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has now issued an arrest warrant for vladimir putin. prosecutors accuse putin and another official of illegally deporting ukrainian children to russia. we expect to hear from president biden perhaps reacting to this at any moment but first cnn's ivan watson is in kharkiv, ukraine and nic robertson is in london. ivan, walk us through exactly what the icc is alleging here. >> reporter: they're issuing arrest warrants for none less than the russian president himself, vladimir putin, accusing him of alleged war crimes for what they say is the illegal abduction of ukrainian children, forcibly deporting them to russian territory. they've also issued an arrest warrant for a russian government official, and she is kind of the

children's right official in the russian government. she has already issued a statement. the kremlin have already issued statements basically calling this -- these arrest warrants null and void, saying that moscow is not a signatory to the rome statute, that they don't recognize the jurisdiction of the icc and won't basically be responding to this. and she has issued a separate statement somewhat sarcastically saying, quote, it is great the international community has appreciated the work to help the children that we do not leave them in war zones, that we take them out, that we put good conditions for them, and that we surround them with loving, caring people. on the flip side of this, the ukrainian government has applauded this decision. a top official in the president's office, chief of staff, saying this is just the first step. the top prosecutor in the

country saying that world leaders now will think twice before shaking putin's hand or sitting down at the negotiating table. the ukrainian government has counted no less than 16,226 children that it says have been deported to russia. it wants them back. it has been pressing the icc and other institutions to take a step just like this to accuse putin and his government and military of war crimes and that is why they are happy with this move today. >> and those allegations are incredibly serious. this is a really kind of blockbuster move. how much of it to ivan's point is, perhaps, symbolic they're not going to get putin in handcuffs, and how much has an actual effect? >> it is designed to get him in front of a court and if he was found guilty he would become a war criminal. he knows, therefore, the world

and areas in the world are now prescribed to him. capitals that do follow the rome statutes will be obliged to arrest him if he flew in there. this is a leader who likes to stride the world stage, to be important and powerful, once upon a time a member of the g-8 before he was kicked out and it became the g-7. he is a member of the g-20. he is a member of the u.n.'s permanent security council. these are some of the most esteemed global bodies. some of those meetings he will no longer be able to turn up to. he certainly won't be able to go to new york for a u.n. general assembly meeting. he certainly won't be able to go to a european capital for g20. so he may not end up in front of the court. the former sudanese president charged back in 2009 and 2010 has still not been brought to justice in front of them. putin can evade and avoid but

his world has gotten smaller and that is part of the message here. that you are accountable for the crimes. it is contravening international law to take civilian, for an occupying force to take civilians from their country to another country. and children get even stronger protection under the geneva convention. russia cannot plead it is ignorant of international law even if it doesn't recognize the jurisdiction. forget a meeting with president biden and others. being a possible war criminal his world got smaller and that is the message he is most likely to take home. will it change the course of the war? not immediately but this is part of many messages he is being sent, not least the weapons going to support ukraine. >> nic, i want to underscore what you just said. putin's world has now gotten a lot smaller and that is so significant when talking about the leader of a great power on

the world stage. ivan watson, thank you so much. nic robertson, thank you as well. joining me now to continue this conversation cnn's political and national security analyst and "new york times" correspondent david sanger and retired army brigadier general steve anderson. general anderson, i want to start with you where i just left off with nic, about how this impacts the war in ukraine. obviously these allegations as it relates to the children are very serious but putin is clearly accused of much more on the battle field in ukraine. does this arrest warrant have any impact on how he might proceed in the ukraine conflict? >> thank you. i don't think it will have that big an impact on how he is conducting his war fighting. he is conducting terrible war fighting. his troops weren't properly equipped or trained. his generals don't know how to lead or conduct maneuver operations, etcetera. to me, it is always a good thing when bad things happen to bad

people. this is another charge to add to the charge sheet. he has been terrorizing the ukrainian people for over a year. he's been indiscriminately bombing and terrorizing citizens and this is just another example of the kind of ruthless dictator that he is and why it is absolutely imperative that the united states and nato step up their operations and enable the ukrainians to conduct offensive operations this year. otherwise we are going to be having this conversation for a long time. >> david, there is the prospect here that if putin steps foot in any number of places now there is an active arrest warrant for him. how does that affect how the west is able to deal with him, to negotiate with him, to get him to the table when it comes to ending this war or any number of other conflicts they need to resolve with him?

