Sen. Ruben Gallego Talks Senate Office Upgrades, Fires Shots at Elon Musk

So you just told me that you could tie a tie while walking. Yeah. So let's see how fast, all right? Let's see how fast. Now you got me pressured. Uh-oh. I'm counting. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. It's got to be 10. All right. All right. It's getting through a knot. It's getting through. Okay. All right. A little. It's like watching a magic trick right now. Oh, okay. There we go. Through the loop. Normally, I would actually check to make sure it's like, it's a little too long. But yeah, normally. No, no. Here, let me zoom out. No, no. It's too long. You have to go belt buckle. Middle of the belt buckle. Listen, that was definitely under 30. It's a double Windsor, which is under 30. Yeah, you got to do under 30. Yeah. No, that was clean. That was very clean. You know, I've been in DC now a few months. There's definitely a hierarchy I've learned, but not in the way that people think. There's an office hierarchy. And I've learned that when you're a more senior member in the Senate, you get a better office. Yeah, that's right. So now you're a more senior member, so are you gunning for a better office right now? Absolutely. And tell me how that works. Well, there's a lottery, so everyone in front of me is going to pick theirs first. Once they're done, then I would get mine, and so it doesn't actually happen right away. So like everyone in front of me, so I'm number 69 in seniority, I think. So everyone else that's six days below gets to pick their offices first, and when they're done, then I get to select. That was impressive as hell by the way. Yeah yeah that was good. So is there an office that you're gunning for right now? Uh no I mean I have to wait to see what's left but mostly what I always try to look at is what's closest for my committee assignments because sometimes I have to run to my from meeting my office to my committee and then back and forth and so that's like the the big the big thing. Who moves all your stuff like are you just leaving it to the interns just to be like all right? No, not the interns, you actually make staff do it. And then I do some of it too, because I have to like, there's some stuff I don't want them to like break. I don't want them to be mad at me. So the staff's like lifting the couch, like, all right, we got five floors to go. No, no, no, no. I think like there's like, uh, like actual like janitorial staff that does that instead. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Because we don't want to get them hurt or something. Yeah. I was going to say, it sounds like a liability. Yeah. And you've met some of these like Washington DC, like staffers, not exactly like Bill. Still, still. I'm not, I'm not one to laugh. I'm not Bill myself, but just, yeah, just to be clear. about Elon Musk you've been a huge critic of his yeah and your colleague the other day Alex Padilla he's like investigate Elon Musk didn't give a reason why but i'm just curious as now that you have the majority is that something you want to prioritize investigating him well look what happened with Starshield being shut down in Ukraine should scare us all a private company interfering uh in international relations and national security and foreign security Security, everything else like that, that potentially affects our You know, our relationships, our alliances, our goals and shared interests as a nation, you know, it should scare us, right? And so we should be subpoenaing Elon Musk to see what happened. Who made the decision to shut down Starshield? That cost the Ukrainians, by the way, hundreds of billions of dollars, right? And so I want to know what the decision-making process was for this. Was it Elon Musk making a decision? Did he talk to somebody about this? Did he ask permission from the US government? Was it somebody in Europe that he talked to, or did he just make a decision on his own? We have a right, because we are big vendors, obviously, of Starlink and Starshield, to know what was the process that they actually came up with this idea, and it's just a national security threat to us. So you just said you want to subpoena him. How soon? I mean I think as soon as we have the power to do it. So it's like January? January essentially yeah because look we don't know how extensive this is. What happens if he does this again right? What happens if he does this again to Ukraine in the middle of winter when they're going to get attacked by Russia? What happens if he gets pissed off by whatever we do? Can he shut down our contracts with Starshield, Starlink? Like I think the American public needs to know and my job as a senator is to make sure that he's not threatened.