extraordinary effort to reassure americans that the u.s. banking system is safe plus, poland is set to become the first country to send fighter jets to ukraine. it comes amid new reporting that china s leader will visit russia next week. those new developments are also straight ahead. and donald trump goes off on a frenzied defense amid a series of investigations. we will have the latest on the probes involving the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 17th happy st. patrick s day. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. in the words of cnbc, wall street rides to the rescue 11 of the country s largest banks are depositing a total of $30 billion to first republic bank to avoid a third collapse of the u.s. bank in less than a week first republic serves a similar clientele as silicon valley bank and signature bank, both of which failed in recent days. those banks had a high number of uninsured deposits as d
warm location, or decided to leave our care by connecting with friends, family or other networks. todd: mayor eric adams calling out agitators providing food, water and clothing. he says shelter at brooklyn cruise is nothing like the prison they are making it out to be. what they said to me, thank you, mr. mayor. there are agitators that are doing a disservice to the migrants and the children and families moving to the hotels. todd: i m dumbfounded by the sense of entitlement from the migrants. the shelter conditions, they call a prison, these conditions are better than most college dorm rooms that most college students experience. these are clean. you have some semblence of privacy, unlike college dorms. having been there, i agree with mayor adams, the activists are agitators. they are standing in front of the media and prevent the media from covering the party because they wound their socialist operation to take place in the shadow separated from the public. ashley:
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Meanwhile trump insisting he was against the iraq war from the beginning and he says his interview with Esquire Magazine proves it. And in August Of 2004, very early in the conflict, extremely early in the conflict, right at the beginning, i made a detailed statement in an interview to Esquire Magazine. Tonight the writer who did that interview tells me what else trump said. Plus libertarian candidate gary johnson finds himself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. What would you do if you were elected about aleppo . About . Aleppo. And what is aleppo . Youre kidding . No. Will johnsons voters jump ship and who will get their support . I want to go to executive editor mark preston. Were going to talk about that, but what a stunning moment that was. I saw it happening live. Lets talk about this fallout, lots of fallout from last nights military forum, a lot of back and forth attacks today. Does any of this change the state of this race . I think
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of them leaving the building as of yet. usually they some ultimate down business around 4:00 p.m. or so. so we have to wait for them to leave. so we need to look ahead to next week. historically tuesday and thursday the grand jury meets. so we expect the next time will that they will convene next tuesday. and throughout the day there has been a lot of and i will say it seems planning going on when it comes to security personnel. u.s. marshals and along with metro and park police kind of convening earlier today outside this courtroom and then making their way inside the building behind me, whether or not they were planning for something that was incoming, we don t necessarily know. nonetheless i think that with