THEY NEVER SAW THIS COMING! Elon Just Gave CNN the Same Treatment DOGE Gave Washington!

CNN just got hit with the most terrifying question in the history of cable news. What did you do this week? That's right, guys. What did you do this week? Five words, no follow-up, and somewhere in a CNN studio, an anchor just fainted into a ring light. Yes, here's the twist, guys. The man that CNN spent years roasting on air, Elon Musk. Just dropped roughly $1 billion into Skydance, you know, David Ellison's company, which now owns CNN and CBS and HBO and Warner Brothers, and let's not forget about Paramount. So, you know, the guy that they treated like a supervillain is now helping sign their paychecks. Skydance is rolling out buyouts on a five-day office mandate. Five days, guys. Back in the office, in a building, wearing pants, and for some, this is not a policy. This is a hostage situation. We're being forced to wear pants now. So David Ellison's memo says that not everyone is going to be seeing their future here. That's pretty firm, which is basically a very polite way of saying, here's a box, fill it. Yes, the cardboard box, folks, walking out the door. It is the Doge playbook. Washington got it first. CNN got the sequel. And now Anderson Cooper reportedly pulling $20 million a year. And Jake Tapper are staring down the exact same question. Name five things you did this week. Now, Jake wrote an entire book about Joe Biden's decline. Surely he can manage, I don't know, five bullet points? Surely. One CNN host already announced on live TV that she wants out of her contract. She wants to quit. In fact, the nation gasped. Well, both viewers did. Others are reportedly eyeing MSNBC, I'm sorry, MSNOW, or as everyone calls it, MS No One's Watching. Fleeing CNN for MSNBC is kind of like jumping off the Titanic onto a slightly smaller iceberg. Well, Larry Ellison of Oracle, guys, Elon Musk, President Donald Trump in the White House, the board just flipped, and CNN is the last to know, which honestly tracks. Well, today, we break the story that they're too busy panicking to cover. Now, before we dive in, folks, if you or someone you love is on Medicare, maybe turning 65 years old, chapter offers completely free Medicare help. That's right, guys, real people, plain English, zero pressure. Hit the link or call, I left the phone number in the description down below, 909-563-8279. Give them a call right now. The average senior is saving about $1,100 a year. And did you know that the shorter hold times are typically on the weekends when you call a chapter? So anyway, give them a call. And if you're new here, hit subscribe, guys. We can name five things that we did this week, and one of them was this video right here. And if you happen to laugh at least once, just go ahead and hit the like button on the way out, or now. I don't care. So let's go ahead and start with the scariest email ever sent. Washington, Doge. Elon Musk's team hit send on the one simple message to the federal workforce. What did you do this week? Name five things. That's it. Not a pop quiz, not a background check. Five bullet points. And you would think that someone asked them to climb Everest in flip-flops. Picture it, guys. Thousands of inboxes lighting up at once, coffee going cold, cursors blinking over an empty reply box, people staring at the screen like it just asked for their blood type. Five things. Most of us can do that before lunch, some of us before breakfast. Now, let that stand for a second, because that same question just took the elevator up to CNN, and folks, it pressed every floor. That's right. So October 6th, Skydance closes at a $110 billion Thank you. Warner Brothers, Discovery Hole. Picture one giant corporate tower. Bolt the logos on the side. CNN, CBS, HBO, Warner Brothers, Paramount. Every news network, every network the left ever trusted, now under one roof. Run by David Ellison. And then about two weeks later, Elon Musk walks in with roughly $1 billion. This is not a typo, guys. A billion with a B. Now, here's the part that CNN definitely won't put in a graphic. Back in 2022, Larry Ellison, the Oracle founder and David's dad, put a billion dollars in Elon Musk's Twitter purchase. That's right. Call it a coincidence or you can call it a thank you card with nine zeros tacked onto the back of it. Now, follow the money, guys. It never lies. CNN spent years telling you who the bad guy was. Turns out he's now in the family photo. Now, somebody in your family. Still has CNN on in the background every night. You already know exactly who I'm talking about. Go ahead and send them this video right now and say, guess who's helping sign their paychecks now? So let's go ahead and let's take a little walk down memory lane, shall