made available to the white house and congress, the department reaching the same conclusion as the fbi, that covid probably escaped from a lab. keep in mind, this was repeatedly dismissed as a conspiracy theory over and over again, both by scientists and members of the media. that is not the only thing that s giving folks whiplash in recent weeks. a major study finding masks made no difference in stopping the spread, concluding natural immunity provided as much protection as being double vaccinated. and the talking heads all too quick to dismiss it. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people. frankly we still don t know. there s no evidence really to say. it s very strongly leading to this could not have been artificially manipulated. just weeks ago, dr. jonathan fauci disputed the conspiracy that it was made in a lab in china. escaped from the lab, sounds like something from a marvel movie or a science book. this coronavirus
conspiracy. now president biden s own energy department finding evidence covid likely leaked from that lab in china. i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus. presoutlets reporting that the energy department is joining with the fbi in supporting that lab leak origin, based on classified intelligence. the intelligence agency reportedly shared with both the white house and key members of congress. republican lawmakers want answers. we need hearings on this. the chinese used their coercive economic activities to shut people up. we need to extensive hearings. i hope our democrat colleagues in the congress can support that. i know the republicans in the house are certainly supportive of that. they didn t just shut them up. they shut them down. they discredited. even journalists asking questions. i was stickered all over the place for asking the question, along with dr. segal on our team here at fox news. the subselect committee on the pandemic in the hands of house
memorable state of the unions in the past. welcome back. we begin this hour with the breaking news in turkey and syria where tens of thousands of emergency workers continuing the frantic search for survivors from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake responsible for killing more than 5,000 people already. more than 23,000 people have been injured. turkey s president erdogan saying that ten cities within his country are disaster zones and declaing a three-month state of emergency. countries pledge their support. matt bradley is in turkey. turkish officials say they have made 8,000 rescues. what are you seeing there today? reporter: yeah, we have not seen anyone taken out alive from this building, one of 6,000 here in turkey that the government says have been completely levelled by those twin earthquakes, some of the most devastating, most powerful this region has ever seen. this neighborhood is reeling from this event, even though this appears to be one of the only buildi
oh, man he kicked it down now. he kicked it down. there s two of them. there was a shot at that. yeah. they got it. they got it. did you hear the noise? they got it. did you hear that noise? that was a missile. wow. the balloon was first seen last week saturday over alaska, by wednesday it was over montana, by friday over missouri, and yesterday, over the carolinas. defense department officials told nbc news that it clearly crossed over sensitive sites, including military locations. a massive recovery operation is ongoing down here from myrtle beach, involving the navy, coast guard, national guard, and the fbi. in just the last hour, a police spokesperson said they are working to secure the area to help the federal government recover hardware that plunged into the ocean with the balloon deflated. we re preparing for if this washes up anywhere on the coastline in the city. so that s the big reason that we want to, we re speaking on behalf of all of our pa
the presidents of this surveillance balloon over the united states, in our skies is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law and clearly unacceptable. we ve made that clear to china. last, night the pentagon said it saw all report of a second chinese ty balloon has been spotted flying over latin america. china claims they are civilian weather balloons gone astray, but u.s. officials say the balloon spotted over montana this week was gathering intelligence and fly near one of the country s military places that operates and stores intercontinental ballistic missiles. joining me now is abc news, reporter gary grumbach, so gary, what in the world is going on? there s so many people who are wondering, why are we not shooting this thing down? yeah you know this really does seem like it s all out of a movie, thinking from u.s. official is that shooting it down would do more harm than good. president biden was given options on tuesday, when