it s 10:00 a.m i m lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york we re following a lot of breaking news on this busy monday morning, including president biden assuring the country our financial system is safe amid heightened fears of a banking crisis after the collapse of both silicon valley bank and new york-based signature bank americans can rest assured that our banking system is safe. your deposits are safe let me also assure you we will not stop at this we ll do whatever is needed. the government is taking extraordinary new steps to ensure customers will have full access to their money, a major move by the treasury and the federal reserve to shore up the banking system and prevent the panic from spreading to other banks. plus, a promise no losses will be shouldered by taxpayers and officials will hold the people responsible fully accountable. more on this in moments and what you need to know about your money. plus, no-show. donald trump s lawyers say he wi
minute since we had seen that as well. a lot to entertain us in washington. gillian turner in for sandra smith. tensions on the rise now as we fast approach a year of war in ukraine. stand strong. ukraine will never be a victory for russia, never. attack against one is attack against all. john: president biden blasting russian president vladimir putin for his assault on ukraine, but issue was left out of the speech. gillian: the president did not address putin s major nuclear warning to the west out this week, russia is suspending the nuclear arms control with the united states, opening the lid for potential weapons expansion. john: all of this as russian is looking to get a boost from communist china. xi jinping plans to visit moscow in the coming months. beijing wants to play the role of peacemaker. some skeptics wonder if xi might have another agenda and if biden will do anything to stop him. tiktok is here, the ford chinese battery plant is coming, farmland is
congresswoman ilhan omar about that as well as how she became target for house republicans and kevin mccarthy we are also keeping an eye o the breaking news in californi where there is major floodin in a weekend of extrem weather. new travel warnings from mexic after the disappearance of three women. plus this. drag queens are the marines of the queer movement. don t get it twisted and don t be distracted. register to vote so we can get these stunned queens out o office and put some smar people with real solutions int government rupaul ready for battle t fight back against the war o drag shows and trans americans across the country i will speak to former recal drag show contestant peppermin about all of that later on thi hour we start though with forme vice president mike pence. finally coming out of his shel a bit. and taking on the president he once served over january 6th which is something other potential gop rivals have ye done thus far. want to get right to nbc s ju
of a football season with a military deployment. he address that at his press conference. earlier this week i made a statement about playing football and the military. it was a very poor choice of words. and i want to express that to any sentiments out there that people may have taken it in a certain way. so i apologize. didn t elaborate further than that. said he knows the difference between the two. smart to apologize. great to see you, carolin. new day continues right now. 19 days until the midterms i m john berman with brianna keilar. some democrats have been keeping their campaign distance from president biden but he traveled to battleground pennsylvania, touting his infrastructure law and raising money for democratic candidate john fetterman. fetterman is neck and neck with mehmet oz in a race that could determine control of the u.s. senate. today he ll be in delaware talking about the student loan relief program. another hotly contested senate race is in ge
of an official event to tout a legislative accomplishment. sitting in the front row behind me was lieutenant governor john fetterman. he is of course going to be participating in another event separately with the president later in philadelphia. now, there have been a lot of questions about the president and how he has been spending his time leading up to the midterms and the fact that as you pointed out, victor, he hasn t been doing a lot of sort of rallies and separate events with some of the most vulnerable democrats, but we are seeing how the white house has been making sort of the best political use, they think, of the president. that is to talk about these kinds of legislative accomplishments and to really sort of set the tone for what he believes the democrats have been able to achieve, and the other important piece of this is of course raising money. they think he has been good at that, that has certainly been very helpful for the party. all right, mj lee, traveling