iowa as he works to cement his hold over republican primary voters trump s comes just after his lates nemesis, florida governor ro desantis make stops in the first caucus state on friday desantis has yet to announce a official white house run but h pointed to his administratio in florida as a quote, blueprint for the rest of th nation we will talk about tha blueprint later in the show. meantime, trump s vice president mike pence is callin out his former boss for januar 6th. at a dinner in washington just last night, pence said trump was wrong when he asked penc to overturn the 2020 election, so that trump is just part of a series o legal wars with the former president, overshadowing the upcoming gop primary battle. tomorrow afternoon trump s former lawyer michael cohe will testify before a gran jury in new york the investigation over alleged hush money play to adult fil star stormy daniels before the 2016 election. should be just around th corner and this morning, chu
she stood there and went through it all never called for demonstration in the street or anything else just loud. she participated in ever single legal process there was testified before the house foreign affairs committee fo hours. for eight or nine hours. here we have an individual who does absolutely nothing but tr to get his maga republican together to divide thi country. it s not the way we should b moving forward congressman, you are on the financial services committee i want to get your take on the recent bag failures we ve been seeing, many black entrepreneurs have bee lamenting the demise of silico valley bank. which had strong ties to the black business community i areas such as atlanta. it s especially concerning because many of your colleague in the republican party seemed
last week s collapse of silico valley bank. nbc news reporting unorthodo lending practices may have contributed to the bank failure. meanwhile, federa prosecutors have launched an investigation into svb, amid new concerns on the health o large banks. on friday, svb parent company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. the stock prices at th california-based first republi bank dipped by over 30%, eve after a 30 billion dollar cash infusion from jpmorgan chase morgan stanley and other large banks. joining me now, california representative tomm bera, congressman. thank you s much for being with us first. promise we are going to be talking about silicon valley bank, we re gonna be talking about what s happening i ukraine but i ve got to ask yo you have the former presiden claiming that he is going to b indicted on tuesday, calling for his supporters to protest, and then you have kevi mccarthy, mike pence, senato graham, all rallying to hi
speaker mccarthy to enable the likes of tucker carlson, t whitewash the violen insurrection against the u.s capital. one of the greatest threats to the security of our country domestic violent extremism and i worry the latest rhetori from donald trump will inspire violent white supremacists fro organization like the thre percenters and proud boys to once again perpetrate violence on behalf of donald trump as they did on january 6th. that s a real concern, it is not a theoretical concer because we have seen tha happen before. as a representative from ne york, you understand this very well also something else that you understand very well and because you also serve on th financial services committee, want to ask you about silico valley bank. you introduced three pieces of legislation following th failures of svb, as well a signature bank in your hom state of new york as i was mentioning walk us through what tha legislation is well, first it s wort recounting the facts of silico
but the important point is, no one is above the law and the facts and the evidence are the basis for any criminal charges just like they would be in any other criminal case. i am a former united state attorney in connecticut as wel as the state attorney genera of 20 years. and where the criminal justice process works is follow th facts and the law. unfortunately, a lot o republicans are really tryin to undermine the people wh enforce our laws whether it s the fbi or th dea. they see more interested i undermining the credibility of the criminal justice system an they are playing into trump hands, protecting without an factual basis that the charges will be on tuesday and yes, yo have it exactly right. i think that purpose can onl be to try and incite violenc at this point. senator, i want to shif focus to some turmoil we are seeing in the economy. after the collapse of silico valley bank earlier this month the biden administration has been working with some of wall