joining us now is mary ellen klas. thanks very much for for joining us. i'm sorry about what does appear to be this weird retribution against you and your paper. >> well, it's an unusual circumstance. i mean it's one of those things where we as reporters have been working nonstop trying to, you know, amplify the governor's message and get the word out on this, and here we've become the enemy for some reason. it was -- it was just kind of head-spinningly surprising. >> how much of a -- i guess how beleaguered do you sense that the governor feels? what's the environment like politically around these decisions that the governor has made where there have been some local strictures put in place, some local rules put in place, some of which the governor has endorsed? but despite real criticism, and actually i would say nationwide concern about the lack of a statewide order, he's consistently refusing to do any sort of statewide stay-at-home order. >> well, it's been very interesting because this governor is very close to the president, and he has been very cons

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and it will be changed over to nikola and ke and kla when the merger is complete. see when we announced it and the market -- people went crazy. i think it ended at 12 or 15% when the market was down 800 points yesterday. maria: they see this as a special situation pray but why did you go the route of this reverse merger. i know emerging galactic did something similar. why that route? >> it's really about timing. to go public as a year-long process. and with this you can do it four to five months. it was just really about timing. so and the ability to raise $750 million which is morning with an ipo. maria: you think your company competitor will be tesla? so fill priming the closest around the world because the other manufacturers are way too far behind. we are five to seven years ahead of any competition accepted tesla. their semitruck will come out, it will be similar to ours. it will be battery to electric only and we do battery, electric, and hydrogen so batteries get up for 300 miles after that the weight of the additional batteries becomes a problem. that's way

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joining us now is mary ellen klas tallahassee bureau chief from the miami herald and tampa bay times,r joining us. i'm sorry for what appears to be this weird retribution against you and your paper. >> well, it's unusual circumstance. i mean, it's one of the things where we as reporters have been working f working fon st working non-stop to get the word on this and we've become the enemy for some reason. it's head spinningly surprising. >> how much of a, i guess, how beleaguered do you since that the governor feels? what's the environment like politically around these decisions that the governor has made where there have been some local rules put in place, some of which the governor endorsed but describe real criticism and action, i would say nationwide concern about the lack of a state wide order he's consistently refusing to do any statewide stay at home order. >> well, it's been very interesting because this governor is very close to the president and he has been very consistent in not getting ahead of the cdc guidelines. so every time there has been a change or a development from

we already own things like kla and lam and i think they'll continue to do well because it's greater earningser share growth over the next few years it may be delayed a quarter or two because of the coronavirus, but they're reasonable the one i like now that i just bought on monday was oracle and just before i came on i heard somebody upgraded it but the stock was around $48 a share and for may of next year we have them with only 3% top line growing at $4.25, that's an 11.5 pe. that's the lowest pe that oracle has sold at in years and they have only 15% exposure in asia so you're getting a pretty good play without a lot of risk. >> raising the target to 61 and part of that was the relative insulation from coronavirus and recurring revenue. is that a factor that you're looking at when it comes to your investments and what you're buying right now >> yes, absolutely i mean, it's good. disney is a great company. we've owned it for years but it's too soon for somebody to put new money into disney we have cruise ships and theme parks and people are going to stay away. another stock was ups. the sto