i think if we had a policy which was firm, which armed ukraine with defensive and offensive weapons so they could defend themselves i think putin would make different calculations so i think oballa s policy of weakness is actually making a larger conflict more likely that was less than eight years ago, but now, desantis wants to appease putin, calling the brutal invasion of ukraine nothing more than a territorial dispute. the latest sign the party of desantis, trump, and tucker is seriously out of touch with the views of most americans. also tonight, how the failure of silicon valley bank is exposing the myths of regulation and the hypocrisy of libertarians who seem real pro government when it comes to federal assistance for them. and donald trump rolls out the melania defense with his lawyer claiming the payment made to the porn actress whom he was allegedly cheating with were made to protect melania. not to help him get elected president. but we begin the reidout
commission have opened investigations into last week s collapse of silicon valley bank. it comes as the treasury department is using emergency measures to give all depositors access to their full funds at no cost to the taxpayer though the biden administration maintains it is not a bailout. what should not be lost among the news of this collapse is the speed at which these tech start-ups and venture capitalists, the quintessential free market libertarians who invested in svb, went from being fervently against government handouts to basically begging for one. it was almost immediate, as nathan robinson puts it, every libertarian becomes a socialist the moment the free market screws them. writing, billionaire mark cuban swiftly went from denouncing regulators to asking, where were the regulators tech industry leaders immediately started calling for the fdic to ditch its $250,000 cap on guaranteed deposits david sac said it was unfair for depositors to be punished for