to the gas pumps to fill up their cars, look, i drive a little ford and it cost $60 to fill it up the other day. so they are concerned about the cost of gas at pumps and groceries in our stores. i m the daughter of a maid and a janitor. i watched my parents struggle to make ends meet. the youngest of 7 children. so believe me, in my own life experiences, i knew all too well about that. but let me say this. it does not mean that we should ignore people who lie, steal, and cheat to stay in power or make money. so we re not going to do that. but we certainly need to drive down the cost. we ve already reached out to the administration and talked about in terms of gas, let s tap into those reserves, let s look at price gouging to make sure that oil and gas companies are not just taking advantage of a bad situation so we have called for an investigation into that. we re certainly hoping that that legislation will pass. but we re also looking at market manipulation. again, many time
oversight committee do you believe that there should be a deep dive into what happened? yes, clearly there was a huge irresponsible issue. it s being processed through our through the department of justice, but crypto current say h cryptocurrency has to have better oversight. did you yourself receive any ftx money? no, i will make certain that i don t. i have even before this i was dubious of the presentation of cryptocurrency. it seemed, i will agree with representative, like a ponzi scheme in this issue so we ve got to have oversight and hold people accountable and that should be bipartisan. it s discouraging to hear the continued sort of posturing of
will cost a lot of regular investors a lot of money? so here is the thing. in the early stages, if it is a transformative, perceived to be one in nature, there are those so to speak true believers and those people who want to kind of get in on the action. right now the fallen cryptocurrency prices is hurting a lot of people who have gotten in in the latest stages, over the last six, nine, maybe 12 months or so. there are still those folks out there who fully believe in this kind of decentralized way of financing our monetary system going forward. they are going to stay with this program. but it is right now the selling pressure has been in those people who cannot stomach the kinds of losses or volatility that we ve seen. and if you do continue to see this kind of selling pressure, it is just going to shake more people out of there. which is going to in part less confidence on those people at the fringes of cryptocurrency. now, again, there are those out
western countries imposing a slough of sanctions. a group of democratic senators are taking the lead by introducing a bill to prevent russia from going down the path of cryptocurrency. should congress do more to hold putin accountable? a big question as we enter the evening hours there. mark warner joining us, chairman of the intel committee, and what spurred this, what was your concern and what were you seeing on the part of cryptocurrency and how vladimir putin could use that to continue this fight? well, here is the challenge. i mean, there are some great things about crypto, the ability of some of the exchanges to get funds to the ukrainians directly, that s the good news. the bad news is there s about ten cryptoexchanges where people can trade dollars or rublees
power. they sayjonathan toebbe delivered data cards to an undercover fbi agent for in return for about $100,000 of cryptocurrency. mark lobel has the details. this alleged below the radar attempt to reveal nuclear submarine secrets, now sunk, could have been a thriller the name, the spy who fed me, with data cards slipped into a peanut butter sandwich, and a chewing gum package, with a finale with the title the spy who bled me, the final data drop off and a plastic wrapper before the fbi finally cut in. neighbours of the detained couple who live here in this discrete neighbourhood of maryland are in disbelief. wow! laughs. no, it is pretty incredible, it is like out of a movie, you know? it is quite a quiet neighbourhood and everyone is very low neighbourhood and everyone is very low riding so it was a