the second world war or new assessment of the worst pandemic since 1918 china is front and center tonight. on ukraine members of the administration spoke today and over the weekend warning beijing that arming russia would be a mistake. we are confident that the chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment that would be a very risky and unwise bet. bill burns, the cia director. on covid we learned yesterday that the department of energy has assessed in a newly updated intelligence report that it most likely originated from a laboratory leak. cnn has just learned the reason for that updated report. three sources telling cnn that the department of energy shift was based in part on information about the research that the chinese centers for disease control, the chinese cdc in wuhan, was doing around the time of the outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses m bats but it is unclear how closely
just ahead on cnn newsroom i m 22 and i have not seen this much. it has been a mess. if you don t know how to drive in the snow, stay home. some of the top hosts at fox news were peddling false election claims. certainly helpful but doesn t get them to the finish line. there is a new sheriff in town. the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, fu , februar, 1:00 a.m. in california. and on both coasts and states in between, millions will be waking up to extreme winter weather. new york s governor says parts of her state could see up to a foot of snow. the great lakes can also expect cold wet weather. and in michigan, hundreds of thousands are still without power after a winter storm passed through on monday. and there is a blizzard warning in the sierras. several feet of snow over the weekend left some residents trapped. people there also are running out of gas,
fox host, maria bartiromo, as commentators, a weird splitting of hairs he does. then they go through. fox host jeanine pirro? i think so. lou dobbs a lot. sean hannity. a bit. then it goes on and he says some commentators were endorsing it and the dominion lawyer says about their endorsement of a stolen election? yes. they endorsed is what rupert murdoch says. all while he is behind the scenes saying he does not believe any of trump s election lies. a lot of these fox hosts behind the scenes didn t seem to believe it either. no they didn t. this actually exposes the fact fox is not at its core a news network. news networks deliver the truth as they know it to viewers. they do the best job to attain the truth and sometimes it is not perfect but that is what they do. in this case we know that behind the scenes, top personnel knew that the narrative they were pushing to viewers was not true. we have evidence now that shows
that murdoch said spread the lies about the election fraud. murdoch made it clear that he doesn t believe the right wing talk network on the whole promoted the lies. but the fox corporation chairman said he wished fox news had issued a more forceful response. he said i would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing in hindsight. when asked what the consequences should be, murdoch replayed th replied, they should be reprimanded and maybe got rid of. and this is as a voting company is suing fox news of $1.6 billion of unproven fraud claims. and fox could be in real trouble. i think this really actually exposes the fact that fox is not at its core a news network. news networks, they deliver the