alexandra wilkes. and kevin walling and independent women's forum senator policy analyst, irk -- inez stepman. what is elon musk doing? >> i think that it was his intention to buy the company, you know institute some safeguards that have been missing for a long time. getting to the bottom of what has been happening. he has done that successfully, but, we know that he is a big thinker. and that he has many big projects out there. not really a surprise to me that i think he wants to get going. personally, as someone who hating traffic, i hope the hyperloop is first on the list. to create underground tunnels, but i don't think that this is really a surprise. it will be interesting to see what comes next under his ownership. tom: yeah. i agree. i think he always wanted someone to take over the day-to-day operations, h he put a poll out. he likes to do things to bring attention to his platform, kevin. democrats are leaving twitter saying this is it. he is elon musk, he makes electric cars, shouldn't democra

alexandra wilkes, christopher hahn, shane hazel. ninja moves, let's do it. why was james baker so high up in the government and then so high up at twitter, and why should we assume that big government and big tech are not really cozy bedfellows? >> you should absolutely assume that, because it's a reinvolving door. we've seen many former obama administration officials find their way to silicon valley and at the heads of these large companies that are making decisions that, in effect, are government decisions in many cases when the government tries to intervene in the workings of these private companies. so i think that, look, sunshine is the best disinfectant. i admire the way that elon musk just sort of fired him drama-free. it was just like, look, this guy was involved, he was a roadblock, we've got to get him out of the way, and he did that. but, look, this process is a good one. it's the exposing good actors along the way. this isn't just a one-sided thing. you look at people like ro khanna, for example, who came out of this looking pretty good when he ra