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they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. well, good evening, everyone. i'm laura coats, and this is "cnn tonight." we're talking about $30 billion, the amount it took to rescue the latest bank now in trouble. several contributed billions each to keep first republic afloat, which tells you just how seriously they cake all of this. what about every day americans bearing the brunt of say interest rates going up. is the little guy getting ignored through all of this? plus, it is the video you cannot look away from. this footage of a russian fighter jet forcing down an american drone over the black sea. what is going on in the new

battlegrounds in the skies? and are confrontations like this more likely now with unmanned objects? also, banks failing, the market in turmoil, drones forced out of the sky and now this, everyone. seaweed. a massive blob of seaweed thousands of miles long, if that's even possible, over ten million tons of it floating around in the gulf of mexico and the atlantic and heading for florida's beaches. did i mention it smells like rotten eggs which smells like sulfur? i will point that out. we have a lot to talk about tonight, but i want to begin with the situation with the banks. joining me now a democrat from maryland, a member of the banking committee. senator, thank you for joining us this evening. i won't ask you about the seaweed, don't worry. but i will ask you about what's been going on with the mess that the banks are finding themselves in. as you know, these markets, the markets are celebrating the idea

of big banks rushing now to save first republic. are we going to see more of this? is it an indication that the ship is being righted or is it more of a foreboding domino effect happening? what do you think? >> well, laura, it is great to be with you. i do think it is good news you had some of the biggest banks in the country investing $30 billion to save first republic. and i do think that secretary yellen and the biden administration had been quick to stamp out where they think it's spreading. obviously we have to monitor this very carefully. the fed has a facility that allows banks to borrow money to make sure they have the reserves necessary to pay deposits. but i do applaud the biden administration. over the last week, it's been a roller coaster, but i think they

acted quickly in the face of an emergency. >> senator, i think it is prudent to nip something in the butt. but how many more are we talking about? is this an indication in your mind -- are you hearing anything about this being an indication that this will happen more and more? because obviously if you follow that thread, at some point, someone is not going to get the $30 billion. >> well, that's right. all the fed facility is much larger than that. that does allow banks to borrow from this fed facility. but there are lots of things that were quite unique or at least unusual about the silicon valley bank, including the huge numbers of uninsured deposits, deposits over $250,000. plus the fact that it was so concentrated in the tech industry. so i think people are looking, you know, around the -- the

environment, that terrain. but i do not think you find a lot of other banks in that particular circumstance. again, you know, we have been in regular communication with the department of treasury and others. they are monitoring the situation. but i think they have responded quickly and provided confidence. >> i think it is a good thing, senator, to show that there is confidence between the banking institutions to say essentially, look, you're good for it. i will give you $30 billion. we will rally to get it. i do believe these institutions will be okay. the problem is for so many people who are looking at this, unfortunately the every day person. and you know them. you know, the idea of it. they're not always given the benefit of the doubt. they're not given those second chances. what do you say to the american people viewing this perhaps through a lens of sure you will come and help the people you think are good for it, these major banks. but how about the every day

person suffering from these interest rates? what do you say to them? >> well, first of all, as the biden administration has stressed, and i agree with their decision entirely, no owners of these banks were bailed out in any way. the owners, the stockholders, the bondholders, they're going under, as they should. in fact, i think we should claw back some of the benefits, the profits from stock sales made by the ceo and other executives. whether or not there was inside trading, and we'll have to look and see whether there was any criminal activity, but regardless, i think we should claw back those profits that they made on the eve of the collapse. in terms of the interest rates, as you know, what the fed has been doing is trying to tamp down inflation. many of us have been concerned that they would overshoot by raising interest rates too quickly and too much. this latest incidents with the

