the same way that twitter used -- trump has used twitter to bypass media. in the arab spring protest, people organized against what they saw authoritarian governments they used twitter and facebook and used social media in ways that they could not do in a previous era. it gives people a way to have a voice without getting permission. it is also true that trump put much more of a spotlight on twitter and gave it more relevance in a way that twitter did not like because it brought all these questions about whether twitter is responsible for the things that he says. host: let's talk to mike from pennsylvania next. caller: my issue isn't just with twitter it is with social media and general. ever since this more liberal leaning government system took office, there has been more censorship on all social media. twitter, facebook, you name it. host: what do you think? guest: i have not seen credible research on this. it is true that there has been an evolution over the past 10 years, over the past five years, a rethinking about what had been a free speech absoluti

more than 15 times the amount twitter under the same period last year. twitter is not the biggest social platform either. it has more than $200.00. 17000000 davy uses, compared with billions for facebook and instagram. where there have been different reactions to the deal from politicians while the white house said it's concerned about the power of large social media platforms. some republicans welcomed it as an encouraging day for freedom of speech. to discuss all of that. now i'm joined by daniel, i'm from new york. daniel is the managing director and senior equity research analyst at wed bush security. thank you for your time. i you surprised by this deal, then known in a 1000000 years come in 2022 would think that you are in moscow and twitter. so with that said, of twitter is vulnerable. i mean, the company has been on their performance social media for the last decade and must can knew that there was an opportunity. and also it was a game of thrones to board. look for another bidder. a white knight couldn't find it. must be called his finance, the richest person, the world they had

let's talk about twitter. of course, this jaw—dropping announcement came on monday, it's a major news sources vivian explains, elon musk has had an offer of $41; billion accepted for the whole thing. lauren hirsch from the new york times, you've been reporting on this in detail. while it would've been jaw—dropping however long it took but to happen so quickly really took us all by surprise. how did that happen? it was incredible. i was outside a show texting with a source just to touch l base and my source goes, "a deal could happen - "maybe monday, maybe not." i was like, "what are you talking about?" i it happened at an - exceptionally fast speed. the board — to take a step back, - elon musk put the offer out there without any financing. there was a lot of scepticism that it was real, it _ was legitimate, and he lined up financing on wednesday, displayed on thursday i and all of a sudden | it became very real. and the board was faced i with the decision of looking at its prospect of standing - alone, a

able to actually change twitter as well but the reality is twitter is an established lot form. has been around for a while and convincing people twitter is a whole new platform is going to be a big challenge. emily: insider intelligence, jasmine, always appreciate having her thoughts on that show. another story we continue to watch -- elon musk other company, tesla, isolating thousands of workers in china to make sure they are covid-free. this is a large-scale plan to ramp up production at its plant in shanghai after weeks of lockdown. workers are being housed in unused factories and an old military camp. they will be allowed to join other workers inside the production bubble after a two or three day quarantine in accordance with government orders. coming up, shareholder showdown -- that twitter annual meeting coming in the midst of musk's deal. more on what you can expect, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: twitter's annual meeting kicks off wednesday and the company continues to find itself in quite the match. on one side of the ring is elon musk with his offer to buy the co

nasdaq 100 up by almost 3% and twitter up by 9%. world wavers as elon phupbg says his deal to buy the company is on pause. i want to start with you. what are bankers telling you right now? you have a lot invested in this? >> they do. he had gone to a lot of parties not only for the margin loan which our own booing reporter reported. he is trying to find new financing so reduce the margin so a lot of people talking to musk to try to get this done but again let's look at the merger spread because that is where the money is to be made and lost. shares much lower than the offer price. a lot of questions about whether he is going to drop the bid entirely or renegotiate the offer price. there's a breakup in both directions. if he walks away it is a billion dollars, if twitter walks away it is a billion dollars. so the question is who stands to lose if it does not go through. guy: let's say it goes ahead but at a lower price. how does that change the funding requirement that musk needs to put in place? can he use what is already there? doe

