of trump s role in the january 6th insurrection. and a new flood emergency in california threatens millions of skorm battered residents as the east coast braces for a powerful storm packing heavy rain, strong winds and possible blizzard conditions. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, the biden administration is scrambling to respond to two of the biggest bank failures in history creating new peril for the economy and president and a lot of americans are worried right now. here s cnn s chief white house correspondent phil mattingly. the bottom line is this, americans can rest assured that our banks system is safe. reporter: president biden seeking to reassure a nation on edge. reporter: we put in place tough requirements on banks like silicon valley bank and signature bank. reporter: he also placed blame on his predecessor for contributing to this moment. unfortunately, the last
quote, had he sent the votes back to the legislatures they wouldn t have had a problem with january 6th so in many ways you can blame him for january 6th and, of course, as we have reported pence has said on numerous co-indications he did not have the legal authority to send those votes back to legislatures. thank you very much. let s get more, joining us cnn anchor and chief correspondent kaitlan collins and jeff zeleny. kaitlan, we heard mike pence sharpen his rebuke of donald trump, the former president is responding. what do you make of his argument in many ways you can blame mike pence? i don t think it s surprising at all. what i have been told trump is complaining about the positive president coverage pence got from making those remarks he did on saturday night saying he does believe history will eventually hold trump accountable for what happened on january 6th. obviously the roles that they
trump was actually at trump tower in new york city. you re seeingg a picture of him there. the former president announced the raid this evening callingsis his dark timeses for our nation as his home was being raided and quote, occupied by a large group of fbi agents. sean. is there any explanation as to why they didn t just try to cooperate t or get the president and his staff to cooperate and go through the boxes in a partnership and case maybe something inadvertently that was classified was put in thosew those boxes? because i doubt i bet a lot of money boxes? because i doubt i d bet a loton of money that donald trump didal not pack his own boxes. mike emanuel very scarce to tell. an interesting point you are making there. what we know is there thinking that some documents were made at marar a lago, but there are o indications that there was any kind of cooperation or outreach by the fbi to officials connected to the former president. and so we know the raid happened today. the for
0 the administrative state and i don t thinkve s it s going to sp here, will , i m afraid that they might try to indict trump with a rigged grandbe jury befoe the midterms. i think it ll be watching that . i appreciate you jumping on here at the end of the show.. i appreciate you watching me tonight. filling in for tucker carlson. going away. not obviously you ll have excellent coverage starting right now with sean hannity, keith olbermann and welcome to hannity. and tonight we start with a foxw newsit alert. eric trump will joinin us in a moment live. tas he was with his dad all day today. he ll give us an inside scoop first. a dark day for our republic, the department of justice, the rule of law, what looks to be potentially a shocking overreach. we ll find out innl time thaton will have serious ramifications potentiallys for many, many years to come. biden s politically charged have already chronicled all this. doj is now being i used as a weapon against biden s top political rival.