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Well, I'm actually usually a little nervous about these returns because there's sum risk did something to go wrong. But thanks to the excellent work of the SpaceX team working with NASA, the astronauts are now safely home. And so congratulations to the SpaceX NASA teams on excellent work.

And a huge note of.

Appreciation to President Trump for prioritizing and expanding their return.

You have been the chief engineer of SpaceX and remain the chief engineer of SpaceX. It is the first private company to ever make it to orbit. Walk us through the beginnings of that. It is not it's something that nobody else has been able to accomplish.

Well, it's quite a long story. There are some books that have been written about it. But in the beginning we didn't actually know anything about rockets. So our first three missions failed, actually of our Falcon one rocket, and we almost ran out of money and just barely made it with the fourth launch. If the fourth launch of Falcon one had not succeeded, we would have failed as a company.

Just barely made it.

So I have to say that I was not a very good chief engineer in the beginning, but I did learn over time, and I think we've gotten at this.

Point to where the vehicle is very reliable and we are.

Going to be able to take.

Ashalts to Mars.

In fact, we want to take anyone who goes to Mars and ultimately build a self sustaining civilization on Mars. That is the long term goal of the company. Make life healthy anything.

I mean, that is a very bold vision. How long do you think that might take SpaceX to be able to accomplish.

I think we could do it in twenty to thirty years.

Lifetime should say.

If God blesses me with a longer life than I deserve, right, I could always hope. I would love to be able to see that. That would be amazing. I happen to have a telescope and I love to look at the stars in the sky and the planets, and I am amazed at the majesty of all of creation and the idea that we even look at the moon and we can go there and come back, or a space station,

Well.

On the cent phase, there's always some chance that either the first or second stage will blow up. In fact, it's I find it's actually remarkable when you see a rocket. I mean when I see the rocket, I see a list of all the things that are wrong, all of the ways that it could go wrong and potentially fail. So you could have a first stage failure, second stage failure, stage separation failure. The dragon could fail separate from the rocket,

Is going to disintegrate.

So it's remarkable that humans can actually go all the way to orbit and and come back from orbit, given the immense amounts of energy that is required to get to orbit and the amount of energy aunt that must be dissipated upon return, and then the paracy have to open. Battle has to work. Now long term we are going to be doing not long term. This year, in fact, we are launching the Starship rocket, which I recommend maybe doing a peace on because that is truly a revolutionary rocket.

And that's truly profound.

What was amazing, and I studied a lot of this because of my need to cover it. At one point, going seventeen thousand miles per hour, going through thirty five hundred degrees fahrenheit, you have this thermal protection system. Now we do know that the Boeing Starliner, we know that it had problems. So these problems that you talk about,

Yeah, that's I'm pass.

Weish to do a longer segment because I'd be happy to explain it in detail. I'll do the I don't know, the two minute version.

Here. The falcon iine rocket takes off with.

One point seven million pounds of thrust, so you can imagine something that has enough thrust to lift an office building off its foundations, and that it gets to orbit. It gets to roughly seventeen thousand miles an hour in nine minutes, So from zero to seventeen thousand miles an hour in nine minutes. And then it's just when it comes back. You've got that heat shield that's got to

And it's kind of amazing that humans can do this at all.

But hopefully this gives Hopefully for people out there, this is a moment of optimism about the future, a moment of excitement about the future, and it portends great things for America and humanity in space.

I'm only going to ask you one political question, just for clarification purposes only. I don't think this should really be a political night. I think this is a moment where the country should should celebrate the fact that you were able to rescue them, that it happened successfully in spite of the difficulty, the challenges, and the danger. But I just want to clarify on the issue of whether or not you had offered to send this rocket to space to rescue these astronauts sooner. To Joe Biden and

No, we definitely offered to return the astronauts earlier. There's no question about that. The astronauts were only supposed to be there for eight days, and they've been there for almost ten months, so obviously that doesn't make any sense. SpaceX could have brought the astionals back after a few months at most, and we made that offer to.

The Bide administration.

It was rejected for political reasons, and that's just a fact.

Yeah, you know, I followed this from the very beginning. Did America and the world make a mistake by slowing down going to the Moon and to other planets? Was that a mistake on our part? I mean, don't we have so many scientific and innovative breakthroughs every time we go.

Well, I think we'll have tremendous breakthroughs well when we establish a city base and then a city on Mars, because we'll have to overcome so many challenges that it will drive it will serve as a forcing function for the development of new technologies that will have tremendous benefits to.

