March 20, 2025 • 28 mins
Sean sits down with Elon Musk and they discuss his sacrifices for America and some of the great headlines he and his companies have made recently.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, news round up, Information overload. Our toll free
Our number is eight hundred and nine to FOURT one,
Shawn if you want to be a part of the program.
As we told you and we've been discussing today, Cash
Betel's FBI has launched a formal investigation into the Tesla
takedown terrorists, the people that are responsible for firing bullets
into Tesla dealerships and setting Tesla cars on fire, on
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top of putting charging stations on fire. The Attorney General,
Pam Bondi has now vowed to impose severe consequences on
those who are bankrolling the Tesla domestic terrorism that's going
on around the country. A doxing website has now a
merged showing the personal details of Tesla owners. It has
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a Molotov cocktail as a cursor. I talked to Elon
about this this on the heels of the SpaceX Dragon
capsule splashing down, successfully rescuing two astronauts lost in space
and abandoned for nine months, and it's really unbelievable that
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this is all happening. We now have you know Elon haters,
you know hitting facilities in Vegas, Kansas City, and Arson.
They're just the latest. And it just goes on and
on and on. What has he done. He's rescued astronauts,
He's moving towards helping the blind to see and those
with spinal cord injuries walk. He is He's launched SpaceX.
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He's got the most innovative car ever, creative self driving,
which has incredible speed and horsepower. On top of, you know,
helping out people that were out of communication capabilities after
Hurricane Helene and after the wildfires in California. And then
of course he's cutting waste, fraud and abuse, and that
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I mentioned he makes the most American made car in
the entire entry. And by the way, we're giving one away.
If you go to Hannity dot com, our word of
the day is SpaceX. You can register very easily, very simple,
Hannity dot com for that. All right, here's my interview
with Elon. As I said in my opening monologue monologue
earlier today, SpaceX successfully completed its rescue of two astronauts
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who spent nine months stranded in space. They were only
supposed to be there eight days. SpaceX founder chief engineer
CEO Elon Musk. He now joins us for an exclusive interview. Elon,
First of all, what a triumph to the human spirit,
human ingenuity engineering. First of all, on behalf of I
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know many people in this audience thank you for what
you did for those astronauts today. How are you feeling,
you know throughout the day? I mean I know I
felt butterflies in my stomach and I rarely feel them.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
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.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
And a huge note of.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Appreciation to President Trump for prioritizing and expanding their return.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
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.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
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
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a company.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Just barely made it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
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.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Point to where the vehicle is very reliable and we are.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Going to be able to take.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Ashalts to Mars.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I mean, that is a very bold vision. How long
do you think that might take SpaceX to be able
to accomplish.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think we could do it in twenty to thirty years.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Lifetime should say.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
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
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can go there and come back, or a space station,
or you launching the hundreds of satellites you have. I
want to ask you this question if I may, and
it's you know, every aspect of this rescue had challenges
and danger. The launch we start there, then the rocket landing,
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I mean we showed I couldn't believe you were able
to land the rocket that fell off perfectly where you
wanted it to land, the docking video when they actually
connected and got onto the space station. Then the taking
off earlier today was a seventeen hour trip leading to
the splashdown that all of America watched today. Every single
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aspect of that has danger and complications. Walk us through
the dangers.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
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,
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the trunk could fail separate from dragon. Uh, there could
be a sort of an engine failure on the spacecraft
itself when when it's coming back, it's coming in so
fast it's a blazing meteor, and if anything happens to
the heat shield, uh, the the whole craft.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Is going to disintegrate.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
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
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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.
It is the Starship is the first rocket that has
the potential to make life multiplanetary, to make us a
multiflanet civilization for the first time in the history of Earth.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
And that's truly profound.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
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
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it had problems. So these problems that you talk about,
we can't take them for granted or get complacent. Explain
how house you get up to seventeen thousand miles per hour,
how do you withstand thirty five hundred degrees fahrenheit and
the thermal protection system that protects that capsule, and then
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the launch obviously the parachutes which were critical to slow
it down for it's splash down.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, that's I'm pass.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
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.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Here. The falcon iine rocket takes off with.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
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
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comes back. You've got that heat shield that's got to
dissipate that energy. Like I said, you're coming in like
a blazing meteor, and hardly anything can survive that heat.
And if the heat shield fails, you just get fathor
riized immediately. So we're really testing the very edge of
human ability here, at the very edge of material science.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
And it's kind of amazing that humans can do this
at all.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
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
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or not you had offered to send this rocket to
space to rescue these astronauts sooner. To Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris. I heard somebody earlier today say, in fact,
that didn't happen, when I believe it did.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
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
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months at most, and we made that offer to.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
The Bide administration.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It was rejected for political reasons, and that's just a fact.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
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.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
People on Earth.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Let's talk a little bit if we can about the
health issues that the astronauts will face.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
They were only to train.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
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.
