extraordinary effort to reassure americans that the u.s. banking system is safe plus, poland is set to become the first country to send fighter jets to ukraine. it comes amid new reporting that china s leader will visit russia next week. those new developments are also straight ahead. and donald trump goes off on a frenzied defense amid a series of investigations. we will have the latest on the probes involving the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 17th happy st. patrick s day. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. in the words of cnbc, wall street rides to the rescue 11 of the country s largest banks are depositing a total of $30 billion to first republic bank to avoid a third collapse of the u.s. bank in less than a week first republic serves a similar clientele as silicon valley bank and signature bank, both of which failed in recent days. those banks had a high number of uninsured deposits as d
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Things were uncomfortable with, things the north koreans are uncomfortable with. Hopefully, we see a Denuclearizdenucleariz Denuclearized verifiable north korea. You said the Mueller Probe has to be allowed to proceed and come to fruition. The president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani yesterday in his words said the Special Counsel needs to, quote, Put Up Or Shut up. Do you agree . I would love to see this probe wrap up. It needs to wrap up after all the work is done. This has been over a year now in the making. Its really torn the country apart. Theres been no evidence pointing to collusion. Im looking at this saying, i want the Special Counsel to finish it because americans if this thing ends prematurely, its going to be this division in our country Going Forward forever. Its going to cast a shadow everywhere. Get the report. Im sure he is not watching me right now. But if he is watching, i would say, lets wrap thi
game changer! it s the protection we deserve. welcome back in what is shaping up to be a blistering battle over president joe biden s recently proposed budget plan, the president is touting his administration s policies on lowering the cost of prescription drugs and helping those who depend on medicare and medicaid the president stressed that message in las vegas earlier this week, accusing republicans of seeking to cut health care programs that help so many americans. republicans, on the other hand, say the president s new budget would raise taxes and spending
positive body language and signaling that they are making real progress. but i think the thing to throw a little cold water on here is that even if they re able to get some of this framework together and that is a big if on medicare and medicaid. the bigger thing is the legislative text which we have no indication that they are really close on. and if that s the case, you already heard from several progressives including alexandria and other members of the caucus saying they want legislative text. this kind of comes as this push/pull with the speaker trying to pull this hearing and not calling it a mark up. tomorrow they re going to call it a hearing at the rules committee. she wants to force this bipartisan infrastructure vote by october 31st. so these kind of dual bills happening in tandem but a framework isn t enough and at this point i don t see how they ll get it in time for the
ronald reagan during that debate on medicare and medicaid. i would say to that voter study the proposals of candidates. figure out what you think is best for you, your family, community and america and don t be distrast edistracted by tef- efforts of the other side. they will try to call everything they don t like socialism. how much do you want to hear about donald trump and how much do you want to hear about the other issues? it s very easy to focus on donald trump. i think you ll see a lot of focus on the vision of the candidate. this is the opportunity for differentiation. we have a bumper crop of candidates. we have 20 people on the stage. tomorrow a few other people running. voters want to know, the issues i care about most whether it s health care, immigration. whether it s the right to form a union. i think voters ask the following