"He's fantastic. I had spent some time talking to him, and i was like, this is a huge mistake," she says of President Obama. "If you want to be for the workers, do things that help workers instead of like, make nice headlines or make the republicans hate you a little bit less" She adds: "I don't care what guys and suits have to say."
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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