conference. one of the issues the president s team has been dealing with this week the determination by his own energy department and the scientists there that the covid pandemic likely began with a leak in a chinese laboratory. last night, fbi director chris wray told me in the most straightforward way of any public official so far that the bureau has reached the same conclusion. the biden administration are still not on board. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is with the president tonight in baltimore with the latest, good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. white house sources say they are not fully embracing any single agency s findings because there isn t consensus yet about origin. leaving questions unanswered about when or even if that will happen and what it will mean for china. with two federal agencies declaring its most likely covid originated in a wuhan lab, the white house is facing questions about why there haven t yet been consequences. the pres
assessment for that? we in our assessment, we don t - assessment for that? we in our assessment, we don t see - assessment for that? we in our assessment, we don t see it. assessment, we don t see it falling. on ourforecast falling. on our forecast horizon, falling. on ourforecast horizon, which admittedly is a bit shorter than that of the bank, but the market, when you look at what the market is implying, the market is already seeing inflation, excuse me, interest rates coming down in 2024. that is obviously a little bit at odds with projections that we just talked about, but that is the cause of the global environment where the global environment where the market does expect economies around the globe, probably led by the us actually, are going to do poorer, and therefore, eventually leading to interest rate cuts again. i want to stress that is not necessarily our assumption. stress that is not necessarily our assumption. thank you very much for your our assumption. thank you very
havana syndrome. hundreds of cases you may recall of brain injuries and other symptoms reported by american personnel around the world. well, it turns out one of the major theories about the cause has been rejected now by the intelligence community. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details tonight from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. g geographic. bret. a new intelligence assessment by seven agencies including the cia concludes that a foreign adversary is, quote, very unlikely to be behind havana syndrome which has left hundreds of u.s. government workers debilitated with dramatic brain injuries and vertigo. today s ic assessment does not call into action the very real experiences and symptoms like we acknowledge that. a just intelligence official familiar with the findings told reporters there is, quote: no credible evidence that a foreign actor has a weapon or collection mechanism capable of causing these sensory effects. a deliberate cause is un
that is how one democrat in the house is reacting to news that the u.s. has determined saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman, known as mbs, the man the u.s. approved the plan that led to the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. that is the assessment of the united states intelligence community. alex marquardt joins us now. so alex, this is coming from state department and basically it is a judgment that this arises from his position, his political position. they re not stepping back from the ic assessment. they still believe that he s responsible. but they re saying now that he is the head of the saudi government. now they re justifying this because they re saying it is a principle, a precedent, an international law that heads of state, heads of government are given immunity from prosecution. just a couple of weeks ago he was the crown prince. he was the son of king.