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this is cnn breaking news. hello. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i am john vause live in lviv, ukraine, on day 51 of vladimir putin's war of choice. the bottom of the black sea, sent by either a ukrainian missile attack or incompetence by russian sailors. either way, a huge blow to the
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russian military. and i am michael holmes here at cnn's world headquarters in atlanta, are we're following an attempted twitter takeover by the world's richest man, elon musk. we begin with what looks to be a major victory for ukraine's military and huge blow to the russian navy with the sinking of the flagship of russia's black sea naval fleet. russia news agency tass reports the guided missile cruiser sank before being towed to port after a major fire on board. ukrainian fighters say the ship was hit by two neptune missiles. >> it is certainly plausible and possible that they, in fact, did hit this with a neptune missile or maybe more. i mean, the neptune has a range that would have certainly been able to reach the moskva, which
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was about 60-65 miles off the coast of odesa. so certainly, within the realm of possibility there. >> meantime, russia is adding command and control and aviation capabilities to forces in the east as it prepares for a major offensive to take part in the donbas region. a senior-u.s. defense official says the first russian troops, which retreated from northern ukraine, are now appearing in the east. but ukraine claims it has stopped at least one advance in the kharkiv region. special operations forces say they destroyed a bridge, just as a russian convoy of tanks, trucks, and armored vehicles were crossing. local military reports russian shelling of residential areas, as russian troops try to move towards the donbas. a major setback for russian' morale and also its naval capability. we get more now from cnn's fred pleitgen. >> reporter: it seems like a massive blow to russia's war against ukraine. ukraine's forces saying they've struck the flagship of putin's black sea fleet, the
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guided-missile cruiser moskva. i spoke exclusively with ukraine's national security adviser. can you tell us what happened to the cruiser moskva? it sank, he says jokingly. russia admits the ship has, indeed, sunk but has not yet acknowledged it was struck by kyiv. instead, it says it was badly damaged by a fire, and then sunk while being towed in stormy seas. the moskva was involved in a now-famous incident in a place called snake island, when its crew told ukrainian soldiers to surrender. this was the answer. >> [ bleep ]. >> the event has become so legendary in ukraine, they have commemorated it with a special stamp. people at this post office in kyiv, standing in line to get it. an important event happened yesterday. our armed forces destroyed the aggressors' flagman ship. i think this event has to have a place in everyone's memory, this man says. the ukrainians say they managed
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to hit the ship, which has formidable defense systems, with ukrainian neptune anti-ship missiles. the moskva was still there near snake island, and was hit yesterday by two powerful ukrainian-made missiles, he says. and then, a warning to putin, this is just the beginning, he says, there will be more than one moskva. but the leadership in kyiv understands the next major battles will be different, and possibly even more bloody as russian tanks and artillery pour into the donbas region. this hoard has invaded our country, and they think we will watch them destroy us, he says. but of course, we will respond by all means we have thanks to our international partners, we have interesting tools. the u.s. and its allies have already provided ukraine with billions of dollars' worth of weapons, and are now moving to give kyiv heavier arms to counter vladimir putin's tank
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battalions. the national security adviser says ukraine needs all the firepower it can get. i would never say that the russian army is weak, he says, given the amount of weapons thrown there, the number of tanks, armored personnel carriers, planes, and helicopters, i would not say this is a weak army. i would say these are strong ukrainian soldiers who fight back such a powerful army. and these territorial defense soldiers in kyiv are vowing to keep up the fight. they're elite troops, gearing up to head east. we are absolutely prepared for this. we have both fighting spirit and fighting mood. we are patriots of our country, and of course we will fight back the enemy, the soldier who goes by the name vlad the rifle, tells me. and they vow, just like in kyiv, they will confront the russian army, once again. fred pleitgen, cnn, kyiv. >> mick ryan is retired major
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general in australian army, former commander of the australian defense college and author of "war transformed, the future of 21st century great power competition and conflict." general ryan, thanks again. it's good to see you -- good to see you again. um back in 2015, cnn's matthew chance actually reported being used back then as part of russia's offensive in siryria. i want you to listen to part of his report. here it is. >> standing on the missile cruiser, moskva, ask it is a key vessel because it provides air defenses for the very frequent air strikes that are being carried out right now by the russian air force against various targets inside syria. >> this guided missile cruiser is about as high tech as it gets for the russian navy. $750 million apparently. one of three. so what have the russians now lost in terms of capability with the moskva at the bottom of the black sea?
