there are ties between ari emanuel and elon musk. steve: -- kurt: this is not someone jumping into the mix without any connection. emmanuel reached onto a twitter board member, so there is obviously a relationship there as well. this is how these things tend to work. as we saw yesterday with the dump of elong's text messages, you see how many people reached out, many of them it appears to be unsolicited, with offers to invest, offers for advice, here is you should hire as ceo. when you get in the midst of a deal like this it stands there is a lot of people that come out of the woodwork wanting to be helpful, given how powerful he is. katie: kurt wagner, thank you so much. just what a story. coming up, brazil's presidential election has been shrouded by an unprecedented level of tension and violence. we are going to dive into the issues with robert but from "the economist." this is bloomberg. ♪ katie: this is bloomberg markets. i'm katie greifeld with jon erlichman. brazilians will head to the polls this weekend. the new president fac

people might remember pictures of ari emanuel and mr. the back of a boat in the mediterranean. so, as a friend to both, and keeps trying to bring them both together to avoid the inside of a courtroom, brian but at this point, what many market participants have been waiting for, the serious settlement talks that many still believe could possibly take place, my understanding, and again here it becomes a bit more hard to fully grasp because you never know when lawyers are talking to each other but serious settlement talks are not under way between mr. musk and twitter. interesting attempt by mr. emanuel, simply as a good friend to both of these gentlemen, one on the board of twitter and one who is supposed to buy twitter but doesn't want to, mr. musk saying, hey, you should try to figure something out. mr. durban reporting to the board. much of this reported by bloomberg. the markets are taking it as a sign of serious efforts towards a settlement that would involve mr. board members, lawyers, mr. musk's law team as well. that does not appea

. ♪ ed: hollywood super agent ari emanuel is trying to pave the way for a potential settlement betweenlon musk and twitter, that's according to sources. the news comes after twitter executives, close friends and potential investors came to light. just when you think that this saga cannot get any weirder. >> i'm not sure how seriously we should take this. one of the things we learned is that there are a lot of people out there trying out, trying to use their friendship with elon musk and sort of wiggle their way into this deal. our emanuel is a well-known durham -- dealmaker. i don't to get surprising he would try to put himself in the middle of this. i don't think that's a reason to think he would put himself in the middle of this. ed: these are texts that emerge for the trial with musk and they go all the way back to april, which predates musk's offer. it starts with the current twitter ceo and basically what they seem to demonstrate is how that relationship deteriorated quite quickly and elon musk basically said, i'm going to put a deal and to put a deal into take twitter private. ma

ari emanuel, the ceo of endeavor, the super agent, also close friend with both elon musk and egon durbind member of twitter and founder of silver lake and one of the major investors in endeavor, mr. emanuel being close to both of them tried to encourage them initially at his wedding some months ago, you know, to come sort of a settlement, to talk, to avoid court and try to figure out if there was a way that avoid endless litigation i am told as well that mr. emanuel followed up with mr. durbin, but, still, a number of months ago perhaps or a couple of months ago saying you really should give this a shot it doesn't appear that he was pushed to do this by mr. musk but was simply taking an opportunity he saw as a close friend to both men, to again, avoid protracted litigation, the inside of a courtroom and what are always perhaps the idea of unexpected outcome that does not mean that there are serious settlement talks under way. in fact, my source was close to the situation. that's not the case at this point. again, it doesn't mean, is a a.r.-that t - sara, that there won't be at some point

. ♪ david: so ariel emanuel is a , well-known person in the entertainment world. but there is another figure named ariold, which is a fictional character that many people thought was named after you. did you like that, did you not like that? and what is it like when you are more famous than your clients? ariel: here is what i would say. at the time of the show -- and mark wahlberg is a client of mine and i helped put the show together -- i did not like it at the beginning. there were some things that were not true, and some things that were true. i am not that same person anymore. later on, especially after covid a lot of people kept on seeing it, it has for sure opened a lot of doors. and at the time, at the end, my brother was in the white house. the show was on the air. i mean, i got a lot of -- people would pick up my phone calls. david: is there anybody today that won't return your phone calls? i assume there was no one on the -- in the world. ariel: i get a lot of people on the phone when i need to. david: you're pretty much at the above the totem pole. -- at the top of the totem pole. you know