election to be completed within the next week. this will ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our country s economic stability and national security. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen. thank you. the high stakes political scramble in britain to find yet another prime minister. i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. liz truss stepping down after 45 days in office, her tenure the shortest at any prime minister in history. sending shock waves across britain and driving the tabloids into a dizzy. who will be the next prime minister? they expect to name a new prime minister by the end of next week. even the name of former prime ministers are being floated, remember what boris johnson said? the terminator quote he may have been looking for is i ll be back. let s go live to london and bring in max foster. quite a moment in the uk. reporter: absolutely. boris johnson definitely the words on everyone
quote, it s not my quote just to be very clear. elon musk sending a message moments after taking over twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. happy friday. happy friday to you as well. john berman is off this friday. and the tesla and spacex billionaire, elon musk completing his $44 billion acquisition last night, once in charge musk was quick to show the door to top twitter executives. he fired the company s ceo, the chief financial officer, the chief legal counsel. he first agreed to buy the company all the way back in april and then he spent months trying to get out of the deal. in an effort to reassure advertisers, elon musk posted an open letter explaining why he bought twitter saying, quote, there s currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right and left wing echo chambers that generate hate and divide our society. what happens when one of the world s richest men controls the most influential media platform, joining us
reporter: today marks the 19th trip for the president to the commonwealth since taking office. he ll be here for john fetterman and sha ppiro and other candidates. next week he ll travel down to florida, a state he s been trying to make an appearance at for quite some time, the first one cancelled when he had covid and the other when he had covid. he ll be campaigning there with charley christ. later in the week he ll go to new mexico, a state you don t typically see the president going to. he s expected to have an appearance in pennsylvania in that final weekend of the campaign as he is trying to boost those candidates there. in a state they feel they could be helpful to democrats. very busy few days ahead. thank you very much. joining us now, cnn s
His administration s efforts on deficit reduction and head to delaware state university where he ll talk about his student loan plan. the president is making clear he ll be traveling in the coming weeks. he said he s gotten requests to travel to democratic states including nevada and georgia, we don t know if he ll go but next friday he ll reprize the role for chief fund-raiser by going to philadelphia. his 19th trip to pennsylvania. it is sentencing day for steve bannon. the long-time trump ally was convicted of contempt of congress wfor failing to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th committee. tell us, what is doj saying about bannon requesting to delay serving any sense here? reporter: well, the justice
Times while governor. it s also worth noting that rick santorum, this is his 19th trip to the state since 2009. he ll be here tomorrow. other senators come in for the jim demint forum. thank you so much, ali. don t forget for all of you, see the full field of republican presidential contenders squaring off in the nbc news politico event wednesday here on msnbc. as students return to class at indiana university one remains missing. lauren disappeared. with each passing day her family s holding out hope she will be found. john yang reports. reporter: indiana university s new school year begins with an old question what happened to lauren speier? the 20-year-old fashion student was last seen walking back to