how will elon musk, what are the rules elon musk's way? brad: that is exactly the question.not provided any specificity to the otherwise laudable statements. what i wrote about this morning was the status of @donaldtrump, with almost 90 million twitter followers. what is he going to do? he has expressed some skepticism of a permanent ban. so i think we are likely to see donald trump -- if he wants to, he told fox news he doesn't want to go back to twitter. i find that hard to believe. if he comes back to the service, what kind of reaction will that get? what are the limits, even for a public figure that has trodden over them in the past? emily: you pointed out that jeff bezos when he bought the washington post famously said he has hands off, he will not have any sway over editorial decision. elon musk is basically saying the opposite here. he is going to be very involved. especially if you look at how involved he is at tesla and at spacex. what does it mean for a single person to have such sway over a platform that is so influential over public discourse? brad: the compariso

next steps for the elon musk twitter deal we have on the table right now is if elon musk wants to, he can take out the equity commitments that he has, $21 billion, and replace it with actual equity from other people. the deal also needs to get regulatory approval, it needs to get approved by shareholders. and then there is always the possibility that another bidder comes in. now, it is our understanding that there is a reverse breakup in this deal which means basically elon musk has to pay a certain amount of money if he decides to walk away from the deal come or if it falls apart for certain reasons. claim so if an over -- if another bidder were to come in -- so yeah, we will be watching that. emily: interesting. now, jasmine, i'm curious what you make of elon musk's stance on free speech, and how you expect that to impact users and ad revenue. if he evolves the service to be more liberal when it comes to moderation, not in a political sense, but you know what i mean -- what does that mean for advertisers specifically? jasmine: yeah, absolutely. musk has said that he wants to make tw

max: elon musk likes twitter. he's an enthusiastic user and you can see why twitter would want him on the board. for musk, the master plan is about tesla. let happening here, i'm sure elon has big ideas for twitter around free speech but the game behind this is protecting tesla's most important marketing channel. ed mentioned it is elon musk's way of communicating with investors and raising an enormous, almost unlimited capital for tesla. it's also a great way he has been able to market himself in the cars. having a seat on twitter's board is going to help him in the long-term. yesterday, twitter's value went up bunch. tesla went up a lot less as a percentage but musk made a lot more money on tesla. his money is still in tesla and we should be thinking about it in those terms. emily: looking at these tweets today, i'm excited to share we are appointing elon to our board. it became clear to us in conversations in recent weeks that he would bring great value to our board. jack dorsey re-tweeting this and what you ca

musk doesn't seriously.e always has ulterior motives, and there are serious questions about what he is really about. he has said that if his offer isn't accepted, he will have to reconsider his position. so he's already created an overhang on the market. and i think it is a safe bet that twitter although it has said it will review the offer, will ultimately rejected. that's not to say it should, but it is to say that they will. they will have all sorts of reasons that they concoct to reviews to accept musk's offer. and then the market price of the stock will plummet. so he is playing a game with twitter and with the investors, and with the market. caroline: and it's a game, or indeed a maneuver, through which he conducts himself through the medium of social media. we have had the head of the united states, a president himself who was via the social media platform. but how do we think about an announcement of wanting to do a bid, how do we think sec regulation can adapt this new age of the news environment? h

the like of elon musk. how do you think about that settlement and the controversy it stirred and the ongoing anger that still is within elon musk himself? >> i think it is basically musk's fiction. if he didn't want to litigate with the s.e.c., or couldn't afford it, all he had to do was say i'm not going litigate. i'll default and let the s.e.c. get a judgment and see what the court will order. but he spent probably hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees to execute a settlement that went back and forth. having done that, he should live up to his agreement. he agreed to do it. if he didn't want to do it, nobody held a gun to his head. caroline: the proverbial one. he said he was in a difficult situation financially, prescarce at the time. it is a different beast now but a beast currently having to analyze what perhaps a taking private of twitter looks like by one elon musk. the way in which he has conducted it, the all-important h20 number in it, is it $h20 number in it, is it something they will ta