we? Okay. Bring some tissues for CNN, of course. For years, CNN treated Elon Musk like a cartoon villain. Panel after panel, headline after headline, grown adults and blazers clutching their very pearls every time the man posted a meme. Now they didn't just like They lit it. They fed it. Then they stood next to it just doing live shots. Then came 2024. Anybody remember Don Lemon? Yeah. CNN's former golden boy lands a show on Elon Musk's ex, sits down for one interview, and within days, the deal is dead. And Elon Musk's verdict? Well, Lemon's show was basically CNN on social media, which just doesn't work because, and I quote, CNN is dying. At the time, That sounded kind of like an insult. Turns out it was more like a weather forecast. Oh, and so now the man that they spent years mocking is an investor in the company that owns them. You reap what you sow, folks. You reap what you sow. And harvest season just started. So why is CNN suddenly doing layoff math? Well, we need to follow the money. Of course, the viewers left, the advertisers followed them out the door, and the money packed a suitcase and just didn't even bother leaving a note. Now, Hundreds of jobs are on the line. That's right. Hundreds of jobs are now on the line out of roughly 3,500 jobs. Will anybody at home notice? Your TV will still turn on. The weather will still happen. Skydance wants $6 billion in savings. So here's the deal. Take a voluntary buyout before the layoffs hit or come to the office five days a week, five days a week, or get fired. Anybody up for getting fired? Any votes for getting fired? I mean, you would think that they announced a draft. David Ellison's memo says, not everyone will see their future here. Translation, start packing the desk plants. Or just... Get fired. Two memos were sent out today from Skydance. The first one explaining the voluntary buyout program, saying in part, as we bring our teams together, we recognize that not everyone will see their future here, and we respect that. To give eligible employees the option to move on in a way that works for them, we're introducing a voluntary buyout program. Also included in that same memo, Skydance announcing they were moving to a mandatory five-day-in-office policy. The second letter was then sent specifically to those who qualified for the buyout, but did not explain why they met the eligibility criteria. The $111 billion acquisition closed earlier this month, bringing Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery together to form Skydance. I spoke to Variety's senior editor, Mark Malkin, who says these buyouts are just the beginning of the company's efforts to downsize its workforce. There is no doubt there is going to be significant layoffs with the Skydance merger. You know, these are two companies that are now going to end up duplicating a lot of jobs, so they don't need two people to do one job. There are estimates that Skydance is looking to save $6 billion over three years. That's a lot of savings they have to do, and that is going to start with... Guys, in 2025, about 600 Paramount staffers, they took a buyout instead of coming back into the office. Because if you didn't come back into the office and they told you to come back into the office and you decided to still work from home, you're probably going to get fired. 600 people, they looked at a commute and they said, nah, we'll go ahead and just choose unemployment. Now, picture the newsroom next spring. Ring lights glowing, teleprompters scrolling, nobody in the chairs, just empty chairs. Oh, and the question everybody's whispering, will the diversity, equity, and inclusion department survive? Well, how will the news... News. Now, if this feels familiar, it should. I mean, we've already seen this movie before, right? Washington was the pilot episode. In fact, Doge offered federal workers a deal. Take the buyout or answer the question. And hundreds of thousands of them chose the door. USAID defunded. The federal workforce, smallest it's been in decades. And Washington just keeps on running. Mail still came. Planes still landed. Shocking, right? Isn't it shocking? Ask anyone who's worked inside of a federal building. Four hour days, two hour lunches, a stapler with a tenure. Then Jamal Bryant grabbed a microphone and claimed half a million black women lost federal jobs. Give it a week, it'll be a million. By Christmas, it's probably going to be more people than who live in Ohio. One question though, if Doge actually saved all this money, where's my check? I'm still waiting on my $5,000 Doge check, which has not shown up yet. Has anybody else gotten their $5,000 Doge check? I'm just curious. You guys remember the whole dividend talk, right? The mailbox is still waiting. Mine sure is. So