stormy daniels that s believed to be a precursor to an indictment. they re required by law to be notified and invited to appear before a grand jury. if charged, trump would be the first former president to be indicted, but would it slow his current presidential quest? i say not a chance, at least not based on this case alone. any charges here would stem from the $130,000 in payments made to daniels during the 2016 campaign. apparently she had been ready to share her story of an affair with trump, but the publisher was a trump friend, who instead helped broker a deal with michael cohen, in which she was paid for silence. i ve thought it was the weakest of the trump investigations which generally fall into four buckets. first, the events of january 6th. second, the mishandling of government documents. third, the fulton county da investigation, including the phone call to brad raffensperger. fourth, this, the stormy daniels hush money. merrick garland appointed jack smith to loo
portions of the state. just minutes ago we were seeing this video of a levy that failed overnight in monterey county. that has forced evacuations, washed out roads and bridges. this week s atmospheric river, the tenth to hit the state dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas. at least two people have died in the most recent storm and more rain is on the way for some hard-hit areas. several feet of snow is blanketing the sierra, nevada mountains. they worry melting snow could cause more flooding. california national guard in high water vehicles are staged throughout the state. mike lareo is in vallaero. reporter: we re in the heart of the flood zone and we have all of this flooding in the downtown area because from that video you just saw, the levy is about 3 miles behind us and as soon as that levy had a breach around midnight local time, jim, all of that water had nowhere to go but here except for low lying areas. you can see there s a little bit of a dry spot in our
a rollback of regulations on banks. i will be joined by democratic congressman and former venture capitalist josh harder on the next steps to stabilize the banking industry this hour, former president trump taking the fight directly to ron desantis in iowa. ron de-sanctiuos. he is aisciple of paul ryan. he reminds me of mitt romney in california, 11 people were gunned down in january, president biden will announce stronger gun background checks i will talk to the congresswoman from that district, judy chu good day i m andrea mitchell in washington, d.c. the wall street journal is reporting that the justice department and the securities and exchange commission are investigating the collapse of silicon valley bank and stock seals sales by its executives before the bank went under. they are questioning whether regulators should seen troubled signs in new york signature bank they are scrambling to diffuse political fallout. inflation moderated slightly for the eighth mo
first of all, making it clear that they are not going to bail out the owners or investors in silicon valley bank. but also assuring depositors, all depositors that they will be held harmless. that was an important step to make sure that employees throughout the country who work for different companies that bank with silicon valley bank got paid payroll and to prevent cont contagion. they moved quickly and effectively. now, of course, we need to conduct a full postmortem to figure out everything that went wrong to prevent this kind of thing from happening going forward. you voted against weakening dodd-frank 67 voted in favor of rolling it back there was a lot of lobbying on this, as you would be well aware. wasn t that a big mistake? i think it was a mistake.
cab. there s a good aert gumt he s already affiliated with the republican parties. i ll bet he appreciates all the free legal advice you just gave him, which is he better stay in the republican primary and win that process or he s done. thank you so much for your time. thank you. still to come, more of your best and worst social media comments and the final result, please go vote. a little esoteric today but we like that. go to smerconish today. is the failure of svb, silicon valley bank, is that an isolated event? we hope so. or will there be broader financial contagion? results in a moment.