The Source with Kaitlan Collins

Another day another European leader imploring President Trump not to side with Russia. We examine why Trump says he trusts the Russian leader to abide by a deal as he’s just hours away from sitting down face-to-face with Ukrainian President Zelensky.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Speaking longer than anyone else at the table, including the vice president, Elon Musk holds court at the first Cabinet meeting of Trump’s second administration. Plus, Health Secretary RFK Jr. downplays the measles outbreak, misstates how many children have died in west Texas, and also was refuted by health officials on the ground.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoi...

We now know who the White House says is actually running Elon Musk’s government overhaul. But, technically it’s not Elon Musk. We examine why it took the White House so long to reveal that as federal workers are still wondering tonight whom they should be listening to.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elon Musk now says federal workers will now get a second email to justify their jobs and failure to respond a second time will result in termination. Plus, more Republicans are now getting an earful from their constituents worried about how DOGE might affect them. Also, one of the nation’s most well known conspiracy theorists, who has never worked at the FBI but has spread false information about...

A major purge of the Pentagon is now underway as President Trump has just fired the highest ranking military officer in the country who still had years left on his term along with several other top military officials.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elon Musk takes a wrecking ball to the federal government and a chainsaw to CPAC. We examine what he told the conservative gathering about slashing the federal government including thousands of jobs. Plus, President Trump and his top aides are ratcheting up the pressure on Zelensky to strike a deal to end the war that Trump claims baselessly that Zelensky started.  Learn more about your ad choices...

President Trump didn’t say Vladimir Putin, the foreign leader who poisons dissidents, kills his opponents, and jails his critics, was a dictator. Rather, he said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a dictator. Plus, Trump is contradicting his own White House attorneys, saying that Elon Musk is in fact running DOGE.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House now says Elon Musk is not in charge of DOGE and doesn’t even technically work there. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joins to discuss. Plus, an FAA employee who was just fired by DOGE joins to discuss what the impact of layoffs means for air safety.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Delta Air Lines flight crash lands on the runway as passengers emerge alive from an upside-down burning aircraft. We have brand new details about what went wrong and new footage from the scene. Plus, Trump’s fight for more power now reaches the Supreme Court as he suggests he is not breaking any laws if he is saving the country.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoic...

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Explosive allegations from the now former top federal prosecutor in New York who resigned after refusing to drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. A look at what she’s calling a quid pro quo involving the top DOJ official who previously was Trump’s lawyer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump and Putin vow to negotiate an end to the war that Putin started. A look at their 90 minute phone call today and the bargaining chips the White House may have given away and what we know about their plans to meet face-to-face. Plus, after getting stopped by the courts on several occasions, Trump got a green light on a key part of his plan to reduce the federal workforce.  Learn more about you...

Elon Musk taking questions for the first time since throwing the federal government into, as he puts it, a wood chipper. Musk defended DOGE and himself inside the Oval Office. Plus, an American teacher who was wrongfully detained in Russia for years is now free.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge says the White House ignored his order and there are accusations that Trump has just defied another ruling. Warnings tonight of a constitutional crisis brewing as Trump, Musk, and Vance are all openly questioning the power of the courts. Plus, the President confirms he does want to eliminate the agency that protects Americans from being ripped off on everything from mortgages to cr...

President Trump sets Elon Musk on a new target: the Pentagon. The young members of his team are facing new scrutiny as Elon Musk is rapidly expanding his scope while he seeks to slash the federal budget. Plus, President Trump confirms his plans to fire some FBI agents as quickly and surgically as possible.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump, Musk midnight deadline for federal employees to chose whether to resign was just stoped by a federal judge amid an avalanche of lawsuits. Also, a look at what a source has uncovered about what Musk and his top lieutenants have tried to do with a critical Treasury payment system.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Days after the air disaster over the Potomac River, Elon Musk says President Trump has given him the authority to make rapid safety upgrades to the nation’s air traffic control system. What exactly does that entail? Plus, aides and allies are now attempting to explain what they say President Trump really meant about the United States taking over Gaza.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...

President Trump stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today at the White House and said all two million Palestinians should be moved from Gaza to other countries.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New reporting on Elon Musk and his two week blitz across the federal government. New details on his role, his power, and his access to the Treasury’s checkbook. Plus, President Trump threatens United States neighbors with tariffs then backs off after getting Canada and Mexico on the phone. But, did he get anything in return?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Even as we are still searching for answers about the deadly plane crash over the Potomac in northern Virginia, a medevac jet with a child onboard crashed near the Roosevelt Mall in northeast Philadelphia. The plane went down in the middle of a packed neighborhood with flaming debris hitting homes and businesses.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The deadliest commercial airliner crash in the United States in nearly 24 years after an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter collided. Nobody survived and so far 40 bodies have been pulled from the icy waters of the Potomac River in Washington D.C.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Democrats are unloading on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he fights to become the nation’s top public health official. Vaccines, chronic diseases, and conspiracies all came up. Sen. Elizabeth Warren joins to discuss her explosive moment at the hearing.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal funding freeze is causing chaos and confusion as a federal judge is slamming the breaks but only for now. We speak with a Senate Democrat who believes Trump’s latest move is illegal. Plus, inside the White House for the first briefing of Trump’s second term.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump’s new purge and the fallout tonight as the brand new president fires more than a dozen Justice Department officials who helped investigate him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Senators have started the final confirmation vote on President Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Pentagon. Hegseth was confirmed after Vice President JD Vance casted the tie-breaking vote in favor of his confirmation.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices