conference. one of the issues the president s team has been dealing with this week the determination by his own energy department and the scientists there that the covid pandemic likely began with a leak in a chinese laboratory. last night, fbi director chris wray told me in the most straightforward way of any public official so far that the bureau has reached the same conclusion. the biden administration are still not on board. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is with the president tonight in baltimore with the latest, good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. white house sources say they are not fully embracing any single agency s findings because there isn t consensus yet about origin. leaving questions unanswered about when or even if that will happen and what it will mean for china. with two federal agencies declaring its most likely covid originated in a wuhan lab, the white house is facing questions about why there haven t yet been consequences. the pres
of bloody weekend with two separate shooting incidents. wholly intolerable situation. silicon fallout after at collapse. and new york community bank is expected to buy out a big chunk of signature bank for 2.7 billion. 19 at the free-throw line and a turnover. walker comes in and he scores. [cheers] steve: 6:00 here in new york city. it s 1:00 in the afternoon in russia and we start this hour and this program with a fox news alert. chinese president xi jinping will arrive in moscow within the half hour, we believe, to meet with russian president vladimir putin. it s xi s first visit to russia since putin ordered that invasion of ukraine last year. rachel: part of china s plan to counter the united states and establish a new world order with beijing at the forefront. brian: i like the last world order but we will see what happens. the chinese president wants to brand himself global peacemaker stand with ally face international arrest warrant for war crimes in ukraine
it s a wholly intolerable situation. making big moves fallout after silicon valley bank. u.b.s. buy out credit suisse for more than $3 million. new york community bank expected to buy out signature bank 2.7 billion. walker comes in, and he scores! [cheers] steve: time now for a fox news alert. russian president vladimir putin now speaking in moscow where it is 2:00 in the afternoon, just after the arrival of china s president committee jinping. brian: this is the conspiracy theorist xi visit since russia s invasion of ukraine and the media expected to focus on countering the u.s. and establishing a new world order. mark meredith joins us live from the white house. mark, good morning made a visit to russia. he touched down in moscow about 40 minutes ago. be in russia for at least two days. later today in the next few minutes it looks like he will be meeting one on one with russian president vladimir putin. ahead of the visit russian calling strategic part n we he
to fly out of washington, d.c. until the 6:00 p.m. tonight. instead, they very quietly gathered a press pool and left yesterday about 4:15. the president appeared in kyiv, not on his original itinerary. we were told he was just coming to poland to commemorate the one year anniversary of the russian invasion instead he droons into an active war zone. the new york times is reporting that he took an hour s long train ride from poland into the ukrainian capital that is besieged by the russians right now and while there he announced an extra half a billion dollars in new u.s. security assistance. listen. that announcement includes artillery ammunition for himars and howitzers, nor javelins, raiders, they will protect the people from aerial bombardments. he rattled off a lot of different kinds of assistance. it is all equipment that the u.s. has given ukraine so far. ukrainians van v. been asking for f-16s that s not on the list of things the president gave as half a billion do
support. remind us that freedom is priceless. it s worth fighting for for as long as it takes and that s how long we re going to be with you, mr. president, for as long as it takes. brian: all right. the visit coming just days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the russian invasion. steve: pleart in four days. peter doocy joins us with the latest. peter, as late as yesterday, the white house was saying no, absolutely he is not going to ukraine. he went to ukraine. peter: yes, we thought president biden was coming to warsaw except he popped up in a war zone taking a train from poland into the ukrainian capital and bringing with him a half a billion dollars in new security assistance. more javelins, air surveillance radars to help protect the american people from ariel bombardments. zelenskyy is speaking confidently about the perilous months ahead. this conversation brings us closer to the victory and we hope this year the 2023 will become aer i don t of victory thi