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they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. well, good evening, everyone. i'm laura coats, and this is "cnn tonight." we're talking about $30 billion, the amount it took to rescue the latest bank now in trouble. several contributed billions each to keep first republic afloat, which tells you just how seriously they cake all of this. what about every day americans bearing the brunt of say interest rates going up. is the little guy getting ignored through all of this? plus, it is the video you cannot look away from. this footage of a russian fighter jet forci...

Your sharp maneuvering as opposed to what the united states said about it. and then it was made public. it was declassified. what do you say to that? >> the biden administration has made a smart move in the intelligence arena when it comes to declassifying information in general. the ukraine war, the first indications of the russian troop placements, that was all revealed to the press before the russians actually moved. and that is an interesting and new strategy that the biden administration implemented. this is kind of like that because what they were able to do is they were able to not only...

Drone, and then at what risk shall we say, you know, is turkey taking by providing them? >> turkey is taking somewhat of a risk. they're trying to straddle the line between putin's russia, ukraine, the u.s. and other nato partners. the drone which we're seeing here is a key element in ukraine's efforts to fight the russians. it's been highly effective and it has been used against convoys of russian armor, used against russian troop placements, and it's a very versatile weapon of war. in fact, it is what the ukrainians have credited with a lot of their successes. so when you combine the drone w...

Infrastructure. it's unknown if the cyber attack was intended to have a larger impact. maybe this is all that they could get. this is something that the u.s. is evaluating. we expect more details this afternoon. >> martha: thanks, jackie. let's bring in former national security adviser robert o'brien, chairman of global strategies with his reaction to this this afternoon. good to have you with us, ambassador o'brien. what do you make of this information that the white house is now sharing with reporters about the likely scenario of a russian invasion in ukraine and what it would look like? >> ...

For his secretary of state nominee. >> well i think you just described the foreign policy of the trump administration. it's day to day. almost moment by moment. especially with regard to afghanistan and the president's mind. he's willing to get out of af afghanistan. he was talked into staying a bit longer by general mattis and now the pompeo nomination, he's going to clear, he's going to be secretary of state. the interesting question, we know, we assume and we've heard that mike pompeo has enormous influence with president trump. he gets along quite well with him. is he going to be secretary...