the automaker said the fcc filing dave morton has resigned effective tuesday, september 4th.e has no disagreements with tesla's leadership or financial reporting. comes hours after musk makes another eye-opening move last night on joe rogan's pod cast. musk was smoking a joint and drinking whisky. >> sir, is that a joint? or is that a cigar >> no. >> okay. >> it's marijuana. >> it's weed. >> out of a -- >> okay. like tobacco pot. >> ever had that >> yeah. >> i think i tried one once. >> probably can't because stockholders, right. >> it's legal, right >> totally legal. >> okay. >> how does that work? do people get upset if you do certain things it's tobacco and marijuana in there. that's all it is. >> sharers didn't care much about this until the ak dropped about 20 minutes ago dave morton has been there five weeks. >> yeah. that's suboptimal situation. ill advised stunt by a man who is now turning into who was the se vant. is he turning into an idiot? >> it's strange decisions he continues to make. by the way, i would not have tobacco with pot i think you should just have the

and chief accounting officer dave morton resigned after a month on the job citing public attention and the fast pace of the post. according to bloomberg, tesla's h.r. boss will not return from the leave of absence that she took last month. >>> good news keeps rolling in for actor geoffrey owens. according to tmz, the former "cosby show" star accepted tyler perry's offer for a recurring role on "the haves and have nots," oprah's network's highest rating show. nicki minaj will donate $2 a,000 to owens. this began -- $25,000 to owens new york stock exchange began after a photo of him at a trader joe's got picked up by new jersey news outlet later accused of job shaming. >>> from a mountain with a view to a mountain of chocolate. fun and delicious family-friendly ideas for the weekend after the break. >>> and the forecast for just about all of those events. let's open up the weather window and show what's going on in walnut creek. one of the areas that's going to reach the 90s as a surge of warmth hits today. has the brands you want...oss fall fashion event nooo... yes. ...at "oh, yes!" pr

nathan, joe morton i think is the one that has analysts concerned, i mean,-- excuse me, dave morton. job a month and one analyst said if you see the cfo walk to the accounting chief walk away what are they saying that they may be uncomfortable putting their name on? what you think of that departure and what you think you walked out? >> when morton resigned he said it had nothing to do with tesla's financial reporting, so if you take that at face value it's not a big deal. when you have the chief accounting officer eddie coming for less than a month involving a controversial decision that elon musk consider taking tesla private you have to wonder if leadership stability at tesla will continue to be an ongoing problem. cheryl: seems to be a problem for investors in the stock and since august 6, tweet where he said we have funding secured to go private. stock has lost a third of its value. he's playing with other people's money right now. >> volatility-- volatility is normal for tesla. it's got up and down and up and down over the years. i think the concern is that elon musk has reached

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chief accounting officer dave morton announced his exit.h, elon music announced chief people officer gabby toledano is leaving to spend more time with her family. >>> the new york stock exchange is up 154 points. overnight, global markets were up after the u.s. has proposed a new round of trade negotiations with china. >> a uc berkeley staffer has given the ultimate gift to a total stranger. catherine welsh is giving the thumbs up shortly after she donated one of her kidneys to a man in washington. she knew almost nothing about him. an article in "the new yorker" inspired her. >> if somebody is dying without a kidney and i have two kidneys and it doesn't sound that hard to give one away, then why not just do it. >> catherine had the surgery 22 days ago. look at her. back on the job. she works as a fund raiser for the college of chemistry. that's really inspiring. >>> how amazing. #. >> no easy task to go under a major surgery and do some voluntarily. >> for someone you don't even know. >> she acted like it was no big deal. >> just a generou

we had the chief accounting officer, dave morton stepping down after less than a month in the job. and he says because of the heightened scrutiny on the company, it has made him rethink his his future. hrvp leaving. this has been a long year of departures, david, chief engineering, chief of sales, chief of communications left tesla. >> i can't imagine being the hr director for elon musk that he is doing things he would probably prohibit his employees from doing. susan, thank you very much. our panel is pack to react. michelle, i don't like psychobabble in journalism but do you think that he is just trying to self-destruct here? what is going on? >> who really knows but i think it is a nice reminder to investors when you're up 45% in a year, they were up 45% last year, now they're down 15, maybe you should take profits. have the discipline to take profits. now i think investors are waking up, realizing they're not a tech stock. and they shouldn't trade like a tech stock. their valuation should reflect like auto stock. auto stocks trade at much lower valuations. david: paul, you have

