oh, let's open up an investigation on elon musk. that prompted this response from elon musk. so the city of san francisco attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fytinol. adam schiff is so deeply troubled by elon musk that he's now flat out lying about hate speech on the platform, siting zero evidence at all whatsoever, schiff tweeted earlier today, "against slurs, against black people" have tripled on musk's twitter and tweets slurs against women are on the rise. musk must immediately pour water on those claims replying "false, hate speech, impressions are actually down by 1/3 for twitter, now versus prior to the acquisition." meanwhile, the white house press secretary asked about the twitter files and the democratic push for censorship by peter doocy. all she wanted to do was not answer the question and say bye-bye. >> you've said a few times you can't talk about the biden campaign and twitter. who is telling you that's off-limits? >> i've already had that conversation with you, a colleague, i believe, yesterday, i've a

she called musk a burnout denier. has a thrive global campaign signed by over a hundred companies. arianna huffington is with us now. you write that elon musk is a case study for leadership, how is he such a powerful counter case study? arianna: at the very moment when we have major multinational companies like pfizer, accenture, salesforce and walmart investing in employee mental health and seeing the business results in terms of recruitment, retention and productivity. we have elon musk who is a genius when it comes to understanding energy and cars. clearly not understanding human energy. and expecting his employees to act as though burnout leads to people performance and great business results. we see that it does not. we see a chaotic process of decision-making which clearly is not benefiting twitter. and it is obviously not benefiting tesla, because to ed's point about white is tesla stock down, there is no question that elon musk is the genius behind tesla. when that genius is distracted by auctioning espresso m

it comes as musk shared this tweet. let me show it to you., follow, and then a rabbit-faced emoji. now, that is a known qanon symbol. we have more on elon musk and how he became one of the world's biggest lightning rods. >> ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world. >> elon musk met with boos and some cheers on stage with dave chappelle. a mirror of what his first two months at twitter's helm have been like. revered by some, despised by others. [ crowd reacting ] a tweet about prosecuting anthony fauci drew backlash. he's reinstated many previously banned accounts like former president donald trump that violated twitter's rules. and he fired thousands of employees reportedly threatening to sue the ones who remained if they leaked confidential information. but those who followed musk's career say they're not surprised. >> the approach that you're seeing in how elon musk governs twitter is aligned with how he's governed his previous companies. the difference is that he's doing it more publicly in a more super-charge

absolutely, what elon musk has said in the past is - musk has said in the past is that elon musk is a. he thought he needed to be shaken up. there were lots of disgruntled employees and people who quit and there is chatter on switcher of people who want to leave the platform because they don't trust what it is under elon musk. that doesn't mean it is a majority opinion but that chapter has gone on. there are two schools of thought that you know musk has done great things with tesla and space x and he might be the one to find a solution to twitter. another school of thought is that a social media company is a different beast and perhaps this isn't in his wheelhouse. that's what his ardent supporters seem be seen right now. ardent supporters seem be seen riaht now. ., , ., right now. yet, lots of mixed opinions- _ right now. yet, lots of mixed opinions. thank _ right now. yet, lots of mixed opinions. thank you - right now. yet, lots of mixed opinions. thank you for - right now. yet, lots of mixed i opinions. thank you for keeping us up—to—date on that story. if you are interested in mor

ed: is elon musk not going back to his playbook?to bring up something you said in your op-ed that he is showing the downsides of the model fueled by burnout and lack of sleep in his own decision-making. and that made me think about reporting from 2018 when musk said he was sleeping on the production line with his engineers. he does have a good track record of getting these companies be it tesla or spacex through moments of distress and you look at the two companies now they are the clear market incumbents for electric vehicles and commercials a slot. -- commercial space launch. >> absolutely nothing to things have happen. the culture has moved on. pandemic has accelerated the cultural shift away from celebrating burnout and wearing it as a badge of success. when elon musk asked his twitter employees to commit to a intense way of working 1200 of them resign. that would not have happened in 2018. what happened with the pandemic is people looked at their lives. and what they value. and millions of people said we value hard work and bei

