if you re watching morning joe weekend. and if you can t get enough of us on monday through friday. which is kind of surprising we talk a lot. no surprise it was another really busy week with trump s legal woe deepening, and desantis making headlines for all the wron reasons. let s take a look at some of our top stories this week! michael cohen, the one tim attorney and fixer for donal trump, wrapped up his testimon before a grand jury convened before the math and district office in the investigation of trump. and hush money paid to adult film actress, story daniels. cohen spent about two hour yesterday, testifying before the grand jury, in the first appearance on monday when he testified for abou three hours. and the woman of the center of the hush money payments has no spoken with prosecutors in the case as well stormy daniels attorney said that he and daniels both met with prosecutors, via zoom yesterday. calling the conversation substantive, and a goo meeting. the att
hello and welcome to bbc news. dmytro kuleba, ukraine s foreign minister, has warned that countries which mistreated ukraine during the darkest moment of its history will be held to account after the war ends. in an interview with the bbc, he also warned western allies that delaying the delivery of weapons will cost the lives of ukrainian soldiers. he has spoken to our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. the battle for bakhmut is now the longest of the war. more than half a year of bloody fighting for control of what is little more than rubble. but ukraine s foreign minister told me holding the city was vital, and notjust for the damage it s causing to russia s army. defending bakhmut is emotionally very challenging, because people find it hard emotionally to take, carry the burden of this death, loss of human life and destruction. it s a struggle to save those who are behind bakhmut from that same destiny as bakhmut is now suffering from. he said what ukraine needs
our entire lifetime. there is virtually no place the entire globe you could go that would turn down a $20 bill. andrew jackson s face was the famous seal of u.s. treasury was probably america s best-known export to the smallest gold mining outpost in the amazon basin. every shopkeeper on earth recognized a 20 our bill. the dollar was universal and not just universal and commerce with international transactions that were conducted in dollars, but universally held as a long-term store of value. globally. the world central bank stockpiled u.s. dollars for more than any more other. people may have not of known that but doesn t matter if they knew it or not it was very good for everyone who lives here. because there are are so many u.s. dollars in circulation some of the country the cost of borrowing money inside the country remain artificially low that s for the reasons in this country, america middle-class people could buy their own ho homes. he was covered meanwhile were able t
rachel: it s great to be back in new york city and the team is back here in studio and still cold in new york p. we saw the earlier photos of daytona and going why weren t we back there? it s true. pete: rock island due west of chicago in northern illinois. rock island, illinois. clearly on a river. i should know what river it is, i don t. google maps not updating fast enough. will: what did you say? pete: on the border of illinois and wisconsin. no, border of illinois and iowa. will: mississippi. pete: that little mississippi thing that goes from the top to the bottom in louisiana. yeah, rock island. rachel: somebody that also doesn t understand the geography of the united states or doesn t want to go places he should be is president joe biden who s saying, you know, i m just not going to go he officially announced he s not going to go to east palestine and here he is dismissing the criticism of the handling of the issue. three weeks now since the toxic train derailmen
rates still attest. but in silicon valley it made for an epic pay day. it was soon reflected on the balance sheets of its biggest local lenders which was called silicon valley bank. in 2018, svb had about $49 billion on deposit. three years later that same bank had amassed more than $189 billion. that is a gargantuan amount of deposits over a short period of time. dramatic enough to have raised a serious question and an obvious one. what was silicon valley bank gonna do with all that money? even the san francisco bay area, it would be hard to find qualified borrowers for $189 billion. you could not responsibly loan all of that money even if you wanted to. so what would you do with it? that s the question you would have asked if you were paying attention, both from inside svb or the regulatories action. turns out nobody was paying attention. nobody thought to ask for questions. we thought stress test silicon valley bank in the middle of a room. with a narcissism complex who ta