twitter, amazon and meta. what were your key takeaways? >> we will start off with twitter. that one closely watched because of the trauma surrounding the elon musk takeover. that is set to happen at a later date. we got news that founder jack dorsey is stepping off the board. a key director also failing his reelection bid. moving on to amazon, shareholders rejecting all of the proposals in place to make t he conditions better for the workers. this company has come under a lot of scrutiny because of those conditions for workers and also the stock split being approved by shareholders at 20 to 1. that is set to take place in june. emily: thank you for that round up. meantime we are learning new details about the deadly and devastating shooting in uvalde, texas. texas governor greg abbott saying the 18-year-old posted about his plans on facebook in the minutes before the attack. >> as of this time, the only information that was known in advance was posted by the gunman on facebook approximately 30 minutes before reaching the school. the first post was to the point of -- he said

it's month for twitter. the saw must take a 9 percent stake in the company, making him its largest shareholder. he was then offered a seat on the board of directors, only to have it abruptly revoked, followed by his cash offer to buy the entire company, all within the last few weeks. ultimately, e lawn must got what he wanted to not only be a twitter user, but to also be its owner. gabe rosato al jazeera new york. investors have long been concerned about the company's growth. the number suggests that twitter is hard a the most successful social media platform in the marketplace. the company ended 2021 with a $5000000000.00 revenue fraction of the figures recorded by other platforms, facebook's core app, and nearly $70000000.00 in advertising revenue. more than 15 times the amount twitter earned in the same period last year. twitter is not the biggest social platform either and as more than 217000000 davy uses, compared with billions for facebook and instagram. well, there have been different reactions to the

oddly at the end of the day the new twitter may end up looking a lot like the old twitter. >> i would guess that even though musk wants to expand speech a lot on twitter he's going to end up closer to what twitter does now. >> reporter: for "this week" deirdre bolton, abc news, new york. >> let's get more on this from kara swisher host of the sway podcast, our chief legal analyst dan abrams. kara, let me begin with you. as a journalist you probably know elon musk and interviewed him about a dozen times. what do you think he's up to? >> he wants to own twitter. he thinks it's an interesting business. i think he thinks it's good for his business. he's an active user and he feels like it was going the wrong direction. that's sort of an outside story. i think he thinks it's an underleveraged asset and it certainly is. no one has been able to make the kind of money other tech companies have made that are in that space like facebook or snapchat and tiktok and he thinks it's an opportunity and he also likes the attention. i don't know if you noticed. >> i want to press that first point, thou

musk has managed to drive down the price of twitter so far and it is hard to say if twitter will find another buyer at this stage. francine: so much going on. he doesn't seem to be in charge. laura wright with that wonderful -- tom mackenzie he says he is not interested, but i know he is checking what elon musk says. tom: we were saying during the break that there is a $100 million breakup fee. francine: if you look at bonds at the moment, chinese bonds actually opened lower and we are fully focused on the ecb hike bets. wounds have been sliding today and the haven has been unwinding. the money markets wager on maintaining the ecb rate hikes by december. myles bradshaw, head of global aggregate fi strategy at jp morgan, is still with us. is there anything at all that looks attractive in the european bond space? myles: you have got me there. the thing is that the valuations have moved a lot. that is the first thing. when you look at u.s. and european bonds, we see that the first valuation point is interesting. people have been underweight and they knew not -- do not want to risk their

>> twitter was closely watched. buzz because the drama surrounding elon musk's takeover drama, but that actually is said to have been at a later date. we got the news that founder jack dorsey is stepping down off the board and a key director also failing his reelection bid. let's move onto amazon because the shareholders are rejecting all of the proposals that were in place to make the conditions better for the workers. this company has come under a lot of scrutiny because of those conditions for workers as we know. and also, the stock split being approved by shareholders at 20 to one, that is set to take pace in june. emily: thank you for that round up. meantime, we're learning new details about the deadly and devastating shooting in texas. texas governor greg abbott saying the 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at rob elementary school posted about his plans in facebook the minutes before the attack. >> as of this time, the only information that was known in advance was posted by the gunmen