>> you raise the critical point. on the one hand this is being cheered understandably by every human rights group that has watched the horror of the children being taken over the border. it is a little complicated because not all countries recognize the international criminal court and among those who do not recognize its authority over their own people is the united states. so it is not the ideal place for this to happen in the u.s.'s view, but they'll take it, because it adds to putin's isolation. but you raise a really interesting question. wars end most of the time through a negotiated settlement. that means you have to be in a position of flexibility to go negotiate with your adversary. this may make it all the harder to go negotiate.

one of putin's demands may now well be that charges be dropped against him and the other russian. >> it very well could be. i do want to turn to this meeting we expect next week between putin and the chinese leader xi jinping. xi says that the meeting is about peace. do you buy that? >> i think he is trying to show himself to be a peacemaker. they issued that 12-point peace plan last month. of course they forgot about the 13th point which is to remove all the russian troops from sovereign ukraine. but he is trying to show himself to be some kind of peacemaker in much the same light that perhaps biden came out to visit kyiv, he is going to visit vladimir putin in moscow. i think it is pretty much a show. i think it would be far more significant if he is going to agree to give significant weapons and ammunition to the russians. i don't think he is going to do that. i think behind closed doors he is going to try to encourage

vladimir putin to knock it down a couple notches and end this thing and get it wrapped up because he knows it is a bad, bad game. and i don't think that xi is interested in throwing good money after bad. >> on that point about whether this will lead to even more assistance to putin, david, i wonder how you think this warrant from the icc plays into xi's thinking. in some ways he has tried to keep putin as an ally but in other ways tried to avoid some of the taint from this war. how do you think this affects his thinking about providing lethal support to putin in this moment? >> my guess is he'll pretty well ignore it. china also doesn't sign on to the underlying accords that create the international criminal court. but the china/russia relationship and this dynamic is emerging alliance but not an

alliance yet, is, i think, perhaps the single most important thing that may emerge from the war in terms of reordering global relationships among super powers. the united states now finds itself in daily competition, angry competition with china and in conflict through proxies with russia. that is exactly where we did not want to end up, taking on both major nuclear super powers. they're now finding some reason to have a condominium between each other. and so it is going to become the united states' objective as it was during the nixon era, when china was first brought into the fold a little bit, to try to keep these two from growing into a major relationship. putin has a lot of reasons that he needs china, and china, of course, wants the energy

resources and likes the fact that it's the number one player in this relationship, which was not the way it was in the cold war. >> absolutely. i think that turn-around is of great significance to them. and we are awaiting president biden over on capitol hill. we'll see if he addresses these breaking news developments. thank you, brigadier general, steve anderson, and david sanger for all of that analysis. we may not be out of the woods yet. another struggling bank was just rescued with tens of billions of dollars, but a day later fears of a wider bank crisis still persist. you can see there the markets are down in this moment. so in just a few moments we'll hear from president biden and see if he addresses this turmoil as well. at the moment, let's go to the magic wall. matt eagan has been over at the magic wall all week.

first republic was saved yesterday but the big picture especially with the regional banks and now looking at even the state of the bigger banks, it is very, very murky. tell us what is going on. >> reporter: the last week has really shaken the american banking system and it is going to take some time before we get back to normal. let's look at this rescue of first republic bank and the extraordinary industry led effort. we had 11 of the biggest banks come to the rescue injecting $30 billion of insured deposits. the biggest four banks invested $5 billion each of morgan stanley, goldman sachs, the other five big banks all coming together and you add it up and get $30 billion. this was designed to revive and restore confidence in the regional banking industry. let's look at how regional banks are doing today. first republic down 26% completely giving back all of yesterday's gains. we're really seeing losses

across the board here. pac west, western alliance, all of them in the red. first republic, a very significant decline. this is really the market saying to washington, this is not enough. what's been done so far is not enough. more is going to have to be done. and what is interesting, too, is let's look at the big banks, the ones that came to the rescue are also in the red today. bank of america, citigroup, jpmorgan, wells fargo. looking at the broader markets, we see still down off the lows, though the nasdaq is only down by 0.6%, but, still, the relief rallied from yesterday has proved to be short lived. we also got new numbers that talk about the strain on the banking system. the federal reserve said last night a record $153 billion was borrowed from the fed's discount window by banks. now, this is why the fed is

