declassified video shows the dangerous mid-air encounter with russian jets. i ll ask state department spokesperson ned price about this potential flashpoint in worsening relations with moscow. also tonight, a cnn exclusive. dozens of mar-a-lago staffers have been subpoenaed in the investigation of former president trump s handling of classified documents. stand by for details on why their testimony could be crucial. a vulnerable u.s. bank just secured a $30 billion rescue from a group of 11 big banks here in the u.s. this comes after treasury secretary janet yellen tried to reassure congress and the nation that america s banking system is sound. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this hour, pieces of a downed u.s. drone may now be in the hands of russia. two days after aggressive moves by kremlin warplanes over the black sea, critical moments of that encounter captured on video newly r
including countries like poland on the eastern flank, don t come under increased threat from russia. we re deeply appreciative of that. we make each of our own decisions based on what ukrainians need in the moment and as we see that battle evolving. that s what countries around the world are doing. what the pols announced today was a sovereign decision. the $32 billion with in assistance has been a sovereign decision on the part of the united states. we re providing our ukrainian partners with what they need for the battle they re facing right now, primarily in the east and for the coming counteroffensive that will likely start in the coming weeks as the ground starts to thaw, including in eastern ukraine. that s artillery, armored vehicles, ammunition, air defense systems. there are positions on the east where russian soldiers and ukrainian soldiers are basically at throwing distance. we re providing them with what
third, wolf, and this is very relevant, as we always do, we took prudent steps at the first indications that this drone could be going down to mitigate the intelligence value that anyone, friend or foe, would be able to derive should this system arrive into the wrong hands. if the russians are able to recover components of this, those components are likely to have very little intelligence value to them. what will be the impact of poland s decision to send fighter aircraft to ukraine on a u.s. decision to send fighter aircraft to ukraine? wolf, first of all, we re deeply appreciative of everything poland has done over the course of russia s brutal aggression to help our ukrainian partners. the polish know on an almost visceral level, by dent of history as well as recent events, that we have to stand up to this aggression, and they recognize that our ukrainian partners are in a sense fighting this war for all of us. they are defending democracy. they re defending the rules-based orde
thing that now we ll go up and start kinetic engagements with russian aircraft. what secretary austin said, we re going to put another drone back up there. this is enter national airspace. russia already reached the crash site. they ve been able to recover some debris from the wreckage. the u.s. downplayed the significance of the drone remnants saying there s probably nothing left of real value. we also learned from three officials familiar with the matter that after this collision, the incident between the u.s. drone and the russian fighters, the u.s. flew the same drone or type of drone in the same area, perhaps to surveil and look at what was happening around the crash site and what the russians were doing. at the same time the u.s. is now assessing drone operations over the black sea and reviewing the cost, the benefits and looking at this again as it looks at what other drone operations to conduct perhaps in the coming days, wolf. oren liebermann reporting from the pentagon, t
send fighter jets to the kyiv government, the first and only nato ally to make that commitment. cnn senior international correspondent ivan watson is joining us live from kharkiv in eastern ukraine. this is a significant move by poland to provide these fighter jets. walk us through the potential impact. and might other nato nations follow poland s lead? reporter: poland out in front here with the polish president saying four of these mig 29s will be handed over in a matter of days and suggesting there could be a dozen or more on the way after that. there s been discussion about this, but now these seem to be the most concrete steps towards handing them over. the white house has said that handing over f-16s is not in the cards right now, not on the table right now. the advantage here is that these