series. you re listening to skillet. they are the featured performer, they have been here before and they re absolutely fantastic. you have seen the stories about the air quality here in new york city and right now the air quality according to my app is 135% unhealthy percent. you re very in touch with your emotions. so skillet will be out there playing, can you play guitar in this type of smog. i think if you re a metal band, rock on. they probably have a smoke pot anyway. when you look at the window it s is hazy but we also have a couple guys by the name of john that are in front of the building and they re burning sdsh that hickory? or applewood? steve, i think that is applewood and we re smoking up some amazing ribs for everybody here. we have a little bit of a you don t have to go to a wedding to have a champagne tower, we ll bring you rib tower. are they allowed to burn wood in the city. the pizza guys are not allowed. so we re going to be sending out some
struggling first republic, the hope is that this massive cash infusion will calm markets and stop a panicky selloff. plus trump special koubl takes sweeping steps to get questions answered. subpoenas for workers from trump s communication handlers to the staff member caught on video helping move boxes in ask out of a storage room. and next week china s president makes a state visit to russia. the trip has consequences for ukraine s war of survival, and it happens the day the hague issues an arrest warrant for the russian president. up first, another bank saved from ruin. 11 banks, $30 billion, that s how much money is and how many lenders it took to save first republic from going the way of silicon valley bank. $5 billion from bank of america, wells fargo, jpmorgan and citi, $2.5 million from goldman sachs. this deal from the mega banks included behind the scenes talks between the treasury secretary, the fed chair and the jpmorgan chase chief. the goal, the rescue retur
developments in the doj s criminal investigation of january 6th and the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. cnn is live in the capital with the latest. good evening. we appreciate having you. what are you learning about today? reporter: this is a significant development in terms of the department of justice investigation into donald trump s election interference and how that led to what happened on january 6. both jacobs and marc short were the first big witnesses that the january 6th elect committee were able to cooperate that were inside that orbit of the white house, the oval office, west wing and the days leading up to january 6. what the testimony revealed at that time, was the intense pressure campaign that was put on vice president mike pence and the steps that he stood to resist that and satellite on the fake collector plot going on around the country. these are things we did not previously know until the committee was able to crack core of mike pence and the inn
this administration has failed. the far left pro abortion group is now reportedly clairing, quote, open season on pro life americans. it s been a week and joe biden still has not condemned the attempted murder of a sitting supreme court justice. mayra flores flipping the district in texas. the democratic party has gone so far left and they don t represent our values. a little bright thing to wake you up. there s someone running. there s some people surfing right now. that s where everyone in south carolina goes to surf. the cameraman didn t follow them. what happened to that? like he was just there. still running. i think he s looking for something. i don t think that s exercise. they re getting a high of 85 today and if you look at the forecast, there s one big sunshine. there s not a cloud over it. that s what you want for the summer. last time we were in the neck of the woods, we were south of there. . i had shrimp and grits every meal. they act
Just march in like you came out of a pilates class. And its, you know, its just a difference in standards that were seeing and its a choice that he is just not making. Steve do you think this new rule that schumer put in place allowing him to wear the hoodie and the Pajama Bottoms or whatever is he wearing do you think that will stand . Whats gun i thought this would be a one or two day news cycle and democrats would close ranks on this. Apparently they havent a lot of Democratic Senators dont like Bending The Rules for fetterman. So i dont know that it will stay in place in the longterm. Certainly i know if republicans take back the senate. Mitch mcconnell will reverse this rule on day one. Steve when you went to the front door in our building did you have trouble getting in. Your security, like very hostile. I was nearly tackled by some of the guys out there when i tried to walk in early in the morning like who is this person . Steve john lavigne, read his columns over at the new yor