>> silicon valley bank is shuttering its doors, making its demise the second largest bank collapse in u.s. history. svb bank's downward spiral happened in 48 hours, sending shockwaves through the banking markets and leaving billions of dollars belonging to customers and invests stranded. welcome to fox news live, i'm griff jenkins.

>> trying to get cash out, prompting police blocking to the manhattan branch. nate foy joins us with the latest on this. hi, nate. >> hey, anita, this triggered the largest bank runs in u.s. history. withdrew $42 billion on thursday which worked out to over a million dollars every single second over a 10-hour period. a much more quiet day here than at the hone silicon valley branch in new york. as a dozen tech founders and ceo's showed up. they were turned away and the cops were called. take a look at the video. it happened after the shocking announcement of a $1.8 billion loss at the bank. depositors were turned away not only here, but also in california. the bank crumbled after a loss and they're known for the tech

sector leaving startups in crisis mode. take a listen. >> if you're a start-up, cash is king. the cash and the work flow to be able to have runway is critical. so access to the cash to now to be able to pay your employees, to cover the expenses you've got is the thing i'm mostly worried about. to make sure that we can do that. >> so, the fdic put out a statement, all insured depositors will have access no later than march 13th and advanced dividend in the next week. insurance limit is $250,000, but the bank's customers were largely corporations with a lot more money in the bank than $250,000. right now, the amount of deposits above the insurance limit is not known. for uninsured depositors, future dividends will be paid from the sale of whatever assets remain in the bank. back out here live, the 17 branches will reopen with

normal business hours on monday, but you mentioned, this is the second biggest bank failure in u.s. history. it's behind washington mutual which happened in 2008. we'll send it back to you. >> $42 billion in one day, that's a lot of money. nate foy live in new york city, thank you, nate. griff. griff: anita, president biden unveiling his $6.8 trillion budget proposal this week quickly met with fierce criticism for massive increase in new spending, in tax hikes. lucas tomlinson is live outside the white house with the latest. hey, lucas. >> griff, the wall street journal reports president biden's budget will add $17 trillion to the national debt, growing it by 50%. of course the debt has roughly doubled over the past decade. to pay for this the president wants to tax wealthy americans. >> anybody who thinks our present federal tax system is fair, raise your hand.

i'm not joking. people making $400,000 a year don't think it's fair. just begin to pay your fair share. >> now the republican-controlled congress says this bill and budget is dead on arrival. let me run through some of the things, says the president will increase taxes on americans making over $400,000, raising the tax rain 3.8 to 5%. of course it's going to add to the defense budget $842 billion that sounds like a lot of money, but you realize it's 3% increase over last year's defense budget and of course, with inflation, over 6%, that means that this is actually a cut to defense at a time when most people say the defense department needs to be spending more to counter china, and there's $26 billion from the border and $6 billion more for ukraine and grow the police force over 100,000. president biden the speech in philadelphia, third trip there since september says that maga republicans want to defund the police and adding 100,000

troops. late friday, reports circulated the white house wants to approve a measure to spend-- approve this $8 billion oil drilling project in alaska over objections from environmental group. the white house saying in a statement no final decisions have been made and anybody saying a final decision has been made is wrong. yesterday the white house said yesterday, griff, this is not a white house decision. >> this is led by the department of interior. they're the ones who make the decision. the secretary of interior, so i would point you for specifics or timelines or details on that to interior. >> that was a presidential candidate joe biden said he would never approve any drilling on any federal lands or any drilling period. griff. griff: well, that will be interesting to follow. quickly, lucas. now, it's important to note this is a proposal, a budget proposal. do we have anything in writing yet where some of this is headed? >> well, the defense department is going to come out with their budget monday. the budget, massive as you said

off the top. 8.6 trillion budget, but it's behind schedule and if things don't change soon, the republicans saying they don't support it, it could be headed for another one of the those budget government shutdowns and everybody stays late to see if they're funded at the last year's level especially with the defense department saying they need more money. griff: nobody is looking forward to that. lucas, thank you. >> well, for more on this, we're joined by republican congressman from tennessee and member of the house ways and means committee. congressman, great to have you here on the show this afternoon. i want to get to the president's budget in just a moment, first, let me get your thoughts on collapse of this bank, silicon valley bank, the 16th largest bank in the u.s. sending shock waves throughout the world. can you explain what happened. it sounds like invests are