here. the fed is supposed to be the lender of last resort. the discount window is kind of like a safety valve that takes some of the pressure out of the banking system. but this figure, it is a record, really puts an exclamation point on just how much stress is on the system. >> yeah. this is all seeming to point to some really troubling signs. i wonder, what is happening with the american consumer who throughout all of this has been dealing with inflation, now worried about how their money is doing. what's going on with them? >> we got new numbers out on consumer sentiment from the university of michigan. this is a preliminary look at march. and 63.4, so for some context about a hundred that this metric was around a hundred pre-covid. we are way down from there. we actually have been trending higher for three months in a row and now we have this decline right here. i think what is interesting is that this dip in consumer sentiment is actually not about

the stress in the banking system. university of michigan says the vast majority of the survey was already out. they already got all the responses before the collapse of silicon valley bank. so that suggests that this is really more about lingering concerns about inflation and how long sticker shock has lasted. another number we're looking at right now is what is going on in the oil market? usually we've talking about high oil prices. the good news is oil prices have actually come down significantly. look at u.s. oil down to $67 a barrel, down 2%. unfortunately, though, this isn't really happening for the right reasons. it is mostly because investors are concerned about the health of the economy. energy market traders are worried this contagion in the banking system is going to spread and could slow down the economy by hurting demand and supply for loans. i think this is just another sign of concern right now about the financial markets and the

economy. >> there is so much to chew on there. thank you so much. let's break it down even further. we have a representative of "the washington post" as well as our cnn political analyst and ap white house reporter. i want to start with you on the economics of this. the first republic rescue happened. the treasury secretary has given assurances. but the banking sector is still clearly as you can see from the dow and from the individual stocks, they are still on edge. what would it take to give wall street, the banking industry, more confidence that this thing has been handled? >> i think it is almost as if everybody woke up and realized there was a lot more fragility in the financial system than had been until a week ago fully appreciated. you are seeing a lot of jitters related to that sort of collective realization. i think that federal officials had hoped that the extraordinary actions taken last weekend,

rescuing silicon valley bank and signature bank depositors, would be sufficient. that clearly wasn't. they hoped that this big bank cash infusion into first republic would be sufficient. that has not been the case. i don't know at this point. i think we have to hope that whatever anxiety there is about the state of financial markets kind of works its way through the system at this point and that there isn't another potentially hidden bomb about to go off. i think that is part of what's happening here. people are like, wow. we were taken by surprise by how much vulnerability there was that hadn't been spotted by wall street, by regulators, etcetera. what are the other shoes about to drop? one hopes that there won't be any but we don't know. >> we really don't know. because it seemed almost as if no one saw this coming. on the washington end of this, president biden today is urging

congress to take action to regulate banks, to really punish banks for this kind of mismanagement that could lead to what happened with silicon valley bank. on the other hand, on capitol hill, speaker mccarthy is pushing back. he is saying, we don't really need to do anything here. what do you expect to happen in terms of washington playing a role in this crisis? >> i think what president biden started out in terms of policy prescriptions when it comes to the banking collapse was interesting. he is targeting the management bonuses making sure the bank executives are properly punished for their behavior. he talked about congress giving regulators additional action to claw back compensation. we saw the reports of silicon county bank executives getting bonuses before this bank collapse. that is something that i don't know if there is a bipartisan solution but certainly has been

bipartisan criticism and outrage on capitol hill. obviously you're hearing that a lot from democrats. you're hearing that from the president of the united states as well. but i am told on a private call -- >> i have to interrupt you. i'm sorry. president biden is over on capitol hill speaking for the first time since the icc issued an arrest warrant for vladimir putin. >> well, that's why i'm here. i'm glad to be with all of you and most importantly i'm glad we're surrounded by so many friends of ireland. here in washington we've always been able to work across the aisle on irish issues no matter what our politics have been, no matter what else we agree or disagree on. mr. speaker, thank you for bringing us together again. i was trying to think, i think i've made almost every one -- don't get hurt, man. we need you. you okay? all right. mr. speaker, i want to thank you

