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All right, good morning.

Welcome to Counterpoint, Sam Ryan-Grimm here with Emily Gisinski.

We've got a lot to get into today.

Former President Trump might go ahead and get himself arrested either later today or later this week.

We've got real safety legislation that we're going to get into.

Google's coming out with this chat GPT.

Huge news on the China and Russia front as the leaders met this week.

There's a lot to break down when it comes to that.

The President Biden's first woke veto.

And the Federal Reserve meets later today.

For a long time, the Fed had been expected to hike rates by another half point.

But the kind of tech bros taking down Silicon Valley Bank has trimmed the sales on the aspirations of the Fed a little bit.

People are expecting now it will be a quarter point increase, which actually amounts to billions of dollars in extra easing

flowing into Silicon Valley.

So job well done.

Take that bank down.

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