if you re watching morning joe weekend. and if you can t get enough of us on monday through friday. which is kind of surprising we talk a lot. no surprise it was another really busy week with trump s legal woe deepening, and desantis making headlines for all the wron reasons. let s take a look at some of our top stories this week! michael cohen, the one tim attorney and fixer for donal trump, wrapped up his testimon before a grand jury convened before the math and district office in the investigation of trump. and hush money paid to adult film actress, story daniels. cohen spent about two hour yesterday, testifying before the grand jury, in the first appearance on monday when he testified for abou three hours. and the woman of the center of the hush money payments has no spoken with prosecutors in the case as well stormy daniels attorney said that he and daniels both met with prosecutors, via zoom yesterday. calling the conversation substantive, and a goo meeting. the att
back? l, i do want to get into that, as a matter of fact both have received donations. thank you. brian: wow, is that true? pete hegseth joins us now. this is a big deal. you think these lawmakers understand crypto that they are able to get to the bottom of this? absolutely not. it s almost impossible to understand. i m a big fan of crypto. it s really hard to get your arms around all the different variations of it. all i know is it s had a huge impact. ftx has collapsed itself, but i ve got a bunch of different wallets where you can store crypto if you re not doing cold storage. two of them right now are frozen, one directly because of ftx. they said updates to the account, they are shocked and dismayed, can t operate business as usual. you can t withdraw your funds. so the money i have and that while it is frozen because of the collapse of what is effectively a ponzi scheme when you dig into it.
pull, pull, pull! pull! pull! pull! coming down, coming down, coming down! carley: wow. the woman, who had hit a tree and another car, was rushed to the hospital. she is expected to recover from her injuries. guys, people like that are exactly why we are here at the patriot awards today. steve: heroes and patriots. wow. thank you very much, carley. carley: you are very welcome. ainsley: growing fallout for this massive crypto business filing for bankruptcy just days after the election. steve: the house financial services committee will hold a hearing on the collapse of that crypto company as far lift chair maxine waters was pressed yesterday by hillary vaughn on capitol hill on the enormous donations he gave the democrats. do you think some lawmakers that got donations from the founder should give that money
if the new york times did their work they would realize that this was a money-laundering scheme used it to give money to democrats, which is what they did. a lot of it is to protect the shady dealings eventually but they re not digging into it yet. wait until it does hit people who print newspapers for living. maybe we ll get the investigation we deserve, but it s effectively a money laundering scheme for democrats. steve: i ve warned about crypto for years. i m still up! it s not going well. steve: here s the thing, pete. it is so regulated. all that cash has gone in, and people have invested. people invested because of fomo, the fear of missing out. unfortunately people and perhaps you as well have gotten burned. it s true. when i went into crypto, i said i m ready to lose it all or take
it to the moon. it s the house s money is the lad looked at it. the problem is, a lot of people, like you said, invested their future in h. crypto is a real thing. bitcoin has had a lot of success. that doesn t mean this is an indictment of bitcoin. this had nothing to do with crypto and everything to do with a classic ponzi scheme from some 28-year-old, that he used to look and virtue signal to the world. steve: his business plan. ainsley: now he s 30 years old, he lives in the bahamas. hiding in the bahamas. ainsley: exactly. i don t know if we can get him back to the u.s., if he will testify in front of congress. he s blaming his girlfriend on some of the interviews, someone was writing him on instagram and he responded, and they showed communications about what had happened, and he said he is still trying to raise funds needed to pay back all his depositors, which might have a