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Interim U.S.-Iran Deal Appears to Take Shape; Mexico Beat South Africa 2-0 in Opening Game; SpaceX Making Debut on Nasdaq After Largest IPO Ever; Elon Musk Set to Be First-ever Trillionaire with SpaceX IPO; Co-hosts USA, Canada Looks to Emulate Mexico in Openers. Aired 9-9:45a ET
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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: We're looking at the Nasdaq market site in New York. SpaceX shares set to make their trading debut,
making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. 09:00 a.m. at the Nasdaq, 08:00 a.m. at SpaceX's Starbase in Texas, there on the right. It is 05:00
p.m. here in Abu Dhabi.
I'm Becky Anderson from our Middle East programming headquarters. You're watching "Connect the World". Also coming up, deal or no deal. President
Trump says he has ended the war with Iran, but an agreement remains up in the air. And the World Cup is now underway.
We're going to get you live to Mexico, where there are some celebrations on opening day, as after an opening day win for the home team. Well New York
Stock Exchange opens about 30 minutes from now. All eyes will be on SpaceX today. So, keep an eye on what the Nasdaq is up to actually the Nasdaq is
down on the futures markets, indicating a lower start, but let's keep our eyes on that.
The other two markets relatively flat. We are moments away from what is shaping up to be an historic day on Wall Street. A defining moment for the
commercial space industry, and a potential game changer in the AI race. Trading set to begin shortly as SpaceX makes its highly anticipated debut
on the Nasdaq.
On Thursday, it set its opening price $135 on the share. The company said it plans to sell 556 million shares of common stock, generating $75 billion
or at least that is the idea. CNN's David Goldman has the very latest for us from New York. And for people who don't follow the markets every day
like you do, just how significant is this debut on the Nasdaq, David?
DAVID GOLDMAN, CNN BUSINESS SENIOR REPORTER: It's incredibly significant. It's so significant. We chose the largest spot humanly possible for this
event, and it is a big, big deal, because if you look at the numbers selling at $135 per share, well, that raised last night $75 billion that is
the largest IPO in history by a factor of three.
Look at this, 1.7, $1.8 trillion that makes it already the seventh largest company in the world. It is larger than Tesla, which is now number eight,
and that means Elon Musk owns two of the largest publicly traded companies in the world. It's a mature company already. Remember, this company has
been in existence for a long time.
It's unusual to see such a mature company going public. It makes $18.7 billion in revenue just in the last year alone, and look at that, that's up
33 percent You don't see this from a lot of companies, and that's why there's so much interest in this IPO, but it is losing a ton of money.
It lost in the last year alone $4.9 billion and in the first three months of this year it lost $4.3 billion. Why is it losing so much money? Because
it's spending all of it on AI. Why does SpaceX want to spend so much money on AI, including $12.7 billion last year and $7.7 billion in the first
quarter?
It's because it wants to launch data centers into space, and that way you get all the cheap cooling and the free energy from the sun. You can beam it
down with the Starlink satellites, and that is a huge ambition for Elon Musk.
ANDERSON: How much of this do you believe is really a bet on Musk himself?
GOLDMAN: It's a huge bet on Elon Musk. I mean, betting against Elon Musk. Well, that isn't historically a great bet, even though he has failed to
deliver on a number of promises. He's also launching rockets into space and then landing those boosters like a pencil on a platform.
They're doing really incredible things, but you really have to stretch your imagination to believe that it is capable of what they say they want to do,
including establishing a colony on Mars and on the moon.
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And if they do that, then Elon Musk will be a very, very, very rich person, he will make another $1 trillion. I said another $1 trillion because yes,
he is already the world's first trillionaire. Congratulations to Elon Musk. Last night, he -- well, OK, OK, technically, technically he is worth $971
billion.
What is $29 billion between friends, though, Becky, but once this starts trading, we're pretty sure that he'll get over that $1 trillion market.
ANDERSON: Yeah. How many zeros are in a trillion?
GOLDMAN: Yeah, 12 zeros, so try --
ANDERSON: -- and get my head around it.
GOLDMAN: I don't have time to write that all out.
ANDERSON: Is it 12? Yeah -- it's your great big font that hasn't left you any space for all of those areas. All right.