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>> for the black sea fleet, they have lost a set of sensors which provide air defense in that region. but most importantly, at the strategic level, they have lost a major propaganda war with the ukrainians who will turn this into a strategic issue. >> and the fact that they've now sort of moved the rest of their fleet away from the coastline is indicative they are concerned about further strikes? >> i think that's absolutely true. it's difficult to believe that the ukrainians would fire some missiles and -- ask at the same time, there would be some accident on the ship. um, i think the proof adds up that this is probably a ukrainian strike on the ship. the russians have lost it and it is a major propaganda tool for the ukrainians. >> putin's military has left behind widespread destructions
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of towns and cities. soldiers by all accounts are guilty of both torture and mass murder of civilians. they appear guilty of raping women and children. russian forces have been exposed as both poorly trained, vulnerable, essentially a paper tiger. from the kremlin's point of view, is there anything else to show from the past 51 days of war? >> um, an expanded nato potentially? um, russia has had nothing to show for this unnecessary and unwarranted invasion of the ukraine. they've left rubble in their wake. they have left dead civilians and broken families. um, putin is reaching for some kind of success in the east. but given what we've seen from the ukrainians so far and the support from the west -- even that will be very difficult from the russian military. >> i guess, the question now becomes what does putin do next to try and change the direction of the war? i want you to listen to the cia
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director, william burns, acbout his concerns. >> given the potential desperation of president putin and the russian leadership, given the setbacks that they've faced so far militarily, um, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to -- to tactical-nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons. >> so, the working assumption is that putin is more likely to escalate than walk away, at least in the short-term. but what are the chances he will resort to the use of tactical-nuclear weapons or chemical or biological weapons? he gets that desperate, that he puts those sort of wmds into play. >> it's something the russians have not taken off the table at all. they have threatened the use of nuclear weapons. they have indicated they might undertake false-flag operations with chemical weapons. and to be quite frank, the performance of the u.s. intelligence services before and during this invasion had been quite impressive. so if the director of cia is
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talking about this publicly, it is certainly an option that shouldn't approximate discounted from the russian leader who is getting desperate for some kind of victory. >> so with that in mind, how important is the diplomacy here to give him some kind of credible off ramp so he doesn't get to that point? >> well, that's the real trick for the ukrainian' strategy and -- and for the rest of nato. it -- ukraine needs and will most likely win this war, but they need to do so in a way that doesn't result in the russians using weapons of mass destruction. that will take an incredibly nuanced calibration with zelenskyy and western governments to make sure it doesn't happen. >> general ryan, as always, thank you so much, sir. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. well in parts of the donbas region, the constant sound of
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artillery fire is a terrifying reminder for many that are now living on the front lines of this war and as those attacks escalate, so do the destruction and for those who refuse to or are unable to leave, they are left with little choice but to watch as communities are being destroyed. cnn's chief international correspondent, clarissa ward, has this report now from near donetsk. >> reporter: this town is no stranger to war. for eight years, this has been the frontline of ukraine's battle with russian-backed separatists. people here are used to shelling. they have never experienced anything like this. a missile can be heard overhead as an emotional man approaches us. they smashed the old part of town, he says. as we talk, the artillery
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intensifies. i told him it's better to go home now because there is a lot of shelling, and he said there's more shelling where he lives. as russia prepares a major offensive in the east, frontline towns are getting pummeled. so, you can hear constant bombardment. this is the bomb shelter down here. but you can see this building has already been hit. more than 40 people are now living in what used to be a clothing store. leda and her two sons have been here for three weeks. she wants to leave, but says her boys are too scared to go outside. we're afraid to stay and afraid to go, she tells us. but it's fate. whether you run or don't run.
