dan ives from wedbush says this has been a black eye for musk and a majo for tesla. brand deterioration related to musk a real issue. let s bring in dan, managing director at wedbush securities. you wrote musk is tesla. tesla is musk. twitter is a private company but twitter s chaos has become a tesla story, hasn t it? it s been a brutal spider web. it s ultimately a twilight zone since musk started this in april. especially since he bought twitter in late october. this has been a black cloud over the tesla story. he s using tesla as his own personal atm machine to fund twitter. that s why it s been a debacle of epic proportions. he said no more sales of tesla in april and two or three times since then he s had to sell tesla shares to turn around
he s using tesla as an a.t.m. machine to fund twitter. it s essentiabuy sliefs pizza. reporter: musk made a name for himself as a visionary by ignoring the rules on the roadha henry ford of this era. his effort to buy twitter, you know, really isn t that unusual in the age of billionaires trying to buy media properties. if jeff bezos has the washington post, elon musk s got twitter. tform o attackut the way musk opponents is thrusting him into will political potlight. that includes his recent release of the so-called twitter files, which allege bias in reporting on hunter biden s laptop and trump s ban. is there a smoking gun in the twitter files? there s no specific smoking gun. there s a huge amount of hypocrisy from musk himself where he will say that this is standulous, but then he will use the exact same techniques against anybody who is critical
will use force. what kind ever things were happening at these gas stations that made this owner give you guys a call? philadelphia is off the chain. right now, statistics say 62% of thefts, robberies, and the biggest one of all, carjackings, happen at the pump. now, for this owner, the last straw was when he got hit three weeks ago, they pulled up to the front of the gas station, and got out. walked in, with a hand cart, picked up his atm machine, and went outside and put it in his car and drove off like it was nothing. and the second thing that brought him and the second thing was when he this area was flooded with drug dealers selling drugs in front of their store. so, what he tried to do himself
us. we take action. we can make a e. arrests. and that s what is going to happen if that person with my client commits a crime. he or she is going to get arrested. and i have to use force, i will use force. for this owner, the last straw was when he got hit three weeks ago, pulled up to the front of the gas station and got out, walked in, with a hand cart, picked up his atm machine, mack machine went outside and drove off like it was nothing. brian: unbelievable. ainsley: d.a.s so woke they have lenient policies and they don t lock you up and these criminals know it. steve: what you said was right. when we were watching that ainsley said will you rob a place if a guy like that was standing there? yesterday we were talking to one of the arrested arrested man fro how so many people the threshold
america s crime crisis is forcing business owners to make some tough decisions. they have to take matters into their own hands in some instances particularly the owner of a philadelphia gas station who hired armed guards, and i mean armed, ar15 s, shotguns, to protect his business and customers. neal patel says he s resorted to this because the city is not doing its job. the final straw came when his business was repeatedly vandalized by young people. he gave these images of a recent ransacking of his station s store. the surveillance video of a hooded thief dragging the atm machine out the door is also what we saw, so i would say they would have to have like a whole team of people themselves because that s heavy. patel s car also hit in the crime wave at his gas station.