that well because we have people like mitch mcconnell and others that didn t allow them to do well but nobody wants to mention it, so you know what i say if nobody s going to mention it, mention it yourself. because if nobody else is going to toot your horn, toot your own horn and let it out there. that s pretty good, right? 233 out of donald trump in iowa last night praising his impact on the 2022 elections we ll provide a fact check as for the presidential race in 2024, trump had a lot to say about florida governor ron desantis we ll have those comments in just a moment. meanwhile trump s former fixer testifies before a grand jury in manhattan calling for accountability in the hush money case tied to stormy daniels. and we ll have the very latest on the silicon valley bank collapse as the white house and the fed try to ease fears about the u.s. banking system. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 14th i m jonathan lemire. thanks for start
margaret talev good morning what is the axios 1 big thing today? good morning, jonathan. it is the political blame game that we re already starting to see around the bank fallout, svb. if you were watching the news over the weekend or yesterday, you got an amazing crash course in how banking works, how the fdic works, how tech banking is different from other banking, how interest rates impact all this you can set aside every actual fact you have learned and move directly into the political realm. that s where all of this is going now. bailout backlash is a phrase that i would look for. everyone is going to be talking about it is this a bailout? what do bailouts mean? whose fault is it if a bailout is biden bailing out the banks again? this could be an early test of 2024 themes depending how much stick there is to what happens next in banking. you re going to see president biden and the democrats going
major league baseball. one of its biggest young stars may have to sit out 50 games for breaking the rules. yes, the national league mvp now facing allegations of substance abuse in baseball. also, thousands in the streets in russia protesting against the government. now here at the top of the hour, let s start this morning. some of the headlines, the republican presidential debate in iowa. the new front-runner newt gingrich was the target of much of the night. his rivals lining up to take shots at him. mitt romney called him a career politician. rick perry called him out for marital infidelity. almost all criticized his recent comments when he called the palestinians a invented people. we ll have much more on this debate in a moment. also, american forces have left an air base in pakistan and taken their drone planes with them. pakistan told the u.s. to leave the base after a nato air strike killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last month. today was the deadline pakist