held by elon musk.ll absolutely have complete control over twitter and it will be wholly owned, is the statement by elon musk. this is huge news, elon musk will own twitter. it doesn't mean that he just controls twitter a little bit. he is the indisputable king of twitter. he can do whatever he wants with it. he could even decide he will run twitter if he wants to. so this is absolutely huge news. huge ramifications now about how twitter is moderated. is donald trump going to be allowed back on twitter, for example? i suspect he will because all the news from elon musk says he is pro-free speech and does not want people to be banned from twitter. so huge ramifications for twitter and for politics as well. ross: he talks about making the algorithm behind twitter open source, so that we can all look at how twitter decides what we see. james: he has said that a few times before. most of the social media platforms, we don't know about the algorithms, what kind of behaviors are they encouraging and what are

why is this takeover bid by a lawn musk -- be -- by elon musk -- >> its importance seems to exceed itsformance financially. it has been a mediocre investment i think. i think most analysts would say from a financial perspective. but it is embroiled in many of the most consequential discussions around politics, the economy, etc. and in many ways elon musk is correct in this is an under leveraged asset. i don't think he is wrong going after it. >> tim, elon musk said this is about ensuring there is an arena for free speech so we can talk freely within the bounds of the law. do you think he is serious about the takeover bid or is he making a point? >> i think he is making a point. if you think about what he wants twitter to achieve, free speech and an open platform for everybody, to move the company in that direction, i don't necessarily he needs to buy -- think he needs to buy the company. showing it is possible to buy twitter puts twitter in a position where they have to think, how can we set the users up in order to avoid the need for a takeover by somebody like elon musk? >> william,

is elon musk the answer? if not elon musk, is it a public utility? is it something else? teddy: i personally think it is probably not elon musk. there has been a lot of, a lot of people mainly elon musk allies and support the past couple days saying, look at uber. look at the washington post -- and look at bloomberg. the washington post bought by jeff bezos. there is a big difference between this model and what elon musk is proposing. bloomberg and bezos do not march into the editorial board rooms at bloomberg media and at the washington post and demand a change in coverage. they pledged not to. musk has essentially placed to alter the way information is shared and disseminated on twitter. so, there is a question of media consolidation and he is not the first billionaire to get into the media ownership game but he is the first we've -- to do so with the next -- an agenda behind that and that agenda is not the sustainment of media or public information. it has got a political bent to it. so, whether twitter or other platforms ought to be regular did as public utilities or

coming up in the next hour, the twitter board mounts a poison pill defense against elon musk while musk continues to taunt them, pointing out that without jack dorsey board members own almost no shares. and if the bid succeeds, they would not get a salary. all the details on if this is a hostile takeover. an inside look at a rivian factory in illinois. and see how the ev maker is trying to combat the chip crisis. it is expected to be the busiest wedding season in decades. we'll chat with the ceo of the runway about how all of those i do's could be big business. now to our top story over the weekend. he sent just a tweet with three words. "love me tender." he could've been listening to the iconic elvis presley song or could it be a reference to a potential tender offer to twitter shareholders for control of the company? on friday twitter's board chose the poison pill defense adopting a provision that would make it harder for musk to acquire more shares and dilute his stake. ed ludlow here to break it all down. a lot going on here. what is the latest? ed: twists and turns. the 7.5% gain i

elon musk came famous as a businessman. he makes electric cars and rockets it has become the single richest person on planet earth by doing that. elon musk is not from the united states, he grew up in south africa, and get he has a keen and precise understanding of how our system was designed to work. as he put it on twitter last month, "free speech is essential to a functioning democracy." and then musk asked his 80 million followers on twitter this question. "do you believe twitter it regularly and here's to the principal"? and overwhelmingly they answered no, it doesn't. so elon musk understands something about twitter that many people in our country don't understand, it is the single most important form for speech possibly in the world. not because it's the biggest, but because it's where elite opinion is incubated. and so free speech on twitter matters, and last month, elon musk gave the impression that he planned to do something about it, that he planned to open up twitter, he bought 10% of the company. now, today, mu