for bringing us together. thank you to all the irish americans here today who spent years building a broad, bipartisan confidence esus on the issue of ireland. you know, it is great to see you again. we just spent a little time down in the oval office and just finished an excellent meeting. so now we can enjoy a little bit of a celebration. you know, to all of the friends and leaders who travel from ireland and northern ireland, wonderful to see so many of you here once more. i stand here today like most of you as a descendant of the blue ets of county mayo and finnegans of county lou. i was saying when i would have as vice president a breakfast for him before he'd go over to see the president for those eight years. the seventh year i think it was

that went in, brought him into the oval and he sat down and before barack could say anything, he said for god's sake, barack, let the boy come home. let him come home. swear to god. true story. he said you keep sending him places like afghanistan and iraq. let him come home. you have to help me with the gaelic expression a hundred thousand welcomes. [ speaking in non-english ] and he said he'll get a hundred thousand welcomes. and it was one of the -- they didn't plan on me bringing my whole family. [ laughter ] but literally saw thousands of people. i was saying that being raised by a grand pop who went to santa clara back in the days when irish in northeast pennsylvania didn't very much get a chance to go to college, he was an all american football player at santa clara and he came back as a newspaper guy on the business side. my grandfather used to say that,

you know, when anything -- every time i'd walk out of his house in scranton, pennsylvania, i lived there for a while, he'd look at me and say, joe, remember, the best drop of blood in you is irish. my grandmother would say, you need more than that. but the fact is when i went over to ireland, it was a great experience. i had been to ireland many times but not looking up my actual family members. there were so many and they actually weren't in jail. all kidding aside, met the bluetts and finnegans and the folks we were related to and spent six days there. one of the things, and the finnegan, there is still a place

called finnegan's pub. which is related to my family. i am the only irishman you ever met who never had a drink so i'm okay. i'm really not irish. look, as you know i take pride in my irish ancestry and as long as i can remember it's been part of my soul, how i've been raised. during the times of darkness and despair it always sort of brings light, strength when you think about what my ancestors went through and what we're going through now. the history that binds us and the values that unite us. they're values i learned in my grand pop's kitchen table where he would always, you know, my grand pop's kitchen table particularly on sunday after 10:30 mass, st. paul's, i'd get to -- you get to wander around

the table. you never got to sit down when you were a kid. he had four sons. and they'd sit there and another guy from the newspaper, a guy named tommy philips, david broder of the scranton paper, and they'd sit there and talk and one day i'm sitting there and talking about a guy that i didn't understand why he was sticking up for him. he was a city chairman of the party. whose son inches city chairman when i was president. he was always in trouble like a late mayor daly, brother-in-law on the payroll kind of thing. i couldn't understand my grand pop with mr. rectitude and i couldn't understand why he was, you know, so -- liked him so much. and he reached up and you could wander the table. you just couldn't sit.

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as of right now former president donald trump can post videos on youtube again. the platform announced today trump's channel is no longer restricted and he is free to upload any new content that he wants. axios' senior media reporter is joining us to explain this. youtube is joining the party of meta and twitter in bringing trump back on to the platform. explain why he was banned in the first place and what youtube is saying about why he is allowed back on. >> that is a great question. following the january 6th insurrection youtube banned donald trump from uploading new videos and doing a variety of other things in response to violating its policies around incitement to violence. youtube wasn't the only platform to point to that policy to ban him. meta pointed to a similar rule. what it means he is coming back on is twofold. one it means he can now upload videos again and hasn't been able to do that in over two

years. two he can buy ads again. that is a really big deal. even though donald trump has his new social media platform where he can spew whatever he wants to say there is no real mechanism for him to reach a lot of people through advertising like he had on youtube and now on meta as well. >> that is such an important point. when you are talking about meta as well as facebook, instagram, huge source of fundraising for the trump campaign. those companies, twitter and meta, have restored his accounts. trump has said he is not going on there because he has his own platform. but what do you expect? do you think that will stick as we go into 2024? >> it is an interesting question because true social has guidelines that essentially bar him from posting on other platforms. first in order to incentivize the president to use truth. it was also a mechanism to assure investors that this platform would be successful. i think going into his 2024 campaign you'll definitely see him use the platforms for advertising.