we're doing twitter. so with that said on twitter is vulnerable. i mean, the company's been on their performance social media for the last decade and must, can knew that there was an opportunity. and also it was a game of thrones to board and look for another bidder. a white knight could find it must details in financing riches person the world they had to down deal got done . so, you know, look, i think for mosque the easy part. he was playing chassis, the board was playing checkers. so that was the easy part, the hard parts can be fixing twitter, which is what i view as i'm as an ever is like up to a battle. there's been a lot of touring and falling to get to this point. it was, you know, is it almost going to join the board? no, he's not. he wants to buy it out that going to put for this poison pill plan that didn't happen. why do you think it is that the board ended up accepting this deal? well this is, this is a game, a game of thrones, right? and in terms of how it all played out. i mean, ultimately, i mean must surprise the board with the 9

in the deal, they are learning billions of dollars of debt onto the books of twitter and twitter has to pay for the moving forward. can you make enough profit? especially as he talks about getting rid of the base model which gets most of the revenue. he talks about new initiatives úthat do not always pay off. flat out says he doesn't care about the economics, right? that is really going to be a question moving forward. i think again, some of the uncertainty that is just resting on the shoulders of twitter and its employees are now. >> in the last few moments we have, we have reports that came out this week, i understand it is called [ null ] week in business reporter service because so many reports come out and we have had a very serious warning about a major recession,. >> deutsche bank says there will be a recession it. the only bank that has gone that far saying that, what we have seen in these earnings report so far is the companies, apple and facebook and google and microsoft and amazon big tech companies just blew up during the pandemic, right? two years of profits we have nev

all twitter users to. that's not true i said divided amongst all twitter. you know, what about the let's >> that is all the time we have today. but really appreciate the insight. and i guess nobody knows where this is headed. is the bottom line, is that right? that's right. >> brought up from ciena. thank you so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 5. thank you for having me. still ahead here kron 4 exclusive, a former sheriff's volunteer is under investigation accused of building and selling ghost guns. we will hear from his wife. >> who says she tried repeatedly to warn law enforcement. >> and why the white house is canceled. multiple offshore oil and gas lease sales as americans face record high prices at the pump. for state controller, only yiu will save taxpayers money. wait, who, me? me? no, not you. yvonne yiu. yvonne yiu. not me. good choice. for 25 years, yiu worked as an executive at top financial firms. managed hundreds of audits. as mayor, she saved taxpayers over $55 million. finding waste. saving money. because... yiu is for you. yiu is

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be on twitter. this should be in a 13d right now. the s.e.c. at some point is going to say something about this they are already upset about it. >> upset about stuff that goes back to the original tesla buyout and also upset about the way the original twitter >> from elon's perspective, he got away with all of it. he negotiated all of it over twitter and with the board maybe he thought he could do it again. this feels like the step the regulators cannot ignore at this point. >> yeah. >> they have to move faster. >> we will see >>> we have more that we will talk about and this story for the next three hours we have another big story. coinbase taking a hit from the crypto selloff stock bouncing back. we have interview we will show you with the company's cfo about the issue of whether accounts are protected and what happens in the event of a bankruptcy >>> later, making saense of the chaos with jeremy allaire. you are watching "squawk box" here on cnbc ♪ ♪ bonnie boon i'm calling you out. everybody

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twitter ultimately down 1.5%. he says if he is successful in buying twitter, elon musk, he would reverse the ban on donald trump. we're looking at the context of the earnings, coinbase softer than expected sales in the first quarter. the problem with coinbase is that we're looking at transactions going further into the second quarter. we have been down more than 10%. you have to remember that with a volatility we saw a lot of volatility in the first quarter on all risk assets, but the sales and earnings did not meet earnings. emily: and cryptocurrencies falling. thank you. i want to dive into the ongoing volatility and we saw a big selloff since the start of the year. where joined now by the chief market strategist at putnam investments. thank you for joining us. what do you make of the selloff especially when it comes to tech? is there more to come? >> there is probably more to come. it makes sense that tech stocks have pulled back so far because we have seen tech stocks do well in the past three years, especiall

