as bitcoin confidence soars word is that gary gensler will not be so accepting of the spot ethereum. this is a fascinating story. this is captivating wall street. a lot of wall street firms want to push a ethereum etf. ellie, my producer came back from a conference on etfs. all they talked about was the ethereum etf. people really believe, that gensler will approve this people at the conference, will approve it, he is looking to centralize the decentralize crypto market. that is what they're saying. hear is what i'm saying about people close to gensler on wall street, he is more skeptical about this one. i'm not saying it is zero or he will not approve this, liz but i'm saying gary gensler right now approving the ethereum etf is best described as a wild card. this is unknown territory. he has given both positive and negative sort of reviews on ethereum, whether it is an unregistered security or not. if it is an unregistered security then it is out there illegally and then that means it can't be an etf. bitcoin he was always pretty clear, that is not an unregistered security. it doesn

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that is not gary gensler's mo. no, is a possibility. more than a theoretical possibility.bout ethereum or obtuse, ethereum he thinks it is a security or like bitcoin which he would approve or we give it another 30 days. they're thinking the people at asset management they're going to come back in a few weeks, take another shot of this, we'll look at it again, extend it another 30 days. then its off to the races. you can't underestimate the power of blackrock in this thing. larry fink, the case he would make, they're in a quiet period of course, that is why i'm saying it like this, the case he would make if he was talking to people in the biden administration which he has a strict line to is by taking -- direct line to, taking crypto out of the shadows, putting it on an exchange, having blackrock be the minister of this thing you can regulate it better than it is in the shadows. liz: people didn't want etfs to happen. etfs are like mutual funds only you trade stocks. you got to evolve. >> this is another level with crypto which has a very controversial reputation, i know th

so that is a big on the crypto ledger, so to speak on their side, over gary gensler. gged. >> thank you. liz: you have to model into -- >> yeah, yeah. thank you, thank you for not interrupting me when i said that. liz: after nvidia reported stellar earnings in part due to artificial intelligence chip sales because they have an he can extraordinarily hot, now tech investors are turning to the company whose ticker is literally a.i. we are minutes away from c3.ai reporting fourth quarter results after the bell. analysts are expecting a loss per share of about 28 cents, revenue of 76.14 million f analysts are correct it would be a bigger than expected loss per share and lower revenue from the previous quarter, while c3.ai struggles with profitability, our countdown closer says, don't waste your time on that one park your money in a different a.i. play. we have palumbo cio phillippa lump bow. give the viewers the name and make your case. >> it was super exciting, sales up 20% year-over-year. they had the commercial business up0% year-over-year. margin went from 22 1/2% to 3

liz: securities and exchange commission chairman gary gensler has a new target, openai.e niegz internal communications between its chief executive, sam atman, and other directors to see whether investors in the company were misled by the executive team. but securities lawyers say the case could be a hard one to bring. joining us now, charlie gasparino. can i just set this up by sayin- >> yeah. liz: do -- openai, behind the wildly popular chatgpt, and sam altman if was booted last month and brought back in this soap opera --? >> and you remember, the journal broke the story about a the investigation, get that clear, remember, they said they booted him because he didn't disclose some stuff to them. it was very vague. here's the problem, i think, with the case, and i'm talking with lawyers that are involved, okay? they point to two things. first off, it's not quite an investigation. it's an examination right now. and -- you've got to know a little bit about how the sec works. the o.c., the office of inspections, examinations and compliance, often does the first, you know, l

i'm not the first, i don't know gary gensler and might be the nicest in the world and people know hime's a leader. like a lot of people. >> i'm just telling you what i'm hearing. >> thank you, charlie. >> have a good weekend. liz: interesting way you heard it. >> this sex collusive on -- this is exclusive on the claman countdown. liz: thank you. you deserve to know if we're closing at s&p 500 and we're above at 5,025 and comes down to last couple of minutes because yesterday it did touch 5,000 seconds before the close but then the dow is down for the month just plat basically and slightly for the week. that could change for a few seconds and s&p closing one and a third higher for the week and nasdaq up 2 a 2.25%. a slew of analysts calling for investors to broaden out the portfolio beyond the magnificent 7 st stocks and count down closr has a list that's broad and fabulous 50 and liz: there are some magnificent names in here and add the 48, 47. >> it'll have to be the year we're see ago broad-based approach and look at companies in a number of ways and came back with something surpris