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on an apartment block, an icon of the virgin mary has been painted. a plea for protection but there is no respite in the bombardment. if we look over here, you can see the remnants of some fresh strikes. 37-year-old government worker looks at what remains of his family home. he takes us inside to see the full scale of the destruction. it's completely destroyed. >> nothing. >> reporter: mercifully, no one was at home at the time of the strike.
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>> photo albums. my children. >> reporter: his family has already left, but he says he plans to stay. i'm afraid, like anybody else. only the dead aren't afraid, he tells us. but a lot of people are still here, living in bomb shelters, and we need to support them. authorities say roughly 2,000 people remain in this town. there is no water, no heat, electricity is spotty. the local school has become a hub to gather aid and distribute it to the community. volunteer igor spends his days visiting the elderly and disabled. today, he is checking in on 86-year-old lydia. petrified and alone, he has yet to find an organization with willing to come and evacuate her. when there is no electricity and
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it's so dark and there is shelling, she says, you can't imagine how scary it is. she tells us she recites prayers to get through the night. i never imagined that my end would be like this, she says. you can't even die here because there's no one to provide a burial ceremony. for igor, it is agony not to be able to do more. a promise, though, he says, i will help you to be evacuated. as we leave, lydia is reluctant to say good-bye. it is terrifying to live through this time. to do it alone is torture. it's so nice to see real people, she says. probably, it's going to get worse. a prediction, all but certain to come true as a second russian' offensive draws near.
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>> clarissa also reports in that the town's mayor has been begging residents to evacuate but many say they just don't have the resources. they just don't have any way to get out. we will take a short break. when we come back on "cnn newsroom," a story of courage under the pressure of roof war. we will hear from a ukrainian woman trying to help others while escaping russian' aggression.
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welcome back. vladimir putin says he has a plan b, if europe weans itself from russian energy imports. the eu has already pledged to phase out russian coal and cut gas purchases by two-thirds before the end of the year. but the russian president says krurp still has no real alternative in the short-term, and according to him, russia does.
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>> translator: we need to diversify the exports. we will assume that energy supplies to the west will decrease in the foreseeable future, therefore, it is important to solidify the trend of recent years. to redirect, step by step, our exports towards fast-growing markets in the south and east. >> eu still receives about 40% of its gas, and more than a quarter of its oil through pipelines leading from russia. and when it comes russia's goals for asia, mr. putin says more infrastructure needs to be built to boost exports to the region. now, even as harrowing accounts of destruction emerge from ukraine, so, too, do tales of courage and survival. cnn's ed lavandera speaks to one resident of mariupol, who tried her best to deliver aid and offer support to citizens in hiding while she was running for her life.
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>> reporter: when the first bomb struck mariupol, katya thought her most effective weapon would be a gentle smile, and the ability to calm terrified families. she lived in an underground shelter, coordinating relief supplies for the trapped civilians of this besieged city. so watching your city get bombed and destroyed. people are being killed. you decide not to leave, but to help? >> it's horrible. the animals didn't allow even children to go out from the city. >> reporter: day by day, the video katya captured showed life in mariupol unraveling. she lost touch with the outside world. none of her family and friends outside the city knew if she was alive or dead. life here was falling into an abyss. >> it was like middle age. >> like the middle ages? >> yes.
