david: we welcome now john allison. he is now executive in residence at the wait for school of business. welcome back. always good to have you. we talk about wall street, but you are more of the people we turn to about main street. i want to get your perspective on how things are going on main street across the country when it comes to loan origination from regional banks that you are so familiar with. john: overall the economy is doing well for main street. i think you can see that an attitude and a more positive attitude of small businesses who have been through a long, tough period and that's the core part of the banking business. i think for banks there's good news and bad news. the good news is the tax law which is huge to beneficial and regional banks -- regional banks is beneficial. on the challenging side, margins are still mighty low for banks. thanks traditionally make most of their money for a long time buying short and lending long. they cannot get much of a margin to the. challenges the irony of the tax cut

allison and chris. >> thank you, caitlyn. let's bring in john avlon and jeff ri toobin. john, this is a big week. >> yes. >> there are a lot of really significant international things on the president's plate. he teed up none of that this weekend in any meaningful way. he is all about discrediting criticism of him specifically in the context of the russia probe and michael cohen. 20 something tweets. >> 24. >> 24 sort of unhinged -- my favorite was the out of context complete witch hunt. just -- i mean, it is a -- it is a glimpse into the mind of a president who is not thinking presidentially in terms of the responsibility of the office, in terms of the -- you know, the big week ahead with french president macron, north korea. really high stakes stuff but while melania was off with the ex-president's club, seemingly much happier than ever, donald trump was at mar-a-lago firing off angry, unhinged tweets that really -- the contrast to that is so stark but that's the reality of interior life of this president. >> there is -- james comey has a problem with these memos that

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