Kevin O’Leary: I Did Not Perjure Myself During the U.S. Senate Hearing on FTX

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O’LEARY: “Now, let me address something before we go any further. Yesterday on the air, CZ called me a liar. That suggested that I perjured myself in front of the U.S. Senate for two hours this week. I can assure you that is not the case. Another little parable here you should understand, when I was young, my birth father, who's Irish, put me on his knee — and every Irishman will know this — and he said, 'Son, never call an Irishman a liar unless you know with certainty that's true.' I said, 'Why is that, dad?' He said, 'Because the Irish are crazy.' Now, I didn’t know what it meant back then, but I got to tell you, I’m not happy about that. So, at the end of the day, I have no ill will to this guy, but he is part of the story too. And you found out yesterday, you did a little work on 'Squawk Box,' we talked about it either being $2 billion or $3 billion, that transaction. That's the largest transaction, I think of anything in there, regarding the balance sheet in recent 24-month period, and he confirmed it was $2.1 billion. Then he confirmed he still had $550 million, half a billion of FTT tokens. Now, at some point we will look at that week of November 6th. And you ask anybody why was Sam Bankman-Fried or the whole company, FTX, forced into bankruptcy, it was jamming down that last half a billion that gave him no option. Now, is that the fatal stroke or blow to get rid of your global competitor? I say yes. And I'll tell you something else. Right after that interview I got a phone call — actually, it was a text from a lobbyist in Washington saying, 'Don’t go anywhere, you are coming back.' So I bet CZ bought himself an invitation to Washington yesterday. Can’t wait to meet him there. We can go sightseeing."