banks will actually, i think, make them more cautious about raising interest rates going forward. so it's hard to see how all of this will play out. on the senate banking committee, we do intend to have hearings. the chairman of the committee is going to hold hearings both to do a postmortem so we figure out exactly what went wrong here and also whether there are additional measures we should be taking, what additional measures we should be taking to prevent this from happening going forward. >> is there a time line when those will take place? >> it will be in the coming weeks. but i don't have the exact schedule. nor do i know exactly who we're going to call. but people -- the witnesses will be selected based on those two criteria, figuring out exactly what happened at silicon valley bank and then, you know, looking at the lessons learned going forward. i will say, laura, that senator brown and i actually wrote to

the fed back in january encouraging their ongoing efforts to take additional action to reduce risk in the banking system. they have embarked on an effort to be more diligent, to be more stringent. it was something we applauded. i will say many of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle were giving the federal reserve all sorts of grief for beginning to look more closely at risks and talking about better regulating some of these big banks. i don't think they're talking out against it anymore. >> senator, thank you so much. we're looking forward to those hearings. i appreciate it tonight. thank you. i want to bring in andrew from "the wall street journal," former congressman joe walsh and the adviser on joe biden's 2020 campaign. let's pick up where we left off, andrew, on this point with the senator. you have got these 11 banks

rescuing first republic. do you look at this as a sign of a good thing, a good course correction, or is this is sign they're shaking thinking, we cannot have this be a domino effect? >> it is hard not to look at this as a sign of seriousness. this is how serious the biggest banks in the country are taking this, that they will put $30 billion of their own money to shore up what could be this next domino in this banking crisis. i think it's reassuring as well. i think the most important takeaway from the last week is $42 billion. that's how much money fled silicon valley bank in a single day last thursday. and that shows you that we're not in this period. it is not "it's a wonderful life" anymore where you have people lining up -- >> right. >> you have got money moving instantaneously, at the click of a button.

it is very hard to write rules for that type of situation. it is not clear that regulations alone would have prevented this bank run. i mean, if you lose a quarter of your deposits in a single day, $42 billion, i don't think there is any bank that could survive that level of outflows. the reassuring bit is what they did on sunday and then the news today does appear to have prevented, you know, any nightmare scenario. that appears to have stopped that. but, you know, there is a lot that we will have to watch and we're watching it closely at "the wall street journal" to see what happens. there will be a review. the fed -- the fed was the regulator for a silicon valley bank, and the examiners had a job to do. it is not clear what they did. we have reported that they did flag some of the problems at silicon valley bank, but it is not clear if they did anything or what happened. >> that's a good plan.

the idea of flagging it and we're doing this postmortem and how this is looking. people were quick to understand what was the cause of this. you almost wonder if you are able to ascertain the cause, then perhaps you are able to avoid the problem in itself. so when you look at the reaction, is this, you know, the reaction level, what should be, or is pro activity better here? >> i actually think it is a bit of both, right? i think the reaction to the number one thing of protecting customers, right, the reality is we want to make sure that people were able to get their paychecks, that small businesses did not collapse. i don't know about you all, but i saw so many stories of small business owners talking about how losing their deposits would literally eliminate their business they have been building for ten years. the proactive piece, i think this gives us an opportunity to think about bank regulations, what happened in 2018. my other former boss senator

elizabeth warren, this is her jam. she has been all over the media talking about we have to put back in place regulations to prevent this from happening. we can't have this stock gap. yes, the president is doing his job to protect the american people and these banks are coming in, as you were saying, but we have to prevent this from happening again and people are trying to avoid a recession. >> everything you just said is right, but the other disconnect there is how quickly both parties really jumped in to bail out silicon valley bank. i mean, how quickly they jumped in. and you're an average, regular american out there sitting out there who has just gone through three heyears of covid. this notion of bailing people out, we bail out the healthy, the powerful and the influential in this country in a nanosecond.

republicans and democrats come together to do that in a heartbeat. >> trying to draw the distinction between making sure that the people are not losing their deposits having their businesses wiped out versus how executives and directors are doing it. but the most telling thing was the reference to we will find out if laws were broken here. one of the things that we know, one of the things that got voters white hot angry after 2008 was the company wasn't bailed. you can get away with a whole lot of bailing people out if there is purpose walking as well. >> i don't think there is 2008. there is similarities, right? you see the big banks -- it is not a shotgun marriage but in 2008 you saw all the banks combining. the government was coordinating that, was arranging mergers at the last minute to prevent bank failures. but on the other hand, this isn't 2008.

