This week, government leaders work to safeguard the U.S. banking industry, U.S. Russia tensions

heat up.

And three years after the COVID lockdowns, many Americans are asking, are we better prepared

for the next viral threat?

For analysis, we have Brooks and K-PART, that is, New York Times columnist David Brooks

and Jonathan K-PART, associate editor for The Washington Post.

Welcome to you both.

Good to see you.

Let's start with the banking industry, David, because after the failure of two U.S.

banks, we saw the administration step in very quickly, right?

A short depositors, they would be made whole.

We just saw 11 banks now step in with a $30 billion rescue plan to shore up another bank

out in San Francisco.

Clearly, the anxiety around all of this isn't gone, though, yet.

Yeah, if you look at the Mr. Dow Jones, this is very unhappy.

The markets are volatile.

It seems to me there are two immediate political things that are germane to politics and are

wider than that national life.

The first is this bank informed its investment strategy in a low interest rate environment,

which is what we've had for 40 years, and which we no longer have.

And so a bank that just invests disproportionate amount of money and treasuries is suddenly

going to suffer, because they're not going to keep up with inflation.

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