nothing that appeals to elon musk. in terms of what he would change, he would likely make it a free-speech haven, reversing probably many of the guardrails twitter has put forth recently to protect the health of the platform, users, and to make advertisers feel comfortable advertising there. he would probably also likely transform it into a subscription only service that doesn't rely on advertising to bring in revenue. i don't think that this would happen overnight. i don't think that he is 100% happy with the existing subscription model and he would want to improve it before implementing those changes but that would likely come of the deal materializes. caroline: to that point, would any change be a positive change? how do you view the discussion around the evolution of the product and whether it could inherently add value. what i took from the ted talk was that this ended up sort of being a not-for-profit endeavor he's taking on. >> i think you just pointed out what's going on here. i don't necessarily hear a public

what can musk do and what is he willing to do. in the near term i think it's a very good deal for investors >> egal, do you agree? >> yeah, i agree with that sent meant. the price point are a strong premium, pretty close to where snap is trading on revenue and ebitda multiples the growth there has been much slower a big premium to pinterest where growth of pinterest has been stronger than twitter has. and, you know, just a lot of question marks around user growth in twitter i don't think have gone away i agree that the sale here indicates that the result of the quarter and maybe the outlook aren't going to be that strong >> that seems to be everybody's takeaway what does it mean for competitors, a meta, a pinterest, that also rely on ads. how are they looking at this deal >> overall i think it's a positive if you look at there is somebody who is extremely influential in the tech industry. he is looking to take a very long-term view on an asset that has underperformed, has underinvested in technology and they are willing to take th

elon musk. name is holding off for now. >> todd: we'll tell you who that is, many guesss and pack in more when kara frederick joins us next. ♪ ♪ shhhhh.. to the twitter takeover, threat to democracy. >> todd: conservatives are remaining in celebration, not former president trump, brooke singman joins us live with more. hi, brooke. >> brooke: former president trump says he is not going back on twitter, but will use truth social instead, telling me he hoped elon musk would purchase the company, he expectss he will make improvements and says he's a good man. trump was suspended from twitter, facebook and instagram after the capitol riot in 2021, after the companies deemed his posts inflammatory. ron desantis says there is prospect the platform will be a place free speech can thrive. as republicans celebrate twitter new ownership, calling it a win for free speech, democrats renew calls for big tech crackdown by congress. senator elizabeth warren says the deal is dangerous for our democracy, while ca

none of them are worried about musk being distracted. believe he can multitask. that might be an optimistic view but it is the reality. ben: are they worried to say anything negative about musk? jack: alex:we talk to one guy with a $350 price target. they basically said this isn't an issue either. they are not unafraid to take shots at the stock but you raise a good point. the most important as powerful person in the auto industry, would not be good for your career to take shots. with respect to margin calls and a death spiral because musk is forced to sell people should remember a couple things. he has money to buy an update using that. the risk to a tesla shareholder was disruption for musk's selling. carleton: for this to make financial sense, musk, there's going to be debt so walk us through how this makes financial sense. alex:we are talking about the usual musk deal, he says he doesn't care and not something to say in the mna world, he does care and he has to care. twitter will be heavily indebted company, probably something like $

it is musk versus twitter. they fight the buyout with some seeing it as extreme measure captivating corporate america and wall street. what you have to say about it all. >>> stocks looking to get back on the right track after the losing streak. >>> the number of high profile names set to report. we layout the ones to watch. >>> the american airlines ceo saying you can count on us pledged by the man in charge to make sure your plane takes off on time this summer. >>> and will soaring borrowing costs hit the housing market the ceo of coldwell banker is here it is happening on monday, april 18th on "worldwide exchange. good morning, good afternoon, good evening welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. thank you very much for joining us i'm brian sullivan we have an absolutely packed hour for you to kickoff the week let's not daly and get to the monday money futures are down across the board. not by a lot dow off 78 the nasdaq looks to be the bigger decliner. assuming this trend holds. nasdaq futures

musk responded by tweeting this snarky emoji. april, 11th musk indicated he could buy more shares of twitter. cincy didn't join the board on april. 12th a twitter shareholder sued musk for breaking sec rules in his initial purchase and april 14th, musk announced his intention to buy twitter outright. >> so there we have it. and now we just kind of wait to see what happens next. but based on what we have seen so far, we'll probably find out what happens next in a tweet. and that's probably just the way elon wants it. catherine and ken, back to you. thank you. grant. >> the man wanted for the shooting on a brooklyn subway train made his first court appearance today. 62 year-old frank james ordered to be held without bail. prosecutors say he terrified the entire city. james was arrested yesterday after being spotted by bystanders in manhattan's east village. moments before that, police say a man claiming to be james called crime stoppers from mcdonnell's 2 turn himself in. when officers arrived, the man was gone. that drove around t

