Dana Bash: The goal was reached.
CNN Talker 1: Yeah, and look, I think there we did actually learn something, I think from this interview, which is, uh, just..
Dana Bash: We learned a lot.
CNN Talker 1: Just how deep, uh, the, the sort of admiration that Donald Trump has for Elon Musk. I think there was a lot of folks, I, I would include myself in them who thought maybe Donald Trump will get bored with Elon Musk after the first couple of weeks or even a month or two, uh, with having him around. And I think instead Trump sees a kindred spirit in Elon Musk, somebody who’s not concerned with the details, who’s not concerned even with necessarily being correct, but for taking action and whether that action is, uh, backed up by facts, whether that action, uh, has, you know, needs to be reeled back, as we’ve seen a lot of DOGE’s actions having to be reeled back. We heard about that the nuclear scientists at the department of energy, for instance. Um, I think what Donald Trump sees in Elon Musk is somebody like himself who takes action, who does things, and then let’s other people clean up after him. Um, it’s, uh, it’s certainly a style, uh, and it’s something I think that Trump, uh, admires. I don’t know, I don’t know how effective it’s going to be long.
Dana Bash: Yeah, I mean, Musk’s, totally, Musk’s whole approach is if you don’t break it, then you can’t fix it. If you don’t break the system that you, you can’t create something new. But again, um, when it comes to the federal government and things that are supposed to be in place by law, there are lots of unanswered questions that Elon Musk still has out there. Lots and lots of them. But just going back to the relationship, I wanna play a little bit more of what the president said about that.
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Trump and Musk aren’t breaking the system—it’s already broken, mired in inefficiency, gridlock, and failure—and they’re applying smart, practical solutions: cutting bureaucracy, boosting efficiency with tech, fortifying national security, confronting the massive debt, putting government back in the people’s hands, and securing a thriving America for the next generation—steps neither the Democrat Party nor the Republican Party would try, because they’re the ones driving the corrupt system’s dysfunction.
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