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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
taller and others. Then when it contracts when you come back,
then they have some back issues. They have vision issues
because fluids in the eye shift upward to the head.
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You can explain baby feet if you want.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
They will.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
They will have some significant health issues that they're going
to be facing, but they'll be okay.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
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.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
So it's a it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
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.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
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.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
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.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
It's the most market two seconds.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Two seconds zero I'm sorry, not zero point it goes
into zero two point oh seconds.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I think it would kill you basically if it wasn't that.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
But itself, it's pretty fast, that's for sure. It's fast
than Ferrari for example.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, no, I watched it beat my z O six.
I'm like, I thought that was the greatest muscle car.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
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
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you know, anti cutting, waste, fraud and abuse, radical left,
including Tim Walls listen saying on.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
My phone, I don't some of me know this on
the iPhone, they've got that little stock app.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I added Tesla tode to give me a little boost
during the.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Day two twenty five and dropping so. And if you own.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
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.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
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.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
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
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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.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
It's USA tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
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.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Let's call it what it is.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
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.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
We are here to save lives because that is what
AID does, and no one elected Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
To dismantle it.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
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?
Speaker 9 (16:53):
This is like a bank robber trying to fire the
cops and.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Turn off the alarms just before he strolls into the lobby.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
We are here to fight back.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
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.
Speaker 11 (17:28):
Every time you hear goaje the Department of Government Efficiency,
you just remember it is the Department of government evil.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Over.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
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.
Speaker 12 (17:58):
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
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across all these agencies, and in some cases actually teenage staffers,
no accountability, no experience, and problematic records. They're trying to
rob you, and they're probably a minor.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
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.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
You know what, Elon Musk doesn't seem to be looking
into his own contracts.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
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
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up where we left off. You're into robotics AI. You
are working with neurolinks so the blind can see, and
people with spinal cord injuries may one day walk. You
help people in North Carolina, You help people in California
when they have no communications. And I watch all of
this and I have to ask, why, why do I
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see people like I woke up this morning and saw
that Tesla's will put a blaze in one of your
dealerships in Vegas. I've seen this happen all over the country.
Bullets are being fed, charging stations, have put a blaze,
Tesla's are being put a blaze. You have experienced assassination,
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threats of assassination for you and your family. What have
you done that warrants this because I see nothing that
you have done except helbar country.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
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
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you know, smashing up Tesla's. Tesla is a peaceful company.
We've never done anything hawful. I've never done anything howful.
I've only done productive things. So I think we just
have a deranged there's some kind mental illness thing going
on here, because this doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, I think there are larger forces at work as well.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I mean, I don't know who's funding it and who's coordinating,
because this is this is crazy.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
You actually tweeted out and I'll put it on the screen.
The level of violence is insane.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It is deeply wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
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.
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You created Starlink for communications that's used by hundreds of countries.
You're working on helping the blind see and all of
these other things. Is it really? Is it really come
down to the basic You're aligned with President Donald Trump,
who also is a friend of mine, and that you
have identified well over one hundred billion dollars of waste,
fraud of use that our federal government never should have
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been spending. Is that what it comes down to.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
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
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the government. And well, I guess they're bad people. Bad
people will do bad things.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
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,
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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
this is pretty important. You know, the average American makes
sixty six thousand dollars a year. We're close to forty
thousand dollars in debt. You said to me in our
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last interview, we won't have a country unless we fix it. Now,
can you explain why this is so important that we
identify all this waste.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
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
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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.
If a country overspends, it doesn't spend wisely, just like
a person, a country will go bankrupt.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
So the reason I'm here is because I'm I'm very
worried about America going bankrupt.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
To the corruption of waste, and if we're going to
do something about it, the ship of America is.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Going to sink and we're all on that ship, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
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.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
It's like, just remember, we're all in ship of America here.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
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.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
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
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like to divide you, groups that would like to see you.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Not work together.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I feel it's stronger than it's ever been. Do you
get the same sense.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
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.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
If we were succeeding in.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
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
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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
a great future. And again that's only possible because of
President Trump. I can't say things about him.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
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
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what you did today. I know I speak for a
lot of people when I say that. And on the
other side of it, you know, your company being a
victim of domestic terrorism, you know I can't say that
I'm sorry enough. We need to get these people that
are responsible for this, and you should not have to
live through that, your workers should not have to live
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through that, your company and this country should not have
to live through that.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I hope we get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Uh And by the way, I'm excited about my ass plat.
It's the best car I've ever driven.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
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.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I got mine.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
On Hannity dot com, people can go take a look.
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All right, news round up, Information overload. Our toll free
Our number is eight hundred and nine to FOURT one,
Shawn if you want to be a part of the program.
