yes, and only musk and do that. you can talk and stand up to trump, and that's what he's highlighting. he is highlighting that trump is acting swamp fish and allowing a lot of the pork to go forward with this bill and touting it, but not at all releasing it to the american people for a debate anyway. and also a possible recession - so all these things, trump will just try to roll over it, he understands the new cycles really well, he probably thinks by the end this will be dead if he doesn't add air to it. so i think that's what he's hoping for, let's see how elon musk now behaves. even his father came on air to kind of tell his son, "you might want to come this one down." but let's see if this is still a story by early next week. and charles, do you think, let's see, it might be a story next week, it might not, the two men might want to try and calm things down after yesterday's fight between them? but do you think there could be some sort of accommodation or truce, even if it's an uneasy one that they tell us abou

mr elon musk. yes. the people voted for major government reform, and that's what people are going to get. they're going to get what they voted for. and to that end, i created the brand-new department of government efficiency, which is headed by elon musk, who is in the gallery tonight. chainsaw! you know, i was like disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly. so this is not the end of doge, but really the beginning of my time as a special government minister really had to end. but the doge team will only grow stronger over time. i've always liked elon, and it's always very surprised you saw the words he had for me, the words. he hasn't said anything about me that's bad. and he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the ev mandate, because that's billions and billions of dollars. a moving story, the tweets keep on coming. we will bring them here as they come. let's talk now to us pollster and communications strategist frank luntz, friend of the programme.

that elon musk has.rom the stupidest commerce secretary in history. >> you want. >> to learn something on this show tonight. >> by tesla? >> it's unbelievable. that this. >> guy's stock is this cheap. it will. >> never be this cheap again. >> when people understand the things he's building the robots, he's. >> building. >> the technology he's building. people are going to be dreaming of today. and jesse watters and thinking, gosh, i should have. bought elon. >> musk's stock. if you take your stock advice from the freaks on fox, you are in trouble tonight. joining us now is democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland. he is the top democrat on the house judiciary committee. congressman raskin, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i just want to let you expand on the remarks you were making on the steps of the capitol today in your reaction to everything we saw in this chaos and madness in trump world? >> well, it's remarkable to me that trump and musk are essentially accusing each. >> other of

now against musk. remember, whatever you think of elon musk, i will tell you, the president or any politician's political opinion of him should not affect a corrupt his government contracts. those should obviously be done fairly based on what the government needs. and if nasa needs to work with someone and they do a fair bid, great. it shouldn't come and go with politics. that's the same standards we've mentioned for other issues. well, here we see it in the civil war because trump says he could terminate musk's government subsidies and contracts. that's how to save money. a dig at the efficiency musk promised. musk's net worth has taken a huge hit this year. those are the contracts, though, that continue to supply part of his empire. and as the spending bill hangs in the balance, trump, of course, attacked musk in the press, and now he's announcing something that they didn't say last week. he's claiming he fired elon musk. different storyline. it's also we should note what some experts thought account

trump standing with with musk. musk's money, but also musk voters. you know any damage there? he's talking about starting a third party. does musk write checks for gop candidates in the midterm elections, or does he try to run against them with third party candidates? there's the fate of the big beautiful bill, right? because musk is now openly. >> what this all started. >> about lobbying against it. impact on tesla, whose shares are down 17% now. impact on spacex trump is threatening to cancel contracts. not clear how he does that, because there's no clear replacement for spacex starlink as well. again, you know, this is not just a personal twitter battle. it has potential consequences in a number of spaces. >> well, this is the man running for president, obviously. and then elon, who was helping run the united states and the united states government. i want to bring in jeff zeleny. and, jeff, you know, i go i keep going back to just not that long ago when they were in the oval office together, and i think we were talking earlier, it was almost as if the trump administration

