bret: breaking tonight the effort to avoid a disaster involving commercial airlines. there have been several very close calls lately we told you about them yesterday. today the held a safety summit to come up with solutions. mark meredith leads us off from reagan national airport. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. the top aviation the skies are safe. after a number of near misses and close calls, including one at this airport just last week, the government is also examining if more can be to avoid potential disasters. we have seen an uptick in serious close calls that we must address. transportation secretary pete buttigieg kicked off today s aviation safety summit with a warning. more mistakes than usual are happening across the system, on runways, at gates when planes are pushing back, in control towers and on flight decks. the government says it s investigating six runway incursions this year alone, including one at washington s reagan airport 8
behind the security breach. the washington post reports the man is a low-level government employee. he worked in a military base and share the documents in a private chat group at videogame sites. biden insisted he is not concerned about the leaks u.s. military and intelligence documents. they are getting close to tracking down the leaker. could you give an update on the leak investigation for the leaked documents? i cannot right now. there is a fluegel full-blown investigation going on right now in the justice department. they are getting close. i don t have an answer. how concerned are you about the leak? are you concerned about the relationship? we ve got to move. i m not concerned. i am concerned that it happens, but there is nothing contemporaneous that i am aware of. while the president appears to be brushing off the leak, it has undermined ukraine s defense against russia. it has damaged relations with allies and exposed intelligent resources and further er
pay a roll is the silicon valley bank collapse. this hour, everything that you need to know. forget frenemies, president trump is acting as if governor desantis is his biggest rival, and the new nickname that trump is using on the trail for desantis and the regret he says that he now has. and a powerful nor easter is hitting hundreds of thousands of people with heavy snow and wind as heavy as 60 miles per hour slamming the northeast and you can see it churning there and a lot to get to this hour, and a lot to begin with the latest on the response to the banking fears. cnn business reporter matt egan processing all of the new inflation data which met expectations, and what is the new consensus this morning? well, jim and erica, it is saying that inflation is not gone, but it is cooling off. 6.5% increase in consumer prices over the last six months is not good, but it is triple what is considered healthy, but everything is relative. as you can see on the chart, the tren
before the election, you have made the payments today and it was because of the election, and because of trump s embarrassment. it doesn t matter what trump does, it was because of the election that it was an election violation. i am not a lawyer the chairman said, it does matter that if it was something other than exclusively the campaign then it is out of paid in campaign funds. my question watching that is that is that a preview then of the legal argument that they are than trying to make? yes and no. i think that the subpoena has switched gears on a number of different occasions that they attempt to go on, and indeed, they pursue this in terms of giving the indictment and moving forward i think that is one of the most straightforward things that they can respond, with primarily because, at this point, we don t necessarily know the clue and legal charges. so if he does go with that campaign file which most people expect him to do, that probably is one
i always appreciate you and th time you take to be with us. some are jones s an emmy antibody award winning journalist, the host of th trends last forecast straight ahead, democratic representative stacey plaskett is in the house right now. she s with me here in th studio she s going to be joining us she was a house manager for th second impeachment of donald trump. she joins me live to discuss the possibility of a crimina indictment for the forme president relates in his hus money payments for storm daniels and why there it has not been a criminal indictment for january 6th. another hour of velshi begin right now. good morning it s sunday, march 12. i m ali velshi we begin with an important warning from the biden administration the white house has publicly announced that russian actor with direct ties to russia intelligence operations ar seeking to sow belittle unrest in moldova, a nation that wa formerly part of the - according to john kirby [inaudible fomenting manufactu