acknowledging he took those documents and claiming he had every right to take them. under the presidential records act, which is civil, not criminal, i had every right to have these documents. in other words, whatever documents a president decides to take with him, he has the right to do so. it s an absolute right. this is the law. independent legal experts say that s not true. it could hurt him at a trial. is he betting on an election victory for republicans and getting the case dropped? i will speak to former top cia attorney jeff smith about the legal strategy. are more republican politicians, including some rivals, now willing to criticize donald trump s handling of national secrets? the handling of classified materials is a very serious matter. i had a chance to review the indictment over the weekend. this indictment contains serious charges. i can t defend what is alleged. the former president has a right to his day in court. i know he pled not guilty. i will
Is titled concern continued oversight on Regional Bank failures. Without objection, all members will have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. With that, i now recognize myself for four minutes. Todays hearing will help the Financial Services committee learn more about recent Bank Failures, including management missteps, supervisory failures, and rapid fire bank runs in the age of social media. I think our witnesses for testifying today. The recent banking crisis was fueled by failed Bank Management, lack of hedges against Interest Rate risks, failed military policy, failed supervision, and overspending by the administration and democrats that led to historic inflation, prompting increased Monetary Policy action. Today, we will hear about what went wrong from the Bank Management themselves in state regulators. This is important, as the c
Housing, in urban affairs will come to order. The days after the run on Silicon Valley bank, when it was close by the california banking regulators and taken over by the fdic many in washington, new york, in california asked, how did this bank and Signature Bank, soon after, failed so spectacularly . Was it the regulators falling down on the job . Was it new technology . The first social media fueled bank ran . How on earth could this happen . In ohio, the, no one is surprised by the hubris of coastal Bank Executives. The old adage has become cliche because it is so often true. The simplest explanation is best. It is first and foremost the bankers fault that the banks crashed. We know that federal and state banking officials repeatedly told managers and directors of your banks where there were problems, big problems the kind of problems you cant ignore. The tiny you have to start fixing right away. Bank executives did not listen. That is a well documented fact Silicon Valley banking si
mismanagement in the supervision led to the collapse of two banks. what could fall in the days ahead. live from cnn, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin this hour with extreme weather ahead for most of the country. more than 20 million people are under threat for severe storms across the southeast. two rounds of strong thunderstorms are expected to cross florida and southern georgia today. when this afternoon, the second overnight. the main threats will be damaging wind, hail. in texas, dozens of reports friday, reporting golf-ball- sized trailed 39 hail . it went for several minutes, but likely never will measure, also a possible tornado in palm beach county. nudges wind and hail, the mississippi river continues to rise, flooding many communities around the banks. the water has already crested in some. here is the latest. as the river level rises, anxiety is also going up for business owners here in iowa. you can see where the partridges are the embankm
counsel investigating donald trump could finally get testimony from former vice president mike pence. that could be incredibly significant. you know, it s a month of pushback, and now pence, it appears, is going to finally testifying. the special counsel s investigation into trump and his actions on january. six. a spokesman for the former vice president says he will not appeal a judge s ruling in order that he must appear before the grand jury that s investigating the insurrection and trump s efforts to overturn the election. that means pence could testify about the one on one conversations he had with trump leading up to that day, including what we know is a heated phone call that happened the morning of the riot when pence, refused trump s efforts to get him to try to block the certification of president biden s win, plus a cnn exclusive this morning as cnn sources are telling cnn that former national security officials have testified that trump was repeatedly warned he di