it's something elon musk knows well. elon musk knows the power of twitter very well.at is why he is doing this. >> yeah. that all seems to be borne out. elizabeth, to jay's point, trump's forays to build his own platform have gone down like a proverbial led zeppelin, if you will. you covered this closely. how do you as an objective reporter gauge elon musk's repeated claims, with some following, i mean, people buy it, that really he's just here to help and he's going to help again? >> i mean, look, this is a person who we don't exactly know what his relationship with trump is, but we do know that he said after trump was kicked off twitter and facebook and all the other social platforms, he was the lone voice to say they went too far and they're going to regret this decision. since then he's gone out of his way to say he's a free speech absolutist. censorship. yesterday he tweeted a social media platform is only doing a good job if equal numbers of people on the left and right are unhappy with it, which sounds like both sidesism to me. does he want an all inclusive tow

the statement says it will be wholly owned by elon musk, so elon musk will now be the king of twittero whatever he wants to it and he will pretty much know what he is going to do, he says that he is a fundamentalist when it comes to three speech, so we are going to see a lot less moderation, i can imagine a lot less moderation, i can imagine a lot less moderation, i can imagine a lot of people who have been banned on twitter will be allowed back onto twitter, the most obvious one could be donald trump. so this move has hugely consequential implications, not just for hugely consequential implications, notjust for big tech and silicon valley here, but also for us politics and you already see on twitter lots of people on the right are waving their hands around, overjoyed by this moment, where elon musk, who is a self—proclaimed libertarian, now owns twitter. it is twitter�*s plaything for him and he can do whatever he wants to it. so a hugely consequential moment here. some would argue, though, that companies like twitter started off potentially having that propensity towards allowing fr

we know musk's unpredictability is high. to your point, this board, which i can tell you will have an initial meeting at 10:00 a.m. this morning, from what i understand, is going to have to consider what that means you know, is it buffet esque, in a sense? remember when warren approaches a management, he often has that as an unsaid condition hey, this is it, take it or leave it but the take it or leave it, best and final part of this is a key. agree with you, in that i don't quite understand what the board is left to do here typically, they're not going to say, "okay, thank you so much for paying this price. it's over and done with. of course not. no board would do that you might begin an auction you might consider if there are any other strategic alternatives on the other side, you might say, "no, thank you," then the question is what musk really does the alternative, though, could mean, jim, and i'll leave this to you, the stock goes down an awful lot, particularly if he sells it. >> well, i don't think this board is takin

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let me go back to the other issue which involves twitter and the meltdown of elon musk. musk.a sudden liberals are now saying they are afraid that people with different political views on the left, they might get canceled on twitter. voices might be silenced. and i'm like, well, where have you been the last number of years because conservatives have been living this nightmare for the entire time? not one of these people, one time, ever stood up and said "what you are doing by banning donald trump withered like him or don't like him is wrong where shadow bannings conservatives or hiding the hunter biden laptop story is just simply wrong." your thoughts. >> look, that is exactly right. elon musk buying twitter without x-acto mic exaggeration is the most important development for free speech and big tech is it existential threat to free speech and free and fair elections in america. there is a dynamic played out for decades, which is conservatives win when we effectively communicate what we believe because our ideas work. freedom works. liberals win when they effectively hide wha

elon musk going full gauntlet mode.some pretty dramatic things. the tesla ceo opened a window into his reasoning behind his now-hostile takeover bid for twitter. already the largest shareholder of the social media giant, early this morning musk announced he wants it all and has made a $43 billion bid for the entire company. we've got the analyst who this morning predicted the board will accept the plan, but with news breaking this afternoon that twitter may defensively put a poison pill into place to block musk, is that analyst about to reverse that call? you a may be surprised at what he has to say. musk making clear that as the richest man in the world,