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musk's contracts and the government reliance on musk's empire is extensive. so it goes back to the tweet. musk said trump is going to be in office for three and a half years, but i'm around for 40, so it is kind of a battle of, you know, who's more powerful here. >> so matt mowers, welcome to the arena. thank you. to join us in the morning. this is your your your first outing with us here. who i mean, who wins in this fight. and and i should also put a finer point on it. i mean, this is about the president's agenda. what impact does everything we've seen so far today and today is very far from over, as we've learned. what impact do you think this is going to have on that legislative agenda? >> the honest answer is i don't think it has much yet. and if you go back to december, right, when elon musk kind of tanked the end of the year, cr and everything else, and then congress was back scrambling trying to piece it back together. he doesn't have the power of just his megaphone anymore. he does still have the power of his wallet. and, you know, there's been an ar

elon musk is expected to appear soon.haracters include the founder of the people's republic of china , mao zedong, and the current leader of the dprk , kim jong-un. the production is said to be extremely popular. there is a new production at the hong kong opera. the plot is inspired by the fate of us president donald trump. the show opens with a scene of a chinese actor in a characteristic wig arguing with a zelensky double. the show mocks the style of the ukrainian president, and also recreates the already famous scene in the oval office. the donald trump opera at hong kong cantonese opera is dedicated to the american leader, and today it has been updated. the production is very popular, especially among young audiences. of course, the classic repertoire of cantonese opera, the production about donald trump resonates very much. it is difficult to imagine them together, it is a very unusual show. the show with trump is a great success with the public. tickets for the upcoming three performances are sold out, especially ma

it is much more a pro elon musk pro like, there is no way to separate elon musk from tesla, especially when you're talking about the bulls. and the reason i say that is they gave him this gigantic pay package at a time, and we're fighting to keep the pay package at a time when he was doing all this destructive stuff, this 24 over seven promise was never super credible. i don't think anyone really believed he was going to completely get out of politics. but, you know, threatening to mount an impeachment campaign, threatening to start a third party, as he did today, you know, threatening to drop the jeffrey epstein dirt, you know, just just making these wild accusations, like, all of this just goes beyond that. i think there is going to be a point where you see some of the tesla bulls start to ask themselves, and i don't think this is going to be a majority, but start to ask themselves, are we really making the right decision? are we sure that this company, that this person is run, this company that is not going to happen quickly, but that is just starting now, i think. >> all right, pet

this is exactly what the democrats uh would dream to hear from elon musk right now. yeah that's an interesting point there austin. we'll come back to you and annaka in a moment but let's bring in our chief north america correspondent gary odonnahu who's been following this uh blow by blow and gary we've been hearing reports that top house aids have been meeting today to discuss the fallout of elon musk's tweets, which of course are continuing as we speak. what do you make of that? yeah, i'm not surprised. in fact donald trump's just had an event with therms house and to be honest for donald trump rarely, i mean i can't think of a time when he he doesn't take a few questions, but they closed this one down as soon as they'd done the ceremonial bit, and i think that tells you that they are thinking very hard about how to handle this, because they are coming up against someone who has you know close to infinite resources who has really... turned uh and is absolutely laying into this president personally, politically, in terms of his whole agenda, you mentioned the tariff

mr musk tweeted: mr musk and his chainsaw were brought into government to aggressively cut government spending - a pointless exercise, he thinks, if president trump will blow all the savings on tax cuts in his spending bill. you know, i was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly. which increases the budget deficit, not decrease it and undermines the work that the doge team is doing. donald trump is now suggesting the easiest way to save money would be to terminate elon musk's billions of dollars in government contracts and subsidies. it was probably inevitable this bromance would turn sour, but no-one expected it to go this bad this fast. ok, we will get plenty of reaction to this from different angles - like politics and technology, as well as business. let's start with politics with aaron navarro, white house reporter for our us use partner cbs. great to have you on the programme. many thanks for your time. i'm sure it has been very busy. i mean, there's so much to unpack but this feud was not entirely unexpected, was it? that's right, it was an extraordinary

how elon musk destroyed twitter. katie. you know, you hear kristen's new reporting. you know, they had a meeting today on what is going on because this is serious. you've got certainly the world's most powerful man. and against the world's richest and also one of the most powerful men. yeah. this this breakdown. so what are you watching right now? >> we have been on the edges of our seats all day at wired. i will tell you that much. i mean, for one thing, we are paying very close attention to truth social and x, right? the megaphones of choice for these two very rich and powerful men. and then we are on the phone talking to, you know, gop insiders, members of the administration, and then people in silicon valley, right? i mean, the potential ripple effects of this, you know, breakup between trump and musk on the tech industry itself is potentially very significant. so we're trying to figure out sort of what do tech insiders, vcs, investors, other tech executives think about this allegiance breaking up, right. >> okay