this was not a bank rescue. the management is gone. the bondholders are wiped out. the stockholders are wiped out. >> does it matter that it is not the government that helped first republic today? it is other banks? >> i mean, i think it is almost better if it was the banks that did this on their own. i think it was clearly -- there was some coordination with the federal government because that means that -- that draws the distinction from 2008 where you don't have timmy calling all these ceos and telling them find a buyer, find a buyer. this was on their own. after the regulators hat stepped in over the weekend, it should be somewhat reassuring and, you know, and the depositors, i think the issue, they did get a rescue. the depositors got a rescue. that is a policy issue that we're going to have to think about. was that good policy? >> well, that's what the hearings will be about, too.

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released by the u.s. military shows the moments russian jets jumped fuel on and then appeared to hit a u.s. drone. the first contact between u.s. and russian aircraft since the start of putin's war in ukraine, leading to a blame game from officials in both countries. what would have happened if it was a manned craft that was forced into the ocean. back with me my panel and we're joined by retired air force colonel who i have been waiting to hear from on this issue. the u.s. did send another drone into this area today. however, what is going to be the tragedy going forward, knowing this had happened over the black sea. russia has given a different explanation. and the video something very different. >> the big thing is we will tell the russians let's go ahead and

make sure we have the rights to fly over the black sea, fly over international waters, do all of those different things. but the one other thing that's going on is the european command is conducting a safety review of drone flights over the black sea. on the one hand, we are asserting our right to fly over international air space. we're doing the safety review to make sure that none of this happens again. now, you know, that's going to be one of those things where perhaps all the threat of measures that we take might not have any effect. but on the other hand, we are also looking at ways to improve our capacity to collect intelligence, which is exactly what that drone was doing at that moment when it was hit. >> were you surprised that we were able to see this video footage so quickly? obviously there were competing statements about what really happened. russia having a sort of a it wasn't me moment and this was something that was at fault.

your sharp maneuvering as opposed to what the united states said about it. and then it was made public. it was declassified. what do you say to that? >> the biden administration has made a smart move in the intelligence arena when it comes to declassifying information in general. the ukraine war, the first indications of the russian troop placements, that was all revealed to the press before the russians actually moved. and that is an interesting and new strategy that the biden administration implemented. this is kind of like that because what they were able to do is they were able to not only refute what the russians said but they were able to prove the u.s. point of view and that was the correct way of describing the incident and the correct way to assess what happened. >> what does this do in terms of having that accuracy in these conversations? obviously russia operates through propaganda and the people who likely need to be convinced or told the truth

won't have seen this? >> well, look, i'm not the military expert here. i'm a political reporter. but it's really important at this point in a war that's gone on for quite some time for the american people to feel confident that what they're hearing from the administration has real credibility to it, right? a whole lot of americans of a whole lot of generations that had the experience of seeing a war start on what seems to be a credible premises and over time you start to question is the government giving me the real story? i think a video like this is crucial to the president and other members of his administration being able to go to the american people and go to the world and say we are behaving responsibly. whatever you are hearing from rt, on the internet or whatever, don't take their word for it because we have the receipts. >> i want you to respond to this because there has been a new quinnipiac poll talking about

the way the administration has to continuously make the case, governor desantis has been scolded by members of his own party about the whole idea -- my earring just fell off. were they listening to me right now? i'm taking the other one off, too. i like to match. even though he did not match his only party -- see what i did there? the idea that the poll talks about how americans are almost evenly split on biden's ukraine response, does this transparency give more confidence to say, look, if the president is telling us this is what's happening, we should have more confidence than on the budgetary issues he's talking about in the level and tenure of aid. >> i don't know about that, laura. but this whole incident makes me feel that president biden should keep his focus on what matters, and that is us helping ukraine defeat russia.

