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it is a done deal, billionaire elon musk completing his $44 billion takeover of twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. good morning. good morning. john berman is off. and according to sources, musk immediately fired twitter s ceo, the chief financial officer and the company s top lawyer. musk first agreed to buy the company in april, then he spent months trying to get out of the deal, which was finalized just before today s deadline. musk attempted to reassure advertisers, posting an open letter on twitter why he bought the platform, saying, quote, there is currently great danger that social media will fracture into far right and far left wings that will splinter our society and overnight he tweeted the bird is free. reporter: there is a lot of uncertainty at twitter. employees aren t sure what to expect after musk came in, took control and fired the top executives. unclear who the top team is, maybe employees will learn more at an all-han ....
well. we have our team here to help us figure it out and how voters might interpret all of these numbers. we have four days left and fresh polling underscoring the edge republicans have on enthusiasm ahead of the final messaging blitz from democrats. hitting the airwaves this morning with four days left until election day. thank goodness that the republicans are finally at the table wanting to talk about crime. it s not something that we should only talk about during political season. they want a common purpose, a common mission and that s what we re doing. we have a stark choice between somebody is here with a career who served pennsylvania, compared to somebody who is here to use pennsylvania. we ll get to all of that coming up. and it s the looming political earthquake many have been waiting for, anticipating. 2022 is not even over yet, but the former president s inner circle is eyeing a 2024 announcement in the coming days, more on that reporting in moment ....
scotrail services by a third, because of a driver shortage and pay dispute and i will be live at the etihad with and i will be live at the etihad with the and i will be live at the etihad with the latest on an unforgettable final day with the latest on an unforgettable final day of the premier league season good evening. the full report into parties in and around downing street while covid restrictions were in place is set to be released within days after a deadline for objections from those involved passed earlier this evening. sue gray the civil servant tasked with investigating the events has gathered photographs as well as accounts of what happened. some of those are likely to be published. the report will come out as the government faces further calls to do more on the cost of living with another energy company boss speaking out today. more on that in a moment but first our political correspondent iain watson. could borisjohnson s political fate lie i ....
the park will remain closed on wednesday. managers have expressed their condolences. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. australia logs a decade of budget deficits, putting its aaa credit rating at risk. soars to an all time high, adding $1 million to its market value bitcoin soars to an all time high. it is wednesday. glad you could join us for this midweek edition of asia business report. i am rico hizon. australia s budget is expected to be in the red until at least 2021, and markets are down. as you can take a look at the market boards, the asx 200 has fallen nearly one third of a percent in early trade. late on tuesday the government announced a huge infrastructure spending plan worth $55 million infrastructure spending plan worth $55 million $55 infrastructure spending plan worth $55 million $55 billion and the stimulus is expected to create thousands of jobs stimulus is expected to create thousands ofjobs across the count ....
Power. joining us now is ryan reilly. he s no longer on the stand. what did he say? reporter: he only had 45 minutes of testimony total and monday he gets cross-examined by prosecutors. he talked a little bit about how, you know, the heyday of the oath keepers was during the obama administration when they got a lot of members. there was a little bit in the 2019/2020 era. they have the most activity when a democrat is in power. so some of the chapters he said actually folded during the trump administration. what the prosecutor and they talked about the signal messages that rhodes had sent in the lead-up to the 2020 elections, talked about why they switched over to signal because a previous platform hay that had used had kicked the oath keepers ....