**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
The witching hour is upon us. Donald Trump is meeting behind closed doors with some key senators talking about the concessions that Donald Trump and the President of the United States needs to make to actually move the Clarity Act forward. We have some really good signals going on for Ethereum. While Bitcoin is sitting here ranging at, defending itself at $64,000, ETF flows are looking great for Ethereum, but there is a heat of caution that I have to give you from where it looks like we are at in the market right now. And we might actually be able to dive into even more detail about the DTC rollouts. Ondo is having some love in terms of price action from some recent news announcements today. And I'm joined here by my compadre, Mr. Kelly Kellum. Joining me from Vegas, how are you doing, good sir?
I'm feeling good.
**Kelly Kellum** (0:49)
You know, it's pretty interesting to see the CPI print earlier this week.
But also, I mean, just the ping ponging back and forth. I think it's surprising to see that Trump said that Iran wants another deal. I don't think anybody's listening at this point because we've had so many damn ping pongs in the market. But the charts are looking, they're starting to look pretty damn juicy. They're starting to show some setups that in the face of all this uncertainty, this is where you start to rely on the data and what your actual plans and goals are. So I know we're going to be diving into a lot today, so I'll throw it back to you and we'll get into it.
**SPEAKER_1** (1:23)
Absolutely. Absolutely. The charts are looking good. As Kelly said, coin market cap, really where Bitcoin is sitting right now, it's down by 1% over the day, but it is defending itself around the $60,000 region. I'll be diving into the Bitcoin chart, really what money flow is looking like for the time being, but it's not looking too bad. Ethereum, really setting up a nice set up here. It's up 8% over the last week and still hovering around that $1,800, mid $1,800 range. And a lot of projects are honestly still ready to party. We have Ondo Finance, which is the top gainer of today, up 16.9%, Pith Network at 5 cents a token, coming up about 9.7% over the last 24 hours in virtuals, setting up some good groundwork and another major news announcement for Morpho, hoping the price continue to chunk on up from that $2 resistance slash support zone. But there's a lot to be discussed today on the Trump camp. We have hugely, hugely positive news on a meeting today, Thursday at 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time with Trump to discuss ethics that are raising concerns for the passage of this sweeping crypto legislation, the Clarity Act. Now, the meeting is going to be held at 2:30 PM, as I said, with Republican Senator Bernie Monero and Cynthia Loomis, our Bitcoin Senator. Apparently, Bitcoin needs a Senator now, along with top White House crypto advisor, Patrick Witt and White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, purposes to pitch some ideas on ethics issues and hopefully get his sign off on those issues, according to Solana Policy Institute President, Kristin Smith. So I think this is hugely positive. She says she's sounding like Trump here. The meeting obviously going to be happening after the show here later today. And the president of the Solana Policy Institute, Kristin Smith, says that this comes as lawmakers have been negotiating all of the language within the ethics provisions in the Clarity Act to address the mostly Democratic lawmaker concerns about Trump and his family's crypto ventures. And the purpose of this meeting, as reported, is to pitch Trump some ideas on the ethics issue and hopefully get his sign off on these ideas being presented. Maybe he has to step away from connections to World Liberty Fi. Maybe he has to walk back some of his connections to other crypto ventures.
And you know what? This actually rang my bell. Kelly, you remember Trump just had to pull back a little bit on the truth social Bitcoin ETF play as well. So maybe Trump's actually going to listen to these lawmakers in this meeting to get this Clarity Act move forward.
Now, obviously, it hasn't been very fun having, I thought a pro crypto president would hit a lot different than it has hit with Donald Trump.
Do you think that he's going to have any sort of willingness to negotiate in terms of his connection to World Liberty FI or any of these massive ventures? Because he's made over a billion dollars in crypto since becoming president. What do you think, Kelly?
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