this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m bianna golodryga filling in for fareed zakaria today and we are coming live from new york. today on the program i have an interview with iran s foreign minister who warned this week that if the attacks in gaza continue america will not be spared. i ask him where iran s threats stand now and how close the middle east is to a much wider role and hamas october 7th attack and how are the israeli people feeling as the country launches its second stage of war? i ll ask top israeli anchor yonit levy. for one brief, shining moment sam bankman-fried was a crypto billionaire and the subject of a ton of buzz, but then it all collapsed. this week he took a stand in the federal fraud trial. michael lewis was by bankman s side to witness his rise and fall and tells fareed the fascinating tale. yesterday israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu called the war on hamas his nat
tucker: for the last several years every investment biden campaign and business journalist in the united states joined in the on-going orgy of praise for a man called sam bankman. the head of the cryptocurrency ftx. a man in shorts but he was lauded as the first future trillionaire. they all fell for it. not all. muskogee said he took one look at this man and his bs detector went off. last march the ceo terry duffy met with sam and he did what
nobody else did. he called sam a fraud to his ace which he turned out to be and tried to warn congress about ftx and sam. i am asking you, sir, ftx has no requirements for pantaleos. participants. that s a false statement. ftx has a capital requirement. they said they are not the same as for other institutions. capital is not the same as margin. tucker: the democrat of silicone valley getting emotional defending sam. we are grate to feel have terry
the cryptois small, but if he could deploy his model in the u.s. markets can you imagine the damage this human being could do the country and the world? people literally were turning a blind eye to it. the people that were with him. a former chairman was walking around with this guy and giving him credibility. the former council game his general counsel at ftx. it s an embarrassment that went on. nobody looked at. i said he could use 85% of his valuable in a simpulse day. single day. i didn t know how right i would be in a short period of time.
you said the many celebrities that have platforms, weird people in executive board rooms focussed on children are silent right now. they were not silent about kyrie irving with 6 steps to complete. will they lose a billion dollars in a day? will celebrities take a stand on something as important as child pornography? i am waiting. the silence is deafening as the left likes to say. tucker: it illustrates that. candace owens, thank you. thank you. tucker: one of the biggest financial stories over the past 20 years is the collapse of cryptocurrency called ftx. no one saw it coming.