does elon musk have a oint, accounts. does elon musk have a point. though. — accounts.oes elon musk have a point, though, when he - accounts. does elon musk have a point, though, when he says - point, though, when he says that knowing the location of his private jet is a threat to the security, not only of his own security but the threat to the security of his family as well potentially? i the security of his family as well potentially?— well potentially? i mean, i don't actually _ well potentially? i mean, i don't actually buy - well potentially? i mean, i don't actually buy that. - well potentially? i mean, i don't actually buy that. i l don't actually buy that. i think there is some room for discussion. i think that knowing which airport his plane lands at and flies out of at which times, i think it is already public information and it is perfectly reasonable for people to learn less about the private jets of billionaires and i think the even bigger issueis and i think the even bigger issue is everyone who posted anything related to that you got suspended, they get t

musk's response to all this? he says the suspended accounts broke twitter's doxxing rules, which now prohibits people from tweeting other people's live locations, including their private jets. here's elon's tweet. if anyone posted real time locations and addresses of nyt reporters, fbi would be investigating. there would be hearings on capitol hill, and biden would give speeches about the end of democracy. elon musk also tweeted a poll asking how long these twitter suspensions should last. a lot happening here. joining us now is nora benavides, a senior counsel with free press, a group based in washington, d.c. fighting for media rights and free speech. thanks for staying up late for us. let's start from the beginning here. what are we seeing here? is this a justified suspension by elon musk or something totally different? >> well, thanks for having me. it's great to be here with you. i think this is part of a long line of actions that elon has taken basically based on personal animus. he dislikes what some peopl

but the saudi's stake in twitter before elon musk bought the company.y this is a national security issue. mr. biden was trying to intimidate musk for abandoning us free speech on twitter which be a clear and heinous first amendment by the president. it may not be working. mr. musk tweeted on monday this is a battle for the future of civilization if free speech is lost even in america tierney is all that lies ahead. he is also expected to open the corporate vault and review why twitter block the truth about biden family business back in 2020. critical question for all americans to treasure liberty and whether the fbi with the warnings about quote unquote misinformation was a key factor driving the censorship. elon musk tweeted the twitter files on free speech, suppression soon to be published on twitter itself for the public deserves to know what really happened. the public absolutely does in the public deserves an open debate free of government demands of censorship. a few u.s. editors have delivered then elizabeth warren who is called on silicon valley

after weeks of turmoil, musk himself put the question to twitter users. what it could mean, next >>> former crypto mogul sam bankman-fried will waive extradition back to the u.s. cnbc reports after court in the bahamas and mixed signals from his attorneys about whether he would return to the u.s. voluntarily. the ftx founder was arrested in the bahamas last week and charged with defrauding his investors. >>> the future of twitter is up in the air after elon musk launched a poll asking whether he should step down as ceo. the majority of users who voted said yes as gabe gutierrez reports, it comes after some especially turbulent days at the company. >> reporter: tonight, the results of elon musk's twitter poll are in he should step down as the social media giant's ceo according to 57.5% of respondents. more than 17 million votes were cast in the unscientific survey which musk said he would abide by. >> he said himself he does not have a successor. the question becomes, if he does step down after the results of this poll, who takes over for him >> reporter:

i said just choose one. >> reporter: musk didn't listen to his mom. tesla which he's claimed has almost gone bankrupt. tesla, like many companies, facing a dramatic collapse in share price. down nearly 50% this year. challenging musk's richest man in the world title. >> tesla was always an incredibly chaotic company in a business that runs on long term planning, it was sort of this day to day sort of chaos and lack of planning and the plans were constantly changing. >> reporter: he went on making history with spacex. >> we want to make space accessible to everyone. >> reporter: musk started another high-tech company, neuro link, aiming to connect humans and computers by implanting chips into people's brains. >> it's sort of like having an apple watch or a fit bit. replacing a piece of skull with like a smart watch. >> reporter: initially, camera shy, he learned to muster the power of publicity. >> you're elon musk. >> i am? >> i saw him on a tv show. elon, you're doing tv work. he said no one will sell me any rocket parts because they don't know who i

azadeh, so much happens in the world of elon musk and twitter every day, so is this the end of elon muskt the results of these polls. he's posted today few during his time as twitter ceo and he tends to follow up when it comes to twitter policy, but in this instance, just less than two hours ago one twitter user who is in entrepreneurial waiting for extradition kim.com who elon musk typically does conversed with on twitter suggests that maybe this is interpol he should be listening to, that he is a big target on twitter and that there are a lot of pots and perhaps this is not one he can trust and elon musk responded by saying interesting. then another twitter user suggested a new policy change for twitter and elon musk said that idea was a good point and that it would become twitter policy so he is still clearly the boss, he is still clearly the boss, he is still running things at twitter hq and he said so himself, he hasn't actually appointed a successor yet and of course the last seven weeks have been impossible to predict and they have been extremely chaotic. hi spoke to a tesla and t

