major european bank. what you want to do when you have shockingly bad news is bury it. they blurt out some terrible news when all anybody was watching was the banking sector. so we have this sort of global ripple effect. i do think it s important to separate out all these two things, but the important thing is this is not yet at least 2008 because we have a better sense of what s on the balance sheets. that raises an important question. regulators knew over this entire year and a half span that, you know, we ve sort of risen interest rates dramatically. that puts pressure and making them less attractive to the market. where were the regulators in all of this and what happens with banks like first republic that just got downgraded today because they have a lot of people with money over the $250,000 cap? the second question first, which is i think first republic
prognostication that it will help him with his base let me start with the second question first i did say yesterday joe tacopina on ari s show. he s an absolute disgrace to the profession of law. i do know him certainly a whole lot better than joe tacopina what i will tell you emphatically is what joe is doing right now is he s playing to a party of one. and that s donald trump. he will say the most ludicrous nonsense that you can say because that s what donald wants to hear. and obviously he s gotten the message requirement from donald or his people. and so that s what joe is doing. he s merely just, again, playing to an audience of one. and as i had said also on nicole s show before, that when you re sitting across the desk from ari melber, sitting across the desk from joy reid or nicole wallace, one thing you want to do it on one of these news max
former u.s. attorney and host of the podcast. do you agree with that approach? i m seeing a big not there. from what you know, is there enough to charge trump with illegally taking classified information? second question first. that s a really significant mind said that he is saying he s gonna follow. everyone who has seen it says yes, and there is much indication that that is what all the professionals belief. it does seem hard to say that nobody, anywhere, including the president of the united states will give any consideration to the broader question, is this in the best interest of the country? leave that to the site for now. if garland follows this analytic approach, it s bad news for trump, because the sign points so directly an
clean drinking water. how do we make sure puerto rico isn t left behind again? and, ultimately, do you think puerto rico should become a state so it can be more resilient in having infrastructures for this? let me answer the second question first. i have long believed the people of puerto rico should be given the opportunity to vote for statehood. i think many think 50/50 thoughts there. i think statehood support has grown. they certainly have the right to have that vote. these are american citizens. i think on a per capita basis, puerto ricans serve in the service more than any other. part of the challenge with puerto rico, unlike a continuous state, the mutual aid is difficult. you have to send it there. as you pointed out close to 200,000 people still with no power. they seem to be in a better position to respond this time around, because there were pre-positioned assets, because
mar-a-lago in various locations. these are some of our most important secrets. the top secret material is material that if released, could result in grave damage to the national security. so, overall, when you look at number, type of documents the way that they were stored, it is unprecedented and we hate to use that word because we have used so many times with the former president but i literally don t know what else to say about it. well i am still gonna ask another question get your comments on you are on whether the documents raised potential criminal culpability for donald trump, and after the affidavit, is there anyone else in trump circle who could also be at legal risk? well, second question first, there is definitely a question of whether not the people who were involved in the cover-up, of course the doj and the search warrant identifies a number of criminal charges looking at, and what is