you on mosque says he's putting his bid to buy twitter on temporary hold, claiming twitter is official stats under estimate the number of fake and spam accounts and platform. that's racing. speculation that must might be getting cold feet on a deal in a follow up tweet mosque insisted he was still committed to buying social media company. that's our show. find out more aligned, they'll be dot com slash business also on youtube. thanks for watching. what's making the headlines and what's behind them d. w, news, africa. this shows that the issues have been the continent. life is slowly getting back to normally well in the streets to give you enough reports on the inside. our cars funds is on the ground and reporting from across the continent and all the trend stuff. the mazda you next on d w, i will be is tied up in traffic jams. it's an ongoing problem in the canyon capital. a small start up with big ideas wants to improve the situation with electric buses to reduce market they're quiet and affordable. they can already be found on the streets of 9 o b. but doesn't the project have a fut

i think there are some echoes of that in elon trying to purchase twitter but there are things twitter needs to sell and hasn't sold for many years in terms of the algorithm. some of the innovations in terms of editing tweets and deleting tweets, content moderation. that said, you can go all the way the other way where there is no control and you remove everything and become something reminiscent of for chan or whatever the latest toxic social media network or platform is. i hope elon is able to look at this and say i'm going to divorce the world of the algorithm and revenue from the tweet stream and amplify messages that have ugly information, things that cause genocide. we need to separate the capital and revenue from the messages amplified by the algorithm. that is when you have the toxicity that happens because if it bleeds it leads, you know. i hope elon is going to be doing the right, even if he brings trump back on, trump should not be amplified for revenue gain. emily: let's talk about that moment. i want you to take a listen to what elon had to say about the banning of preside

shares of twitter are in tailspin. elon musk tweeted that his takeover is on hold until he gets more information about the proportion of fake accounts. in a recent finding, twitter found that fake accounts make up less than 5% of its users. some european union nations say that there may be time to consider a push back russian oil. the problem is that they cannot persuade hungry back the embargo, but they hope to perceive the rest on a proposed sanction package. the u.k. chancellor has said that the brexit settlement in northern ironman -- ireland is causing political harm. bloomberg television asked whether the u.k. will take action on its own. >> no decision has been taken. our pressurant best preferences always been to take a print we are going to engage with our counterparts in europe about how we can find resolution to some of the very real challenges of the protocol that is causing. >> you can get more on that story from our bloomberg u.k. website, the premier destination for financial news in britain. visit bloom

the power of twitter to influence _ basis. the power of twitter to influence american _ basis. the power of twitter to influence american politics i basis. the power of twitter to influence american politics is| influence american politics is just heard, isn't it? we have to leave it there.— to leave it there. thank you for your— to leave it there. thank you for your analysis. _ to leave it there. thank you for your analysis. thanks i to leave it there. thank you for your analysis. thanks to j for your analysis. thanks to having me. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: we'll assess the environmental impact of war — the latest in our special series, climate critical. the pope was shot, the pope will live — that's the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon, that, as an italian television commentator put it, terrorism had come to the vatican. the man they called the butcher of lyon, klaus barbie, went on trial today in the french town where he was the gestapo chief in the second world war. winnie mandela never looked like a woman just sentencedl to six

some on the right had all spike and twitter followers. some of the left, including a lot of good politicians, were screaming that they lost thousands of followers overnight. and after all of this noise, following about about twitter accounts, sort of then announces that it estimates speak. fam accounts do indeed represent less than 5 percent of users. they announce this after all the noise and effort, you love bio and you know, what else the added twitter added in the fine print that it's quarterly results in quotes that the actual number of fake accounts could be higher could. now if you want to buy a used car and you want all the facts right, if you gonna buy a used car, you want all the facts kayla must, is doing exactly that. he wants all the facts before he jumps in the vehicle and drives away with his new used car. i briefly what if he decides that he doesn't want this used car and he walks away from twitter. could that cost him? yes, it could cause them because we're seeing twitter and so slow prices slide and according to the um,

to me, twitter is all about product. i think it needs -- you know, i think it needs -- products, and you know that may lead to subscription i think the current product, is there a subscription, you know, opportunity in the current product, i don't think so. >> it's all about the product, indeed i want to make sure we hear your thoughts on funco, and understand why both you and bob iger are so enthusiastic about this toy company why are you making this big investment >> on a short-term basis, it's a company that's growing almost 60% a year and we were able to buy it for, you know, give or take a six multiple, which is pretty good mark and bargain, even in today's stock market they've got a more macrolong-term basis this is one of the great pop culture opportunities. we hat tcg has been working on this a couple months we believe they have -- we think this is a pop culture monetization machine they have movies, music, sports figures, anime figures, et cetera, and they have wide scale distribution on target, amazon, walmart,

