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On Saturday's edition of The Weekend: Primetime, co-host Elise Jordan casually dropped a jaw-dropping detail about one of the network's own: "Our senior producer Johanna questions it [the Moon landing.]" Yes, that Moon landing—the 1969 Apollo triumph watched live around the world, supported by reams of evidence and independent verification. Yet MS NOW's senior producer harbors doubts. In the same segment, co-host Ayman Mohyeldin unleashed extreme economic catastrophizing, claiming, "People can't eat. People can't afford anything in this country. People can't afford their food."   Mohyeldin slammed Elon Musk, claiming he is "celebrating having broken this kind of grotesque record of becoming man's first trillionaire." Mohyeldin painted SpaceX as "this company that is super inflated, nobody knows anything about, people don't understand what even SpaceX actually does." Actually, SpaceX completed the largest initial public offering in history on June 11, jumping through countless regulatory hoops and providing full financial disclosures and a clear explanation of what it "actually does" before debuting on Nasdaq as SPCX. And you know who else is "celebrating?" The 4,400 SpaceX employees—including cafeteria workers, welders, and support staff—who became millionaires thanks to their stock holdings. The panel revealed itself to be badly out of touch with the American mainstream. Mohyeldin, criticizing President Trump for putting on a UFC fight as part of the 250th anniversary celebrations, said: "There's this culture of disparity that is just getting wider and wider between the people who can enjoy the UFC fights . . .  and the people who are struggling to make ends meet." Message for Mohyeldin: the people who "enjoy the UFC fights" don't tend to be the sort you'd meet in the halls of MS NOW or in faculty lounges. They're the very people who work hard to make ends meet. And Elise Jordan claimed that "UFC wrestling" is "fake." Jordan got her sports mixed up. UFC isn't "wrestling." It is a real sport with unscripted, live combat based on martial arts. Jordan was presumably thinking of WWE wrestling, where the "E" stands for "Entertainment." Where is Haystacks Calhoun, now that we need him to explain things to Elise? All You Need To Know About MS NOW: 'Our Senior Producer Questions The Moon Landing' pic.twitter.com/Q6heXIkyiq — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) June 14, 2026 The Moon landing skeptic is longtime MS NOW senior producer Johanna Hoecker. Tell us more, MS NOW. Was the Apollo 11 mission filmed on a Hollywood back lot? Is Musk prepping a fake Mars landing while millions of Americans literally starve in the streets because they "can't eat" and "can't afford anything"? For years, MS NOW and its media allies have delighted in painting conservatives as conspiracy cranks for questioning official narratives on elections, public health, and more. Yet here the network is, lightheartedly indulging doubts about one of humanity's crowning achievements—-right alongside doomsday rhetoric that makes tinfoil-hat theories look tame. Here's the transcript. MS NOW The Weekend: Primetime 6/13/26 6:04 pm EDT AYMAN MOHYELDIN: It's the brand, right? Like, this is the brand that Donald Trump wants to associate himself with, this UFC. This, it's like kind of from The Gladiator scene, "Are you not entertained?", right?  The people can't eat, people can't afford anything in this country, and Donald Trump is out here, celebrating the UFC with this kind of cage fight. Pete Hegseth is trying out to be macho. And to your point, the split screen that I think Americans this week are probably watching is, you get the world's first trillionaire, and we're gonna talk about later on in the show.  He's out here celebrating having, you know, broken this kind of like, I don't know what it is, this kind of grotesque record of becoming man's first trillionaire. This company that is super inflated, nobody knows anything about, people can't afford their food, people don't understand what even SpaceX actually does. And, you know, it's not to just dunk on the company, but it's to say we are at a time when there's grotesque inequality, and there's this culture of disparity that is just getting wider and wider between the people who can enjoy the UFC fights, the people who can buy crazy expensive tickets to go to the World Cup, and the people who are struggling to make ends meet, and, and America is just going in this kind of like very dichotomous, direction. . . .  I just wanna play this soundbite of Marco Rubio talking about the UFC, comparing it to the moon landing, if our viewers missed it, watch this. MARCO RUBIO: When President Kennedy announced that we were gonna put a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth, no one thought that was possible, and we did it. We are a nation founded on doing what no one else dared to do and no one else aspired to do. And at some level, that's what this whole company, what UFC has been. The idea that Marco Rubio is comparing the Moon landing to starting a fighting company is beyond absurd and an insult to Americans and to the many Americans who worked and sacrificed themselves in those various Apollo missions and have been part of NASA. Because it's like, now, first of all, not only is it insulting to everyone who worked on the Moon landing and got man to space for mankind, but also to reduce that entire enterprise, that entire endeavor into a man who started a fighting company, is just -- ELISE JORDAN: Maybe Rubio's just admitting he doesn't think that the Moon landing is real, like our senior producer Johanna, who questions it. He is admitting the Moon landing is just as fake as UFC wrestling.