this deal ever really start? is was it ever really, well, real? did elon musk ever truly intend to buy out the company, and if he did, what happened? and now what happens? welcome, everyone, i m neil cavuto and happy weekend and not if you re a twitter shareholder on news that elon musk is quitting. the latest from kelly o grady out in los angeles on what went wrong. reporter: hey, neil. what a roller coaster, right? elon is claiming he has grounds to terminate the social platform because they failed to provide key information and that the company appears to have made misleading statements during their negotiations. now, this really all comes down to the number of spam bots on the platform. the reason bots are so important is musk has made no new attempts to grow the revenue, and that risks on act rests on active users. all indications suggest that several of twitter s public exposures are either false or materially misleading. it appears twitter is dramatically understat
chinese threat. also a controversial shrine visit which angered south korea and china and honored a number of war criminals from world war ii. i interviewed abe in the asia-pacific, and i found him to have to be a very modern, a very thoughtful prime minister, helping the country hold its own in the region and also globally, neil. neil: thank you for that, susan, very much. susan li. want to go to a former secret service agent. dan, there s a lot we re trying to piece together after the fact, but one thing, how unheard of this sort of thing is in japan, let alone the former prime minister, but anyone period. gun violence is virtually unheard of. do you think that that sort of back drop here explains why people maybe let their guard down? it s somewhat the culture of the japanese, neil. it is, the situation over there where there s not a great deal of crime, guns are illegal. no one may actually own a
i spoke with a propane salesman just yesterday who said people are low income and middle income people are having to choose between energy and buying their medicines, and it s really a problematic situation especially with inflation. consumption is two-thirds of the u.s. economy, and as consumption goes, so goes the u.s. economy. and the consumer s hurting. neil: to your point, propane has doubled in the last year, that s a very good point. but, ann, stepping back from it all, the markets are fascinating to watch these days because good news can be interpreted as good or it can be interpreted as bad. so a strong employment report reinforces the notion the federal reserve is going to hike rates at least another three-quarters of a point later this month, probably another three-quarters of a point in september. where are you on this in how high rates go? i m not sure that a 7. 5-basis point hike in september for the following reasons: some of the components of inflation, the pressure
off and landing a little bit further so that this way it s more safe to take off and land. so in that situation, yes, you re going to get an faa delay, but at the end of the day, you re going to get to where you re going faster than driving. neil: we ll see. bobby, thank you very much, my friend. we re learning a lot more about the shooter and the shooter s family in illinois, after this. in
patrol agent would try to do anything to stop the flow at the border, if they do something like this happens. a terrible situation. neil: and we re showing it now, it s hardly back to normal, whatever normal is, such incidents are continuing, not the horse incidents here, but, you know, more trying to break through that border. and now we re told that it s possible that cvb can no longer, you know, use horses in the pursuit of migrants in an area where four-wheel drive vehicles, even they have a tough time through some of this geography and i m wondering, then what? you know what, neil, if all they re doing is peeling back more and more the ability of the customs and border protection to do their job, and it s demoraliing to them and more dangerous to them. and in the brush, that s where the horses can go, and they re saving more lives that no one