The company is in for a world of trouble because they're not big enough. They got 55 billion dollars in debt, and they have a shareholder base that's used to a dividend and slow growth. And you've got david zaslov who has moved his gone hollywood. He's moved to l a, and he's going on to opera. A i know that these deals for the big talent, like anderson cooper's, were part of their deal. That didn't matter. Again, it was already paid up. Front rigt. So they look, they just, they just decided to take the most high profile thing and sacrifice it right there with all hands.
In the most Elon Musk move ever, the billionaire bought Twitter just 2 hours after we finished taping. But don’t worry, we did an emergency re-tape so you’d have our latest thoughts. Scott & Kara discuss the unprecedented buyout, as well as Scott's front row seat to the demise of CNN+. And as Amazon labor organizers make inroads in New York, Kim Kelly, author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, joins us to talk about the past, present, and future of unions.
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