good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, march 15th. thank you for waking up with us. here are five things to know this morning there are new tensions between the u.s. and russia over the downing of a u.s. surveillance drone. they clipped the drone over the black sea forcing it to crash. russia denies the accusation claiming the drone fell on us own. yeah. and another day of jitters over the fate of america s banking system seem to be easing slightly. stocks of some regional banks bouncing back after suffering declines. fallout is far from over. doj and scc investigating the collapse of silicon valley bank. also this morning high stakes case over abortion pills set to get its day in court. a federal judge in amarillo, texas, will hear arguments over a lawsuit that could disrupt access to the pills nationwide. protests are planned outside the courthouse. also the faa is convening a rare safety summit after seven close calls at airports. the faa says the flight cros
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Revealed that a senior u. S. Diplomat has been having conversation with north korean counter parts, another sign that the Trump Administration is quietly trying to calm this down. Joining us now, john bolton. Good evening, ambassador. Seems like weve never been closer to it Nuclear Brink than we are now. Is that a correct statement . Were at a crisis point because of the advances that north korea has made in the last eight years, so donald trump inherits 25 years of a failed policy of Negotiating North Korea out of these programs and his options are few and not very good. What is interesting is the
regime and the threat of Nuclear Terrorism against our country. Without looking backward for too long, do you see the way that some of the administrations, particularly the Clinton Administration, giving money to north korea, and then the parallel of the Obama Administration giving money to iran, do you see that the appeasement that seems to be going on is only to our detriment and its time
banks and investment they parked their assets in are, you know, under value right now. we should be prepared for more strain in the system. if there are failures, what i m hearing, is that they will be contained. they bring since these bank that s have failed and we ll be watching closely for other weaknesses in the system. right now, things stabilized. a lot has been we ve been talking about the social media aspect of this, the psychology, information aspect. you remember washington mutual in 2008, poppy and i were talking in the break. it took ten days toin 2008 for them. 24 hours for silicon valley bank. is there an internet effect? absolutely. this was a social media run on this bank. it was a run on the bank. if you look at the biggest failures, washington mute ual i at the top. if you look at the with draws in, 2008, washington mutual, it was $10.7 billion withdrawn over
competent at and i agree with what rick says, we ve got a rea perception gap to overcome here because president obama is so enough the size of the world an so many to our enemies and giving billions of dollars to other countries and now when president trump comes and says what he means, it is like a stark difference out there and people are waking up. it takes them a little bit of time to say does an american president really mean what he says and i believe that president trump is using the information aspect of national power in a very effective way. he is saying something that is very clear did you have secretary tillerson saying something different matter but supporting what president trump says and secretary mattis is saying something that is very direct but supporting what president trump says. so all of that is aimed at supporting the military and flexible turn options that we have. there s un sanctions that are part of diplomatic power and economic power with the economi sanctio