good morning. we begin this hour with a look at one of the most influential and controversial figures in the world today, elon musk. it was just over a year ago the spacex and tesla ceo completed his acquisition of twitter. since then, he s had no shortage of battles, we spoke about it with walter isaacson, his biographer. talk about writing at elon musk during a volatile time of his life publicly. talk about the challenges and awards as an author you got out of that. first of all, he has been volatile his whole life. as a kid, 2018, he s going just as crazy at times as you see him in the past couple of years. when i started this book, when we first started talking about it, he was the guy bringing us into electric vehicles and the only person who could send people into orbit in the u.s. i thought, good technology story. then a year into my reporting, he is secretly buying up twitter, going to hawaii in a two- to three-night binge and deciding to take it over. it became a
files with disclose information about afghan and iraqi operations by the us, place lies it risks. we are judged by nomia iqbal. there was about the agreement. although he has been injail in the uk since 2019, the actual story ofjulian assange has been running for more than a decade, hazarded? his wikileaks website rose to prominence in 2010. you mentioned this bridge that the american it was the largest of its kind in us military history. wikileaks military history. wikilea ks released military history. wikileaks released more than 90,000 classified military documents on the afghanistan war and also released more than 400,000 secret documents on the iraq war and he has long been accused of putting american operatives lives at risk. as you mention, almost all the charges that he faced were under the espionage act and he won t spend any time in the us, once again, the plea, expected to be finalised later this week, because it is roughly equivalent to the amount of time that he
around the iraq and afghanistan wars endangered lives. wikileaks, founded in 2006, claims to have published more than 10 million documents in what the us government described as one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states. assange and his lawyers have long claimed that the case was politically motivated. i spoke to nomia iqbal. nomia, you have been following this. tell us about the agreement. it is interesting. although he has been injail in the uk since 2019, the actual story ofjulian assange has been running for more than a decade, hasn t it? so his wikileaks website rose to prominence in 2010. you mentioned there this breach that the americans said was the largest of its kind in us military history. wikileaks released more than 90,000 classified military documents on the afghanistan war and also released more than 400,000 secret documents on the iraq war and he s long been accused of putting american operatives lives at ris
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