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he is interviewed by john hills interest -- hilsenrath. -- jon: hello, i am john hilsenrath here to interviewouriel roubini on his new book, which i will hold up "mega threats."

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he is interviewed by john hills interest -- hilsenrath. -- jon: hello, i am john hilsenrath here to interview nouriel roubini on his new book, which i will hold up "mega threats." this is got a darker view of the future. can we start out this conversation by asking you to lay out your thesis? what are you trying to say in your book? nouriel: well i am an economist. economists usually talk about comparative advantage to write what they know about and i have been an expert on financial issues including a financial crisis. when i was looking at our world, understand where the world economy is going, where the environment is going, democracy and geopolitics takes -- geopolitics, you have to look beyond economics. in addition to academic and financial threats, also geopolitical threats, the war between great powers that is rising. china, iran, north korea, the challenge to the geopolitical order the west created after world war ii. climate change is a train wreck. we have had a massive pandemic, covid-19. it is not the first one. it will not be the last one. we have the effects of artificial intel

. >> john: breaking news from capitol hill, the senate has passed the giant 1.7 trillion omnibus billto the house for approval, but, it may not get to the president's desk before funding runs out tomorrow night. so the senate is also fast tracking a continuing resolution which would cover the time period between now and the 30th and keep the government running. there was so much concern about the gigantic spending bill and now pass a cr to cover the gap? some people might ask why they didn't just have the c.r. and debate the new one when the new congress takes over. >> your money is not charity, it's an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. >> john: yep, president zelenskyy making the case it goes beyond the country's fight, protection against actors like putin. additional $45 billion in funding for ukraine. fox team covering now, jack keane is standing by by aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill. did zelenskyy convince his critics? >> well, we'll wait san see. but i can tell you first and foremost it's very important to note here

john: his idea was that it should go from oakland to yerba buena island and then come in at telegraph hillmea, who founded the emperor norton trust history group, says norton's bold idea didn't go over big. john: that was just something that everyone just thought was just ridiculous. joe: he was also quite insistent in his proclamations. john: saying that, basically, if the city fathers of san francisco and oakland didn't take up this proposal, then they should basically all be thrown in jail. joe: of course, norton was a bit ahead of his time, 64 years to be exact, to when the bay bridge officially opened to the first traffic. female: he really was interested in bridging the two cities together culturally, socially. joe: with norton's bridge proclamations now 150 years old, lumea's group is once again campaigning to have the bay bridge named for emperor norton. one issue is it already has a name. the west span was recently named for former san francisco mayor, willie brown, but taryn edwards, librarian at the mechanics' institute, thinks it could also bear emperor norton as an honorary na

. >> and the hardest working man for this morning's news cast is john cherry hill tracking all that heavyrning time who've been a busy one for sure. and i know for you as you're getting outside, it may be a busy morning as well. things that you just got to be stepping outside to get taken care of in which case. >> give yourself plenty of time to reach your destination. we saw heavy rainfall spread out throughout the course of the evening. and that is really got conditions wet out there. your risk of hydroplaning this morning, especially heightened. you can see at the embarcadero pretty steady breeze. the noticeable water standing on the roadway. rainfall continuing to push in across the region. this atmospheric river, the moisture plume stretching off shore just having bullseye the bay area overnight. it is shifting a little bit further southward now. so we're starting to see the heaviest of rainfall shifting south down towards san jose. the southern end of the peninsula southern into the east bay starting to clear out dry out for the north bay. but we'll still see areas of rainfall more

engaged in it, we call it visibility feature. >> sounds like another opportunity to talk on the hill. >> john: depends what your interpretation of the word is. thank you, good to see you. >> sandra: thanks, john. surprise announcement from arizona senator kyrsten sinema, rocked the democratic party after she announced she is leaving for good and will serve as an independent. we have complete coverage of that now. our political panel will weigh in in just moments. and break down sinema's split from the democrats. but first, chad pergram is live on capitol hill, keeping you busy today, chad. does this truly change anything in the senate? >> sandra, in short, no. here is the math. it will be 51-49 for the democrats next year. three senators will caucus with the democrats. she joins king and sanders as independents. she contends she's in the same place as she always was. >> i promise that i would always do what is right for the people of arizona. that's what i've done. registering as independent and showing up to work with the title of independent is a reflection of who i've always been. >> the i