, long a critic of musk.t moments ago saying this. >> elon musk is illegal. >> he's got to go to. >> he's. >> illegal deport. >> immediately. >> other maga loyalists, though, are taking a different tack, trying to steer clear of the entire implosion. >> i have a rule. >> i never get between a dog and a fire hydrant. >> but he didn't say who was which. i want to go straight to manu raju on the hill tonight. manu. how much is this infighting consuming republicans? >> yeah, erin, this is dominating the conversation on capitol hill and a real concern among republican leaders that this could become a distraction. it really the worst possible time. not only are they trying to get the votes in the united states senate, they can only afford to lose three republican votes on any party line vote. but the senators are planning on changing the bill. it's unclear exactly what they're going to do to the bill that passed the house by just a single vote. but if there are significant changes, particularly on how they deal wit

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but it's important money for musk, and i think that trump knows that he could really hurt musk that way. but i don't think trump may want to go scorched earth just as much because he doesn't want to attract the continued and many of musk, and he doesn't want to lose congress next year. both sides almost need each other, even though they are in this bad break-up fight right now, because musk could really put in hundreds of millions of dollars next year to elect democrats. remember, he used to be close to obama during his term, so he's played both sides. at the end of the day, daniel, neither of these men need the other as an enemy -1 argue believe the world's most powerful man, one the world's richest men. this is a person that trump can't just bludgeon into submission, that this is not one of those law firms that he can get the signed deals. these are not nameless federal workers who are faceless to trump, he doesn't care if they get laid off. but with musk, he respects wealth and people who are very successful, and he doesn't want to get the silicon valley tech class to go against him.

hurt musk that way.ay not want to go scorched earth because he does not want to attract the continued enmity of musk and he doesn't want to lose congress next year. both sides almost need each other even though they are in this breakup fight right now. musk could put in hundreds of millions of dollars next year to elect democrats pretty he used to be close to obama during his term so he has kind of played both sides. >> at the end of the day, neither of these men need the other as an enemy. one the world's most powerful man, the other the world's richest man. >> this is a person trump cannot just bludgeon into submission. this is not one of those law firms that he can get to sign deals with nameless, faceless federal workers he does not care get laid off. with elon musk, he respects wealthy people that are successful and he does not want to get the silicon valley tech class to go against him. i think he hopes next week people will not be talking about this and elon musk will go back to launching rockets

and if true, then elon musk was effectively fired by donald trump, which could explain elon musk screaming at the top of his twitter lungs this afternoon. i just can't stand it anymore. we have never had a more disturbed holder of the title richest person in the world than the person who holds that title tonight, and that person has apparently never been more disturbed than he is tonight. and elon musk has over the years publicly discussed suffering from depression and disturbances of various kinds for which he sought treatment. that included carrying around a box of drugs during the last presidential campaign, according to reporting in the new york times. the times also reported that elon musk used ketamine, adderall, psychedelic mushrooms and, of course, ecstasy, which is not a legally prescribed drug. what that in mind? imagine the tension. elon musk must have been feeling today when, at 1:31 p.m, he tweeted, quote, i just can't stand it anymore. no previous richest person in the world has ever declared to the world. i just can't stand it anymore. i'm speaking to you tonight from a buil

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, the musk business. these are profound questions. the office of government ethics. there are still are good people who work there. jen. >> they have to answer that. >> has the government been harnessed to. the benefit of elon musk? >> and now we have the second. >> question with the billionaire. today. is the government going to be turned against elon musk? >> well, that's sort of the question, right? i mean, so your point is they they still need to be investigating them, even if trump is trying to untangle things that are financially benefiting. let me ask you about something. i think i think trump could have control over, which is this regulatory scrutiny, right, which you reference in the report. and it feels as you talk about in the report, it's like they've looked the other way. these regulatory agencies there there were cases against tesla and neuralink. others, they seem to evaporate. could those be reinstated? could they use to trump weaponize the regulatory agencies against musk's companies? is

