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
beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it mrods. whether tell provides military assistance, but if it goes down that road, it will come at real cost to china. and i think china s leaders are weighing that as they make their decisions. we will match carefully, we will be vigilant, and we will continue to send a strong message that we believe sending military aid to russia at this time when they re using their weapons to bottom board cities, kill civilians and commit atrocities would be a bad mistake and should want no part of it. the director of the cia believes russian russian president vladimir putin is too confident in his military s ability to grind ukraine into submission. william burns says russian intelligence officials displayed a sense of cockiness and hubris during a meeting in november. he tells cnn that attitude reflects putin s own belief that time is on russia s side in this