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>> reporter: it's almost like you could feel yourself running out of time. there was only so much longer you could stay in mariupol. >> i thought i will never go from mariupol, until the end. >> reporter: on march 16th, katya evacuated. she recorded two short videos on her way out, just before seeing a family walking on the side of the road -- a mother, grandmother, and two young girls. >> so we had two free places in our car, and we saw this family. and we decided to help them. >> reporter: at one of the russian military checkpoints, they stopped in front of a soldier. >> and he's -- show us, go out, and turn on our car and after that begun to shoot. >> one of the bullets pierced the car over her head but in the backseat, was an 11-year-old shot in the face. the russians realizing their mistake, sent the girl to a hospital. katya, now separated, traveled on without knowing if the kyoun
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girl survived until -- cnn found her in the basement of a chirp's hospital in eastern ukraine after surviving lifesaving surgery. for katya, relief is overwhelmed by the horrors of what she witnessed. >> i saw a lot of dead people. a lot of graves on the street, for example, in my yard. and i -- um -- started to believe that they crazy. because they, um, were like maniacs. >> they were maniacs to you? >> yes. they're -- they're really crazy, like nazis in the second world war. >> reporter: after escaping, katya remembered the videos she recorded before the russians ravaged mariupol. ukrainians protesting outside
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the now-famous theater that, in a matter of weeks, would be the site of one of the most grotesque bombings in this war. the theater, still in tact. the city's buildings, unscathed. she sees the peaceful faces of families and children. the video is hard to watch. are these people alive or left in makeshift graves around the city? katya doesn't know and, for her, there is only one way to deal with this haunting reality. >> i decided that i will cry only when the ukrainians get victory. >> reporter: ed lavandera, cnn, odesa, ukraine. renewed russian offensive in ukraine could be just days away. coming up, we will take you to a town at the very edge of the government's control in eastern ukraine. you are watching "cnn newsroom." we'll be right back.
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welcome back, everybody. i am john vause live in lviv, ukraine. just coming up to 30 minutes past the hour. u.s. defense officials say russian troops who retreated from northern ukraine two weeks ago are now showing up in the donbas region but the russians are running up against fierce resistance. ukrainian special forces claim they blew up this bridge as an armored russian column was crossing near kharkiv. moscow widely expected to launch a three-pronged attack to try and capture a section of eastern ukraine. cnn's ben wedeman went to one town that would likely be in the direct path that have of that offensive. >> reporter: denise loads food in his car for a delivery run. the supplies sorted by
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volunteers in this old warehouse were donated from around ukraine and abroad. denise was a musician before the war. it's the city furthest east under ukrainian government control and under constant bombardment from russian forces nearby. the supplies denise and other volunteers deliver are what keep this city alive. two missiles landed outside nadia's decrepit soviet-era apartment building. the strain of living under the shelling, more than she can take. it's hard, she says, i can't stay in this room, i am so afraid. i want it to be quiet and calm again. with russian forces massing in the east, there will be no
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quiet. there will be no calm. sitting on a hospital bed, she recounts the night her house was hit. i was in the kitchen and it started, she says. her home is now in ruins. more than 20 corpses lie scattered in the hospital's morgue, wrapped in sheets and blankets, awaiting burial. on the outskirts of the city, more evidence of the toll war has taken. this is a hastily-dug graveyard that was started since the war began. just look at the dates. 7th of april. 9th of april. 3rd of april. 4th of april. it goes on and on and on. and more graves will, soon, approbe filled. ben wedeman, cnn, adonetsk,
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eastern ukraine. european official who will most likely prosecute war crimes here describes the entire country as a crime scene. the chief prosecutor at the international criminal court at the hague, he visited two towns near kyiv, where mass graves and other atrocities were discovered after russian troops pulled out. he spoke with cnn's jake tapper about what he and his team have accomplished on this trip. a warning. some of the images you are about to see are graphic. >> i think we have all been seeing the pictures and reading the reports, um, regarding the devastation, the human cost, most importantly to -- to civilians, men, women, and children. and so, it was an opportunity to see, firsthand, to verify to try to start a process of collection. >> reporter: putin is out there saying it is all fake, it's all a hoax. you are seeing it with your own eyes? >> what we have to do i think the job is to separate truth and
