quote, it s not my quote just to be very clear. elon musk sending a message moments after taking over twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. happy friday. happy friday to you as well. john berman is off this friday. and the tesla and spacex billionaire, elon musk completing his $44 billion acquisition last night, once in charge musk was quick to show the door to top twitter executives. he fired the company s ceo, the chief financial officer, the chief legal counsel. he first agreed to buy the company all the way back in april and then he spent months trying to get out of the deal. in an effort to reassure advertisers, elon musk posted an open letter explaining why he bought twitter saying, quote, there s currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right and left wing echo chambers that generate hate and divide our society. what happens when one of the world s richest men controls the most influential media platform, joining us
he has forged a relationship with former twitter founder jack dorsey, almost as an adviser to musk. it ll be interesting to see if his influence helps dictate the next steps ahead. christine, what do you think elon musk s twitter looks like? no one knows for sure here. no one knows what he s going to do. he s an unpredictable leader to be clear about that. he s been trying for months to get out of the deal. he s telling advertisers and the public he s not doing this to make money, he wants an open public square for people to talk and make sure we don t have right wing and left wing echo chambers in the country. but the question is what kind of guardrails is he going to put up. and is he going to let people like donald trump and other people banned back on the platform. in the past he said he s not in favor of permanent bands. with 11 days to go before the
so it takes people that are willing to step up and take these companies on, which i m willing to do not because i want to do it, but because it has to be done. because in the long run, we can t compete with, if social media s totally against the conservatives and the republican party. maria: they say they re not media companies. do you want to see legislation that puts them under the umbrella of media companies? look, i think the courts i mean, what we re saying is, is that twitter and these companies, they re content developers. you know, they claim to be, okay, we re just an open public square, we treat everybody equally. well, they don t treat everybody equally. it s not even close. and so what i want is i want my day in court to go before a judge and a jury to explain how it is that twitter treats conservatives differently than the left. maria: okay. and maybe, perhaps if they have to pay and if we have to open you are their books and look at all their algorithms, maybe we ca
discredited against gays civil rights issue, that is what makes this so so different. this law does not empower discrimination against anyone. this law simply says the government and the courts need to take into account our religious freedom. that is an important principle of american pluralism. the situation right now with this overreaction it s not just that jesus wouldn t recognize this jefferson wouldn t recognize this either. we need to have this open public square where we re able to come into it with our religious consequences and convictions in tact. robert back to you. whether you want to calling it howling at the moon or overreaction this has enlisted an emotional response. this is a political issue. the rhetoric has gotten so totally heated and i m wondering, do critics have a fair point when politics is truly and emotions have been injected into both sides of