EXCERPT:
ROSS SORKIN: "Okay. Just as a point of fact, for what it's worth, May 14, 2019, you came on television and called Bitcoin garbage. In terms of keeping the timeline."
KERNEN: "In terms of — but also, Kevin, so, prior to that, you hadn’t looked at it all? I wonder about Munger, I wonder about a lot of — most of the people who called them Beanie Babies have never looked at actually how it works. Had you not looked into it, yet you had those very strong opinions about Bitcoin?"
O'LEARY: "I remember, I think it was 2017, coming on 'Squawk Box' talking about the tokenization of a hotel in New York, and the regulator let me know right after that they were not okay with that. That was the beginning of realizing, 'Wow, things are tough out here with this crypto stuff.' But maybe you are right, Andrew. Maybe I started in 2019. But the point is, it was long before I became a paid spokesperson, years before, so it didn’t change my mind to be paid or go through that whole process.”