CNN, they should go ahead and study one case very closely. It's called Twitter. That's right, guys. When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, he cut most of the staff, and the experts lost their minds. The site would crash. The servers would melt. Society would collapse by Tuesday. Well, Tuesday came, and you're probably on X right now. The lights stayed on. The app kept... Turns out a lot of those jobs were meetings about meetings about meetings. Elon Musk has both tried to acquire and walk away from acquiring Twitter. Here's how we got here. April 4th, a regulatory filing reveals that Elon Musk has rapidly become the largest Twitter shareholder. April 14th, in an SEC filing and accompanying tweet, Musk says he will buy out stockholders in a cash deal and take Twitter private. The offer, valued at $43 billion. May 17th, after Musk and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal have it out on Twitter, Musk tweets he won't proceed unless Twitter can prove bots are less than 5% of its users. July 8th. Elon Musk backs out of the deal, saying in a filing that Twitter made misleading representations over the bot's issue. July 12th. Twitter sues Musk to force him to complete the deal. Musk countersues. October 4th. After a trove of Musk's inner circle texts are revealed in court filings, Musk revives his bid at the original offer price, potentially avoiding a courtroom fight. October 6th. The Delaware Chancery Judge pauses the court case, giving the parties more time to complete a deal. An agreement is reached ahead of the deadline. Musk will own Twitter. And here's what really should keep CNN up at night. When Elon Musk says something out loud, it has a tendency, a really annoying habit of happening. People told him to buy Twitter. He's like, alright. He ended up buying Twitter. He said CNN needs a thorough house cleaning. Gulp. The real lesson is this. The problem at CNN isn't the intern fetching coffee. It's the people upstairs deciding what you're allowed to think. So don't start at the Clean house from the top floor down. Now picture this, right? Studio lights, serious music, a CNN host leans into the camera with the face of someone about to announce a war. And then she says she's asked her agent to get her out of her contract. Dramatic pause. The contract ends December 31st. Hi, everyone. I wanted to give you some news about myself and about this show. After thinking carefully for several months and experiencing a few sleepless nights, as you can imagine, I've decided to separate from CNN, my partner of 43 fantastic years, longer than many marriages. So this daily show on CNN and PBS will come to an end at the end of this year, but CNN and I have worked out a smooth transition while continue doing Amanpour once a week through to June. Now, there's no I in team, and my whole career has been teamwork to make the dream work. So I want to thank all the amazingly talented people I've worked with throughout this incredible journey, especially my beloved show teams and field crews. From my very first big, exciting assignment covering the first Gulf War to the horrors of the Bosnian War, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Iran, Ukraine, and all the points in between, it is the teams and the camaraderie we built that counted so much as we together battle to find the facts, to bring you the evidence and the humanity so that CNN could always broadcast the truth about the world without fear nor favor. Now, you know I've always been fiercely independent, and I will continue to be that for you for as long as I am here and beyond. That's especially important today as we face unprecedented pressures from all sides, political, financial, and also from the rising dangers in the field. I'll always be rooting for CNN, maintaining its history of independent journalism. Meantime, stay tuned. Keep watching Amanpour on CNN and also my podcast, The X-Files, with Global. And finally, thank you all for watching, listening, and engaging with me for all these years, for trusting me and this show. We're talking about a bold, brave, heroic stand here for about two months. Rosa Parks didn't sit down so that you could quit November, lady. But here's the best part. She made her big announcement to CNN audience. Which, these days, is roughly the size of about one airport gate. This is not a joke, guys. Ask yourself the last time you watched CNN on purpose. Now, for most of America, the answer is gate B-12 waiting on a delayed flight to Denver. The nation gasped. Well, Let's go ahead and talk paychecks because this is where it gets beautiful. Anderson Cooper reportedly makes around $20 million a year, Jake Tapper around $10 million a year, Wolf Blitzer is reportedly eyeing the exit