kara swisher interviewed titans of the industry.wo podcasts but got her start more than 25 years ago as a reporter in what became known as silicon valley. we start there. >> it was fun. it was interesting. they were -- everything was on the table and they could do anything and i think it was a much more innocent time. money tends to mess things up and they got wealthy quickly. they were open to debate which not everybody is now and very just anything goes and i don't mean that in san francisco style, not that there is anything wrong with that but the idea these were green fields and landscapes that could be built for nothing. >> to pick up on that, you became known as talking to billionaires before they were billionaires. >> yes. >> here you are. in 2007 in the only joint interview ever with bill gates and steve jobs. >> yeah. what's the greatest misunderstanding about your job and each other? cat fights? which of the many? >> we kept our marriage secret for over a decade now. >> it's been fun to work together. i actually miss some

tech journalist and host of "on kara swisher," kara swisher joining us.ed behind the scenes that led to this? >> i think a lot of problems with bob championship per, who i call bob two. i think he wasn't doing very well. i think disney is in a little bit of a state, spending all that money on streaming. they've got a lot of challenges. they wanted to bring back someone they knew could handle it. chapek has had a very rocky road there, not just the don't say gay stuff which was badly handled, but the streaming and the earnings. on a recent call he was a little too jaunty. he was acting like there was not a b pro. they had activists there, the shares of the stock have been going down and activists have entered the picture. they needed a titanium ceo. that's what bob iger is. >> good morning, kara. >> good morning. >> when i think of bob iger, i think solve someone who is not afraid to make hard decisions and isn't afraid of political blowback, if you will. he opens his book talking about that moment when that toddler was killed by the alligator in disney wo

for more we're joined by kara swisher host of "on with kara swisher" and scott galloway her co-host ativot and professor at nyu. big weekend. last night elon musk, kara, put donald trump, the former president, back on twitter. he had been suspended after january 6th. >> permanently. >> and he went and found his own social media company, truth social. according to filings, he has a six-hour exclusive. he can only post there, not on twi twitter. what is lifting his ban on twitter actually do? >> nothing. i mean, he's been posting -- people have been posting his truths, i think that's what it's called, on twitter already and it gets out anyway. he's got these contractual obligations to this company, that is not doing great. and i think he can't resist and will go full twitter at some point. and he's the former president so it doesn't hit quite as hard. i think the juice is a little bit out of his power on that platform. we'll see. >> he's also, scott, a presidential candidate as we learned a few days ago. he was kicked off facebook, instagram, youtube after january 6th. do you think this

joining me is the host of "on with kara swisher," and the pivot podcast.u to come on today because you're getting into it with elon musk right now on twitter. what's going on? >> he just got mad about something i tweeted which he always does, and i wrote him back and i used it as an opportunity to try to establish communications with him, and this is the way he wants to communicate, it's fine by me. so i was telling him, i was really disappointed and i sound like a mom, but i really am, actually semi age, close to my age, so i covered this guy for a long time and i have liked a lot of the things he has done and how he is behaving now, i think it is a sad violin of behavior, i don't know how else to put it. >> so you spoke about this when it was rumored that he was flirting with the idea of buying it and you were more of the alarmist, god, this is going to be terrible, and you had a perspective on that, and i guess i should be looking at it this way, and i heard him talk about twitter in person a little while ago and he talked about freedom of speech, not b

ridiculous and you can't go home again, i'm gone joining us now, new york magazine editor at large and kara swisher herself kara, color you shocked but not surprised which is what we heard by many people >> not surprised i also interviewed him in september at the code conference he was dressed lie a sailor like he just got off his boat from the french polynesia, but i think he was bored i could tell he was bored. he joked about being a house husband. he was doing investing, but you know, he's just an a-plus executive. and you know, chapek has made one mistake after the next, and it disney board had to bring somebody in. i think it's a really smart move and someone who could settle things and find a successor like dana or peter rice could be coming back. he's got to focus on succession, but he calms the waters among activist investors and other shareholders he calms the waters among staff and creative people. and deirdre, i'm sorry, you're completely wrong, content is critical to this company he'll figure out the finances. he may think about some acquisitions there are really interesting possibiliti

but let's bring back my dear dear friend and i'm going to say elon musk expert, kara swisher.f new york magazine and host of the podcast pivot and on with karen swisher. i'm gonna start by wishing her son solomon a happy first birthday. >> thank you. >> happy birthday soil. >> all right, karen. you have covered-y on elon musk for years and years. mask consensus out there is leaving this company for dead. but could he pull a rabbit out of a hat? >> i suppose. he certainly is capable of. it as i said many times, if i had to pick someone to redo this, i would pick him, although not in this particular state of mind. he certainly has had good will of people who could help him and he has financial means he has friends who are rich. so he has all the tools to do so, but what he is doing now seems a manic and doesn't make sense. he put things out and takes them back here. fires people and pulls them back. he has put the site in a very dangerous position. doesn't mean it's going to collapse. i know people are saying it is if it's the end of the world. but it's on autopilot. if they sta