going to get their money back. what happened and what does it mean for other banks around the country? >> yeah, thank you. thank you for having me on. well, a number of things. number one, poor management by the bank and bank executives. but i think what separates this failure from what we saw, what 13, 14 years ago in 2008, there are some really-- some unique and distinct issues as relates to the bank, certainly the tech companies and deposits and in silicon valley. so that separates that from the 2008 failures. you know, the fact of the matter is though, we've got to consider that the economy, this may be in part reflective on the general state of the economy which, i think, most people in my district do not think is rosy as the biden

administration portrays and we need to know where the regulators were and what they were concentrating on and why they failed to catch this before the events of the last several days. >> certainly a lot of questions there. but are you concerned that there could be a domino effect, that other banks could experience similar problems now? >> really, now, it does not look like a contagion situation again because the issues as relates to this bank are so unique and so distinct from what we saw in 2008. the fact of the matter is, that today generally banks across the country, larger banks and certainly community banks are much better capitalized than they were 15 years ago and that's a credit to the management of the financial institutions across the country, but again, poor management on behalf of svp. >> okay, we'll continue to watch this and see what happens there.

let's move over to the biden budget. the president's new $6.9 trillion budget proposal. a lot there. $2 trillion in new taxes. minimum tax on billionaires the white house says would cut deficits in decades. and speaker mccarthy says it's dead on arrival. what do you think. i've heard the term dead on arrival relates to this budget more times than can count. probably your viewers have as well. president biden knew when he introduced this budget it would not go anywhere in the house and senate. and i can't imagine that any democrat would want to take a yes vote on this budget because of the amount of money it spends and taxes it raises on everyday americans and on companies. i look at one part of that, the raising of taxes on corporations, you know, a few years ago, when we lowered

taxes with the tax cuts and jobs act on individuals and on corporations, at that time we lowered it to 21% for corporations, which made our companies competitive with the rest of the world. biden wants to take that and raise the rate to 28% which doesn't make our companies competitive around the world. that affects not only them, but it affects their employees and their ability to hire employees. so, when you look at where biden is, what he's proposed, and what we spend, i think that every american should be concerned and going back to something that you reported on just a few moments ago with the congressional budget office, you know, you look at our national debt today. we're over $31 trillion in national debt. the congressional budget office which is nonpartisan projects if we keep spending the way

that we're spending today in 10 years our national debt will be over $50 trillion, with a t. biden needs to get serious and he needs to come to the table and talk and negotiate with republicans and hopefully he'll do that soon with speaker mccarthy. >> we'll see, we're watching for that. in the meantime, you know, as i m mentioned a lot in this budget. lets he put on the screen the pet project you may want to call them in the budget. $3 billion for gender equity and equality around the world. advanced in environmental science. climate science, the list goes on. do you agree with any of these things, if not, specifically where do republicans suggest cutting the budget proposal. you've said things like social security is off the table, medicare, medicaid, can't touch those. some republicans want to increase defense spending as we just heard. where do you cut, how do you shave this down?

>> yeah, i think if you talk to people around the country, they wonder how they're going to buy groceries and how they put gas in their car and buy everyday things for their families and for their children, they look at some of these spending proposals and thing, are people in washington just nuts? do they not understand? do they not comprehend what we're dealing with? and that spending contributes massively to the inflation and frankly, just the non-the fact that they can't afford basic items. when you look at spending, one thing that republicans have talked about is, let's dial things back and maybe let's go back to the 2022 baseline and start from there. so, i think we can do that and have those discussions with the president and hopefully he'll listen and come to the table. one thing he's got to realize, it's not like the last two years when he had -- he and his

party the democrats have the white house, the senate and the house. we're in divided government today and can't spend massively like they did the past two years. >> got it, we'll follow and see what happens there. congressman david kustoff, thank you and see you again. >> thank you for having me on today. griff: from the other side of the aisle we're joined by democratic congresswoman from florida. and thank you for being here. i want to start with the news we led the show with though before we talk about the budget and get your reaction to the svb bank failure. >> well it's important we get as much information as we can. any failure, especially in banking is for the american people and we want to make sure we're protecting the americans who are involved. griff: and are you concerned, there's some viewpoints that this was isolated to this

silicon valley bank because of the start-up there, but do you have concerns that other banks could be next to fall and that we have a bigger problem than we realized? >> well, without proper information, i think there's always going to be a concern that this might not be localized and we have to do the d due diligence to make sure it's localized just to them and we'll address that issue. i haven't seen any information that it could be more widespread. griff: information that we've seen. the president's proposed budget out there $6.9 trillion and you heard your republican colleague saying before you, it is indeed dead on arrival. what is your take? >> well, i think it's a bold and compassionate step forward and actually necessary. if we look at the president's plan, the president's plan puts lots of money into housing especially for our most vulnerables, our seniors, and veterans and foster kids. when we take a closer look,

investing money especially when it comes to social security and ensuring that we build on what we've been building when it comes to jobs. and he's already created over 12 million jobs and we're looking at the lowest unemployment rates. in addition to that, if we look at what the other side was offering. the republicans bill would be dead on arrival, it would drive us into recession by 2024. the analysis is clear that the cuts they're trying to put forth would be over 25% and cuts coming from somewhere that would be devastating to the american people and actually drive us to 6% high unemployment rate and actually bring more money out of the communities and out of your pockets. so what the president is doing is tackling our pocket book issues such as lowering our electricity, lowering health care costs, our bills in our homes so every american can have peace of mind. griff: congressman, the thing about the budget. it's raising taxes on the wealthy by nearly 5 trillion

and so, you know, is this the correct way to go about this? i mean, the increase of the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%, you're in the house foreign affairs committee. china is undeniably our biggest existential threat and their corporate rate is 25%. are we sort of not looking at this in the most strategic way? >> no, i think this is the most strategic way because if we look at the history and talking billionaires and the corporate taxes that should have been paid that have not been paid. they're in arrears of paying their fair share. right now when they start paying their fair share, they start seeing the money that we allocate through chips and our inflation reduction act. all the moneys we've been putting into the community to make us more competitive especially when it comes to our chips and science and technology programs. that's what's going to put america first and allow america to thrive, but we have to do

what should have done years ago, making sure that billionaires are paying their fair share and corporations are also. their evasion of their taxes is what's led us to this situation and we have to address it now and ensure that the american people and the most vulnerable are taken care of especially-- >> there's a line in this town that's been around a long time. every billionaire is a policy failure. although i'm not sure going after unreallized capital gains is the way. thank you for taking time. >> thank you so much for having me. griff: and tomorrow, on fax news sunday, shanann bream will have exclusive interviews with republican louisiana senator and member of the senate budget committee john kennedy and president of finland, don't want to miss that at all. and her interview with state department correspondent benjamin hall, our friend, our colleague, an amazing story how he survived a devastating missile attack while covering

the war in ukraine. check our local listings for time and channel and media buzz, howie kurtz and all-star panel will do a deep dive into the twitter, and coverage of ron desantis and his counterpart. that's tomorrow. >> a couple of great shows to watch there. fallout after woke currensors rewrote children's books, goose bumps without r.l. stine's permission. supply fuel for immune cells and sustain tissue health. ensure with twenty-five vitamins and minerals, and ensure complete with thirty grams of protein. ♪ ♪

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>> florida governor ron desantis privately hinting he intends to run for president. that's accord to go "the washington post." his visit to iowa furthering speculation when he might announce his 2024 white house. hey, alex. >> he says he would not announce anything until a legislative session which ends in may. and more than a year ago for the decider.

nikki haley made stops in the state. it's the second visit to iowa for haley since kicking off her run for the white house. former president trump is scheduled to visit the state on monday. he's currently knee deep in his third street presidential bid and has cleared some jabs at deand desantis, even unannounced. and on brian kilmeade tonight at 8:00 the governor answered this question. >> are you worried about defined because you're a governor and not a candidate yet? >> when you have a record of achievement people can call you a name and that's not going to trump achievement. we've built an astounding record of achievement and the best is yet to come. >> the record of achievement. particularly the area of schools, to label desantis as an extremist. today, desantis promotes his memoir for the stop in nevada.