and if that means we have to increase what we're doing right now for ukraine, that's got to be the focus and don't make a big deal out of this one incident. >> how do you see it? >> i think for those of us that are not military experts here, when i first heard about this, i thought about it saying a lot of people will hear these things. you clearly see the aggression from russia. you clearly see why you actually have to pick a side on what is happening between ukraine and russia. to the point we're talking about transparency and how this administration is handling supporting ukraine in contrast to how the previous administration was basically flirting with russia, right, it draws a line in the sand of are you actually here to not just protect our nation but ensure that world democracies continue to stand and we see who the aggressor is and we have the video evidence to prove it. >> i'm having some deja vu. we have heard statements and reporting about trying to recover downed drones or things

that are flying in the air and who is going to get it and the transmission of intelligence on it. clearly you see the analogy in terms of what we saw with the chinese spy balloon and other objects that are flying. is the failure of the u.s. to recover fully that drone impact our own national security? >> it could, but not probably as severely as most people think because what has happened, we developed our techniques. we know these incidents will happen. it is just a question of odds, really, and probabilities. but, you know, you look at various incidents that have happened in the past. ever since the incident with the chinese back in 2001 with the ep 3 which was a navy surveillance plane that was forced to land on an island in china based on a crash with a chinese aircraft where the pilot ended up dying, that incident resulted in a complete aircraft landing on

chinese soil. the chinese get a hold of all of that equipment. since that point in time, the u.s. made a concerted effort to make sure equipment, when it is attacked, when things fall out of sky that the equipment is zeroized, which means it cannot be accessed. that is what we think happened in this particular case. and if it did happen, then the intelligence value will be much less than it would otherwise be. so it is not the best situation in the world, obviously, but at least it is manageable from a national security stand point. >> really important. thank you all. thank you, colonel. an alabama school system is unveiling something new in the classroom. it's a bulletproof shelter. would you want this in your child's class? and it is a real question. why or why not? we'll talk about it after this.

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one alabama school system is taking action after school

shootings. its installed collapsible bulletproof safe systems in two classrooms for special needs students in an elementary school. there is a plan to install even more in the district. now, each safe room is designed to be opened and fully deployed as a shelter in as little as ten seconds and can hold up to 30 people. joining us to talk more about this sara fisher and alex burns and joe walsh. let me talk to you first about this, sara. the idea that this is happening right now, and we know, sadly, we don't have enough time in the show to cover the amount of mass shootings that have taken place even this year and school shootings even more tragic. when you think about this as a step, have people given up on the idea of prevention and now it is about trying to accept that it might actually happen? >> i don't think people have given up, but between now and the time where we come up with the solution, you have to protect the kids.

and so this becomes something that's viable. but the challenges, i was reading about these rooms today, they're $60,000 a piece. that's not something that's viable for every single classroom in every single school. how will you come up with solutions that are feasible? while this might seem like a good fit, there is no way a school in the country can afford this. >> given all the constraints already. but think about this. you know, you have been a congressman and certainly you have lived through and legislatively your fair of mass shooting as well. when you see something like this, combined with the fact that you have a lot of people in recent mass shootings have been the every day person to fight back because there is a thought sometimes that no one is coming or there is no time for someone to come save them, you know, when you hear about this, what goes through your find as a former legislator that this is where we are?

