of the last seven years or so of coverage but we are glad to have you in the seat. thank you to all of you for joining us here at home. this is what it sounded like at the chamber of the tennessee house of representatives you ban books, you ban drag, kids are still in body bags. that was the scene at the tennessee capitol earlier today. republicans in the state legislature voted to expel two democratic house of representatives from the tennessee house. they voted to kick two democrats out of office. it was an unprecedented, and it was a drastic move, and it all started last week. that is when hundreds of school students came to the tennessee capitol to call for new gun safety measures after a shooting opened fire at an elementary school in nashville killing three 9-year-old students and three adults during that protest, a handful of democratic lawmakers stood before the house chamber they had megaphones and they were not shy about standing in solidarity with the protester
morning joe. it is wednesday, march 29th. we have a lot to get to this hour, including a major development in the investigation into former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. a federal judge has ordered mike pence to give testimony. meanwhile former trump ally chris christie appears to be willing to play the anti-trump role if he gets into the 2024 race. we ll have more on that new reporting. and we re still on so called indictment watch since the president announced, the former president, that he was going to be arrested. we ll have the latest on the manhattan grand jury s investigation into the hush money payments to a porn star. plus, an update on the continuing protests in israel, and what president biden is saying about meeting with the country s leader, along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, just ran over. how does he do that? and member of
that hearing is young way right now in texas. the house homeland security committee is holding a hearing on protecting the southern border. democrats were supposed to be there before they backed out suddenly earlier this week. the hearing comes after more than 1,000 migrants rushed across the texas bridge and smugglers are going to new depths to hide things in plants even as they try to evade the border. we ll have the latest from the border coming up. sandra: from the hearing as well. we begin with this fox news alert as the stock market right now in the u.s. has fallen to its lows of the session over growing fears on whether the president can meet the moment to protect the u.s. economy. big questions are looming at this hour. we will dig into it. hello and welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york. john, good to be you. john: always something. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. credit suisse their shares heading to an all time low, trading te
shares of mufg, mizuho and smfg were all down around 8% in trading. the nikkei exchange was down over 2% overall. here in europe, we ve seen credit suisse drop another 5% in early trading. on monday, major us banks lost around $90 billion in stock market value, bringing their loss since svb s collapse to nearly $190 billion. many are now speculating the federal reserve will pause its plans to keep raising interest rates, designed to tame inflation. we re nowjoined by greg swenson, who is an international investment banker and founding partner at brigg macadam. good to have you with us. let s pick up good to have you with us. let s pick up on that thought about rate because that progressive increase increase in interest rates has been one of the things cost for the collapse in svb. will the federal reserve be looking at this closely? i think the key word is maybe. goldman sachs came out yesterday suggesting that they would pause and not raise rates at the next meeting, but tha
hello, everyone. at this hour more objects shot out of the sky, but answers, they are still hard to come by. why lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to hear more. why people are clinging to hope as the death toll is rising in turkey and syria, and the truly incredible storiesen even and what president trump s lawyer is tell us about a classified folder found in his bedroom. hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan, and now it is a story that keeps taking more turns. over the weekend, another object shot down. the biden administration is not offering an explanation yet. and this is after the u.s. military shot down a spy balloon off of the coast of south carolina, and now after four shoot downs in a week, there are lawmakers on both sides of the aisle asking for answers. one lawmaker who did not want to be named said biden s silence is odd. we go to natasha bertrand who has more. yes, we are told that two objects shot down over alaska and northern canada friday and satu