GOLDMAN: Exactly.
ANDERSON: It's good to have you David, thank you.
GOLDMAN: Thanks --
ANDERSON: Space X's debut is going to top the previous record 29.4 billion raised by the oil giant Saudi Aramco back in 2019. The eye-popping figures
really come as the global AI races sent startups to what are pretty eye- watering valuations even before they go public or make a profit. CNN's Paula Newton has that part of the story.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Flight directors go for launch.
PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From ground rattling rocket launches to a record shattering Nasdaq IPO. Investors are suiting up for
SpaceX under ticker symbol SPCX. Space industry investors call it a transformative event.
CHAD ANDERSON, FOUNDER OF SPACE CAPITAL: I don't think that there is a comparable company to benchmark SpaceX against. I think you have to go back
to the 1900s and the vertically integrated industrial giants like Standard Oil, Ford to sort of understand the magnitude of what's happening here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi. Welcome to SpaceX --
NEWTON (voice-over): It's been a supersonic ride from Space X's early days to this IPO.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's my office over there.
NEWTON (voice-over): Elon Musk founded the company back in 2002. 24 years later, SpaceX generates billions in revenues from its satellite internet
service Starlink and its rocket contracts with the U.S. government, one of its largest clients. It is, however, currently unprofitable with 2025
losses of some $5 billion. Some Wall Street watchers fear turbulent times for the stock.
WILLIAM COHAN, FINANCIAL JOURNALIST & FOUNDING PARTNER, PUCK: I would personally stay away from it, because it's too risky. It's too highly
valued already compared to the underlying business. The good business in here is Starlink, but will it grow sufficiently to justify, which probably
by then will be a $2.5 trillion valuation, $3 trillion dollar valuation, possibly. I doubt it.
NEWTON (voice-over): SpaceX, however, believes the sky's the limit. Its IPO prospectus sees a head-spinning $28.5 trillion in potential revenues. It's
looking to build a network of artificial intelligence data centers in space, and it will work to perfect its next generation Starship rocket.
GARRETT REISMAN, FORMER DIRECTOR OF SPACE OPERATIONS, SPACEX: I don't think it's possible to understate how important Starship is. A whole economy is
waiting for this vehicle to be able to do all kinds of new things in space. People are designing large satellites right now that need Starship to get
there.
NEWTON (voice-over): Elon Musk himself is a true starship believer.
ELON MUSK, CEO OF SPACEX: This is a spaceship that is designed to make life multiplanetary, to carry millions of people across the heavens to another
planet.
NEWTON (voice-over): Musk has a lot of money riding on SpaceX's IPO as it rockets him to trillionaire territory, his biggest corporate payout,
however, comes later when and if SpaceX establishes get this a permanent human colony on Mars with 1 million inhabitants.
Sky high, perhaps high in the sky ambitions for a company that has caught the attention of global investors hoping for heavenly returns. Paula
Newton, CNN, New York.
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ANDERSON: Once again, hopes are rising that a deal is in sight to end the war with Iran. Source says the U.S. and Iran have agreed on the text of a
memorandum of understanding, an MOU, a sort of framework document, but it has yet to receive final sign off. President Donald Trump claiming Vice
President JD Vance could sign an interim agreement within days. Sources are saying that could happen in Geneva.
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A diplomatic source tells CNN the deal would extend the ceasefire, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and set the stage for core nuclear talks, but Iran
has yet to confirm whether it. Then the ceasefire reopened the straightforward moves and set the stage for core nuclear talks, but Iran
has yet to confirm whether it agrees.
CNN's Kristen Holmes is at the White House with the very latest, and I think Kristen is important just to try and set the record straight here.
Donald Trump announcing, you know, a deal effectively last night, which is this framework agreement, Iran not yet announcing that there has been an
agreement. So, where do things stand at this point?
KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, look, we've been down this road before, Becky, so it seems as though you know this is
just another bite at the apple, but we are getting some indication that this deal, or this memorandum of understanding, which you said is a
framework for a deal, is materializing.
Now according to a diplomat who was briefed on the deal, it would include, as you noted, an immediate ceasefire for 60 days, that would include
everything, Lebanon as well. It would reopen the Strait of Hormuz immediately. There would be no tolls from Iran, no payments there, and they
do believe that this would ramp up the maritime traffic to pre-war levels within 30 days.
