buy a different one. twitter says it s looking hard at the offer. behind the scenes, it s reportedly considering a poison pill to block it. neil: thanks, claudia. it s an understatement to say that elon musk has the money to pay all of this. he owns about $180 billion worth of tesla stock, another $50 billion worth of the stake in spacex. a private venture. so the money is there, but that raises the question why the stock didn t move on this. keep in mind, it s a $54.20 offer. the stock barely budging on the day. what are we to make of that. charlie gasparino, what do you think? it s for all the reasons that we said on a your great fox business show. neil: which if you don t get, you should demand. i was waiting for you to say that. neil: there you go. so true. we ve been reporting this the last two days or co incidentally the last two days. he s under investigation in a
same thing with price. i found myself in the price hearing yesterday wondering i haven t seen anything today to suggest this is happening. wondering if that would be something that would trigger more public outrage. the price hearing stinks much worse for americans. paying the lowest amount of taxes and having offshore accounts is not that dissimilar to anyone who wants to pay the lowest amount of taxes. but if you re really rich, you have more options. to buy a stock and be able to influence how the company does, holy cow. except that that one stock, remember if the bill didn t pass, he bought the stock. presumably the stock didn t do well because it was a regulation i know, i know. we ll a pick this up in a second. i want to acknowledge what people are seeing on the right-happened side of the screen right now. you recognize them surely, that is the trump family. jared kushner. his son-in-law who is looking towards the camera. they are arriving at the lincoln
talk about the facebook situation, everybody got pulled into that, bought one share or 10,000 shares and look what happened. not so much, right? know the a huge first day pop, at least the stock didn t end with a first day pop. although i think it s a terrific benefit, and that facebook was able to come public. it shows that investors of the free market system continues to work, 900 million users, most of them don t pay a cent for the terrific service so we need more facebook, less amtraks of this country or less u.s. post offices in this country. and as long as they re able to succeed, i m putting my chips on the usa. i m going to say ouch on the last two examples, but hope that the individual investor takes note and takes your advice, jonathan, very solid. thank you. have you had your cup of coffee so far this day. jamie: just one, kelly. kelly: just one. good news for coffee lovers, a new study says java drinkers
an event that enraged the catholic church was interrupted by an abortion protester. it was a speech by health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius at georgetown university. let s listen. having spent my entire life in public service i spent my entire life in public service [ cheers and applause ] cheers of support there from the graduates. the church had blasted georgetown for inviting sebelius not because of the obama administration s position on abortion, but church leaders instead were angry over sebelius support of a law requiring employers, even religious institutions, to provide birth control coverage. the most hyped stock offering of the year got off kind of to a bumpy start. shares of facebook jumped more than 10% in the first minutes of trading, but then they started to go the other way. at one point the stock was hovering around an initial point of $38 before rising again. alison kosik has been watching all this at the nasdaq market site. alison