being taken to slaughter. rupert murdoch admitting his fox hosts endorsed, his word, trump s election lies on air. and that s not all he s confessing as fox fights a $1.6 billion lawsuit. and an outfront investigation tonight, our david culver traveled to the epicenter of the covid-19 outbreak, the virus likely leaked out of that lab in wuhan, china. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, exclusive new information about putin s staggering losses. russia has now suffered more combat deaths in ukraine than in all of its wars combined since world war ii. this is according to a new analysis by the group csis. you ll remember we were bringing you those satellite images every day as the buildup happened. the number of russian deaths per month now, they say, is 25 times higher than it was in chechnya, 35 times the number killed in afghanistan. in a moment we re going to have much more on this new analysis. i also want to bring you tonight th
outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses in bats but it is unclear how closely related the variants were to the strain which started the pandemic. as for the energy department s new assessment, it is described as low confidence and a minority view apparently within the intelligence community. that said, it sparked new calls today from transparency from china. we would wish to see from the prc a greater degree of responsibility, a greater acknowledgment that it is in the interests of the chinese people, yes, we better understand the origins of covid-19, but it is in the or to understand the origins of covid-19. today s development also prompted to leading house republicans to send letters demanding the state department of energy and the fbi to provide testimony and documents related to the ongoing probe of the ten pandemics origin. china s foreign minister also weighed in, calling on relevant parties to quote,
greetings, everyone. you are watching symone, we ar following breaking news in the trump hush money case. this is a case involving storm daniels investigating by the grand jury in new york michael cohen tells msnbc an that he is been asked to b available as a rebuttal witnes tomorrow we will have more on who els could be talking in just a moment all of this comes after former president donald trump s claim that he will be arrested thi week there is zero evidence to back that up and he s also got thes calls for protests they are prompting a message for the manhattan da to hi staff. intimidation threats will no be tolerated we will talk about the forme presidents familiar tactic with congresswoman maxin waters plus, let s talk about menta health in policing in america, a quarter of people killed b police have mental illnesses why aren t we seeing major changes in how law enforcement handles calls for help i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. folks, we
district attorney s office tomorrow cohen spoken to prosecutor almost two dozen times and he says that will be going in - testimony. whether it s before the grand jury, or it s just t meet with them for an interview, again, i m not sure. but yes, i was asked to make myself available and to be at the da s office tomorrow, as a rebutta witness. and nbc s learned the witness counting michael cornice as former legal adviser, robert costello. stella previously represente steve bannon and rudy giuliani costello says the trump s lega team asked him to testify. the manhattan da has decline to comment, the office i already preparing for unrest making sure staff, after trump s call for protests, and an internal email obtained by nbc the district attorney writin quote, please know that your safety is our top priority we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office, o threaten the rule of law new york federal authorities are also o alert to specially as trum repeats the rhetori
in a statement to cnn, the attorney says no one tells us anything which is very frustrating. president trump is basing his response on press reports and the fact that this is a political prosecution and the d.a. leaks things to the press instead of communicating to the lawyers as they should. now, this drama began earlier today on trump s truth social page after predicting his arrest on tuesday, the former president urged his supporters to quote, take back our nation. and tonight his campaign is already fundraising off of his claims, which have not been confirmed. there is no indication that he will be arrested tuesday. sources tell me and my colleague that trump s legal team has gotten no word from the manhattan district attorney s office about the timing of any possible indictment. another source says the former president has been pushing his team to get the base riled up over the idea because he believes it would help him politically. cnn is following the latest developmen