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
origin that doesn t exist in wuhan. if this comes from nature, there would have to be some evidence of it coming from nature. right now we don t have that evidence. now house republicans are demanding more information from the state department, fbi and doe on the origins of covid-19. you do believe it is noble. how so if china is not cooperating. there is some information that we already have and there is other information i think we can pursue that doesn t require china s consent, that can lead us to the proper con collusion. i want to make sure that we are readying ourself for the next pandemic. and the more we can learn about natural origins or a possible lab leak, then the better off we re going to be. and earlier today, top house republicans sent letters to the fbi, department of energy and the state department calling for details and transcripts.