and millions more worldwide. now new revelations about the mysterious origin of covid. mark esper is here live. f-16s are not the key capability of that offensive. sean penn pleads with president biden to send fighter jets to ukraine or the actor says there will be, quote, blood on our hands. sean penn joins me and president xi and his military leadership have doubts today about whether they could accomplish that invasion. and china, russia and the united states reach a critical point in the ukraine war, the cia says beijing is having second thoughts about potentially invading taiwan and a significant admission from the head of fox news, acknowledging the host on his network promoted election lies. what this means for the billion dollar lawsuit against fox news. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and this is a special edition of t the situation room. tonight, new questions around the center of the co
doubts today. about whether they could accomplish that invasion. as china, russia, united states reached a critical point in the ukraine war. the cia says beijing s having second thoughts about potentially invading taiwan. and a significant from the head of fox move. rupert murdoch acknowledging the hosts on his network promoted election lies. what this means for the billion dollar lawsuit against fox news. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the. world i m wolf blitzer and this is a special edition of the situation room. tonight, major new questions right at the center of a deadly coronavirus pandemic. that may change so many lives. where did covid-19 come from? the white house weighing in the same thing on the u.s. energy departments assessment. that the lethal virus most likely came from a lab leak in china. emphasis on the caveat here. cnn sources tell us that the assessment comes with quote, low confidence. tonight they say withi
details in the programme. it s saturday the fifth of november. our main story: passengers are being warned to expect significant disruption on the railways today, despite strike action being called off. tens of thousands of rail workers had been due to walk out in the long running dispute over pay and working conditions. strikes planned for monday and wednesday have also been cancelled, as negotiations between the rmt union and train operators are stepped up. our business correspondent, marc ashdown reports. today s strike action may have been called off but widespread disruption will continue. network rail welcomed the decision but says services which had been cancelled can t be reinstated at such late notice. a reduced strike timetable means just 20% of services will run across england, scotland and wales. those which do will start much later and finished by the early evening. thousands of members of the rmt union of 1a real companies and network rail are involved in the lo
freedom. we salute all of our military heroes. and with that said, we have a jam-packed show ahead, answering your sound out questions, so let s get started i guess i am first. nancy m, i m going to start with you, are you ready? what will you be grilling for memorial day? i laugh about this, because i am assuming that fox brought me here to cohost so i would not be grilling. it s a little problematic. i thought this was an intervention grubhub. by if you want to know in the house it s not just eating, it s more of a hazing ritual than a meal, we go with the basics. memorial day as drumsticks come burgers, dogs, and then you can get rad with a salad, macaroni salad, pasta salad, i make a world-class gruyere mac and cheese. so fact we bring a guy who saws off your foot to write at the picnic table. you will love it. dana: i might have to eat that over the course of a year. geraldo: nothing like blood clotting. dana: as i figure you have a grill at your house?
America. Benjamin franklin slavery and the American Revolution. He has written for the New York Times book review, Boston Review and the atlantic, among other publications. And he is joined in conversation by annette gordonreed professor at harvard university. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and she is the author of six books. Her honors include fellowships from the guggenheim and macarthur foundations and the National Humanities medal. She shes a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the british academy. Tonight, they are here to discuss the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, a poets journeys through american slavery and independ. Since this new biography is the fullest account to date of wheatleys life and works and carrie greenidge writes in the New York Times book review that the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is at once historical biography at its best literary analysis, at its sharpest and a subversive indic