if you can't acknowledge that biden has had some progress. >> well as for john boehner, i hope he had a nice visit on the hillhink you and i are more likely candidates to be the next speaker of the house than john boehner. i don't think that is going to happen, right. the house is much more conservative now than the republican caucus now than when we had all of the problems. and i think he has a nice life. he certainly doesn't need all of this. so i think he's going too -- i think it is not him. newt gingrich, it is interesting that he came out with that speech and telling republicans to pay attention. you just got beat up in the midterm elections. an election you should have won so you have to change your approach. i'm just not sure how many republicans in the house are willing to hear that. i certainly don't think for example the likes of marjorie taylor green, also from georgia, also very conservative, but -- >> well you know who agrees with you. you know who agrees with you? >> right. >> newt gingrich. he makes the point and then makes the gene point. he said, look, biden has done this and that and he lis

hill. >> deputies say john william snow has been missing since saturday. his pictures on your screen. he is believed to be on foot, but it's not clear what clothes he's wearing. he is described as 5 feet, 6 inches tall. he weighs about 140 pounds has gray hair and brown eyes. anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call 9-1-1. well, holiday shoppers outside macy's in union square receive some tips on how to stay safe at home during the season from the san francisco fire department today we're getting lots of questions from the community. >> the walk up and they'll ask us, is this ornament safe for my pet? what can i do to make sure that my kids don't go into the kitchen and we're able to answer those questions to these individuals so that they can go into union square or somewhere here in san francisco and buy something that they want to have in their house knowing that is potentially the safest route for them to go. >> the fire department also gave out resource information to people explaining how to keep homes safe against fires this year. the department says the holi

. >> john: lawmakers and capitol hill holding their first hearing into the shocking collapse of crypto exchange ftx and customers and investors wonder where all their money went. john roberts in washington. happy friday eve to you. >> sandra: you as well, and big congratulations to kayleigh and sean and new baby nash as well. sandra smith in new york, this is "america reports". the senate agriculture committee is the first of three congressional panels to hold a hearing into the downfall of ftx and focus on what the government should do to prevent another collapse like it, including how to regulate the cryptoindustry. >> john: sam bankman-fried made several media appearances to address the handling of customer funds but avoided pressing questions regarding potential criminal conduct committed by him and his company. >> a lot of people look at you and see bernie madoff. >> yeah. i mean, i don't think that's who i am at all, but i understand why they are saying that. people lost money and a lot of money. a question of what happened and why and who did what. what caused the meltdown, and

first, it was such a human story and that helped me kind of, you know, squeeze into the capitol hill job. >> johnanges for you. let's go over to your office and see how it has changed. >> amazing. >> i want to show you something, john, this illustrates how much my life has changed. you see all the heels down here, the pumps? they are cute, right? never wear them. so, aring this now -- this is now my shoe closet. >> john: you never wear them? >> no, i'm on the road, in my nikes. i was in studio with "fox & friends," you saw my feet, i had to look cute. so now i'm in what you are wearing, sneakers. >> john: nobody sees me from the waist down, i wear my jeans. one thing people may not know about you and not too much about itself is the u.n. high commission for refugees and you are on the board. >> i am -- i just started earlier this year. i'm on the board for u.s.a. for unhcr, the non-profit arm of the refugee agency, this i would say is the greatest crisis unour lifetime, about 100 million people around the world displaced. >> and personal connection to this. >> i do. my grandparents left india to

and tonight, the new ftx ceo, john ray, testifying on capitol hill. >> this is really old fashioned embezzlement. this is just taking money from customers and using it for your own purpose. not sophisticated at all. >> a lot more to this story to come. rebecca jarvis joining us in the meantime tonight. one of the big questions, obviously, rebecca, what are the chances that any of the money will be recouped by any of these customers, any of these investors. and then, where is the suspect tonight? >> reporter: well, david, sam bankman-fried has just been denied bail by a judge in the bahamas. that judge calling him a flight risk. his lawyer, sam bankman-fried's lawyer, telling abc news he's considering all options. as for those victims, those customers who lost billions of dollars, experts say it will take a long time, if ever, before they get their money back. david? >> rebecca jarvis tonight, thank you. >>> this evening, with so many families are facing across this country, with less than two w weeks until christmas, flu, covid, and rsv across this nation. tonight, the new mexico hospital where