and i think he used trump, but musk. but i think musk musk used him as well. but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that musk does have, as kara swisher was just saying, quite a bit of of power himself through the platform of x, through the money that he can spend. and the following, frankly, that he's built through this relationship with trump, that he can now turn against him. i think he's going to raise quite a bit of, of trouble around this bill that is already troubled on this issue now you know, i think i said yesterday if he if he's concerned about deficits, perhaps he should offer and suggest others who have the means to do it, that they should just go back to paying the tax rate they were paying a few years ago before this tax break. that would help solve some of these problems. i don't hear him saying that because he doesn't really believe in government. he thinks it's all a scam. >> it is been one of those situations where there's no idea how is this going to play out tomorrow? >> no. and also, you know, it's king kong versus godzilla. and when tha

indeed, something we've seen elon musk comment on now, well president trump suggested that elon musk had only turned against his big beautiful bill, as donald trump calls it, when subsidies were cut for electric vehicles, now that includes those made by tesla, which we know that elon musk owns as well, and you've seen the reaction on the market, shares in tesla, they have dropped 15%. in response to this very public clash, and president trump went on to blame elon musk's change of heart on the fact that he left his position as his advisor, and he had a very specific term for it. uh, listen into this. he's not the first. people leave my administration and they love us and then at some point they miss it so badly and... "some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile. i don't know what it is, it's sort of trump derangement syndrome, i guess they call it, but i, we have it with others too, they leave and they wake up in the morning and the glamor is gone, the whole world is different, and they become hostile. i don't know what it is, someday you'll write a book about i

what about elon musk? still has that vote going on about whether a new political party should be formed. will he cooled down? -- will you cool down -- will he cooled down? max: there is no universe where elon musk maintaining this position, this maximalist we should impeach donald trump, start a new political party, yesterday accusing trump of being associated with jeffrey epstein. this is a point where he is going to start alienating maga customers. unfortunately for tesla that is an important contingent of their customer base. elon musk has already alienated the left-leaning customers. you are in this situation that is difficult. elon musk has cards to play. he has the money he can donate. he also has this aerospace company. trump can threatened to cancel contracts. as the pentagon is constructed right now and as nasa is constructed they are depending on spacex for rocket launches. he has cards to play. but i don't see how he can maintain this pose without watching tesla stock declined further come witho

elon musk's tesla stands to profit from that. it's really his spacex company - cbs news found at least 49 contracts between spacex and the federal government totalling about $19.7 billion worth of us funds. that is certainly - the threat to terminate all of that - could hurt the bottom line for elon's companies. that's part of the reason why he left the white house in the first place. throughout his time in the white house at what's known as the department of government efficiency and doge, he saw tesla's stock price drop, and said he needed to tend it to that. as the spat between the president and musk increased, tesla lost $150 billion in market value. let's cross to the bbc's technology correspondent. good to talk to you again, lily. elon musk had stepped back to focus on his various companies from his government work. what's likely to be the impact of this on his many technology companies? in speaking with analysts and investors today, there's a little bit of a range there. there are people out there - even after today, in al

elon musk beware. among the criminal investigation he has demanded, by executive order, is the one into the former white house staffer miles taylor. in 2018, miles authored an anonymous op-ed in the new york times in which he stated he was part of a "quiet resistance" within the highest levels of the trump administration, one among many like minded collague who were increasingly concerned about the president's temperament. at the time, miles was chief of staff at homeland security. he did in time go public about his concerns. trump claimed the betrayal was tantamount to treason, a crime still punishable by death. critics say the investigation he has ordered is an appalling abuse of executive power, designed to silence free speech. speaking to the bbc a little earlier, miles said his experience is a huge worry about this second trump presidency. i mean, we've never seen the american government do something like this before. and that's true. i mean, dozens of legal scholars in the united states came to u

musk is against it.s axios writes, musk is outraged by the cancellation of tax breaks for electric car manufacturers provided for by the same law. the billionaire called this law a disgusting abomination, he said, that america is heading for bankruptcy. trump said that musk is angry simply because we cut subsidies for tesla and added. quote: he just. musk was the main sponsor of trump's election campaign, having invested 250 million dollars in it, already in winter musk joined the trump administration as the head of the new department of efficiency, their union was called the main browmans of the year, this is a combination of the words bro and romance. in the white house, musk behaved very confidently, came to the meeting. auto fair right on the lawn of the white spent at home with his son, where trump bought himself a tesla, yesterday, by the way, musk joked, he posted a video of trump buying himself a tesla and signed it: "remember this, donald trump? in his, on his last day in the white house, musk s

