Mediaite has the transcript:
LEMON: Hate speech on the platform is up. Do you believe that X and you have some responsibility to moderate hate speech on the platform, that you wouldn’t have to answer these questions from reporters about the great replacement theory as it relates to–
MUSK: I don’t have to answer these questions.
LEMON: –great replacement theory as it relates to Jewish people. Do you think that–
MUSK: I don’t have to answer questions from reporters. Don, the only reason I’m doing this interview is because you’re on the X platform and you asked for it. Otherwise, there would not do– I would not do this interview.
LEMON: So you don’t think– do you think that you wouldn’t get in trouble or you wouldn’t be criticized for these things?
MUSK: I’m criticized constantly. I could care less.
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Elon Musk Reminds Don Lemon: ‘I Don’t Have To Answer Questions from Reporters’
LEMON: “Do you believe that X and you have some responsibility to moderate hate speech on the platform?”
MUSK: “I don’t have to answer these questions.”
LEMON: “Do you think that-”
MUSK: “I don’t… pic.twitter.com/jfDmt87Zlh
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) March 14, 2024
Don Lemon asked Elon Musk about drug use – here’s some of the exchange + Lemon’s context (from @OutFrontCNN tonight) pic.twitter.com/0BAVCUUHaG
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 13, 2024