afternoon, and this really culminates a year and a half long inquiry, john, into all this, that brings us to this point on capitol hill this afternoon. >> john: congress will be turning over in just a little more than a couple of weeks, and so republicans certainly are not going to be pursuing this any further than the democrats have. what will be interesting to find out, and we'll talk about the legal experts about this, there will be criminal referrals of the president and some of the other players who have come to light during these series of january 6th hearings. adam schiff believes that there is reason for criminal referrals. he's been after the president as you know for a long, long time. he said "in terms of the criminal statute, if you can prove someone incited an insurrection, incited violence against the government or aid and comfort to those who did, that violates the law." so we'll see what congress does. a lot of people think this, sandra, is nothing more than a political exercise if there are referrals to the justice department. >> sandra: we will see when it's underway moments from now. andy mccarthy f

financial services committee grilling ftx ceo john ray today on the heels of sam bankman-fried's arrest last night. ylan mui has more with the highlights from capitol hillceo john ray said that sam bankman-fried played zero role as one would hope. ray spent much of the past three hours or so outlining issues with oversight, corporate governance, and management throughout the company, thinks a lot of the problems at ftx came down to what he said was old-fashioned embezzlement >> there was no corporate controls, no corporate oversight, no independent board. and the owners of the business, the senior management had virtual control of the accounts of each of the silo including money or assets as they desired undetected by customers. so to the extent there were rules, there were very few, obviously they were made to be broken >> ray said there was no question that ftx international customer assets were transferred to alameda they said they are still investigating the commingling of u.s. funds but that there is a potential that there was some improper use there as well and that sam bankman-fried claimed that the u.s. part of the business was sol vent, it's si

john ray. the 3rd appear on capitol hill and said they're never going to get all of these assets bag. >> just over 4 weeks, we've institute meaningful steps to gain command and control. and every week we get a better understanding of what occurred the path forward. overarching objective is to maximize value for ftx customers and creditors. absolutely. we can mitigate to the greatest possible the harm suffered by so many. >> well, freed has denied any wrongdoing. and lawmakers say they still expect to hear from him under oath. california attorney general rob bonta is supporting a federal proposal to crack down on illegal text messages. attorneys general from all 50 states and washington, d.c., they sent a letter, the federal communications commission in support of the agency's proposal to require wireless carriers to block illegal text messases from invalid or unusual numbers. the fcc also propose blocking messages from numbers which are confirmed to be used for illegal or fraudulent activity. now, the agency says consumers lost around 131 million dollars last year because of text messages that inc

with us senators john thune, ron johnson, congressman french hill, michael cloud, dr.ty makary, jennifer seay is advocate against school shutdowns, anthony d'esposito. the president touting inflation numbers. inflation is up 14% since he took office. the white house slams attacks on dr. fauci but we've got the receipts on that fight and did twitter censor peaceful protests against pandemic lockdowns? plus twitter gets rid of its safety board. we'll explain why. and a former top twitter executive flees his home due to threats. the reports coming in on that. elon musk goes after a big obama official who claimed the hunter biden laptop story was russian disinformation. we have a new poll, a majority says they would have voted differently in 2020 if they knew about that story. the former loud done county virginia, student superintendent indicted over his alleged coverup of sexual assaults in public schools. remember when "the new york times" dismissed all of that as right-wing politics, no there there? i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizab

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john bresnahan is a veteran capitol hill reporter who has been following the drama. co-founder of the political news daily, punchbowl news. john, welcome back to the newshour. how much suspense was there really over this bill? john: there wasn't a lot of suspense, in the final outcome it was going to pass. the question was when it was going to pass. this is a $1.7 trillion piece of legislation. it is 4100 pages long. no one has actually read the whole thing. it is tremendously intricate. it is in legislative language, so you cannot follow it completely as you would just reading a book. it's not something you can read easily. there was some doubt about timing. the final outcome was not in doubt, it was a question of whether they would get it done this week before christmas or next week. that was the real question. judy: a lot of members in congress and the senate do want to go home for christmas, no doubt about it. if touched on this, but just remind us, what are the main things that are paid for in this bill as it moves over now to the house? john: again, it's a huge

hill. republican former house speaker john boehner gave a tearful tribute to outgoing speaker nancy pelosi. more of that emotional ceremony just ahead. also on the hill, lawmakers were busy with a stopgap measure to keep the government from shutting down tomorrow night. we'll have the latest on where negotiations stand for a new spending bill. and president joe biden says america is all in on africa's future. we'll dig into what that means and why there may be extra motivation for the u.s. to improve ties with that continent. good morning. welcome to "way too early" on this thursday, december 15th. we'll begin with the latest on the possibility of a government shutdown. the house of representatives has passed a short term spending bill that would fund government agencies through next friday. bill now heads to the senate. that must pass it by midnight to tomorrow night or face a partial government shutdown. the top republican on the senate appropriations committee richard shelby said both parties agree on defense spending but divided on the overall budget. lawmakers on tuesday had announced

liz: john ray obviously sitting on capitol hill said he is sharing all kinds of documents with all theorganizations whether it's the doj or the sec , cftc. i would imagine you've had some of these people asking for documents as well. what is your message as you comply with all of this? i assume you're complying and trying to get the reputation of crypto exchanges like yourself back in good standing, with people who believe in this technology. >> yeah, i mean, this is a great point. for kraken we're all about responsible ambition for this space and there's a right way to do this. at kraken we conducted a proof of reserves for our assets two times already this year. i think that we're the only exchange that we had the foresight to do this. we're conducting another one next month. we look to invest in security, protecting our client's funds. we have their interests at the top of our priority list. we work with regulators globally we comply with regulations. all of these types of things and so we kind of at kraken we view this as proof not promise so there's a right way to do this. ironica

john ray. the 3rd did appear on capitol hill tuesday and tried to placate lawmakers just over 4 weeks.we've institute meaningful steps to gain command and control. and every week we get a better understanding of what occurred the path forward. overarching objective is to maximize value for ftx customers and creditors. >> absolutely. we can mitigate to the greatest possible the harm suffered by so many at one point bankman-fried's estimated net worth on paper surpassed 25 billion dollars before ftx collapsed and filed for bankruptcy last month. lawmakers say the estimated losses are staggering at tx misuse and and approximately 10 billion dollars in customer funds and owes creditors at least 3 billion dollars. bankman-fried is denied any wrongdoing and promised that angry investors will eventually be made whole. now, it's not exactly clear when bankman-fried will be sent back to the u.s. from the bahamas in the meantime, some lawmakers on capitol hill say they still expect to hear from him under oath at some point. >> reporting in washington, i'm trevor shirley. we know it's cold. we kn

. >> it does feel, hugo, i don't know as you're talking with republicans on capitol hill, like the johntman, who has always been pretty far out there on his ideas about the way elections ought to work, and the roger stones of the world are now the sort of intellectual center of the party and that the old intellectual center, they have no power whatsoever, and that's this new crew is who is going to be in charge in the house. >> yeah, i mean, look no further than the current republican conference and kevin mccarthy's struggle to be speaker in the next congress. i mean, he's really being held hostage by the freedom caucus, and even though he has all the establishment republican figures on his side, that has proven to be insufficient in order to lead the entire house republican conference. i think that's particularly evident to trump but even now in the post trump era, you're seeing republicans still tied to this maga far right ideology and it's really now the core of the republican party. at least i think in the house. and it did start, i think, with trump pushing republicans and his aide

lee zeldin moments away, first, chad pergram live on capitol hill and chad, what is biggs saying about his bid? >> john, good afternoon. gop arizona representative andy biggs is not ending his bid to become speaker. he contends 20 republicans will not vote for mccarthy. >> i'm not going to tell you who they are, i don't want them to take the beating i'm taking. so, i'll just tell you that i think that we look at it and you see how does an establishment become an establishment, and if we continue to elect the same leadership we do the same things we do, and make the change, and people would like to see us make a change. >> biggs says he will stay in the race, he wants to block mccarthy from becoming speaker. casting ballots by name, you don't know the magic number until the end of the vote. mccarthy opponents could vote present or for someone else. the speaker does not need to be a member of the house. >> you are really listening if they are saying the name of, for example, mccarthy or jeffries, so you want to definitely listen for what they are saying, but sometimes they'll throw out a different name.