but musk is out of favor. i mean, who would have thought if you took this back a couple of months ago, who would have thought that we would be sitting here today talking about that change in relationship? now, trump said the pair that is the us and china had just addressed trade issues, including china's restrictions on rare earth exports, which have disrupted global supply chains. the two leaders also invited each other to have their respective countries to their respective countries, trump told reporters. the two sides agreed to continue talks on prospective deals. >> we had a very good talk and we've straightened out any complexity. it's very complex stuff and we straighten it out. the agreement was we're going to have scott and howard and jamison will be going and meeting with their top people and continue it forward. but no, i think we have everything. i think we're in very good shape with china and the trade deal. we have a deal with china, as you know, but we were straightening out some of the points ha

and musk had to know this.tax on tips, no tax on social security, increases in military spending and increases for spending at the board. border. any campaign on this. as for the doge cuts, that is not trump's' full and i get why musk is upset about that. but anyone can see that trump's not the problem here. what republican could do more with this tiny majority then donald trump i ask you? i am convinced until we have multiple bond auctions that fail, we simply will not have the votes needed to push through large-scale spending cuts. it is not going to happen. no republican or bipartisan willing to do that. then things will be so bad that democrats will say, we will do whatever we have to do. that is when that will finally happen but now, if they kill this bill as imperfect as it is and musk wants that, my question is, what then? does elon musk leave the result will be more spending cuts? i will tell you what will happen because unfortunately i have been around washington far too long. what is going to happen t

on musk. >> was going to. >> keep throwing money at them through the midterms. now, by. >> wednesday. house speaker. >> mike johnson. >> was openly. >> pleading in. >> an awkward and embarrassing and desperate way. >> with elon. >> musk to please return his calls. i think he's still pleading a couple days later. just 24 hours later. >> things got. >> a lot. >> weirder and. >> a lot more personal. >> because by this afternoon, elon. >> had let loose a barrage of tweets. >> attacking the. >> president. >> and at one point. >> he sort of gave. >> away the game, tweeting. without me, trump. >> would have lost the election. dems would control the house, and the republicans would be 5149. >> in. >> the senate. he followed that up by tweeting such ingratitude. in other. >> words, in. >> a not so subtle way, musk. >> is. implying that. >> trump didn't return the favor well. >> enough for. >> the. hundreds of millions of dollars. must spent to get him reelected and bring. republicans on the coattails i

mr musk tweeted: mr musk and his chainsaw were brought into government to aggressively cut government spending - a pointless exercise, he thinks, if president trump will blow all the savings on tax cuts in his spending bill. you know, i was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly. which increases the budget deficit, not decrease it and undermines the work that the doge team is doing. which is that one? donald trump is now suggesting the easiest way to save money would be to terminate elon musk's billions of dollars in government contracts and subsidies. it was probably inevitable this bromance would turn sour, but no-one expected it to go this bad this fast. sarah smith, bbc news, washington. let's speak to our north america correspondent jake kwon, who's in washington for us. jake, first off, people watching this who have been following this saga over the last few hours are just sitting there gasping. what has the reaction been like in america? i mean, in washington, i think we all had our collective draw just drop to the floor and watching these two most powerf

elon musk repostedt and wrote, yes. so now it is the official position of elon musk. presumably that trump should be impeached and jd vance should replace him. your thoughts? >> i mean, listen. >> i've. >> had bad. >> breakups, but this is wild. listen, elon has had a lot of attacks. he's launched today. of course, you brought up the claiming that donald trump is in the epstein files saying that he's going to cause a recession in the next quarter. and then, of course, this. but i will say the attack that i think is actually going to stick the most with president trump is him essentially calling him a lame duck president. he's saying he's going to be here for three and a half years. i'm here for 40 years. that is what donald trump is afraid of. if this bill doesn't get over the threshold and end up passing, it's his entire legislative agenda. the midterms are just a, you know, a couple miles ahead. and he's realizing, like, this is the most damaging thing at this moment that could be happening. and for members of congress on capitol hill, the conversations that they're

