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Elon Musk’s second run at his $44 bln Twitter deal

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Reuters

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A judge in Delaware has given the Tesla CEO until the end of the month to make good on his vow to buy the social media giant. In this Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists delve into the many twists of this M&A saga, Musk’s options, and what’s likely to happen next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.8

Well, I mean, the goal that I have should that, you know, everything come to fruition

0:47.9

with Twitter is to, I have a service that is broadly, as broadly inclusive as possible, where ideally most of America is on it and talking.

1:00.5

That was Elon Musk back in May, sounding cautiously optimistic about his plans to buy Twitter for a whopping $44 billion.

1:08.7

The latest twist in this M&A drama is our focus of this week's viewsroom.

1:13.9

Welcome back to the views, the podcast from Reuters from around the world talk about the big

1:19.8

stories of the week. I'm your host, Amy Donnellin, coming to you from London.

1:25.7

Elon Musk is full of surprises.

1:28.3

It turns out after much towing, throwing and a threatened lawsuit, the CEO of Tesla is

1:33.3

in fact keen on buying the social media giant.

1:36.1

My colleague, Laura Silva Loughlin, US editor of Breaking Views and our M&A guru, Jonathan

1:40.8

Gifford, offered their expertise of what Musk is likely to do now that he's been

1:45.2

given a month reprieve from a lawsuit brought against him after he retracted his offer. Is he

1:50.9

likely to go ahead with the deal? And what happens how are you doing? I'm doing all right.

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