Market moving insight and analysis joined Jim Kramer, David Faber, and me, Carl Cantonia, on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the street.

I'll say what I want to say, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.

Elon Musk with Faber last night in Texas, covering everything from macro to AI to China to free speech.

Good Wednesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintania with Jim Kramer.

David Faber miraculously is back already at post-night of the New York Stock Exchange.

Some optimism around the debt ceiling today and regional banks feeding futures, even as we keep an eye on targets earnings and getting some numbers

cut on China's recovery.

But we'll begin with the Musk interview, David, just remarkable and really a privilege

that we got that much time, both on our end and his.

Yeah, I'm very happy to have obviously had the opportunity to speak to him for an hour,

always things that you don't get to because his views and everything

is so wide-ranging.

You know, of course, sorry we didn't talk more about space or Starlink.

But what we did talk about, I thought, was fascinating and I hope for our viewers as well,

whether it was, as you heard, sort of his position in terms of he's going to continue to tweet

and tweet things that make a lot of people unhappy.

He doesn't care. That's exactly what he said. We talked a great deal, oh, about Tesla, which I think

Jim is perhaps front and center for our viewers more than anything else as a company coming right after

the annual meeting. A little bit of news that we got into in terms of he may start advertising,

something he decided, as he said, in that moment, on the stage,

which kind of goes to how it works to some extent there.

And then I said this earlier on Squawk Box,

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