the reputation of the court is at stake. and a new report reveals thomas wife received secret payments from an activist with business before the court. i do think that there s more that the supreme court should do to address those perception problems. with public confidence in the court at a record low, what can be done to restore americans trust in the judicial branch? plus default danger. as the deadline nears for the government to pay its bills president biden faces off with republicans who want to negotiate spending cuts. we re not a deadbeat nation. we pay our bills. does president biden have a plan to get republicans to work with them? we re the only ones to lift the debt limit to make sure this economy is not in jeopardy. president biden has produced a budget. house republicans produced a ransom note. i ll talk to house democratic leader hakeem jeffries. and guilty as charged. four members of the far right proud boys were found guilty of the hig
shooting, yet again, that left five people dead including an eight-year-old child. we are keeping an eye on breaking weather news as well, around the country including the growing flooding threat along the mississippi river. plus, mike pence grilled, the latest on the hours he spent before the special counsel s grand jury. and the woman accusing donald trump of sexual assault defamation stands up to the former president s lawyers in a blistering cross examination. plus, this. when i have had friends who have taken their lives because of these bills. i have fielded calls from families in montana. including one family who s trans teenager attempted to take her life while watching a hearing on one of the anti-trans bills. so when i rose up and said there is blood on your hands, i was not being hyperbolic. i was speaking to the real consequences of the votes that we as legislators take in this body. i will be joined by montana state representative, is that we zephyr, after he
lab in chiwuhan, china. and in east palestine, the new technique to track contaminated water from that city. and the growing concern to other cities taking in truckloads of contaminated soil. and an image in oklahoma, cnn is on the scene. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with the groundbreaking assertion with the u.s. energy department that the covid-19 pandemic likely began from a lab leak in wuhan, china. this all comes after the energy department updated its 2021 report with this claim, saying it made the new conclusion, based on new evidence coming to light. two sources telling cnn the department is issuing the report with, quote, low confidence. that s a term that doesn t mean that they don t believe their own conclusion. it means that the evidence as of now is only circumstantial. the new assertion reveals that the u.s. intelligence community is more divided than ever on how the pandemic began. four other agencies in the u.s. government said the outbr
that. in terms of where it was flying, it was well-clear of any territory in ukraine. it was international airspace over international water. thank you. nancy? thank you. during secretary austin s visit to egypt he held meetings with officials even though all press were banned from covering it. past defense chiefs when they ve been in similar situation have refused to proceed. given the biden administration has said one of its key pillars in terms of foreign policy is when presented between a choice of autocrats and democracies that it stands with democracies. can you help us understand why the secretary proceeded with those trips given the ban. our relationship with egypt is obviously an important strategic partnership. the secretary did appreciate the opportunity to meet with his counter parts and talk about that. i will tell you when it came to the press coverage of that portion having looked further into it, the egyptians lived up to what they had agreed upon. some of