polls are giving us a closer look at the 2024 election. the gop nomination, former president donald trump growing his lead among republican primary voters jumping 7% since last month. while all other candidates saw slight decreases in support. that is staggering. these are brand-new. the choice among registered voters for president if they were voting now sees trump and hailly meeting in the potential matchup. voters saying the top two issues facing the country are the economy and border security. border security jumping 8 points over the last four months which have been filled with record breaking days at our southern border. rachel: the same polls are revealing nearly half of registered voters view the impeachment inquiry against president biden as, quote, legitimate. despite, that president biden s approval rating actually rose slightly compared to last month. so those polls which again are brand-new this morning tell quite a story. they tell a story of this election t
it is now highly lookly the united states won t be able to pay its bills by early june. also tonight, trump accuser e. jean carroll is seeking further damages from the former president for disparaging comments he made about her during a cnn town hall. and in ukraine after months of brutal fighting, it now appears bakhmut has finally fallen to russia, but ukrainian forces say they still hold a small portion of the totally ruined city. i ll get reaction from the former ukrainian defense minister. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story right now. the speaker mccarthy and president biden, they are diving into another round of debt limit negotiations as the treasury secretary issues her starkest warning yet, that default is now just a few days away. we re covering the story from every angle over at the white house up on capitol hill. let s begin over at the w
fargo, bank of america, jm morgan, morgan stanley lost $50 billion in market value in one day. that s a hit. on the other hand, those banks still exist. you can t say that for silicon valley bank. svb has gone under completely. that makes the second biggest bank failure in the history of this country. and the significant svb financed nearly half of all venture-backed healthcare companies in the united states. it held significant cash reserves for some of the biggest crip toe currencies. it s gone. federal regulators have rename it and taken it over. that means a lot of people lost a lotf of money. most of that money was not insured, no matter what they tell you. the fdic only guarantees bank deposits up to $250,000. nearly 90% of all deposits at svb exceeded that. and it s unclear if those people see their money again. in fact, when customers show up in svb s branch in manhattan to get the deposits back, managers called the police. so, what we have there is the 1929-style b
abbott doing, it s something else yeah. great show as always, have good weekend and thank you own for joining us tonight do you remember this moment? what s going to be differen about florida s election i 2022 what are you about to sign right now, i have what we think is the strongest electio integrity measures in th country. i m going to sign it right here, it will take effect. [applause] the bill is signed there you go, the bill is signed that was for that governor ron desantis says he signed states voter suppression o back in 2021 as you saw there, governor desantis did not sign that controversial law in a small private ceremony in his office or even a big public ceremon at the status. the governor decided that he would make a big to do of th voter suppression bill b signing it live on fox and france voter suppression bill signings are the type of stuff that fox puts on its morning shows, which is, okay for desantis, this is all part of his unapologeticall anti