elon musk has. five months of this administration. i mean, in the ninth district in illinois, we have had veterans that are worried about their access to health care. at the va. we have educators that are terrified about their visa status, that are terrified about their funding. northwestern has lost $700 million of funding because of the trump administration and elon musk encouraging it. and the idea, even the mention that he could be welcomed back into the fold. as if he was ever in there. >> as if he didn't exploit. >> the labor of his own workers, as if he didn't wasn't a union buster is laughable. this guy isn't our friend. he's now not trump's friend. >> at. >> least for the time being. i wouldn't be surprised if he finds a way back in there, but he needs to be held accountable. and i'm glad that we have people in congress that want to do that. >> as one of my girlfriends said back home, i texted them to get their hot take. one of. >> my best. >> were the best. >> yeah, you got it right. >> on

that sparked elon musk off on twitter. he said various things, including that donald trump should be impeached, as you mention. donald trump then responded by saying that he might cancel the billions of dollars of contracts and subsidies that elon musk gets from this government, as a way of saving money. and elon musk decided to drop a bomb, as he put it, and tried to link donald trump to the disgraced and now dead financier and man accused of sex trafficking, jeffrey epstein. so the thing disintegrated into a sort of playground fight that would be enormously entertaining, was entertaining, let's be honest. but is also serious as well. this is the richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world going at it. and before we come onto the wider questions, again part of the e-mail back-and-forth, you mentioned the threat at one stage from donald trump to cancel government contracts with elon musk and that led to a counter threat about elon musk cancelling the dragon capsule, that is so important for nasa and ast

cnn things trump is going to have elon musk executed. >> i think this is bad for elon musk.m if you look at the history around the world of authoritarians breaking up with their oligarch buddies those oligarch buddies and a pretty good a place -- do not end up in a good place to end up impoverished, and present, were dead i'm not saying that will happen to elon musk here but the power is with the government. you saw donald trump immediately say all right we are going to take away you are you know you are contracts. we are going to punish you and retaliate and he has the power to do that we have seen donald trump exercise those powers. >> jesse: democrats are like trump will kill you you were safe with us we will protect you, elon musk, for a price. if trump was a murderous dictator everybody in the press would be dead and james comey would be 6 feet deep. trump has had people come and go his whole life. desantis is still alive. i'm a roses the still kicking and michael cohen when he has not had any accidents. it is not like trump is hillary and just off's politics is a vicio

. >> elon musk. >> is sorry. elon musk is sorry. >> elon musk for the first time in his. life of public derangement. >> is publicly saying. >> he went too far. we've been reporting to you for months now that elon musk went too far in the very first thing he did in government, which was to take. food away from starving babies, from starving families in the middle of a famine. in sudan, and to take food away from starving people around the world who could. always count on getting some food and in. many cases. enough food, in most cases actually. enough food to survive. and getting that food from us, from the united states of america, from the united states agency for international development. and we were always proud to deliver that food. starving people usually didn't know where the food was coming from. >> but we. >> did, and we were proud to be able. >> to feed. >> the starving. >> people of the world with the. >> surplus of food. >> that this country. >> has produced. >> been producing. >> for more than 100 years. >> the great plains became the breadbasket of the world

maybe elon musk can push donald trump to that breaking point that elon musk himself reached yesterday at 1:34 p.m. when he screamed on twitter, i just can't stand it anymore. donald trump might get there, but donald trump has never, ever taken longer to get there as he maintains his fearful silence about elon musk. elon musk continued his attacks on donald trump and donald trump's budget bill beginning in the middle of the night at 2:07 a.m, when elon musk said it more than defeats all the cost savings achieved by the department of government efficiency team at great personal cost and risk. now there is elon musk reminding us of his complete failure to cut trillions of dollars of federal spending that he claimed he was going to cut, and then asking for our sympathy and how much it personally cost him in lost tesla customers and dropping tesla stock prices. when america and the world turned against elon musk as he played the role of donald trump's executioner, the world turned against elon musk. with tesla sales dropping around the world while elon musk was deciding to take food away f

