>> you said it's safe and healthy in the middle of the ocean. not as much when it's coming onshore. >> marty oddland creating an ocean community called running tide. he's using seaweed that sinks near iceland to look at this as a carbon sponge. maybe there should be clean beach credits for every fisherman who is ship in and keep that stuff from hitting the shore. it's much harder when it hits shore. >> a 5,000-mile smelly blob is a tourism turnoff. hopefully they'll get that fixed. >> there is time. it probably won't hit until july. >> a few months there. bill weir, thank you. top of a new hour on cnn newsroom. i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm bianna going lodryga. we heard from the white house

and pentagon concerning the russian downing of a u.s. drone. >> new video shows when a pair of russian fighter jets approached the drone and brought it down. let's bring in oren liebermann and jeremy diamond. let's start with what the pentagon is saying about this new video. >> reporter: the video itself is pretty incredible. a close look at what happened early tuesday morning over the black sea. there are essentially two pieces to it. in the first one, a russian fighter jet makes a pass at a u.s. mq-9 reaper drone, dumping jet fuel. you see the drone itself is still operating. the propeller spinning, in the second clip of the video or the later part of the video, you see a russian fighter jet make another pass. you see the same dumping of jet fuel and this is where the russian jet collides with the u.s. drone, damaging its propeller and forcing it down. it's critical because this is what backs up the u.s. account of how this all played out over the course of 30 to 40 minutes or so over the black sea. and it undercuts the russian

account, which was that there was no physical contact between the russian jet and the drone. and basically blaming the united states for the entire encounter, despite the fact the u.s. has flown drones over the black sea since the beginning of the war and before that. the pentagon addressing the fallout over the drone and the incident itself. >> it's not unusual for us to release imagery of unsafe, unprofessional incidents. we have done that in other situations, so particularly in this case, given the reckless and dangerous behavior and to demonstrate publicly what type of actions the russians had taken, we felt it was important to provide this imagery. >> the u.s. says it's very difficult for the u.s. to recover the drone. there are no navy ships in the black sea. russia, meanwhile, senior russian officials made it clear they'll try to go after this and recover it. we have learned russia has

arrived at the scene of the crash site, about 80 miles southwest of crimea. the u.s. has downplayed the significance of what might be received. first, they wiped or erased the sensitive information before it crashed, and second, it crashed. there's not an actual drone sitting there waiting for the russians to pick it up. >> at best, symbolic propaganda for the russians if they're able to capture it. jeremy, what more are we hearing from the white house? we heard from the military officials yesterday, both the defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs saying this is why it's important to keep channels of communication open between counterparts and we're also hearing reports this may have been ordered by the russian military itself. >> reporter: yeah, the white house not weighing in on that fact directly, but what they are saying is that this action by the russians was clearly reckless and irresponsible, and they are also saying that the decision to release this video was in part intended to directly undercut russian denials of this, because what you saw is as u.s. officials made this

allegation a few days ago about this unsafe encounter, the russian fighter jet clipping this u.s. drone, the russians then denied it, and that's when you saw the u.s. come out with this video, which appears to show -- appears to back up that u.s. account, although you don't of course see the very collision that they're talking about. you do see the damage to the u.s. drone. i did ask the white house press secretary moments ago if the president was involved in the decision of releasing this. she would not say that. what she did say is that she slammed those, the russian behavior here, but she said they don't see this as raising the risk of armed conflict with russia. listen. >> we have been clear, the pentagon has been clear, my colleagues at nsc has been clear as well. the actions by russian pilots in international air space were reckless and dangerous. we have raised those concerns directly with russian leadership, and we will continue to exercise our rights in international air space, clearly we do not seek armed conflict with russia. we maintain direct lines of

