about online safety for children and child exploitation on their platforms. the issue has been enraging parents. and this mom s son took his own life after online threats. there is nothing stopping them from continuing to come into our children s phones while we re in the kitchen making dinner and make these types of threats on them. harris: and f.b.i. director christopher wray talking about all the questions on the growing threat china poses to america. he is about to face questions, too. cyber threats, to spying, espionage and we re keeping an eye on both those hearings and we ll bring you all the news that comes out of them. important things on the hill today. the chaos at the border is hitting cities across the nation, we know this. in fact, every city are pretty much a border city and state because of fentanyl and sex trafficking and so on and so forthcoming from the border. drug cartels bringing that into the country. is group of men jumped two officers in new york
increase in medical tourists heading south of the border coming up. on page 1 of that threat assessment, china, among the fascinating details, how beijing is doubling its efforts to sway local politicians in the u.s. as a way to gain some diplomatic breathing room with washington. but we start with the brand new litmus test for republicans, being forced to publicly choose sides following the latest release of videos from january 6th. for a second straight night, fox news host tucker carlson perpetuated the lie that the insurrection was a mostly peaceful group of meek and orderly people who were sightseeing that characterization drew an angry, even visceral reaction from some republicans, although not all of them. i think what happened on january 6th was despicable, if you disagree with something congress is doing or not doing, you can t try to take over the capitol. tucker carlson that january 6th was i don t know what tucker carlson said. he said it was mostly
anywhere. expand your team with a fiber freelancer. this is cnn. the world s news network. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. abortion rights supporters are nervously anticipating what comes next after the supreme court moved to preserve access to a commonly used abortion drug . the ruling allows doctors to continue prescribing the stone and states that allow it, but there s almost no chance to protective ruling will be the final word. on regulation of the drug in the next challenge, the texas case that challenged medford per stones 23 year old fda approval, heads back to the fifth circuit court for an appeal on may 17th right now, we don t know why the court, which last year overturned the historic roe versus wade decision, moved to protect this drug justices offered no explanation with friday nights ruling. i spoke last hour with minnesota democratic senator tina smith about the ruling and what comes next. here s what she had to say. the supreme cou
failed within three days of each other. that led credit for moody s to downgrade its outlook for the entire u.s. banking sector. and those worries skyrocketed today because of troubles facing the global investment company credit suisse. the saudi bank failed to rule out giving funding to the already embattled company that combined with the recent u.s. issue sent stocks falling. i want to bring in business reporter rahel solomon, rahel, walk us through what happened today. well, jake, basically the mood for investors, as investors search for the next sign of weakness. to be clear, i think the nasdaq actually closed slightly higher which is interesting. but this is really just a confidence issue at this point. you can see that reflected very clearly in some of the bank stocks. i want to point your attention to some of the regional stocks, jake, you and i have talked about already. first republic bank off 21%, pac-west off 5% on top of the losses. it s been a rough go for some
silicon valley bank collapsed on friday, and the government of the state of new york shut down signature bank last night, claiming signature was on the verge of collapse. the federal government has since taken over that bank. president biden rushed out to the cameras this morning before the markets could open to try to calm the american people. he insisted there s no need for the public to worry, that their money is safe and the economy will not suffer. america can have confidence that the banking system is safe. your deposits will be there when you need them. every american should feel confident their deposits will be there if and when they need them. let me also assure you we will not stop at this. we ll do whatever is needed. the concern now is whether this was just the first part of a larger financial crisis and whether other banks or the markets will take a major hit in the coming days and the move by the biden administration to guarantee that the funds in those fail