griff: alexandria hoff with the latest in washington. ane anita. popular children's segoosebumps has been edited for anything that may be considered offensive, ethnicity, and weight. and the author denies changing anything. he accuses the editor making changes without his permission. for more on this, the columnist for the daily signal. tony, great to see you this afternoon. i find it so curious that the author said he didn't have anything to do with it. at first it was reported he did. he said no, i didn't. but maybe the bigger question is, why the need for these changes. the books were written between 1992 and 1997. who was complaining about the language? >> well, that's just it. this isn't the first time that these books have been edited.

charlie and the chocolate factory. ian fleming's james bond series have been edited to be more inclusive. never specified by whom. progressives are more interested in changing popular literature that appease less than .3% of the reading population. it's quite novel. i didn't know there was any kind of a campaign to change this language like you said. a small part of the population may have been unhappy with the words. let's look at words changed. here you go. the new sanitized language. it was plump went to cheery girl stuff to not interesting. real nut to real wild one and phrases changed and get your reaction on the other side. so, this is from 1996. it says, all four people were very overweight, the first one a bald man in a bulging turtle neck sweater had at least six

chins. the new version says all four people were huge, the first one a bald man in a bulging turtle neck sweater had to be at least 6 foot 6. that's are not big changes, but what exactly is the point here that you see? >> well, it looks like originally that the point was just to point out that there are abnormalities that characterize a book in the case that you just listed. there was something happening to these individuals that made them all very large and overweight, very fat, almost giving to the reader the idea that they might eat you. which is, again, a common theme in goosebumps, but the idea that they grew taller doesn't fit the story. it's amazing that we're tearing apart what dozens, hundreds of thousands of kids have enjoyed in goosebumps to change the word from crazy to silly. i'm not sure who we're sticking up for here. i'm not sure what language we're making more interesting.

apparently girl stuff means uninteresting and that's wild to hear. my wife loves the goosebumps series, she'll be shocked to hear that. anita: that's almost offensive to girls in a way. i think that's probably not their point probably. let's go on. this was edited for race. example from 1996 where a phrase describing someone said tall and good looking with dark brown eyes and had a great warm smile. lee is african-american and he is he sort of struts when he walks and acts real cool like the rappers on mtv. the new version, tall and good looking with brown skin, dark brown eyes and a great warm smile sort of struts when he walks and acts real cool. he left out the part that lee was african-american and left out the preference to being a rapper on mvt. mtv. what's that one. >> i would hate to be a children trying to get a picture of who is in the books

and not get the picture painted. one of the skills of an author, creating an image you can almost see in your mind's eye and as people see, different skin pigments. maybe it's more effective to complete a picture than terrified that there's a black individual who likes raps. i don't sawn why basic wants and desires and skin color are out of bounds. to say that the man has a pigment in his skin, apparently so, i guess we're whitewashing books now. anita: it seems to leave out some of the vision that the author is trying it stay. let's look at the response from scholastic which reviewed the text. they said scholastic reviewed the text to keep the language current and avoid imagery that could negatively have a

person's view today. the redaction of these words that we showed you, are they sparing someone from a mental health issue? >> no. and it's incredibly hypocritical for scholastic to make a statements like that. scholastic has never once edited a book to appease religious audiences, or parents for explicit context or any crowd other than progressives than have nothing to do than articles and they don't include the favorite words they made up this week. some progressive teacher they're hoping will buy a lot of their books, i suppose. anita: it's certainly put more attention on these books and i'm sure they'll sell more of them. tone kinnett. thanks for coming in and your thoughts. we appreciate it. griff: anita, four astronauts are making their way back to

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>> the fbi investigating the disappearance of three women who went missing after crossing into mexico just days after the bodies of two americans who were kidnapped and killed in mexico were returned to the u.s. bill melugin is live in

penitas, texas. what's the latest. >> the latest two texas women from here in penitas, as well as their friend, are all missing after they crossed into mexico two weeks ago to sell clothing at a flea market. let's take a look at their pictures here. these are 47-year-old maritza perez rios, 48-year-old marina perez rios, and friend, dora alicia cervantes. all three have not been seen or heard from since february. the families have contacted them and highly concerned that the women have potentially been kidnapped in mexico. penitas police say they've contacted the fbi and fbi say they're aware of the incident, but are not commenting at this

time and the police department tells fox that the women were last seen driving in a green 1996, chevy silverado with texas plates and talk exactly where they were going if we can pull up the map. they were here in penitas west of mcallen area and crossed somewhere in the rio grande valley and they were headed to montemorelos, mexico, through hours south of the u.s. border and again, they were going to to reportedly sell clothing at a flea market. we're told that mexican authorities are taking lead on the case and the fbi is involved on the u.s. side and the state department confirms they are aware that these three women are missing. we do not know, however, if they are u.s. residents or u.s. citizens. we're still waiting for confirmation on that. and back out here live because this is happening one week, welsh the reports of this coming out one week after those

four americans were kidnapped and two of them killed in mat ma matamoros. they say cartels are too emboldened and it's too dangerous, pouring cold water on that. griff: and bill and i have been talking a little bit. so people understand the area where three women went is certainly in a dangerous cartel area. if you can sort of explain t that. >> yeah, it is, again, it's three -- about three hours away from the u.s. border and once you get into the interior areas of mexico, look, there are different cartels fighting

different turf wars in different areas, one area that would be the gulf cartel run into areas cj and g. new generation jalisco and other cartels. pretty much where you go, you'll cross into different cartel turf areas and once that happens, you're opening yourself up to risk. what happened with the four americans in ma ttamoros, the gulf cartel was in a bunch of different factions and we saw the results. unfortunately the women haven't been seen or heard from in two weeks and it's highly concerning. there doesn't found like any notes of ransom or kidnapping. they went into mexico and gone dark and obviously, the family is highly concerned about that. so now u.s. authorities are working with mexican authorities trying to figure out what happened here, back to you.

griff: such great insight, bill. the complexity of the multiple cartels and dangers associated with that. bill melugin live for us in penitas. thank you. >> thanks. griff: former arkansas governor and past de. an administrator asa hutchinson will share his thoughts on the crisis on the southern border. stay tuned for that. . anita: well, the house of representatives voting unanimously to approve a bill aimed at declassifying intelligence on the origins of covid-19, but president biden says he has yet to make a decision whether he'll sign it. charles watson is live with the details on this. hi, charles. >> yeah, hey, good afternoon, anita. that vote in the house was a sweeping show of bipartisanship with 419yeas, declassifying information to sorry nays.

clearest message yet from both republicans and democrats that americans have very serious questions about the origin of covid-19 and how to prevent another deadly virus from spreading in the future. >> whatever is ultimately declassified, i would hope that my colleagues and the american people would approach that information with the humility, the intellectual humility that we need to approach something as serious as a pandemic. >> if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. folks, this screams like a duck. >> so what this bill does, it requires the director of national intelligence to declassify any and all information related to the origins of covid-19. it is certainly a different posture for democrats who in 2019 refused to even allow this bill, which is sponsored by republican senator josh hawley, to make it to the floor. now it's on its way to president biden's desk, but at

this point the president hasn't given any indication if he plans on signing it. take a listen to what he had to say late friday night when he was asked about it. >> will you sign the bill to declassify the covid intelligence? >> mr. president. >> yeah, and the president keeping it simple on that, this whole back and forth about the origin of covid-19 has really been a contentious point between u.s. intelligence agents at odds whether the leak -- it came from a leak from a lab in wuhan or animals. and told lawmakers dr. fauci denied him conversations with the origins, because he sides. >> i didn't put him on or take him off. it's disturbing in a public

hearing after congressional hearing he makes accusetory statement that has no basis in reality. >> if the president does sign the bill, they will have 90 days to release. anita: as you note the sentiment in congress has come long way from the topic from a few years ago. charles watson live for us, thank you so much, charles. >> anita inside the ferocious fighting in the eastern ukrai ukrainian city ba h is paying off with drivewise. bo-ring. get drivewise from allstate and save for avoiding mayhem like me. how do i do it all? with a little help. and to support my family's immune health,

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>> and welcome back. the u.k. ministry of defense saying the russian gains in the front line city of bakhmut has created a killing zone in its center.