musk bought the company for an eye-popping $44 billion.that twitter, which relies on advertising for much of its revenue, has turned a profit in only two of the last ten years. since his takeover, musk has fired or accepted resignations from about two-thirds of twitter's staff. >> if you look at it as a business, you'd have to say, no, no, stay away from this. but it's sort of like buying a yacht or a baseball team for a rich person, this is interesting to him. >> reporter: cara swisher is a tech journalist and podcast host who's known musk for over 20 years and interviewed him extensively. lately, though, he hasn't been such a fan of her coverage of him. >> he thinks he can reform it. >> reporter: since buying the company, musk, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, has invited back some users who'd previously been banned or otherwise restricted. he's fired employees who have tweeted criticisms of him. and he posted and then deleted what one commentator called the most expensive tweet ever, a conspiracy theory about nancy pelosi's hus

elon musk restless announced the vote. should he leave the post of head of twitter, the majority said that he should look for a replacement. in general, while musk shook the question, a figure, a kind a mixture of an anthroponeur dreamer of an adventurous warehouse, a bright businessman of a large scale, a wit and a person who thinks of himself outside the framework of the political canon. in october , after buying the social network twitter, elon musk published a post birdie freely, after which he fired the entire management, the richest man on the planet according to forbes, has been actively using this platform for more than 10 years and often allows himself harsh statements that cost him dearly back in 2018. april fool's day. company founder tesla published a post about its complete bankruptcy. not everyone understood the joke, the next day the company's shares fell by 5%. musk is not shy about his expressions during the lockdown. he called for the liberation of america and called the panic for the stupid anti-covid vi

musk had -- twitter filed reports, criticizes reporters fans, musk attacked her and then unfollowed reportedly stopped paying rent at twitter's offices and has been telling staff not to pay vendors. there you go, that will fix you. and it seems he started linking to qanon, tweeting a rabbit emoji, which the extremist emoji has adopted as its own. musk has mocked the idea that the emoji means anything. but qanon supporters seem to think he is sending a message loud and clear. and that is all just happened this week. look, elon musk, now you get why we only have one contender for worst of the week. more with the panel after this -- them all. for over 120 years, mercedes-benz vans have been built, upfitted and ready to go. because we believe dreams - should never stay that way. trying to control my asthma felt anything but normal. ♪ ♪ enough was enough. i talked to an asthma specialist and found out my severe asthma is driven by eosinophils, a type of asthma nucala can help control. now, fewer asthma attacks and less oral steroids that's my nunormal with nucala. nucala is a once-monthl

what do you think f elon musk so far? elon musk, hunter bin is still be and i can't say this because i don't know the feedfacts, it seems like he's been involved in something pretty interesting on behalf of the big guy, whoever that may be. we don't know for sure. you know -- i think elon musk has quite posp popossibly posp popos possib p saved course rivalling the titanic and i ti think what elon musk had is spent a lot of money like i did in that lawsuit against the guy who lied about me. i am going to do this because it is important to my survival and my well-being. i think elon musk loves this country. it is clear that he does. why would he spend all that money on twitter j jp jjust -- why would he do unless he could see its values. you have to understand something. back when they had the power on twitter. well, it is a private site and it is not like it is a town square, they can say whatever they want. better not saying it now. but, it wit was in fact the town sq and it was a forum for free speech. if you have a tow

trying to criticize elon musk, saying one man shouldn't make all decisions what elon musk is doing is remove himself from the situation and have people speak freely, where was she when the heads of twitter were pulling content down? unbelievable. by the way, elon musk has reinstated 62,000 banned accounts that haven it,000 followers and just reversed the covid misinformation policy. get ready for heads to explode in washington. >> todd: that is gaslighting by elizabeth warren. >> brooke: lawmakers say twitter is a private company and can make their own decision, before elon musk took over, but now they say elon musk took over and it is different. >> carley: shades of gray with the first amendment. thank you. apple remaining silent about demonstrations breaking out across china, including those at an iphone center. the tech giant is taking a different approach at home, quick to point out apple ceo tim cook published an essay speaking up on racism after george floyd's death and proclaimed at apple our mission has been to create technology that empowers people to change the world for the

