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bank making it the second largest bank failure in u.s. history. third mid size bank to go under in less than two months in the u.s. the president insists taxpayers are not going to be footing the bill for this. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, bret. tax day played a big role here. the treasury secretary is saying that they looked at recent federal tax receipts and realized that the u.s. is...

Has already failed in the sense that what they were trying to publish initially was to erase ukraine from the map. to assume it into russia. to say eliminate its existence as independent state. thats failed and its not going to succeed. we know that the ukrainians are contemplating a counter offer in the weeks to come. lets see what happens with that. and ultimately its success on the battlefield is the best way and quickest way to actually get to a negotiation that produces a just and durable. ...

Taking americans. >> we have taken a number of measures including sanctions across the years and across cases. but i think what you are seeing, again, is maybe the biggest sanction of all, is to further russias isolation. >> ben: but that hasnt stopped them from taking americans. >> well, at some point, along with the isolation, along with measures that we can take that others can take and, by the way, we are working with other countries to build an even stronger coalition to make sure that ther...

In there. the spring offensive and what the secretary is saying about that, are they encouraged about what they are seeing? it seems like there is -- and you talked about this in the interview. a stalling of the operations. >> ben: yeah, there has been a stalling. everything including secretary blinken himself talking about the spring offensive. we think that will start in the next few weeks. some of the papers that were released from the pentagon recently showed they only expect the ukrainians ...

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Interview with secretary of state antony blinken the top diplomat is dealing with a number of foreign policy challenges. he sat down with our own benjamin hall. mr. secretary, pleasure to speak with you today. thank you first of all for all your help and support, you know, when i was going through some of the difficult and so its a pleasure to be with you today. >> ben, i cant tell you how happy i am to see you, to have you here back at the state department. you are part of our family and its ju...

Assistance were also able to get to safety. >> bret: obviously, its a different situation in sudan than when you saw in afghanistan. but there was a lot of criticism on the first part there in afghanistan. how do you think that thats moving? >> well, there has been quite a lot of criticism in sudan as well last few days many countries going in to bring out all of their citizens countless countries across europe and asia. u.s. not extending anyone, brought out diplomats and grammies staff. last c...