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Ian Bremmer on Putin, Xi…and Elon Musk

On with Kara Swisher

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Is Mark Zuckerberg a National Champion?

Nick Kleg: I think the government got itself into trouble by not having options either with Starlink or with SpaceX. That's the problem is he's the option for many of these things. And Elon needs to have plausible deniability when the Russians and the Chinese are pressuring him, which they were, right? He should be able to say, hey, this is not me. But instead he's inserting himself. So the process is a very dangerous place to be. Absolutely. Now it's not just Elon, you know, right now when Facebook pulled Trump off,. You know, Trump made the argument that he was kicked off but Iran's foreign leader has not been so far.

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