too. Now I don't know about you but $20 million a year to read a teleprompter in a nice sweater? Anderson Cooper already walked He walked away from 60 minutes, now he's staring at the same question as every federal worker. Name five things you did this week. And then, of course, there's Jake. Jake spent years on air while Joe Biden's decline was hiding in plain sight. And then once Joe Biden was gone, he wrote a whole book about it, wrote a song about it like the here, here, go. Then, of course, this is kind of like if you think about this kind of like a lifeguard writing a bestseller about the drowning he watched. Five things, guys. Jake, take your time, buddy. And can you imagine reading years of their internal emails. I mean, that would be the highest rating thing CNN would ever air all decade. So where do CNN stars run? Rumor says MSNBC. I'm sorry, excuse me, MSNOW. Or as the rest of America calls it, MS No One's Watching. This is like jumping off the Titanic onto a slightly smaller iceberg. And then, of course, there's a money problem, guys. Rachel Maddow reportedly pulls around $20 million to work roughly one day a week. One day. Like, that's incredible. Now, there's nothing left in the piggy bank for Anderson Cooper if this is going on. So plan B, what? NPR? Oh, wait. NPR lost its federal funding. Trump removed that. Plan C? TMZ? Oh, wait. That's owned by Fox. Okay. Uh, checkmate. Yeah. Meanwhile, Abby Phillip has CNN's number one show. Why? Because Scott Jennings sits at her table calmly correcting everyone like a substitute teacher. Oh, and going solo? Oh, just go ahead and ask Don Lemon and Joy Reid how well that worked. No teleprompter, no lighting crew, no audience. Don who? Joy who? Or maybe no Joy? I don't know. Here's a real reason CNN is broke. Nobody believes him anymore. Trust in the media hit a record low. It just hit it, in fact. And it's not only conservatives. Even liberals are eyeing, they're side-eyeing the TV at this point. You guys remember when President Trump addressed the nation? Some networks didn't even show it. Are you kidding me? You got the President of the United States speaking and he's addressing the nation and you choose not to share it with the American people? They told you what to think about it. Kind of like a movie theater that... Talks over the movie. And then, of course, there's the view on ABC facing questions about electioneering, pushing Democrat candidates on a show that wants to be called news. Unbelievable. So which is it, guys? Is it news or is it entertainment? Pick one, ladies. The trick is simple. Repeat something enough times and people start believing it. The worst part, before Trump, CNN actually did real reporting sometimes. So they could. They could. They just chose not to. So while CNN was busy fixing its hair, regular people grabbed the phone and went outside. Nick Shirley, he exposed a fraud story that the big network somehow missed, and he's reportedly getting a White House award for it. Savannah Hernandez and James O'Keefe, they're out on the street with cameras too. Picture it, one guy with a phone on a sketchy street versus a whole CNN studio with 40 lights, three makeup artists, and a guy in your ear telling you what to say. Guess who's got the story? Now, imagine a CNN Files documentary. Every internal email, every Slack message, America would binge this sucker in one night. Oh, and YouTube? Elon fixed Twitter. I'm just saying, watch your back. So what should happen to CNN's anchors, guys? Don't fire them, that would be too easy. Make them finish their contracts and make them report actual news. Facts, both sides, no eye rolls. For some of them, this is the scariest job they've Because getting paid to do nothing, that's not a perk. This is stealing time. That's being a clock writer. So now, picture Maria Bartiromo with a CNN primetime show. You would hear the screaming from orbit. This is what we voted for, folks. President Trump in the White House, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison of Oracle, and David Ellison at the table. The media machine finally getting what everybody else gets, accountability. So, one last time, CNN. What'd you do this week? Oh, wait, we're still waiting. Yeah. CNN spent years telling you what to think. Now they can't even tell their new bosses what they did this week. Think of someone in your life who gave up on the news years ago. Send them this video, not to make them angry, send it so they know the tide is turning and if today made you laugh, even once, do me one favor on the way out, hit the like button, one second, zero dollars. It helps more people to find the story that CNN won't tell and we'll see you on the next one because trust me, I got a lot more to share with you.