hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your very busy news day with us. call it a biden racy can you. the federal government swoops in to pay back depositors after a bank goes under. he promises 2023 will not look like 2008. the bottom line is this. americans can rest assured our banking system is safe, our deposits are safe. plus mike pence says president trump was reckless on january 6th. a big question now, whether pence repeats it when he s with gop voters in iowa, new hampshire and beyond. and president biden green lights a giant oil project in alaska. progressives are mad again. the drilling project suggests an early move to the middle with an eye on 2024. up first for us, though, a pair of bank failures and a white house emergency plan the president says will protect the economy but not at your expense. president biden speaking this morning before u.s. financial markets opened for trading and before most banks o
and insights, m.j. lee, michael sharer and aiyisha rascoe. at this big dinner in washington he not only reckless, endangered my life, it mocks decency to say otherwise. he s not not just donald trump is mock decency, a giant swath of the republican party is. it seems like he decided this is a moment where i think he wanted to get some headlines because he s talking to the media. he s not talking to the base. he s talking to the people that would be listening. i think mike pence would appreciate this. i ll take you to sunday school a little bit. he was giving these statements but he wasn t hot or cold, he was lukewarm and he needed to get off the fence, right? like he needed to either be strong and say january 6th was okay or he needed to say this was absolutely wrong.