elon musk offering $43 billion to buy twitter. that prompted an emergency meeting today for twitter employees. so what happens now? good evening. i'm raj mathai. what you might not know about elon musk and that possible takeover of twitter. also, we're going hear from steph curry about his status for the upcoming play-offs which tip off on saturday night. but we begin with this, the rain off and on all day, and it's not over yet. you see the green still popping up on our exclusive storm ranger radar. that detects rain at a street level. nothing too heavy, but it's still a welcome sight. a slice of winter you can say here in the spring. and our snowpack is alarmingly low. we know that. but this storm bringing a lot of fresh snow to the sierra. let's walk over. we're joined by jeff ranieri. really good to see you. we were chuckling about it. it's nice to see the slice of winter because we couldn't get any winter here. >> we couldn't get this if we tried in january and february. totals good over e over the north bay. oakland hills, .

we will have more on that next. ♪ emily: let's get an update on the musk twitter saga, elon musk nowching out to potential financing partners across wall street. if he had any luck? i will bring in michelle davis for more on that. who is actually considering this? michelle: one of the most interesting parts about musk's bid for twitter is that he made it public without having financing lined up. we know he has started to have potential financing partners. at this point, he is only focused on raising debt. he has conversations around raising equity. morgan stanley reaching out to other big banks, reaching out to apollo has agreed to participate, to help finance. at this point, we know there were a couple of forms -- firms who have said we want to stay away because we are not going to help with financing. emily: do you have context on how these conversations are going? is he putting pressure on potential investors, like if you work with me, you get the benefit of working with me, and a huge portfolio? michelle: that is one of the big questions we are trying to find out. how would a dea

coming up, elon musk is now the biggest shareholder in twitter. why did he wanted, and what change will he push for? or now that shares have shut up 27%, could he just sell? we have discovered from all angles. plus, we will hear directly from okta ceo todd mckinnon his first interview since that massive third-party breach was disclosed. what really happened, and how are they addressing customer concerned? we will have all the details in an exclusive interview. and coming out of crypto's breakout year of 2021, what trends should we watch for now that greater adoption is underway? from inflation to regulation. we will speak from a top exec from the crypto platform gemini about their latest global report. first to the biggest story of the day, elon musk and twitter. the tesla and spacex ceo is closing in a filing he now owns a 9.2% stake in twitter worth somewhere around $3.7 billion, making him the company's largest shareholder. the big question, how will he use this new power? let's bring in ed ludlow. the big question is just how active is elon mu

emily: do you think this is more about elon musk speech? how could this influence future moderation efforts at twitter? guest: it would be more about his speech if we stay in the world of twitter being a single centralized point of control over the rules. if we don't go into this decentralized direction we have been talking about for a few years, and instead there is just one decider in the middle, then elon musk's role is really important. i don't think we should foresee a world where twitter becomes a free speech mosh pit free-for-all. they are not going to make money that way. if you get onto twitter and help a bunch of racist comments or bullying or spam or all of these things users don't like and advertisers don't like, that is not away to retain users or to be profitable. i don't think we should imagine a world where if anything goes on twitter. at most, it's a world where twitter still imposes its own rules, but they are more influenced by elon musk but intentionally another direction where twitter steps back and gives users choice.

>> i don't think anyone can influence elon musk other than elon musk.> what do you think he can do with this business do you think there's two or three things he can do that can be game changers where this become as wildly successful enterprise >> i don't know wildly but yes, you can diversify from advertising. put more money toward subscription what they've lacked is what alphabet has if you give them money to try to sell a product, can you can do t branding and i think he can change that i think he's going to make it more fun and can use direct messaging. if i were american express or chase, i would contact musk right now. he could do it with morgan stanley. and say look, we want to use direct messaging and that's something that i know that really, when you think about it, that benioff had when you think about where you need to kimberly-clark or clorox, to get a sentiment. and these are things, there were so many different revenue streams that twitter left on the table in part because they were so poorly managed. >> jim, we got to go but i'm so lookin

