good morning. we begin this hour with a look at one of the most influential and controversial figures in the world today, elon musk. it was just over a year ago the spacex and tesla ceo completed his acquisition of twitter. since then, he s had no shortage of battles, we spoke about it with walter isaacson, his biographer. talk about writing at elon musk during a volatile time of his life publicly. talk about the challenges and awards as an author you got out of that. first of all, he has been volatile his whole life. as a kid, 2018, he s going just as crazy at times as you see him in the past couple of years. when i started this book, when we first started talking about it, he was the guy bringing us into electric vehicles and the only person who could send people into orbit in the u.s. i thought, good technology story. then a year into my reporting, he is secretly buying up twitter, going to hawaii in a two- to three-night binge and deciding to take it over. it became a
people working in the v.a. who were said i was, who would abuse our great great people, our great veterans, by the way 25 years before they would have had their ass kicked by the same person that they re abusing. they would have been in trouble. they would have been in trouble. 25 years earlier they wouldn t be doing it. but that s the way it is. but they re saidists or they re doing a bad job or not working. you felt couldn t fire them. i had passed the v.a. accountability act. we have a great man, david shul ken, dr. david as you will ken has done more in eight months than they ve done at the v.a. for years and years and years and it s really getting good over there. very proud of him. because i made that promise. in the best tradition of ,
politics. this tonight, which we just covered, this was a campaign rally. this was trump holds first rally since election. this was a campaign rally. this was just a rally in support of donald trump. this was for no other purpose. it was not for an election, it was not for another candidate, not for a policy, not to get the country to do any specific thing. it was just a rally for him. as a country, this is not something we have a tradition of. outside of campaigns, we re not a country that is usually asked to convene a mass rally in support of our leader. in the absence of any other organizing imperative. but apparently now we re a country that does that. at least we did that tonight in cincinnati. and we re told that this rally for the new president, for the president-elect, this will be the first of many rallies like this that he holds. so that alone just covering that rallies since the election, that makes for a weird night. we have not heard from the
ly since election. this was a rally in support of donald trump. this was for no other purpose. it was not for an election, other candidate, not for a policy, not to get the country to do any specific thing, it was just a rally for him. and as a country, this is not something we have a tradition of. outside of qualm pains we re not a country who is actually to mass in the absence of any other imperative. apparently, now we re a country that does that. at least we did that tonight in cincinnati and we re told that this rally for the new president, for the president elect, this will be the first of many ramallies like this that he holds. that alone just covering that, rally since the election, that makes for a weird night. we have not heard from the president elect for three-and-a-half weeks since the election until tonight now that he has done this event, now we know what he s had on his mind, what he s wanted to talk about,