communication for reasons like this to minimize risk of escalation, but again, we do not seek armed conflict with russia. and so i'll leave it there. >> reporter: and the national security council spokesman job kirby said he believes this video provides a clear and convincing evidence of the case that the u.s. has laid out. but in terms of whether this was an intentional action by the russians or not, john kirby said it's clear this was reckless flying by the russians but they don't know based on this video whether or not this was the intention of the russian fighter pilot to clip this u.s. drone. >> all right, jeremy diamond and oren liebermann, thank you. the battle for the ukrainian city of bakhmut is grinding on. ukraine vows to hold on to the destroyed city despite russia's vicious onslaught. look at this drone video. it shows the level of destruction after months of fighting here. look how broad, look at the scope of what's happened here. tens of thousands of people have died defending bakhmut since the battle started more than seven months ago. >> really get a sense of how

decimated that city has turned. as david mckenszie joins us fro kyiv. we have this intense fighting in bakhmut. good news for kyiv that you have four polish migs on their way, but that's not going to help in the current battle in the east right now. >> reporter: let's talk about bakhmut first. certainly, those images show you just the level of destruction that city that had more than 70,000 people living there before the start of this conflict, down to a few thousand people refusing to leave, and entire city blocks completely flattened because of this ongoing grinding conflict in this eastern city that u.s. officials even admit doesn't necessarily have strategic value in this war, but certainly has very symbolic value. president zelenskyy has vowed to fight on in the last day or so, both those supporting russia and the ukrainians admit this war is extremely grinding, that part of

the front line, and there have been heavy losses on both sides. the russians and also particularly the wagner mercenary group have managed to gain some ground there, but at least one think tank in the u.s. believes because of the losses they're taking in men and operations they may not be able to encircle that city anytime soon. >> that drone video is just jaw-dropping. block after block just destroyed after so many months of fighting. david mckenzie for us, thank you so much. after weeks of concerning economic headlines, treasury secretary janet yellen testified in front of the senate today. she said high inflation was the number one problem facing the country right now. and remains the president's top priority. while yellen was originally scheduled to discuss the president's 2024 budget, senators also grilled her about the controversial action she and the federal government took to rescue silicon valley bank.

>> there was a run on the bank. it had high reliance on uninsured deposits. and there was a massive withdrawal of deposits that led to liquidity problems. the bank had to be closed for that reason. >> so do you agree then that it is a liquidity risk that we're dealing with in this issue? >> there was a liquidity risk in this situation. >> yellen also said no taxpayer money is being used to reimburse those depositors. meantime, stocks are surging on word that major banks are in talks to rescue another ailing financial institution, first republic bank. cnn's matt egan is with us now. tell us more about this bank that maybe most americans may not have heard of. >> sort of like silicon valley bank that not many people had heard of before last week. it became the second biggest

bank failure ever in u.s. history. now a lot of attention has been on first republic bank. a san francisco based bank, has almost $200 billion in deposits. the stock had been plunging over the last week. moving higher today, up 7%, but you have to remember, this morning, it opened down 36%. the turnaround was driven by the fact now there's this industry-led rescue effort, a source familiar with the matter confirms to cnn that big banks including jpmorgan, wells fargo, citigroup, bank of america, and truest, are in talking to provide a life line to first republic bank. now, this would be structured as deposits. about $30 billion in deposits that would go from the big banks to first republic. and the goal here would be to try to provide them some additional financial firepower to offset some of the deposit withdrawals they have been facing. we have to remember big banks have actually had this influx,

spike of deposits over the last week because of the fact that people have been nervous. and we're also getting word from u.s. officials that they are encouraged by these rescue talks. a u.s. official telling cnn that this would be a welcome sign of confidence in the banking system, just the fact they're discussing a life line, and this would be complementary to actions that regulators have already taken to try to bolster confidence in the system and clearly this is going over well on wall street. stocks open the day down and then moved sharply higher on rescue talks. we're still waiting for official word from the companies. >> a lot more concern and questions asked by senators of the secretary. >> she did face a lot of questions about the health of the banking system. she is trying to reassure the public and lawmakers that the banking system is sound. and one of the questions she was faced is from senator mark warner who was asking about the fact that some venture capital

