Masks Down! 4/19/22

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Investing, Business News, News, Business

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Masks are no longer mandated on public transportation, after a federal judge in Florida ruled that the CDC had overstepped its authority when it issued a mask mandate for planes, trains, and buses. Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, discusses whether customers and employees will continue to use masks to protect fellow travelers. Plus, as Elon Musk explores options to finance his bid to buy Twitter, biographer and Tulane professor Walter Isaacson shares insight on Musk’s goals and motivations from extended conversations with Elon Musk himself. In this episode: Walter Isaacson, @WalterIsaacson Sara Nelson, @FlyingWithSara Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Cameron Costa, @CameronCostaNY

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm C.N.C. producer Cameron Costa.
0:07.0	Today on Squawk Pod, masks down.
0:11.0	The abrupt end of the COVID mask mandate on planes, trains, and
0:15.2	Ubers. Relieved, stressed reactions are kind of a mixed bag.
0:19.2	Head of the Association of Flight Attendants, Sarah Nelson.
0:22.3	If there's anything that we've learned from this it happens. Association of Flight Attendants, Sarah Nelson.
0:22.6	If there's anything that we've learned from this,
0:24.8	it has to be about common courtesy.
0:27.0	And recognizing that you may not have the same situation
0:30.9	that other people have.
0:33.1	And Elon Musk is gathering up all $43 billion to buy
0:37.6	Twitter.
0:38.2	But what's it for?
0:39.4	Biographer Walter Isaacson with the inside scoop. I think his long-term plan is that he would
0:44.6	have a decentralized governance of it and no he doesn't want to do what Mark Zuckerberg
0:50.0	does which is control stock and pass it down for many generations.
0:54.3	Throughout those stories we're all getting along most of the time.
0:58.8	I love you and it's been how long 12 years?
1:01.6	We've been together a long time, I've been.
1:03.0	10 and 12 years a lot longer than a lot of marriages.
1:06.6	It's Tuesday, April 19, 2022.
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