hadn t seen. you re a student of the law. you know that lawyers are not supposed to disclose their conversation with their clients. even after they re dead. that s what stephen jones the attorney did. i think it was a questionable decision on his part. it was a tremendous boom to me as a journalist to get behind the scenes in many the investigation. plus, i got all the material that federal government turned over to the defense as part of their investigation. so i have the federal government as well. how nice to see you both. how nice to see you, jeffrey toobin. congratulations. thank you. book after book. not sure how you do it. well it s a phenomenal write. thank you. be sure to pick up his book. we ll speak to one of the authors of the clarence thomas report. that will be later this hour. right now, our coverage continues as cnn this morning continues right now. russia is accusing the united states of being behind that drone attack on the kremlin.
with the new york times reporter covering pac west extensively during this banking crisis. why pac west now? their numbers show 75% of the deposits are insured as of earlier this week. they haven t seen big outflows. it doesn t appear that there is a run on this bank. ri right. when i look at pac west, there was a huge conference for investors. this was the number one concern was short investors basically, investors that invest against the stock. they were all betting against first republic. that s what helped drive down the shares. now that first republic is gone, who is next? it looks like ththey attacked p who on paper look similar to first republic but the big difference is today they haven t lost a lot of deposits. so, while the fundamental business hasn t changed, investors attacking it create