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falsehood. truth always is essentially the first casualty of war. there is competing narratives. there is allegations and counterallegations, and i think this is why there is a role, an important role, for an independent prosecutor's office. we don't have a political agenda. we are not in favor of ukraine and against russia, or in favor of russia against ukraine. we are in favor of humanity. >> well, the crime of genocide is one of the most serious charges that might be leveled at the kremlin and it is very tough to prove in court. but ukrainian lawmakers say there is no doubt that's exactly what is happening. parliament on thursday adopted a resolution declaring russia's actions in ukraine genocide. according to the ledge slach ever's twitter account, moscow's military offensive, from the very beginning, has been aimed at wiping out ukrainian culture as well as national identity. a lot more from lviv at the top of the hour but for now, back to michael holmes at cnn headquarters in atlanta. >> thanks so much. we will check with you a bit later. now, the u.s. food ask drug
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wellcal back. new york subway shooting suspect frank skrams will stay behind bars, at least for the time being. he was denied bail during his initial court appearance in new york on thursday. james did not enter a plea to a
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charge related to terrorism and an attack on mass transit. outside the courtroom, his lawyer cautioned against a rush to judgment. >> mr. james saw his photograph on the news. he called crime-stoppers to help. he told them refs. where he was. initial press and police reports in cases like this one are often inaccurate. mr. skjames is entitled to a fa trial, and we will ensure that he receives one. >> prosecutors say james set off two smoke grenades, and opened fire with a gun during morning-rush hour on tuesday. 29 people were injured, including ten with gunshot wounds. four victims, still in the hospital. investigators did not say, yet, what his motive might have opinion. been. meanwhile, the family of a man shot and killed by police is calling for the termination and
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prosecution of the officer who shot him. it comes a day after police in michigan released several videos of the incident. cnn's omar jimenez with the details. >> reporter: the parents of 26-year-old patrick lyoya speaking publicly through their pastor for the first time since police released video of their son being killed. you still think about him? >> i think about him every time. and i think i don't believe that my son die. >> reporter: the family came to the united states to flee war in the democratic republic of congo. but it was in the united states, that a bullet killed her son. the father still remembers asking police how his son was killed. >> very astonishing, amazing. they told me that he was killed by an officer. i didn't believe it.
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i say the police supposed to be watching him is the one who kill him? >> reporter: back on april 4th, shortly after being pulled over for what police say was improper car registration, lyoya starts running. the officer chases, and they go to the ground. beginning what would become minutes of wrestling and struggling. the officer used his taser twice, but failed to make contact as lyoya puts his hands on the taser. when the two go to the ground for what would be the final time, struggling for a few brief moments before the officer's final words. >> taser! >> i was just involved in a shooting. >> sending medical. >> reporter: the officer got up. lyoya didn't.
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the shooting sparked a mass protest in downtown grand rapids centered on justice for a new face in what many see as a familiar story. the officer who fired the shot still hasn't been named, but has been stripped of his police powers. the lyoya's family's power is now focused on one thing. >> translator: if really patrick is dead, i just ask for justice. >> reporter: omar jimenez, cnn, grand rapids, michigan. the last member of the isis cell known as the beatles has been convicted. the man, was convicted of kidnapping a number of westerners and killing four americans. during the trial in virginia, former hostages who survived the ordeals testified about the brutal beatings and torture they endured from the three british fighters, who pam known as the beatles. one of the others was killed in a drone strike.
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the third pleaded guilty in september. well, what do you do if you are the world's richest man and the twitter verse is annoying you? well, if you are elon musk, you gather up a few billion dollars and try to buy the whole thing. we will have the details after the break. as the world watches the tragedy in ukraine, oil and gas ceos see an opportunity to get richer. hiking gas prices here at home and profiting off of putin's war.
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a controversy brewing in britain. some of those seeking asylum in the uk might be sent to rwanda until their cases are decided. that's part of a new plan the country's announced on thursday. it would see tens of thousands of asylum seekers transferred
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from the uk to ra an da in the coming years. prime minister boris johnson touted the plan as an innovative approach to britain's immigration challenges while the uk home secretary says asylum seekers will still be taken care of in rwanda. >> we have agreed that people who went to the uk illegally will be considered for relocation to have their asylum claims decided. and those who are resettled will be given the support, including up to five years of training with the help of integration, accommodation, healthcare so that they can resettle and thrive. >> but human rights groups slammed the credit, saying rwanda has an appalling human rights' record, so much so, that britain has opinion granting asylum to rwandan refugees in recent years. elon musk is twitter's biggest investor, and fair to say, its biggest critic as well and now he wants to buy all of it.
