this way of life. as guests in this remarkable city, so must we. if an air raid siren goes off during the show, when it went off last night and hours ago, we will need to leave this location and go somewhere more secure. now, if that does happen, my friend and colleague, alex witt, is standing by in new york to pick up coverage until i m all set and safe to rejoin you. while a raid sirens don t always mean that there is an imminent threat in the area, these are precautionary measures that we are going to abide by, particularly during the week when everyone here has been on high alert. there s been a concern that russia would mark the first anniversary of the war with an attack that would likely have targeted kyiv. but the skies around the city have actually been eerily quiet. the anniversary came and went without any major new offensives or acts of aggression by russia. fighting, however, continues in the eastern and southern parts of this country, like in and around the city
joins us live. and the race to 2024 officially heating up, the first challenger to donald trump for the republican nomination. his one-time ally turned opponent. what nikki haley is saying about pushing back on belize, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good valentines evening, i m stephanie ruhle. we may be on the verge of several major legal battles involving the justice department. donald trump, and his former vp mike pence. a source tells nbc news that the former vp plans to challenge a subpoena from special counsel, jack smith. smith wants pence to testify under oath in the investigation in trump s role in the january 6th riot. pence was the focus of a major pressure campaign by trump himself to block biden s victory. pence had to certify those electoral resorts before a joint session of congress, you know when, january 6th. the votes for president of the united states are as follows, joseph r. biden junior of the state of delaware has received 306 v
hi, nicole, thanks a lot. special counsel jack smith is calling mike pence s bluff, in their view, and trying to force him under oath in a grand jury. more on that later. plus, the top investigator for the january 6th committee is speaking out on that big new york times story that was making waves. you might have seen it. he s here. he make his beat debut later in the hour. top story now is how republicans are using their power in the house. we saw kevin mccarthy clash with those hardliners, and during those clashes when he had to get all the votes on the house floor, he promised all kinds of concessions, including promoting what was then his most ardent foe to a committee to look into fbi investigations and attacking the fbi and doj. and that itself is a shift in washington s power dynamics. this is a story i m about to tell you. for decades, members in both parties lobbied to get on committees like appropriations, controlling money. some sought prestigious assignmen
he s in brussels at the nato defense minister s meeting. we ll get that on air momentarily. the white house saying there s no u.s. surveillance aircraft in chinese airspace. some careful wording perhaps in that statement from john kirby at the white house despite china s insistence that we have been doing surveillance in their airspace. they said there s been ten balloons in their airspace. that idea was vehemently denied by admiral kirby just moments ago from the white house. despite the fact, remember this navy video. there s this discussion about extra terrestrials, what are these things. i ll take you back to this video that was released in april of 2020. what is that little white floating thing that they called a tic tac at that time. now we go back to these videos. raises a lot of questions about what is up there, what is out there. they see no evidence that these aerial objects are alien or extra terrestrial bodies. meanwhile, communications with china have gone cold f
west and winter storms out east. and now, rite aid and how the drugstore is being accused of fueling the opioid epidemic. this is what we are watchingt that hour. thank you for being here, i m kate bolduan, and we are beginning with the turmoil, the fallout, and the wild ride that has already been this week since the abrupt collapse of silicon valley bank. and the federal reserve is looking at the oversight of the bank and what went wrong and who missed what. the regional banks are bounce back after confidence of the institutions were shaken yesterday. this is how the stocks are performing right now. that is not all that is shaking up the economic picture this morning. we got the latest read of inflation. the government reporting that inflation fell for the eighth straight month in february. matt egan and john solomon joining us u no. matt egan to you, what are we seeing? we are seeing that the pressure is easing here, and the fact that the regional bank shares fell, an