Also dwarfed in size by twitter. talk to us a little bit more about elon musk and why he has become sort of a celebrated figure among at least some on the right. tell us what the appeal there is and what they think he might do to twitter were he to get it. so this is fascinating, jonathan. the right has really embraced elon musk. if you look at what he said over the years you wouldn t necessarily expect that. but on my church thread yesterday on the text, they were saying wait until elon musk replaces the blue check mark with the american flag. that s the way a lot of conservatives are viewing musk, and one of the reasons is that tech has united, left and right. like both of them want to rein in tech. as i talked to trump supporters, and i know, jonathan, you have the same conversations, when republicans, trumpers talk about
Big tech, so much of it comes back to twitter kicking trump off. like that was the seminal moment for some of them. they also will mention hunter biden. they will mention the lab leak theory, but conservatives have all kinds of grievances against tech in general, twitter in particular, and they see elon musk as a solution. michael allen, thank you so much. it looks so beautiful there in washington, so happy friday to you. and happy easter, mika. happy easter. thank you, mike. coming up, trump told me to do it defense fails in federal court. we will have legal analysis on what it means for the hundreds of others who are accused of the capital attack. we re going live to grand rapids, michigan, where more protests are expected today in the aftermath of a deadly police shooting. plus, new reporting on the u.s. military getting involved in
Reporter jake ward. help us understand, what exactly happened here? you know, it s a world first in that france is really trying to step forward and become kind of the world s leader when it comes to regulating social media and tech in general. in this case, in the past they have facebook has cooperated with french authorities when it came to terrorism suspects because they considered that a different legal standard. now they re talking about giving over anybody accused of hate speech at a judge s request. so that suddenly is a level of cooperation we ve never seen before. not quince decoincidentally it something to do with macron is considering new legislation that would give them the right to take 4% of a company s global revenue as punishment for a lack of cooperation or a lack of accountability. so obviously something just moving here for zuckerberg in his calculations about this. jake, mark zuckerberg is set
The same reasons that are on this paper existed in 2017 and 2018 and we continue to move higher. charles: you mentioned more earnings. another key is alphabet/google. they missed on revenue. the stocks initial move is down 33 points. yeah, let s look at tech in general. the by boys of tech. you re getting amazon, google. we re still up 10% in the top 100 stocks in tech. so far in 2018. up 15% in the last 52 weeks. we ve had a pull back. yesterday s flush-out was healthy. that s how things end. let s see where we are by week s end in this marketplace. we had a healthy comeback today. charles: there s some unnerving signs, heather. j.p. morgan laid an egg.