out the second largest failed bank in u.s. history we re going to have the latest on this developing financial crisis. tell you what, it was a crazy weekend. yesterday, the white house working along with people across the financial industry, doing everything they could to stop a meltdown. yeah. and it looked in the early afternoon like that meltdown was coming they understood that china s markets were going to be opening at 8:00, 9:00 at night, and they had to get things lined up before then so the asian markets didn t collapse, which would cause u.s. markets to collapse this morning it was touch and go, as you know. yeah. because we were on a lot of calls yesterday afternoon. it was touch and go for quite some time. it looks like, for now, they ve stemmed the bleeding but this, for a while, was looking like it could spread much like 2008. absolutely. meanwhile, mike pence finds the courage to speak out on donald trump, but only behind closed doors and off camer
haley at this point, and it s not really about mike pence either if other thing, joe, i was at the dinner on saturday night, and it was strange, i will say i mean, it was about 9:30 at night in a dark basement ballroom everybody is wearing black tie or whitetails, which is very strange. there s not many dinners left that still do that and that s when he decided to give his strongest comments. now, it is true, also, that he got largely a standing ovation from the room. he had some good jokes, then he gave a very powerful what i thought was a powerful case in the moment but to the point everybody has been raising, why there? what are you going todo now? what role are you actually going to play in getting to the bottom of what happened to prevent it from happening again in history? right you know, mika, all these republicans need to do, look back at donald trump when donald trump first got in the race, he knew he had to take
whether it s how they talked about masks initially, the data show that they were not effective in terms of everyone walking around wearing them but in terms of owning up to it, instead it was because of omicron. adjust fits in with that, with the story changing depending on the political wind. laura: their story has evolved more than the virus itself at this point. governor, the president in washington is continuing his plans to attend the tedious white house correspondents dinner where 2300 people are jammed into a basement ballroom. there is no vaccine requirement there, prominent democrats have come down with covid, fully vaccinated and double boosted and so forth but the party goes on in washington and the president of the united states is not going to stay for dinner but he s going into this, you go into a basement and you are crowded with a bunch of people who act cool for the night with
about masks initially as something that worked and then obviously the data show that they were tt not o effective in terms of everyone walking around wearing them and but instead of just owning up to it, iting was because of omicron, you so it just fits in with that with the with the story changingit dependingha on the political winds and their stories evolve more than the virus itself at this point. now, governor in washington, the presidentt is continuing his plans to attend the tedious white house correspondents dinner where ndenty three hundred people jammed into a basement ballroom. there s no vaccine requirement there. we know kamala harris, other prominent democrats have come down with covid all fullyco vaccinated, double boosted and so forth. witbut the party goes on in washington and the president oft the united states is not goingne to stay for dinner, but he s going into maybe you vent been to this before? i have many years ago.ou butt you go into a basement and you re crowd