caroline: sec chair gary gensler. we can stick to all things bitcoin. etf's and approvals that have gotten some optimism throughout the entire crypto ecosystem and there has been an uptick in funding. i am pleased to say that pitchbook's fourth-quarter outlook is here. let us pick up where gary left off because you highlight within the report some of the regulatory uncertainties that handed -- that hangover crypto native exchanges, and i'm talking about the particularly decentralized one. how does that help optimism and help see them grow? robert: look, investors have looked at these centralized exchanges and see what has happened over the last 18 months. all of the -- a lot of the bad actors have been flushed out. are there others? possibly. investors feel more confident in how they can assess and diligence the bad actors. they really have to talk to us to do that now. we know that regulation will come and that is the big challenge in the u.s.. the last time we spoke i said the regulation arbitrage is not there yet. you are starting to see that now. th

gary gensler has been very careful about not declaring it a security.can have your own idea of why. not declaring if they are not a security. and then you can have your own hypothesis why or why not. i will say that it opens the gate if one proof of stake, crypto protocol is not a security, but what about the and the next one. and so all of a sudden that his argument that these are all securities would go out the window. i am sure that there is a lot of internal to and fro around the question but the reality is that we have a futures etf and that was a logic that got the bitcoin etf approved. and so, my bias is that happen. sonali: his galaxy digital -- is galaxy digital going to go public? mike: you can call the sec and ask them when they will accelerate a group of companies that have been trying. we have had a very regulatory unfriendly regime over the last four years. we are seeing some thawing of that and it does not really fall until after the election -- thaw until after the election. if the republicans when it will thaw fast and even if the democ

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lauren: gary gensler at the sec solid through your industry in the spot bitcoin etf working in investors think of do the same thing and approve a spot either etf. >> i don't see that happening in the next time that he could do it which is in q2 of this year, think eventually they will have to approve not only bitcoin and ether but many of these and it's going to become if you go back to the '90s people talked about internet companies now were talking about property same thing will happen here people will talk about the assets of the stock would be crypto and the weird thing in the corner in a be the mainstream thing and they're all good to be etf's. lauren: many people are starting to get their heads around bitcoin we can understand bitcoin and may be either a little bit but still launa, joyce quine, have an ets can potentially be? if you do for one do you have to do for all work you do for two but said he gives a thumbs up, what about the others. >> is a 5535 ets before they occurred if i remember correctly there could be thousands of etf's. when you see even sp y there is sp y levered

sec, with gary gensler, have not heard one word on what's the share couldn't?hat's the status of it? how about the eight that were indicted or were charged with trying to manipulate the market through the social media? that is the sec's role. our next step will probably be to write the ast and get, try to get some answers from them up it's a sad day when two governmental agencies, and finra gave us answers but it was just words. we need to hear from the sec the next step is to hold a hearing and get some accountability on it. so we'll see. charles: arrogance is so mind-boggling. it is so painful because most investors believe the sec is there to protect them and it feels like no, they're there to protect a broken system. representative, i can't let you go without asking about the real big news down in d.c. right now and that's the border. you know the senate passed a border bill and you know, you've got folks like mccarthy and even the border patrol i think union backing it but i know that the house freedom caucus is not necessarily a big fan, calling it a dump

. >> it took a lawsuit to get gary gensler to back down on this, right? here recently and you saw the interview, i would love to get your reaction to it, but left to his own devices, this is not the outcome he would have preferred. i think that's -- at least in between the lines that's what i think he has said. >> he actually wrote a pretty strong dissenting letter around this and focused on the grayscale lawsuit. >> which begs the question on the ethereum front if that is to move forum in a meaningful way, does that require another suit >> it early to say too early to say i think we have a similar dynamic in the market where the s.e.c. has allowed for and approved ethereum futures etfs to come to market. the data suggests in a very similar way to bitcoin that spot bitcoin and bitcoin futures have a tie, the markets have a 99.9% correlation, same is true around ethereum we have a very similar dynamic here. >> give us a little bit of a behind the scenes over the last month and a half since this has now happened, there have been outflows from your firm, a l

for biden to get elected she put gary gensler in the s.e.c.have been neutral and bitcoin instead the whole bitcoin army going for his opponent. you know, it was a strange hill to die on, but there's a small group of democrats that have been blocking progress, and so -- you know, it would be disingenuous to say republicans wouldn't be in the space right now. any any other democrat and if gets reelexed gensler there be will and guys in congress will feel priessure to do something i see the kind of regulatory logjam ending postelection no matter who wins. >> and thank you, sir. good to see you. >> thanks, guys. >> good luck at lunch. come back with a report, if you can. >>> coming up, fubo tv throwing a red flag on espn, fox sports and warner brothers discovery in that new proposed sports streaming alliance that platform arguing the joint venture would result in extreme suppression of competition. fubo tv. do they have a case? that's coming up when "squawk box" returns. stanley, (laughter) at 88 years old, we still see the world with the wonder o

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