Discussion on government oversight of contracts involving tech firms

Important for Elon Musk because his money is made largely through government contracts, government subsidies, government business. And I don't have an objection to that if we're getting our money's worth. But how do we know that we are if we don't have transparency about, you know, what's going out the door and going in the other door for, you know, his company and him personally? So that's part of what has to be done, both legislatively and through investigations. We need laws that are going to tighten the rules on what people can and can get from the government and what kind of disclosure and transparency they have to give up in order to get anything. And we're going to need more investigations to get to the kind of transparency so that we really understand. What did all of these companies get for all this money? Not just Musk, all the tech companies, for example? Well, the tech companies and frankly a lot of other companies that lined up to, you know, give Trump whatever he asked for, who settled lawsuits they could have won that went on bended knee to do his bidding. I mean, we've got to get to the bottom of this. Now, they may have thought it was a business decision, but we need to find out how much money was involved, what it went for, what Trump got out of it and what they got out of it, what they got out of it. So that's one of them. So Musk will be in the, in the, will be in the crosshairs a number of things. Ukraine is one of them. Right. If you were Secretary of State and someone did this like a private citizen, where was Marco Rubio during this entire thing? For example, where, where was Donald Trump? Some people said it was Trump's responsibility, but that's one investigation I'd like to at least see. What happened, illegal or not illegal? Like, how did that happen? How did he, how. Who was giving the orders about, you know, missiles or guidance systems or whatever in Ukraine? That's one. And Doge is the second one. I mean, he may have been appointed and again, it's Trump's responsibility. But what happened would be, no matter what, even if it's not illegal, what happened is useful. But talk about like Ukraine, for example, cuz that's really pissed off a lot of Republicans, as you know, it should. And you know, Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economist, has basically said, we cannot allow one man to make national security decisions by whim. He shut off access to Starlink and the military.