firms were telling their tech start-ups to pull their money from silicon valley bank. he sort of described this as the first internet driven run on banks. listen to the exchange between yellen and warner. >> there were bad actors in the vc community who literally started to spur this run by crying fire in a crowded theater. >> one of the reasons we intervened and declared a systemic risk exception is because of the recognition there can be contagion in situations like this. the liquidity requirements and needs of a bank with such heavy reliance on uninsured deposits that are runable, i think we need to think about that. >> so yellen again trying to make sure that there is no contagion here, that the problems at signature bank and silicon valley bank don't spread elsewhere. we have seen the government step in with rescue efforts, and now

today, it appears the industry is doing the same thing. >> all right. >> thank you. joining us now is damian paletta, deputy business editor at "the washington post," and douglas holtz-eakin is a former chief economist on the white house council of economic advisers and also president of the america action forum. doug, let me start with you. we heard there from senator warner who accused some of these investors of being bad actors and crying fire in a crowded theater. from everything we know about the fundamentals, there were problems there. is that the right description? because there was a fire, it appears, at this bank. what more could investors have done? >> i think the real problem was the bank, and we know it had a heavy investment in long dated treasuries that had diminished in value because of the interest rate rise. they hadn't managed the process at all. and outside depositors could see this. they knew what the balance sheet

looked like. and it was yelling fire because there was a fire. so let's get our money before the entire bank burns down. that's not bad behavior. that's prudence, and it's the bank's failure and the supervisor's failure that put them in that position. >> damian, the optimism we're seeing across the market after the reporting that the big banks are coming in with this life line for first republic, does that solve their issue short term, and also, is this replicable if we see this with other mid-sized banks? how many times can they all get together and extend tens of billions of dollars to these banks? >> that's a great question. i mean, obviously, it's a positive development that this bank which has about $200 billion of assets, a pretty big bank in california, is about to get a rescue from other banks. but at the same time, we can't be in a situation where over four or five days a major u.s. bank is on the brink of failure. there has to be a rescue plan. eventually, the banks are going to run out of money to bail out

other banks. it seems like if they can firewall this crisis right here and make this the last time they have to do it, and it does inject some certainty among depositors and investors that the banking situation is going to settle down, i think it could be a positive. if we're doing this every couple days, careening from bank to bank, they're going to have to have a bigger solution because it doesn't seem like between what is hanning here in the united states and what is happening in switzerland, long term strategy to have governments intervening every view days to settle down the banking sector. >> to that point, we heard from the treasury secretary. she said deposits in u.s. banks will be guaranteed only if a systemic risk determination is issued. it seems like that's much easier said than done. they were scrambling over the weekend to determine that was indeed the case for svb because it wasn't until it was. so do you read that as reassuring in terms of trying to prevent another situation at a different bank?

>> i read this as her wanting people to think they haven't extended a blanket guarantee to every depositor in the united states. if you look at what they did with silicon valley bank, they declared it systemically important so they could guarantee all the deposits. this does nothing to constrain their behavior in any way. they can look at any bank and say, well, systemically important, let's gauarantee all their deposits. they're trying to pull back an overreach, 100% guarantee of every deposits stands out as an important precedent they set with silicon valley bank. i am not as worried some about the sort of broad banking system. i think the fact that all of the big banks could get together and help out first republic bank is testament to the strength of the banking sector. what we have seen is these regional banks all have very narrow business models. first republic bank and silicon valley bank have the same customers for all practical

purposes and they all got in trouble at the same time and depositors needed money at the same time. we don't see that across the whole company. we have a tech start-up downturn and it caught these two banks up. going forward, there's less of a risk of seeing a lot of these. >> let's get your take on this exchange between secretary yellen and senator elizabeth warren. we're all waiting to see what the fed does on the -- we expect the back end of this turmoil within the banks. but we heard from, give that to me again. i will just read it. she said over the last few days we have heard a lot of republicans say that the collapse was not their fault, that it was the banking regulators that were asleep at the wheel. and believe me, i have questions for a lot of the banking regulators. but congress handed chair powell the flame thrower he aimed at the banking rules, suggesting that chairman powell has some culpability here. give us the context around that from senator warren. >> sure.

