with president biden and putin today bolstering their respective alliances with nato and china. their pitches come just days before the first anniversary of moscow s invasion of ukraine. global tensions between the superpowers highlighted on a day of diplomacy in both warsaw and moscow. acidity many times, i ll say it again it s absolutely clear. article five is a secret commitment the united states has made. we will defend every inch of nato. meantime, as trace pointed out, with respect to joe biden s 2024 presidential campaign prospects, typically the question has been, should he or shouldn t he run again? however, now, increasingly democrats are wrestling with a very different and indeed pressing question. it will he or won t he? tonight, politico reporting that democrats are quietly preparing for the possibility that the 80-year-old simply won t be up for the task. and the longer he waits to officially declare his intentions you guessed it, a growing number of would
kev kev quite a date here in the nation s capitol. good evening, trace. breaking tonight, investors in silicon valley bank have already taken legal action to recoup their losses after, of course, the bank collapsed on friday despite the class-action lawsuit and a volatile day on wall street. as you pointed out, the president wants americans to believe our financial institutions are, in fact, secure, while also being careful to not use the banking b word. bail out. no losses will be born by the taxpayers. instead, the money will come from the fees that banks pay into the deposit insurance fund. reporter: while the fdic insures bank deposits to a quarter of a million dollars, nine of 10 depositors of xeb had more than that amount in the bank. still, the administration says they ll be covered. nothing to worry about. that also includes customers of new york-based signature bank which also collapsed over the weekend. the third largest bank failure in american history. signatu
interior shows that as you point out the point out the biden administration actually moved forward increasing royalty fees on fossil fuel drilling of the alaskan coach that is despite their own assessment that lower fees would increase energy security for the state. the decision made by former bureau of energy management director amanda lefton and back by assistant secretary laura daniel davis. now, for her part, she said it would attract more bids and be more likely to facilitate expeditious and orderly development of offshore resources adding that the higher rate quote constitutes the most reasonable balancing of environmental and economic factors for the american public. it was switched on capitol hill but democrats senator joe manchin saying he is appalled and that the leaked memo makes it crystal clear that this administration is literally putting their radical climate agenda ahead of the need for people of alaska and the united states. and well, over at the white house,
good evening, teresa. all five of the former officers facing charges of aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, official oppression, in addition to, as you point out, second-degree murder charges. [listing names of officers] all fired last week for use of force, and excessive use of force, and for failing to intervene and failing to render aid to nichols, the departments that had been pulled over for suspected reckless driving. he died in the hospital just three days after he was pulled over back on january 7th. police say there was an initial stop, and then pepper spray was deployed, a foot chase, then another altercation. the tennessee bureau of investigation head, david rauch, whose department is leading the ongoing investigation is the officers conduct, said, i ve seen the video. you will, too. in a word, it s absolutely appalling. the actions of these officers were awful, and no one, including law enforcement, is above the law. i assure you
75 witnesses, 800 photographs and exhibits but yet as you mentioned the jury needed less than three hours to reach its vertex. the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant indictment for murder guilty, guilty, indictment for possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, guilty, guilty. reporter: alex murdaugh was immediately handcuffed and led from the court. no obvious signs of emotion on his face. as he contemplated the reality that the jury simply did not buy his excuses for the initially lying to the police about his whereabouts and movements on the night is why and youngest son were shot to death. murdaugh was portrayed as a serial liar by the prosecution who painstakingly went through murdaugh s long history of stealing millions of dollars from his law partners and from his clients and the attorney said if marc spent so much of his life telling lies, the jury should conclude he was lying again now. and to emphasize that point, they showed