millions of dollars to deal with illegal channel crossings. hello and welcome to bbc news. start in the us where regulators have shut down silicon valley bank, one of the major lenders to tech companies and start ups. in one of the largest banking failures in the us since the 2008 financial crisis. tech correspondent jane clinton has explained how it happened. but forjames. this is one of the days that will go down in silicon valley history and it certainly one of the most stressful days for silicon valley founders in modern times. we spoke to people today who have been able to withdraw their money from silicon valley bank and some haven t. one person put in a wire request yesterday and waited nearly 2a hours and eventually found out they got the money out but another person says they have tried and tried and tried and have not been able to withdraw any funds and say they physically came down to one of these branches to try and get these branches to try and get the money out.
conference in germany. this is an important moment, a critical moment in the fight in ukraine. western allies are meeting and have been there to hammer out the latest plan to support ukraine now and support ukraine going forward. a key point of contention right now is germany s refusal so far to supply ukraine with tanks that it said are necessary to win against russia. tanks are not part of the latest aid package that was just announced by the pentagon. a very big package, though. $2.5 billion for ukraine. that does, however, include striker armored vehicles for the very first time. we re going to stand by and going to this press conference any moment. oren liebermann is standing by at the pentagon. what are we expecting to hear. reporter: one of the things that we could hear from lloyd austin is a thank you for everything that countries have provided. the u.s. on the front foot here with a just announced yesterday $2.5 billion package. the second largest the u.s. has ev
in kyiv insist the battle is not over yet. we have a live report from ukraine and i ll talk to the ukrainian ambassador to the united states about the state of the war. also tonight, president biden faces a growing crisis right now. with a special counsel now in place to investigate his handling of classified records. we re learning more about documents that were found as the white house fails to explain its delay in revealing key details. and new scenes of devastation in the southeast. the death toll rising after dozens of tornados including a powerful twister that pounded selma, alabama. we re getting official updates on this disaster and the rescue and recovery operations that are now underway. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. and we begin this hour in ukraine. and the stunning video just into cnn. a huge explosion in the eastern town of soledar at a building apparently occupie
pass a parent tell of rights. the president delivers his rebuttal in front of the largest teachers union in america. a heckuva lot at stake on the ballot. asking about the party s blueprint for in november what critics are calling extreme. protest breakout across russia after vladimir putin orders 300,000 russian reservists to ukraine. asking jack keene what he makes of the nuclear threats in the u.s. response. joe mansion s vote crucial to getting fed democrats health bill passed last month. now the deal he made to speed up permits for natural gas is dividing congress and that means a government could run out of money this week. if there are people willing to vote to shut down this government because they have to answer to that. the growing opposition to his plan from the right and the left. only on fox news sunday. plus. no better example of the left chilling obsession with targeting political opponents. more legal peril from new york to georgia. what it mea
get this story out when the white house was aware that this was an issue, and essentially karine jean-pierre had a similar answer pretty much every time. watch. where you or any member of your staff involved in the crafting of a strategy as to when this disclosure should be made? seemed like he was thinking the investigation would end soon. was he surprised? does this episode undercut that argument, that he restored confidence? here we have in the headline that he is now under investigation. follow whatever protocol was in place. again, this is something that he takes very seriously. the president, when it comes to classified documents, when it comes to classified information. i am not going to go into any specifics from here. john: on sat with me, harold ford jr. and kellyanne conway, but first, bret baier, fox news chief political anchor and executive editor and interim special reporter joins me. bret, good happy with us today. he goes into that weekend and into d