if jeff bezos has "the washington post," elon musk's got twitter. >> reporter: but the way musk uses his platform to attack opponents is thrusting him into the political spotlight. that includes his recent release of the so-called twitter files, which allege bias in reporting on hunter biden's laptop and trump's ban. is there a smoking gun in the twitter files? >> there's no specific smoking gun. there's a huge amount of hypocrisy from musk himself where he will say that this is scandalous, but then he will use the exact same techniques against anybody who is critical of him. >> tweet by tweet, the brand of musk, i believe, has deteriorated, and ultimately it's a black eye for tesla. >> reporter: now, musk has not responded to multiple requests from cbs. analysts say it's a really bad time for him to be alienating customers, just as the e.v. market is really heating up and. becoming competitive. ultimately, critics believe musk is going to have to choose between running twitter or tesla. norah. >> o'donnell: carter evans, thank you so much. and cbs reports has a new documentary that

cbs' carter evans reports tonight on musk shifting his focus to twitter. >> reporter: elon musk's famous photo op carrying a sink into twitter has become fodder for fired employees suing him. >> the sink made sense, because elon is now sending twitter down the drain. >> reporter: musk has slashed nearly half the staff, charged for checkmarks and reinstated banned accounts, causing users and advertisers to flee, and his effort to shore up twitter may now be costing tesla, the auto maker stock down about 30% since he took over the social media company about two months ago. >> he's using tesla as an a.t.m. machine to fund twitter. it's essentiabuy sliefs pizza. >> reporter: musk made a name for himself as a visionary by ignoring the rules on the roadha henry ford of this era. >> his effort to buy twitter, you know, really isn't that unusual in the age of billionaires trying to buy media properties. if jeff bezos has "the washington post," elon musk's got twitter. tform o attackut the way musk opponents is thrusting him into will political potlight. that includes his recent release of the so

oh, let's open up an investigation on elon musk. now, that prompted this respo response from elon musnsk. of so the city of san francisco attacks companies providingemply beds for retired employeeseed of instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. where are your priorities, mayor? london breed. but the madness doesn't stop there. now, the compromise, congenital liar adam schiff, he's so deeply troubled by elon musko d and his push for free speech that he's now just flat out hat lying about hate speech on the platform, citing zeroe at evidence at all whatsoever. shift tweeted earlier today, twd quote, against slurs against black people, tripled on elon musk's twitter and claim that slurs against women are on the rise to musk immediately poured cold water on thoseim claims, replying, quote, false hate speech impressions areactuy actually down by a third for twitter now versus prior to the acquisition. meanwhile, the white housequisio press secretary asked about the twitter files and the democratic push for censorshipsn earlier

man musk's. meanwhile there is a big focus. there is a big focus once again on twitter's a stock which is often served as a test. -- tesla stock which is served as a proxy for twitter. let's take a look at a tweet that musk lashed out at a couple of hours ago, coming from a major tesla supporter, who said, hey, tesla stock price reflects the value of having no ceo time for a shakeup. musk responded, please tell us your great ideas. a sarcastic tweet. if you drop into the bloomberg, you see it is down some 60% year-to-date. tesla stock has been on a steady decline. it missed out on the brief upswing in shares. and again, there will be a big focus on tesla when we open up wednesday. david: su, what is this about the ftc? su: it is another headache for musk. we know the stc -- ftc have been reviewing tesla's ceo since he took over at twitter. the question was security and privacy issues. sources close to the matter tell us the investigation has intensified and two former twitter executives have been

elon musk has said that twitter must _ back. elon musk has said that twitter must be _ back.said that twitter must be profitable inl twitter must be profitable in order to survive but in the two months that he has owned and run the company he has reinstated donald trump, he has kicked journalists off and then reinstated them, so on and so forth. if it is head scratching to us it must be bewildering to advertisers?— advertisers? yes and that is why some — advertisers? yes and that is why some of _ advertisers? yes and that is why some of them - advertisers? yes and that is why some of them have - advertisers? yes and that is i why some of them have pulled their funding why some of them have pulled theirfunding and why some of them have pulled their funding and that is why elon musk, according to some investors, have said that elon musk has asked them for more investment in twitter. it has definitely been a mess and chaotic in the words of some of the investors. but elon musk�*s argument has always been that twitter wasn't profitable to begin with, it had a lot of big problems

