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martha, you also sat down with elon musk biographer walter isaacson.nating read, by the way. but you're looking at the bond musk has with president trump. what did he say about this new chapter in musk's life? >> martha: he said, look, and i know you've read the book too. it's a fascinating book. walter isaacson said, all you have to do is look at elon musk's background. he thinks that elon musk will stay with president trump, be very loyal to president trump for about a year, when he wants to get things done and cut government waste, but the real fascinating part as you know too, whit, is really elon musk's background, and we really take a look at that growing up in his -- growing up in south africa. >> whit: and musk is not one to hold back his own opinions either. that's for sure. martha, thank you so much as always. we appreciate it. >>> and again, tune into "this week" later this morning for more of martha's interview with president trump's border czar, tom homan. plus, senator elissa slotkin weighs in on the immigration actions and more from elon

now to offer perspective on the resiliency of new orleans is our contributor and mere pressure, walter isaacsonis the author of elon musk. walter, first of all, i am so very sorry for what happened in your city. we are sitting back, shocked by all that has happened. >> you look at the list of people killed. you read the air stories. this happens all over. it is really horrific. >> things are reopening today. i am wondering what the mood in the city is at this point. as for the sugar bowl was played yesterday. the word resilience is not the first adjective you want to have in life, but itnot the last adjective either. new orleans is a resilient city. i spent new year's eve, as i for 3 years, with about 25 friends at antoine's restaurant right off of bourbon street, near where it happened. the french quarter was very well protected. these things can happen. i will say this, i will be at and once i share with the same set of friends. we are not going to let this shut us down. >> as you about with disasters that have struck in the past. as for 20 years ago we had katrina. that is when we really did

bring in former chairman walter isaacson. good to have you on. ctually hired me on cnn, so i appreciate it. you're also the author -- >> we're talking about conflicts of interest. down here in new orleans, you're our hero too. >> you're the author of the book "elon musk" that came out in september 2023. i'm wondering what you make of elon musk's latest iteration, the rise of him in the world of trump? >> you know, when he was a kid, sitting there lonely no friends, on the autism spectrum in south africa, he'd sit there and read the super hero comics and always imagine himself putting on a cape and save humanity, and he really goes all- in, like i'm going to go to mars, and do the book through the book i talk about things he does to get spacex going, likewise when he takes over twitter. now he will do that in the government. he was never a big fan of donald trump. i remember riding around with musk and he would tell me that donald trump was a con artist, and he would say just like my father is. and in some ways, that helps explain it. he's always i

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joining us is walter isaacson, history professor at tulane and author of a book about elon musk.if there is a moment in history that can help us understand the current time we're living in. it does feel like there is tremendous technological change coming and there is great opportunity and challenges that come with any of these moments. >> absolutely. i teach the history of technology at tulane and we saw with the industrial revolution. we saw it with the computer and digital revolution beginning in the 1950s and personal computer in the 70s. i think you saw sam altman talk about what it will do for disease. i think we see a life sciences revolution based on crisper anded iting of dna but now we'll have an artificial intelligence revolution. a sea change politically, too. one of the things that donald trump has done is decided to throw in totally with this movement and the technology there and we are going to see an acceleration of technological innovation by the cutting of rules and regulations. some would argue that we need a whole lot more rules and regulations on everything f

i didn't realize until i read the book by walter isaacson how perfectly built is he auto to do just thisy, an entre extraordinaire wed those skills on a doge committee to cut trillions of dollars in wasteful spending and costly regulations. if you leave it up to bureaucrats, they will increase the debt and deficit. >> brian: i wanted to get some more legal advice from you. birthright citizenship, the president says he signed an executive order getting rid of it. so if your parents are here illegally and give birth to a kid, that kid is an american if that kid is born here. he wants to end that. and he signed an e.o. to do it. has he done that? >> the eo orders it done and almost immediately he was sued. so this will be tested in a court. look, it's an uphill battle. 14th amendment gives citizenship to people who are born here and subject to the jurisdiction of the united states. that's the phrase that trump is going to test. arguing this is what the framers intended people here illegally and fraudulently are not subject to the jurisdiction and laws of the united states. because they shou

