$55.8 billion. that was the record pay day for elon musk in 2018. but today a judge in the us state of delaware said it should be scrapped. the pay deal was the biggest ever in us corporate history and propelled mr musk to the top of the list of the world s richest people. butjudge kathaleen mccormick said the payout was unfathomable . and could put his title as the world s richest man at risk. figures from bloomberg and forbes suggest his net worth is between $198 billion and $220 billion. the pay was from his electric car company tesla and was linked to performance targets, such as tesla s share price and profitability. and if you look at that measure well, the value of the company did soar, topping $1 trillion in 2021, up from $50 billion when the pay deal was originally negotiated. mr musk sold a large chunk of tesla to buy twitter. meaning how owns around 13% of the electric carmaker. cancelling his pay deal means he also misses out on more than 300 million tesla sh
payment rights on the social media platform. to discuss all this i ll be joined by the political analyst and democratic party strategist mary anne marsh and philip rycroft the former permanent secretary at the uk s department for exiting the eu. the bosses of five major tech firms have been testifying at a senate hearing about what they re doing to protect children from online sexual exploitation. the five have faced some fiery questions, with meta boss mark zuckerberg being asked what the hell were you thinking? over an instagram prompt directing users to possible child abuse material. mark zuckerberg and the boss of tiktok voluntarily agreed to testify, but leaders of snap, x formerly twitter and discord initially refused and were sent subpoenas, forcing them to appear. all have hundreds of millions of young users. senators are particularly worried about a rise in reports of explicit images of children being shared, including those created with artificial intelligen
left office. now, you think about investigation, i m gonna bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you would likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago. and of the 100 plus classified documents that the fbi found on the premises that. but that is not tonight s news. no, tonight s news centers on a period of time, about two months before that. june 2nd, the events of that day may be key to jack smith s case. tonight, the washington post described the events that took place that day as being of particular importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we had previously known that on may 11th of last year, trump s attorneys received a grand jury subpoena seeking all documents bearing classification marking still in trump s possession. then, we knew that almost a month later, june 3rd, an attorney from the department of justice, and three fbi agents met with trump s lawyers at mar-a-lago to collect those documents fro
news on special counsel jack smith s criminal investigation into donald trump s alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office. you think of that investigation i want to bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you ll likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago and of the 100-plus classified documents the fbi found on the premises that day. tonight s news centers on a time about two months before that, june 2nd and why the events of that day may be key to john smith s case. tonight the washington post describes the events that took place on that day as being of importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we ve previously known may 11th of last year trump s attorneys received a subpoena. then we know june 3rd an attorney from the department of justice and three fbi agents met with trump s lawyers at mar-a-lago to collect those documents from trump s team. now, we also already knew a
hundreds of classified government documents after he left office. now, you think about investigation, i m gonna bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you would likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago. and of the 100 plus classified documents that the fbi found on the premises that. but that is not tonight s news. no, tonight s news centers on a period of time, about two months before that. june 2nd, the events of that day may be key to jack smith s case. tonight, the washington post described the events that took place that day as being of particular importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we had previously known that on may 11th of last year, trump s attorneys received a grand jury subpoena seeking all documents bearing classification marking still in trump s possession. then, we knew that almost a month later, june 3rd, an attorney from the department of justice, and three fbi agents met with trump s