outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses in bats but it is unclear how closely related the variants were to the strain which started the pandemic. as for the energy department s new assessment, it is described as low confidence and a minority view apparently within the intelligence community. that said, it sparked new calls today from transparency from china. we would wish to see from the prc a greater degree of responsibility, a greater acknowledgment that it is in the interests of the chinese people, yes, we better understand the origins of covid-19, but it is in the or to understand the origins of covid-19. today s development also prompted to leading house republicans to send letters demanding the state department of energy and the fbi to provide testimony and documents related to the ongoing probe of the ten pandemics origin. china s foreign minister also weighed in, calling on relevant parties to quote,
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Floor. That is simply what this rule vote was. And yet they still couldnt get it over the finish line right now. Now what we are hearing from the Speakers Office is that there is a hope that they might be able to go back to the House Rules Committee restructure this rule and create some kind of harmony among republicans to actually get this debate started on the floor. But again, they are up against a deadline as intelligence officials are making clear that they our very concerned about fisa not being reauthorized by the april 19 deadline, arguing that the impact on their ability to collect intelligence would be severe at a time when there are so many threats happening. Against the United States at the same time. Now, there is a big question right now about what johnsons future holds, what his speakership holds given that threat for Marjorie Taylor greene and republicans are just frustrated with the level of tumbled and chaos that they are experiencing day to day working in their jobs.
the alex murdaugh double murder charge as well as a forensic scientist, who s at this evidence suggested to him it was not the work of one person. randi kaye has more, first we want to warn you, some of what you will hear is disturbing. you have an opinion whether there was one or two shooters who matt murdered meghan paul on the night of june 7th? when opinion is that the totality of the evidence is more suggestive of a tutor scenario. a forensic scientist testified for the defense breathing new life into the defenses theory that two shooters were involved in killing maggie and paul murdoch. here is why. whoever shot paul, the witness says, likely would have needed time to recover, given the violent nature of paul s death. what was happening to the shooter at that point? he is getting hit with large amounts of brain material, blood, skin, hair, bone fragments. and i believe, very likely, some and