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the approximbillionaire says tw isn't living up to free-speech principles so he wants to take it private. he has offered a offered little more than $54 a share which values the company at more than $54 billion. >> my strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization. >> but you've described yourself -- >> i don't care about the economics at all. >> now josh constien invests in start-ups with a focus on social media. he is head of content and principle investor at signal fire. good to see you. how tariff will his offer be to shareholders? how likely is he to be successful? >> this is a 38% bump above
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twitter's current share price. so the board will have to do a good job defending a reason why they should turn down this deal. it would be lucrative for shareholders, to say the least. >> so given what we know of leon lon elon musk, what changes would you expect him to make? >> elon is a big free speech. allowing the kind of bullying and hate speech he has said is okay with him, actually silences other users on a website like twitter. it could be problematic. while he says it's free speech, it could make speech harder for vulnerable individuals. he also says he wans to open source the algorithm, which chooses which tweets you see. but there is a big problem there in that spammers or people who are trying to game the system would basically have the rule book for how to exploit twitter. and he has also said he wants to
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add an edit button. luckily he said there needs to be protections to make sure you couldn't be seen trying to say something and make other people look like they're retweeting something and change what they say. i think some of his suggestions are pretty outlandish, and the most worrisome ones really focus on free speech and whether it could make twitter even more hateful place after years of criticism that it is already full of hate speech. >> let's talk a little more about that. and first, let's play sound from an interview elon musk did on thursday. let's have a listen to that first. >> a good sign as to whether there is free speech, is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? and if that is the case, then we have free speech. it's damn annoying when someone you don't like says something you don't like that. is a sign of a healthy functioning free speech situation. >> yeah, but as we all know, there is that fine line. and you alluded to this, between
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all-out free speech and enabling the spread of misinformation and propaganda. and elon musk has been criticized for trying to silence his own critics, including among his own workforce. and having those, quote, free speech decisions essentially in the hands of one man can be potentially problematic, can't it? because he is deciding. >> i mean, he is the richest man in the world, and just incredibly privileged in every way. something he says he doesn't like could truly be dangerous or threatening to somebody with a lot less privilege to him. so i think that's why there is a big rub here is that for some people, yeah, if you're just getting criticized, but you have all the money in the world, you don't really care. but if you're someone in a vulnerable mental state and you have people on twitter being free to say whatever they want, including making death threats or saying horrible things about them and not even being worried about getting banned because elon said he thinks people should have time-outs instead of bans could make it a really offensive and sort of mentally
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damaging place for a lot of people in the world to spend time. so i think that's going to be the big reason twitter's board tries to resist this. they will say this would be bad for safety. >> and also, does taking a company private like twitter reduce oversight from regulators like the s.e.c.? >> absolutely. so they wouldn't -- twitter would not have to make the same kind of quarterly statements about its progress. it would be less the whims of public investor sentiment, and instead would be able to kind of do what it wants as long as private investors still have faith in it and enough money to operate. with elon musk behind it. that would have infinite resource. the problem is whether this would be good for people, and whether the twitter board who might summarily be kicked out, the new ceo ceo agarwal only can
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november. they could have a staffing issue on their hands. that's one of the biggest ways tech employs have been able to influence policy. it's not because the users protest. it's because the employees do. if they walk out, everything grinds to a halt. >> great point. josh constien so much, from signal fire. appreciate it. queen elizabeth had some visitors this week. prince harry and his wife meghan stopped by to see the british monarch on their way to the invictus games which began on saturday. harry recently said he hoped to visit his 95-year-old grandmother soon. it looks like he did. the queen has dealt with a number of health issues of course in recent months, including feeling quite tired and exhausted since getting covid in february. i'm michael holmes at the cnn center. thanks for spending part you ever day with me. we'll go back to john vause live in ukraine in just a moment.
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