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♪ ♪ its 10:00 a.m im lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york were following a lot of breaking news on this busy monday morning, including president biden assuring the country our financial system is safe amid heightened fears of a banking crisis after the collapse of both silicon valley bank and new york-based signature bank >> americans can rest assured that our banking system is safe. your deposits are safe let me also assure you we will not stop at this well do whatev...

>> your commander fighting in bakhmut, he was sitting watching the video watching popcorn. >> yeah, thats the story, eating popcorn to watch this drama unfolding, but fortunately for us, it was short lived. we hope it will distract most of the authorities on the ukraine front. >> thats what you want, to have a distraction on your own turf to bring forward your advances. >> listen, i would be happy if our security forces are so good we created the precaution and help. id like to think this way. b...

Trying to support them. >> you can watch more of that exclusive interview tonight on nightly news ukrainian officials say the situation in the eastern city of bakhmut remains difficult as russian forces advance from several directions around the city nbcs erin mclaughlin is tracking all this from kyiv. erin, you just spoke with a ukrainian commander fighting in bakhmut. what did he say? >> reporter: lindsey, he described in harrowing detail whats being seen as the bloodiest battle of this war ...

Time. for weeks we have been hearing about attempts, negotiations to try to get an evacuation corridor set up for the hundreds of civilians that remain inside the plant. today, 20 people getting out. its not a lot of people but its more than have gotten out in the past. theyre supposed to go to the city in ukrainian held territory but cnn cannot verify the fate of those people. its only 20 people. we know the people are facing dire circumstances including the ongoing threat of disease as tempera...

You cant hit everything. as a ukrainian commander, how can i have the most effect. >> this convoy that is so long, are you worried about it? >> im not. >> youre not? >> that surprises everybody. weve been talking about a 40 mile convoy for the last couple days. you see that convoy. lets take a look at it. it goes that distance. again, it gets back to the distance piece of this. but if you look at the convoy close up, what do you have? you have trucks. its a whole bunch of resupply trucks, cabs. ...