CNN reporter calls Trump-Musk X event a 'success'

A CNN reporter said Tuesday that Monday night's conversation between former President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk about X was successful, despite a delayed start.

Trump and Musk spoke for more than two hours on Monday, covering topics from the July 13 assassination attempt to border security, during which Trump probed Vice President Kamala Harris for not doing either. sit down interview or press conference from President Joe Biden finished his candidacy for re-election. moss guilty a DDOS attack for the delays in the eventquestioned a claim by CNN media analyst Sara Fischer.

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“DDOS stands for distributed denial of service attack. Basically, when someone floods your system in order to shut it down. The problem with a DDOS attack, Sara, is that it often looks a lot like a very popular event and, so we have to take Musk at his word,” Fischer told “CNN News Central” anchor Sara Sidner.

“There have been third-party reports suggesting that it wasn't a DDOS attack, it was just X's systems responding to a lot of interest in this interview, but that actually speaks to the success of this interview, doesn't it? ” Fischer continued. “It was 40 minutes of delays, glitches, but once it went live, I saw over two million people join the live space. You had over 50 million people who they saw.”

Fischer said the amount of traction speaks to how much “people wanted to hear about the president.”

“I think the other part is people like hearing this bromance go down. You know, Elon Musk is not a reporter, he's not trying to press them on tough questions and at one point you saw sparks in that conversation, the president suggested that Elon Musk would come and join his administration. We'll see where that goes,” Fischer said.

Sidner described parts of the conversation as a potential “quid pro quo,” but Fischer said the conversation may have had a deeper effect among Americans after Sidner read a statement about the interview that the campaign gave Harris who made fun of mistakes.

“Yeah, that's how they're going to try to frame all the support for Donald Trump coming from Silicon Valley, right? “Oh, it's just the PayPal mob. Oh, they're just billionaires. But Sara, the problem is that not a lot of people see it that way,” Fischer said. “People see Elon Musk, a lot of people, as giving voice to the masses, as more populist. People see Donald Trump as more populist. And so, while the Harris campaign will try to convince people that only billionaires are having fun, I think a lot of people saw it as two regular people who are friends. That's how the American people might see this.”

Musk invited Harris to do a similar event through a publication on X Tuesday morning.

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