‘Well, it worked’: Elon Musk on Tesla ‘flying car’

[0:00] All right. Fascinating detail. Thank you so much, Peter Doocy. So it may be goodbye for [0:06] Zachariah at the White House, but for Elon Musk and Tesla, it's hello to the future. [0:11] A little bit of relief there from Musk, but we'd argue not only did Tesla's long-anticipated [0:38] roadster work, it defied basic physics. It blows the mind. The flying car, as Elon calls it, [0:46] is set to go into production in 2028. This is the culmination of incredible work [0:53] by Tesla and SpaceX engineers working closely together to make something that you haven't [1:01] seen in any movie, that's better than any James Bond car, better than, well, I don't know. I've [1:11] never seen anything like this. Better than Bond. How does it work? As Musk said there, [1:18] it's a Tesla-SpaceX combo. It allows the roadster to have ultra high pressure air tanks, which propels [1:24] it into the air. Incidentally, California is still trying to figure out how to get over its [1:29] billions over budget, high-speed rail. Maybe Gavin Newsom should call up Elon instead of calling him [1:37] names. Elon Musk. One of the great disappointments. One of our, one of the great innovators of our time. [1:45] I brought up Edison before. He's Edison, our time. It breaks my heart. Credit where it's due though, [1:51] at least Gavin gave Elon some credit. It's a heck of a lot more credit than he was given by AOC. [1:59] This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed, [2:07] which, you know, you can probably even glean that from watching these people on TV. [2:13] Add that to the aged horribly hall of fame, because I'm watching the TV right now and seeing a pretty [2:22] remarkable feat of intelligence. Just out of curiosity, I'm curious who makes the list AOC over [2:30] Elon. Something tells me you wouldn't give any billionaire, or in Elon's case, trillionaire, [2:34] the courtesy of a compliment. And neither would anyone in her cohort for that matter, [2:39] least of which Jasmine Crockett. When you bring up the idiot known as Elon Musk, [2:45] he is, is not only like very sinister and has no idea of what he's doing. And people are like, [2:58] oh no, he absolutely knows because he's the richest man in the world. Like, yes, [3:02] he knows how to hire smart people, but don't conflate that and believe that he is the genius [3:07] because he ain't. If he's not, what does that say about the rest of us or you, Jasmine Crockett? [3:15] Joining me now, the 50th speaker of the house and a noted historian, Newt Gingrich. It is that [3:22] historian label I want to start with, Newt. Can you imagine, had we been alive in the early 1900s, [3:28] watching Edison invent the light bulb? I really don't know that over the past hundred years, [3:32] there have been moments to match what we just now are seeing with Elon. You really have to go back [3:37] to the industrial revolution. You know, I just finished a book coming out [3:43] on America's golden age. And one of my key points is that these people on the left are just playing [3:49] crazy. Elon Musk is in the tradition of the Wright brothers, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, [3:59] the people who invented the modern world. And he's out here in a totally positive way, [4:05] creating from space to automobiles, to Neuralink, to all sorts of things. He's creating the future. [4:14] And what you have are a bunch of stupid politicians who could not, if their lives depended on it, [4:21] if you locked them in a room collectively and said, you only get to come out if you do one [4:27] positive thing, they'd all sit there and starve to death, because they wouldn't have a clue what [4:32] you were talking about. But Elon Musk, and not just Elon, I'm not picking on Elon personally, [4:36] there's an entire tradition in America of really smart people inventing a better future. [4:45] And he's in that tradition. And then there's a, frankly, tradition of really stupid, destructive [4:51] politicians who crippled the country. And that's what you just saw in AOC and in our supporters. [5:01] Perfectly said. I want to lead on your other title, Newt, 50th Speaker of the House. You've been [5:05] through this a lot. You know, a lot about elections. You saw the red wave in 1995. We're [5:10] less than or just over two weeks out from the midterm elections. And I'm just curious as we sit [5:15] here today, speaking of Elon, he's poured a lot of money into these midterm elections. So I'm just [5:19] curious, as we sit here a little over two weeks out, what's going to happen, Newt? [5:24] Well, I don't think any of us know until the votes come in. So let me just be clear about that. [5:30] Who decides to show up? Who thinks it's important? Who's willing to spend the time to vote? [5:35] What really defines everything? My guess is that the country's caught in this moment [5:42] when they're kind of mad at the Republicans because prices are too high. Things haven't [5:48] been solved. And so they start to think, well, maybe I could vote Democrat. And then they look [5:53] at the two people you just put on TV a minute ago and they think, these people are crazy. Do I really [5:59] want to vote to put them in charge? You really want Chuck Schumer with all of his weird left-wing [6:04] corrupt values in charge? And I think all of a sudden they go, well, maybe I can't go there. [6:11] And I think that's part of why you see so many races that are within one, two, or three percent. [6:18] People are just really warm about which way they want to go. I personally think we're almost [6:24] certainly going to keep the Senate and we have a better chance of keeping the House [6:28] than most of the political people think. But we'll know election night and we will not know [6:35] one minute before. Torn, two weeks to make up their mind. Always good to hear from you. [6:43] Newt Gingrich, thank you. Thank you.