trump that the classified materials found at malignancy s found at malignancy h . at had been declassified. the fbi is on high alert following an attack at a field office and a wave of violent threats online from trump supporters. two republicans who have been critical of the former president face serious challenges from candidates who support him in tomorrow s gop primaries. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your week with us. one week after fbi agents desend on the home of former president donald trump, threats against federal law enforcement officials remain high. three senior officials tell nbc news that the fbi and department of homeland security issued a joint bulletin on friday, warning of the increase in violent rhetoric. the five-page document reportedly advised officials to remain cautious and vigilant facing threats. last week an alleged trump supporter was killed in a confron
Reported huge profits, and in a surge of the price of oil. tell us about it. well, you said it, it s a surge of the price of oil, so the saudi-owned state owned company, the oil company aramco posted a 90% surge in net income, with $48.4 billion, with 25.5 billion just one year ago. this is the highest profits ever reported for aramco. the company announced they will be paying a dividend of $18.8 billion to its shareholders. but i should tell you that basically the shareholders are the saudi government. it is 98% still owned by the state. so a lot of that is just going to go back towards the saudi government there. but more broadly, this reflects the shear strength and profit numbers that we ve seen coming out of these oil and gas companies for the last quarter. all of them with record breaking results. and lastly, a company that
Equity and combined $25.5 billion from several things, the world s richest man once blue check mark score and quoting if twitter bid succeeds way will die trying. it authenticates elon musk with a veteran free speech on social media, former president barack obama is blaming unregulated tech industry with dangerous disinformation. the 44th president delivers this message in a keynote speech at stanford university. people are dying because of this information. we see that our new information and ecosystem is turbocharging so much humanity and falseness. close to the dash regulation has to be part of the answer. obama also saying text to make tech trends to rein into weakened democratic institutions around the world.
Were rescued and were sharing one loaf of bread for my 40 people. is what s happening there. it s not possible to describe it. russians are killing people for nothing. if the world doesn t take measures, zep road will be the same. so we need to be done as soon as possible. in our backyard we have a very little cemetery and we buried seven people there. end of the city of mariupol has essentially been leveled to a smoking room but the mayor insists no matter what happens the ukrainians will hold onto it. they will not be surrendering to the russians. back to you in new york. brian: all right, matt, thank you very much, steve back to. steve: thank you, brian, meanwhile elon musk upping the ante using tesla as collateral to fund his $46 billion twitter takeover bid buried in the latest offer includes $21 billion in equity that he has in twitter and a combined $25.5 billion from big banks.
Musk said he put together $46 billion to take over the company. he has secured 25.5 billion from a group of institutions. twitter has said they received the offer but no indication when they will respond. now musk has the money, this puts pressure on the company. and besides blowing away expectations for tesla, musk says there s inflation. he referenced supply chain challenges and steep raw material cost hikes sometimes 20 to 30% higher. musk said i think the official numbers show the true numbers of inflation. inflation will continue at least another year. and now with more on cnn + shutting down, elon took a jab at the service saiding the woke