rates still attest. but in silicon valley it made for an epic pay day. it was soon reflected on the balance sheets of its biggest local lenders which was called silicon valley bank. in 2018, svb had about $49 billion on deposit. three years later that same bank had amassed more than $189 billion. that is a gargantuan amount of deposits over a short period of time. dramatic enough to have raised a serious question and an obvious one. what was silicon valley bank gonna do with all that money? even the san francisco bay area, it would be hard to find qualified borrowers for $189 billion. you could not responsibly loan all of that money even if you wanted to. so what would you do with it? that s the question you would have asked if you were paying attention, both from inside svb or the regulatories action. turns out nobody was paying attention. nobody thought to ask for questions. we thought stress test silicon valley bank in the middle of a room. with a narcissism complex who ta
it, my tkpwar her refusal to take out the trash. tucker s up next. always remember. i m waters and this is my world. tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson. most people got poorer during the covid lockdowns. they re finding out now, unfortunately. but the tech companies got a whole lot richer. politicians forced the entire population indoors at gun point to millions of people had no choice but to live out their lives in the lonely hell of the internet. that turned out to be a disaster for america as rising suicide
because it is costing us money and eventually cost us lights. gretchen: or maybe they will show up at school. one of the reasons kids are not doing well in the classroom is because they re not coming to school. a lot of that has to do with parents or guardians trying to make the effort to get them there on a daily basis. steve: they re already cutting their welfare benefits 20% if the kids don t show up for school. another 10% or more punitive action, do you think it is a good idea to try to get more parents involved? then again there are a lot of parents who think their kids are going to school, and kids in high school sometimes are hard to handle. brian: remember me in canned tkpwar ten. i kindergarten because i couldn t recognize my name, i kept faking illness. if my parents had been cracked down, they would have found out the real reason. steve: what year was
administration of making it public on purpose, including john mccain who said this on fox a bit earlier today. here we are with the two most important covert operations going on, and they are ongoing, and clearly it puts people s lives at reus be. risk. i don t think there is any doubt it came from the administration. we need to find out who and what as best we can. i would think that the person most owing tkpwar to get this thing investigated would be the president of the united states. bill: i want to bring in peter king, new york congressman, chairman much the security committee. welcome to our program. you called the president john wayne, or george patton or both, what is behind that? because it was obvious from reading these stories that the administration is trying to give the president glory, showing what an outstanding war commander he is. let me make it clear, i have said i think the president has done a very good job as far as
i think actually the opposite is true, that u.s. forces remaining in iraq actually embolden iran and empowers them. they ve been able to attack our forces there with almost total eupl immunity in a tee through shiite militia groups which are in fact iranian proximate sees. a lot of u.s. servicemen have died through training and iranian weapons. the reality is we have the most expeditionary reforce in the world. we have thousands of troops anywhere in the world with our ships and aircraft in a very short period of time. proximity doesn t necessarily equal security. i think a small tkpwar a son of u.s. forces there rile is not doing much to deter iran. martha: you did three tours in iraq and you have served our country and we thank you so much for your service to our country as a former navy seal and it s great to get your insights on all of this. leif babin we thank you. it s good to have you here as well. bill: greensboro north carolina