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
for the january 6th select committee, the ticking clock has prompted a last-minute print to share with the american public everything that they ve collected. this morning, the committee released yet another enlightening batch of transcripts from interviews with some of trump s closest allies. testimonies from people like ronna mcdaniel, kellyanne conway, and katrina pearson add new context to trump s state of mind in the lead-up to january 6th attack. however, the information we learned today was very important, this morning s release was follow-up to a veritable mother load from the committee shared overnight. a now public database of investigators underlying evidence, as well as some of their sources and methods. thousands of pages of phone records, text messages and emails. think of the committee s work like this. a master architect constructing a new home. a tom firm ground, they set a solid foundation. it raised a frame and with meticulous craftsmanship, it built a stru
it s okay to be white. leaving the others to disi agree or not sure. we should note the significance of that statement, it s okay to be white, they say that phrase has a long history in the white supremacist movement. why rasmussen was polling on it is anyone s guess. here s some of what adams said. so if nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people, according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll, that s a hate move. the advice i would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people. a fairly racist statement. cnn s oliver darcy watching all of this, oliver, adams came on the lead a few times. he s been trending more and more hard over the years on bigoted terrain. i guess this apparently crossed the line into self-humiliation.
when you look back, it is hard to say her predictions of trump was underplaying what would happen with trump. she wasn t saying he d try to overthrow the government of the united states, but she s perfectly positioned, had she stayed as that person, to say, we need to go in a different direction. i m that person. i didn t kiss the ring. i stayed to who i was. i cared about being right more than i cared about what your opinion was. that s what we need. and that look, i don t think the party is at a place where that could win a message now, but that is something that would place her, let s say, on a list, changing side of history. i just don t understand how you can go out and say things like, donald trump is everything i teach my kids in kindergarten not to be, and then go out and support that person. it s just a level of sort of self-humiliation, for what?
here is his speakership will rest on the support of people like marjorie taylor greene and george santos. these now become the faces of the republican majority. and he will be too weak to defy any of them. what you re seeing is a very real maga crackup when you start to see marjorie taylor greene fighting with lauren boebert. but the american people are going to be sitting back, and swing voters are going to be going who are these guys? what is this clown car that is just driven into washington, d.c.? and obviously kevin mccarthy has wanted this job for a very, very long time. you have to wonder whether there is a part of him deep down inside thinking is this worth it? i think probably not, because he is such a holloman. and by the way, i mean, adding to the layers of self humiliation that he may be subjected to over the next 24, 48 hours in the next two years is the fact that my understanding is he has already moved into the speaker s office. his stuff is already there.