ethics scandals. is this politics? it s tuesday, i m bill hemmer. good morning. dana: it s tuesday and politics. any day is politics. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. what s going on? the supreme court is facing renewed criticism over reports of justices failing to disclose what democrats say are questionable financial transactions. that includes justice clarence thomas accepting vacations from a wealthy donor and justice neil gore the democrats see the court needs more oversight. but should not have to answer to congress. dana: chief justice roberts submitted a letter saying that the court has reaffirmed a voluntary commitment to keep things above board. bill: democrats say it s not enough. republicans maintain sit a power grab designed to rein in a conservative majority on the court today. dana: if you ve been following this. the organization the news organization that first put out these reports about clarence tomorrow as. if you want to get th
tuesday. i m bill hemmer. welcome to the program. big two hours. it could be a tweet bird. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the big interview aired last night. before he bought twitter the company gave unfettered action cess to u.s. and foreign intelligence agencies and a way to encrypt messages to insure user privacy. bill: how he managed to slash staffing at twitter in effort to turn a profit which hasn t been easy. what he told tucker on that. how do you run the company with 20% of the staff? turns out you don t need all that many people to run twitter. 80% is a lot. yes. i mean if you are trying to run some sort of glorified activist organization, then you don t care about censorship you can let go a lot of people. the fact that the federal government and other governments had access to twitter user s private messages, their dms came as a shock to those who use the platform but also to elon musk himself. the degree to which various g
were already very and mangeing them more virulent. dana: we are digging into the new covid report. this is a 300-page report. senator marshall tells me it involved 20 months of pretty extensive research using classified and unclassified information with dozens of experts. the report s conclusion is an accidental chinese lab leak back in november of 2019 is likely what started the covid-19 pandemic weeks before china ever even acknowledged the virus was out there publicly circulating. here is part of that conclusion. it reads the an unintentional research-related incident that resulted from failures of bio safety containment during cars covid two related research. it suggests covid-19 may have leaked twice at the wuhan institute. once in september or october of 2019, which was contained. then again on a much bigger scale in november 2019 when chinese researchers were conducting highly risky gain-of-function research in an effort to develop a covid vaccine. senator marshall
living inside the u.s. more than 40 charged for, quote, creating and using fake social media accounts to harass and intimidate dissidents of china s regime living here and seeking to suppress their free speech. the defendants remain at large. the other case sur real. two men in court yesterday, federal agents arrested them for operating a secret chinese police station in new york city. the d.o.j. calling it a significant national security matter. despite that, the suspects were able to get out on bond with just a few hours. it is new york city. one hour, one house foreign affairs republican says this is just the beginning. i think this is a coordinated plan. i this i the chinese are embedding chinese nationals throughout our country. this police force here will be a big part of making sure they can coordinate and keep them on the same page for whatever their intended goal is here. not good. i think that they are a force that is intended to coerce and intimidate those here.
february 24th of last year. an endless cycle of destruction and resilience since then. while there he announced an additional half billion in assistance promising president zelensky that the u.s. will stand by ukraine. president biden: putin thought ukraine was weak and the west was divided. he is counting on us not sticking together. one year later, the evidence is right here in this room. we stand here together. we ll talk to former c.i.a. station chief dan hoffman. first to steve harrigan live in the capital city of kiev. steve. it really was a remarkable moment here this morning that many people looked on in disbelief at the monastery behind me built in the middle ages. inside you had president zelensky as well as president biden. before they came out, the air raid sirens rang out across kiev. [sirens blasting] no signs of any explosions or any visible signs of danger. the white house was clear to say they had informed russia about the trip before it happened. in