>> dave morton clearly saw something that was troubling to gene's point about we want elon musk to be there, we want him to be there. when i say we, those who want to buy the stock. we want him to be there but controlled and reined in they tried this last year. in july of last year they brought in james murdoch that was an attempt to bring someone in that was more of an adult voice in the room. i'm not necessarily sure the only way to resolve this is about elon and controlling elon. >> i think one of the interesting things about elon musk, he checks every box on the quintessential entrepreneur. what we're seeing right now we're at the crossroads where you've gone from a brilliant entrepreneur who someone who needs to step back and not be a control freak and let other people manage the business he's not doing that and it's really a problem we've seen it so many times. you need him there but you need someone to control the business. >> in terms of needing him there, i want to make this more strong if he's not there, which today's news puts in play and increase that is risk, then what yo

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dave morton, a former cfo for computer—drive maker it‘s because tesla‘s chief accounting officer gavedrew a subpoena from the securities and exchange commission and a series of lawsuits the other thing is that there‘s a possibility of legal cases coming out against tesla because of what musk said about taking the company private. all of this is building up a picture of a company that desperately needs to be focused on turning out these electric cars, which are going to make a fortune. but there needs to be a sense of focus at the top. that is what is worrying investors. it is a general feeling of instability in tesla. have you seen the shots of him smoking? yes, i have. he says he hardly ever smokes, and he says that he is not a habit. he says it does not help. it is not very good for his work. that is certainly true. it‘s the first friday of the month — that means the jobs numbers are out in the us. indeed. you cannot deny that the american economy is going well. these figures are very economy is going well. these figures are very strong r&d? right, and they are very strong r&d? righ

. >> the chief accounting officer, dave morton, steps down after about a month, we'll call it, on the job. also their head of hr reportedly will not come back from leave. this is what bloomberg is saying right now. so those two -- i've been covering this story since 2:00, 3:00 in the morning because this podcast didn't end until around 3:00 eastern time. >> it's a podcast -- >> podcast that was filmed i've been watching the premarket action since 5:00 a.m. it was down about 1.25% on the heels of this interview. not a lot. now when the chief accounting officer news came off, it was off about 4% and then went down 9% when news of the hr person came out as well. >> dom, thank you. with tesla stock down about 23% since musk tweeted about taking the company private, will his continued stwreek of questionable behavior, shall we call it, rattle investors further? let's bring in collin rush you're clearly a tesla bull. just yesterday you came out saying you do believe tesla will basically hit the high end of the guidance of 50,000 >> i didn't actually say that. we said they are tracking well

being hired to work at the company this took place on september 4th, two days ago, in a statement dave mortonattention placed on the company as well as the pace within the company have exceeded my expectations as a result this caused me to reconsider my future i want to be clear, i believe strongly in tesla, its mission and its future prospects i have no disagreements with tesla's leadership or its financial reporting, having said that, of course, this will raise additional questions you're looking at that stock down over 5% in the pre-market the company saying that the company's chief financial officer and its corporate controller, of course, will continue to oversee. >> you've got more >> the second piece of news we wanted to bring you is we have now confirmed, sources telling cnbc that, in fact, tim armstrong is in negotiations to leave verizon, the man who really recreated aol, broad aol to verizon, then bought yahoo, integrated that business. >> the source is cnbc? >> yeah, cnbc. >> not your "new york times" hat, then it would be anonymous. are they anonymous >> oh, oh. >> are they anony