grohl. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late! i will see you at the end of tomorrow! thanks to all of our joining us this hour. it is a rare moment when reasonable people are in agreement with my pillow, ceo, michael and, all prominent election conspiracist. but here is where we are. kevin mccarthy and the gang released 44,000 hours from january 6th to exclusively fox news. well, we are not going to sit back and let that happen. why have all the fights that we got, why would you pick ongoing on going and telling mccarthy he can t partner with tucker? well, because fox, number one, fox is going to sift through it and only put out what they want. you heard that correctly. mike pillow ceo and election denier mike lindell is furious that speaker of the house kevin mccarthy for giving exclusive access to more than 40,000 hours of january 6th security footage t
the second world war or new assessment of the worst pandemic since 1918 china is front and center tonight. on ukraine members of the administration spoke today and over the weekend warning beijing that arming russia would be a mistake. we are confident that the chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment that would be a very risky and unwise bet. bill burns, the cia director. on covid we learned yesterday that the department of energy has assessed in a newly updated intelligence report that it most likely originated from a laboratory leak. cnn has just learned the reason for that updated report. three sources telling cnn that the department of energy shift was based in part on information about the research that the chinese centers for disease control, the chinese cdc in wuhan, was doing around the time of the outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses m bats but it is unclear how closely
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,
afternoon, we got a whole bunch of receipts. this is the new document filing. if you follow the news you may have heard it s coming. and today you may have seen reports on it here in today s news coverage. well, we have it. the filing is big, billion dollar plus case against fox news. that s the defamation case against fox by one of the voting machine companies. why is this a stop story in the nation? because as partly expected, there are more new original bombshell revelations i m going to go through with you now before i bring in our experts, including rupert murdoch, admitting things under oath that he doesn t admit when he s not brought into a courtroom looking at a fine. he admits select fox hosts completely endorsed the lie about donald trump and the election. murdoch asked under oath whether some of the hosts endorsed the big lie that the election was stolen that he didn t actually lose, and murdoch replies yes, they endorsed. and that s not all. under oath we find a v
explosive new rigid revelations about what was actually happening behind the scenes at fox while they peddled election lies on air. combing through hundreds of pages of brand-new filings. then i think what happened on january 6th was despicable. this attack on the capitol i don t listen to tucker carlson. i usually don t. condemnation from all sides as fox tries to launder the insurrection. tucker carlson is a propagandist, publicly pretending to be a news man. with the explicit help of republican house leadership. speaker mccarthy knows damn not well what kind of customer mr. carlson is. as abortion bans threatened countless women in texas, one of the five women now suing the state will join me tonight. sounds like a pretty second twisted plot to a dystopian novel, but it s not. it s exactly what happened to me while pregnant in texas. when all in starts now. but good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, and in the wake of tucker carlson s attemp