house, this morning we want to get your reaction to this debate here happening behind us on capitol hill. john and wisconsin sends a text saying enough spending already, how about some cutting. the only entity that does not have to live within a budget is our federal government. mark in new york, and independent. caller: this is mark. i'm independent now. i'm more of a conspiracy theorist now. host: you are breaking up. henrietta, fort pierce, florida, republican. host: good morning. -- caller: good morning. with regard to the social security issue, there's a real clear fix here, it's called raising the ceiling of contributions from i think it's maybe 140 now -- i can hear you. host: we are listening to you. caller: sorry. so raise the ceiling i think it's 125 or 140. raise it to 200,000. let's see how many senators and congressmen just saying. with respect to the budget, two senators who are leaving and who are no longer accountable to the american people have some nerve to negotiate the future. and i have to tell you, generations to come will be unbelievably unhappy and they will -- let's pu

hill. they say john william snow has been missing since saturday use described as 5 foot 6 wing about 140 pounds with gray hair and brown eyes. if you see him, let authorities know. a man appeared in court this week in connection to a sextortion scam linked to a teen suicide in the south bay. authorities say 25 year-old jonathan kasey pretended to be a woman online and convinced 17 year-old ryan to exchange private photos and cassie threatened ryan to send money or he would post those photos online. and kasey allegedly did this to multiple boys and then would send the money to his co-conspirator on the ivory coast of africa. a san jose detective asked the judge for no bail, citing the cassie was a flight risk and may go back to the ivory coast. but monday in court, the judge issued bail at $250,000. ryan's mother, pauline stewart says even though authorities believe that the ringleaders maybe in africa, kasey, was involved and should be held responsible. >> if he's if he can make his bail. yes, free access to the internet again, which i believe makes them a danger. >> along with his bail require

hill. they say john williams show has been missing since saturday. now he's described as 5 foot 6. he weighs about 140 pounds. please get a good look at him on your screen. he's got gray hair and brown eyes. if you do see him contact the police immediately >> people in martinez are upset about 2 recent hazardous events at the martinez refinery com for a company or mrc. for short, they're wondering if their health is now in danger. the first incident happened the day after thanksgiving. that's when spent catalyst waste was released from the facility in the form of dust. the second was a flaring event that happened on december 9th contra costa health. at a town hall says it's forming an oversight committee now to look into this and they want to understand both the health and environmental impacts of what happened. >> contra costa health has by this event as a major chemical accident or release what this means is that we now have regulatory authority to be able to pursue independent incident investigations of this release as well as for the market as refining company to certain regula

so many ways, commanded by irvin mcdowell, john hope came to this new command charged with changing what lincoln and stanton and many republicans on capitol hill considered to be the two timorous military and political culture in virginia. john hope enthusiastically embraced the role of a disruptor. i don't know how many of you have worked in organizations that had disrupters, brought in. it's a stressful circumstance. even when successful. pope was a disruptor in abraham lincoln knew it. it was a conscious decision on his part. jacob cox, who would serve under polk, wrote of him as in 1861, said that his reputation in 1861 was that of an able and energetic man, vehement and positive in character, out to be choleric and even violent toward those who displeased him. i remember well that i shrunk a little coming under his immediate orders through fear of some chafing. but no one, cox said, had any right to question pope zeal for the national cause. um, a staff officer, david hunter strother if you have never read his diaries, they're absolutely excellent. who served under pope, spent a fair amount of time with pope and profiled him really quite

