Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is the Great America show, Truth, Justice, and

the American Way. Welcome to the show. Great to have you with us.

Alon Musk is under attack for his purchase of Twitter, with plans to take it private,

and make it a bastion of free speech. Twitter's cloistered employees buttercups all, apparently,

reportedly are melting down over what is now more than the prospect that Alon Musk will

be the proud owner of Twitter. Twitter's totalitarian keepers of algorithms and other secreted

formulas of handy oppressions with which to moderate, suspend, and ban the often plain

spoken conservative innocents absolutely had a fit, threatening sabotage worker revolts

and walkouts. But now comes UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to cudgel Alon with warnings and

threats about his promise to honor and protect free speech on what has been a platform of great

comfort to the left and starts in general. All that Alon says is a change. Not so quick says the

Prime Minister and others whose nation long ago tired of true free speech and now regulate speech

of all kinds, and other euros will follow I'm sure in China too. The Chinese may make a market

for the Teslas they make, and Alon knows not to expect an easy ride on the issue of free speech

in China, and the ride today was simply electrifying. Alon's Tesla lost $114 billion in market cap,

and Alon himself lost on paper 25 billion. Let me say it first. Alon Musk, no matter how smart he is,

and he is very smart, and no matter how much money he has, and he has a lot of it,

is learning quickly there's often a high price for free speech. And a tip of the hat to Governor

Ron DeSantis today, who's quickly becoming America's favorite governor, signing a bill creating

Florida's first in the nation election police force, a real stride forward in putting priority on

election integrity and enforcing laws that assure that integrity in Florida and good for Florida.

And today we have with us a man who is committed to election integrity,

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