They also say that the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports and sanctions would be lifted, but there is a caveat there that Iran would have to continue to
participate in these discussions in good faith. They also say that Iran has met all the requirements for the U.S. on nuclear.
Now we have heard now from Iranian state media, and their version of this memorandum of understanding is a little bit different, but there are two
points that I want to make, and again, noting the source, Iranian state media, but they do talk about how this memorandum of understanding would
unfreeze $24 billion of Iran's frozen assets immediately.
Now that's something to watch, because President Trump had said any kind of exchange of money was off the table originally. The other thing to watch is
that it says on Iran's ballistic missile program and proxies that essentially nobody would bother Iran about it anymore, that it would be not
a topic of discussion.
So, we'll, of course, have to wait and see if this document does go through, get signed, what's actually in it. But we are hearing from
mediators who are casting a good light on this. They say that they believe that this, both sides are in a good place, that they have advanced
agreements.
Some mediators saying that they believe that the Qataris being in Tehran on Tuesday and Wednesday helped get this process through some of those
sticking points. But again, President Trump has done all of this before, where he has leveled threats, then pulled them back, instead of deal is
imminent, only to have everything fall apart. So, we're watching this very closely.
ANDERSON: It's good to have you. And I do just want to note that Benjamin Netanyahu has tweeted or posted in the last hour or so. And this is his
response, and as we understand it, Donald Trump has spoken to Netanyahu about this MOU, quote, as long as I am Prime Minister of Israel, Iran will
not have nuclear weapons.
There is full agreement between me and President Trump on this issue. For over 30 years I have been at the forefront of the international campaign
against Iran's nuclear program. Had it not been for this campaign, Iran would long ago have had atomic bombs to destroy Israel.
Iran is working to destroy the Jewish state, and I dedicate my life to preventing them from doing so. As long as I am Prime Minister of Israel,
this will not happen. More on reaction from Israel to this MOU, and more from Iran, as and when we get it here on CNN.
Well, the biggest ever World Cup kicked off in Mexico yesterday. Joyful scenes as the co-host beat South Africa two nil in the opening game at the
Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. It came after a spectacular opening ceremony that had performances by Shakira, Andrea Bocelli, J Balvin, and many more.
But amid the festivities at the carnival of football, the streets of the capital were also filled with multiple protest groups highlighting issues
from teachers' pensions to gang violence. Valeria Leon joining us from Mexico City to talk through all of this. We have seen celebrations, we've
also seen protests in Mexico City at the Cathedral of Football, as some are calling it last night.
I mean, the atmosphere was absolutely electric. Just talk us through the day after sort of mood in the city, if you will.
VALERIA LEON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Becky. Where that was a huge party at this fan fest, just set up a few steps from here.
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And this is the main camp where protesters have set up thousands of tents occupying the streets surrounding Mexico City's main plaza, the Zocalo, and
also these tents are blocking major intersections of this Zocalo and surrounding the historic center in Mexico City.
They are coming from different parts of Mexico, and they are a dissident group of Mexico's main teacher's union, and it's been very difficult here
to access to the fan fest. This is one of the main entrances to the fan fest established in Mexico City, Zocalo, one of the biggest of the
tournament.
So, these are more than 3000 teachers that have been camping for more than 12 days now. They are demanding higher salaries and also changes to the
pension system. Although Mexico's President has said that she has ruled out to use police force to remove them, but just over there is the fan fest.
And police officers have been deployed surrounding this area, and the government has set up these metal barricades to prevent all these
protesters from reaching this area, the fan zone, and where yesterday more than 90,000 people gathered to celebrate this opening match in Mexico City,
Becky.
ANDERSON: Good to have you. It's an interesting time there in Mexico City. Thank you. Still to come, David Hockney helped the world to see color in a
new way. We remember a giant of the art world who died today at the age of 88.
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ANDERSON: From the sun-drenched swimming pools of L.A. to the rolling landscapes of Northern England's Yorkshire, David Hockney made his look at
the world in a new light. The British artist, known for his bold colors and innovation, has died at the age of 88, his publicist said.
