reid hoffman, thank you.s worth a read, an optimistic read on what's going on in the world of ai. but i think fairly skeptical. but i think you raise all the issues about that we also need to worry about. so thank you. it's a great book. >> pleasure. >> when we come back. trump media on the move this morning. company announcing a partnership with a big financial player. we'll tell you which one after the break. squawk box returns after this. >> in a world. >> of uncertainty and disruption, how will your investments stay resilient? we've been navigating change for 125 years, always. >> looking forward. >> anticipating risks. >> and trusted. >> to manage. >> over $1 trillion. >> in assets worldwide. >> solving for the. needs of investors today and tomorrow. investors today and tomorrow. that's the power of (grunting) at morgan stanley, old school hard work meets bold new thinking. ( ♪♪ ) partnering to unlock new ideas, to create new legacies, to transform a company, industry, economy, generation. because grit a

we have to recognize when people see us as hypocrites, no reid hoffman is not a good bill and it theng class, this man has been trying to get rid of lena con from the beginning and we know other things that he's done. but let's remember this. hillary clinton had more money than donald trump did and we all know about the expenditures of the harris campaign. when the democratic party started taking corporate money in the 70's, that's when our moral authority began to leak out of the bottom of the boat. bernie sanders has proven that you can do this on small donations. when we become the people's party again, when we align our own ethics with what we say we believe in, when people can see that we are talking about things like universal care and a majority of republicans as well as democrats want it, when we are talking about the $50 trillion transfer of wealth over the last 50 years, the fact that our system is rigged in the favor of a few so they can get rich at the expense of everybody else, we won't even have to be begging from berliners. so many people will be throwing their lunch m

and then the letitia james and the civil suit which was funded by a big bite and donor reid hoffman.85 million another 370, they were trying to bankrupt donald trump and keep them off the campaign trail. and then they used all of this and other insidious ways by telling attorney gener generalss under indictment. sixteen attorney generals tried to take them off the state ballot. and then they conflated being charged with a felon, to being convicted to big sentence and just said he is a felon. that permeated throughout the whole political discourse. i have never seen anything like it. i hope it never happens again. mark: i think the department of justice under pam bondi's went have responsibility get to the bottom of this but i don't have any doubt there was coordination. in fact they do not have to on the phone or visit each other for there to be coordination they just have to watch what was going on, listen to a joe biden kept saying. they knew if they needed to do the democrat judges knew what they needed to do but the democrat prosecutors needed to know if they needed to do it. thi

i did not hear about complain abouultzt george soros, reid hoffman, michael bloomberg, mark stier.wifeonder why. mark zuckerberg and his wife kicked in $400 million in grantt to help swing the vote for biden in key battleground states, i don't recall biden complaining. but now that some of the biggest tech ceos are working with thr trump instead that the democrats, it is suddenly a threat to democracy? heit really does think we are stupid. little chris! we all know when billionaires did biden's leading, he left them that when underwriting trump's inauguration, there is dark forceorw descending on america.ma >> they are appearing in an avalanche of disinformation and misinformation and abuse of power. social media is giving up on fact-checking. the truth is smothered by lies told for power and profit. >> laura: an avalanche of misinformation like that of the virus that came out of the wet market like the vaccines transmission and infection of covid-19? e hunter biden's laptopia wasn't real or that don trump jr. was a russian agent? because if anyonmatie was guiltf pushing this informati

elon musk reposted earlier tree of sam altman supporting linkedin founder reid hoffman for donating moneythat was a lot i hope everybody at home can keep up with the back-and-forth it was a little crazy but at the end of the day sam altman and elon musk still support president donald trump. i don't know if donald trump will have to intervene but it's a bit of a back-and-forth and everybody is watching a play on the computers. maria: that is funny and are talking about how much money softbank has on the balance sheet. because they have 25 billion on the balance sheet the talking about the money not being there but is making a commitment. elon musk made a commitment of the $200 billion but to see the back-and-forth between the tech titans is funny. >> it is entertaining. it's almost juvenile but it's funny to watch. as it relates to softbank and whether or not they will be able to secure the funds, i can tell you i've been writing client review meetings the whole month of december i was talking with clients and there is not a single client that i have who is not super excited about investin

speaking of investors and ai, linkedin founder turned investor reid hoffman led a multi-million dollarnd of investment into researching drugs that will target cancer. they're going to start with breast cancer and prostate cancer. target the latest to say it's changing its policies over diversity, equity and inclusion, reducing the number of products aimed toward certain groups, and ending a program that buys from black and minority owned businesses. look at the headquarters in minneapolis. local pride group there says target is uninvited to the next parade. the local paper, the star tribune, says some tget suppliers are rethinking their relationship with the big box store, and google has announced its maps will start calling that body of water west of florida, south of alabama, the gulf of america. it was president trump who directed the u.s. government to call it the gulf of america, not the gulf of mexico. and google says its policy is to use the names that governments use to label maps. so if washington calls it the gulf of america, so too does google. this is not a new controversy.

