a prosecutor can t june unilaterally but you have a jury of your peers decide whether you re guilty or innocent and innocent until proven guilty. let s move on now to the banking crisis fallout this week. because the biden administration, you know, assuring that it will guarantee these depositors these customers silicon valley bank. however, also adding that a special assess element hit these banks prompting missouri senator republican josh hawley to tweet, quote, what s basically happened with these special assessments to cover svb is the biden administration is found a way to make taxpayers pay for a bailout without taking a vote on it. brad you first. look i think the biden administration is in a tough spot in a way we have to protect these accounts because you ve got to prevent a cascading effect of a bank failure which could as question saw in 2008 create a massive recession
leader stewart rhodes telling leaders to get ready to fight for then president trump in the streets of washington. that reporting while sent to the fbi at the time was ignored. the fbi agent testified that it wasn t until the recording was resent by the tipster once again in march 2021 that the agent in question saw the message. on the november call, according to court records, rhodes told more than 100 people this. we ve got to be in d.c. you ve got to make sure that trump knows that you are willing to die to fight for this country. meanwhile, president biden has authorized an additional $625 million security assistance package to ukraine. white house press secretary careen jean piece rare yesterday detailed this latest round of funding. the base package includes four high mars, 32 howitzers, 32 mine resistant vehicles and
kind of a military move into syria, the u.s. is not going to get involved, not going to be in the middle of it. president trump is receiving a lot of pushback including from members of his own party, close allies who are saying this is abandoning the kurdss, the syrian democratic forces the u.s. has been fighting next to for several years. they have been an effective partner and ally providing u.s. military security on the ground in syria during much of that time. but the reality is the administration has made it clear they re not going to go to war with turkey. if, in fact, there s some incursion if there s any military action by turkey, the u.s. won t stand with the syrian democratic forces. that s what we saw here. question saw president trump implement the beginning of that. that if, in fact, they move in, the u.s. is preparing. they have moved their troops away from the border. it s important to point out, i spoke with the general yesterday by phone, the commander of all syrian
50-year-old man turned around and attempted to, he was afraid this man was going to stab him, as you hear from the district attorney, himself, as he describes the facts here that were reviewed and why he reached a decision not to prosecute the officer who fired those shots. he contractor he escaped the officers heard, i m going to cut you, i m going to stab you t. officer who question saw what he believed to be a knife. we should add there was a knife that was found there at the scene. that knife is the one investigators say the officer actually saw when he decided to fire those shots. but again at this point, the decision not to prosecute as a result, we are seeing some of these protests that could potentially happen in salt lake city, utah. we will watch those for you. thank you for reporting paolo. we ll be right back. we got you covered.
curt cousins is the most popular guy. if you step in and all of a sudden you re the starter, in cousins case question saw what happened there, he struggled. i would be wary. i think biden s best day pollingwise might be the first day he gets into the raise and see the slide that hillary has seen, which starts off popular and just fades and fades and fades as people see more and more political. chris cillizza, thank you so much. molly ball, take care. ten years ago today hurricane katrina was bearing down on the gulf course. coming up, we ll talk to the man who came in to clean up the government s botched response. this is andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc.