voters minds with six days to go. and republicans ramping up their panic based messaging, how to fight fear with facts. then, elon musk finding out owning twitter is not as easy as owning the lives, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. just six days left until election day, president biden is speaking directly to the nation about what s on the line, the future of democracy in america. the warning to not take democracy for granted came during his speech from washington, d.c. earlier tonight he laid out the risk from election deniers, political violence, and voter intimidation. we re facing a defining moment, a inflection point, we must with one overwhelming unified voice speak as a country. and say there is no place, no place, for voter intimidation and political violence in america. whether it is directed at democrats or republicans. no place, period. no place ever. i know there s a lot at stake in these midte
and republicans ramping up their panic based messaging, how to fight fear with facts. then, elon musk finding out owning twitter is not as easy as owning the libs, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. just six days left until election day, president biden is speaking directly to the nation about what s on the line, the future of democracy in america. the warning to not take democracy for granted came during his speech from washington, d. c. earlier tonight. he laid out the risk from election deniers, political violence, and voter intimidation. we re facing a defining moment, a inflection point, we must with one overwhelming unified voice speak as a country. and say there is no place, no place, for voter intimidation and political violence in america. whether it is directed at democrats or republicans. no place, period. no place ever. i know there s a lot at stake in these midterm elections, from our economy to
billion dollar deal to buy twitter, reality is setting in for elon musk. he met with civil rights leaders yesterday, who pressured him to keep banned users off the platform. they also urged him to give company staffers tools they need to fight election disinformation. back with us tonight cnbc political finance reporter brian schwartz. brian, elon musk is facing pressure from civil rights leaders. he s now spooked advertisers. and he s hinted that trump will not be back before the midterms. is it a lot easier to be the king of twitter, rather than the owner? it certainly seems that way. and that s why these civil rights leaders are speaking to him. they re really trying to pressure him to make some sort of decision on what is going to happen to these people who have been banned from twitter. many people on this call from yesterday really want people who are banned to stay banned, at least temporarily, until they find out what these guardrails are going to be, with twitter under elon