reid hoffman, he gave $2 million to joe biden. most do not realize secretary of state tell who is on the ballot and people try so hard. the democratic party chairman and secretaries of state, what about marianne williamson? the secretary of the commonwealth put me back. it's going to be about ethics. none of those shenanigans. how much of our failure came from this? >> the calendar is a vital part of the job, not just the feelings of how people feel. >> i know how strongly they fell , making it about the calendar, everyone matters and this is a deflection so people don't know what's going down. >> i agree we should hear from each state and honor traditions ensuring we battle test candidates to bring us a winning nominee, we should make sure we pick the strongest candidate, pretty simple commitment that we need to honor and become supercharged. by the time the primary is over it will be too late. we had hundreds of organizers and for the last four years on the ground, biggest footprint of any party. a state that was rigged. what do

but like a lot of people that talk to elon a lot myself, reid hoffman, many others, they're not. there's there's been a real break, especially between altman and, and musk over a variety of things. and elon's alleging certain things, and sam is denying them or just shaking his head. essentially. >> in this particular instance. i mean, he's alleging, you know, they don't have the money. i know you've spoken to some of the parties involved in the stargate project, even if they don't have cash on hand, i assume they could raise this money quickly. >> for seconds. >> yeah. i mean, there's a lot i know of. a lot of people would want to invest. >> yeah. there's not there's no lack of money among these people. they could do it out of their own pockets. just larry ellison standing there, you know? that's it. that's all you need. and interestingly, ellison is close to musk and has invested in twitter and everything else. so there's plenty of money here. i mean, i think he's trying to impugn the thing because he's not part of it or it, it, it it's you know, trump is showing a little indepe

reid hoffman to recognize it as they millionaire because he shares our values, he gave $2 million to the write-in campaign for joe biden in new hampshire this you want the rest of us were scrambling for $3300 maximum donations. most people do not realize the way these things happen is the secretaries of state say to the head of the democratic party who's on the ballot? people have tried transpos myself, such as dean tillis, et cetera what happened was in quite a few states the democratic party, joe biden and the people said the secretary of state, what about that women marianne williamson or dean phillips? nothing to see there, nothing to see there. it was massachusetts that overrode that in the sector of the commonwealth will be back on the calendar. if i am the chair of the dnc it's going to be about the ethics. if that graybill at the calendar, it would be about the ethics and every state party shall know none of those shenanigans. yes, we do have to clean up the past. we have to take and how much of our failure came from this because the american people saw that. the american peo

reid hoffman, billionaire. >> right. >> george soros, his son alex soros, billionaire. there is a lot. >> there were a lot of disrespect for the president-elect trump during the pre -- before the election. now it's just if you have a million you have to be in it, kind of the toll. >> now you've got to a seat at the inauguration. >>> bessent's testimony, he made a lot of news. >> i liked it. >> for me the biggest take away is he's going to be the adult in the room, right? >> exactly. >> if he gets nominated and gets confirmed which he should be. >> well, i think in the end he respects the process. i think there's the process respecters and the process undoers and i felt that secretary bessent, soon to be -- i have to be careful of that, who knows. >> doesn't look like there's going to be -- >> the give and take -- there was a moment when the give and take was senator sanders. >> yes. >> where i think sanders thought that he was going to tee off on sanders, instead they had common ground and there was a lot of respect and then i think sanders had nothing to say, he was ki

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it said, very few people realize just how much reid hoffman did and spent to stop trump from getting reelected. it seems reasonably likely to me that trump would still be in office without his efforts. thank you reid. after that, openai sam altman posted. watching potus more carefully recently has really changed my perspective on him. i wish i had done more of my own thinking and definitely fell into the mpc trap. i'm not going to agree with him on everything, but i think he will be incredible for the country in many ways. so this was the tit for tat, the pushing back and forth. remember, musk co-founded openai, but he's been battling with altman in recent years. he launched rival xai in 2023 and more recently sued openai and altman, accusing them of antitrust violations. but andrew, then it really kicked off. you saw the tweet later from elon musk, where he was pulling up the clip of your conversation with satya yesterday where satya said, well, i don't know about this entire situation, but i know i'm good for my $80 billion. and elon posted that and said. >> yes, he is, because. >>