elon musk. >> has not mentioned donald. trump's name in his now nonstop attacks on the trump budget bill, but elon musk is. >> using his. >> loud social media voice to urge. >> republicans to. >> kill the bill. >> in a steady. stream of angry and bitter. >> tweets. >> elon musk. >> began his war against donald trump at 1:34 p.m. yesterday, saying in his most anguished twitter voice, i just can't stand it anymore. and he called the trump budget bill a disgusting abomination. and as of tonight, donald trump remains cowering in abject. silent fear of. elon musk. the proof that donald trump is terrified tonight, after the richest person in the world turned against him, is that donald trump has remained absolutely silent about elon musk's attacks on the trump budget bill and donald trump. now, when is the last time someone with a loud public microphone called donald trump or something? donald trump was. doing a disgusting abomination without being immediately attacked by donald trump? remember, donal

now, this began with elon musk's deep criticism over the president's budget bill, musk urging his more00 million followers to help kill the bill. president trump responding in the oval office to this today. but look at this image. this was just five days ago that trump gave musk the so-called keys to the white house as musk left his job as a special government employee. now, musk blasting the president's budget bill as a disgusting abomination, pointing to what it could do to the national debt. well, today, president trump saying he is disappointed in musk. trump on social media saying elon was wearing thin and i asked him to leave tonight. elon musk claiming, quote, without me, trump would have lost the election. and then the deeply personal claim late today from musk saying that president trump is, quote, in the epstein files, that this is the real reason they have not been made public. quote, tonight, this back and forth battle rages on. mary bruce leading us off from the white house. >> tonight, the stunning collapse of an alliance between the president of the united states and the

the elon musk donald trump few.ical reporting in the last hour or so that white house aides have scheduled a call with musk today to avoid any further escalation in the war of words. the tesla ceo signaled he is open to cooling tensions after differences between the two sides exploded in public yesterday. for the latest, let's bring in bill faries. for viewers who were still asleep when all of this unfolded, how did we get here? bill: yeah. pretty remarkable minute by minute exchange. we have talked a little bit about the growing tensions between mosque and trump. musk voicing his disapproval of that big beautiful budget bill that donald trump has gotten through the house and is hoping to get through the senate relatively unscathed. it rut -- it just really exploded into a full on meltdown when trump was in the oval office meeting with the german chancellor today. it started off by saying he was very disappointed in elon musk. he talked about how the elimination of those tax credit for electric vehicles in the budge

we also. >> know that elon musk was very. upset that trump and congressional republicans were. >> killing the electric. >> vehicle tax credit that benefited musk's company. so it's not hard to imagine how it must have felt for musk when. >> he. >> left washington, got back home, woke up saturday morning, perhaps dug back into the books at tesla and realized just how bad things were at his biggest company. because by tuesday, musk was attacking trump's big ugly bill on x, calling it a disgusting abomination and saying that it would send the country into debt slavery. of course, that all put the republican party in a very awkward position, as we've been talking about through the course of this week. after all, they've been banking on the idea that elon musk was going to keep throwing money at them through the midterms. now, by wednesday, house speaker mike johnson was openly pleading in an awkward and embarrassing and desperate way with elon musk to please return his calls. i think he's still pleading a couple days later, just

it's musk. but, i think that when you look at it, it's going to get rougher, why do i say that, aishah? because, i think elon is the loser in the deal. because he put a quarter billion dollars, as rich edson told us, into getting trump elected. whether trump appreciates it or not, trump is the president. and trump, therefore, controls what's going to happen in terms of ev mandates. in terms of funding even for spacex. remember, he said the spacex is no longer required. it's not a mandate in terms of, you know, what's going on with starlink. so, i think that hurts elon musk. i think elon right now is in a position where he could return the fire. that's why i say it could get rougher. he will could start primarying republicans who are voting for the big, beautiful bad whatever bill say i'm going to challenge you in a way trump can't control. clearly, trump doesn't control musk and republicans had been oh, musk is great. we're looking forward to all these doge cuts which didn't amount to much. but

