more on this development let s bring in wall street journal columnist henninger and dan and based on evidence that s swirling around in the public how strong is this case? that s an easy question to answer paul. because maybe a thousand or more people have already answered it. unanimously, it is not a strong case. it just isn t which raises the mystery of why it s being brought. what trump is being accused of which is related to the possibility of paying hush money to adult film ac tres years ago is a misdemeanor under new york state law. prosecutor bragg is thinking about elevating it to a felonny under federal law which most specialist say they ve never seen something like that happen before especially with the former president. so the question becomes what is going on exactly with prosecutor bragg? he was under a lot of pressure from his staff before this to do it two prosecutors resign one where a book about it. i think there s the possibility paul that he s facing
assure senate on wednesday that no such blanket insurance is under consideration. but after bank stocks tanked yellen change course telling lawmakers thursday, that the administration is prepared to take additional actions if warranted so are all bank accounts insured or not we re back our panel dan henninger and kim strassel and editorial member joe so let s start with kind of your sense of just where this bank panic is, is this are the banks as sound as yellen and chair powell seem to be saying or is there more trouble ahead? well, i do think that the banks are in much better shape than they probably were going into the 2008 panic. you know, 13 years ago, but i do think that there s a bigger problem we ve got which is that economic policy especially monetary policy interest rates quantitative has been so unusual