Keith Gill delivers his testimony at GameStop hearing: ’I like the stock’

Keith Gill, trader on Reddit aka ’Roaring Kitty’, delivers his opening statement. Gill joins Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Melvin Capital CEO Gabriel Plotkin, Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman and Citadel CEO Ken Griffin in testifying before the House Committee on Financial Services about the GameStop trading activity in late January. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: The Reddit and YouTube trading star known as “Roaring Kitty” defended his social media posts that helped spark a mania in GameStop shares last month in testimony released Wednesday, saying he was an individual investor acting only on publicly available information. The trader, whose real name is Keith Gill, is set to testify Thursday before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services. Other than defending his actions, Gill used his testimony to again make the case for why he is still bullish on GameStop. “GameStop’s stock price may have gotten a bit ahead o