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president trump in the spotlight, abc news anchor martha raddatz sits down with musk biographer walter isaacsons most powerful men. you can watch the full interview on this week with george stephanopoulos at eight this morning, right here on abc seven. we're following developing news out of israel this morning. three people were killed and another 44 others were injured by israeli defense forces in southern lebanon. that's according to the lebanese ministry of health. the ministry says that israeli forces opened fire in at least two border towns. idf troops had been expected to withdraw from that area today under the ceasefire agreement. meanwhile, 38 people were hurt on a united airlines flight bound for washington dc. the flight out of nigeria experienced, quote, unusual movement during the flight, causing pilots to turn the plane around on friday. excuse me? according to the federal airports authority of nigeria. four passengers and two crew members were seriously injured. another 27 passengers and five crew members had minor injuries. a united airlines spokesperson tells cnn those admitted

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president trump in the spotlight, abc news anchor martha raddatz sits down with musk biographer walter isaacsonf the world's most powerful men. you can watch the full interview on this week with george stephanopoulos at eight this morning, right here on abc seven. we're following developing news out of israel this morning. three people were killed and another 44 others were injured by israeli defense forces in southern lebanon. that's according to the lebanese ministry of health. the ministry says that israeli forces opened fire in at least two border towns. idf troops had been expected to withdraw from this area today under the ceasefire agreement. meanwhile, 38 people were hurt on a united airlines flight bound for washington dc. the flight out of nigeria experienced unusual movement during the flight, causing pilots to turn the plane around. on friday, according to the federal airports authority of nigeria, four passengers and two crew members were seriously injured. another 27 passengers and five crew members had minor injuries. a united airlines spokesperson tells cnn those admitted to the

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and as we heard from walter isaacson, it may have been the dark side.rump. >> yes, sam altman and microsoft are clashing. elon musk as well. i mentioned this. the companies are in that joint venture. they don't have as much to fulfill the 500 billion. and yesterday on squawk box, microsoft satya nadella did speak about his company's investment in openai as well. take a listen. >> look. >> all i know. >> is i'm good for my 80 billion. i am going to spend $80 billion building out azure. customers can count on microsoft, with openai models being there everywhere in the world, serving openai models and other models. that's, i think, what i know. >> and i went on from there, jim, as you point out, sort of back and forth on x during the course of the day. >> i mean, part of the part of the pushback yesterday was this idea that large language models are getting commoditized very quickly. deep seeks one example, and that microsoft essentially is willing to cede what might be a low margin business. >> well, i mean, look, microsoft, i think is actually under pres

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i want to bring in walter isaacson, a history professor at tulane university, who has written a biographyhis inauguration today but clearly drawing closer to our new president? >> you have to remember the last speech that biden gave, his farewell, which is about the tech oligarchy that might be taking over. i think trump is making it very clear that elon musk and others, but mainly musk, is going to help drive the second term, unlike the way he did it in the first term. and you know, in my book, i show what musk does when he goes into spacex, when he goes into tesla, when he takes over twitter and turns it into x and breaks everything down. so, yes, there's going to be a lot of rubble left in the wake, but this is going to be the most transformative thing happening is watching musk take on government. >> well, is that because the unique technology that we have reached now in terms of a.i. and space technology, is there something unique about this period in time that makes this more alarming or more concerning? >> well, i think if you're looking at a.i., you have a question of what the bid

for more on what that may mean, let's bring in walter isaacson. d with elon musk? >> i spent most of the time for two years morning, noon, and night, because you can see all of this developing. what you will do in government as a whole playbook and he has been doing it for 20 years. both in terms of going too far sometimes and causing rubble in his wake up but also trying to get rid of every rule and regulation and make things happen fast. i think that is what he is planning to do in this new role as being the advisor of government efficiency. >> nora: let me ask you because elon musk has arguably become one of the most closest advisors and confidants of donald trump. he is there a lot at mar-a-lago. how did that relationship come to be? >> it came to be rather quickly in terms of it being in the past year because when i was traveling around with elon musk, he did not have a whole lot of respect for trump. he supported ron desantis. he said trump is a charlatan, a carnival barker, he reminds me of my father is what he said. and if you know from the