to a functioning democracy. and then musk asked his 80 million followers on twitter this question. do you believe twitter it regularly and here s to the principal ? and overwhelmingly they answered no, it doesn t. so elon musk understands something about twitter that many people in our country don t understand, it is the single most important form for speech possibly in the world. not because it s the biggest, but because it s where elite opinion is incubated. and so free speech on twitter matters, and last month, elon musk gave the impression that he planned to do something about it, that he planned to open up twitter, he bought 10% of the company. now, today, musk has just put an offer to buy 100% of twitter at $54 a share and take the company private. now, from a business perspective, this is a very tempting offer for the company. in fact, his opera prisons a 54% premium over the company s share price the day before he began investing in it. he wrote a letter to twitter
from the missing plane it will be the first confirmation that mh370 crashed into the indian ocean in 2014. the air kraf was travel from kuala lumpur to beijing. consensus calls for gdp to have increased at a 2.7% annual rate. also important today, the government plans to be releasing three years worth of revisions from the bureau of economic analysis. you might remember steve liesman first reported in april that q1 gdp was statistically softer than the other three quarters for the past 30 years. they said it was developing methods to try to address this problem. we ll see if they have. from the economy to earnings among the company s quarterly result results. procter & gamble s ceo will be joining us. i didn t say something about that. earlier, just now? i thought at the top the show you might have said p & g earnings. i would know if i said that. i thought you might have said that. now you re starting to hear things. maybe it s from yesterday. we did talk abo
covering the games will be covering that. we ll go to kayla with some of the top stories. dangerous element six weeks before the winter games are set to begin. elsewhere in corporate america, apple is just saying no. the company urging shareholders to vote against carl icahn s $50 billion stock buy back proposal. no word yet from the billionaire investor. apple releasing details of tim can cook s pay. he took home 4.25 million which is on par with what he made a year ago. he gave up 7100 shares tied to an annual performance award. that was based on august 2012 to 2013. the stock in that time lost a quarter of its value. those options set to vest worth just about $4 million. so a drop in the bucket for tim cook but, nonetheless, there are some repercussions for the apple stock price. to anyone else that s money but chump change. he m us must have had a big payoff. 2004. two waves, five years and ten years. he actually asked the board himself, can these vest on an annua
that was bad. they are in davey jones locker. nice work with the markets, andrew. down two weeks in a row. two weeks? was there a single up day? i thought there were two up days. i looked. might have been two up days. you cannot hold me responsible for what happened. did you turn bullish or something? have you been saying bullish stuff for the past two weeks? that would give people a clue. cisco, walmart. all the retailers terrible. everything was terrible. you left, everything was terrible. now you are back. interest rates are up 0.25% in the last week. terrible headlines this morning. andrew wants to get to the headlines. you ll want to comment on this, i m sure. making headlines, the u.s. government looking into whether jpmorgan hired the children of chinese officials to help it boost its business in china. the new york times citing a u.s. government document for the details of this investigation. jpmorgan saying it s fully cooperate with
chapel, and his magnificent radio actor voice became yiddish and went back to 1938, and his face lit up remembering those days growing up in the warmth of the jewish ghetto of london. and i thought how can harold pinter, who i did and do revere, denigrate the west when if it weren t for the united states, he and every other jew many london would have been killed? i thought that was kind odd. i remember thinking when harold first started writing about politicsings, i was a young writer maybe in my 20s, he was probably 50 something, and i thought, isn t it a shame that this wonderful writer has turned into an old man, and all he can do is write about politics [laughter] well, ha ha. [laughter] but i think what happens, you know, one of our other great philosophers was huey led better who said in one of his songs that he d done his fighting, and he commenced studying about the great long time. so i kind of think that s what i ve been doing in the last few years, and just as