putin should he step outside russia and now apparently china. speaking of china, what to make of its peace efforts in ukraine? the white house saying not much. some republicans on capitol hill are saying not much more. but they re talking about the billions of dollars we ve been forking over to ukraine and many have had enough. you name it, we are on it. with mike tobin and kyiv on what ukrainians are saying about this and aishah hasnie on capitol hill on the fight over the cost of all of this. welcome, everybody. glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it in kyiv, ukraine with reaction to the fast-moving developments and mike tobin. mike? well, neil, day two of xi s visit to moscow is pledging strategic support between russia and china. new public comments have stopped short of china saying that they will supply russia with weapons. the very visual of the chinese president showing up in moscow is a visual that creates the notion that china is breaking down russia s
now, there are reports that there s a number of banks in trouble. but of the thousands that exist in this country, those are things that can be handled on a case by case basis. what you see now is what you might call creeping nationalization, creeping socialingism where more and more banks come up the purview of the government. you saw with signature banks. one of the reasons they closed that, they didn t like its exposure to bitcoin and the whole world of cryptocurrencies. that was a political decision, not a economic decision. so i think it s a way overreaction. they can do it case by case. that s what the they re there for. they can deal with particular problems like they re trying to do now with first republic. you know, i m wondering what you think of this notion, so many advance we have a lot of great regional banks. we don t need thousands of them. you and i talked about when a lot of s&ls went under or merged, are we looking at
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expanded their nuclear program to the point where as opposed to having a break-out to a nuclear weapon in over a year it is likely just a few months and they they are enriching you uranium 60%. weapons grade is 90. the united states wanted to go back to the original conditions of the 2015 deal. iranians unlikely want to do that and complete sanction relief. the administration is iranian negotiators that we would give up all sanctions. so we re going in there, i think, dana, once again playing a very, very weak hand. dana: the national security council coordinate ho r for the administration are saying we re hopeful diplomacy cannot find a way. we re prepared to do other options. we won t allow iran to get a nuclear weapon, period.
i wanted to play you something from the israeli prime minister bennett. they are paying close attention to this and have strong feelings. iran deserves no rewards, no bargain deals and no sanctions relief in return for their brutality. i call upon our allies around the world, do not give in to iran s nuclear blackmail. dana: the other thing interesting one of the conditions the iranians put on this meeting the europeans are allowed to be at the room in the table but the united states negotiators have to be in the anti-room. what kind of negotiation is that? yeah, this has been the way it s been from the beginning of these negotiations. the biden administration. they folded right away to this tactic of humiliation, i call it. iranians are doing that because they believe the united states came out of the deal when president trump walked away from it in 2018. therefore they won t negotiate directly with us. it was just a employ.