you heard what jim cramer -- you probably saw what jim cramer tweeted. that musk should take a medical leave immediately. >> it sort of went back and forty from defiant to tearful. you know, he obviously has a lot of passion and belief in what he's doing at tesla, as well as with his other companies he knows that he's the culture carrier and the visionary here and he, as we know from analyst calls and interaction with some of his own investors, has little patience for what he considers to be bonehead questions, to us his own word, redundancy some of that impatience was on display but a real, raw, emotional aspect clearly exhausted. talking about 120-hour work weeks, talking about using ambien to help sleep or not sleeping at all, sleeping on the floor of the giga factory in nevada just a man firing on all cylinders and needs a chance to take a beat. >> the fact he did this interview, kate, does that indicate to you that, perhaps, the company, the board doesn't really have any control over what he does or says at this point? i mean, this is a ceo who is u

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