jump into the race? what his staffers say about his political future and the white house. ainsley: peter doocy live from the would you say with the latest. peter: republican front-runner donald trump does not use twitter any longer. ron desantis is trying to find primary voters on there. will be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and for the first time something like this is happening on social media and with realtime questions and answers, not scripted. peter: nothing about the desantis record in florida in the initial campaign ad offering, instead, just this. i do have the courage? is it worth the sam fies? sacrifice? america is worth it every single time. peter: officials won t talk elections, but they are happy to speak broadly about florida, particularly now that the naacp issued a travel advisory for the state. lawmakers, republicans in florida have attacked diversity, attacked inclusion efforts, limited the teaching of b
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
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around the corner. ainsley: change in the lineup, we will have sean on to talk about that. brian: he is still at 9:00, it is people around him. ainsley: that s right. how it is affecting his life. steve: you are absolutely right. laura gets to go home early. ainsley: right, and she has younger children, be home for late dinner and put them to bed. steve: why haven t you done the dishes? that is our house. the republican party. you have republicans lined up and we were telling you how it seems like everybody, except donald trump wants donald trump to debate. donald trump says i m sitting on big lead, why let other people take pop shots at him.