about online safety for children and child exploitation on their platforms. the issue has been enraging parents. and this mom s son took his own life after online threats. there is nothing stopping them from continuing to come into our children s phones while we re in the kitchen making dinner and make these types of threats on them. harris: and f.b.i. director christopher wray talking about all the questions on the growing threat china poses to america. he is about to face questions, too. cyber threats, to spying, espionage and we re keeping an eye on both those hearings and we ll bring you all the news that comes out of them. important things on the hill today. the chaos at the border is hitting cities across the nation, we know this. in fact, every city are pretty much a border city and state because of fentanyl and sex trafficking and so on and so forthcoming from the border. drug cartels bringing that into the country. is group of men jumped two officers in new york
program, a ruling that will impact millions of people, one of the court s most influential cases this term with implications beyond the student loan issue. the plaintiffs which include six republican-led states, two borrowers who do not qualify for this program, are challenging the legality of the plan which would cancel up to $20,000 in debt for some borrowers. so just to give you an idea of the scope here, outstanding student loan debt in this country is more than $1.7 trillion. the vast majority of that, we re talking more than 90%, is from federal student loans and those are the ones that would be eligible for some forgiveness under biden s plan. so far 16 million borrowers had been approved for that relief. when the legal challenges put the plan on hold, officials estimate the program could cost some $400 billion. education secretary miguel cardona speaking with cnn this morning talked about why the administration is so focused on this and why the administration believ
stare down between the u.s. and china and the outcome could have huge ramifications for russia s war in ukraine. u.s. officials are saying beijing is considering arming vladimir putin s forces with drones and ammunition and it s a move the biden administration thinks would prolong the war and up the death toll significantly. the cia says there is no evidence that china has yet sent any of this lethal equipment, but the white house promises major consequences if it does. beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds, whether it 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. now, this warning is coming just weeks after a suspected chinese spy balloon traversed the united states, leaving the relationship between these two super powers in tatters. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house for us. does the white house see this as thei
lab in chiwuhan, china. and in east palestine, the new technique to track contaminated water from that city. and the growing concern to other cities taking in truckloads of contaminated soil. and an image in oklahoma, cnn is on the scene. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with the groundbreaking assertion with the u.s. energy department that the covid-19 pandemic likely began from a lab leak in wuhan, china. this all comes after the energy department updated its 2021 report with this claim, saying it made the new conclusion, based on new evidence coming to light. two sources telling cnn the department is issuing the report with, quote, low confidence. that s a term that doesn t mean that they don t believe their own conclusion. it means that the evidence as of now is only circumstantial. the new assertion reveals that the u.s. intelligence community is more divided than ever on how the pandemic began. four other agencies in the u.s. government said the outbr
[national anthem] [national anthem] rachel: good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 a.m. is that too loud? will: you came out of the gates hot. [laughter] rachel: just trying to bring some energy in the here. it s 6:00. a little cold outside, but it s nice and toasty in here. good to see you. i saw will coming up on what i thought was a good health habit, he was eating a baa manna, but then i found out he was drinking last night, so concern. [laughter] pete: yeah. will has, not that you re going on the able to geolocate his hotel, but he has a fancy new piano bar in the lobby of his hotel. which sounds awesome. will: when i old you about it told you about it, i didn t think be into it. rachel: sounds very billy joel. pete: i can go both ways. [laughter] rachel: he s business in the front and party in the back. pete: piano in the front, nascar in the back. boom. let s do it. will: you wake up on a sunday morning, you start your day off healthy with a banana, you get your