reporter: meantime, the company is now being steered through bankruptcy by john ray, who appeared on capitol hillssment. >> the ftx collapse appears to stem from concentration of control in the hands of a small group of grossly inexperienced and unsophisticated individuals. reporter: he told the house financial services committee ftx had few controls that protected customers or investor assets. doj delivered an eight count criminal indictment against bankman-fried, accusing him of conspiracy, fraud, and campaign finance violations, using customer and investor funds to cover expenses for a hedge fund he cofounded. bankman-fried was arrested in the bahamas tuesday. >> if you mislead and deceive to take what does not belong to you, we will hold you accountable. reporter: the securities and exchange commission also charging been freed civilly with fraud. the ceo told abc's george stephanopoulos he wanted to help those who lost money. >> i am trying to focus on what i can do going forward to be helpful and let whatever regulatory and legal processes are happening play out as they will. reporter: an at

john ray. the 3rd appeared on capitol hill and said there never getting all these assets back. >> just over 4 weekss to gain command and control. and every week we get a better understanding of what occurred the path forward. overarching objective is to maximize value for ftx customers and creditors. absolutely. we can mitigate to the greatest possible the harm suffered by so many. >> bankman-fried is denied any wrongdoing. lawmakers do expect to hear from him under oath. california attorney general rob bonta is supporting a federal plan to crack down on illegal text messages. i'm sure you are. phone has been swamped as has mine and attorneys general from all 50 states and dc sent a letter to the fcc in support of a plan to require wireless carriers to block those illegal text messages. so we'll get them from invalid in a news phone numbers and also the fcc proposes blocking messages from numbers that are confirmed to be used for illegal or fraudulent activity. the agency says consumers lost about 130 million dollars last year because of text messages that included links the scammed people. >> well

because it's capitol hill has to deal with the omnibus, the big deal john was talking about. what is left for congress before the holiday break? nbc senior capitol hill correspond garrett haake has it covered for us. they finished the defense authorization and a short term continuing resolution to keep the government open past tonight for another week, but the big lift is the omnibus deal. agreeing on all of the details, the mammoth spending for the government for the coming year. have they even started -- i know they started writing it, but have they come to agreements on key components? >> they're working this out in real time. there's a vibe on the hill that they're cramming for final exams at this point. the vote last night to give themselves another week to finish should provide some breathing room, but as you pointed out, we're dealing with a bill that's about $1.7 trillion with a "t" and other than the top line numbers, very little information about it is public. very few sort of firm decisions made, the cliche you often hear in discussions about an omnibus package is n

with us tonight, senator marsha blackburn, congressman french hill, jim jordan and john katko, joe vivaldi, "newsweek"'s bati s defending education. the white house silent today on the former top democrat lawyer at the fbi on trump-russia? musk now fired him from twitter for secretly censoring the hunter biden laptop story and delaying and vetting the twitter files on that. even twitter's former ceo, jack dorsey, urging elon musk, release everything. plus, the news twitter had a back door for the white house on the pandemic. and will president biden veto the repeal if of the military vaccine mandate that both democrats and the gop wantsome plus, we got a new shock study on covid vaccines, and will the house gop score with its new probe into biden's botched exit out of afghanistan? and is america waking up to the revenge of the school board parents in the superintendent of loudoun county schools fired after a grand jury finds massive failures there. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. check your money. stocks ending mostly lower

john. >> lauren fox, live on capitol hill, taking off an interesting week to say the least.auren, thank you in studio to share the reporting and cnn's audie cornish, cnn's man knnknea man knewnukne manu raja. this is complicated anyway but with kevin mccarthy and the pressure he faces in the house, his house republicans are saying no deal, wait for that. that's fr what's the challenge? >> a lot of people on capitol hill believesing that he would like to clear the decks because this would be such a mess. so difficult in the divided republican house, nearly divided republican house and nearly divided democratic senate. and they thought talks were not going well and having to prompt in new congress which prompted fear. now, this is congress' mess of its own making. they're supposed to get done with the appropriations process by september 30th. 12 bills to fund the entire government. we're at december 16th, they have not finished the appropriations bill. they're trying to roll all of the bills into this massive mammoth of a bill to jam it into a few days where virtually noll one

