If it's Wednesday, President Trump and his family bet big on cryptocurrency, moving to invest

billions into Bitcoin as the White House deregulates the industry, decreases oversight, and rallies

crypto investors in Las Vegas. Plus, President Trump's pardons facing pushback as he grants

full pardons to a reality TV couple convicted

of fraud and says he will look into pardons for a group of men convicted of plotting to kidnap

Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says

Israeli forces have killed Hamas as Gaza chief as chaos and violence erupt at a new U.S.-backed humanitarian aid center in Gaza.

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington.

President Trump today is facing new scrutiny about profiting off the presidency,

as his family business pours billions of dollars into Bitcoin,

while the White House deregulates the industry and ramps up its promotion of cryptocurrencies.

The president's eldest sons who oversee Trump's businesses are set to speak later this hour

at a conference in Las Vegas that is billed as the world's largest Bitcoin event.

It's the same conference where Vice President Vance spoke earlier today,

using the trappings of the executive branch to promote the

administration's investments in the crypto industry. Take a look.

I'm here today to say, loud and clear, with President Trump, crypto finally has a champion

and an ally in the White House. We prioritize eliminating the rules, the red tape, and the lawfare that we saw

aimed at crypto by our predecessors. We want our fellow Americans to know that crypto and digital

assets and particularly Bitcoin are part of the mainstream economy and are here to stay.

It comes as Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social,

announced that it was raising $2.5 billion to buy Bitcoin, essentially turning what was

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