so there's a financial crisis in 2008, obviously, that was devastating to a lot of big banks and smaller banks. in 2010, congress passed a lot, the dodd/frank act, that created much more rigorous regulatory structure, made the fed more powerful in terms of making rules that were supposed to force banks to be more safe. some of those rules were dialed back, both by a law that congress passed with democratic and republican support, and by actions the fed took a few years ago to kind of go a little easier on regional banks in particular. and so those rollback of regulations i think is getting a lot of scrutiny now. why did the fed decide to go easier on the banks when times were good? because it's when times are more strained, especially when there's a big change like interest rates are going um, that these banks can come under pressure. there's going to be a lot of scrutiny from congress and inside the fed as to whether they went too far in rolling back the regulations and maybe they need to rethink what they did. >> damian paletta, douglas

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i think it overall will add to the indictment which these jurors themselves in the atlanta journal constitution say is going to be huge. it's something to note. it's less of a clean actual violation on its own, it seems to me, because he's saying convene a special session of the legislature. obviously, that is meant to influence the election, which is illegal, but it doesn't quite have the unmistakable punch of i just need 11,780 votes. so it will be part of the case. i doubt it will be a separate count of the same kind of charge of election solicitation to commit fraud as the call to raffensperger. >> i found the ajc report fascinating because it was not just about the evidence but the experience of being on this grand jury, and there was one of the five that they spoke with who had a reconsideration, i guess i would call it, of whether they should have summoned trump. they said it was the

prosecutor's decision and he probably would have pleaded the fifth hundreds of time as he has in other cases but the juror said with the benefit of hindsight, we should have sent a voluntary invitation and just invited him. is that any value, of any value to a trump attorney if there is an eventual indictment, that you had members saying maybe that wasn't the right thing not to invite the former president? >> no. and remember, this is a special grand jury, so i mean, it was an advisory one, so it's not even the one to vote on charges, but i totally agree with you. it's fascinating reporting. i don't know if you have ever been on a grand jury. it tends to be a little tedious. these guys were very engaged. they're all talking together, cohesively, they're letting out really some vivid details. lindsey graham says if you had told donald trump at the time that aliens came down and stole votes from him, he would have believed it. they say it's all going to be huge. the witnesses that they most credited were the ones that are

worst for trump. i think we got a lot of sort of information of the feel of that grand jury and where they were going and did head. it doesn't give trump anything to make hay with, though, because again, it's not even the actual grand jury that will vote out charges. >> okay, so from the georgia case to the new york case. we heard from michael cohen, he was on cnn this morning and talked about two days worth of testimony just this week alone. yesterday and on monday, before the manhattan d.a., alvin bragg, and he in his view at least believes an indictment will come soon. what did you make of what we heard from him, especially given the fact he is a flawed witness? he himself has said he perjured himself in the past. he served time in prison. yet he says he is just seeking the truth, and wanting to see the truth come down in terms of whatever happens with the president, the former president. >> whatever witness he is,

that's the hand they have been dealt. so they cannot make the case except through him, and what i made of it most consequentially is he's all done now. he said he finished up yesterday. and they had done the best they can to show corroborating evidence. we'll see what the indictment looks like, but what i make of it is all paths have been cleared. the next thing they will do is ask the grand jury for an indictment. they will probably do that monday. it's a special grand jury, so it just meets twice a week. yes, it's going to be a big dramatic event if trial occurs. the cross-examination of him on many grounds. but he is the star witness, warts and all, and now that he's finished, the case is finished. the grand jury has heard everything they're going to hear. the next step is to say, here's a draft indictment. we recommend you approve it. >> all right, harry, thank you. the white house issues

