On Sunday’s version of MSNBC’s The Weekend, co-host Alicia Menendez stated that NBC Information had obtained a duplicate of the e-mail despatched out to federal staff at Elon Musk’s behest requiring them to record 5 issues that they’d completed within the final week.
If the present’s panelists needed to record 5 issues they had lately completed, one factor they could not point out was really having learn that e mail.
As a result of if they’d, they would not have fretted, as two of them did, that in responding to the e-mail, “labeled data” or secrets and techniques could be divulged.
That is as a result of, as you’ see, the e-mail instructed recipients in daring letters, “don’t ship any labeled data.”
So there was no threat of labeled data being divulged. Except the federal employees–described as “heroes” by a panelist–are incompetent or subversive.
A pervasive theme within the liberal media has been to sentence the Trump administration’s cruelty in firing federal employees. However guess who else fires individuals? NBC Information, MSNBC’s dad or mum firm. Final month, NBC Information introduced that it was shedding 40 staffers.
And simply in the present day, as our Tim Graham has famous, information broke that MSNBC itself has fired Pleasure Reid.
And guess who’re the beneficiaries of Reid’s defenestration? Yup: the hosts of The Weekend! Menendez, Symone Sanders, and Michael Steele reportedly can be transferring from the relative obscurity of their weekend-morning slot to occupy the upper profile 7 pm weekday timeslot that was once Reid’s.
This is the transcript.
MSNBC
The Weekend
2/23/25
8:00 am ETALICIA MENENDEZ: New in a single day, Elon Musk calls for federal staff justify their work or resign. The weird new e mail that is unnerving authorities companies.
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SYMONE SANDERS: Executing that Venture 2025 technique with Donald Trump’s approval, Elon Musk desires federal employees to sing for his or her supper.
Final evening, federal obtained an e mail asking them to summarize their work from final week. Sure, that is what occurred. The unelected billionaire, he really posted on his social media website, quote, Failure to reply can be taken as a
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MICHAEL STEELE: This nonsensical e mail from Elon Musk appearing like we’re in kindergarten. Inform us what you probably did final week.
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MENENDEZ: Let’s discuss these emails that have been despatched from the Workplace of Personnel Administration. They have been shared with NBC Information. They requested staff to ship roughly 5 bullet factors itemizing what completed this week, ccing their managers. They set a deadline of Monday at 11.59 p.m. Jap. Notably, FBI Director Kash Patel instructed staff to pause any response to the e-mail. State Division staff have been instructed to do the identical.
As a result of, you understand, you would not need FBI secrets and techniques and State Division secrets and techniques in emails that then may very well be broadly circulated. Will their incompetence be their undoing?
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HEATH MAYO: It is disgusting, fairly frankly. It is indignant. It is insulting. And, you understand, federal employees, you understand, I do not understand how they’ll actually step by this, actually. I really feel for them. I do not understand how you reply to an e mail like that. And positively, to your level, the risk to labeled data leaking out, I imply, you principally must simply say, one, you understand, redacted, two, redacted. I imply, you’d should redact every part you are engaged on for a few of these individuals. So it simply would not make numerous sense.
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COREY BRETTSCHNEIDER: While you add all these assaults up, it truly is an tried coup. It isn’t a violent coup, in fact. However there are totally different sorts of coups. Political scientists discuss auto coups. And what an auto coup is, is when the President of america or an individual in energy tries to grab and rearrange the regulation in order that it solely serves that individual. So it solely serves Trump.
And that is what is going on on right here, this tried auto coup. How do you stop it? You want those that are charged, the greater than two million individuals within the govt department, to hold out the regulation, to refuse to associate with unlawful orders and an try to essentially destroy the system of American authorities, not simply what Trump calls the forms.