everything he said on twitter and twitter circumstances was correct. has not innovated as much as it should have in the last decade, five years. if he's one of the world's most amazing innovators, i think it is counter to what jason said. he has an interesting plan. the bot might be on target or not. but he is an active user, in the last couple days even. he has a sense of where the product should go. always a product oriented entrepreneur. so he has a plan and something he's interested in. obviously, the tweets of where we are going with the deal are not great for stability within the company, employees, and the future. emily: do you think he's serious? on the other side of the deal, would you be frustrated with the back-and-forth? >> of course you should be frustrated. pleading in the morning saying hold, then later that he is committed, needless thrashing on this. on the other hand, here's a person who revitalizes the industry, brings on the future in green cars and other things. a bunch of very interesting things possible with the innovation. i thi

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stock is up in tesla, twitter is worth less money. perhaps we'll see him revise his offer for twitter downwards, but i guarantee you come monday morning, we'll have a lot more to talk about. marcus and kris? >> maybe you should have that graphic just blank. just pencil it in. >> yes, add words to it, yes. >> keep us talking, no doubt. thank you, scott. >>> a live look at sfo and happening now, network issues at terminal one left some of those travelers with nowhere to go earlier this morning. sfo sent a tweet out around 7:00 this morning, the learning of ticket disruptions for american, jetblue and southwest customers, the airport says the tech issues have since been resolved, but travelers we spoke with are still working to find a way to their destinations. nbc bay area's cierra johnson is live this midday. people are just trying to get out on vacation, cierra. >> reporter: folks are trying to get out and enjoy their weekend, this morning here at sfo in terminal one, they were told they need to find another airline or another airport

he's questioning what twitter is saying by saying we want more clarity because twitter put out sec filing, so he doesn't believe it you think? james: yeah, i suppose maybe it's an estimate and he wants to know how they got to that number and maybe goes into the strategy and he needs to figure out how much is real and how much is phoney conversation generated by computers and people with ill-intent that are hiding their identities. but, yeah, this -- it could be bumpy ride to closing. twitter executives probably knew that already. maria: ken mahony this is one more question with a market that's been with questions. look at what happened to crypto, crashing $2 billion. 1.7 trillion in losses from the highs, bitcoin plunging below 26,000 for the first time in six months now it is bouncing this morning up to 30,271 but you also had terra usd plunging as well and, of course, breaking the buck. what's your thought on the crypto mess and whether or not this represents a dot-com dejavu back in 2001 when we had hopes about dot com until we didn't. >> there's a lot of dejavu and the onus is you can

tom: twitter thinks the deal is going forward. as our colleague michelle who broke the nose yes just broke the news yesterday twitter's , board came out and said they will enforce the merger agreement. they have the agreement in place where you are musk will pay the company and we expect that deal to go through. all this talk, all this background noise about bots, deals on hold, which is not a thing by the way. not a thing. twitter is like, the deal goes forward. ed: michelle, i want to get the inside scoop from you. but first we have natasha lam who was on the show on tuesday, listen to what she had to say about the whole situation. natasha: i think twitter has had so many challenges over the years, which is why you see ceos come and go, move around, while you are seeing what is happening with elon musk right now. unfortunately, it feels like elon musk is a cat playing with a ball of string. ed: a cat with a ball of string, what you are hearing, michelle, is in the background the bankers, advisors, business as usual. michelle: ye

you on mosque says he's putting his bid to by twitter on temporary hold, claiming twitters official stats under estimate the number of fake and spam accounts and platform. that's racing speculation. the mosque might be getting cold feet on a deal in a follow up tweet mosque insisted he was still committed to buying the social media company. that's our show. find out more aligned, they'll be dot com slash business also on you too. thanks for watching. hello there i am, the moon. you all know me at least by side. like feel if you know my secret, would you like to know them? discover what i can offer and why everyone suddenly wants to visit me and come and take a close. tomorrow to do on d, w. greedy and uncompromising oh, oh. from the street to a steel mill, urban art meets world heritage. international artists have once again transformed the fo, coming an iron works into a unique art site hero, macs in 60 minutes. bob, d. w. o, a real natural spectacle in an improved world. a meeting of the little known whale sharks, the remote island of saint own. ah, it is a testament to the home of the