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was smothered while in their cus custody. >> it was captured on camera. cnn's brian todd joins us now. so brian, the victim's family just held a news conference. what did they say? >> reporter: bianna, victor, some new details from the family, from the attorneys for the family. basically kind of laying out what they saw in this video. it's surveillance footage from central state hospital from march 6th. this has not been released to the public, but it's occurring where this person is being allegedly smothered by these sheriff's deputies. and this is basically the moment of his death on this video that the family just viewed a short time ago. the attorneys and the family say the video shows several deputies, seven of them, and now we're told three hospital employees basically applying force on him, an amazing amount of force, with knees on his neck, almost alternatively, ben

crump the attorney said when one person would take their knee off of his neck, another one would put their knee on his neck, basically until he died. his mother, caroline, spoke at the news conference just a short time ago. here's what she had to say. >> mental illness should not be your ticket to death. that was a chance to rescue him. that was a chance to stop what was going on. and i don't understand how all systems failed him. i don't understand why the system could not hold up and say stop, we stop here. my son was treated like a dog, worse than a dog. >> reporter: and again, the news today that a total of ten people have now been charged with second degree murder, seven sheriff's deputies and now three

employees of central state hospital in dinwiddy county. the only attorney for one of the deputies we have heard from has said that he is looking forward to his -- his client is looking forward to being vindicated in court. >> you can really sense the emotional pain in his mother's voice when we heard her speaking. brian todd, thank you. sdploo there's a security review happening right now in london after british officials today joined the united states in banning the social media platform tiktok from government devices. >> the move comes as president biden demades tiktok's chinese owners spin off their share or face a total ban in the u.s. ju juleuliette kayyem, these found own just 20% of the company, so what is your reaction to the president's move? is it a smart decision? >> it's a decision that has little to do with tiktok at this stage. in other words, there are

statements that the biden administration wants to make about china surveillance technology, and because of politics, because of tiktok's tentacles into the united states, it has 100 million users. tiktok ends up being a good forum for this. because this ultimatum that we're hearing about out of cfius, the treasury department entity that looks at foreign investments and what these companies are doing in this country, this ultimatum isn't going to get to the issues of data retention, access, and privacy. it's simply staying stop owning divest yourself of your investment in tiktok. but it's not getting to the substance of the issue or the substance of the concerns. that's why we would be the first country to do it. i think other countries are getting tiktok off government phones. i think that's absolutely

correct, but we would be the first to make such a bold action. >> and if it's a national security concern, it makes sense to take them as several states have said you can't use them on state-owned devices, federal government says you can't use them on federal devices. but removing them from all devices, that's not a firewall for our personal information. is it even a speed bump? we know about the chinese assets. remember the balloon. we know there are satellites and other elements. >> yeah, i think that's exactly the right way to think about it. the theory of this ban is that the chinese government's accesses information that the united states citizens are putting onto tiktok. so a good example, because tiktok is used by younger people, so older people watching would be the location of someone, and then their identity may be personal, but their identity may be they work for the u.s. government or for the state department. so what the u.s. government is trying to do is trying to make

it harder, simply put, layer defenses for a very sophisticated intelligence agency to get access. but as we know, it's a sophisticated intelligence agency. it will find other means. i have to be honest with you. without control of the data, and privacy rules, in other words, having more rules about data and privacy access, including giving that to a third party, say, a u.s.-owned cloud-based company, this ban is more about trying to decouple the united states dependency on chinese technology. and that's consistent with a lot of things we're doing in the sort of trade and technology space. so this is just one thing. i'm not a user of tiktok. but 100 million users, a lot of them are not going to be happy. we shouldn't think this is an easy thing to do. there will be a consumer concern

