professional repudiation. even charges of racism from the supposed experts so now what? white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. the department of energy overseas national labs and now reportedly concludes a lab leak in china most likely caused the pandemic albeit that conclusion with low confidence. but, this theory became a political lightning rod after former president donald trump embraced it and top scientists shot it down. now, team biden is holding back of talk about lessons learned and also, responding to china s denials. china has repeatedly blocked the world health organization s covid origins probe and now is swiftly rebuking the reported findings from the u.s. department of energy. china s foreign minister saying in part a laboratory origin of the pandemic was considered to be extremely unlikely is a science-based authoritative conclusion reached certain parties should s
point you can find yourself banned from social media for even bringing up the possibility of a lab leak. and remember with dr. fauci quick to dismiss it. just weeks ago dr. anthony fauci rejected the conspiracy the coronavirus was made in wuhan, china. both scientists and intelligence committee agreed this coronavirus was not man-made. that is not a possibility. let s take a science look at what is available. it is more likely this came from an animal. you said the overwhelming amount of evidence. i believe most molecular biologist would disagree with you. speak with the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people because quite frankly we still don t know. there is no evidence to say. before the white house downplaying the report because nothing is conclusive and affecting dr. fauci. there is not a consensus right now in the u.s. government about how covid started. there is no peer of the president believes it is really important we continue that work and tha
stretch. america reports is looking to a battleground matchup where stakes couldn t be higher. j.d. vance is neck and neck with his republican opponent. he join us live. judging from the opponent speaking this morning the tense political battle is about to hit a boiling point. try to dismiss j.d. as being an extremist weirdo which he is and everybody knows it. extremist weirdo? see how he responds in a closing race that could poachly tip the power out of democratic reports. welcome to america reports second hour. we will get to vance in a moment i m sandra smith in new york. we invited democrat tim ryan to join us any time. he s welcome on the program and hope he will come on to make his case after we hear from j.d. vance. he s been here before and can be here again. we begin the hour with breaking news. the hour at the white house the press secretary will face questions any minute 13 days from the midterm the president announcing plan to tackle inflation vowing to
coaches congratulated them. it was great. they got to george mason. won the game at george mason. lacrosse game there and hope the coach treated them to great meal. jesse: electric school buss that keep breaking down? thanks, kamala. [laughter] dana: only monday and we are all in quite a mood. stay with us all week. we can t wait for it. that s it for us tonight. bret: i look forward to seeing the chicago mayor on jesse s show. thanks, dana. good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, a great big i told you so from a lot of conservatives both in politics and science. scientists at the biden administration energy department now concludes what many thought all along about the coronavirus pandemic and the origins that it likely came from a laboratory leak. a classified report provided to the white house and some members of congress is now providing more backing for that theory, that once inspired mockery,
political leaders are failing them. reading scores dropped to 1992 levels. the pandemic lockdowns wiped out three decades of progress in reading. they re talking about electric school buss? have their lost their minds? john: they re setting aside a billion dollars for this. shouldn t they be setting it aside for other things? like reading, writing, arithmetic? how about summer school so the kids can get caught up? once you get the learning losses, you never make a comeback. if you can t read in third grade, every year it s cumulative because you can t do the higher work in the higher grades. john: i wanted to put this up. gretchen whitmire suggested schools weren t closed that long. listen here. mrs. dixon says i kept kids out longer than any other state. that s not true. i worked with my republican and