Elon musk has launched a hostile bid to take over his hobby twitter. The billionaire behind tesla uses the platform to connect with his 81 million followers. He thinks the company is essential to the functioning of democracy and that hes the right person to unlock what he describes as its extraordinary potential. Yes hes recently emerged as its biggest shareholder but the announcement still took the corporate world by surprise. Hes offered to pay 54. 70 cents a share more than what the shares are currently trading for. At that figure, the business would be worth 15 billion. Joining me now is debra aho williamson, principal analyst at insider intelligence. Hes not short of a few bob but is he good for that kind of money . Certainly, hes the richest man in the world, he certainly has the money, or can probably obtain the money if he is smart and he really wants to do this. I think the big question for me is, does he really want to do this or is this just yet another piece of a puzzle tha
Party, the leader of that party, declaredy, that the free press the United States was, in his words the enemy of the people, once the Republican Party decided that the American Free press is bad, that journalism is something they cannot only do without but they are against as a party, yeah, this is where that ends, they are not going to allow t a formal roll for the press in the electoral process and not do debate with journalist asking questions when they decide as a party they are againsthe journalism and the prs is the enemy. Weve seen alarms around this and traditions around this fall by the wayside without much commentary. The president would not do a white house Correspondents Dinner which is a comedy show, under the previous president they had the white house Spokesperson Stop doing briefings for the press. They invited rallygoers, to curse at reporters and camera crews onsite covering president s rallies. It is clear where they have been going with this and republicans said for
Speech . Gillian plus, Caitlyn Jenner and colorado Congressman Ken Buck are here, they will weigh in and jack keane and Miranda Devine. And if you cannot catch it with us this afternoon, set your d. V. R. And watch it back later today. John first a Fox News Alert to start us off in the federal case against the man police tried to kill dozens of people. 62yearold suspect frank james, his first appearance in Court Moments ago to face a charge he could be sentenced to life. The judge ordering him held without bail, saying he terrorized the city. Gillian im in for sandra today. So nearly 30hour manhunt ended on an East Village Street wednesday when james called the tip line to say he was at a local mcdonalds. Now facing a terrorism charge. Nypd is working to identify his motives. John james has a lengthy rap sheet, at least seven charges in new york and three in new jersey and online post shows the ramblings of violence, racist and bigotry. It was presumed he would be held permanently in d
I dont think mr. Putin needs many signs that it hasnt been going well for him in ukraine. I mean, here we are day 46 and, again, he failed to achieve so many of his strategic objectives inside of ukraine so theyre repositioning and refocusing on the donbas. President zelenskyy is pleading with allies to rush weapons to the war zone. Today peers to south Korea Assembly to save ukraine. Translator russia is preparing another offensive. Hope to break our national resistance. The occupiers concentrated tens ever thousands of soldiers on a youth amount of equipment to try and strike again. At least 11 people were killed on sunday from russian shelling in the east in kharkiv. One of them a 7yearold boy. Today russia bombarded another rail station damaging only property this time. Unlike the attack on friday that killed more than 50 people. And in another sign, the war is entering a new phase, putin has assigned a new general to the command. He has been called the butcher of syria. Phil black
All right. Lets recap now what we hearingimheard from the president. This is the nominee. First to you commissioner. Your reaction to what you hearingimpaiheard from the context in the gun violence we watch across this country. I love what the president just talked about. A lot of very important angles. This is bigger than just banning those guns. It shows theres focus at the highest level. When he say get it done by summer, hes right. We all know the Violent Crime rises in the summer. Job reentry programs. When people come out from jail that they have served their time, get them back to being productive in the communities. Community policing. Victor, the president hit a lot of solid points. P its unbelievable that significant, Important Agency that is crucial to reducing violence hasnt gone without a solid appointed leader for so long. I love what he just talked about. Love it. The challenge is a lot of it was aspirational. Requires legislation. Theres not going be, in this congress,