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
influence. we know there was a guy named jesse bentant, he got 18 months in prison for funneling russian money into republican campaigns. russians were all involved with the nra. it looks like ron desantis has decided to join their club your thoughts. you re exactly right. it s not long ago republicans celebrated ronald reagan standing up to the soviet union, and they constantly claimed by him being hard on the soviet union, allowed or forced the soviet union to collapse that they have gone off the deep end, i was thinking about your introduction about pi day and the reason this day was chosen, 3.44, but it s also einstein s birthday as i watch desantis and other republicans who want to replace donald trump and get past donald trump, i ll paraphrase einstein. einstein would have said, you can t solve the problem of donald trump by using the same thinking that created donald trump. right? and what they re doing is they
this is a breed of executive who made a lot of money and there s, as you know, as a student of history, there s a long history in this country of people who become rich, they earn a lot of money or acquire a lot of money and think that imbues them with the authority of public policy you mentioned david sacks, bill ackman also weighing in on this over the weekend, calling for bailouts one thing we re tracking now as we do this postmortem is how this bank run was catalyzed and egged on by a number of new investors who had this social media media and were encouraging their contemporaries, these other wealthy vcs, other billionaires and millionaires to withdraw their money from this bank and encourage the companies with whom they worked with to withdraw their money as well i have a lot of friends in california i love the state it is in many ways a dysfunctionally governed and managed state. that s kind of what this is
highlighting you have people who have opinions on how public policy and governance should work in the state and we re seeing that come to bear in the collapse of silicon valley bank. it s easy to feel sorry for the depositors and the fdic is going to cover them and for the small businesses that went to the bank, but there s so many ironies here these kind of banks, they rarely capitalize minority and women owned businesses they re competentalizing a lot of businesses that look like them so there s no wokeness involved in this kind of capitalism they re trying to make money you have that issue. then you have this just real moral hazard talk when it comes to giving people whoborrowed for student loans a break. and you have the supreme court potentially poised to overthrough that because they don t like the policy, but when it comes to the vcs, the big bankers, the peter thiel types, you don t hear any moral hazard talk it s all, yes, give them money make it make sense the irony of th
were a republican. you know, i m old enough to remember that republicans had a pretty hard line against russia at one point they were the hawkish party, they were the party that said we have to take a firm stand against things like the axis of evil when it came to places like iraq and north korea trump obviously changed that he aligned the party with north korea. he was friendly with kim jong-un. he s aligned the party with trump, and you have seen this change in ron desantis, who was going after president obama for not being tough enough on putin when it came to territorial ambitions but then he changed. he ran for president, and he got money from the same people who were giving trump money. ron desantis had to return a political contribution that he received from two soviet born businessmen who were accused of funneling foreign cash into u.s. elections to increase their