he is no longer elon musk, he is elon.dave, madonna, shimkus -- >> carley: wow, up there with the greats. >> todd: is that reaction we just saw and lack of specificity overreaction? you mentioned midterms, is this overreaction to the fact they don't control the message for the midterms, putting out there what they want the voters to hear or not hear to sway the voters? >> joey: it is like losing your playground when you are a kid. they lost the play ground. they know a level playing field is coming and maybe we'll have debates on the issues as it involves crime and education and the board sxer unstable world and parents increasingly upset about what their kids are being taught. maybe it will be even debate. censor, suppress, you are locked out. covid came out of a lab in wuhan, can't talk about that. >> carley: elon musk says he will make the algorithm public so people can see what has been going on. joe concha, thank you for joining us. >> todd: great transition. janice dean, where physically are you? >> janice: in the ba

elon musk a pre-scheduled ted talk now under way twitter shares volatile after up 13% news of musk'snegative up less than 1%. julia boorstin has the headlines. >> elon musk speaking now interviewed at ted by chris anderson who runs ted. he is focusing in on free speech asked why did you make this offer for twitter? important to have inclusive arena for free speech talking how twit hear become the de facto town square saying important that people have both reality and perception they are able to speak freely within the bounds of the law. he talks about wanting to open source the technology behind twitter. was asked about what he said recently about saying never want to buy twitter saying, well, it's true people will blame me for everything but thinks it's more important to the function of democracy and important to the u.s. as a free country and to help freedom in the world more broadly that's why he is going forward with his plan. he says, though, technically he could afford to purchase twitter himself, said this is not a way to make money, but thinks this is having the free speech p

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>> look, this is the biggest risk for elon musk here.hat makes twitter so interesting and provocative and why so many of us are obsessed with it is because sort of like a daily battleground but if he does a number of things that he's talking about doing, making sort of a right wing echo chamber, for instance, or bringing back donald trump, then he's going to alienate maybe half or two thirds of the audience that uses twitter then he'll be the king of nothing and then that ebitda will shrivel up versus one of the things he's talking about eliminating advertising. then that ebitda will shrivel up and the people who lent him money or borrowed the money that he borrowed to make this offer he won't be able to pay back on the other hand, once again, he's the world's richest guy net worth 275 billion. if it had to come out of his tesla stock or his net worth or all the other ways he has to make money or other things that he's doing, you know, he can probably make good on it and that's what investors or lenders would count on >> bill, all those

elon musk describes. it is a global communications network that if it did not exist, you would really want to invent it. i think a lot of people are getting hung up on what he said about free speech. they are not looking at what elon musk really thinks about which tends to be elon musk and what he wants to do next. acquiring twitter is a great way to do this. he has a lot of fights going on with the securities and exchange commission in the u.s.. the sec says that affects the price of shares. shares that he might own, shares he does not want to own. i think it is a bit simplistic to just go along with what he says. i think you need to look at it more deeply. also, just making everything free-speech, having less content moderation. he needs twitter to make more money than it ever has before in order to justify this takeover. the simple answers are not actually the solution here. >> ukraine has received its highest level of visits by u.s. officials since the war began. the secretaries of state and defense m

musk front and center this morning. jonathan: the offer from elon musk is $54.20. twitter trading pretty close to it as all reports suggest could, i emphasize could, have a deal as soon as today. tom: in all the reporting over the weekend, the single sentence, i'm going to give bloomberg credit for this, morgan stanley steps in in some way to assist here. there is a difference between mr. musk alone and mr. musk wall street. jonathan: and it is not just morgan stanley. it was mufg, bank of america, barclays, a whole range of banks backing up elon musk's offer. that is clearly what changed things for this board, taking that offer seriously. at the time it came out, the jokes about whether this was serious or not. once we you get wall street involved in you throw them over to the board, that is when the board takes this a whole lot more seriously. tom: michael nathanson will brief us on this this hour. we got to look at every thing else as well. some catharsis, to say the least, friday afternoon. jonathan: this for me over the weekend continues, and it really bleeds

the reason is musk owns 9.2% of the company.eholder, the securities and exchange commission in the u.s. requires anyone with more than 5% of the company through common shares to disclose that within ten days. elon musk has left it longer than that period of ten days to disclose that. the s.e.c. will watch this closely and could take action on that which would result, historically, in a fine. these fines have tended to be small. we'll have to wait and see elon musk, has, of course, had history with the s.e.c. back in 2018 regulators charged musk with making misleading statements about taking tesla private there is a wrangling over the tweets are legal no action taken yet. >> by the way, it must be, crazy like a fox, maybe the best way is to misspell a word on purpose to make your case. i don't think that escaped anybody's notice, arjun. listen, elon musk is a huge twitter user he has 80 million followers. i know the majority of the country or world doesn't use twitter. for us that do, particularly in the media, it is a resource i