ukrainian forces are continuing to hold the west advance on both sides. steve harrigan has the latest from kyiv. hi, steve. >> anita, this is a brutal battle that's been going on seven months of basic artillery fire from both sides. on the side of the russians, they say they now control the eastern part of the city ofback bakhmut. and what they're calling the killing zone. the number of killed on both sides. ukraine is forced to deal with the challenge of trying to rehabilitate thousands of wounded soldiers. it's not unusual to see 59-year-old soldiers in ukraine or 59-year-old soldiers wounded by shrapnel in the back, trying to rehab in order to return to the front line. constantine said the hardest part was the start of the war when he was unable to protect his home and family. >> now i've got to get back as

fast as possible and drive those people across the border. >> marta sees the scars of war every day. >> the most positive thing about this job is to help someone function again so they can be independent. >> because this is largely an artillery war, most of the wounds that they see are severe or catastrophic. back to you. anita: amazing to hear from the people on the ground there. steve harrigan live in kyiv. thank you, steve, and stay safe. griff. griff: russian missiles have been raining over ukraine in all of the cities. former u.s. ambassador to ukraine will join us, he just got back from kyiv. that's next. ♪ inner voice (kombucha brewer): if i just stare at these payroll forms... my business' payroll taxes will calculate themselves. right? uhh...nope. intuit quickbooks helps you manage your payroll taxes, cheers! with 100% accurate tax calculations guaranteed. why are 93% of sleep number sleepers very satisfied with their bed?

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>> the ukrainian city of bakhmut is under siege right here in the eastern donbas area. russians on the east. ukrainian forces on the west. joining us in studio, john h herbst former u.n. ambassador to ukraine, and atlanta council. you just got back from kyiv. i want to talk to you about that. obviously, much being made

about the fight in bakhmut. what does it matter? >> russia lost a lot of land when the siege began last fall. putin recognized this and needs a victory. so they have settled on bakhmut which you point out is right around there. and they have made very, very slow and painful progress towards that city. putin set a deadline of capturing the middle of december and three months later, they still haven't taken it. so the russians want to take that and claim that as a victory, but what has happened, they've lost many thousands of troops there and ukrainian generals recently said that they're taking one casualty to seven russian casualties so they see this as a place to chew up the russian army. griff: you know, i want to go to this map, and our producer did a great job pulling this. shows the last 48 hours, russian missiles have been raining down on all of ukraine,

is this showing an increase in the offensive? >> the russians have failed pretty badly on the battlefield so the way they have responded, besides that not quite effe effective offensive at bakhmut to go after the ukrainian infrastructure. and in winter they've failed at that. 84 missiles from dispatched. griff: it's incredible. eastern donbas and all the way back to the west. >> it's a mistaken effort to terrorize the ukrainian people and makes more effort. griff: on this, this is bakhmut. there are reports that literally every building has been damaged in some way there and they're fighting, really, on a river that runs north to

south through that town. what insight can you give us on where this battle is headed? >> well, we've seen predictions now for about four or five weeks that bakhmut is about to fall. it hasn't. i'm not telling you, therefore, it's not going to fall, it may. but if it does after murray severe fighting and more russian casualties and give a small victory putin has been talking about and open up roads, areas which moscow captured early in the war in 2014 and then lost to the ukrainians. griff: if we take a look just at our last map here, you can see on this one and obviously, this is the area where so much fighting is going on, but if they were to get ukraine, we were to give ukraine the f-16s and some stronger range missiles, would that change the outcome of what's happening now? >> the biden administration

policy has been overly cautious, even timid. if we gave ukraine f-16s in a timely fashion, more tanks in a timely fashion and most importantly, longer range missiles with a range of 300 kilometers, the expected ukrainian counter offensive could take place in the south and the ukrainians could have this area here roughly and cut the land bridge connecting russia through russian occupied donbas through crimea and force the forces here to retreat to crimea and a huge logistical problem know the just to supply them in crimea. griff: ambassador, thank you for being here. very insightful. coming up. how silicon valley's bank collapse could affect yours at the top of the hour. stay with us. supply fuel for immune cells and sustain tissue health.

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