>> i think as a former legislator, i think this is a tool. this is reality. laura, i don't see it as, oh, we're giving up. we can't stop school shootings so we need a bunch of safe rooms. i think it is accepting reality. we should try to do everything we can do to minimize school shootings. but in the meantime, this is a tool because the bottom line is protect our children, period, however we can. >> and just a big note, again, this is featured in classrooms of special needs students, so that might have additional relevance in thinking about the kind of drills taking place, the preparedness. i have a fourth grader. i have a third grader. and my kids have been doing active shooter drills since they were in preschool really. as a parent, i look at this and say i'm sad this happened. i'm sad this has to be in a classroom. >> i shared with you all at the break that i was in school when columbine happened and i remember having to do active

shooter drills. the reality is, and i don't want to say people have given up, but it is a hard one sided fight. there is one party that is completely against us doing something about too many guns and too few, if any, restrictions on who can purchase an assault weapon. the other piece of this, too, is when you have state legislatures that actually want to pass comprehensive gun reform, we have a supreme court that unfortunately sided with the gun lobby last year against new york statie state, right? we continue to see kids, babies losing their lives and losing their innocence because they have to go to school wondering whether or not they will be a victim. parents you are mentioning the reality. yet, one political party just wants to put up thoughts and prayers, and the other one is literally climbing up a mountain trying to get people to understand we have to do something in this country about

guns. >> before you respond to this, i do want to note because a lot of the conversation has fallen along lines has talked about the kind of weapons we're talking about. this particular safe room can with stand up to a 0.308 caliber rifle. an ar-15 or 0.223 caliber. and the uvalde shooting, parkland, sandy hook, they used ar-10s. so it is constructed in some way to withstand to some degree that. what is your comment? >> look, as a political reporter, as a politician, as a political strategist, you cover or interact with a lot of issues that really cross national lines that nobody has figured out to solve. nobody has cracked the code on climate change or fuel krcrisisr economic inequality. this is an american problem you don't see around the world,

right? we're saying we should do everything to help the kids. you hate to see it but maybe it is necessary. it manifestly is not necessarily. they're not experiments with these safe rooms in buelgium. they're just not. >> that's the reality here. >> sure. but you could make the case that we decided as a nation that we want to have our kids in safe rooms rather than do something about guns. but we have obviously not tried everything at our disposal short of this. >> you know, sara, you made the point about the cost. and the idea, you know, during the pandemic, early in the pandemic when there were conversations about ventilators, there was discussions about medical ethics, like how do you decide who gets to have a limited fie nite resource. how do you go about deciding which classrooms get the benefit of this knowing that, although it is not manifestly necessary, it is here in many respects.

how are those decisions going to be made about who will qualify to be protected? >> you made a good point that special needs classrooms they're starting with first. so it makes sense that's where you would start. but if you zoom out into the cool district level, i imagine that's where it gets challenging, where you have to compete with other school districts for the funding. who will provide the funding? will it be by your congressional district or the state level? i'm not sure. but that will put schools pitted against each other to fight for those resources. that's a shame, right? schools shouldn't work to make this happen. but at this cost level, it's tough. i want to make one quick point on this. growing up, my mom would tell me about having duck and cover drills and having bomb shelters in her school. there is an eerie situation similar to this here. we have a new risk and a new threat. i never did a duck and cover drill growing up. it's sad this has always been the american reality but it's gotten worse with guns.

>> the budget piece, we know what districts are not going to get a lot of budgets to protect themselves, school districts in low-income areas, the ones overwhelmingly students of color, so we will see systemic inequity. >> you're right. this debate about guns, there will not be a solution next week. as long as there is not a solution next week, for a lot of the reasons you brought up, we have to do whatever we can to keep our kids safe. safe rooms or more security in schools, more armed security in schools, whatever. these should all be on the table to think about. >> can we just say on behalf of the teachers out there, this is another thing we're expecting of our nation's teachers, that they will be trained on how to deploy the safe rooms and keep the children safe. i drop my kids off at school every morning. i'll be honest, i have a silent prayer and a gratitude extension to the teachers because they're only supposed to be teaching my children. i'm asking them to save my heart's life.