so elon musk seems to be our last hope.ht there are signs that elon musk plans to do something big with twitter. buying 9% of the company is clearly more than investment. he doesn't need the money. last week after musk became twitter single biggest shareholder, management announced they would join the board of directors. first musk would be barred from owning more than 15% of twitter stock. he would not be allowed to control the company. as a board member elon musk would have a fiduciary duty to shareholders in real terms that means he could not reveal twitter's algorithms. he couldn't tell the public what they are. those algorithms are used to censor and suppress effective critics of the biden administration very often without their knowledge. it's done in secret. can't fight back. you don't know what's happening. so he could not challenge that if he took a board seat. but this weekend, musk abruptly pulled out of the deal. that means he's free to buy more shares of twitter. in fact control it. on sunday night, twitter's p

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elon musk tweeted on saturday.ceptionally difficult quarter due to supply chain interruption and the zero covid policy outstanding work by tesla team and suppliers. save the day what do we expect from tesla for the full year? we have not seen much change in the expectation on wall street 1.45 million vehicles expected to be delivered this year. that would be a huge jump from the 936,000 that we saw last year by the way, the run rate, at this point is expected to be 2 million vehicles annually by the end of the year. it doesn't mean they will deliver 2 million this year. the production run rate. that is the expectation at this point. this is the huge week for tesla. they have the gigafactory in austin opening, officially, deliveries starting on thursday. that will be a giga-rodeo according to elon musk coming up in two weeks on april 20th, that is when we get the q1 results. we will hear from elon musk at that time. we think we will hear from him he said in the past that sometimes he may not be on the earnings call

musk's twitter bid. musk offers to buy twitter and take it private. the deal values the social media company and $43 billion. shares soaring as twitter reviews the offer. and the ecb sticking to its plan to end its bond buying program in the third quarter. we are going to set the implications with kristalina georgieva. thanks beat big. first quarter results with trade records driving enormous earnings beats. i'm pretty grouped out with guy johnson -- krita gupta. a lot of breaking on the eco-front. and of course on the twitter fund. guy: if you took the day off to get ahead of the traffic, are you a genius or did you fail massively? a lot of things happened this morning and a lot of things have been turned on their heads. you have twitter, you have the possibility of a 50 basis point hike. i am a little surprised by these numbers. you got the university of michigan sentiment index. we go to 65.7. i'm trying to work out why. current conditions, 68.1, and the expectations index -- this is where things have really changed. it has gone to 64.1. is that a

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musk is doing it to save free speech. saying this today. >> it's important to the function of democracy, it's important to the function of the united states as a free country and many other countries and help -- actually to help freedom in the world. >> he went on to say you don't have free speech unless people can say things you don't like and you can attempt to beat that speech. you guess the people that love to tout democracy man is that a code world for everything. they would be getting behind him at this point. but, nope. that's not the case. liberals and the legacy media are losing it just at the thought of elon's disarming twitter's censor department. >> troubling enough that private companies control these key communication platforms around the world. maybe it's even worse to have the world's richest person trying to buy one of them and take it private. >> seismic decisions that will have ramifications not only inside the tech world but in politics, finance, and, perhaps even our debate about free speech. >> you k

elon musk. >> let's talk musk >> you can tell me whether the poison pill is fair or shareholders should be upset or if it holds or if musk is serious. whether he looked at it and said i have $250 billion. i certainly can't get my hands on that any easy way 40 plus. the only guy that could do it. he could if he really wanted why would he do that >> let's talk abou what happened over the weekend wha what is the phrase >> will you love me tender because it is the two of snus. >> we will talk about elon musk's battle for twitter. he wrote, "love me tender. he tweeted that saturday afternoon. he included the musical note emoji. adopted a limited duration shareholder rights plan of poison pill to fend off potential hostile takeover under the rights plan, if anyone acquired 15% of the twitter common stock without board approval, other shareholders would be allowed to buy additional shares at a discount. the rights plan will reduce the likelihood that any entity, person or group gains control of twitter through open market accumulation without paying appropriate control premium or providing suf

