the second world war or new assessment of the worst pandemic since 1918 china is front and center tonight. on ukraine members of the administration spoke today and over the weekend warning beijing that arming russia would be a mistake. we are confident that the chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment that would be a very risky and unwise bet. bill burns, the cia director. on covid we learned yesterday that the department of energy has assessed in a newly updated intelligence report that it most likely originated from a laboratory leak. cnn has just learned the reason for that updated report. three sources telling cnn that the department of energy shift was based in part on information about the research that the chinese centers for disease control, the chinese cdc in wuhan, was doing around the time of the outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses m bats but it is unclear how closely
As a news matter for all the reasons oliver was just saying, this is important stuff. from a legal perspective, it is certainly helpful to dominion s case but it is not a smoking gun. i have not seen in the deposition excerpts at least evidence that murdock believed that the specific statements in the specific broadcasts that are being sued about were endorsed by the hosts. he s speaking more generally about whether the hosts were endorsing the idea of a stolen or fraudulent election. and that is certainly helpful to dominion but doesn t get them all the way to the finish line. do you think, do you see any reason the case would not continue to go forward? oh, no. based on the hundreds and hundreds of pages that have been released over the last few weeks
To glenn s point, is that when you take all of them together, they do trend towards showing certain states of mind and that trump was thinking about this, he was weighing what had gone on in a serious way, he knew that there might be political consequences, and if, to cleanse, point there is more evidence of prior conversations about trump explore whether or not there could be a pardon for him, if he stepped down, then i think we begin to develop evidence that could show intent and knowledge on the part of trump. let s talk about this new court filing last night from the january six committee, deposition excerpts suggest that some of trump s top allies, and congress were frequently present in meetings where you had a handful of strategists strategies, excuse, me to prevent then president elect joe biden from taking office. they were being discussed. including this effort that is getting more attention to replace the leadership of the
Deposition excerpts suggest that some of trump s top allies, and congress were frequently present in meetings where you had a handful of strategists strategies, excuse, me to prevent then president elect joe biden from taking office. they were being discussed. including this effort that is getting more attention to replace the leadership of the justice department with figures who would sow doubts about the legitimacy of the election. how troubling is that? it is troubling, it feels like this should be investigated as a big old conspiracy. it sure feels like there s evidence to investigate whether all of these folks were members of a conspiracy we try to corruptly, criminally overturn the results of a presidential election. so i think this is troubling. what s even more troubling is that we have these challenges that are being launched against members of congress to try to
December of 2020. deposition excerpts filed by the committee suggest that some of the twice impeached ex presidents most loyal stooges in congress were frequently present in meetings, where strategies about how to prevent joe biden from taking office were discussed. some of these names might sound familiar. according to key testimony from cassidy hutchison, an ex aide to the chief of staff, mark meadows. gop lawmakers who attended meetings in person or on the phone included the pennsylvania congressman scott perry, the texas congressman louis glimmered, the ohio congressman jim jordan and the florida congressman matt gates, along with numerous members of the house freedom caucus. reflecting on these revelations, politico notes that members traded theories about ways to push then vice president mike pence to single-handedly stop biden s election. they parried with the white