there is concern about what elon musk will do. will he focus on tesla or pullback from twitter?e don't know of musk will go through with this other than the tweet he made so you have to decide if you take his tweets at face value and see what he does next. >> the act of using a poll to get public opinion is something he's done before. he did it for reinstating the journalist he banned and reinstating donald trump fish. he has a history of following up but polls are easily gamed and we should not see this as a popular vote of twitter users. it could be a manipulated result. based on his past behavior, we think this is something he is likely to follow through on but who knows if that will be immediate and what could happen next? it's a shifting situation. jon: no doubt, thank you so much. we will keep following this one closely. coming up, we will discuss the new diversity plan for cop 15 to protect water. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ ♪ - if you're thinking about going back to school this is for you. ♪ ♪ - i ended up spending less money my entire time at snhu than i did in just one year

musk had -- twitter filed reports, criticizes reporters fans, musk attacked her and then unfollowed there is more. because there is always more with musk. musk has reportedly stopped paying rent at twitter's offices and has been telling staff not to pay vendors. there you go, that will fix you. and it seems he started linking to qanon, tweeting a rabbit emoji, which the extremist emoji has adopted as its own. musk has mocked the idea that the emoji means anything. but qanon supporters seem to think he is sending a message loud and clear. and that is all just happened this week. look, elon musk, now you get why we only have one contender for worst of the week. more with the panel after this -- ter this -- 's one that'll really take you back. it's customized home insurance from liberty mutual!!! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ this is the sound of better breathing. fasenra is an add-on treatment for asthma driven by eosinophils. it helps prevent asthma attacks, improve breathing, and lower use of oral steroids. fasenra is not a rescue medication or

so these are the things elon musk is doing.hether advertisers will be comfortable putting their ad dollars there. >> sara, oliver was talking about how musk's commitment to twitter is spooking some of the tesla investors, that he's there sleeping at the office. i can't imagine it helps those investors sleep at night. >> definitely not. they've issued complaints about his lack of investment and commitment toward tesla. the thing that's tough elon musk, as i said, governs ad hoc. when he was facing that pressure, oh, yeah, i'm not going to be ceo forever. i plan to bring a new ceo in. really? when? it seems he's pretty committed to twitter, sleeping there, as you said. elon musk keeps pulling his money out of tesla because he needs to finance this deal. $13 billion in debt. they're not paying their bills f. you're a tesla investor and the guy who is supposed to be running it is not there, he's pulling his money out of the company, that would make me worry, too. >> oliver, any indications when the suspensions will be lifted? >> it

the other big issue for elon musk _ all. the other big issue for elon musk is _ all.big issue for i elon musk is of course tesla, the shares have fallen sharply summer saying that this obsession with twitter is destroying that —— destroying the tesla brand. will here have to choose one of the other? i think so, the tesla shares have slumped 35% since here took over twitter and here is clearly distracted. twitter is a full on job, clearly distracted. twitter is a full onjob, here clearly distracted. twitter is a full on job, here will remain owner but focusing on this other business interests is something that is really important and activist with an interest in the performance of tesla and the future of that company are rightly concerned about elon musk�*s antics over at twitter right now and they are putting the biggest amount of pressure on him to find somebody more suitable for that job. somebody more suitable for that 'ob. ~ . somebody more suitable for that 'ob. . ., ., ., , job. we all await this next treat with _ job. we all await this next treat with interest,

covering elon musk and the company. journalist included people like cnn's donie o'sullivan, the new york times ryan mack, and the rushing washington post drew and journalist aaron rupar and others. those journalist, like the ones i have just mentioned, that have been covering elon musk and his companies have recently picked up reporting about the location of one of musk's private jets. specifically, some of these journalist have linked to an account called elon jet. links to the twitter account -- the account is run by a 20 year old former elon musk fan who has been using publicly available flight data to track the whereabouts of one of musk 's jets. the fact that that account has been able to do that and has gotten picked up by reporters is now apparently stuck in elon musk's craw. he has suspended the original elon jet account and threatened legal action against the 20 year old behind it. he has asserted that any journalist reporting on the whereabouts of his plane are, quote, posting his exact realtime location, basi

twitter ceo elon musk just fired twitter's top lawyer, james baker.ot rid of him for his possible role in twitter's censoring the hunter biden laptop story, and elon musk is saying potentially was trying to block release of even more twitter files. this is the same former top fbi lawyer on the debunked trump russia probe. we'll dig into it. this controversy, did the fbi debrief congress about its weekly meetings with twitter and facebook on the censorship before the 2020 election? who in congress knew about this? with us tonight senator ron johnson, congressman greg stuebe, jeff van drew and nicole malliotakis, energy pro kathleen scama and andy puzder, for the o'connell. we have these stories. u.s. energy is fighting back against biden's bad policies hurting u.s. economy. this, president biden made another new gaffe in arizona. he said quote, there are more important things than going to the border. this outrage, democrats getting irs to go after americans for $600 transactions about their phone apps, doing nothing about the government losing track o

