we will get the chance to speak with walter isaacson with this later. he was at twitter headquarters on thursday. he spent all weekend with elon musk we'll get his take on what is happening. >> who put out the poll? 80%. he put it out himself probably >> i didn't see that >> selecting >> 80/20 80 favorable >>> when we come back, the dow as we mentioned, on track for the best month since 1976. we will talk strategy after the break. before we take that break, here is a flashback to 1976 "rocky" was at the box office. the top show is "happy days. and the spcincinnati reds won t world series gas cost 59 cents a gallon you are watching "squawk box" on cnbc >> announcer: this cnbc program is sponsored by baird. visit bairddifference.com. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ introducing ihg one rewards. seventeen hotel brands. six thousand global destinations. one loyalty program that lets you guest how you guest. >>> welcome back the futures this morning are under pressure dow actually down 140 points nasdaq is down 78. the s&p down 20. the federal reserve is set to begin its two-day mee

. >>> coming up, the elon musk biographer walter isaacson about what may have changed the tesla ceo's buy twitter after all, this just a few week before he was scheduled to go to trial with the company in a bid to get out of his original deal joining us with a look at what may have changed musk's mind is walter isaacson who is professor at tulane university and cnbc contributor walter, the knee jerk reaction is he did it because he didn't want to get deposed friday and his lawyers told him that he would very likely lose in court. is that what changed his mind? >> i would think the second is more important he has very smart lawyers. i'm sure they told him what the chances were not that you would definitely lose, but i think that elon musk is somebody who does the numbers and the risk analysis very well. and there was probably 80%, 90% chance that he would lose in delaware court so why go through that there is part of him that really knows how to make twitter into an amazing product, so he gets up every morning and thinks about how great it would be to have so it wasn't worth going thro

ken, we'll see you coming up, walter isaacson will talk about elon musk and free speech after kanye west'son't go anywhere. big hour right ahead on "squawk box" after this. >>> good morning, could we actually see two days in a row of big-time market gains stocks set to surge as futures point much higher a day after the dow added 500 points another big day for earnings goldman sachs wrapping up the big banks and johnson and johnson shares up as new results are out as well. we're going to bring you the highlights and is china getting set to reunify with taiwan. the secretary of state thinks that the timeline has now shortened. we'll ask as the final hour of "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning, and welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc live from the nasdaq market site in times square i'm gee kernan with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin there are different ways of saying it. that sounds so nice. >> what is that? >> is china set to reunify with taiwan isn't it weird how we could say it this way or that way and it totally changes what you're saying i guess it does matter on how it w