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Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former White House communications director during President Donald Trump's first term, responded to the Friday New York Times report that Elon Musk is causing consternation among the Cabinet.

Behind closed doors, Secretaries Marco Rubio and Sean Duffy fought back against Musk's attempted cuts of their departments, which resulted in Musk accusing them of not doing more to fire more members of the federal civil service.

Baird financial services analyst Ben Kallo warned that Tesla CEO Elon Musk's political antics could be destroying the valuation of his company.

During a Monday morning report, CNBC host Carl Quintanilla offered investors bad news about Tesla's stock value.

President Donald Trump's erratic economic policy is panicking overseas investors, and is likely to cause a mass withdrawal of European money from American markets, said Zanny Minton Beddoes, an editor for the British publication The Economist, on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Monday.

Beddoes' fellow guest, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, moved the conversation with his analysis of Trump's comments over the weekend, where he refused to rule out that there would be a recession this year under his tariff policies.

A squabble between billionaire Elon Musk and a Poland's foreign minister led Secretary of State Marco Rubio to jump into the fray with an abrasive response that took the tech mogul's side against the longtime ally.

That led MSNBC's Joe Scarborough to castigate Rubio and accuse him of throwing away his credibility to stay in good graces with Musk and Donald Trump.

Radosław Sikorski responded on X after Musk argued with a Ukraine supporter over the U.S. instead favoring the invading Russian army and threats over restricting use of Starlink. That led to Musk to fire back, "Be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost, and there is no substitute for Starlink.”

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Rubio then joined the argument by writing on X, "Just making things up. No one has made any threats about cutting Ukraine off from Starlink And say thank you because without Starlink Ukraine would have lost this war long ago and Russians would be on the border with Poland right now."

The secretary of state's comment rehashed a recent meeting in the Oval Office where Vice President J.D. Vance berated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for not thanking Donald Trump personally for his tepid support of the war-torn nation.

Scarborough then called out Rubio, who walked away from his Senate seat representing Florida.

"To get into a fight on Twitter with a leader in Poland, this would be like Ronald Reagan's cabinet member getting in a fight with a leader of West Germany in the 1980s," Scarborough observed.

"You have Poland, who is the tip of the spear for America for western democracy, they are on the front lines and everybody knows it," he added. "You could go back and see Rubio in 2014 castigating the Biden, the Obama administration and castigating them for ignoring the treaty that that everybody signed, including Putin signed, that if the Ukrainians gave up their nuclear weapons, that we would guarantee their sovereignty and guarantee their borders."

"Poland is now what West Germany was at the height of the cold war," he added. "It is just unspeakable that this former cold war warrior would now be going on X attacking the Poles."

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Pro-Trump Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) scrambled to try to deflect blame from the president for any potential recession that might happen in 2025 on CNN Monday morning, instead pinning the blame on former President Joe Biden while simultaneously confusing anchor Kate Bolduan.

"Given the uncertainty that President Trump's tariff approach is creating, and given that tariffs often prove inflationary, Donald Trump was asked over the weekend about a possible recession happening this year," Bolduan told Malliotakis, who represents Staten Island in Congress. "He was not 100 percent confident that he could stave off a recession in 2025. If that is the risk that he is running with this kind of whiplash and environment of business uncertainty while prices go up, is that a risk you think is worth it?"

CNN's Sara Sidner reacted to a fiery speech by Canada's next prime minister, Mark Carney, who vowed a robust response to Donald Trump's trade war and annexation threats.

The 59-year-old Carney will take over for Justin Trudeau after winning the race to lead the country’s Liberal Party, and the two-time central banker blasted the Trump-led U.S. as "a country we can no longer trust" and insisted "Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form."

Donald Trump's White House is scrambling to put on a happy face and soothe hurt feelings after billionaire Elon Musk got in the faces of multiple Cabinet officials in a contentious meeting last week, the details of which spilled onto the pages of the New York Times.

According to MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire, Trump as well as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt spent part of their weekend painting a portrait of comity in the administration as Musk's star has continued to fall and department heads tire of his demands.