and speaking of elon musk, a huge night for tesla and the biggest little city in the world and not a moment too soon. it is friday december 2, 2022, you are watching worldwide exchange right here on cnbc. >>> good morning, happy friday, i'm frank holland. let's kick off the hour with a check on u.s. stock futures. they are pretty much flat. not a lot of movement. but however, also want to keep track because there could be a lot of movement later on in the day when the jobs report comes out. we also want to check the bond market as we see, yields are down a little bit from what we saw earlier this week. in fact the ten year is about 15 basis points lower than it was as to start the bike two year note, almost 25 basis points lower than it was so we've still seeing the inverted yield curve but the spread is starting to close just a bit, something to watch. we often call that recession indicator. oil prices are up slightly this morning. wti crude at 81 bucks a barrel, brent at 87 bucks a barrel both five or six bucks more than they started the week. and pay attention to crypto. we're see

shares of musk's company tesla have plummeted 30% since he took over twitter.ome observers to question whether this poll about twitter's future could be an off-ramp for the controversial ceo. still, with or without the ceo title, it's unlikely musk would relinquish complete control of the company he paid so much for as is often the case, his next move is unclear. lester. >> gabe, thank you. >>> next, the charging challenge. a tale of two very different road trips you will want to see. for ts that keep on giving. because while they have no idea what's going on here... -hi. -...a little something of their own will get them in the spirit. they don't know why you'd ever leave the house like this... but they'll happily hold down the fort while you're gone. -smiles! -and let's be honest, they'll never understand this whole situation... but they do get this. thank goodness. great prices. happy pets. chewy. pepeaceful statate. fullll plate. pepeaceful statate. wait, , are you mymy blind da? dancing g crew. tripip for . nanail the fininal intervivi. buy oror lease? nana

elon musk wants to get to the bottom of it. what's becoming even clearer is that as we hear these story of how these task force met with social media in the run up to the election and the task force and was not just the fbi. it was members of the trump administration from the vhs and cyber community and according to elvis chan who was testifying in a court case in missouri the last week or so. there were five or six or 7 members of the trump administration in the room talking to facebook and twitter and saying look, we don't know what it is but we think something is going on there. it was twitter that used that excuse to go ahead and censor it. it would be great if elon musk can peal out the onion skin to find out if there is any connections. >> our reporters resumed searches through file materials. a lot of it today. the next installment. there will be more of the twitter file will appear at billy wise. >> another fbi agent, they do everything except for pull the trigger. you have the fbi breathing down your neck because zucke

elon musk asked twitter users if they went him to step down and they said a resounding yes. we will check in with a writer of the tech friend newsletter at the washington post. the house select committee investigating the january 6 attack at the u.s. capitol held its final public meeting today. it released a 100 60 page final report to wrap up 17 months of work. it voted to approve criminal referrals for former president trump for his role in the attempted and ultimately failed overturn of the 2020 election. joining us alive now is bay area congresswoman jackie spear who has followed the proceedings closely. thank you for joining us. >> great to be with you. >> so now trump is the first ever president to be formally referred by congress for potential criminal prosecution. does a referral carry any legal weight? >> it does not but it does carry i think weight with the american public. this was an 18 month exhaustive review of what happened on january 6. interviews with over 100 people. thousands of pages of documents all of which will be very valuable to the department of jus

elon musk is said twitter — be stepping back. elon musk is said twitter must _ be stepping back.s said twitter must be profitable j said twitter must be profitable in order to survive but in the two months he has owned and run the company is reinstated donald trump, kicked journalists off and reinstated them, it is said scratching to us it must be bewildering to advertisers?— advertisers? yes and that is why some — advertisers? yes and that is why some have _ advertisers? yes and that is why some have called - advertisers? yes and that is why some have called their| why some have called their funding and by elon musk according to some investors has said elon musk has asked them for more investment in twitter, it has definitely been a mess and chaotic in the words of some of the investors, but the elon musk argument has been twitter was unprofitable to begin with, it had a lot of big problems and therefore you needed to shake things up to get a result, questioners have things been shaken up a little too much. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: fans await the return of argent

