democracy, the kind where you participate. no, your job is to trust the experts and their conclusions and obey them. covid kind of blew that up. if there s one thing that we learned from that dis-sasser is that public policy experts often had no clue what they were talking about. your hippy aunt knew more about how to beat a flu virus than your virologist on cnn. exercise, sunlight, fresh air, stop eating junk food, turn off your computer, spend time with other people. be healthy. that advice worked. the experts by contrast made you get the vaccine and that did not work. so by march of 2021, people are starting to figure this out. anyone who was paying attention in america understood that the experts, many of them were full of it. it was exactly at that moment that the atlantic magazine in washington published a piece pushing back against a growing consensus. that story was called following your gut isn t the right way to go. hard to think of a funnier headline because it s s
the editorial board. alexandria hoff joins us live. alexandria: u.s. regulators are applauding the deal saying the lifeline given to first republic bank demonstrates the resilience of the american banking system. all of this to pull first republic bank from the spiral met by silicon valley, signature and silver gate. join statement reads action of the largest banks reflect confidence in the banking system, we are deploying strength and liquidity to the largest system where it is needed most. the banks are supporting the economy and those around us. secretary yellen was among the architects of the deal. her testimony game days after emergency action to contain collapse of silicon valley bank. listen. i can reassure the members of the committee that our banking system is sound. americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them. this week s actions demonstrate resolute commitment to ensure that our financial system remains strong and that dep
crimes, comes as he prepares for a meeting with xi jinping in moscow next week. hello, well come everyone. sandra smith in new york. john, we have made it to friday. john: we have, feels like monday for some reason with all the news happening. john roberts in happening. the icc claims putin is responsible for overseeing the unlawful abduction and deportation of children from ukraine to russia. moscow is calling the move meaningless. sandra: chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon l. what impact will this have in the short-term on vladimir putin? well, sandra, the announcement from the hague international criminal court could have an impact on whether xi of china goes ahead with a meeting with putin. if he does, he will be meeting with an alleged war criminal, now has an arrest warrant issued for the mass abduction of ukrainian children taken to russia and placed infiltration camps. modern day equivalent of the camps during world
some of the transfers to that robinson walker company happened during 2015 and 2016, time when joe biden was very much vice president of the united states. john: you just saw the breaking news right here as the head of the house oversight committee, james comer, details the money trail linking the biden family with china. and comer says he has some bad news for the white house. this is just the beginning. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, see if we can top the last hour news content. sandra: here we go on this friday afternoon. chairman comer joining us after we learned the name of the third biden family member who received a cut of a wire money transferred to a business associate. white house dismissing the findings as a disgusting attack and hunter biden is counter suing the delaware computer shop owner who held on to his laptop and shared its contents with the new york post. but chairman comer tells us
to russia. the kremlin says it does not consider the arrest warrant to be legal. all of this comes against the back drop of chinese president xi jinping s scheduled visit to rue tonight, gillian turner at the white house with how the administration is reacting to the putin war crime story and next steps in ukraine. we begin with senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot. good evening, greg. hi, bret. president biden recently called russian president putin a war criminal for his conduct of the war in ukraine. now, someone else has with a bit more international legal punch. wanted for war crimes in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin. the international criminal court issuing an arrest warrant charging him and another official in the abduction of ukrainian children since russia s invasion last year. kids allegedly taken out of ukraine and sent to russia. children special protection under the geneva. russians say humanitarian reason and don t recognize the cour