covid-19 pandemic. that s according to a newly updated classified intelligence report from the u.s. energy department. according to two sources energy officials have low confidence in this latest assessment. that means the information is either not reliable enough or it s too fragmented to know for sure. it only adds to this big divide within the u.s. government over whether the pandemic began in china 2019, as a result of a lab leak, or whether it emerged naturally. president biden specifically requested that the national labs which are part of the department of energy be brought into this assessment. because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here. we need to do extensive hearings. i hope our democratic colleagues in the congress can support that. i know the republicans in the house are certainly supportive of that. but this is a country that has no problem coming out and lying to the world. steven jiang live from beijing with the
evidence. not to mention what they just cited was conducted in a highly coordinated environment and being doubted by experts around the world. one thing that the latest assessment from the department of energy is that the lab leak theory is gaining traction, such as new researches at the wuhan lab fell mysteriously bill back in november of 2019. the problem is christine, with china unlikely to opening their labs to outside investigators anytime soon, if ever, we just may never find a definitive answer on the origin of the pandemic. but the war of words between washington and beijing unlikely to stop anytime soon. christine. that s the only thing we know for sure, thank you so much, steven jiang. the biden administration saying there will be real costs if china provides legal aid to russia. telling cnn that the u.s. has laid out the stakes and the consequences in direction conversations with beijing.