sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. an updated classified intel report saying the u.s. department of energy has assess thad the source of the covid-19 pandemic likely came from a china lab leak, but there is one major caveat. sources at the department of energy tell cnn that the report has, quote, low confidence. cnn s natasha bertrand has been reporting on all of this and joins us on the phone. various intel agencies have been split on this issue for years now. this is from the department of energy, low confidence. what does all this mean? reporter: this is essentially another data point. the intel community has been examining this really closely for the last two years, ever since president biden tasked them with investigating the origins of the covid-19 pandemic shortly after he first got into of office. back in 2021 the intel agencies, roughly 58 of them, couldn t come to a decision about where it came from. what we re seeing is the department of energy has collected some ne
today ukraine battles its way into a second year of war defying russian expectations and denying moscow the swift victory it expected. this was the view one year ago yesterday as russian tanks rolled into ukraine launching its unprovoked war. to mark the anniversary, western allies bathed their landmarks in the colors of ukraine s flag and more importantly pledging more financial support. the u.s. has announced a $2 billion package. 8 million ukrainians have fled their country. of those who remain, 18 million are in dire need of assistance. that s nearly 40% of the population. let s begin this hour in ukraine s capitol. melissa bell is in kyiv. reporter: jim, a day after those ceremonies held here in the center of kyiv to mark the one-year anniversary of the russian invasion and to celebrate the fact that kyiv had been able toll stand no sign of the nationwide strikes that so many ukrainian officials had been warning about and ukrainian civilians had been preparing for. for
south texas tonight as state authorities empowered by the governor said migrants flocking illegally into the country back to the body by the busload in what critics say is itself a little. plus, new viral video capturing just about the homelessness problem is in san francisco, showing schoolchildren get enough off a bus going to a field trip. forced to walk by a large group of homeless people living in unsanitary filth. we begin tonight with biden. white house correspondent is that your tonight ip driven, kevin. good evening, shannon. if a vote of confidence is, say, the best christmas present you ve ever received, then the opposite of that would be a vote of no confidence. sort of a lump of coal. if that is the case for president biden, while the stocking is absolutely chock-full of cool, but a strong majority of democrats looking for somebody, anybody else to lead the party s charge in 2024. it was a headline most foul, the kind that no politician wants to see, let alon
overly powerful ruling class. and an out of control mob. we re not a pure democracy, we don t have a parliament. the other hand we don t have a centralize government. we re not supposed to, when people talk about democracy, they misstate the purpose of our government. our government is to protect the individual, and individual liberties. do you know of any other country with a bill of rights? individualism is key, the declaration independence. authority from god not from government, we have a serious problem this country. the constitution as been breached constantly. we live in a post-constitution america in many respects, every turn in our society, the goal is to empower the ruling class. they use their mob, and abuse the middle class, but the goal is to empower the ruling class. we have a ruling class that is narcissistic incompetent and anti-american in many respects, we have seen failure after failure for which they take absolutely no responsibility. as a matter of fact,
overly powerful ruling class. and an out of control mob. we re not a pure democracy, we don t have a parliament. the other hand we don t have a centralize government. we re not supposed to, when people talk about democracy, they misstate the purpose of our government. our government is to protect the individual, and individual liberties. do you know of any other country with a bill of rights? individualism is key, the declaration independence. authority from god not from government, we have a serious problem this country. the constitution as been breached constantly. we live in a post-constitution america in many respects, every turn in our society, the goal is to empower the ruling class. they use their mob, and abuse the middle class, but the goal is to empower the ruling class. we have a ruling class that is narcissistic incompetent and anti-american in many respects, we have seen failure after failure for which they take absolutely no responsibility. as a matter of fact,