I just want to pause for a moment and take a look back at the life and legacy of one of the most influential artists of the modern era.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Always wildly popular, always instantly recognizable, and stepping up in 2016 to show us what was in all but name
his autobiography.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They're stunning reproductions, these stunning, actually. Actually, that's the arrival of spring.
DAVID HOCKNEY, BRITISH ARTIST: Well, I realized this book would last 100 years, probably. Most people will see my work in this book.
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Why not do it? Really good, Hockney was born an observer as a boy from the top of the double-decker bus in his native Bradford. I've always. Why not
do it really good.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Hockney was born an observer as a boy from the top of the double-decker bus in his native Bradford.
HOCKNEY: I've always loved looking. I've always loved looking. When I could go on the Bradford busses on my own, I used to run right upstairs, run to
the front of the busses, so you could see more, you could see more.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is you at 16?
HOCKNEY: 17 years old.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Hockney's gaze was intense from the beginning. Always a superlative draftsman, art critics compared him to his
hero, Picasso. At the Royal College of Art in London in the early 60s, he celebrated his homosexuality heroically so.
Sex between men remained an offense in England until the law changed in 1967. The work was teasing.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What was the reaction to them at the time?
HOCKNEY: I think they thought they were naughty. I came to California in 1964 when nobody knew me, and I preferred that. Swimming pools, I always
loved. I mean, all the wiggly lines they make. If you photograph them, it freezes them, whereas if you use paint, you can have wiggly lines that
wiggle.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): The other most memorable paintings from the late 60s onwards were the double portraits carefully distilled images of
his parents and his friends. Hockney was rare among modern artists recognized internationally with landmark exhibitions twice in 1988 and
2017.
Hockney never stopped exploring his art and visual media, Polaroids, photo collage, fax, and video. And from 2010, he started making art with an iPad.
In one of his last great cycles of work, he painted the landscape of his native Yorkshire. Hockney was always a defiant smoker, knew it would
probably shorten his life.
HOCKNEY: 65 years ago, I began smoking. Actually, it's 65 years in this book. I keep looking through it, and I think, well, I've not done so bad in
my life. Every day I've done what I want to do, and I could say that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's a privilege.
HOCKNEY: Yeah, I know it's a privilege. I know I'm privileged, but I've always known I was privileged.
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ANDERSON: -- amazing work and career, and watch some incredible CNN access. Journalist Nick Glass met Hockney in his studio when the artist turned 80.
Find out about that on our digital site, CNN Style. I want to get you to New York, where the stock markets are about to open just a few minutes
before SpaceX will be ringing in the bell before the company's March and anticipated Nasdaq debut.
The company's president, Gwynne Shotwell, speaking now. Let's listen in.
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GWYNNE SHOTWELL, SPACEX PRESIDENT AND COO: -- everybody else, can, and I hope Falcon Recovery team could take a moment a little bit later. Yeah, and
also, thank you to the families, the partners, the plus ones, the children, the brothers, the sisters, the parents that have lived through long nights,
that have seen launch failures, that have seen AI compute go down, that have seen kind of the trials and tribulations of this incredibly difficult
business.
Thank you so much for hanging in there, I know I can't do this without my incredible partner and husband too. And I know you all have been a great
source of support for all the SpaceX team, and you are a huge part of this success too. So, thank you for that. I haven't mentioned Starlink and
Starlink mobile yet.
We're probably connected through that, so incredible team to do that, connecting those that are unconnected, and I'm really excited about the
future of that. In fact, as I was meeting with, like, literally almost 1000 people in person over the last two weeks, and almost 100,000 through
telecommunications, hopefully on Starlink.
What was clear to me as I was talking about the future, and they were asking questions about what we achieved and what we're going to achieve.
What was clear to me is that we are just beginning.
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It might feel like a long haul, but it's going be even more exciting going forward, so thank you again. I want to introduce my boss of 24 years, the
chairman of this incredible company, the CEO of this incredible company, and the chief designer of this incredible company, Mr. Elon Musk, who is in
Starbase, Texas, and he's celebrating there with 4 or 5000 people. Thank you so much.
MUSK: Well, thank you Gwynne. Gwynne Shotwell has been an incredible partner and was one of the first people to join the company, and so thank
you, Gwynne. She's in New York, of course. Where is he. And yet it is certainly hard to believe that little company that started in a warehouse
in El Segundo is now, is not going public for the largest IPO that ever.
