bret: breaking tonight the effort to avoid a disaster involving commercial airlines. there have been several very close calls lately we told you about them yesterday. today the held a safety summit to come up with solutions. mark meredith leads us off from reagan national airport. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. the top aviation the skies are safe. after a number of near misses and close calls, including one at this airport just last week, the government is also examining if more can be to avoid potential disasters. we have seen an uptick in serious close calls that we must address. transportation secretary pete buttigieg kicked off today s aviation safety summit with a warning. more mistakes than usual are happening across the system, on runways, at gates when planes are pushing back, in control towers and on flight decks. the government says it s investigating six runway incursions this year alone, including one at washington s reagan airport 8
5,000 feet of water. very difficult to recover. anything of value on that drone probably has been destroyed. bret: mike tobin live in kyiv, thank you. president biden is on his way back to washington right now. he concluded his western swing a short time ago. talking to an audience in las vegas about prescription drug costs and entitlements. but the growing concerns over the banking industry are a major focus behind the scenes. today, one of europe s top banks saw a dramatic fall in his stock price. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is at the white house with the latest on the north lawn. good evening, jackie. good evening to you, bret. the president painted maga republicans as a threat to healthcare access while defending his budget proposal. but the market sell off prompted by bank collapse fears drew attention to past spending. critics calling it part of the cause for higher interest rates. look, you pay for social security from the time you got your first check when y
eliminate. is that something you support? i would have to give that one some more thought. maybe we should actually say if you are so worried about the words that we are using you shouldn t be flying, you know, multi ton metal engines through the sky. bret: that s one example. they are talking about cockpit and airmen and wife and. you know, look, there seems to be trend uptick in recent criticisms coming from the political right in america that all fall into a certain category whether it s talking about banks, whether it s talking about institutions, whether it s talking about our transportation systems the overall argument is that we are spending too much time focused on the wrong thing. we need to be focused on the functionality of these institutions than delivering on their promise to the american people and not distracted by an agenda that frankly has a lot more to do with politics and with the debate about a lot of different social movements in america than they do on get
connell mcshane joins us from new york. we have seen concerns about regional banks in the united states migrating over to europe. and those concerns certainly hit credit suisse today which is more than double the size of silicon valley bank. in fact, it s the second largest swiss bank right behind u.b.s. the stock price declined ever than it had before with multiple reports suggesting the swiss government is holding talks on way to stabilize it. might even provide little at this if needed. the saudi national bank shareholder said it would not be increasing stake beyond 10% mostly because of concerns about regulation. that comment enough not only to send the credit suisse stock tumbling but earlier in the day the global stock market as well the motions take over everyone says they re a good long term investor until the market goes down. can i get out? do i have to pull me money out? emotions take over. this is about confidence.