As we told you and we've been discussing today, Cash
Betel's FBI has launched a formal investigation into the Tesla
takedown terrorists, the people that are responsible for firing bullets
into Tesla dealerships and setting Tesla cars on fire, on
(00:28):
top of putting charging stations on fire. The Attorney General,
Pam Bondi has now vowed to impose severe consequences on
those who are bankrolling the Tesla domestic terrorism that's going
on around the country. A doxing website has now a
merged showing the personal details of Tesla owners. It has
(00:50):
a Molotov cocktail as a cursor. I talked to Elon
about this this on the heels of the SpaceX Dragon
capsule splashing down, successfully rescuing two astronauts lost in space
and abandoned for nine months, and it's really unbelievable that
(01:10):
this is all happening. We now have you know Elon haters,
you know hitting facilities in Vegas, Kansas City, and Arson.
They're just the latest. And it just goes on and
on and on. What has he done. He's rescued astronauts,
He's moving towards helping the blind to see and those
with spinal cord injuries walk. He is He's launched SpaceX.
(01:35):
He's got the most innovative car ever, creative self driving,
which has incredible speed and horsepower. On top of, you know,
helping out people that were out of communication capabilities after
Hurricane Helene and after the wildfires in California. And then
of course he's cutting waste, fraud and abuse, and that
(01:56):
I mentioned he makes the most American made car in
the entire entry. And by the way, we're giving one away.
If you go to Hannity dot com, our word of
the day is SpaceX. You can register very easily, very simple,
Hannity dot com for that. All right, here's my interview
with Elon. As I said in my opening monologue monologue
earlier today, SpaceX successfully completed its rescue of two astronauts
(02:19):
who spent nine months stranded in space. They were only
supposed to be there eight days. SpaceX founder chief engineer
CEO Elon Musk. He now joins us for an exclusive interview. Elon,
First of all, what a triumph to the human spirit,
human ingenuity engineering. First of all, on behalf of I
(02:39):
know many people in this audience thank you for what
you did for those astronauts today. How are you feeling,
you know throughout the day? I mean I know I
felt butterflies in my stomach and I rarely feel them.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
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.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
And a huge note of.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Appreciation to President Trump for prioritizing and expanding their return.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
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.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
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
(03:59):
a company.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Just barely made it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
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.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Point to where the vehicle is very reliable and we are.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Going to be able to take.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Ashalts to Mars.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I mean, that is a very bold vision. How long
do you think that might take SpaceX to be able
to accomplish.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think we could do it in twenty to thirty years.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Lifetime should say.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
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
(05:06):
can go there and come back, or a space station,
or you launching the hundreds of satellites you have. I
want to ask you this question if I may, and
it's you know, every aspect of this rescue had challenges
and danger. The launch we start there, then the rocket landing,
(05:28):
I mean we showed I couldn't believe you were able
to land the rocket that fell off perfectly where you
wanted it to land, the docking video when they actually
connected and got onto the space station. Then the taking
off earlier today was a seventeen hour trip leading to
the splashdown that all of America watched today. Every single
(05:50):
aspect of that has danger and complications. Walk us through
the dangers.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
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,
(06:23):
the trunk could fail separate from dragon. Uh, there could
be a sort of an engine failure on the spacecraft
itself when when it's coming back, it's coming in so
fast it's a blazing meteor, and if anything happens to
the heat shield, uh, the the whole craft.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Is going to disintegrate.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
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
(07:04):
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.
It is the Starship is the first rocket that has
the potential to make life multiplanetary, to make us a
multiflanet civilization for the first time in the history of Earth.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
And that's truly profound.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
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
(07:51):
it had problems. So these problems that you talk about,
we can't take them for granted or get complacent. Explain
how house you get up to seventeen thousand miles per hour,
how do you withstand thirty five hundred degrees fahrenheit and
the thermal protection system that protects that capsule, and then
(08:11):
the launch obviously the parachutes which were critical to slow
it down for it's splash down.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, that's I'm pass.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
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.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Here. The falcon iine rocket takes off with.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
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
(08:55):
comes back. You've got that heat shield that's got to
dissipate that energy. Like I said, you're coming in like
a blazing meteor, and hardly anything can survive that heat.
And if the heat shield fails, you just get fathor
riized immediately. So we're really testing the very edge of
human ability here, at the very edge of material science.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
And it's kind of amazing that humans can do this
at all.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
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
(09:55):
or not you had offered to send this rocket to
space to rescue these astronauts sooner. To Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris. I heard somebody earlier today say, in fact,
that didn't happen, when I believe it did.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
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
(10:31):
months at most, and we made that offer to.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
The Bide administration.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It was rejected for political reasons, and that's just a fact.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
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.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
People on Earth.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Let's talk a little bit if we can about the
health issues that the astronauts will face.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
They were only to train.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
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.
(11:48):
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
taller and others. Then when it contracts when you come back,
then they have some back issues. They have vision issues
because fluids in the eye shift upward to the head.
