Ron Baron on his Musk investments: Can make 'hundreds of billions of dollars' over the next 10 years

Re-industrialization program going on that we make silicon in this country that we, you know. — You just blow bernie sanders off. — Who cares about him? He's almost dead.

Let me ask you a separate question, which is the last time we saw you, we asked you about the prospect of a merger between SpaceX and Tesla. Right. And at the time.

You sort of demurred because it hadn't been public yet that the company was thinking about this, or at least publicly declaring. So the company has now since said, elon said it, that there are independent committees now thinking about this. Right.

I don't know if you want to speak more openly about your feelings about that. And also, by the way, again, I know maybe politics is not supposed to come into this, but from a regulatory perspective or something else, whether this new dynamic changes the prospect of any kind of deal, I don't know.

Again, you're talking about things that you can't predict. — Yes.

You can't. Control and or control. And when this first came, you know, became public and people were talking about it.

I did speak to him. I wrote to him, I gave him my reasons why I thought it was positive or why I thought it was negative. And I said I wouldn't, you know, say publicly what my opinions were.

And but whatever he decided he would do, I'm not running a company. He is. And and I would support him whatever he wants.

He says he wants to do it. I mean, that was that is that piece of this is clear. That's what he would like to do. The question is whether the independent committees would like to do it, or at what price they'd like to do it.