Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and this is another episode of the Chuck Toddcast.

So last week, the collapse of the Silicon Valley bank did more than expose regulatory failures

in the banking industry.

It was a showcase for our worsening political divides as well.

The fallout Democrats and Republicans have played a finger-pointing game.

Republicans putting the blame on the Biden administration with inflation trying to make

that the cause.

This criticizing Trump era regulation rollbacks.

Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Fed Chair Jay Powell to refuse himself from the Federal

Reserve's review of SVB's failure not to resign and sort of a little bit of a head scratch

on that one.

But she wants to hold him at least partly responsible for this meltdown.

And across the aisle, Republicans like Governor Rondis Santos, Senator Josh Holly in

Congress on James Comer believe woke politics might have been a reason for the second largest

bank collapse in US history.

So who's really to blame?

What is the political fallout of the Federal Reserve going to be?

Join now by two people who actually cover this stuff for a living.

Jim Tankers leads the White House correspondent for the New York Times who focuses on economic

policy.

And Ben White is Politico's chief economic correspondent.

You know, gentlemen, we've, I count on you guys every time we're near a financial crisis.

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