(12:11):
You can explain baby feet if you want.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
They will.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
They will have some significant health issues that they're going
to be facing, but they'll be okay.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
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.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
So it's a it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
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.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
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.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
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.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
It's the most market two seconds.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Two seconds zero I'm sorry, not zero point it goes
into zero two point oh seconds.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I think it would kill you basically if it wasn't that.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
But itself, it's pretty fast, that's for sure. It's fast
than Ferrari for example.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, no, I watched it beat my z O six.
I'm like, I thought that was the greatest muscle car.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
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
(14:17):
you know, anti cutting, waste, fraud and abuse, radical left,
including Tim Walls listen saying on.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
My phone, I don't some of me know this on
the iPhone, they've got that little stock app.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I added Tesla tode to give me a little boost
during the.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Day two twenty five and dropping so. And if you own.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
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.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
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.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
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
(15:33):
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.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
It's USA tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
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.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Let's call it what it is.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
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.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
We are here to save lives because that is what
AID does, and no one elected Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
To dismantle it.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
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?
Speaker 9 (16:53):
This is like a bank robber trying to fire the
cops and.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Turn off the alarms just before he strolls into the lobby.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
We are here to fight back.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
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.
Speaker 11 (17:28):
Every time you hear goaje the Department of Government Efficiency,
you just remember it is the Department of government evil.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Over.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
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.
Speaker 12 (17:58):
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
(18:21):
across all these agencies, and in some cases actually teenage staffers,
no accountability, no experience, and problematic records. They're trying to
rob you, and they're probably a minor.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
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.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
You know what, Elon Musk doesn't seem to be looking
into his own contracts.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
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
(19:23):
up where we left off. You're into robotics AI. You
are working with neurolinks so the blind can see, and
people with spinal cord injuries may one day walk. You
help people in North Carolina, You help people in California
when they have no communications. And I watch all of
this and I have to ask, why, why do I
(19:47):
see people like I woke up this morning and saw
that Tesla's will put a blaze in one of your
dealerships in Vegas. I've seen this happen all over the country.
Bullets are being fed, charging stations, have put a blaze,
Tesla's are being put a blaze. You have experienced assassination,
(20:07):
threats of assassination for you and your family. What have
you done that warrants this because I see nothing that
you have done except helbar country.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
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
(20:44):
you know, smashing up Tesla's. Tesla is a peaceful company.
We've never done anything hawful. I've never done anything howful.
I've only done productive things. So I think we just
have a deranged there's some kind mental illness thing going
on here, because this doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, I think there are larger forces at work as well.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I mean, I don't know who's funding it and who's coordinating,
because this is this is crazy.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
You actually tweeted out and I'll put it on the screen.
The level of violence is insane.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It is deeply wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
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.
(21:39):
You created Starlink for communications that's used by hundreds of countries.
You're working on helping the blind see and all of
these other things. Is it really? Is it really come
down to the basic You're aligned with President Donald Trump,
who also is a friend of mine, and that you
have identified well over one hundred billion dollars of waste,
fraud of use that our federal government never should have
(22:01):
been spending. Is that what it comes down to.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
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
(22:26):
the government. And well, I guess they're bad people. Bad
people will do bad things.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
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,
(22:56):
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
this is pretty important. You know, the average American makes
sixty six thousand dollars a year. We're close to forty
thousand dollars in debt. You said to me in our
(23:16):
last interview, we won't have a country unless we fix it. Now,
can you explain why this is so important that we
identify all this waste.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
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
(23:50):
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.
If a country overspends, it doesn't spend wisely, just like
a person, a country will go bankrupt.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
So the reason I'm here is because I'm I'm very
worried about America going bankrupt.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
To the corruption of waste, and if we're going to
do something about it, the ship of America is.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Going to sink and we're all on that ship, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
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.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
It's like, just remember, we're all in ship of America here.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
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.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
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
(25:08):
like to divide you, groups that would like to see you.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Not work together.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I feel it's stronger than it's ever been. Do you
get the same sense.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
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.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
If we were succeeding in.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
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
(25:54):
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
a great future. And again that's only possible because of
President Trump. I can't say things about him.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
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
(26:38):
what you did today. I know I speak for a
lot of people when I say that. And on the
other side of it, you know, your company being a
victim of domestic terrorism, you know I can't say that
I'm sorry enough. We need to get these people that
are responsible for this, and you should not have to
live through that, your workers should not have to live
(26:58):
through that, your company and this country should not have
to live through that.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I hope we get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Uh And by the way, I'm excited about my ass plat.
It's the best car I've ever driven.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
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.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I got mine.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
On Hannity dot com, people can go take a look.
We appreciate you being with us. Elon Musk, thank you
and congratulations and thank you. I'm just gonna wrap things
up for today. Don't forget. Our word of the day
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