musk is also right to refer to that.hat means that removing something because you don't like it or you disagree with it or you think it's just mean, those are not good reasons to restriction free speech. but if something is violent, if something is inciting violence, if something is literally and deliberately gathering people to do so or committing commercial fraud or any other such many criminal or civil law infractions then no, companies can't and don't and aren't supposed to let it all out there. now, it is elon musk. once this is approved, finalized, who will make the decisions. there will be no stake holders to check him. it is a ton of power. so if you're watching tonight and going, cool, okay, ari, but i'm not on twitter that much, or twitter sounds silly. or who cares about a retweet? i hear you. i understand that perspective. but i think if you look at what social media is doing to our lives and democracies in other countries you'll reflect on the fact that this is so much larger than a retweet. so we go as we o

top shareholder, not musk. does that impact his ability to try to take the company private at all >> it depends. if the poison pill goes through that prevents him from increasing the stake if it doesn't that allows him to become the largest shareholder again. an interesting defense mechanism is this idea that if i were the twitter board i would call the biggest shareholders the prince was tweeting and doesn't believe that the deal makes sense for the company. the hostile takeover won't work to tender the shares for that kind of a deal so that could be something to see as well as this thing plays out. >> fascinating thank you all. great to have you all here as we continue to follow the headlines and dig through what it means for twitter shares fluctuating throughout the session today. >> absolutely. something to really watch. we have to see what people on twitter think and then the people in the company think and how big of an impact on the board. >> for sure. >>> we'll wrap up the "power lunch" travel week with

if elon musk's deal to buy twitter goes through, some fear it takes musk's attention away from tesla us. when will musk officially take over the platform? >> he will be running the company in 6 months. no layoffs expected, the ceo will stay on. in the first 12 months he will take, 42 million-dollar parting gift, their strong opposition in the company, we joked about wanting to be flies on the wall, twitter locking down the products are panicked employees can't make rogue changes to the platform. how will this bake money? advertising is the main source of revenue and analysts fear unbridled free speech could leave woke advertisers to disassociate themselves from the platform, predicting advertisers could shift to platforms like youtube and tiktok. user metrics are key and you have a slew of blue tick accounts exiting for instagram, activist sean king deleting his account on that announcement and liberal actor and activist saying farewell to her followers tweeting i fear this free-speech bid will help the pleach r final for of leatssotryigig guea rlsgu r l of ervoniveson n un de intagt

musk is not tied to the 14.9% stake.he wants a controlling stak of twitter and take it private, he can afford to do it with hundreds of billions to spare. they know they have a fight ahead. i don't think this was as passive as corporate a move as they might feel and they are forced to make it up. >> i 100% agree, alex. you talk about the statement from the ceo of twitter. it was almost like, i don't want to call it threatening to musk, but talk about duty and this and that you wonder we will give you the board seat, but we have to investigate a lot of things in your back ground and past and you and dig into things you may chooses to not dig into. musk probably said no thanks >> right exactly. the board seat was always openly an effort to tie musk's hands. it looks like the top line of no more than 14.9% was a deal he w wanted to agree to, but going forward would be constraining. the deal for twitter and musk, was it the constraints or the disclosures? is it that musk has a vision for twitter that he feels like he can onl

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congratulations to elon musk.t want to overdo this i got tingles, i really do. i think it's an important move. i think it is going to help media. i think it will help the country. i think don luskin was onto something with respect to american civilization. let me ask you about something though in this market. i'm sort of contrarian sometime. i'm looking at put/call ratio. at end of the week highest level since march 19th, the day before the bottom. should we look for long positions? >> charles, i love trading a short squeeze when we get that high put/call ratio. another time i wanted to point out, december 24, 2018, that was another time where the put/call ratio was extreme and we saw just a massive short squeeze off the lows. we have to remember what the short squeeze, when you have the put/call ratio, the situation is there. it could happen but it has to start for a reason. there has to be a catalyst and this week we had so many landmines. if there is, you know, perhaps microsoft or google just absolutely kill i