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Counter to push on this topic of fund-raising and even the mid-terms a year ago which they did well on they still seem to be riding that crescendo. >> from a fund-raising perspective republicans certainly are on the defensive on this issue. you know, post-dobbs -- i should say before dobbs roe v. wade was the law of the land. republicans theyre able to basically fund raise off of that. they could advance a lot of legislation they knew would have no consequence because of the back stop, roe v. wa...

Problem before the collapse of svb, but this is a much bigger global institution as you know. why do you still feel confident if you do saying the banking system is still on solid ground? >> well, wolf, you know, i think the key reason is the u.s. government is firmly behind the banking system. that was a message that they gave us earlier this week when they stepped in and said, look, were going to ensure all of the depositors in the failed institutions, and more over the federal reserve setup a...

Angela paulina now facing 25 years to life following the conviction. bitcoin jumping nearly 10% in rally for crypto currency after the silicon valley bank collapse. with todays gains the entire crypto market cap is above $1 trillion. this all comes as the federal government creates a back stop for svb depositors saying it will get clients their money by selling the banks assets. u.s. regulators also close add major crypto lend tore stem any more damage. actor ray lopen is calling out anti-christ...

Whole. >> lets talk about some of those emergency measures the government took over the weekend. matt, stay with us. also joining the conversation is aaron klein. good to see you. thank you for joining us. in addition to the fdic ensuring all depositors including those who didnt have insurance and guaranteeing deposits they created an emergency lending facility really to act as a back stop, the treasury here putting some $25 billion on the line suggesting that the financial system is whole, is s...

Called in so that it would be a truly independent investigation. im in regular contact with the u.s. attorney here in memphis, and we are collaborating on this. i myself used to be a u.s. department of justice civil rights lawyer before i was a federal prosecutor. and so i know that the federal part of the investigation will often take longer than the state part of the investigation. so i suspect that our office will render a decision well before the federal authorities make their decisions. >> ...

Is that, you know, with the democratic senate we can continue to confirm judges. joe biden has been very successful at confirming judges for the federal judiciary. he also gets to continue to govern, which means that he gets his cabinet and sub cabinet officials confirmed when he needs them. we were looking at, you know, a scenario where that might get a standstill. i agree with ashley. this is a great moment for our country. i disagree a little bit that, you know, that means we are going to get...

By the way, who have to make these tough decisions we are going to make considerable progress. >> i was shocked to find out how difficult it is for people without insurance, women without insurance to get contraception in the city. >> it is very very difficult. but im gonna tell you this, i think that our opportunities right now are -- because when you got a supreme court decision, and youve got a back stop, so its easy to let politicians demagogue issues to death. and run is far to the right as...

Doctrine. it is basically this idea that state legislatures have basically supremacy over federal elections in their state, overruling state courts, et cetera. it could have really profound implications on federal elections going forward and the court says, yeah, were going to take up this issue. >> yeah, and people who have watched the redistricting process for years have always thought about, well, it gets kicked over -- a court takes it over, a state court and they look at it and theyre an in...

Of discussion. they have known each other for some time. >> the issue of the formula shortage -- >> please stop. >> i understand. >> silence. please show -- >> thank you for your service and your husband for your service as well. issue of formula, if anything the crisis reminded everyone -- >> simon, if you could respect your colleagues and other media and reporters, that would be appreciated. >> sir, please. >> this is not [inaudible] >> formula is not a luxury item, its essential. such a valua...

Issues. he broke with the conservative block in the case of limits of this kind of political trick, where politicians draw a map and use that map to then basically pick their own voters to deny you an effective say because they preordained it. and republicans specifically as i mention are trying to cancel out black voters who currently tend to vote in the aggregate for democrats. as the times column recently put it, new conservative voting rights order from the supreme court is so at odds with p...