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
and to our viewers thanks so much for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, breaking news. president biden says aid to ukraine is open-ended. he says putin has already lost ukraine. his new video into outfront shows one of america s most powerful munitions in action on the front line as putin is now threatening prisoner who s won t fight in his invasion. red flags for trump. the former president struggling to raise money for his re-election campaign. former supporters with deep pockets are now looking to back somebody else. this is a report that you will see first here outfront tonight. plus, santos response to romney, telling him he doesn t belong in congress. he makes it all about romney s religion. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. president biden in one of his most definitive statements to date moments ago making it clear the united states aid will continue to pour into uk
hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with u. not your average balloon. u.s. officials sharing new information and they say, yes, china was spying. its balloon part of a surveillance op and scooping up communications snooping on locations in the united states, plus, the president s dual purpose road show. watch me, joe biden says, when asked if he s too old for a second term and today in florida, a state donald trump won twice, the president will warn seniors republicans want to gut social security and medicare. republicans say that s a lie and duct tape and bailing wire. congress gets new behind-the-scenes evidence of how southwest sputtered stranding thousands over christmas direct from its pilots union. up first, though for us a big new download of information on the chinese balloon. that courtesy of classified congressional briefings. american defense officials and the fbi. briefers telling l
are classified briefings on capitol hill, top republicans demanding answers from the pentagon and director of national intelligence to fill in the blanks on this timeline. senators want to know when the spycraft was picked up on radar. since the odyssey across the united states, are countries are reporting in india, philippine, taiwan and u.s. territory of guam. the one that crashed off hawaii a month ago, other recent sightings in the u.s., washington post says it is part of chinese espionage arsenal. chinese have taken old technology and married it with modern communication and observation capabilities to glean intelligence on other nation s militaries, it is a massive effort. americans want to know why the spycraft was not shot down sooner, especially if there are explosives onboard. president biden defended his actions. president biden: i told the military to shoot it down when safe to do it, they said it was unsafe over land and they could learn a lot watch being it
beautiful day so let it steve: it s a beautiful day as u2 sings and we are looking live at boonville, missouri. that, actually, anheuser-busch has announced the birth of four new budweiser foals at the budweiser ranch. we will be meeting them today live as you see from missouri and new york city. brian is about to hop in a great big silver bird. brian: me and the pilot that s all. [airplane bell] brian: i will be with other people. fantastic. this is the first time that the super bowl returns to pre-pandemic levels. ainsley: oh, really? brian: in terms of arizona has been flooded. of the people, there is no more restrictions. nfl experience is off the charts. obviously that s going to be different from super bowl one with kansas city chiefs were in which was not even sold out. steve: it wasn t. they have didn t call it the super bowl then. and interestingly enough, last week, when we were in kansas city, large hunt jr. told us lamarhunt jr. told us how td