Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter for $43 Billion

Elon Musk continues to take Twitter on a roller coaster ride as he has now made an offer to buy the rest of the company. Musk has offered to buy it for $43 billion and said that Twitter has extraordinary potential and wants to unlock it. He is worth about $259 billion, so he can afford it, but says that to make the changes he thinks are necessary, the company needs to go private. Aaron Gregg, business reporter at The Washington Post, joins us for Musk’s hostile takeover bid.

Next, the CDC’s latest round of Covid guidelines are facing their first test. The guidelines now reflect a shift in priorities. They are moving away from trying to eliminate the transmission of the virus to reducing deaths and strain on the healthcare system. We will know if the guidelines fail right away, but a measure of success may be harder come by. Keren Landman, senior reporter for health and science, joins us for more.

Finally, more states and school districts are making moves to address the mental health of children, but there are some parents and activists that are pushing back saying school officials are acting in inappropriate roles and pushing progressive thinking. A lot of this stems from people wanting more parental rights in education. Caitlin Owens, health care reporter at Axios, joins us for how kids’ mental health could be America’s next culture war.

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