And let me tell you, if people had told me this was the going to happen, I was like, man, you must be smoking some really good crack, because I think
this company is going to fail. I mean, I gave SpaceX less than a 10 percent chance of succeeding at all to be clear. In fact, I told people this.
I said, look, we're probably going to fail, but you know, should give it a try, because if we don't -- if there's not a new company that enters space,
we will never be a truly space-faring civilization. You know while the other aerospace companies, they build good rockets and everything, they,
they were simply not pursuing the technology that's necessary to make life multi-planetary to make Star Trek to make the exciting science fiction
futures that we've read about real, and that's what SpaceX is all about.
Is to take the fiction out of science fiction and create an exciting, inspiring future for everyone, we want to be able to take anyone who wants
to go to the moon, anyone who wants to go to Mars, or anywhere in the solar system, and maybe beyond the solar system at some point, we want to be able
to take you there, not just a few astronauts, I mean you, literally you.
If you watch, whoever you are watching this, SpaceX wants to be able to take you to the moon, take you to Mars, and ultimately beyond. And I'm
confident at this point that with the incredible team that we have here at SpaceX, that we will do that for you. I always think about this.
There are always problems on earth. There are always problems on earth. There are always things that we wish to be better, that we want to solve
here on earth, and we should solve them, but they also have to be things that get you excited about the future, that make you glad to wake up in the
morning, because you can't wait to see what happens next, and that's the future that SpaceX wants to bring to you.
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ANDERSON: All right. Well, that is the trading day in New York today. Though we are sitting on the opening of the Nasdaq, and that bell or buzzer
rung from SpaceX's HQ, and by the CEO, there, Elon Musk, and a lot of very happy staff there, more than 4000 minted as millionaires today.
The SpaceX stock, of course, lists on the Nasdaq. This is the largest IPO ever expected to put the company at around $1.7 trillion. And that is
unless the stock takes off stratospherically, and then we could be closing in on what $2 trillion market net worth. This is amazing.
There you go, Space Man -- what a music bed. Let's bring in Josh Constine. He's from the tech-centric venture capital firm SignalFire. Not sure how
David Bowe (ph) would feel about that. Not sure how you would feel about Elon Musk. Who knows? But let's talk about what is a massive day for that
company.
Strong demand, we know, for these some 500 million shares. What does that demand tell us about investor appetite for AI and SpaceX, very
specifically, but space-related companies, at this point?
JOSH CONSTINE, VENTURE PARTNER OF SIGNALFIRE: It's very clear that Wall Street is now really valuing the arrival of AI. While we've seen some stops
and starts in terms of people getting the true value out of it, especially with coding co-pilots, I think it's clear now that there is a massive
technology shift happening.
We are going to see a massive new set of businesses built on top of this, and particularly OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are ushering in this kind of
new era of liquidity as well, which not only is going to provide liquidity back to a lot of the LPs in the venture ecosystem.
These new minted millionaires from these companies are going to stimulate the startup ecosystem by becoming the next angel investors, and so really
huge opportunity for the next range of startups as well. But we've seen SpaceX, in particular, just blow up one of SignalFire's portfolio
companies, Stampli.
That builds AI workflow automation software for finance found that there was a 4x increase amongst mid-market enterprise customers of its on SpaceX
in their ecosystem, Starlink, SpaceX, X, XAI, and Grok from mid-market companies from 2024 to 2025. That's an explosive set of growth, you know.
Starlink spending particular grew 3x in that 2024 to 2025 time period. So, it's clear that not only the AI side, but you know, the telephony and the
ability to, you know, work with satellites is super powerful.
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ANDERSON: Yeah, burying the headline, of course. There is a newly minted trillionaire today, that being Elon Musk, who provided to your point his
own funding for so many companies after his PayPal success a couple of decades ago. So, I wonder, does this IPO today.
And we'll wait to see where the shares start trading, and it's going to take a little bit of time, and actually the Nasdaq is off about a third of
1 percent at the moment, but I don't think that really matters at this point. I think we just got to wait for these shares to sort of start doing
their thing on the market, and then we'll look to see where the Nasdaq stands later on.
