offer, i m not going to negotiate here. is this just some this is one of most important communications platforms in the world. hate twitter, love twitter, it is a very important platform for the world to communicate and this shows and reinforces the power of the billionaires to rule over in these cases in this case a really important he s not just a billionaire. he s got 100 billion more than list. a reminder how much wealth he has. it is pretty remarkable that he could just snap this up if he wanted to. enough money if he wanted he s guaranteed to get it? i guess it would have to be regulators who would have to decide, right, if he couldn t for some reason have it. but he s got the money. he has said i m willing to take this company private and begin this process, take it off the public market. i think we re in for a dramatic board fight now. this is going to be a fight. for a while. from what you know, do they want to just hand it over to elon musk? it depends, th
imperatives in the current form. twitter needs to be transformed as a private company. societal imperatives is a platform for free speech around the world. that s what he says. so this has sent the company and its current shareholders, other shareholders scrambling to figure out what happens next. usually in these s.e.c. filings it is very dry investment banker language. he says this is my best and final offer. i am not playing this back and forth game. i moved straight to the end here. it is a high price, your shareholders will love it, if the deal doesn t work, given don t have confidence in management and don t believe it can drive necessary change in the public market, i would consider my reconsider my position as a shareholder meaning he s threatening to sell what he already has if they don t take his deal. yeah. why does he want it? i think it is partly about free speech. he believes that too many people are censored on twitter, he believes twitter s policies are misguided.
financial regulators over the way he used the platform in the past to juice his company. that s right. and his companies include tesla and spacex. is there enough elon musk to go around if he takes twitter private and runs this thing. he thinks he can rule the world here with twitter, rule the twitter-verse. is this a fair price? is this a real price that they have to sit and think about? i don t know. what did you say the high was? above $70 in the last year. has improved its share price. he started buying in when the stock was in the 30s. now in the 40s. he has helped he has juiced twitter in the past few weeks. there is a lot of questions about what is his endgame, real motivation, is he trying to pump and dump? there are some analysts who are saying this say real game of thrones, a soap opera that will likely end because of how much higher in the market he is offering, probably end with him owning twitter. but is it just a troll? if he s not going to negotiate, he says
collective push and kind of look up from our phones and, you know, keep an eye on each other, which seemed like as the news reported during the shooting, people were there for each other, ready to help. i think i read yesterday, it said you took a cab, you broke your routine? i did. i did cabs and luckily i can walk everywhere too. maybe the city bike, you know. thank you for being with us, describing what you saw. i hope your morning laundry is peaceful and undisturbed going forward. i hope so too. i have faith in new york. thank you. turning now to russia s invasion of ukraine, one of vladimir putin s core objectives is to weaken and divide nato. new evidence that plan is failing. plus, if you can t beat them, buy them. how much elon musk just offered to buy twitter. all of it. a take it or leave it offer in cash. (brad) congraratulations! you re having.
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