elon musk is no longer the world's richest man.f his other firm, the electric car—maker tesla, has fallen with investors complaining that musk is neglecting it. and he has other businesses to run too, including spacex, which launches rockets into earth's orbit and has plans to take humans to mars. musk has problems in his in—tray. so who wants to be twitter�*s new chief executive? it's a difficultjob. elon musk will still own the firm, he'll still have a role, and, undoubtedly, he will still prolifically tweet about it. zoe kleinman, bbc news. the body representing many of britain's pubs, says a majority are considering cutting opening hours this winter, because of staff shortages and rising energy bills. the british beer and pub association, says more than 85 per cent of public houses, are considering closing for at least one day a week. bbc analysis has also found that 331 food service firms, like cafes, pubs and catering companies, say they're going bankrupt, filing for insolvency in november. that's up 57 per cent compared to t

we've only seen the public statements from musk.en my twitter app now, i see a page that says "you are permanently suspended from the platform." but musk over the past 24 hours or so has suggested that that might be reduced down to seven days. we're just not sure at the moment. >> so but to be clear, you didn't post where his plane was. >> no. >> you didn't link to where the elon jet account was on some other website. >> uh-huh. >> you just reported on the fact that it existed and was -- was out there existing somewhere else. >> yeah. in fact, a few minutes before the suspension i reported last night on how musk had shut down the twitter account of an emerging platform called masidon, emerging as a twitter competitor. earlier they had posted that the elon jet account was still on their platform, that's what got them suspended and seemingly is the justification, the bogus justification that twitter has for suspending me. >> and he's falsely out there saying that -- highway only -- he only suspended people linking to direct coordinate

musk tweeted a link to a profile that -- a number of reporters covering musk hosted screen grabs of theffending tweet. that includes a high-profile journalist from new york times. here is what you elon musk himself had to say about it. >> you are not special because you are a journalist. you're just a citizen. so, no special treatment. you would obviously get suspended in the story. caroline: this move has sparked a lot of questions. will twitter try to answer them are the hour. first we have our twitter expert. you elon musk talking on spaces becoming in assessable. talk with us about what an extraordinary story this is today. >> it has been a real example of elon managing on the fly. he is coming up with new policies and decisions about suspensions. with things that directly impact him personally which is translated into the product in this case within hours. this is a good example of how he is choosing to run twitter and how it will be difficult to understand what to make of twitter because things could change so quickly and suddenly. that has left a lot of journalist confused or wor

will elon musk remain the head of twitter? maybe not, it seems.himself �*chief twit�* asked his 122 million followers to vote on whether he should resign as the company's chief executive, promising that he would respect the outcome. and after more than 17 million users responded, more than 57% said he should step down. so what now? that's what i asked our news reporter azadeh moshiri. the last seven weeks of twitter have been impossible to predict under elon musk, he has done polls when it comes to twitter policy, during his reign at twitter he has followed the results of those polls. but it does seem to be unclear right now, because there have been a few tweets now suggesting that perhaps he shouldn't trust the results of the latest poll, that there are a lot of bots on twitter that perhaps elon musk shouldn't trust the results and he has responded to those tweets saying "interesting", there has been another twitter user suggesting a new policy change to do with twitter blue and he said great point, that will become the new twitter policy so he i

now elon musk is going into a dark room. this is how she describes it and that would mean he would be doing nefarious things. that's what that connotes. >> i was listening to that report from hillary vaughn. when that clip was played by warren, i yelled into my dead microphone what? what she just described is how twitter operated previously. there was, if not one, a group of individuals and what is increasingly clear under the influence of the government who went into a dark room and decided who to turn up and who to turn down and who to turn off. musk's approach is everyone is welcome under the banner of freedom of speech and what warren is describing as nefarious. freedom, harris. she is describing freedom as nefarious. it blows my mind. we're at a point in american history, maybe it shouldn't blow my mind. every other country on the planet operates this way. we're now in a culture in america that believes no longer i disagree with you but i'll defend to the death my right to say it. it is a culture that now believes shut

