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He didnt have yachts or cool houses, and i mean, this is where he has a good time. do i think it is a vanity play? yes, do i think he is putting telsa at risk? absolutely. do i think it will be difficult to turn twitter around? sure. >> telsa wasnt profitable for 15 years, they could tap into public market, twitter wont be able to do that elon is going in alone, nobody else wants to touch it. it looks like he is a bag holder. >> wow. small ball, want only attacking you a week ago, he got suckere...

Fee yalts, which he cant do because its a public company. >> kara, its willie. >> hi. >> i was talking to someone close to him a few days ago. if you want to know what hes thinking, watch what he does and says. puts a poll up, should i invest in twitter? and he does. within his portfolio, this isnt a huge thing, might be a vanity play, but what does it mean for twitter itself, which has been under scrutiny from the right, especially for censoring certain voices there? do you think this changes t...

Doing very well could matter more to what happens in south carolina. >> okay. then lets talk about a candidate who has been working hard to work his way up, try the popularity among the democratic candidate, im balking about ta cory booker. they met the donor threshold to meet the november debate. but they are still away from their self-imposed deadline. heres what he told jake tapper on "state of the union" earlier today. >> not a vanity play. im not sticking around for this ego. im not going t...

The threshold to make the november debates of 165 unique donors. so the surge and momentum is great, but i still need help. were still hoping people in these final 36 hours will go to corybooker.com and help us to not reach this goal, its not a goal, its a real number that we believe is necessary to stay in this race with the trajectory to win this nomination. im in this to win it. its not a vanity play. im not sticking around for ego. i dont think you should be in this primary, this is my value...

We have nearly 35,000 donors who have been helping us make this call. weve raised $1.5 million plus. weve actually crossed the threshold to make the november debates of 165,000 unique donors. the surge and momentum is great but i still need help with people. go to cory booker.com and help us reach this goal, a real number that we believe is necessary to help us stay in this race with a trajectory to win the nomination. its not a vanity play. im not sticking around for ego. i dont think you shoul...

In this for an ego exercise, this is not a vanity play. im in this to win the nomination, and beat donald trump. if you believe in my campaign, if you believe in my voice being on the stage, this is a dermanating moment for us. either reach a $1.7 million to stay in this race or have to make really tough decisions end of this. >> reporter: hard to hear with supporters chanting. key phrase, "grow or get out." >> yeah. >> reporter: booker saying hes at this phase, a few months away from the iowa c...

And we are not in this for an ego exercise. this is not a vanity play. im in this to win the nomination and beat donald trump. and so, if you believe in my campaign, if you believe in my voice being on this stage, this is a determining moment for us. we either are going to reach our $1.7 million to stay in this race or were going to have to make tough decisions. >> reporter: $1.7 million by the end of this month? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: ive got to ask you out of the white house, all of this as...

Celebrate july fourth. but i would caution everyone, this is what we do to -- with donald trump. there is an old frank sinatra song, ive heard that song before. we hear this song with trump. he breaks a norm and we criticize the norm and he uses that criticism to say youre questioning my patriotism. it is what he rallies around. it is the cultural fight that he wants, whether it is this or what we saw in the debate with all of the democrats raising hands for insurance for illegal migrants, for h...

United states of america. >> marie: jesse, i think to a lot of democrats, it feels like bernie sanders got a lot of attention in 2016 because hillary was the opponent. do you think he has a chance this time? >> jesse: no. i know he cant win. he knows he cant win but hes going to have fun running as a socialist crusader. hes not going to run a winning campaign. its a little revolution. bernie is a loner, not a team player, hated by the party bigwigs. wall street hates him. corporate america hates...

Howard schultz has no experience, no platform, no constituency, no need for running except for a vanity play. he is really a democrat, she win he should toss his hat in the democratic process and i would welcome him in that debate. everybody else would as well. lets explore why he is not doing that, because there is another guy on their name michael bloomberg who has far more experience and a record of creating constituencies and moving into his work with, the devoted years and years of blood, s...