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
authorization to do more drilling in alaska, going back on a campaign promise to not to not do so and the speculation that they may institute some trump-era border policies there to curb the flow of migrants into the united states what are you hearing in terms of how upset the left is about this is there any chance this could fuel a bit of a rebellion against the west wing? yeah, fabulous story by you and our colleague danielle, but it is you know, that s true, that is something that has been bubbling up for a while. there s been a concern from the left since president biden walked into the oval office that this was something that was going to happen, that they were going to they weren t going to see the left wing president that they wanted and, you know, when you talk to white house aides what they say is that president biden was never, you know, a left wing populist type of person, but he has passed a lot of bills and
so with that parallel country but but really racing out of all of the candidates to focus on inflation and cost-of-living that doesn t sound too encouraging for the democrats this year in the midterms. no. it does not. and woke is and as you say that is global and it is nature i think americans are tired of editing europeans are tired of it and evidently the french care about the same thing as the americans and then they go to the gas pump and then to pay their energy bills or pay for their food they care about those things it is shocking that this populist type of movement is still arriving kicking and thriving and doesn t just and at our borders on the notion.
so with that parallel country but but really racing out of all of the candidates to focus on inflation and cost-of-living that doesn t sound too encouraging for the democrats this year in the midterms. no. it does not. and woke is and as you say that is global and it is nature i think americans are tired of editing europeans are tired of it and evidently the french care about the same thing as the americans and then they go to the gas pump and then to pay their energy bills or pay for their food they care about those things it is shocking that this populist type of movement is still arriving kicking and thriving and doesn t just and at our borders on the notion.
so with that parallel country but but really racing out of all of the candidates to focus on inflation and cost-of-living that doesn t sound too encouraging for the democrats this year in the midterms. no. it does not. and woke is and as you say that is global and it is nature i think americans are tired of editing europeans are tired of it and evidently the french care about the same thing as the americans and then they go to the gas pump and then to pay their energy bills or pay for their food they care about those things it is shocking that this populist type of movement is still arriving kicking and thriving and doesn t just and at our borders on the notion.