i would like to see elon musk open that up to miranda you mir. talk about election interference. we talked about censorship in general. there was an election that wassal tedder and it's -- was altered. it's not just with twitter, it's all the other platforms. i am a pretty optimistic person. as we went through the hours i became more and more he depressed because i know so many good people who are running as conservatives and they just can't compete with this kind of big tech influence and interference in elections and it just makes the entire democrat process seem like a joke, a sham, like we're all -- it's theater. if we allow them to continue to do this, it's not just twitter. it's good that elon musk is doing this but there's other platforms that are doing it as well. >> yeah, you're so right. i really think that google has been under-discussed in the whole debate because they deliberately washed search terms so myself i have to look for sometimes stories i've written, i can't find them and so it's the same with facebook. facebook really put

about the the whereabouts of musk's private plane.cessible online from basically every plane in the sky. it is actually really cool to look at, this is what the realtime flight traffic around the world look like earlier this evening, on one of the sites that tracks it. the faa requires all plans to send out signals of their realtime location, and their flight data. if you think about it more than 15 seconds, you can understand why you wouldn't want to keep that private. having that data out there helps to prevent crashes. it keeps people on the ground informed. according to elon musk, sharing that public data on twitter is equivalent to posting, quote, basically assassination coordinates in obvious direct violation of twitter terms of service. that is a real stretch for a bunch of reasons, not the least of which is the terms of service that he retrofitted to max the infraction. he added them prohibiting the sharing of anyone's current location without their permission, after he banned elon jet account. see how that works? i am pretty

mr musk has not commented directly on _ on. mr musk has not commented directly on the — on. suspensions, - directly on the suspensions, although he wrote in a tweet that... doxxing is when you share someone because my private information online, hoping to do them harm, and few would argue with twitter privatising users of safety. at some is questioning when it matches up with mr musk is my commitment to free speech. tom rhoda, bbc news. to europe now. a giant aquarium — installed in the lobby of a luxury german hotel — has exploded, sending one and a half thousand exotic fish cascading across the floor. from there, jenny hill has the story. this aquarium was built to impress — a million litres of water, more than 1,000 tropicalfish — there was even a lift in the middle. all towering over the lobby of a berlin hotel. my god! but early this morning, it seems the tank simply shattered. glass and metal ripped through the building. water and fish gushed out onto the street. sirens wail extraordinarily, just two people were hurt, neither of them seriously. the hotel actually shook

i don't think elon musk is inventing these old twitter messages.tuff is actually there as well as the documents that he now owns. insofar as this is a big part of joe biden, vote for us because republicans are going to destroy democracy. but the folks behind this, the democrats and their allies in big media, have been engaged in censorship, blocking the hunter biden story, election interference -- they did this right before the 2020 election -- and then you have abuse of power, the fbi coming in and having weekly meetings about, well, maybe don't run that story the, shut that down. and i don't think censorship, election interference and abuse of power are the hallmarks of democracy that i would expect in country. gerry: brian, these are private companies, they can do what they want, but these are enormously powerful companies that kind of act as a public square for discourse. and it's very clear we've seen from both these leaks, these -- the stories that we've had that they are literally bending the information in a particular direction in a way th

adding her to the list of journalists previously suspended for what musk musk calls doc son. critics say the bans are arbitrary, unbiased and run self contrary to musk's self, a spouse desire for free speech on the platform. >> look, free speech is not a plaything of some this is real and the leaders that we pull effective free society and musk stepping in to suspend journalists from twitter. look, it's a business business. that's a business decision that he can make. but the effects of have within a free we all need to be aware that we on the stand up for that. >> as for whether or not musk will be stepping down. we may find out tomorrow. this poll set to end in the early morning hours. kron four's man harry is talking with an expert about all of this and we will have her report coming up tonight on kron. 4 news at 8. >> in the east bay, a 16 year-old has1died after being shot near a park in antioch. it happened saturday morning just before 11, 30 at williamson ranch park located on lone tree way. police responded to reports of gunshots and found the teenage boy suffering fr

then we have elon musk.continues to be the target of new investigations following his takeover of twitter. hillary vaughn is with us. what is he being investigated for now, hillary? >> several different things, stuart. one of them being the insulation of beds at -- installation of beds at twitter headquarters and he continues to publish internal documents that led to takedown content on twitter like the hunter biden censor story and jack dorsey said get it all out there. if the goal is to build transparency with trust and do it without a felter and let all judge for themselves around all discussions with current and future actions making everything public now. musk replaying he will. saying "most important data was hidden from you too and some may have been deleted but everything we find will be released". as mussing tries to build back -- musk tries to build back user trust in twitter as a free speech platform, he's being buried with a number of legal probes into his businesses. musk's upgrade to twitter's