we have liam denning of bloomberg opinion. is reporting from cnbc that the board has called on elon musk to recuse himself. what do you think that tells us about the relationship between musk and the board at this point? matt: this is what you would expect if there is a buyout. normally a ceo has to recuse himself. it's just that it's happening way before you would announce it. the board coming out and saying well, we kind of talked about it a week before, that's not much time at all. dellu read about the buyout, that was going on for months and months. this is proceeding along. some people said it was possibly a joke or a ruse, but the longer it goes on, you think maybe there is an offer here. emily: liam, there are still questions we don't have answers to. we have been trying to get answers over the last three or four days. money.where is the who are the funders? do we have any clue? liam: i don't think we really do have any clue. a lot of people are calling this a leveraged buyout. it can't be a leveraged buyout. this compa