good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning. we are grateful you are starting your sunday, march 19th with us. i m boris sanchez. i m amara walker. is there a good morning? it is a very good morning for me. it is a great one. because boris is going to getting a lot more sleep on the weekends. look, there is really no bad news. there is some breaking news. i guess the bad news is that you won t be able to see boris bright and early in the morning saying buenos dias, but, for all the boris fans you will be getting a lot more of boris during the week. we don t want to disclose all the details. look, i think you and i channelled each other because we are kind of in mourning with all of our black. sadly, because we won t be together. that s the bad news. the good news, you will get so much more of boris. you are too kind. more of that in a sec. here is what we are watching today. russian president vladimir putin makes a surprise visit to the russian-o
security and medicare and it wasn t a republican, his name was senator joe biden. we have that tape coming up tonight. also marjorie taylor green will join us tonight. she fact checked joe biden in real-time on the house floor forcing him to retract his smea almost immediately. the ladies of the view did not particularly like marjorie taylor green we also have full coverage from today s pivotal hearings on social media bias featuring the far left lunatics who once ruled over twitter, bu we start with this fox news alert. new tape from joe biden in a rare sitdown interview the president all but refused to answer questions about his classified document scandal. he basically pled the fifth. take a look. you said last september, jus possessing classified documents is you said totally irresponsible. what was totally irresponsible that the fact that you had them? they have informed me not to speak of this issue or two anyway try to prejudice the investigation going on. oh, so
days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him accusing him of war crimes. he made a stop in mariupol. ukrainian officials slamming the visit saying putin visits mariupol under the cover of night. cnn senior international correspondent ivan joining us live. what else did putin do while there? reporter: right. well, the kremlin says he arrived by helicopter. then he was shown in a pretty long unedited video driving a car, being briefed by a top kremlin aid. driving into the outskirts of mariupol. the aid was describing the situation and acknowledging that much of the city had been destroyed. that there were ruins of buildings being demolished and much of the city was also empty because ukrainians has fled. putin was shown meeting a couple of people who were living in what were described as newly constructed apartment buildings. those people thanked putin for their new homes saying they had had nothing before that. and we ve been hearing some pre
. . . . you were in the cnn newsroom paula read in washington, jim acosta is off. we begin with the latest emergency act aimed at a time global banking crisis, switzerland ubs is buying the rival credit suisse after the bank lost 25% of value the past week as major depositors fled in droves. even as an emergency loan from the swiss national bank failed to shore up confidence. that bank says the take-over of ubs should, quote, secure financial stability and protect the swiss economy. joining us is cnn economics and political commentator catherine, first i want to go cnn anna stewart. put this in perspective, how big of an announcement is this. this was for the time one of the biggest banks in the world and definitely a major bank in europe. being in the midst of a huge set of restructure the last couple of years, it was already under pressure and you ve seen the pressures on the banking sector with silicon valley bank, you can say it was a weak link started to debuckl
an emergency rescue. the move is aimed the mat halti investors panic. turmoil swept the global banking industry. now credit suisse lost 25% of its shares despite a $50 billion l loan. gina, will this ubs move to halt the panic, will this work? good question. it certainly should help to secure some amount of comfort in at least europe about whether we were going to see an orderly resolution to credit suisse. i think this was hanging over markets. there s a lot of rush to get this done before asian markets opened. the fact they ve successfully done that i think should inject some amount of sense of comfort that these sort of things can reach a time lly resolution and authorities are on top of these problems. and how are the problems at credit suisse different than doomed the two others that failed last week? the think credit suisse s problems were many and predated a lot of the fed s moves. we had seen scandals in credit suisse and problems in their banking arm. we saw th