report concludes that is likely how the pandemic first began. in a house select committee heard testimony today from a former top u.s. intel official that a chinese lab leak is the only explanation. our money to a lab in china that wasn t up to code that was doing gain of function research and that s where this thing came from. that s what they didn t want us to know. do you agree with that mr. ratcliffe. i do agree with that. communist china the target of bipartisan criticism in washington on tuesday. china has not been forthcoming. where a house select committee held a hearing on the origins of covid-19. i can very well argue the lab leak theory because, you know, china cannot cooperate. former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe, who began his term two months into the pandemic, also pointing the finger at china. a lab leak is the only explanation credit dibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense. the chinese embassy
anywhere. expand your team with a fiber freelancer. this is cnn. the world s news network. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. abortion rights supporters are nervously anticipating what comes next after the supreme court moved to preserve access to a commonly used abortion drug . the ruling allows doctors to continue prescribing the stone and states that allow it, but there s almost no chance to protective ruling will be the final word. on regulation of the drug in the next challenge, the texas case that challenged medford per stones 23 year old fda approval, heads back to the fifth circuit court for an appeal on may 17th right now, we don t know why the court, which last year overturned the historic roe versus wade decision, moved to protect this drug justices offered no explanation with friday nights ruling. i spoke last hour with minnesota democratic senator tina smith about the ruling and what comes next. here s what she had to say. the supreme cou
[laughter] i heard that one already. will: yeah. try having a sitdown with that person. it never goes well. we have had it. you leave right now and play now and give you six months pay. that s half of your entire contract. please, just just go. [ laughter ] see if i stay the whole year, i get it all. will: sound logic. george always had sound logic. i don t know if we can say the same for the city of oakland in california who in this analogy is george castanza. they haven t sat back and realized covid is over and it has been for a while. but the city in the bay area is still operating under pandemic insanity and they do not want it to end. oakland hasn t killed its covid eviction moratorium. in fact, right now as we speak, they are holding hearings on potentially ending that moratorium. possibly extending it though into july. too little, too late. if you are a tenant in oakland you haven t had to pay rent for the past three years. on the other side of that, there
Thank you for joining us, losing control. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Now, the democrat establishment, i think they always assumed that they could control the crazies on the left without our help. But, what if thats not true . [shouting] dont touch them. Dont touch them. [whistle] dont touch them. [shouting] [whistle] knock it off. Knock it off. One of the protesters was arrested and put into that squad car you see right there. The car was then surrounded by protesters demanding let him go. Let him go. Let him go. It appears that they might actually be letting him go. There was pushing and shoving, cursing, swearing. A great deal of anger. And then this arrest. There is now a physical clash between students and police. Laura the prohamas movement is catching on at College Campuses coast to coast. Its moving faster than stds. This is a new generation of activists who consider George Floyd A Hero and most of them think america is just down right racist. And now they are feeling em