CNN Anchors Call Out Glaring Absence From Musk’s Fox News Posse — The Purported Head Of DOGE

Multiple CNN anchors called out DOGE czar Elon Musk for conspicuously omitting a key person from his Fox News interview entourage — alleged DOGE head Amy Gleason.

There was considerable confusion over who is actually in charge of DOGE — until it emerged last month that career official Amy Gleason had been given the “acting” title of DOGE administrator after weeks of administration officials dodging questions about the matter.

Musk was a guest on Thursday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier, flanked by members of the DOGE team — none of whom was Gleason. The alleged head of the department was not even mentioned in the interview.

CNN’s Alayna Treene, Erin Burnett, Kaitlan Collins, John Berman, Laura Coates, and Audie Cornish were among the CNN personalities to call out Gleason’s absence.

Treene broached the subject on Thurssday night’s edition of CNN’s OutFront:

BURNETT: Alayna, what we saw in that interview, Musk and seven men are experienced men with long resumes is part of a plan to convey a very specific message about Musk and DOGE, and a different one than Musk has so far been sending.

TREENE: Absolutely. I mean, the imagery that you pointed out, Erin, is, you know, pretty remarkable to see, the fact that they’re all men, all older men. I think your point about, you know, none of the 19-year-olds being in the room, it shows that they are trying to be more taken — taken more seriously, I think, for this interview.]

But I also believe and what I’ve been hearing is, you know, we know that Musk has said that he wants DOGE to be more transparent, but really, we haven’t seen a lot of that transparency, a lot of the criticism that we’ve heard about DOGE so far and what they’ve been doing is that a lot of these cuts, a lot of their actions, a lot of them going in those 19 year olds going into these different agencies is one of the criticisms is that it’s been done in the dark, and that they haven’t been that public with it. And I think that’s part of why they chose to do this interview.

Another thing I noticed as well, just the mention of all men in that room. You know, Amy Gleason was named the acting director of DOGE. What was named from, you know, USDS. She was nowhere to be seen in that room either. And so that’s very notable as well.

But one of the moments that I picked up on that Bret Baier asked Elon Musk was, you know, to answer for some of the criticism, particularly the criticism about it being, you know, them shooting from the hip that instead of its ready, fire and then aim. And he said, you know, that’s not how we’re operating, that we aren’t shooting from the hip.

However, I would remind you that we’ve seen DOGE make a lot of mistakes so far for one of those examples. You know, when they fired and then had to try to rehire nuclear scientists. I mean, so we didn’t get a lot of, you know, some of that candidness in this interview, but real takeaway to me is that were actually seeing some of the people that Elon Musk is working with, some of the people who have been affected by these cuts, hearing them for the first time. But again, a very carefully picked group of people that they chose to show.

BURNETT: Yeah, very, very much so. All right, Alayna, thank you very much, reporting from the White House.

Watch above via CNN’s OutFront.