and from elon musk. so why then bring him in on these fundamental long-held views that donald trump has it, albeit they are different to large parts of the republican party, on tariffs come on immigration, now we see on spending into as well will stop if you are think the donald trump did not need to elon musk, why did you bring him in? he did a lot of good and brought a lot of energy to think. i don't think anyone is denying. i think you'll end up at some kind of a detente at some point between the two of them. you hear them talking about this now, or to seem to cool off a bit last night in his tweets,. under the president would probably prefer to not be fighting with elon musk and preferred to be focused on delivering on his agenda. from the senators i'm talking to and in contact with several senate offices nonstop, i'm talking to the white house, i'm talking to people over capitol hill, house members, congressional members, i don't think anything elon musk has done over the last two days has changed a

just a few minutes later, musk responded. in light of the president's announcement about canceling my contracts with the government, spacex is immediately halting the dragon space program, ships designed. elon was exhausted, i asked him to leave, i canceled the order that forced everyone to buy electric cars that no one wanted to buy, he knew for months that i was going to do this, and he just went crazy. musk then retweeted other users' posts. for example, about trump needing to be impeached. he himself accused the president of having ties to financier jeffrey epstein, who in turn was accused of sex trafficking minors. it was time to drop a really big bomb. trump is mentioned in the epstein case materials, and this is the real reason why they have never been declassified. have a good day, donald john trump. the president has not yet had time to respond to these accusations. the businessman also asked the readers of his blog. well, first of all, of course, this is a personal conflict, it is obvious that mr. musk was actually

musk?this was one. >> of your closest advisors. >> i don't have any plans. >> and yet this feud has spawned gossip across washington and the west wing, one former trump aide saying that everyone is talking about it. but the president. trump. the president says he doesn't care, even though he says that he privately has been polling allies and advisers on whether they believe that musk's behavior over the past week has been related to his reported drug use. of course, all of this comes at such a critical moment for the president's signature legislation that's facing key deadlines and razor thin margins in congress. bianna. >> and there's some reporting that elon musk is been deleting some of his more inflammatory tweets on posts on x that he's made over the past couple of days as this, as this breakup has just shocked the country and the world. but you have new reporting that may give an explanation as to why this happened and the role that trump's close advisor, stephen miller, and his wife

how could elon musk affect that? he has already been highly critical of this big spending bill which is going through congress. donald trump has called it a beautiful bill, that as far as elon musk is concerned, he considers it to be pretty ugly, because he believes it is really going to add to the us deficit, and so there is this war of words which has erupted really mainly due to that, because remember of course musk was brought in to try and really trim or put a big dent into federal spending through the department of government efficiency, the doge department, and he only managed to cut it by 1%, so he left last week having not achieve those ambitions, but he is highly critical of the spending bill which donald trump has obviously reacted very strongly against. both men are always happy to take on their opponents but they are also known to change their minds. do you think the impact of any financial losses could force a compromise between? i think it is very likely that this row will die down. that there could st

and that's why elon musk, musk was mad. we were also told that trump himself behind closed doors before he reacted, was speculating this was all about business for musk, that this was all about him going back to tesla, and these were things he needed to do. but today, donald trump broke his silence, was asked a question about musk, and really went into him saying he was disappointed in musk. but this was all about those electric vehicle credits that they had a very good relationship. he didn't know if they were going to have one again. musk then began responding himself in real time on twitter on his own platform, hitting back at several things that donald trump said. now, this continued to go on and on until the attacks got personal. at one point, musk saying that donald trump's name was in the epstein files. that itself trying to have a low blow here to donald trump. now, it was quiet after that. we saw donald trump's only engagement in this was a post about the bill saying he was fine with elon turning on him, but he wis

elon musk is a pathological liar. but does elon musk feel that he was fired? maybe donald trump was also claiming in that idiotic tweet that you we were all forced to buy electric cars. we who have i am among them who have never purchased an electric car. and then donald trump says the other guy is crazy, puts it all in capital letters. the other guy is crazy. craziest president in history. says the other guy's crazy. to which elon musk says, what i've been saying about almost everything donald trump has said since he first opened his mouth in 2011 about president obama's birth certificate. elon musk said such an obvious lie. so sad. and so there we are, day 136 of the trump presidency. elon musk calling donald trump what i have been calling donald trump since 2011 on this program a liar. donald trump has been a liar every single day of his political career. and elon musk has probably known that. and elon musk has done almost as much lying about political issues in america as donald trump. and so it's war between musk and trump. steve bannon, a trump loyalist