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 not going to have as much have enough money to pay its bills possibly as soon as june 1st. so, president biden did phone the big 4 congressional leaders they are requesting to have a meeting about this a week from tomorrow as the white house separately attempts to stabilize a shaky banking system. today s actions ensure the continued resilience of the banking system. the president had to update a script at a small business event to reassure markets about the fdic taking over first republic
you, mike. that s right. so these lawmakers will soon meet with president tsai here in taipei in just a few hours. this is their last stop of their three-day tour through the island and it s really been focused on deterring a chinese invasion but, if that day does come, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee relations committee, excuse me tells fox sending u.s. troops to this island is not out of the question. conflict is always a last resort. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul doesn t want war. but if china invades taiwan, he says the u.s. military could step in. speaker mccarthy and yourself have said that multiple times now that we need to arm taiwan now, before there s any sort of invasion. what about u.s. troops? i think, you know, then you are talking about unauthorized use of military force. would you support that. if the american people support this, the congress will follow. so, you re saying that the option to authorize war powe
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
fentanyl overdoses today blamed the president for their death. she also said that hundreds of thousands of other kids have died on the president s watch. the president owes me an apology and all of the other parents who have lost their children. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene agrees. blaming their deaths on biden s refusal to, quote, stop the cartels from murdering americans every day by chinese fentanyl. she is very specific recently saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl that that i killed her sons. well, the interesting thing is that fentanyl they took came during the last administration. ha ha ha. what a horrible human being. how can he sit there and joke about it. being. republican lawmakers are now piling on, quote, shameful and embarrassing. what, president biden, do you find amusing about this? the white house isn t too amused with continuing questions about covid-19 sor-ins which the fbi director now says likely came from a w
need to be a higher cost? they re not going to stop. this comes as proxy forces launched ten rockets in northeast syria earlier today. those attacks came from president biden ordered a series of retaliation strikes in response to a suspected iranian drone that killed a u.s. contractor and wounded six americans on thursday. all the breaking news in the past few minutes. our jennifer griffin following the late development from the pentagon. good evening, jen. reporter: tonight iranian forces fired more missiles based in eastern syria, near the oil fields. additional, u.s. forces received entries. we learned some may be serious and the pentagon is assessing its response. the u.s. does not seek conflict with iran but is prepared to respond forcefully to respect u.s. personnel. reporter: the iranian drone carried out an attack on a maintenance facility at a u.s. base shared with the kurdish defense forces in northeast syria, midday on thursday. a u.s. contractor was kill