People on Earth.

Let's talk a little bit if we can about the health issues that the astronauts will face.

They were only to train.

They only trained for an eight day mission, but there are certainly things involved with returning to gravity, adjusting to gravity, nauseousness, but then it gets a little bit more serious, a variety of other health problems. Bones become about one percent less tense for every month that they are in space. That could lead to issues like osteoporosis or bone fracture, et cetera. Astronauts grow in space because the spinal column expands. There was one astronaut, Scott Kelly, he became two inches

They will.

They will have some significant health issues that they're going to be facing, but they'll be okay.

Uh yeah.

The normal amount of time that astronauts are supposed to be in zero G is about three months and then really at the most about six months. That's that's sort of the normal rotation, and they were up there for almost ten months, so that's really going beyond what is healthy or good.

So it's a it's a good thing.

That thanks to this port of President Trump, we hope to bring them back, because really things get just a lot worse if they stay in zero gy for you know, past a year or more.

You know, what you were able to accomplish today really is pretty It's just fascinates me. I'm interested in every aspect of it. I think, you know, it was pretty public that I bought one of your Tesla's. I don't like the way that people And by the way, it's like the greatest car ever invented.

It really is.

And I'm not just saying that it's self driving. It's got a thousand horsepower. It goes from zero to sixty in zero point two seconds.

It's the most market two seconds.

Two seconds zero I'm sorry, not zero point it goes into zero two point oh seconds.

I think it would kill you basically if it wasn't that.

But itself, it's pretty fast, that's for sure. It's fast than Ferrari for example.

Yeah, no, I watched it beat my z O six. I'm like, I thought that was the greatest muscle car.

No, it's not.

I watched the I watched the s Plaid beat it all right. More of my interview with Elon coming up straight ahead, eight hundred and nine four one Shawn our number. We'll also get to your calls coming up as we continue. Let me play for you some of the just outright hatred, the vitriol, the venom that is coming from the anti Elon Musk, anti Doge, anti SpaceX, anti Tesla, anti anything you know, anti cutting, waste, fraud and abuse, radical left, including Tim Walls listen saying on.

My phone, I don't some of me know this on the iPhone, they've got that little stock app.

I added Tesla tode to give me a little boost during the.

Day two twenty five and dropping so. And if you own.

One, if you own one, we're not blaming you. You can you can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off, you know, and take out of just telling.

You Elon Musk, you didn't create USAID. The United States Congress did for the American people. Like Elon Musk did not create USAID. He doesn't have the power to destroy it. And who's gonna stop him. We are We're gonna stop him.

We are witnessing a constitutional crisis. We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one, and here we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like. When you got the constitution and you install yourself as the sole power. That is how dictators are made. What Trump and Elon and all of their cruities are trying to do is take away the constitutional power of Congress today.

It's USA tomorrow.

It's our healthcare, it's social security, it's our livelihoods, it's our freedoms. So stand up for you, say today, USA today, so that we can stand up for all of our freedoms in the days ahead.

This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today.

Let's call it what it is.

The people get to decide how we defend the United States of America. The people get to decide how their tax mayer money is spent. Elon Musk does not get to decide.

We are here to save lives because that is what AID does, and no one elected Elon Musk.

To dismantle it.

And Elon, if you want to run AID, get nominated by Trump and go to the Senate and good luck and getting confirmed. Yeah, Elon Musk, where are you bring your ass of a hair so you can say who's here?

This is like a bank robber trying to fire the cops and.

Turn off the alarms just before he strolls into the lobby.

We are here to fight back.

That is what they are doing. They are dismantling the federal government, which will deny the American people to services and the resources that allow them to help to raise their families, have a secure economy and a secure future for themselves.

Every time you hear goaje the Department of Government Efficiency, you just remember it is the Department of government evil.

Over.

While we're sitting here, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are recklessly and illegally dismantling the federal government, shuttering federal agencies, firing federal workers withholding funds vital to the safety and well being of our communities, and hacking our sensitive data systems.

Now, we should in no way be cooperating with House Republicans who want to shut down the Department of Education and destroy Medicare and Medicaid. And we should not stand by as the richest man on the planet gives himself and his companies huge tax cuts while the American people get absolutely nothing. Joe's staff to carry out this agenda across all these agencies, and in some cases actually teenage staffers,

I don't want anyone to believe that Democrats just come to work and don't plan to do work. In fact, I'm trying to figure out exactly what it is that the Republicans believe our job is, because right now they have relinquished their constitutional duties over to an unelected bureaucrat.