in terms of posting maybe if he can strike some sort of deal with twitter. i know elon musk now owns it. it is a different kind of platform. to integrate some things with true social. maybe he would post there. i'm not quite sure if he sees a lot of value in posting organically right now on facebook, meta, instagram. but i do think he'll buy ads on those platforms. >> the money spigot is the real issue here as it relates to his campaign. thank you for all of that. dozens of people who work at donald trump's mar-a-lago resort in florida have been subpoenaed now to testify before a federal grand jury, ranging from the housekeeper and restaurant servers to close aides and advisers. the special counsel investigating trump's handling of the classified documents case wants to know what the staffers might have seen or heard at that resort. let's bring in cnn's legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elliott williams. what does this suggest to you

about what stage in this investigation we might be in right now? >> above all else it is important to note the special counsel investigation is ongoing. so many headlines surrounding the former president and the law centered on investigations in new york and fulton county, georgia. but the justice department special counsel investigation is still ongoing. what does it mean that these individuals are being interviewed? everything or much of what happens in criminal law comes down to intent and when you talk about the possession of classified documents a major question is going to be did the person intend to hold them? in violation of the law? was it an accident or not? people who worked at mar-a-lago are particularly able to answer questions like that because they can speak to what they witnessed, conversations they overheard, or conversations they were part of that might have touched on documents. >> what does it say to you that the net is so wide at this moment? there's been a suggestion that

in some ways this is sort of just standard practice, cover all of your bases. is that how you see it? >> it absolutely is how i see it. nets have to be wide when conducting criminal investigations. the obvious answer right there is not every piece of evidence is going to get into court. take the evidence of a housekeeper or butler at mar-a-lago. they might be testifying as to conversations they heard but weren't part of. that is hearsay under the law. maybe that won't even get into court. if a matter were to come to trial. so it makes sense for prosecutors and investigators always to gather as much evidence as they can from people who witnessed, saw, and sometimes even were being investigated themselves. >> there are some other members of trump's inner circle who have been subpoenaed. the white house deputy chief of staff dan scavino, talking about trump adviser patel, but an ongoing investigation involving trump's attorney corcoran on this issue of whether he ought

to testify about his conversations with trump. we could get answers on that as soon as today. do you have any expectation how that might turn out? >> certainly. now, look. we've all heard of the term attorney-client privilege. conversations an attorney has with his or her client cannot be brought into court or compelled out of an attorney, right? now there is something called the crime fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege. if someone is advising a client to commit a crime or over hears about crimes that might be committed in the future they can waive the attorney-client privilege and ask that person to come in and testify. a judge is going to look at the conversations between mr. corcoran and the former president and say, look, where was he actually providing genuine legal advice to the former president and where might they have been talking about or providing information relevant to a criminal investigation? you have to go statement by statement. there is no baflanket way to answer it but merely being an attorney won't always get you

out of coming in to testify. >> a good point. one last thing, eliot. the trump aid margo martin appeared before a grand jury yesterday and is a trump communications aide from the white house who significantly continued with him as he went over to mar-a-lago. what did we learn about what she might have been testifying to? >> it is hard to know but one thing is for certain. conversations she has with the former president after her time in the white house are going to be subject to a lot less protection than the one she would have had with the president when he was president. we've talked about the idea of executive privilege. sometimes the president is entitled to have statements and conversations with his staff protected under the law. that is not the case here. as someone who was here both before and during and after the presidency she could have a tremendous amount of information that might be useful to prosecutors or investigators.

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bracket already busted? you've got plenty of company. unless of course you knew ahead of time that the heavy favorites arizona and virginia were going down early. cnn's sports anchor has more on all of the early upsets. >> reporter: what a start we had to the ncaa tournament on thursday. if you're one of the unfortunate people who had arizona in your final four or you are like president biden and had them winning the championship you got a bunch of big xs all over your bracket already heading into the second day of the tournament. you like have no chance of winning at this point. filling out the bracket is hard and no one will have a perfect bracket. according to ncaa.com out of the tens of millions filled out this year only 787 remain perfect. messing up a lot of the brackets from the get-go yesterday were the furman team who pulled off an all timer. >> clark gets it in.

gets it back with 10. clark double teamed along the baseline. throws it up the floor. intercepted by haynes. for three. and the win. he got it! with 2.2 to go! >> virginia fans were shocked at what they witnessed. look at this furman fan. she was praying so hard. every prayer she knew that they would hold on and win the game. they did just that beating virginia 68-67. furman, the smallest school in the tournament field with less than 2700 students. cavaliers eliminated in the first round three times in their last four ncaa tournaments. the paladins meanwhile from greenville, south carolina making their most of their first trip to march madness in 33 years. furman wasn't even the biggest upset of the day. 15 seed princeton taking the lead with 2:00 to go and arizona couldn't even buy a basket late in this game. the wildcats went the final 4:45

without scoring. tigers pulling off the massive upset, 59-55. this is the third straight year and 11th time overall a 15th seed has won a first-round game. here are games to keep an eye on later on today. since 2010, 11 seeds actually have a winning record against 6 seeds. watch out for iowa state, pitt, kentucky, providence. could see excitement in those games. then miami versus drake a 5-12 matchup. miami is a 5 seed. the odds makers have them a two-point favorite. that has upset potential as well. here is hoping day two of the tournament is just like day one because it was awesome. >> rubbing it in for everyone. a lot of brackets today. from march madness to smelly, rotting blobs, a 5,000-mile smelly, rotting mass of seaweed is headed straight toward the florida coast. for perspective that is nearly twice the length of the united

states and parts of it are already washing ashore in the florida keys. holding her breath in key west, i presume, where in florida is this blob headed and what are people going to do when they come to the beach expecting beautiful sand and see that? >> reporter: right. expecting that image you think of with florida, the clean, pristine beaches. i got to tell you not too bad a day. it smells just fine. but look. this is what the beach, this is what is washing in. in this, mixed in this is this right here. i pulled this earlier. this is sargasm the particular type of seaweed we're talking about in this big body floating toward florida and to be very specific and answer your question we are looking at hitting over to the east coast of florida where it is expected

to impact. yeah. if just a portion of this hits the east coast, you're talking about a pretty different beach when folks come out to vacation, specifically those coming out during the summer. we talked about how right now it is 5,000 miles long. well, it is also about 6 million tons of seaweed and the scientist i talked to said that is not even peak yet. it could get up to 20 million pounds of this particular type of seaweed heading toward florida. here in the keys in monroe county they've already allotted $200,000 for cleanup for what is to come. what is the type of impact? you could probably as you mentioned, a bit of a stinky seaweed so you could see some respiratory issues for some folks but this stuff here is not toxic like we're seeing on the west side, which is the red tide. that does kill fish, cause respiratory illness. it is toxic. right now florida coasts, west side as well as east side, sort

of dealing with a bit of a challenge if you will and we haven't even really seen yet what will come from the east coast or excuse me, on to the east coast from the sea. >> that is really, i mean, for beach goers really tragic. how much longer is it going to keep going? we're in march and i think a lot of people are going on spring break trips, families are going out. >> right. >> what can they expect if they have vacations planned? >> reporter: excellent question, my friend. that is something i asked the scientist as well. how can we forecast? the answer to that, we don't really know yet. this is something, this type of seaweed sort of cracked up in the tropical atlantic in 2011. so while scientists do have a pretty good understanding about the current and how this moves, they don't really have a great grasp on why do we see more of it this year versus last year, expected to be record breaking this year? that is why a lot of the scientists are saying we need more funding to research this so

one day they can forecast this kind of like you might expect to forecast a hurricane. >> it's like a seaweed hurricane if you will. leyla santiago, thank you so much for all of that. >> hitting the coast, yes. still to come for us, artificial intelligence means real money i guess. could a bot turn a hundred bucks into a fortune? we'll talk to a guy who is giving it a try. you're ever delivering with freight brokerage to transportation management, trucuckload capacity and dedicated trucks and drivers. the first time you connectcted your godaddy website and your store was also the first time you realized... well, we can do anything. cheesecake cookies? the chookie! manage all your sales from one place with a partner that always puts you first. manage all your sales from one (we did it)a partner start today at godad.com ( ♪ ) the future is here. we've been creating it for more than 100 years, putting the most advanced technology

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you've probably been hearing a lot about chat gpt, this powerful, artificial intelligence bot that can write papers for you and maybe even

pass a bar exam. what about having it just make you some money? i'm talking about real money. this week one person gave it a simple tasks explaining on twitter. he said i gave chat gpt 4 a budget of a hundred dollars and told it to make as much money as possible. i am acting as a human liaison buying anything it says to. that was wednesday. 24 hours later the stakes were raised significantly. it is day two, y'all. i've given hustle gpt a formal challenge to get to $100,000 cash on hand as quickly as possible. the human behind the bot is joining us now. jackson briefly explained us to how your hustle gpt, a.i. colleague, boss, co-founder launched this business from thin air. >> thank you so much for having me on. to be completely honest, i've been using the chat gpt since it came out on day one and i've

always enjoyed playing around with fun things to prompt it with and figuring out how to talk to it. i was just sitting and thought it would be a fun idea. i went on twitter and it kind of blew up very quickly. now we have a community of 200 people all trying this hustle gpt challenge. about 30 people are starting their own projects. it's been pretty crazy. >> we checked out the website called green gadget guru. so far it is a landing page. i wonder, have you gotten any cash out of this yet? when do you think that you'll start bringing in some bucks? >> i'll tell you exactly what is going on. it suggested this name green gadget guru. i asked chat gpt, come up with a business idea, a name, i'll go out and buy the domain and get everything set up. it is you in the driver's seat. i am just the human liaison like you said. right now we have, yesterday it instructed me to go out and hire a freelance web designer to finish this website. it also told me to hire a couple

people to do content management to use it, use chat gpt to make more comment and then go and post it on that website. so it is in progress is what's going on. >> you have some home work assignments. but it seems like chat gpt or hustle gpt is doing a lot of the work. how many people, how many jobs do you think you eliminated in this process of using chat gpt to do this process? >> i eliminated i would say none at all. the truth is, it actually told me to go out and hire human beings. because it's not connected to the internet. it can't navigate. it can't put up a website. it can't post content to the internet. so it told me to go out and hire people. i said, you know, what is your budget for a freelance writer to

upload blog posts? it said $20 per post. okay. you're the boss. $20 a post. so we have a lot of people in the dms now and very excited to work for the robot through me. it is very, very exciting. so i would say no jobs. making jobs. >> yeah. well, that is a twist. maybe chat gpt is actually creating jobs for us. i did note that you consulted with hustle gpt about this interview we are having right now. it gave you some talking points. what do you think it'll say about how you did today? >> well, i'm eager to ask it immediately following this. but if you have anything you'd like me to share with hustle gpt, which is what i'm calling my version of chat gpt, i will definitely get back to you with what it says. >> so i also am curious, i mean, at some point this is going to be off the ground and maybe you'll make some money but it sounds like you have to spend

maybe a little more than you originally budgeted for. do you think this is a reasonable side hustle venture for other people looking to make a few bucks on the side? i guess maybe it is not so passive an income stream since you have home work you are about to do as soon as you get off the call. >> it is definitely some work to be done on the human side. i think what makes this exciting is that my prompts, the way i figured out how to engineer and talk to chat gpt in a way that makes it understand, you know, how to respond creatively to my input is all out there in public on my twitter at jackson fall and you can see and follow along every day i am posting a thread of tweets with new ideas for one ways to prompt it and make it give more creative answers so anyone can go on this free website. you can go to chat gpt's ai.com and pull it up free. you can start talking to it and start this back and forth going. on my twitter is all my prompts

i've been using that's been working pretty well for me. it is exciting to see almost 200 people already, you know, starting to kind of riff off of that and create their own versions of it. >> all right. when you make it big don't forget us little people over here who helped put you out there into the world. jackson greathouse fall, thank you so much for that. that does it for me here on cnn newsroom. don't go anywhere just yet. there is much more news still ahead right here on cnn. but with upwork, there's highly skilled talent from all over the globe right at your fingertips. it's where businesses meet great remote talent and remote talent meets great opportunity. ♪ ♪ this is how we work n now ♪

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