putin should he step outside russia and now apparently china. speaking of china, what to make of its peace efforts in ukraine? the white house saying not much. some republicans on capitol hill are saying not much more. but they re talking about the billions of dollars we ve been forking over to ukraine and many have had enough. you name it, we are on it. with mike tobin and kyiv on what ukrainians are saying about this and aishah hasnie on capitol hill on the fight over the cost of all of this. welcome, everybody. glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it in kyiv, ukraine with reaction to the fast-moving developments and mike tobin. mike? well, neil, day two of xi s visit to moscow is pledging strategic support between russia and china. new public comments have stopped short of china saying that they will supply russia with weapons. the very visual of the chinese president showing up in moscow is a visual that creates the notion that china is breaking down russia s
now, there are reports that there s a number of banks in trouble. but of the thousands that exist in this country, those are things that can be handled on a case by case basis. what you see now is what you might call creeping nationalization, creeping socialingism where more and more banks come up the purview of the government. you saw with signature banks. one of the reasons they closed that, they didn t like its exposure to bitcoin and the whole world of cryptocurrencies. that was a political decision, not a economic decision. so i think it s a way overreaction. they can do it case by case. that s what the they re there for. they can deal with particular problems like they re trying to do now with first republic. you know, i m wondering what you think of this notion, so many advance we have a lot of great regional banks. we don t need thousands of them. you and i talked about when a lot of s&ls went under or merged, are we looking at