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trail. jeff bezos takes a $23 billion personal hit. the bigger story here, what amazon sales outlook says about the u.s. economy. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm christine romans. we begin with a titanic sea change in the world of social media. billionaire elon musk completing his $44 billion takeover of twitter. two sources tell cnn musk launched his takeover by firing the ceo and two others. he spent months trying to get out of it. >> for musk, it really sunk in for him this week that he would now be owning twitter. we heard that the deal h...

it is a done deal, billionaire elon musk completing his $44 billion takeover of twitter. i'm brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. john berman is off. and according to sources, musk immediately fired twitter's ceo, the chief financial officer and the company's 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 today's deadline. >> musk attempted to reassure advertisers, posting an open letter on twitter why he bought the platform, saying, quote, the...