All right. Developing this morning reports that new first best friend Elon Musk is starting to irritate president elect Trump's advisers during a dinner at Mar-A-Lago, Axios reports that a heated confrontation between Musk and Trump adviser and attorney Boris Epstein. They write, quote, at one point during what the sources described as a massive blow up, Musk accused Epstein of leaking details of Trump's transition, including a personnel picks to the media.
Epstein responded by telling Musk that he didn't know what he was talking about. This comes amid new reports that Musk is also becoming a source of infighting. The Trump transition team surrounding the choice for Treasury secretary.
Musk is backing Trump transition co-chair and fellow billionaire Howard Lutton for the job, while Trump's advisers are pushing for hedge funds. CEO Scott Bezzant, the billionaire not only putting his 2 or $0. 10 a hand, but also asking his more than 200 million followers to weigh in, he posted to Twitter.
Quote would be interesting to hear more people weigh in on this for real. Donald Trump to consider feedback. My view, for what it's worth, is Bezzant is a business as usual choice, whereas how Nick will actually enact change business as usual is driving America bankrupt.
We need change one way or another. With us now as national political correspondent for Politico, Meridith McGraw. You know, it's pretty interesting.
So Musk is in the room where it happens a lot of time, but he's also tweeting from outside the room trying to influence things. Well, it's not just Musk who has inserted himself into the transition. It's really Trump's whole, you know, early kitchen cabinet here, advisers, people, Mar-A-Lago members, friends that are weighing in.
But Musk is spending a lot of time with Donald Trump since he got elected. He's been an ever present, person at Trump's side, at his club. He's sitting in on meetings.
He's traveling with him like he did this weekend to the professional UFC fight in New York City. And he is spending a lot of time with Trump. He's giving his insight and input on some of these picks, including most recently, Treasury Secretary, which is one of the last really big, remaining cabinet picks that Trump has yet to announce.
And there's already been some infighting behind the scenes and jockeying between different potential candidates, including Howard Neck, who is currently co-chair of Trump's transition, hedge fund CEO Scott and and some other dark horse candidates who have now, their names have come up because of this back and forth and different people getting involved in the process. Any sign that Trump would go against Musk at this point? Have we seen an area yet where the two have disagreed?
Where where Trump won another way? You know, I don't know about that. But, you know, certainly Trump is really, you know, taking his input seriously.
He is keeping him around. He is involved in in a lot of these, different meetings. you know, Musk came with, Trump to Washington, DC last week when Trump on the plane made the decision that he was going to appoint Matt Gates to as attorney general.
but, you know, other people who've been around Trump include, of course, Siouxsie Wiles, Linda McMahon, who's also co-chairing the transition, Howard Latin, Nick. And then a lot of aides and advisers who are around him as well, too. All right.
Meredith McGraw from Politico, thanks so much for being with us this morning.