meanwhile ftx new chief executive the manhandling the restructuring john ray did take a stand on capitol hill where he called the former ftx team, " grossly inexperienced and unsophisticated. " let's take a listen. >> not sophisticated at all. sophisticated in a way that they were able to hide from people. frankly, right in front of their eyes. but this is not sophisticated whatsoever. this is plain old investment -- embezzling. and sonali basak is on the ground in washington what did we learn? >> this is like a bankruptcy he does not trust a lot of a paper trail he sees. on the lawmakers side you have congressman print chill who says the losses could go against bernie made off. one of the biggest fraud issues in the history of the u.s.. and they are looking into that rules and regulation of what is happening in the u.s. and digital assets. at the end of the day you had him saying this could have happened anywhere. you have charges civil and criminal of fraud and also the sec saying the combing billing of funds were happening as he was misleading -- were culminating as he was misleading inves

he said he did not knowingly misuse consumers, funds ftx's replacement ceo john rate in the 3rd appeared on capitol hilley will never again all of these assets back. >> just over 4 weeks, we've institute meaningful steps to gain command and control. and every week we get a better understanding of what occurred the path forward. overarching objective is to maximize value for ftx customers and creditors. absolutely. we can mitigate to the greatest possible the harm suffered by so many. >> bankman-fried has denied any wrongdoing. lawmakers say they expect to hear from him under oath. it's 5.26. in california. attorney general rob bonta supporting a federal proposition to crack down on illegal text messages. attorneys general from all 50 states and washington, d.c., sent a letter to the fcc in support of the fcc's proposal to require wireless carriers to block illegal text messages from invalid and unused phone numbers. i've got a few of those. haven't you? the fcc has also proposed blocking messages from numbers that are confirmed to be used for illegal or fraudulent activity. the agency says consumers los

john thune, republican from south dakota, yesterday. he's the minority whip in the senate. and this is sunrise over capitol hill today. a beautiful morning here on capitol hill. coming up in about six hours from now we'll be seeing the federal reserve the gentleman is recognized for one minute jerome powell. he'll make a statement to the public about the state of the u.s. economy and talk about the latest inflation numbers and the fed's efforts to fight inflation. that happening at 2:30 p.m. eastern time today. you can watch that on the web at c-span.org. of course, on the free c-span now video app. so that's about in 7 1/2 hours from now. happening later this afternoon here in washington. getting your thoughts, though, on how you describe this state of the u.s. economy, want to know if you think it's getting better or things are getting worse, what's your view from where you are in america. glen from corpus christi, texas, is up first. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. i have a lot of information for you. i've been around ever since eisenhower was president, and i've never seen anything like this in our cou

john ray. the 3rd appeared on capitol hill today and said that these people will never get all their assets backt over 4 weeks, we've been student meaningful steps to gain command and control. and every week we get a better understanding of what occurred the path forward. overarching objective is to maximize value for ftx customers and creditors. absolutely. we can mitigate to the greatest possible the harm suffered by so many. >> bankman-fried has denied any wrongdoing. lawmakers. well, they still expect to hear from him under oath on capitol hill. there's a new report claiming that twitter has stopped paying rent at its san francisco headquarters. the new york times says that ceo elon musk is trying to cut costs following his 44 billion dollar acquisition ecu's accusation of the social media company stop paying rent as the company tries to renegotiate. renegotiate the terms of its lease. a real estate firm owns twitter, san francisco buildings and has issued more than one complaint to twitter about the unpaid rent, twitter which no longer has a public relations team could not be reached for co

potentially going to see claw backs and what does it mean for lawmakers on the hill, including some of the people sitting with johnrning? >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. so there are a number of both democrats and republicans who have received donations from sam bankman-fried or other ftx executives the ones who have gotten back to us with a response say they've been donating those funds to charity. interesting that, you know, you are seeing this on both sides of the aisle really one of the lawmakers who was most vocal about the timing of sam bankman-fried's arrest was a representative who is a republican he said that republicans were ready to grill sam bankman freeland six ways to sunday and why couldn't the doj have waited one more way to allow this to occur. well, zelle din got $1,500 from an ftx executive and has not responded to our repeated request to find out what he did with the money >> we are watching the chair get ready for her statement. when she does, we will take that live kate rooney, do you expect many members of the committee to be critical of the ftc and whether they have enough tools to enforce?