You know what, Elon Musk doesn't seem to be looking into his own contracts.

The hate, the venom, It is real, It is sad, it is pathetic, and where are the people on the left speaking out about it? Their silence is deafening as usual, you know, the big January sixth crowd, the ones that want to continue to talk about January sixth, twenty twenty. Anyway, more of my interview with Elon Musk will pick it up where we left off. You're into robotics AI. You are working with neurolinks so the blind can see, and

Yeah.

I mean, it's really come as quite a shock to me that there's this level of really hatred and violence from the left. I thought the left of the Democrats were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring, and yet they're burning down cars, they're fire a bumby dealerships, they're firing bullets into dealerships, They're just you know, smashing up Tesla's. Tesla is a peaceful company. We've never done anything hawful. I've never done anything howful.

Yeah, I think there are larger forces at work as well.

I mean, I don't know who's funding it and who's coordinating, because this is this is crazy.

I've never seen anything like this.

You actually tweeted out and I'll put it on the screen. The level of violence is insane.

It is deeply wrong.

Tesla just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks. You just rescue two astronauts that have been in space for two hundred and eighty six days. They were only supposed to be there eight. You help the people in North Carolina, Tennessee, California. You have I think the most creative and innovative car in the market. You created Starlink for communications that's used by hundreds of countries. You're working on helping the blind see and all of

Yeah, it's it turns out when you take away people's you know what, the money they're receiving. Fortunately, they get very upset and they they basically want to kill me because I'm stopping their fraud and they want to hurt Tesla because they're stopping this terrible waste and corruption in the government. And well, I guess they're bad people. Bad people will do bad things.

Well, I know that overall, you know, financially, in the end, yes, they can hurt you. But the people that they'll end up hurting are the people that work in your dealerships that may risk losing their job. The people that they may end up hurting are the people that work on the line and build the teslas. They're going to be hurt, and that to me is despicable in their part, just because they might have a paral difference or perceived political difference. Let me let me ask you this because I think

Yes, the government sort of, the government waste and fraud is so high that it's causing a two trillion dollar annual deficit. So that's two thousand billion dollars of waste and fraud that's happening. And the cost of our debt has gotten so high that just the interest payments on the debt exceed the entire military budget. And it was just growing out of control. So the country is going bankrupt. It's just you know, country is not different from a person.

So the reason I'm here is because I'm I'm very worried about America going bankrupt.

To the corruption of waste, and if we're going to do something about it, the ship of America is.

Going to sink and we're all on that ship, you know.

And this may be a message to you know, people out there who have you know, are wealthy, have a lot of means or control companies.

It's like, just remember, we're all in ship of America here.

If your company is not going to exist, if you know, if the ship of America sinks, and we should do everything we possibly can to ensure that America is strong for far into the future, and.

We're all sunk, and for doing that, you should not have your company be a victim of domestic terrorism. If I made one last question, you know, when I interviewed you and President Trump together, one of the questions I asked both of you was, are you aware that there are groups that want to separate you, groups that would like to divide you, groups that would like to see you.

Not work together.

I feel it's stronger than it's ever been. Do you get the same sense.

I think they're getting desperate, because, I mean, the reason we're seeing this extreme amount of hatred and violence is because we're actually succeeding and getting rid of corruption a waste.

If we were succeeding in.

Getting corruption a waste, they wouldn't care. But we are succeeding. Thanks Without President Trump, this would be impossible. So I'd just like to say, you know, it's only possible with this president, and we've got this narrow window of opportunity with a House, Senate and a popular vote, and really we're just impleuencing the will of the people. And we've got this window where where we can finally take corrective action. We can fix the government, fix the country, and create

I'm kind of supportive too. I'm pretty well known for my subportion, but well for good reason and for all the things, all the reasons you're saying, I want, I want to save our country. We can rob from our kids and grandkids, and we can't put all that down them. And you're right, none of us will have any business opportunities because there won't be any money, there won't be any freedom, there won't be an economy. Thank you for what you did today. I know I speak for a

I hope we get to the bottom of it.

Uh And by the way, I'm excited about my ass plat. It's the best car I've ever driven.

By cars every day. It's a great car. I mean, I kind of made the car that I wanted to drive, So that's why I like it. And yeah, that's why.

I got mine.

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