entirety everything that we are planning on doing tonight and started a whole new series of stories. i will tell you in advance there may be a little more early really with assisting tonight s show. because so many of these stories are breaking at the last minute, and coming up as we are reporting to them. but let s just get into. it forgive me for any string into the margins. and being out of the leaves a little bit. but let me tell you what we ve been working on. first we re gonna start with arizona. back in april republicans in the state legislature in arizona s said they would start an audit, an investigation of the presidential results in that state. they hired a contractor to do that so-called audit, a guy who promoted qanon conspiracy stuff online. a guy who had never had any experience with election audits. which are actually a real thing. real companies and experts can be certified to do real election audits. he was not one of those experts, in fact he had no experie
back in april, republicans in the state legislature in arizona announced they would start an audit with the election results in that state. they hired a contractor to do that audit, a guy who promoted qanon conspiracy stuff online, a guy who never had any experience whatsoever with election administration or election audits, which is actually a real thing. experts can do election audits. he was not one of those experts. in fact, he had no experience in the field at all. they nevertheless hired him and his company, which appears to just be him, a company called cyber ninjas, and with that auspicious beginning just conducted a months-long circus in arizona. they started in arizona, they said it would take three weeks. it s five months later, and they re finally going to release their results tomorrow. as we ve been reporting, everyone in trump world is vibrating at a very high pitch in anticipation of the audit result tomorrow. former president trump has been outdoing him
today from the kremlin, but i can tell you what, on this national day of mourning, there is a long queue of people outside the crocus city hall here. people queueing up with flowers, roses and carnations, lining up at the makeshift shrine to the victims of this attack. people have been leaving messages too. one that i read was addressed to the attackers and it read, you are scum, we will never forgive you. and just from talking to people here, there is a deep sense of shock at what has happened, and a mixture, i d say, of grief and also anger. one woman was in tears when i spoke to her. she said that she felt a great sense of loss and had to come. one man said that he wanted president putin to remove the moratorium on the death penalty. he was very, very angry. as to who was behind this, people here are not sure, but, as you mentioned, russian officials have been hinting very strongly that, in some way, somehow, ukraine is connected to this attack. even though islamic state
have missed. january 6th was a disgrace. american citizens attacked their own government. they used terrorism to try and stop us, specific piece of domestic business they did not like. fellow americans beat and bloodied our own police. they stormed the center floor. they tried to hunt down the speaker of the house. they built a gallows and chanted about murdering the vice president. they did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth. because he was angry and lost an election. former president trump s actions preceded the riot for a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty. therefore, i am endorsing donald j. trump. the one thing we cut off there, maybe it s not fair is right after that, he broke into a rousing tune. happy days are here again. it was like the 32 convention. i couldn t believe it. but yeah. a little discordant, song didn t go with the message. but you know, that s mitch. mitch mcconnell there, that was in 2021. i
failed within three days of each other. that led credit for moody s to downgrade its outlook for the entire u.s. banking sector. and those worries skyrocketed today because of troubles facing the global investment company credit suisse. the saudi bank failed to rule out giving funding to the already embattled company that combined with the recent u.s. issue sent stocks falling. i want to bring in business reporter rahel solomon, rahel, walk us through what happened today. well, jake, basically the mood for investors, as investors search for the next sign of weakness. to be clear, i think the nasdaq actually closed slightly higher which is interesting. but this is really just a confidence issue at this point. you can see that reflected very clearly in some of the bank stocks. i want to point your attention to some of the regional stocks, jake, you and i have talked about already. first republic bank off 21%, pac-west off 5% on top of the losses. it s been a rough go for some