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00:00How do you assess Elon Musk's time working in the administration?
00:04Is it a job well done or perhaps a chaotic misadventure?
00:07I think it's a job well done, but a job not finished.
00:11Of course, he has said that he will continue working on these issues,
00:15not, of course, to the degree that he's in the past.
00:18That was always the plan, that had always been the plan to set these things in motion.
00:22I think he's shaken up Washington.
00:24Here's what's different.
00:25But every president has said exactly what Donald Trump has said.
00:31In fact, you should do a collage sometime where you can take words from Bill Clinton,
00:35George W. Bush, Barack Obama, that have talked about government being too big,
00:39too bloated, and that things have to change,
00:42and government spending and fraud, waste, and abuse.
00:45This has been said repeatedly.
00:47In the past, how presidents dealt with this is they have commissions
00:50and blue-ribbon commissions and studies and the rest of it.
00:53And the most significant one was President Clinton when he appointed former Vice President Gore
01:00to lead a commission to reinvent government.
01:03Well, all the reinventions and all the commissions led to very little.
01:07The difference here is there is really now not only serious action has been taken
01:12with respect to some agencies, but really concrete plans in very, very short period of time
01:18identifying real abuse, real fraud, and spending that's unnecessary,
01:23and proposals to either eliminate it or the president taking executive actions
01:28that are in some cases being called into question in the courts to address these issues.