they call out call options he bought on etrade.as been this screen shot floating around of an etrade account showing he bought $116 million worth of options. that's the crux of this. he has been posting on social media but the call options are calling into question whether all of this in his actions did amount to market manipulation and the firm is considering and debating, according to this report, whether to pull his account down because of those concerns around market manipulation. "the wall street journal" also in this report saying that the s.e.c. has been reviewing trading in gamestop around those call options and some of his social media posts according to people familiar with the agency's efforts. no decision they say has been made and they're still debating this. we also reached out to morgan stanley and etrade, scott. no comment yet but we'll keep you posted. >> let me ask you a question, kate. has the page that you say has been going around on social media, allegedly, i suppose, an etrade page, has that been verified by

i think you alluded to it with the morgan stanley etrade platform.ction or investigative action at the s.e.c., i think we're aways from that. >> you think we're awaying from that. there are fewer short selling firms out there than there were previously, but you're saying there's something going on. why get involved in this if you're a short selling firm? >> i would guess a lot of these professional short sellers are not playing around with game stop right now. i don't know that for a fact, but they've been burned before on this name and meme stocks as the audience well knows, so i have a feeling they're probably steering clear of this name if they can, especially with the huge run-up, which would have caused a giant short squeeze. but, yeah, i think short sellers have always had this sort of frustration and pessimism of others in the market and certainly companies being shorted. they have faced regulatory scrutiny in the past. it can be very expensive, even devastating if you get a short squeeze, in other words, the stock shares run up and you have t