Sen. Warren On Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover: "I've Got A Real Problem With Him" — Transcript
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- 0:00everybody
- 0:01we're back here with Massachusetts
- 0:04Senator Elizabeth Warren one of the
- 0:07people who you've had a few uh run-ins
- 0:11with the past you've called out for his
- 0:14behavior in the past is someone who
- 0:15strangely is dabbling in conspiracy
- 0:18theories on Twitter and that's the new
- 0:20owner of Twitter Elon Musk okay you've
- 0:23never been a huge fan of billionaires
- 0:25especially ones who don't pay their
- 0:26taxes what about a billionaire who now
- 0:31owns
- 0:33the platform that is most used to
- 0:37promulgate political idea and argument
- 0:39Twitter yeah
- 0:42which way
- 0:44the decisions about what we see on
- 0:47Twitter right it can be made out in the
- 0:51open it can be made in public it could
- 0:53be made by a commission We could decide
- 0:55to do that we could make the rules
- 0:57posted and out there for anybody to see
- 0:59or
- 1:00it could be made
- 1:02by one billionaire in a very dark room
- 1:06based on whatever is running around in
- 1:08the middle of his head me I think those
- 1:11decisions ought to be made out in the
- 1:13open I don't think any billionaire any
- 1:16billionaire
- 1:17ought to be the one who has that kind of
- 1:19power to decide how Americans how people
- 1:22around the world get a chance to talk to
- 1:24each other so
- 1:26um I got a real problem with him
- 1:30are you
- 1:32are you uh blue check verified
- 1:35I just don't care
- 1:37there you go all right before we go I
- 1:40want to ask you about an important
- 1:41document that was recently released
- 1:44um this photo of your dog Bailey dressed
- 1:46up for Halloween yes can I
- 1:50comment on this on this tune because I
- 1:53see Jimmy can you put it back up please
- 1:54I see antlers
- 1:56and I see beard
- 1:58and I see a wig is he Santa
- 2:02as a reindeer or is he the Unholy love
- 2:07child of Kris Kringle and Dasher what's
- 2:10going on here he is Sven from Frozen
- 2:19apologize I apologize
- 2:22and I call myself an educated man
- 2:26exactly well Senator thank you so much
- 2:28for being here thank you always
- 2:29wonderful to hear you lay things out I
- 2:32will vote.com I will vote.com I will
- 2:37vote.com Senator Elizabeth Warren
- 2:40everybody thank you senator
- 2:43[Music]
- 2:52[Applause]
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