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it is a done deal, billionaire elon musk completing his $44 billion takeover of twitter. im brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. john berman is off. and according to sources, musk immediately fired twitters ceo, the chief financial officer and the companys top lawyer. musk first agreed to buy the company in april, then he spent months trying to get out of the deal, which was finalized just before todays deadline. >> musk attempted to reassu...

A cnn exclusive, sources say kanye west has a disturbing history of admiring hitler. this comes after west made several anti-semitic remarks over the past few weeks. chloe joins us with more on her exclusive reporting. >> reporter: good morning, yes, i spoke to former employees of kanye west, one of which described a hostile work environment during his time with kanye. cnn has exclusively learned from several people once close to kanye west that he has long been fascinating with adolf hitler, a ...

Climate right now thats very, very tense. >> reporter: wests brand is being hit hard. >> i can say anti-semitic things and adidas cant drop me. >> reporter: earlier this week, adidas dropped west. they said the loss of the collaboration is expected to cost them up to $250 million in its fourth quarter. >> jew hatred is on the rise in this country. and what this whole kanye episode shows is that we need to take it seriously. >> reporter: kanye west has still not returned cnns repeated requests fo...

Power and talk about the great things he and the nazi party achieved for the german people. that same executive reached a settlement with west and his companies, which cnn reviewed. according to the agreement, west denied the allegations. according to four sources who spoke with cnn, west who goes by ye suggested naming his album after the nazi leader in 2018. universal music group, which owns deaf jam records said in a statement to cnn that its relationship with west ended last year, writing, q...

>> he said something like i love hitler, i love nazis. something to that effect when he was there. and they took it out of the interview. one of the producers at tmz actually stood up and said, im jewish and that is offensive to me, what you just said. >> reporter: a source who was at the tmz interview told cnn west had favorably referenced hitler. tmz took the comments out of the interview. cnn has reached out to the tmz but did not get a reply. in that same interview west declared slavery was ...