consumers back. and at times you have to be a bit more promotive and perhaps offer some deals and some incentives to get guests to come in, get them off the couch and give them a reason to i say, okay, well, i can find value in your on your concept. you have the give people reasons to want to come, walk in your door. arthel: yeah. bottom line. the takeaways are you ve got to have the good quality, don t skimp on that. you have to have great customer service and courteous and a good experience in the restaurant, good music overhead. all right, steve healey, i have to run. thank you for your time. [laughter] take care. mike? mike: arthel, hunter biden was back in an arkansas courtroom yesterday e for his child support case. the president s son was deposed by attorneys for the mother of his 4-year-old daughter who was also in the courtroom. he was grilled about his finances because he s been pushing to lower his $20,000
reporter: hi, good morning. yeah, we will likely hear from the former president today as prosecutors allege that he went beyond keeping the documents in his home, going so far as to show them to people and had the bulk of them spread out in random storage spaces throughout the estate and at that residence. trump is the first former president to face federal charges. he s accused of violating 7 broken down into 37 counts including 31 counts of willful retension of national defense information, withholding and concealing documents, making false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice. some of these individual penalties max out at 20 years per count. special counsel jack smith said yesterday e that his office will seek a speed eauty trial. speedy trial. we have one set of laws in this country, and they aloo to everyone. very important to note that the defendants in this case must be presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. reporter: wi
if first republic falls into receivership, it will become the third bank since last month. silicon valley bank and signature folded, but some degree of stability has been seen after 11 banks injected $30 billion into first republic among other measures. those march failers prompted questions as to why federal regulators did the not see those massive issues coming. yesterday e the federal reserve offered its analysis in a letter. michael barr, the fed s vice chairman for supervision, wrote that svb, quote, failed because of a textbook case of mismanagement by the bank. its senior leadership failed to manage interest rate and liquidity risk, board of directors failed to oversee leadership and and hold them accountable, and federal reserve supervisors failed to take forceful enough action. the wall street journal reporting that jpmorgan chase and company and pnc financial services are hoping to buy first
steve: they are loving it. ainsley: charlie crist is one of the 13 florida democrats sent a letter to desantis who issue a stay at home order in 2020. ron desantis obviously said we are not doing that and he talked about the nation s report card that came out yesterday e said look at florida s numbers we are number 3 in fourth grade reading and northbound 4 in fourth grade math that would not have happened if we let charlie crist lock our kids out of school we did it right in florida. brian: when you talk about the economy, they also talked about that. and governor desantis has this to say about his record. charlie crist and his friends in congress were urging you to be locked down. i lifted you up. i protected your rights. i made sure you could earn a living. i made sure you could operated your businesses and i worked like heck to make sure we had all our kids in school. that s time, governor. five days a week. i m not the governor who attacked the freeze energy made sure
biden s public schedule today is his closed classified intelligence briefing. but we also know that the president s u.n. ambassador, linda thomas greenfield, she was supposed to be on a trip to africa today, but late yesterday e the white house announcing she will stay in new york to deal with diplomacy with ukraine and russia at the united nations. the u.s. is awaiting at this hour a written response from russia to the u.s. most recent diplomatic offer. putin in that phone call said that such a written response will be coming. but in the meantime, the u.s. really feels like they ve laid all their cards on the table, both the diplomatic option that remains open to putin if he wants to de-escalate this, but also the costs the u.s. will impose. u.s. officials pretty openly acknowleding they don t know what president putin will do next. we ve had a long history of understanding that it s also very hard to figure out what s going on in vladimir putin s brain, which is why it s so