ka kara swisher and scat galloway join us. it's all ahead on "face the nation." . >>> good morning.elcome to "face the nation." there is some breaking news overnight from colorado as we have learned that five people are dead and at least 18 others have been injured in a mass shooting at club q, an lgbtq nightclub in colorado springs. police say they do have the alleged shooter in custody and the fbi is assisting with the investigation. >>> we begin this morning with former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. he appointed robert mueller as special counsel for the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election and to determine if there were links between that country and former president trump's campaign. and he joins us in studio. it is good to have you here in an extraordinary week. >> good morning. glad to be here. >> i want to get right to it. due to the former president launching his campaign, the current president may also run for president, the attorney general said it is absolutely necessary to have a special counsel oversee this investigation into the classi

apple colleagues from store w's, washington bureau chief, she spoke with the american journalist, kara swisher, who has been covering all things internet. now for decades, here's her take on the musings of musk and where he might be taking twitter. today he tweeted a picture of guns like why he tweeted a misinformation about paul policies attack using an anti gay trope. now he's attacking apple for not advertising on twitter, apple, which is the who has to make a decision. if the, if the service becomes unsafe, to remove it from the app store. of course that's what he's doing. he's front loading that fight. so it looks like it's free speech flight, not a safety issue on twitter, which is the only way apple would remove an app is that there's a safety issue. and so it's a real, he's doing all kinds of things that are incredibly divisive and angry. and in your face, a lot of stunts. so do not take them seriously. he's trying to call attention to the platform. he's essentially committing a traffic accident every day in order to get people interested in him. and that's not. and that's no way to ru

she's the host of pivot and on with kara swisher. so nice to have you at the table. still here. kara, you helped me understand who elon musk is and he had extraordinary success at tesla and spacex. twitter seems like a hot mess. what happened? >> or a cold mess. it's -- you know, i thought -- of all the people that could have helped fix this, elon musk would have been at the top of my list. i'm surprised at the casual cruelties and the chaos behavior, the plan -- and the treatment of people at twitter. layoffs are going on all over tech, but not in this form. i've never seen anything like it in my covering silicon valley for 25 years. >> i want to ask you a question from my lenses. i watched a lot of people on the right flatter figures not just donald trump but other figures and then watch them implode, lose their moral compass, lose any attachment to anything that resembles conservative policy, and i saw them do that to elon musk, but based on your reportings of his other success, i thought, surely he won't destroy himself. it looks like he is. >> i'm not sure what h

kara swisher is a columnist for the new york times, and an expert on tech and social media — and joins—mail that issued the ultimatum, agreeing to work hard or leave. but as i understand, the new york times has been reporting about a commemoration of e—mails sent by elon musk, there have been several, haven't there was been several, haven't there was been several, haven't there was been several, haven't there7 tickets to that. several, haven't there? tickets to that. �* , , ., ., �* , several, haven't there? tickets to that. �*, , ., ., �*, , that. there's been a lot, he's been tweetin: that. there's been a lot, he's been tweeting at — that. there's been a lot, he's been tweeting at the _ that. there's been a lot, he's been tweeting at the employees - that. there's been a lot, he's been tweeting at the employees and - that. there's been a lot, he's been i tweeting at the employees and users, and advertisers, both of which are hostile. he's been saying crazy things, tweeting political things, attacking the media — attacking everybody pretty much, but mostly his employees. i don't know t

kara swisher, this feels like a big deal. could elon musk get this banned?e strict laws there. none in the united states. europe has been forcing other tech companies to do various things over the years. yeah, certainly if they abandon too much of their safety, different rules they have in place, they could do it. it has a lot of teeth compared to here. there's no teeth here in this country. >> does elon musk care? >> well, i mean, it's not where their biggest business is but the -- the u.s. is where they do their business. sure. it's not great to get banned somewhere because your platform is considered not safe. he's got to care some. he's in touch with them and the policy people that are left at twitter is in touch with them. >> what is he doing, kara swisher, from where you sit? >>ing i have no ideas. there's lots of theories. he could be trying to bring the price of the company down so that he could buy the debt. he could be meaning some of this. he could be -- there's all kinds of things. a lot of it i think is performative. everything is a disaster, ha

