connections to elon musk so it's hard to imagine how they're going to valuate this transaction unbiasedlyt seeing any deals right now. it's not clear there's enough funding to make the original deal possible so we may be getting ahead of ourselves a little bit. emily: david, you have an must have na about been revealing that the saudis would be such a big part of this but we're under an administration looking to limit foreign money. how does this affect this big wrinkle? >> the saudis already have close to 5% in tesla and the sovereign wealth fund would, according to elon, take on a bigger stake to help them take the company private and he's opinion talking to them since 2017 about doing that. one analysts estimates they could end up with a stake as large at 20%. if that happens, sure, he's out of the public markets. he doesn't have a bunch of -- sniping on social media and analysts asking questions on earnings call. what he does have is now a new shareholder sitting on his shoulder with a stake potentially as large as his. the saudis are not like karl i kaun in the since they're going to