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backlash but not just from democrats. instead, from within his own party. this comes after the republican characterized russia's war in ukraine as a territorial dispute between two countries. >> here to discuss, alyssa fair griffin, cnn political commentator and former trump white house director, and ron brownstein, senior editor at the atlantic. we're hearing from more republicans who disagree with i would say 2023 ron desantis because 2015 ron desantis said something very different. let's listen. courtesy of the k-file, a radio interview. >> we in the congress have been urging the president, i have been, to provide arms to ukraine. they want to fight their good fight. they're not asking us to fight it for them. and the president has steadfastly refused. and i think that's a mistake. >> so that's eight years ago. why the flip? >> i think this was a terrible

political miscalculation by governor desantis because it was precisely that. as recently as 2015 after the invasion of crimea, he was in favor of armor ukraine to the teeth and criticizing the obama administration for not doing more. this was clearly an effort to cater to the maga anti-interventionist wing of the gop. what i think he's going to be surprised to learn is that's a vast minority in the republican party. the language i think really resonates in a negative way with republicans like myself is to say this is a territorial dispute. that language undermines and calls into question the sovereignty of ukraine, a sovereign nation invaded by russia. i think this is one of the first times he's actually gone a bit too far even with regard to the mainstream of the republican party and they're realizing that now. >> yet, the two front-runners for republican nominee, donald trump, his views and comments on vladimir putin and the war aren't that different from what we're hearing from ron desantis. it's all reassuring to hear from republicans now who are disagreeing with that and

supporting ukraine's defense and the united states in support of ukraine for that defense itself. but if they become the nominee, wouldn't you imagine all of that changes? how would they rally around a candidate whose views they differ on foreign policy like this? >> these are the two candidates who in polls will have something like three-quarters of the total vote in a republican primary. both taking this position that is at odds with the really post-1952 dwight eisenhower beating robert traft republican party. i agree with most of what alyssa said. i differ in once extent. i think this is clearly an example of donald trump being in ron desantis' head. as i said to you before, i think the core of the desantis strategy is to offer republican voters trumpism without trump. to basically say i will be as fierce a cultural warrior as trump is against all the targets you want to smite, but i don't carry all the personal baggage

of trump. and i think as part of that he is very determined not to let trump establish a lot of daylight on many of these issues that have enormous appeal to the maga base of the party. the risk, of course, is by doing that, you're creating dissidence both with another piece of the republican party, and even more fundamentally, if you win the nomination, i can't imagine that joe biden would be worried about going into a general election basically standing up as the defending of the western alliance to rebuff vladimir putin against an opponent who is calling this a territorial dispute. >> alyssa, before we get to the nomination, do you think this language, this position from desantis is enough to alienate some of those never trump or trump reluctant republicans who were looking for a strong alternative? >> i think it's significant enough in the context of history of the moment that he's going to have to clean it up.

a voter like myself, i'm not going to support someone who won't support continuing aid to ukraine. the point desantis makes is china is the biggest u.s. adversary right now. i don't dispute that, but he argues we can't walk and chew gum, support our ukrainian allies while countering china. i disagree with that outright. i think we can do both of those and frankly a victorious putin is a boon to china. i imagine he has to clarify this at some point, before it gets closer and closer to a nomination. >> ron, a two-pronged question. how many republicans agree with alyssa's view here, and in general, historically, when you're talking about a general election, how much of a priority is foreign policy, especially when it's not the united states directly at war? >> so first question, generally still a majority of republicans say they support aid to ukraine, but that number is steadily

declining. i'm guessing if there are polls, more recent polls than what we have seen earlier in january or so, we might be at majority opposition because they're getting such a clear cue from these party leader figures. it's a big divide in the republican party. you have seen that in the way in which people like chris christie have explicitly compared what desantis said to appeasement, by neveral chamberland of adolph hitber before world war ii. that's explosive to put into an intraparty debate. this echoes seven decades ago on whether the focus should be defending europe against russia or an asia first foreign policy, which desantis is kind of going toward as well. i don't think foreign policy historically has been the central fulcrum of presidential elections except when we're actively at war, but it goes into the overall equation of whether you believe, a, someone is up to the job, and b, what is

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