and actually to help freedom in the world more broadly than the u.s., twitter as a public platform x. so i do think this will be somewhat painful, and i m not sure that i i will actually be able to acquire itful. jon: the world s richest man not sure he ll be able to acquire it, but he sure is giving it the old college try, joe. [laughter] yeah. he s already bought billions upon billions of stock this year alone, right, jon? i think he owns something like 10% of the company at this point. but we know what this is all about, right? this is about if elon musk takes over, then conservatives like, i don t know, the former president in donald trump may be allowed back on the platform, and then if he runs in 2024, he has his favorite communications mechanism to serve again as far as bypassing what he calls the media filter. so in the end i don t think it s so much about elon musk, perhaps it s about donald trump and him getting a communications platform back that, obviously,
it s a direct threat, but it s also an implied threat. then the other thing that is just as important, they are saying, the russians are saying that they will temporarily i should say they will suspend, they re not even saying for how long, they will suspend this deconfliction, let s call it a hotline, a communications mechanism between russia and the united states, that s supposed to prevent any type of collisions in the air between russia and the united states. the question is, is this real? is it bluffing? would they actually shoot down an american plan? nobody can really say that at this point. it would seem that the russians would not want to do that. that would be hugely provocative and very dangerous. the situation is dangerous, christine. precisely because you have planes in the air and no understanding of what could happen even accidentally. i mean, it s a hornets nest,
hope, were able to accommodate some secure environment in the face of mother nature s really profound theory throwing around the things that we build like toys. as we turn our attention away, however, from the storms at this moment to the electoral politics, governor rundell joins us with what will be, as we can imagine, this final mitt romney consensus. i think so, dylan. let me say that my brother, his wife and my two nieces live in dallas. property damage with always be rebuilt, and it s good so far there is no loss of life. that s the important thing. and i m told by your staff that cell phone coverage is out in dallas. yeah. the best communications mechanism they re saying is good