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Elon Musk: “We went from the proudest military in the world to one in…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Discussion on Trump's First 100 Days and Media Coverage with Emily Compagno

Published | Video Starts at 00:32

Trump was inaugurated just a few months ago, we went from, again, 40 years, we went from the world's manufacturing superpower to one in which we depend on the People's Republic of China to make the things that. That we need. We went from the proudest military in the world to one in which we failed to meet our recruiting goals. And we went from one in which bipartisan border policy was the consensus of both Democrats and Republicans to one in which we allowed 20 million people to run roughshod illegally over the countryside, causing crime, causing a stress in the welfare system. (00:32–00:39)

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