Does this IPO do you think really genuinely point to a turning point for this broader market. We've got OpenAI in the wings, of course, Anthropic
waiting as well. And what does it do for those companies? You could argue that there's only so much sort of cash sloshing around.
Is there going to be enough for those other two companies when they also list on the Nasdaq?
CONSTINE: Yeah. This is about to be this huge new challenge for these companies. You know historically, compute has been their constraining
factor, including the inputs that go into that, electrical power, AI chips, data centers. And previously they had to buddy up to the private markets
and venture capitalists to get that capital.
Finally, now they have to start a new motion, which is convincing the public that this is in their best interest as well, and that this business
has opportunity to continue to multiply. And so, this is a very big change in their storytelling style. And this is why you're seeing companies like
OpenAI spend hundreds of millions acquiring media properties like TBPN, because they know one of the next big opportunities is getting those data
centers built around the country.
And if local governments and local populations are rallying against them, they're not doing that story-telling job properly. But it's clear now that
the IPO window is opening a lot of these Big Tech companies that have been pent up over the last few years, especially since the pandemic, companies
like Stripe may suddenly say this is the time for us to go out there.
And this is that first wave of AI IPOs, where we're going to see mostly these big horizontal companies, these assistants, these deep research
companies, but next we're going to see a massive wave of vertical AI companies in healthcare, in legal tech, in finance coming out to the
market, because I think now the world is realizing that yes, you can get real productivity gains from these technologies.
ANDERSON: There is a concern that the retail investor getting involved in SpaceX and these others, because these companies have gone to the public
markets, because they, to a degree, you could argue, have exhausted the private markets. There is a concern that these sorts of mom-and-pop
investors, as it were, the likes of you and me, were we to have invested, could, of course, get burnt in all of this.
You know what -- where do you see that as a risk?
CONSTINE: I think, it is important to understand that these companies have spent decades now building up their valuations in the private market, and
historically we saw more of that activity happening in the private or the public market, and that going to those gains going to retail investors.
Now, the question is, can these companies actually multiply when they're already at trillion-dollar valuations.
ANDERSON: Yeah.
CONSTINE: And I think the second big question for the public becomes, when these companies become beholden to quarterly public earnings and a constant
daily share price. Do they short change the safety efforts that keep AI aligned with humanity's best interests?
ANDERSON: Fascinating, it's really good to have you. Thank you very much indeed for joining us. Before I let you go, the World Cups kicked off. Are
you a football fan?
CONSTINE: Yeah, of course. I think you know the entirety of the country is excited to welcome people from around the world, or at least most of the
country is excited.
ANDERSON: Good.
CONSTINE: And you know, I think we're ready to show up that we can host something like this, but obviously, you know, it's not our sport du jour.
So, we'll hopefully be able to show off a good enough for the rest of the world, and all of you.
ANDERSON: Right -- you're going to win it, is that what you're saying?
CONSTINE: You know, if today's stock opening for SpaceX felt unlikely, I think America winning the World Cup feels like a true moon shot.
ANDERSON: Good for you, good for you. All right, it's good to have you, Josh. Thank you very much indeed. Well, if the scenes in Mexico are
anything to go by, we are in for a treat for the next month or so. So how will the other World Cup co-hosts follow up Mexico's victory? More on that
just ahead.
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ANDERSON: Right, two down, 102 to go. Mexico kicked off the World Cup in style with victory over South Africa. Now it is over to the other two co-
hosts, the United States and Canada, as they get their campaigns underway later today. Amanda Davies joining me now. So, let's talk about the first
two matches.
AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Yeah, Becky, I mean, in terms of a tournament kickoff, there couldn't have been a better venue, really, could
there, than the Aztec and Mexico playing at their national stadium.
ANDERSON: Yeah.
DAVIES: And getting an opening win to the tournament, for all the negativity, for all the politics we've been talking about, that was really
a perfect antidote. It doesn't make the problems go away, but a brilliant start to the tournament, but Mexico have now very much set the bar as they
pass the baton to the USA up against Paraguay, and then Canada against Bosnia.
And we're looking ahead to both of those in just a couple of minutes in "World Sports".
ANDERSON: Nice, can't wait. "World Sports" up after this. I am back in 15 minutes time.
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