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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
I'm going to go right to the Bloomberg where we've got Trump media.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
to combine with a company you don't know, TAE, to build nuclear fusion business.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
My family goes back in this derby over 40 years to the Lawrence Livermore lab, and Paul, the endless quest to squeeze two
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
atoms and two nucleus together.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Dan Ives is quite good on this.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
We're going to talk to him with Wedbush about this combination before we talk to him about the state of Mag7 and technology as well.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Dan, thank you so much for joining us on short notice.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
I go back decades on this.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Fusion has been a hope and a dream forever.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
How is Donald Trump going to finally get us over this fragile line of successful physics?
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
is this an arms race if you will a fusion race with china we saw what they did with electric vehicles you're conversing in china and ai the nvidia chip debate in that is this like getting out in front of china catching up on nuclear fusion
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Yeah, I noticed Jeff Immelt was a former board member, but with TAE folks, to see Eugene Moniz there, who's just absolutely definitive across all political lines of America.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Dr. Moniz, of course, associated with MIT.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Let's say, Dan, as a statement, TAE has a heavyweight board,
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
But you've got to get something done.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
Going back to Lawrence Livermore lab ages ago, it's a lot of theory.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
It's a lot of politics, including the Advance Act, accelerating deployment of versatile advanced nuclear for clean energy.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
It sounds like an episode, Dan Ives, of Get Smart, except you're too young to remember Get Smart.
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
But the answer is, is there any indication fusion will work?
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Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Talks Trump Trump Media & TAE Technologies Merger
You know, Paul, this is great.