john reid. the 3rd appear on capitol hill and says they will never get all these assets back. >> just over 4 weeksningful steps to gain command and control. and every week we get a better understanding of what occurred the path forward. overarching objective is to maximize value for ftx customers and creditors. absolutely. we can mitigate to the greatest possible the harm suffered by so many. >> bankman-fried who also, by the way, is from the bay area peninsula. he has denied any wrongdoing. lawmakers say they do expect to hear from him under oath. >> happening tonight, if you need a place to warm up during these chilly winter nights, warming centers in sonoma county will be open starting tomorrow are open until tomorrow. that's at the sonoma veterans memorial building and they're going to be open from 7 in the evening till 09:00am face. masks are required. so make sure you bring those but they'll keep you warm overnight in vallejo, the norman seeking south community center is going to be opened up as well. it will open this morning from 8.30, until 07:00pm. and then that's today and tomorrow. so

john reid. the 3rd appeared on capitol hill today and said that they'll probably never get those assets back. >> just over 4 weeks, we've instituted meaningful steps to gain command and control. and every week we get a better understanding of what occurred the path forward. overarching objective is to maximize value for ftx customers and creditors. absolutely. we can mitigate to the greatest possible the harm suffered by so many. >> bankman-fried has denied any wrongdoing. lawmakers still want to hear from him under oath on capitol hill. twitter has dissolved its trust and safety council to advisory group of independents. civil human rights and other organizations that the company formed to address issues on the platform like hate speech, child exploitation and self-harm among some other things. several members are saying that the council was scheduled to meet with twitter representatives last night, but then they were informed that they would be disbanded before the meeting ever even took place. the volunteer group formed by twitter in 2016 gave expertise and guidance and how the company could

john ray. the 3rd appeared on capitol hill. it said that they will never get all these assets back. >> just over 4 weeks, we've institute meaningful steps to gain command and control. and every week we get a better understanding of what occurred the path forward. overarching objective is to maximize value for ftx customers and creditors. absolutely. we can mitigate to the greatest possible the harm suffered by so many. >> bankman-fried has denied any wrongdoing. lawmakers say that they still expect to hear from him under oath. take a live look outside of the san francisco skyline. the downtown areas looking beautiful. we don't really see many clouds out there. kyla not at all. and we're kind of stuck in this pattern. a l i feel like i'm i'm a little bit of a broken record. you i remember we've had this set up before. we've got low pressure. >> and then high pressure to the north of it. and it creates a bit of a blocking pattern. it's called a rex block of this is a weak one. but what it means is that we kind of get this rinse,

john: or even redactions. >> exactly. >> good to be here. >> sandra: south carolina republican nancy mace taking a victory lap on twitter after a heated exchange on the hill left activist. we'll ask the congresswoman about that showdown when she joins us live coming up. >> john: alleged crypto con man sam bankman-fried behind bars but some lawmakers calling the time of the arrest hours before he was to testify before capitol hill. mir miranda devine says it may have been a good thing. >> why wasn't he arrested a week ago, or after. i think we would have found out valuable information. to the farmers market... when they got a chip. they drove to safelite for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. >> woman: really? >> tech: that's service the way you need it. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ there's always a fresh deal on the subway app. like this one! 50% off?! that deal's so good we don't even need an eight-time all-star to tell you about it. wait what? get it before it's gone on the subway app! all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work helping them achie

john, a new restaurant is now open in san francisco's not hill neighborhood. >> back to back. that's the name of the restaurant is being run by a brother and sister who got so tired of their previous job that they said. let's start a new restaurant. in fact, that the same place that their parents had 30 years ago. the siblings say they were tired of their jobs and then just want to something new. >> to take all of cautions and combine them into one project starts back. so it combines music. why? and really good >> back to back is also a reference to d j ing the restaurant is dedicated to spinning vinyl records while serving things up like would fried pizza and small bites. the restaurant industry hit hard by covid is said to be bouncing back. a wall street journal report says it's finally adding employees and erasing jobs and as he's racing job losses and closures, the labor department says all but 2.1% of restaurants have returned as of last month in november, 62,000 jobs are added and applications have increased employers have added pay raises and benefits and made schedules