history. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. a busy day for the world s richest man. and let s get the latest from kelly in l.a. kelly? hey, good to see you, neil. we re about to see a battle of the tech titans. you have twitter lawyering up and elon musk saying that he can determinate the agreement due to the number of fake accounts. even with the confidence he showed in a tweet, hey, this is an interesting roller coaster here. transaction lawyers say it s difficult to prove that twitter is lying about user data. musk will say the platform withheld that data. some say he waved under the right to close the deal quickly. he claims that doesn t mean he waived the right to see it. musk said that company refused requests for two months. now, twitter won t be going down without a fight. they hired a team of merger heavyweights. many analysts think it s a ploy to get a discount with the stock closing 40% below his offer. some say that twitter will break not wanting to reveal tha
conspiracy charges. he lived with rhodes for months and is expected to reveal how he capitalized on conspiracy theories to build membership and funding. he met with the committee for three hours and also met with the commit personally. steve bannon, with his criminal trial for contempt of congress approaching, bannon now says he is willing to testify. that s a pretty remarkable about face among those least wanting to testify. in a filing today, the department said that trump attorney justin clark confirmed the former president, quote, never invoked executive privilege over any particular information or materials in response to the subpoena bannon received. like pat cipollone s lengthy testimony on friday, panel member zoe lofgren says his testimony will be similar. would it be a public hearing or would it be behind closed doors? ordinarily, this goes on for hour after hour after hour. we want to get all our questions and answers and do that in the right format. joining
dangers the men and women in the capitol faced that day. the perils that our nation faced as a whole and the former the president s justification for what happened. i went to washington because they were angry with an election that they think was rigged. a very small portion went down to the capitol. a very small portion of them went in. but they were angry from the standpoint of what happened in the election because they are smart and they see and saw what happened. among the crowd that day, far right extremists like the proud boys and oath keepsers welcome the focus of tomorrow s hearing along with trump s role encouraging them to march on the capitol. the president tweets on the wee hours of december 19th to be there and be wild. it was a siren call to these folks. and we ll talk in detail about what that caused them to do, how that caused them to organize as well as who else was amplifying that message. the committee member who will lead tomorrow s hearing says th
sequoia, known as the grizzly giant, to protect it from the flames that are ripping through at this hour. this tree, the national park service says it s the second largest tree in yosemite. what we know about this fire is that it has doubled in size in the past 24 hours. nearly 1600 acres have already burned and fire officials are warning that they do expect this fire to continue to grow as they are also expecting continued hot, unusually hot temperatures. escalating drought, climate change, a horrible combination, also adding to this yearly threat of wildfires. how are federal officials dealing with all of that? we have been talking to, on the federal level, the national park service. this is something they are very concerned about as far as the impact of climate change on places like these national parks. most of the national parks across the united states are impacted, if not by extreme temperatures, wildfires, it s the sea level. they are working, on the federal level
the police were summonedded lee years ago by a family member who said the high school dropout had lettenned to kill everyone. threatened to kill everyone. the officers seized 16 knives, a cager and a sword, and that s about it. how is that possible? they could have arrested them for the threat, they can have slapped his name on a no-gun purchase list. instead, he was able to to legally buy 5 guns, a glock pistol and without that failure those seven people in a parade on independence day would still be alived today. what s more, the mass shooter posted violent rhetoric and images online that apparently went undetected by the cops and social media companies. look, the police have a tough job. no law is going to stop is every crazed shooter, but combined with what smells like an unraveling police cover-up of the school massacre in you value uvalde uvalde, everyone s got to do a better job of spotting these potentially heinous killers. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz