dagen: was predominantly used by the left when trump was president frankly. i don't know why it's taken them so long to get around to it. it's misused most often. the film is better than the people who actually use this. it's a movie and george directed a star is born with judy garland so all of that is so much better than this actual term. maria: yeah, mark. dagen: i can think of curse words. mark: it's a key tactic in the dem's play book. if you mislead someone long enough, they'll believe it. maria: thank you everybody for withing with us. "varney & co." starts right now. ashley webster in for stu. ashley: good morning, everybody. yes, indeed, i'm ashley webster

in for stuart varney. chaos in china. the largest protest since the movement in 1989. they're fed up with the draconian dove policies that have -- covid policies that have them locked inside their homes for weeks and months and that caused a selloff in the markets yesterday but today, futures recovering albeit ever so slightly all though the dow has now turned negative and s&p and nasdaq slightly higher. meantime more contagion on the crypto front and blockfi halted withdrawal because of ftx and musk says it's all about free speech and the left's attempt to suppress it. we're going to get into that story. we've got a great lineup ahead as always. mercedes schlapp.

brian kell immediate and senator rick scott among others joining us and a showdown on the field, team usa taking on iran in the world cup today. they last faced each other back in 1998. it was described then as the most politically charged game in world cup history. today's game comes on a 2:00 p.m. eastern on fox. don't miss it. it is tuesday, november 29th, 2022. "varney & co." about to begin. ♪ ashley: all right, we're starting this tuesday morning with a look at china. good morning to you, lauren. are the protests still going on? lauren: not that we're aware of because you had a massive police presence overnight that prevented a repeat of what we saw over the weekend, which you're looking at right now. these rare, open dissents across

17 provences against president xi and his covid policies and covid police and beijing police stopping people where they were protesting over the weekend and checked people's phones with their chat history to see if there was organization going on and asked others to report to a local police station to provide a written account of where they were over the weekend. they're stamping down. even the colleges because young people, that's where you see a lot of this unrest, they congregate, the colleges telling students stay home. go online for the time being. the response to this in terms of policy, because a lot of people are expecting some sort of loosening, you know, chinese authorities are saying let's now vow to vaccinate more elderly people to stamp out covid. with their vaccines, not with moderna or pfizer. ashley: yes, right. all right. beijing being big brother

basically. check the futures again. the dow turned slightly lower but the s&p and nasdaq slightly higher as we look at this in the premarket. let's bring in mike murphy to make sense of all this. mike, let's begin with china. we knew that beijing was going to clamp down but the question is will they ease up on the covid restrictions and can we get the chinese economy going again? how does all this affect the markets after we saw what happened yesterday? >> good morning, ashley. it's going to have a major impact on the markets and the bernie sanders way to gauge it for -- best way to gauge it for viewers at home is apple. apple is trying to make their phones elsewhere, a lot of phones are still comes out of foxcon in china and if these end up impacting apple negatively, that's going to not give us a substantial rally in our market and we need apple to participate

and sets u up for an interesting december and not a good december if it hits apple negatively but not seeing that yet this morning. ashley: not yet. i want to ask you about this, morgan stanley saying the markets could drop 15% by march. should i -- should investors be worried? >> could, no. short answer, absolutely not. this is an analyst making a call there could be negative impact. i don't see it, i don't agree with it but then, you know, they do say we go onto a recovery. they might be a lot smarter than i am, but i can't time every pull back and rally in the markets so for investors, stick with the theme and 2022 has been a tough year. stay invested with the markets. the best place to be is in the markets, in the s&p 500. we will get a rally, whether it comes with santa claus throughout december or whether it comes in 2023, a rally is

coming in the u.s. markets. ashley: i feel a little better and thanks to you, mike murphy. always glass half full. i love it. mike, thank you so much. appreciate your time. by the way, we have the very latest read on home prices. this should be interesting. take us through it, lauren. lauren: are prices coming down? yes, these are september numbers so you've got to go back a little bit, but prices fell across 20 major cities, 1.5% between august and september. second steepest decline in 2009 and annual basis, prices are not falling and rises 10% but the pace annually is the slowest that we've seen in two years. ashley: yeah, pretty much kind of confirming what we know about the housing market. interesting, lauren, thank you very much. back to politics. president biden turning to congress to avert a rail strike. what does he want, lauren?

lauren: he wants congress to intervene. here's his statement: i'm calling on congress to pass legislation immediately to adopt the tentative agreement between the railroad workers and operators without any modifications or delay to avert a potentially crippling shut down. congress has the power to adopt an agreement and prevents this. should set aside politics and politics andpartisan and delive. congress should get this to my desk well in advance of decembed disruption. that disrupt expected to cost the economy $2 billion a day. now you have the president finding himself at odds with some of the union members who have voted against the tentative deal that he helped strike back in september. now, house speaker nancy pelosi will try to move legislation to enact that deal this week. it provides a 24% pay bump but some workers say it doesn't

provide enough sick days so they want more. so the deadline is one week from this friday or, ashley, two weeks before christmas. so, yes, they want to get this done. they want congress to intervene. ashley: they do. 24% pay rise. not bad at all. see how it plays out. lauren, thank you very much. now this, a new poll shows that over 60% of voters support a potential investigation into hunter biden by republicans. okay. mercedes schlapp joins me now to talk about it. mercedes, good morning. do you think americans though, do you think americans really want more investigations? is this important enough to move forward with? >> look, i do think that this is an important investigation. we saw congressman comerford, who's the top -- comer who's the top republican leader in the oversight committee looking into hunter biden and joe biden and whether joe biden was involved

in the foreign dealings with what hunter biden was doing, and i think there's enough evidence out there to raise these questions to investigate as we've seen multiple whistle blowers come out saying they're involved in the schemes with not only hunter biden but joe biden and i got to tell you something, let's remember, it was a sensorship of the hunter biden story -- censorship of the hunter biden story in 2020 during the time of a critical presidential election that did not allow this investigation to come forward because so many in the mainstream media did not want us to talk about it. those of us who are part of the trump campaign. as we know, you saw elon musk, he's taking steps to provide transparency on this story. what happened, where they ended up censoring the new york post story on twitter. this is all that needs to come to light. we can't just ignore this, and i think this is something that the american people want to learn

about and get to the bottom of. ashley: well, especially, mercedes, because the same pom also reveals that -- poll also reveals that 61% of voters actually believe president biden was compromised by china because of hunter's business deals. i mean, that is significant. >> right, and you've seen a department of justice that's been politicized where they're going after one party and obviously the former president, but they won't touch hunter biden. they've had this one case against hunter biden on potential tax fraud, but there's concerns on whether he was involved in money laundering, whether he was involved in foreign lobbying violations. all of this should be investigated and quite frankly, we need to understand if the president of the united states, joe biden, was involved in these dealings and there are concerns that could be the case. i do think we need transparency on this issue. i think the american people deserve to know if president

biden has been involved in these foreign dealings, which we know would be a violation of his duty. ashley: yeah, we have to get to the bottom of it. all right, mercedes, we're out of time. thank you so much for joining us this morning to talk about the hunter biden laptop issue, which shouldn't and isn't going away. mercedes, thank you. guess what, despite it being -- the fact it's been three weeks since election day, some people are refusing to accept the results. what's going on, lauren? lauren: small number of counties in arizona and pennsylvania, they're refusing to certify the results. that's not going to prevent any elected winner from taking office but it does so election mistrust. those counties will all be sued and some already have. then former president trump denying katie hobbs victory in arizona and wa wants kari lake o be declared winner.

massive number of broken voting districts on election day. mechanics sent in to fix them and he says made them worse. kari lake has yet to concede. she did lose by around 17,000 votes, ashley. ashley: all right. thank you very much, lauren. take a look at these futures. the selloff yesterday and knocked down 1.5% on the major exchanges and the dow off slightly and nasdaq and s&p up slightly. the white house said they're keeping a close eye of elon musk takeover of twitter. listen to this. >> it's their responsibility to make sure that when it comes to misinformation and the hate we're seeing, they take action. we're all keeping a close eye on this. ashley: close eye, i guess that's the message. we'll tell you how elon musk responded to that. despite stunning nationwide

protest, china is sticking with the zero covid policy and white house is blasting the policy bt defending their own. we'll have that report next. ♪

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watch me. ashley: well, protests continue in china against the country's restricted zero covid policies. jackie heinrich is at the white house this morning. jackie, good morning to you. what has been the administration's response to these protests? >> good morning to you. the white house is notably expressing support for these chinese protesters, but they're

stopping short of echoing their calls for regime change. >> what is the president's reaction when he hears protesters in china chant freedom xi jinping step down? >> president not speaking for protesters. >> no reaction? >> the protesters are speaking for themselves. >> that's far short and unequivocal of what the white house should be giving about a crackdown and in 1989 when the u.s. and other democracies did little to deter the css leader. the biden administration response is worse than expected and one way or another in the coming months or coming years the united states will hold accountable each and every ccp official responsible for atrocities against the protesters. chai expert -- china experts say the time to make a clear warning is now because the 1989

massacre, protesters only wanted to replace ccp leaders and not topple the party and now they're calling for regime change. already the chinese foreign ministry is pushing back on the u.s. response for going too far and tweeting "the price of freedom in the u.s., 1 million covid deaths, 40,000 gun deaths in a year and 1,672 fentanyl deaths in 2022 alone. the american people deserve something far better than that. we want to protect our people's lives and ensure them a better life". critics say the protests are a real threat to chinese president xi jinping's rule and means it is a concerning indicator, his response could become more severe. ashley. ashley: very interesting. jackie, thank you very much. good time to bring in gordon chang joining us this morning. gordon, great to see you. some protesters in china say police are seeking them out to detain them. what do you make of that? is that a typical tactic of

beijing? >> it is a typical tactic and once the crowds go home, the regime then starts to oppress and we've seen with detentions but random checks on china's streets where the police take someone's phone to see if there are banned apps like telegram so the regime right now is flooding into chinese society to try and prevent a re-o could your honor please of this and the -- reoccurrence of this and the big test is this weekend. ashley: how does bejing respond. they'll try to clamp dawn on the protest and will it have an impact on the zero covid policy. do you think they'll ease up faster than previously planned? >> no, i don't think so. to do this is look at perspective. on the 11th of this month, they announced 20 relaxations but what we saw on thursday was that some people died in that apartment building because their apartments were wired shut from

the outside. after the apartment fire in the last day or so, bejing said you can no longer barricade people into their apartments. you can say, yes, that's a relaxation but as a practical matter, the communist party is too fully invested in zero covid for a number of political and prop began tafanely reasons. propaganda. ashley: video in 1989 and is it on that scale and how much does this shake xi and beijing or not at all. what are your thoughts? >> protests on the weekend were not as large as 1989, which developed over months and covered 371 chinese cities. but in 1989 as jackie pointed out, protesters didn't call for the overthrow of the communist party. they just wanted lee pung, the premier to step aside and wanted

liberalizing reforms of party rule. now we're hearing across china that people want the party to go away and xi jinping out of the way as well. that's really revolutionary and that's a reflection of deep seeded resentment, hatred, anger across the chinese society and that day is not going away. ashley: very quickly, gordon. they've been telling me to wrap it up. gordon, you don't think it'll go away. i mean, what's the end game here? it could take awhile but if they're unsuccessful in quelling the protests, how quickly does this escalate, do you think? >> i would think maybe three or four months. you'll see the use of force. it will be massive use of force. ashley: wow, we'll of course follow it every step of the way. gordon, thanks for your expertise on this issue this morning. gordon chang this morning, thank you. the u.s. embassy is also issuing

a warning about the lockdowns. lauren, what do the embassy say? lauren: that they're likely to intensify in the days and weeks and they add this "u.s. citizens should keep a 14 day supply of medications, bottled water and food for yourself and any members of your household". translation, worried more lockdowns, potential family separseparseparations and a potl crackdown of the protesters by authorities. it's a bit concerning. ashley: okay, they have warned. yes, it is. lauren, thank you. taking a quick look at futures, we've seen the dow moving lower in the premarket. unchanged on the s&p just slightly higher on the nasdaq. we'll open the opening bell next. let's see where the equities go. we'll be right back. ♪

ashley: all right, let's take a look at these futures. slightly lower on the dow. down over 50 points over the s and m and nasdaq -- s&p and nasdaq slightly higher. michael lee, good morning. a lot of people saying, hey, maybe the fed will pivot and i

don't believe that and don't think you do either; right? >> no, i don't think the fed will pivot until we get verified confirmation that this inflation is finally put to bed and when i say put to bed, we're going to need several months in a row of core inflation growth, of 0.0% or 0.1% or even negative and i don't know if that's six months or 12 months but the 2% target for inflation for the fed is not a suggestion. it is a very much hard landmark that they are going to work towards, and they will not stop until it is very much verified that it's down to 2%. the way that i like to describe it is, you know, one of these slapstick action movies where they shoot a guy who's dead an extra 15 times. that's -- when you listen to the three fed speakers yesterday and every time paolo talks, this is what they're saying is you don't

want inflation to die down and we're in the middle of inflation and fed picks inflation again and takes us into the middle of a deeper, darker inflation. ashley: we haven't even felt the effects of the rate hike yet and that'll be sometime next year that suggestions a recession. what kind of recession and when do you think it can hit? >> so, i think the end of the first quarter is when we're really going to start seeing the aerodynamicfects of the -- affects of the fed rate hikes and housing turned in april and may of this year. when it turns as hard as it has, you typically see a recession 12 months out from there. that's not most of the time. that's almost every single time. we've gotten confirmation from manufacturing, global pmis have been in contraction for four straight months, four of the last five months the new orders

subsection of ism index has been in contraction so all signs are pointing to a recession and if you look at where housing is now from where it's gone over the last six months, that suggests the unemployment rate will be double what it is today a year from now. ashley: got 20 seconds, mike. good time to take some cash, do you think? >> yeah, right here you want to be reducing your equity overall positions. if the market holds on throughout, you'll have less motion in the ocean, your portfolio and never all the way out of the market, never all the way in the market, but you can add little bit of cash here off this recent rally. ashley: terrific stuff as always. mike lee, thank you for joining us this morning. we're getting ready to ring the opening bell five seconds from now. the major markets all up about 1.5%% on concerns about s chinad see what we do today. they've hit the button and off

and running on this tuesday morning. out of the gate, the dow is off about 38 points, 41 points down a tenth or two. dow, chevron and boeing leading and mcdonalds, home depot, proproctor & gamble on the bott. s&p essentially flat at 3962 and also take a look at nasdaq and see where that is. up three points so essentially flat at 11,052. talking of the nasdaq, take a look at big tech names as we like to do every day. meta and microsoft up straight at the opening bell, well, microsoft turned negative and amazon, alphabet and apple. apple down about a third of a percent in the very early going and talking of which, take a closer look at apple and good morning, susan lee. apple has become the latest target of elon musk. what's going on? susan: yeah, obviously there's some beef there. musk has a lot of beef it seems with apple, and you saw that

yesterday on twitter with seven tweets in a row aimed at the world's biggest company. first tweeting that apple, apparently has mostly stopped advertising on twitter. do they hate free speech in america? and then he tweeted directly at apple's ceo tim cook saying what's going on here, tim? yesterday you had the washington post reporting that apple is twitter's number one advertiser in the first quarter, the first thee months of this year. they spent around $50 million or so but no longer spending after musk's takeover in october. now musk also suggesting that apple is threatening to remove twitter off the apple app store tweeting that app 18 threatening to w u withhold twitter from thp store. apple has strict requirement for apps on the app store to protect users against hate speech and misinformation. remember after january 6, they booted off parlor and that's

again -- parler because they wanted to make sure what goes on that platform is safe for everybody to use. twitter will send their covid misinformation policy this morning, and they're re-instating 62,000 banned accounts. i think you can understand where apple's app store is coming from and musk was upset and complained about the app store fees of 30% of in-app purchases and that's the same of what google charges. and being a capitalist, if you create this $1.5 billion iphone system around the world, why doesn't elon follow through with his promise to make an elon phone? if you do that, you can charge 30% too. ashley: exactly right. i don't think we've heard the last of musk taking on apple right now. let's get back to the crypto's if we can. we talked about this a little earlier. blockfi has filed for bankruptcy in the wake of the ftx collapse. what more do we know about this? susan: it was very interesting in that filing by blockfi and seems like they're going after

ftx's founder sam bankman-fried with his 7% stake in robinhood and blockfi is claiming ftx pledged that stake earlier this month in order to save blockfi in the first place when it was first in trouble and that 7% stake is worth a few hundred million dollars or so, but you did have the strong reaction yesterday in cryptocurrency prices and bitcoin falling after blockfi filed for bankruptcy and also some contagion concerns. what about something like silver gate, which is another crypto lender source based in california and that stock is under pressure because you just don't know who owes what to who in this environment when so many players are going under filing for chapter 11. >> yeah, so many layers being peeled back. one way to go. ashley: let's get onto this story, susan. bob iger addressing disney employees in the town hall yesterday. do we know what he said? susan: he said the hiring freeze will stay in place and it's not all that shocking and streaming

needs to focus on profitability and not just subscriber growth, which i think every streamer has come to reality and grips with this year in the company. disney will be driven by creativity once again. bob iger had a busy first few days and weeks in the office being re-instated as disney ceo. shanghai disneyland shutting again with no reopening da daten sight and four days after reopening their doors and seems like policies all over the place in china, disney says they have to adhere to china's strict zero covid policies, which has resulted in the historic protests we've seen across the country for the first time since the square in 1989. ashley: yeah, m meantime linearv starting with a leadership change. i'm reading you a self-incriminate. susan: amc networks, i'm used to stu and that intersection.

amc, the ceo stepping down threemans after take -- three moms after taking the -- months after taking the job and this goes back to bob iger and what he said about linear television and falling off the cliff and doesn't know when that's going to happen and linear television is a struggle when there's no strategy in place and trying to figure out where the consumer is. are they going direct or paying for their cable? ashley: take a look, susan, at china's tech stocks rallying today. i'm not surprised things a little different than yesterday but tell me more. susan: yesterday they rallied as well, which i think is so counter intuitive because you'd think the stocks would be hammered with the zero covid lockdowns over in china and the fact you have this eruption of protests across the country and the companies are doing better when citizens are locked inside believe it or not because they're shopping online.

take a look at bi bill billibili that's like an online shopping-type of environment and they said daily and active users up 25% from a year ago and yesterday you heard the same thing from pdd, these are all like the amazons of china. they're saying that when people are locked inside, they're getting all their basics and spending a lot more on the black boards and websites. ashley: makes sense. bilibili, i like saying it, it's up 17% going upright before our eyes. susan, thank you for that run through. let's take a look at 10-year treasury yield and it's moving higher now, up six basis points, 3.74%, nothing too drastic and certainly well under 4%. taking a look at price of gold, up $9 at 1764 and what about the

price of bitcoin, that's been up a massive $22, still in the same range, $16,421 on bitcoin. what about oil? that's on the rise up nearly 3%, close to $80 a barrel, $79.52. meanwhile the cost of natural gas very slightly 9-cents at $7.28 for nat gas and gallon of regular at $3.52 across the country. could it be below $3 as we get to christmas? we'll find out. meanwhile, california gas prices were right around $5, $4.99 for a gallon of regular in the golden state. all right, coming up, a medical correspondent at cnn is pushing to bring back masks. say it ain't so. listen to this. >> there's nothing new under the sun. certainly wearing a mask is going to help protect you

against the flu not to mention things like rsv and covid. ashley: so do we need to mask up to protect ourselves against the flu? dr. frank will be here to talk about that. meantime, new york fed president john williams says the inflation fight could last until 2024, oh great. john catsimatidis runs grocery stores in new york and we'll ask him today, if he sees inflation coming down any time soon. he'll be here right after this. ♪

ashley: the biden administration is getting criticized for allowing chevron to pump more

oil in venezuela but keeling the keystone -- killing the keystone pipeline on day one costing thousands of jobs. grady trimble joins me now. good morning, grady. you're talking to would be keystone workers and i would imagine they're not very happy about this. >> not happy at all, ash, especially because they've been waiting more than a year and a half since president biden promised investing in green energy would create lots of new jobs. >> a key plank of the build back better recovery plan is building a modern resilient climate infrastructure, and clean energy future that will create millions of good paying union jobs. not $7, 8, 10, $12 an hour but prevailing wage and benefits. >> flash forward to now and the reality is the fuel sector including oil and gas, coal and bio-fuels saw a drop of nearly 30,000 jobs from 2020 to 2021 so jobs in fossil fuels are

declining and the latest data from the bureau of labor statistics found the green energy sector is a relative amount of small jobs over the next decade, that's 26,000. that has the keystone pipeline workers wondering where are their green jobs. >> i've not heard anything about these so called green jobs. don't have a clue. haven't been contacted or nothing about these green jobs. >> for those workers, the decision to let chevron drill nor oil in venezuela while seeming to discourage drilling for oil in the united states and pipelines to transport oil and gas is salt in the wound, ash. ashley: yeah, certainly is. grady, thank you very much. by the way, the white house getting pushback for why we're not drilling for more oil here.

listen to this. >> why is it that president biden would rather let u.s. companies drill for oil in venezuela than here in the u.s.? >> that's not an accurate take on the president's view. >> earlier this month he said no more drilling. there is no more drilling. >> the president has issued 9,000 permits for drilling on u.s. federal lands, peter. 9,000 of them being unused. our expectation is there won't be a lot of oil coming out of there and will have to be shipped to the united states. ashley: they're not being used because of all the regulations coming out of the biden administration. i digress. john catsimatidis is here and you own an oil company. i mean, surely there's plenty of opportunities to drill here; right? >> not only do we own an oil company, we have a refinery and pipelines going into canada and western canadian crude is $49 a

barrel. des the same crude oil that venezuela has. venezuela going to charge $49 a barrel like canada charges? you have heavy crude oil in canada that's available. canada has another million barrels a day available to the united states. can anybody figure out why we are giving business to venezuela, who's associated with china, russia, why are we giving them the business and not giving it to canada. we have a 2 million-barrel a day pipeline in alaska. we're only using 375 opportunistic the 2 million. why are we doing more -- why are we not doing more business with the 49th. ashley: makes to sense.

>> makes no sense at all and the answers the white house gives, i am puzzled because of the cash flow and why are we taking care of him? it's sad for our crown country and -- country and washington needs checks and balances and hope we have additional checks and balances now that there's a republican congress at least. ashley: right. next one for you, john. i want to get this in quickly. new york fed president john williams says the fight against inflation could last into 2024. you run grocery stores, we know that. do you see inflation cooling off before then? >> well, you know, it seems like the fed president in new york is a historian. he must have read -- when i went to nyu 50 years ago, i read

samuelson's economic book. it's a new type of economy in 2022. if oil is down to $75, if canadian oil is down to $49, then you know what happens? the inflation goes away when inflation goes away and oil prices, food prices will come down in three to five months. but the fed has to be smart enough, they have to be smart enough to visualize what happens in the next three to five months if oil stays at $75. you know, that's the bottom line. ashley: bottom line. you know, none of it makes sense, john, does it? all we can do is shake is our head in frustration and hope things to change -- >> we're hurting the industry because they keep raising the interest rates.

we're not fixing the problem, we're creating a new problem by destroying the real estate industry. ashley: john, we're going to have to leave it there. believe me, friend, we could go through this all day and drive ourselves nuts. as always, great to see you this morning, john. thank you very much. >> thank you, ashley. ashley: thank you. coming up, former vice president pence is calling out his former boss, former president trump. roll tape. >> president trump was wrong to give a white nationalist an anti-semi-ed and holocaust a seat at the table. he should apologize. ashley: ftx hit those exposed to failed exchange and crypto lender blockfi filed for bankruptcy and what it means for the crypto world as a whole. that's coming up next. ♪

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ashley: crypto lender blockfi is filing for bankruptcy after its exposure to the failed exchange ftx and kelly o'grady has been following the story. kelly, who else may be caught up in the ftx fighting texas fiasco? >>-- fiasco. >> ashley, you have voyager digital and expecting to be acquired by ftx and celsius genesis with funds in the exchange and blockfi is exposed and tieing bankruptcy directly to the collapse and court documents revealing not only did bankman-fried default on $680 million in loans but the white knight block fund ftx was gelfand dataing unveiled and -- unveiling it unraveled and over the few weeks, ftx exacerbated rather than curing the ailments

and wrapping up the ailments of crypto as a whole and that's the theme going into thursday's congressional hearing as lawmakers seek to utilize this effect and regulate the industry. i spoke with ftx cofounder of the wave and they pulled funds from the exchange before it collapses but lays the industry impact partially on sam bankman-fried's moral compass. >> he's worse in some ways with what he did because h he just tk advantage and hurt a industry. >> he shared that companies that survived have a opportunity to win big as industry rebuilds but of course that take time and the bankruptcy hearing is at 11:30 today and should get more color on the contagion. ashley: comparisons to bernie madoff, wow, huge impact in the crypto world. great stuff, kelly.

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