they will lose 20, 30 billion dollars a year and they don't know where. They literally don't know where it went. I mean, Senator Collins was telling me about how she gave the Navy $12 billion for extra submarines, got zero extra submarines, and then when she held a hearing said, Where'd the $12 billion go? They didn't know. We have howled for years about the idiotic, gigantic theft that is the bullet train in California and the other of the twin, you know, towers to government squandering taxpayer money is the, the homeless programs in Cal Unicornia. Billions and billions and billions of dollars given out. And we all found out last year that not only do they not know if any of them have borne any fruit, have been successful, they don't even have a means to ask the question. And whether it was that little screed about the Pentagon or Tyler Hassan, who we don't have time to play that tape. He's working at the Department of the Interior. They were talking about how they have many, many, many programs that they are now looking into auditing and realizing nobody knows who signed this contract, where the money's going, we're not getting anything out of it, but the checks keep getting written month after month, year after year, even though nobody has any idea what this is. It's just shocking. And again, the Effort to rein this in is being portrayed as the stormtroopers marching across Poland, slaughtering the innocent by, you know, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and aoc. Well, and half the country doesn't pay federal taxes. You can't count on that half to be too mad. It's true. That's really frustrating. You know, different topic. It's, it's interesting to me for some reason, it's popping into my head. I can't imagine what Elon's workday is. I've, I've thought about this many times, but people always want to win the lottery. You know, the lottery gets up to a billion dollars or whatever and it makes national news and people are buying tickets and everything like that. And everybody who wants to win, most everybody you hear about who wants to win the lottery, it's just. And so they can live this incredible life of pleasure. And it's like, you know, which, which yacht, which house, which car, you know, how much pleasure can you get? Free building Dodge. Yes, that is my dream. Go on. And then you got all these guys here, Elon at the head of them who've got that kind of money and they're doing the exact opposite. They're working, they're busting their ass all day long with mind numbing, frustrating, possibly dead end work because they, that's what they do. They care about their country. They just, they like working. It's interesting. Enormous challenge. Yeah, it's interesting. And that's why they have money, because they're built that way to have earned the money in the first place as opposed to so many people who, you know, when they think about having that kind of money, it's, oh man, I'd get up at noon, I'd go to my yacht, I'd have a Ferrari. And that's not what these guys are thinking. I just find that interesting the way they go to the golf course before I went to my yacht. But anyway, I don't mean to quibble. I've got it right. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and so on. Yeah, yeah. Well, there you have it. I would love to see somehow Elon, and more particularly Steve Davis, Joe Jabaya, Brad Smith, Anthony Armstrong, Aram Mogadon, Dassi, Moganassi. I would love to have them get out and explain this, but they will not be welcomed at most media outlets because it doesn't go with the narrative of their tribe. Now you combine the left's love of big government and government workers and all that sort of stuff with just hatred of Trump Trump's for it. You got to be against it. We know all that, how the whole thing works. So it's just. Yeah, it's tough. It's tough sledding. Well, and you need to remember always that a big part of the patchwork that is the Democrat coalition is government employees. And they are. It's a four alarm fire at the government employee unions right now because if you have 1,000 workers, 343 of whom are completely redundant and unnecessary and taxpayer money is being squandered on them, well, losing those 343 is just purely 100% a loss to the government unions. They despise the idea of making government more efficient for taxpayers. And so why do you have a quote unquote civil rights leader yelling about this or up with Palestine person yelling about this? Well, it's that whole intersectionality, the NATO of grievances. You're all together in this. So. Yeah, okay, when it comes time to yell for us, you're gonna yell for us, right? Employee. Government employees. And they say, yeah, of course we will. So, okay, so everybody on the left side of the aisle acts like making the government better is an unspeakable horror at the cost of the. Of the American people. It's all borne by the American people. It's obscene. End of screed. So I got the latest details on that nut job doctor who luckily was arrested, who was trying to push his wife off the cliff. Also one of the worst New York Post headlines I've ever seen. Certainly not for the kids. Among certainly. Among other things. On the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. This is Ashley Iconetti from the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast. You could have lost 10 pounds already if you already started one month ago. So are you ready to start today? Find out if weight loss meds are right for you in just 3 minutes at try fh.com try fh.com try fH.com results vary based on start weight and adherence to diet, exercise and program goals. Database on independent studies sponsored by Future Health. 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So there must be something about this cliff that makes you think, wow, there is nobody around and that is straight down. They should rename that trail. You know, you got you tired of your husband, take the miking on that trail. Just give him a little elbow. The old Hawaiian divorce, right? It's gonna get a name anyway. It's gruesome, obviously. This is horrible. And thank God somebody was around to intervene when she started screaming help, help, he's trying to kill me. They're two people in their 40s. This is what the testimony is now from her. They're on this trail in Honolulu up on a cliff and everything like that. He stood next to her and said hey, let's take a selfie. And then was like edging closer to the end of the cliff and she said no, no, we're too close to the cliff. And like walked away kind of freaked out. He then grabs a rock and starts beating her on the head with the rock. He'd given up on the whole this will, I'm gonna make it seem like an accident. I don't know what he was doing. But it turned. He's trying to get her near the edge and she backed off. And he thought, well I'm all intent on killing her. Let's see, what do we have at hand? Starts bashing her on the head with a rock, gets her on the ground, then grabs his bag and gets two syringes from the bag. So this wasn't a. All of a sudden he thought of this sort of plan. Certainly not. He had had this plan in mind. She starts yelling, help. Help. Luckily, he's kind of a weedy guy, apparently, because he keeps fighting her and hitting her on the head with a rock. And she's fine. Well, she's not fine, but she ain't dead. And she's yelling and somebody sees and somebody runs that direction, and then he stops. And then he makes up the whole story of she's lying and she fell and all that sort of stuff. He's being charged with currently second degree murder. But what a weird story. It's a freaking doctor. I guess you're right. That is part of the appeal. It's, you know, rich, successful, white people, whatever. Yeah, no offense to anybody, but if a messy trailer park couple tries to kill each other, nobody pays much attention. Yeah, it happens on a fair, early, regular basis. And then this headline I don't like. Man says he had luck improving. This is not for the children. Oh, boy. I, too, boy. Man says he had luck improving nighttime erections by 34% with shockwave therapy and Botox to his penis. Couple things about this headline I find interesting. First of all, proving nighttime erections. Is that a thing? Like, you mean while I'm asleep in the middle of night? I don't know. And 34% seems like a very specific number from the department of the weirdly specific. Yes. Well, that's by. By golly, my nighttime erections seem to have improved by a third. Wait a moment. Let me recalculate. 34%. Night after night shockwave therapy. What are you shocking? And then Botox. Oh, okay, the Botox. Why? 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