the central question we must face is this. what leaked from the wuhan lab? why was it there? after we answer that question which we were the first to do in january 2021. we come to the conclusion based on the available evidence that this was not the china virus. it was the fauci virus designed and filled with your money. it s about doing all we can to make sure it doesn t happen again. we have to say it s the u.s. government, now the just the chinese regime. rogue elements who broke the rules put in place by the obama and truck administration and commissioned the reckless gain of function research which is still the only explanation for the origin of the covid virus. these men must be held accountable. and former director of the nih francis collins. in 2011 they wrote, quote, generating a potentially dangerous virus in the laboratory is a risk worth taking. they took that risk and it looks like the worst pandemic in a century is the result. we ll lay out the evidence pointing
the central question we must face is this. what leaked from the wuhan lab? why was it there? after we answer that question which we were the first to do in january 2021. we come to the conclusion based on the available evidence that this was not the china virus. it was the fauci virus designed and filled with your money. it s about doing all we can to make sure it doesn t happen again. we have to say it s the u.s. government, now the just the chinese regime. rogue elements who broke the rules put in place by the obama and truck administration and commissioned the reckless gain of function research which is still the only explanation for the origin of the covid virus. these men must be held accountable. and former director of the nih francis collins. in 2011 they wrote, quote, generating a potentially dangerous virus in the laboratory is a risk worth taking. they took that risk and it looks like the worst pandemic in a century is the result. we ll lay out the evidence pointing
building a $90 million training center. the project that s drawn fierce opposition which has repeatedly descended to violence. protestors torching construction equipment. 35 arrested and yet again police say many were from out of town. we continue to see a number of individuals not from atlanta, georgia, present tonight undertaking criminal activities. actions such as this will not be tolerated. when you attack law enforcement officers and damage equipment, you are breaking the law. this wasn t about a public safety training center. it was about anarchy and the attempt to destabilize. dana: it s six weeks since a riot in downtown atlanta prompted by another incident at cop city where a protestor shot an officer and police responded with deadly force. charles watson with the fallout this time. the story live in atlanta. the atlanta police department is describing sunday s clash with protestors as a coordinated attack against law enforcement and this video released
refusal to testify before the january 6th select committee and his failure to turn over documents. let s begin this morning outside the u.s. district court in washington, d.c. cnn political correspondent sara murray is there. how is all of this expected to play out today? reporter: well, you know, look, steve bannon is here in court, we expect this could take a couple of hours. what we know is that steve bannon is trying to get out of any kind of jail time. he was convicted on two counts for refusing to show up for a subpoena to testify before congress and refusing to hand over documents. the government has asked that he spend six months behind bars and they said he should pay a $200,000 fine. now, bannon s team has said, look, at the most he should get probation, he listened to his attorneys advice and if you are going to put him behind bars it should be house arrest only. they are also saying bannon plans to appeal his conviction and they re saying that any punishment he
president biden, democratic senate candidate john fetterman is getting an assist from former president barack obama. will it make a difference in the high-stakes pennsylvania race? and we ll also go inside children s hospitals overwhelmed right now by the surge in respiratory illness as more and more kids are getting sick and beds are running out. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with the new response from the former president, former president trump s lawyer to the most aggressive move yet by the january 6th select committee. cnn political correspondent sara murray is joining us with details. so, what is the trump team saying about this new subpoena from the select committee delivered to trump today? well, it s now up to his legal team to grapple with how they want to respond. in a statement from one of these law firms, they slammed the select committee for making