Democrats are mad that President Trump is trusting Elon Musk with so much. Glenn explains why it’s dumb for them to whine about Elon being an “unelected billionaire” and getting rid of USAID – which isn’t even an “aid” agency. Plus, Glenn reviews how Democrats tried to force a security guard to let them into the Department of Education: “It’s quite amazing how these people are so freaked out. They’ve got to cover their tracks!”
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GLENN: So Bret Baier asked Donald Trump if he trusts Elon Musk. Cut nine.
DONALD: I don't know if it's kickbacks, or what's going on.
Look, I ran on it, and the people want me to find it, and I've had a great help with Elon Musk, who has been terrific.
VOICE: You say you trust him?
DONALD: Trustee Elon, oh, he's not gaining anything.
In fact, I wonder how he can devote the time into it, he's so into it.
But I told him to do that. Then I will tell him, very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. He will find the same thing.
Then I will go to the military. Let's check the military. We will find billions. Hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. And, you know, the people elected me on that.
GLENN: He's absolutely right about this. I don't know how everybody is squealing.
First of all, you know, he's an unelected bureaucrat. Well, almost all bureaucrats are.
I don't know if you --
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: If you follow that. But, you know, the Treasury Secretary, is also somebody who, you know, wasn't voted in.
Unelected bureaucrat.
He was appointed by the president to do this.
And we're going to -- we're going to find out about what's happening with this judge. See if it's overruled. Did you hear about what happened with the judge over the weekend, with the Treasury Department?
PAT: Yeah. Where they blocked going into the treasury books. Which --
GLENN: It was so -- it was so poorly written, that they didn't even differentiate between Elon Musk's people, and the Treasury secretary.
PAT: Right.
GLENN: So as it's written, the Treasury secretary can't even look at any of the data.
PAT: It's incredible.
He also, the judge who did the block.
Also didn't mention what law they're violating. He just said, it's violating the law. What law is being violated here?
GLENN: What law? What law?
PAT: This is a person appointed by the president to look into this.
So I don't see how that could violate any laws.
GLENN: No. No.
I mean, and who is not for looking into all of this stuff?
Honestly, I mean, you know, I can't wait until he gets to the Pentagon. Because how are the Democrats going to say, that we somehow or another, are, you know -- we don't care about national defense? We care about national defense!
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: I also care about fraud. You know, it's -- the same thing with all of this stuff about aid.
First of all, aid, USAID, it's not aid. It's AID. Okay? It is for international development. That's what that's for.
It's not an aid program. Or an aid agency.
We have aid agencies. That's not one of them.
This is soft power.
And, quite honestly, it is from the beginning, been a CIA operation.
So how are -- I'm not against aid.
I'm against corruption. And I'm also against a lot of this soft power being done, that nobody knows about.
Why are we just finding out about this stuff?
And what we going to find in the Pentagon, oh, my gosh. We're going to find really bad stuff in the Pentagon. Really bad.
PAT: And none of us is against aid. It's just the aid that is being dispersed to people that you mentioned isn't aid.
And the other thing, it's not government agencies, that should be doing this.
It's individuals who are tasked with charity.
GLENN: No!
PAT: And helping others.
We're the ones, individual choice. To -- we shouldn't be forced!
Once you're forced into it, it's not charity anyway.
GLENN: No. It's not.
PAT: So I don't understand how all of the responsibility for aid worldwide is now on the US government.
That's not the way it's supposed to be.
GLENN: Nope. Nope.
And I don't know if you saw this.
But the NIH. They're going crazy now.
Because the NIH. When Trump's people first came in.
They said, we're going to cut the maximum indirect cost rate for research institutions.
Now, most people read that. And they don't even understand what that is. That means, how much of this is going?
How much of 1 dollar is going actually to the program, of research, and how much is going for overhead?
Again, we told you before, any charity that is 85 cents on the dollar. Is one that you start to look at.
If it's 80, 75 cents. You're getting a bad rating for that.
This is 60 cents on the dollar, goes to the management.
Goes to overhead costs.
I want 40 cents on every dollar? You think that's wise?
This is going to save us billions. They're predicting now $9 billion for this project alone. $9 billion.
So go ahead and play cut two, here.
If members of Congress -- peoples cut 12.
This is members of Congress, trying to get into the Department of Education over the weekend.
VOICE: Do they know that --
VOICE: Ask the question again. That's important.
VOICE: Were you told. Are you making the decision to stand in front of the store, on your own behalf. On behalf of the Department of Education.
GLENN: This is the security guard.
VOICE: So everybody is --
VOICE: We're doing our jobs.
GLENN: Okay. So here they are, members of Congress trying to get in, trying to break into the Department of Education. It's closed for the weekend. And they say, they're doing their job. And they're questioning the security guard. Why aren't you letting us in. And all he said, it's not going to happen. Not today. It's not going to happen. You're not going in.
It's quite amazing how these people are so freaked out, they've got to cover their tracks.
I'm convinced that's what it is.
Here's Donald Trump responding to this. Cut 13.
VOICE: Democratic lawmakers trying to get into the Department of Education earlier today.
VOICE: Oh. I see the same ones.
I see Maxine Waters.
A low-life. I see all these people. They don't love our country. They don't love our country.
We want great education. So they ranked 40 countries in education, we're ranked dead last. Dead last.
But the good news is, we're number one in one category. You know what that is? Cost per pupil. We spend more per pupil than any other country in the world.
You look at Norway, Denmark, Sweden, various countries all up and down, Finland. China does very well in education, and then you look at us.
We spend much more money than they do per pupil than any other way. But we spend much more money than they do, and yet we're ranked this year, Biden's last year -- congratulations, Joe. We're ranked dead last. So what I want to see is education -- number one, I like choice. We all like choice.
But beyond choice, long beyond choice, I want to see it go back to the states, where great states who do so well, have no debt, they-re operated brilliantly. They'll be as good as Norway or Denmark or Sweden or any of the other highly ranked countries. They will -- I figure 35 to 38 states will be right at the top.
And the rest will come along. They'll have to come along, competitively. And, by the way, we will be spending --
GLENN: I will tell you -- I will tell you that it feels a little like when the allies marched into Germany, and the Germans were burning all of their documents to hide all the crimes.
It kind of feels a little like that.