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well, momentum against tiktok is brewing and the white house issues an ultimatum. spin off their share of the company or face a ban. everyone back with me now. our panel on these issues talking about it all. i mean, the idea here that the administration is demanding that tiktok's, you know, chinese owners spin off their share, tell me what's going on here in reality. >> so there is a committee for foreign investment in the u.s. that reviews all foreign investments and apps in u.s. companies. tiktok invested and acquired a u.s. company years ago.

it was tiny at the time. they put billions of dollars into paid markets in it and it blew up especially during the pandemic. the trump administration saw this amid rising tensions between that administration and china and thought we should ban this app. they tried to do it and force it to sell. they lost in court. then the biden administration came in and his committee for foreign investment took another look at it and they have been negotiating with tiktok to figure out what is a solution we can fix here so you can alleviate our national security concerns and exist in the u.s. what made this decision this week momentous was they signalled to tiktok, look, we don't think there is a solution. all the stuff you are promise to do, move back here, we don't think it is going to work. either you give up your chinese ownership stake or we will ban you. by the way, the reason it matters they have an ownership stake from china because it is required by law there that you have to give the government data.

that's the concern for u.s. regulators. >> on that point, there was a point about banning it on government devices. now it is talking about a government ban. is that a good idea in your mind? >> i think it is a bad idea. i really worry about the free speech first amendment connotations here. republicans -- the national security issues obviously need to be explored. but i wonder, republicans tend to overblow these national security issues. and it just seems like the targeting of ticking to seems to be egregious. i know there is a potential piece of legislation in the senate to more broadly go after any platform that may pose national security issues. i just think it is like china bashing. i don't mean to defend china. to target tiktok. >> i want to talk about this because you often hear about

this more broadly. we know the first amendment meant to stop the government from infringing on free speech. obviously a private company is not the government that's doing that. so those are conversations about, you know, cancel culture or censorship and are you content specific? when it comes to tiktok and a proposed ban by the government about an entity, there are questions if it's a broad enough ban, not content specific, not based on what you are going to say but you just can't use the app, it might not have the same implications of the first amendment. having said that, there is still the very real point that joe is making about what this signals politically to really, you know, join in on a lot of pressure to have this ban. what do you think about this politically? >> well, look, i think it is very, very clear if this administration is going to outright ban tiktok, they need to do a whole lot more explaining of everything sara said to the american public, which is pretty enthusiastic about using tiktok, right?

this is by no means an exact comparison. i don't want you to think i'm drawing a literal link here. but rolling back public use of a very popular consumer product in tobacco or e-cigarettes takes years or generations to explain to people who love using this consumer product we think it's bad for you and this is why and here is why we will make it harder or impossible for you to do that. we have not heard that communication from anybody in washington at this point. you hear members of congress talk about it. tiktok is bad or china is dangerous. but for the folks on the app and loving the app, how many hear that? >> we all know that i doubt most members of congress know all about tiktok. so it is not quite keeping pace in many ways with what the expectation is. the supreme court right now looking at section 230 still, the communications decency act, let alone what's happening with tiktok. >> some of these things are

super clear. the fact that u.s. data was being stored in china, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that's a problem. congress has enough information to make some decisions here. but i want to go back to your point about banning e-cigarettes. we are only banning one app that carries it. consumers have other options. they are reels on facebook. you are not banning a certain type of product. you are carrying one app that carries that. >> urbaning the product that the consumers have overwhelmingly chosen over the other options. there is a difference between banning controlled substances and banning one specific app. but i do think if you are going to tell people -- >> you need to make that case. >> why shouldn't the consumer be able to say i know my data is in china and i decided to take that risk. >> tiktok is the app and the platform that organized gen z,

it organized marginalized folks to deliver an outcome in the 2022 mid-terms that republicans were not happy with, right? >> president biden invited a number of tiktokers to the white house. to your point, there clearly must be a national security risk if president biden is saying this app we have been embracing, we are grateful for their self-organizing, if he is, you know, making a bet to say, hey, we need to have regulations here, that means it is a serious issue. but there is a political piece where republicans start this war because they don't win when tiktok is thriving because of who their base is. >> the conversation won't stop here, but it was about the length of a tiktok just now. get this. a 5,000-mile blob of seaweed is ready to land on florida. when, where and why. i'll tell you next. its' innovation, organic ingredients, and fermentation.

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