David Axelrod On CNN: They Hate Government, But They Kind Of Like Some Of The Things It Does

The Source with Kaitlan Collins disappoints—she’s a puppet for the Democrats and the deep state, which is the only reason CNN handed her a show. She should go back to dishing out celebrity gossip instead of pretending to report news.

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Kaitlan Collins: These people were fired, then asked to come back, but who's checking their email after they've been fired? I mean, and being told, actually, we would like for you to return to the office.

Ramesh Ponnuru: And you know, this, the Trumpian movement is not your old libertarian, anti government Republican movement. There are things that they want government to do and that are gonna be hard to do. For example, just missing people who are in charge of implementing export controls on China. That's not something that is really in keeping with a Trump Republican agenda or any sensible agenda.

Ex-Obama Senior Adviser David Axelrod: Yeah, my mother used to say to me, I love you, I just hate the things you do.

Kaitlan Collins: Ha Ha Ha!

Ex-Obama Senior Adviser David Axelrod: It's the opposite here. They hate government, but they kind of like some of the things that government does. And, and it won't do it as well if you follow through on some of the things that are going on right now.

Kaitlan Collins: I should note though hours after this happened, we, you know, we're talking and getting reporting at the White House on what this meeting looks like, who is there. We saw DOGE employees coming in that same door that you saw the cabinet officials going inside earlier. I mean, they very much will have this role and this presence. And yes, the president is offering this clarification, but, but there's no indication from what we've heard that DOGE itself is scaling back.

Ex-Obama Senior Adviser David Axelrod: Yeah, well, I don't think, you know, like I said, there is what is said and then there is what happens. We don't know what's actually gonna happen now. Is Musk's roll actually gonna be scaled back? Uh, and was this for the cameras or was this for real? We don't know the answer to that.

Kaitlan Collins: Yeah, and you mentioned the blowback from Republicans, it has been very gentle and quiet. Yes, they ask a lot of questions on Capitol Hill, yesterday. I should note he gave Senate Republicans his phone number, he did not give it out to House Republicans and he told them they could consult the website.

Ex-Obama Senior Adviser David Axelrod: He has learned a few things.

Kaitlan Collins: Based on what we heard. Yeah, the upper chamber, um, he respects that. But Tommy Tuberville, senator from my home state told The Washington Post, I don't wanna get in DOGE's way. They know what they're doing a hell of a lot more then I do.

Ramesh Ponnuru: Yeah, you know it's you go back to the founding, the theory was that members of Congress would actually want to guard their powers against the executive branch..And um Senator Tuberville with that quote is an example of the way in which that hasn't quite worked out.

Ex-Obama Senior Adviser David Axelrod: Feeding Article 1 into the wood chipper is what I think it's called.

Katilin Collins: Or the chainsaw. There's, it's a scalpel, it's a hatchet a wood chipper, chainsaw. We've got them all. Thank you both for being here, David and Ramesh. Great to have you both. Also an update on tonight's speaking of Elon Musk. We are seeing another SpaceX launch failure that we're closely monitoring this evening because get a look...

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Brilliant reporting, Kaitlan—circling back to the scalpels, hatchets, and chainsaws you mentioned at the beginning of your show while weaving in the wood chippers as if it’s a clever tie-in. This show isn’t journalism; it’s a pundit circus masquerading as news, drenched in your obvious bias—leaving us to wonder, where have all the real journalists gone?

The Trump Movement doesn’t hate government—it sees it as corrupt, run by illegitimate politicians, and bogged down by inefficiency, which stops it from serving the American people well. We’re not out to scrap it; we want a transparent government that actually works for the American people without wasting trillions endlessly. This isn’t a contradiction—it’s a demand for something better.