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.
vladimir putin was not inside the kremlin at that time. major mike lions, thank you for all of that. in the next hour, we ll talk about the claims from the kremlin. how the u.s. might respond, what they re role in all of this is from the white house s john kirby. he ll be live in studio coming up. also this morning, another regional bank showing signs of real trouble. we re talking about pac west bank. confirming a report that they are weighing strategic options including maybe a sale. exploring strategic options that, is wall street lingo for please help. the news sent pac west stock tumbling yesterday. shares cut in half in after hours trading. first republic failed on monday. jp morgan case came in and bought up the assets. it was the third regional bank to collapse this year. this comes as the federal reserve psyched interest rates by a quarter basis point. the tenth hike since march. last march, i should say. fed chairman jerome powell did hint maybe a pause is around the co