with me is kara swisher, "new york times" contributing writer and host of on with kara fisher podcast. kara, you know elon musk. you covered him for years. your co-host told us he wouldn't be surprised if twitter went down in the next week. are we going to see that -- what was it, the whale with the little bird. >> the fail whale. that was years ago. >> is that happening? >> no, not right now. the systems are resilient. i think people are panicking about that. what could happen, if he starts pushing changes that would be a problem. if someone makes a mistake that, could cause a problem. what you will see is a lot of problems on the edges. if you have two-factor authentication and sign off you can't sign back on. if you want your archives, you can't get it because they are moving slowly, if you get it at all. or accounts are right. they brought kathy griffin on but she seems to have lost all her followers. things like that that never happened before. wholesale collapse could happen because of fewer people. but there are systems and backup systems. he's making it riskier for that to hap

back with us now to talk more about it, kara swisher, liam donovan, and maria cardona., there are sort of those in favor of and argument against, does it surprise you that it hasn't gone anywhere? do you expect this will be actually resolved? do you have personal opinions? we're all probably sleep deprived in our own way. do you have an opinion on it. >> i do. i don't think we need it. but maybe we need to figure out which side we want, right? i think most people would want a longer day because they feel like they're more productive and more gets done. but i think we should just decide one way or the other. i grew up in puerto rico. there is no daylight savings time there. it's always the same time. i remember when i was in school, i had to -- when i was calling my parents, i had to figure out, wait a minute. is it the same time? is it an hour earlier? is it an hour later? i think in general the reason why we had daylight savings time originally, it's not really there. it comes from colonial times, and most of the country was farming, and so it was a reason to do that.

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listen to what he told kara swisher back in january about this. >> but one ever things that cnbc pollives about their 2022 predictions and one was that you'll return to disney. >> as what? >> i don't know. a mickey mouse character. there are rumors that you could be are the disney ceo again. >> that is ridiculous. i was ceo for a long time. i was gone. i gave my i.d. up and my name tag up and my office and my mail address. it is all gone. if i want to run a company, would you still be running disney. no, i did that. >> and now he's doing it again and facing a totally different set of challenges. he has too right the ship and figure out streaming and cut down on the losses but two he has to groom a successor. he's 71 and this is a two-year contract. finding a successor may not be that easy. i think we've seen that in the last few years. >> we'll see what moves le make. it is good to see you. >>. >>> so investigators in idaho are combing through hundreds of tips right now and it is also, after it is now been a week after four university of idaho students were killed at an off campus hom

. >> he got that from kara swisher, called them bob one and bob two. >> that's right. >> wasn't therelear pepsi. >> i was alive. kaitlan wasn't. >> so, it was new coke, everybody hated. but at any rate, thank you, jimmy kimmel, for expressing exactly how i felt about this. i'm like, what the heck is going on. front/back, i hear that a lot of disney executives were at the elton john concert. >> when they found out? >> when they found out. and he was supposed to introduce elton john, didn't happen. disney stock jumping 6% after the big announcement that bob iger will return to disney as ceo. retakes the reins from hand pickeded bob chapek. our business correspondent rahel solomon is here. hello. >> hi. >> one day, the stock is up, this is what i say, disney is making big changes. there are certain people met for certain jobs. >> yep. >> and he is one of those people, he was built for that job. >> old bob or new bob? >> old bob -- >> is that old bob? >> i'll try to make sense of it, yes. the current bob, the current bob. so, look, just to put this in context, it was sunday night that the

. >> you taking the over on iger >> i saw him at the code conference in september with kara swisher the guy was on fire. i'm telling you. >> i don't think there's any question about it. didn't he leave because it was time no one was pushing him out he wanted to leave he totally dropped the mic, so, you know, maybe he re-ups for another couple after this, but i don't think that's the plan. >> if he dropped the mic because he had accomplished so many things, he was the greatest ceo ever, all that, maybe there's a belief on his part that he can, in fact, turn this company around, that he's not going to come back for two years only to have the stock continue to just, you know, lose momentum. and things to go pear shaped again. he's not going to give his legacy up for that, is he, for a million dollars which is really not that much money. >> that's exactly right. if he didn't think what he saw was fixable or he had ideas on how to take this into 2023 and beyond, i don't think he would have taken the job no matter how hard the board pushed. i think he thinks this is a situation where he can c

we're gonna talk about this, cara swisher, host of the on with kara and pivot podcasts.here to see and talk about this, because you and i have had these conversations, you've made a number of predictions i can't imagine you're surprised by what were happening right now. just given the fact that he's made it just a few changes, for example, this banning of remote work. the idea of no more free meals, for example. now, this hard-core pledge, i want everyone to see on the screen, what do you make of it? >> well, it's not just that. he's also firing people who are critical of him in slacken on twitter. even the most mild of criticism like an emoji. there's been a couple of engineers who talked about this, who just are making some points, he tweets things that are incorrect and they correct him and they get fired for it. you know, there's a sort of at those in silicon valley that's gone now, it's called hostile porn is what it is, people talk about how hard they work. and they have pictures of themselves in sleeping bags or under the desks, elon has talked about sleeping on t