Co-host Joe Scarborough asked Lemire, "What have you found out over the weekend since this explosive meeting?"

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"So there are a few things," Lemire replied. "First of all a lot of damage control from the White House after that meeting. You just saw President Trump there in the Oval Office talking about it. Secretary [Marco] Rubio and Elon Musk had dinner at Mar-a-Lago. over the weekend. We saw Trump return to Washington last night with Elon Musk on Air Force One. He also defended the two of them on Truth Social, trying to downplay this clash."

"But as I reported this is, this was coming, weeks in the making," he added. "First of all, President Trump had really soured on some of the bad headlines. Really, we know how much he pays attention to the media coverage of this, dating all the way back from that moment, we've discussed on this show, when Jesse Watters on Fox News sort of almost very emotionally said, 'Hey, be more careful with these cuts,' talking about a friend of his who was going to be eliminated from the Pentagon, a veteran, saying this needs to change how we're approaching this."

"Other Cabinet secretaries for days, for weeks now, have complained to the White House and to their own staff, saying Musk is disturbing our power; they should be our decisions on hirings and firings," he elaborated.

He then noted, "'I'm told White House officials are seeing these legal challenges, and they've been on the losing end of some of them, in part because there's questions about whether Musk has the authority in DOGE."

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A pair of CNN commentators agreed that Donald Trump's tariffs are quickly becoming a political liability.

Administration officials and allies flooded the airwaves over the weekend to defend tariffs against Canada, China and Mexico as necessary to prevent the flow of fentanyl across the border, and Republican strategist Doug Heye examined their messaging.

Attorney A. Scott Bolden reminded Vice President J.D. Vance that, as an elected official, he would have to "deal with protests" after he complained about demonstrators confronting him over his stance on Ukraine.

Writing on the X social media platform, Vance griped that his 3-year-old daughter had been "scared" by people protesting the Trump administration's decision to "pause" aid to Ukraine.

Filling in for regular MSNBNC host Jen Psaki on Sunday afternoon, former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele scorched GOP lawmakers who have been going out of their way to prove how much they love Donald Trump.

After citing a Trump meme retweeted by the White House X account calling the president "the king," Steele said Trump certainly acts and believes he is and that he views everyone else as "jesters" solely kept around for his amusement.

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett admitted that President Donald Trump was launching a "trade war" after insisting that tariffs against Mexico and Canada were part of a "drug war."

During a Sunday interview on ABC's This Week program, Hassett complained after the show referred to Trump's "trade war."

Reacting to members of Elon Musk's DOGE team digging through troves of U.S. citizens' private information at the Social Security Administration, MSNBC host and former RNC chair Michael Steele had a meltdown on Sunday morning.

While noting that the Department of Government Efficiency staffers are also looking at information on child support payments, and Republicans are seeking to gut Medicare, the co-host of MSNBC's "The Weekend," finally had enough.

"Just real quick on that point about the savings," he told co-host Alicia Mendez, "having, you know, managed the affairs of my mother before she passed away on Medicaid and my dad now on on Medicare. There are no savings there! I mean, you know, why are there no savings, folks? Because the government won't allow you to save! You can't accumulate income, there's a cap in how much you can have in your bank account, and that's roughly $6,000 if you're married. If you're not, it's half that."

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"So you know, if you're only allowed a certain amount of money to accumulate in your bank account or in order to be on Medicaid, for example, where do you save?" he elaborated.

"And now you're putting these incompetent buffoons in charge of managing the system which they have no clue about, number one," he continued with his voice rising. "And number two, [they] are sitting there making judgments over getting your private personal information and what are you going to do with that, Elon!?"

"Exactly why do you need my parents' information? Why do you need their –– and then, of course, this little ditty," he added. "You've got DOGE now going out trying to access sensitive child support information. Why do you need to know who's paying child support? Why?"

"Why are Republicans allowing him to have that kind of access?" he then exclaimed.

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