seen periods of dramatic growth. how much has changed and did these companies grow too fast too much? let me quickly say that i have nothing but love for msnbc, but how do you expect me to be coherent after, like, charismatic stuff from steve kornacki, you guys got to give me a bumper or something. how do you think i feel? look, these companies had amassed trillions of dollars of market cap. if you think about the y2k market boom, that was tiny with what we experienced. free money, crypto, nfts, it was whatever you wanted to make of it, and hiring got out of control, recruiting, marketing, selling general administrative. if you see a company like google with, what, 150, 160,000 employees, facebook, meta, microsoft, all of them are going to want to prune at the margins and i m not saying that to sound callus or mercenary. but when their stocks are down
policies. and in bari weiss discussion or report on the decision to ban president trump, it actually seems like the trust and safety folks are the ones who ultimately responsible for this were being quite thoughtful about it and there were people who worked at twitter who were not necessarily on that team that were being quite callus saying yeah, we end trump. we are part of history, et. i thought that was a very ugly look for the company and something they would certainly be embarrassed was released. obviously there were concerns about the free speech part of this. we had the president of france. we had angela america while shes was chilling. people inside of twitter but outside of twitter felt that the president was inciting violence and we did end up seeing violence on january 6th. is i see a pretty clear line there. and matt taibbi had one of his releases that said that donald trump something they considered was what he called a pretty ant
executive privilege. while it does slow it down which is bad for doj and their case. i think at the end of the day we ll not see a lot of documents pulled by the special master. some of the materials include tax and accounting information. the ruling halting the justice department s criminal review of the mar-a-lago haul. i don t think it has a massive impact on the investigation in the long run. if i was the prosecutor i d say let s trudge forward with the special master get through it as quickly as possible. reporter: even as the judge acknowledged there was not any evidence of a callus disregard of trump s rights. arguing he may not be allowed to have property returned. trump speaking at his first rally since the fbi searched his resort last month. they rifled through the first lady s closets, drawers and everything else.
exactly how those poor people looking for a better life died in the back of a semi truck. well, texas governor greg abbott tweeted, quote, these deaths are on biden. they are a result of his deadly open border policies. they show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law. in response to that, msnbc s mehdi hasan asked on twitter, quote, remember when republicans lecture everyone about not politicizing deaths? the white house is declining to comment on the tweet from governor abbott, but a series of tweets from alejandro mayorkas who said he is heartbroken from the loss of life and placed the blame on human smugglers whom he called, quote, callus individuals who have no regard for the vulnerable people they exploit and endanger to make a profit. the only thing i ll say about greg abbott, he certainly wasn t
first well, he said the first railcars coming from ukraine kran xw grain and left the region and perhaps traveling to even turkey since turkey is supposed to brokering the talks. and we heard around 600,000 tons of ukrainian grain have been stolen by russia since the beginning of this conflict. russia has denied that, kremlin spokesman ensaid wednesday that he doesn t think this is the reason for the food crisis, that there is really not that much ukraine kran grain at stake here. but the pressure from the international community to do something is mount. we had talked yesterday between laug sergey lavrov and his turkish counterpart and they did not make a breakthrough. but listen to this. this is a cold, callus and calculated siege by putin on in