liam, one second twitter alongside you because twitter is crashing. stock down 19% right now on the headline that elon musk saying the deal is temporarily on hold. there is his tweet i guess he is upset that there is not more spam accounts. unclear what he is referring to. reuters reporting on the accounts apologize, liam. you look at what is going on with twitter how much does the cryptocurrency crash, if at all, maybe it is 0%, liam, factor in to what is happening with stocks? they do seem to be correlated. bitcoin at .82% to the high of nasdaq >> you are right, brian. it is another sign of risk aversion it is a sensitive sign of risk aversion because toward the end of the move in bitcoin, it seemed to attract a lot of media attention. it was really becoming a retail market it got frothy. all of the indications in the decline there were hints and clues. we saw it with the high growth stocks they took the charge on the down side they were the most sensitive to a change in fed policy now, what we had is a joining of the gang on the down side. i think

twitter made donald trump, he is all over twitter to reach his base for years. it was his primary source of connecting with the american people in was only when it was the obvious january 6 event in his possible provocations that encourage the bad behavior that was a threat to our very form of government, twitter finally said this can't be, it shouldn't be. it was right. elon musk is after-the-fact saying it alienated the trump based on twitter, i don't think so. kennedy: they are trying to deprive him of necessary political oxygen that turned him into a viable candidate. making sure he didn't have that, they assumed he would wither on the vine and that hasn't happened either and that is what he's saying, conservatives left twitter when he was kicked off permanently and he wanted to be a town square where people who disagree with. >> you can respond in the way the four of us are talking tonight. it's not a town square when there's no response because everybody is in their own travel saying of noxious and violent things. kennedy: that is not all of twitter. it's

his attempted buyout of twitter. this deal has taken a few twists and turns since he 1st twittered about it a month ago. nick, your head is here with more. the saga mask and twitter has been going on for months now. in april, i do like he was all set to buy the company for a value of $44000000000.00. however, last week, math tweeted that the deal was temporarily on hold while he examined the number of fake spam accounts on twitter. the company estimates that bucks for miss than 5 percent of uses, but that figure is in dispute. twitter insists that in order to clinch the deal musket in fact, waived his rights to due diligence, and the company says it remains committed to the sale. on tuesday, the board said that it would enforce the major agreement, suggesting it will sue mask if he walks away from the deal. and they're not the only ones trying to keep him at the table project. veritas is a far right activist group in the us known for working undercover, releasing secretly recorded conversations to discredit opponents

the left is none to bit of a meltdown on twitter are you optimistic about elon musk controlled twitter it will bring an free or be full of disinformation? >> i think it is a good start in the direction of free speech. i was is very revealing to see how the left has reacted to elon musk would not things won't amplify the right or a limit the reach of liberal content on twitter but just said he's going to bring political neutrality back to content moderation decision has caused the left to go into such a tizzy revealing how the left sees the role of social media. but the left in a lot of ways has to rely on making their opinion seen beyond question that do not hold up under scrutiny. they have really come to rely on the censorship of dissent from their ideas or talk about the vaccine or transit gender agenda for children the censorship to support its policies for think has been very interesting to see how the political left has reacted to the idea that we might have political neutrality on this major platform. it striking to be our democratic strategist to support the democratic candidat

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he's just tribe twitter as a digital town square. and that's lead analysts to assume that under mosques watch, twitter will loosen its content, moderation policies, which has disturbing implications for hate speech. and it's a fact. there have also been suggestions that he will introduce, paid subscriptions, bad user anonymity and add an added function, letting people change their tweet after posting them. there is also the question of what to do about donald trump. and his ilk. ilan mosque is on the verge of taking control of a platform where everyone seems to be angry about something. and it is not yet clear if the billionaire knows just what he's getting into. and we're starting point this week, the world's biggest micro blogging site, 5 voices on what the future holds for twitter. 3 big breaking news this afternoon. you on month twitter. takeover is a go we had 2 weeks of uncertainty. yolanda was struck a deal to buy twitter at a price. 44000000000 sucks. this means that the world's richest man is going to effectively control one

