Elon musk, he s tweeting through it. right now sharing his every stray thought as he prepares to take over twitter. he says he wants to protect the public square by taking the company private. this deal could close in just a few months. so what does elon musk really believe? why does he really want to own this powerful communications platform? let s talk about it again, april ryan, molly bald, david zurawik, all back with me at the table. molly, you wrote the cover for time this week, what everyone gets wrong about elon musk. so tell us. yeah, i got to know elon musk and spend some time with him when i was profiling our profile on him as person of the year back in december. when he talks about politics, it tends to be very much in it tech bro kind of way, i don t agree with either party. he doesn t have traditional political aregionances.
and except for one senator who came into a room at 3:00 in the morning and went like that, we would have had health care too. we got a bad vote, the evening we were going to determinen ate obamacare. we got a bad vote. we had it beaten except for one vote. you remember that beautiful night. it was defeated but one vote changed. lots to talk about tonight with the panel. joining me now, molly bald, jeffrey tuben. steven, i want to start with you tonight. this comment from kelly sadler, a white house official on a conference call with congressional press secretaries, he s dying anyway, about senator john mccain, someone who served this country for so very long. it s indefensible. i ve had policy disagreements with john mccain. but this guy is one of the true
south korea came to my office after having gone to north korea and seeing kim jong-un and no, it s very positive. no. after the meeting you may do that. but now we have to be very nice. let s see what happens. let s see what happens. let s discuss all this and more with our panel. chris cillizza is here. editor at large. molly bald. a amy stoddard. chris, no teleprompter really last night. off the cuff. speaking for more than 70 minutes going after all sorts of folks. he barely mentioned though, rick saccone, the candidate out of west pennsylvania to promote in this special election tuesday against the democrat conor lamb.
Voting former nebraska senator chuck hagel into the defense post he s nominated for in president obama s cabinet and yesterday they left town for nine days. joining me now jake sherman, congressional reporter, molly bald, national political reporter at the atlantic. molly, today s new york times california democrat barbara boxer likened the block that republicans like texas senator ted cruz have put on chuck hagel to mccarthyism. what was the point of prolonging this hagel vote until after everyone reconvenes? well, i think that republicans started out with some legitimate questions about this, and they would say they re just trying to get those answered and need more time. it was harry reid who called this vote as sort of an attempt to call their bluff saying this is enough, you re delaying this for no reason but i don t think this is going to help the republicans image especially when they re going around saying we re not actually trying to
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