hello, i m briana keilar in washington. right now wall street and main street are wondering if more dominoes will fall or if the biden administration s drastic action following the second largest bank failure in u.s. history will stave off a broader financial crisis. this morning president biden assured americans that their money is safe after the federal government takeover of silicon valley bank and the smaller signature bank. svb may be a new name for many people, but it was a go-to bang for the tech sector. high-pro-final companies like roku, etsy, and fitbit were clients. some had hundreds of millions of dollars tied up with svb. all those deposits are guaranteeduncle sam. all customers who had deposits in these banks can reassured they ll be protected, and they ll have access to their money as of today. no losses will be born by the taxpayers. instead, the money will come from the fees that banks pay into the deposit insurance fund. the management of these banks will
himself. he refused to testify to the house january 6th committee, he said congress had no right to his testimony. he s fighting a subpoena by the special counsel investigating trump s role in the january 6th insurrection. joining us to discuss is margaret talav, senior contributor for axios, and ambassador norm isen, former house judiciary special counsel in trump s first impeachment trial. margaret, what do you think of what pence said? i mean, i was in the room for the gridiron event on saturday, and i have to tell you that as former vice president pence was speaking, every journalist this that ballroom immediately stopped, licensed, and said, okay, he s making news here. so he clearly wants at least in that room and for national coverage to lay down a marker that he has sort of the moral authority lane in a pers lain perspective run.
the severity of long covid symptoms which is also a really important thing for us to look at going forward as we learn more about long covid. doctor, finally before i let you go, you know the white house correspondent s dinner is tonight after long last they brought it back. dr. fauci already pulled out. president biden we know is going but will not stay for the dinner. he ll keep his mask on. should he be going at all at his age? that s a really important question to ask. i think when we look at these events and look at the gridiron event that was a push can we do a vaccine only large gathering. the answer is no, almost 10% of people in attendance got infected. the white house correspondents dinner is an effort to say can we do an event with personal choice. i m too high risk, i m going to stay home. that s what dr. fauci is doing. i m older at risk but i ll go and i ll wear a mask. that s what president biden is doing. my risk is low, i ll let it fly and see what happens.
superspreader. guests there were maskless. they were asked to show proof of vaccination but they did not have to take a test or show evidence they had taken one recently. what lesson should we learn from this outbreak? how should large events be handled moving forward? good morning, jonathan. yes, clearly covid is not done with us. what we re seeing is with this highly transmissible variant that we still need to put covid protection measures in place. you would think at a gridiron event you would think they would have the resources to do so. at the very least everyone should have been tested on the day of event to ensure safety and, you know, we know many of the workers were wearing masks but many attendees were not. we have about 10% of people who have attended so far have been infected. so i think that we have relaxed those protection measures a little bit too soon, but we do have what we call the tools. we have the tools to keep everyone safe. we need to make sure that these event
house speaker nancy pelosi also tested positive today. she wasn t at the gridiron event, but was next to joe biden yesterday at a bill signing. and moments ago, we learned that congressman peter defasio of oregon tested positive. luckily, we don t know of anyone experiencing serious symptoms right now. we ll keep you updated as we get more information. in ukraine, anti-aircraft systems, suicide drones, more than 50 million rounds of ammunition. just some of what the u.s. is committing to ukraine. but are they getting what they need and will they get it in time?