. -- pay for twitter. other options you can take, if you can show that there is a material adverse advent -- event, some change to the business that materially, for a sustained. of -- period of time would change the outlook. he would have to show this, he would have to say, twitter, i'm not going to this deal until you prove to me that bots make up fewer than 5% of account. he also waived his right to due diligence when he was going about this deal and presented that as something that was a vote in favor of the deal. he said he would not do due diligence, he does not have a leg to stand on. finally, twitter is made public disclosures about the fact that estimates bots makeup fewer than 5% of account. insecurity filings have said, and most recent one, that the number could be higher than that. the people that i talked to say a judge would be hard-pressed to agree with musk on this. what could happen, he could try to walk away, twitter could take him to court, and then in order to avoid a lengthy protracted

tom: does twitter have scale with or without musk? you have always been great about having that immovable force called scale. does twitter that you perceive have scale? >> scale for a niche platform. this has been a critique of a lot of companies. they thought they could be facebook, they thought they could be something universal. they were never more than a niche. they shot for the stars and got to the moon. that's ok. they are big enough to be a very important player. they are really important for communications in general. lisa: how much is the back-and-forth, and frankly, the noise around elon musk and twitter deteriorating value of the company by virtue of morale when it comes to employees, as well as the confidence that people have in the reality of what's being said? >> it's been really damaging from a long-term perspective. the good news is that i think for most marketers, you know, we represent the largest, they want to use twitter as it is now. the work twitter has been doing toward building a safer platform has been really

twitter closed yesterday at 45.08. its market cap, more than $9 billion less than the $44 billion that musk agreed to pay for the company. now with today's stock decline, it's now down about 10%. that valuation gap is of course growing. musk's personal wealth has also declined tesla stock is down by about a third since he disclosed his twitter stake, though we see it up about 5% today, this morning, so making up a little bit of this on speculation that maybe the deal won't happen. this morning's tweet could draw attention from regulators, the sec and ftc are both investigating the deal and the timing of musks disclosures about his twitter share purchases and all that adds yet another element of uncertainty for the deals closing. all of this comes as twitter itself is influx the ceo pushed out two of the company's most senior executives yesterday. the executive overseeing product and revenue and he announced they're putting hiring on hold so a lot of questions about the future of twitter. >> yes more will be revealed. j

his twitter in the same boat? ed: yeah, twitter is vulnerable. we talk about advertising in the first thing to suffer in a weaker microenvironment's advertisers or money, especially -- pull money especially when they have concerns about consumer confidence. i'm sure shareholders will ask about the future of twitters at is this during the meeting. kriti: ed ludlow joining us outside of twitters headquarters in san francisco, thank you as always. let's continue the conversation on twitter and bring in and cam partners executive director and really dig into this issue -- in m km partners executive director and really dig into the issue. we heard about these macroeconomic fears. how much of the fears will seep into the twitter story? >> [indiscernible] twitter does more brands in the first thing as an said, the first thing they would pull back is brenda spend. so this will not work in a vacuum. they will definitely see headwinds compared to what snap a seeing come of the industry is seeing, and others are seeing. kriti: i have to ask about whether so

and a new update on twitter. the latest fallout over allegations the company is selling your private data. we speak with an expert on this in just a f welcome back. despit the recent mass shootings, the national rifle association is moving forward with its annual conference in houston tomorrow. joe khaleel investigates the nra's massive influence on lawmakers and how it possibly impacts u.s. policy. >> time after time, and kids in this country are panicking. they're panicking. but this continues to be the new normal and congress does nothing mass shooting after mass shooting. do you think there's anything that actually some common ground >> we wish all? well, one, i need to understand what the circumstances were. it seems congress never fails to fail on any solutions to these horrific crimes. one alleged possible reason why the money and power of the national rifle association, one of the largest lobbying organizations in the world spending tens of millions of dollars each year on political races and assets. in f

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